Great outdoors on the brain!

Yikes its been awhile. Our Christmas was good. Hectic as usual. I can't wait till things quite down and get back to normal. I have been making lots of tags. Everything is nature inspired. I am planning a trip to go to a cabin in the woods. I do not know where yet. I just know I REALLY need to find some time to get back to nature. I tend to go a little (ok a lot) crazy if I don't get my nature fix ever so often.

8 Things

I was tagged by Sherry for a MeMe! So here goes.

8 Things I Am Passionate About:

Books
Making wonderful memories
Water
Paper
Creativity
Saving the Environment
Educating Women
Nature

8 Things I Want to Do Before I Die:

Go see Venice with my soul mate
Camp in Alaska with my soul mate
See my kids grown and happy
Move to the country
Explore a jungle
Write a book
Take a trip in a train
Find peace with myself

8 Things I Say Often: (Told ya I was a smart a**)

You have got to be kidding!
Oh my gosh!
Wash your hands.
I just can’t believe it!
Are you serious?
That is so cute!
I LOVE it!
Yay right.
8 Books I've Read Recently: (I put in a few magazines)
Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows
Vintage Christmas Crafts
Gabriel’s Angel-Nora Roberts
The Secret
Eat, Pray, Love
Next-Michael crichton (awful book)
Country Living Magazine
Somerset Studio Magazine
8 Things that Attract Me to My Best Friends:
Love the outdoors
Like to create
(for women) Be a little bit Tomboy
Believes there is more to life than “stuff”
Has a good heart
Loves food!
Open
Spiritual

And The Winner Is..................

Winner of the drawing for the goodies below is Sherry from espirt * d ' art! Just e-mail me your address at lavenderwolf7@yahoo.com and I will ship your goodies! In case you are wondering how I selected a winner. I attached a number to each person who commented, put it on slips of paper and let my hubby draw a name. Yes, old fashioned but it still works. I just want to thank everyone who commented. I just loved hearing from everyone. Remember I plan to do more give aways in the future. As for this week...I am STARTING my Christmas shopping! Have a wonderful Monday everyone!

Oh and I want to thank Christina for mentioning me in her blog Diary of girl Friday. She has a wonderful blog and has a list of great hand made gifts from ETSY.

Christmas Fun in Blog Land

First of all thank you SO much to all your comments! It was wonderful to hear from friends and meet some bloggers I did not know. I will be visiting every ones blog soon!

Next, I have been having so much fun on two awesome blogs. These two talented people are having a 12 days of Christmas tutorial.

The first one is Teresa McFayden. For a fee you can get all sorts of tip, ideas, and techniques. Plus she is just so darn cute and funny. I made the collages in the pics from some of her techniques.

The next one is Tim Holtz ! He makes the coolest products EVER! He is having a 12 days of Christmas tag tutorial. And are they gorgeous! He is also having a daily give away.

Thank you all again for all your sweet, wonderful comments!

P.s. the tags pictured are sample of a bunch of new sets in my ETSY shop.

My first Blog give away!

All you have to do is add a comment on any post I make from today until Sunday at 12 midnight Central time. I will have a drawing for the winner and announce it on Monday December 10Th. You will get all the goodies you see plus some surprise extras! So fun! I have plans for more in the future too! Have a great day!