A wreath like no other!

Crazy how the month of April has flown by, I've been so busy with work and school.....  I decided to get ahead on some of my creative crafts and wanted to share with you what I have been up too for the last couple days...  Inspiration hit when I received my paper source magazine after looking at that I was sold.....

 I love using my Silhouette Cameo, it made this project so fun and very cost effective!  I already had the 3d peony flower in my library, so I just sized the flowers to what I wanted and then she was off cutting away :-)

I used bazzill cards stock for each of the flowers along with the leaves.  I also used the McGill kit to roll the flower edges creating the curling effect, works like a charm every time!

I layered them and used my awesomeness craft glue to put the flowers together adding a touch of fun crystal stickles to create that bling effect I love so much.....

I ended up with an extra flower which I'm going to turn into a pin to wear on  my apron at my work....  Easy to do when I work at Archiver's scrapbook store :-)  I hope you enjoy my fast, fun post! 

Have a blessed week and remember to Choose Joy, your life depends on it peeps!

Stepping out of the box we create!

So many times when I'm scrapbooking I tell myself I'm more of a scrap lifter and I really can't create!  I had a wake up call this past week when working a co-worker said "you need to not think like that!  Anyone can create just give yourself the ok to do it."  Working at Archiver's a scrapbook store I thought it was about time to take a chance and see what happens.....

I had so much fun just creating this layout!  There was no stress I just sat down and decided to create a page about "me" :-)  

I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut the butterflies out onto the cardstock giving it the 3d effect!  Another thing new I learned :-)

Creating with the Maggie Holmes line was simply awesome!  The fun fabric frames worked out so well on this layout!

It has always been amazing to me the limits we put on ourselves.  We can do anything we put our minds too, and I'm grateful to Angela at Archiver's for helping me to see I too can create I just have to let myself try.....

I pray everyone has a super blessed week!  Remember to "Choose Joy"

Happy Birthday Tyler!

Happy Birthday Tyler!  I can't believe my son is 19 years old....  Time flies so fast!  I started to look at some of my very old scrapbooks and pictures of him, ya know a trip down memory lane :-)  Here are a few of my favorites......

 Even at eight years old the focus and determination was in the first set of scrapbook pages I created!

 One thing about Tyler was his gift at football, this was his dad praying for him before a game, our friend snapped the shot yet had no idea they were praying....  Priceless photos!

 Here he is graduating, May 2012, this will be a day I remember forever!  All the hard work and sacrifice that went into helping him succeed and complete this chapter in his life!

 HAPPY 19th BIRTHDAY!!  Always have to be doing something crazy, it wouldn't be normal if it didn't have goofiness in it!

Make the memories that will stay with you forever, even in hard times, pray and choose joy!  It will be worth it when you look back, Love you son!

Happy Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day is such a reminder of all the love we carry with us daily but might not express it...  I use to look at it as just another Hallmark Holiday but as I grow older I'm appreciating all the wonderful things that happen all around me.....

A sweet blessing from a group of ladies that crop at the store I work at....  

My pretty made me a special card......

My husband wrote me the greatest love letter telling me his dreams for us and our future.....

A little gift for my pretty.....

A text from my oldest son wishing us all a Happy Valentine's Day!

A little something hanging in my home reminding my family how wonderful they all are....  Yea, I know proper english is you're but that was not the tone I was going for...  :-)

Time goes by......

Wow!  Time has flown since my last post.  Well the New Year started off with a bang, I caught the flu....  I have not been sick in quite some time, but with plenty of rest and several different supplements I recovered pretty fast :-)  We spent New Years in Jacksonville, Florida with our best friends it's so awesome to have been blessed with such special people in our lives.....  I will be forever grateful!  I will be posting some new craft creations I'm working on so stay tuned..... And remember to Choose Joy!!

After such a heartless tragedy our hearts are heavy in the Thomas house.....  

Today we reflected on the word of God and thinking as a parent how so many hearts are hurt, I began to ponder his words.....

Be Still....... 
The world was still and some will be for days... not to glorify our God yet, to mourn a tragic evil event that no one will ever forget.

I think of these words and I think we have turned into such a fighting, political, medicated, all about money world that we have forgotten what we were founded on one nation under GOD!
We have removed everything about him from schools, political buildings, and many homes.....  

I wonder.....  God's heart must be shattered and broken to watch what this world has come to, and how his people are beaten and broken from evil events....

My family has and will continue to pray for everyone involved in this tragedy, one thing we all know for sure is all those beautiful babies are at his feet feeling the most incredible love there ever is to feel.....

We met Buddy from "Cake Boss"

December 11, 2012

All I can say is.....  Thank You FoxTale Book Store in Woodstock GA

For having Buddy visit!  He was awesome, the kindest, sweetest man.... 

My daughter loves him and has been a huge fan for quite sometime and he definitely

did not disappoint he treated her like a princess :-)

Looks like we will be ordering a "sweet 16" cake from him someday.... 

Buddy promised Avery when she is 16 he would make her cake!!!!