Celebrate!

 Are you ready to celebrate?  I made this card for the occasion from a set by Photoplay.  You guys are all amazing for dropping by my blog and joining in my celebration this year.  For all the support over the year and esp those of you who were there ALL the way back when I actually had the brain surgery.  WOW.  No matter when your support started.  Let's party.  Have you seen the prizes for next month?  they are on my FB here Prizes

Check out my wonderful Etsy store.   I sell precut lace in wonderful packs so you get 20 or 40 pieces all different in a wide array of colors, beautiful embellishments, or Lace Menagerie which is 6 yard assortments!  You can find the store here: https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Thank you!

 Just wanted to give you an early thank you if you are planning on celebrating with me starting on Feb 1st.  You guys are the best. I really appreciate all your support.  Back when I was so very sick and in the hospital it was the card makers and crafters who were so supportive and praying for me who were such a totally blessing.  I appreciate all of you no matter when you came into the picture. 

Check out my wonderful Etsy store.   I sell precut lace in wonderful packs so you get 20 or 40 pieces all different in a wide array of colors, beautiful embellishments, or Lace Menagerie which is 6 yard assortments!  You can find the store here: https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

You are my sunshine!

 Just three days until the celebration!  WOO HOO.  are you all ready?  lots of goodies to give out this year.  I hope you are ready to join in the fun.  Thanks so much for celebrating such an important occasion with me.  You guys are all my sunshine!!  Have you seen the prizes for next month?  they are on my FB here Prizes

Check out my wonderful Etsy store.   I sell precut lace in wonderful packs so you get 20 or 40 pieces all different in a wide array of colors, beautiful embellishments, or Lace Menagerie which is 6 yard assortments!  You can find the store here: https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Guest Designer Gaye

Here's a super awesome card ESPECIALLY because she's using some Turkish lace!!  WOW.  How fantastic is that?  thank you Gaye.  I just love it.  I am glad you enjoyed this prize.

 Check out my lace store for some wonderful lace pieces in many colors, lace menageries (1 yard lace assortments), lace embellishments all perfect for your crafting projects!! LacePlaceByHolley  

Happy Birthday Carla

 Happy Birthday from Holley and John!  We are wishing you the very best from Texas to Iowa!  Hope you have a special day today.  Here's a little card I made in honor of your birthday

Check out my lace store for some wonderful lace pieces in many colors, lace menageries (1 yard lace assortments), lace embellishments all perfect for your crafting projects!! LacePlaceByHolley  

Happy Friday

 Happy Friday everyone!   I hope you have wonderful plans for your weekend this week.  I can't believe it's just a couple months away from Turkiye now...lol by a COUPLE i mean FOUR!! so yeah, more than just a couple LOL  But still I am happy that the time is getting closer.  Here's a little card to smile at today

Sending Hugs to everyone who's going to celebrate with me!  Have you seen the prizes for next month?  they are on my FB here Prizes

Check out my wonderful Etsy store.   I sell precut lace in wonderful packs so you get 20 or 40 pieces all different in a wide array of colors, beautiful embellishments, or Lace Menagerie which is 6 yard assortments!  You can find the store here: https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Cheers!

 Just two more days this week.  Just SEVEN more days until the celebration! Here's a sweet and simple card using die cut from Simple Stories and a cute little sentiment that I say all the time, Cheers!

Check out my wonderful Etsy store.   I sell precut lace in wonderful packs so you get 20 or 40 pieces all different in a wide array of colors, beautiful embellishments, or Lace Menagerie which is 6 yard assortments!  You can find the store here: https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Quick and Cute

 Happy Wed!  Hope this hump day is going well for you.  I am glad that we are almost to the end of January now. (Well, I guess we have a whole week still.)  Here's a cutie from SEI, I used their die cuts on a pre-printed Have a Good Day card.  Makes for a quick and cute little project.

Have you seen the prizes for next month?  they are on my FB here Prizes

Check out my wonderful Etsy store.   I sell precut lace in wonderful packs so you get 20 or 40 pieces all different in a wide array of colors, beautiful embellishments, or Lace Menagerie which is 6 yard assortments!  You can find the store here: https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Valentine

 Hello, Happy Tuesday.... guess how many days until Turkiye.....just 120 now.  Yep, I am already getting excited about it.  I am hoping to visit a couple other cities other than Istanbul this year.  I will tell you about it later on.   here's one of the valentines that I made for next month...

Check out my wonderful Etsy store.   I sell precut lace in wonderful packs so you get 20 or 40 pieces all different in a wide array of colors, beautiful embellishments, or Lace Menagerie which is 6 yard assortments!  You can find the store here: https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Happy Monday

 Week three of January.  The kiddos are hopefully more in tune with the routine, but this is actually just the FIRST monday that they have had to come so far this year.  The first monday was a teacher inservice and the second monday was MLK.  SO we will see what happens today (and of course later in the week, when the week is longer than usual).  Gimme Coffee 

Check out my wonderful Etsy store.   I sell precut lace in wonderful packs so you get 20 or 40 pieces all different in a wide array of colors, beautiful embellishments, or Lace Menagerie which is 6 yard assortments!  You can find the store here: https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Guest Designer Valerija

 Here's a wonderful House Mouse card from Valerija. Isn't her coloring amazing? I just love that paired with her layering of papers.  Gorgeous work.  She got this stamp as one of her prizes last year.  lovely work!

Check out my lace store for some wonderful lace pieces in many colors, lace menageries (1 yard lace assortments), lace embellishments all perfect for your crafting projects!! LacePlaceByHolley  

Hello Sweet Friend

 Happy Saturday everyone!  I hope you all are getting excited about next month's celebration. I know I am.  Just 11 days until that, then a month of celebration, then two weeks to spring break, then 9 weeks to TURKIYE!!  Comes so quick.  Well, maybe not that quick there is so much that needs to happen between then and now, namely I have to sell a TON (ok not a metric ton) but a LOT of lace before i go so I can buy more.  ha ha.  This cute card uses Turkish lace and comes from Pink & Main.

Check out my wonderful Etsy store.   I sell precut lace in wonderful packs so you get 20 or 40 pieces all different in a wide array of colors, beautiful embellishments, or Lace Menagerie which is 6 yard assortments!  You can find the store here: https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Cute Kitty Card

 Happy Friday!  Woo hoo.  The first two weeks of school in the 2nd semester are through.  (LOL, like we call it that.)  In elementary school, it's technically the 2nd half of the year, which is actually a bit longer than the first half of the year by a couple weeks.  I wish all of you a great weekend.

Check out my wonderful Etsy store.   I sell precut lace in wonderful packs so you get 20 or 40 pieces all different in a wide array of colors, beautiful embellishments, or Lace Menagerie which is 6 yard assortments!  You can find the store here: https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Home Sweet Home

Happy Thurs!  Glad that the end of the week is approaching but clearing wishing it was friday already.  Here's a sweet card from Simple stories, I just love their wonderful card kits.  They put together 8 cards and often there's great leftovers and I can put together several additional cards with those pieces.  This card says Home Sweet Home.

Check out my wonderful Etsy store.   I sell precut lace in wonderful packs so you get 20 or 40 pieces all different in a wide array of colors, beautiful embellishments, or Lace Menagerie which is 6 yard assortments!  You can find the store here: https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Happy Birthday Nikki

 Wishing a friend here in Austin a very Happy Birthday today.  Best wishes for you this year.  May all your dreams come true. Cheers!

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Happy Birthday Desi

 Happy Birthday Desi!  Wishing you a very special day today. I hope all your wishes come true.  All the best to you from Holley and John!

Check out my lace store for some wonderful lace pieces in many colors, lace menageries (1 yard lace assortments), lace embellishments all perfect for your crafting projects!! LacePlaceByHolley  

Happy MLK Day!

Happy Monday everyone!  Today is a holiday for most of the USA, celebrating the life of Martin Luther King Jr.  It's celebrated on the third Monday of every January in observance of his birthday.  I thought this card was nice for the day.

Check out my wonderful Etsy store.   I sell precut lace in wonderful packs so you get 20 or 40 pieces all different in a wide array of colors, beautiful embellishments, or Lace Menagerie which is 6 yard assortments!  You can find the store here: https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Happy Birthday Brother

 Happy Birthday to my brother.  I hope you and your family have a wonderful day together.  May your wifey and little girls shower you with love and care today.  Hugs brother.

Check out my lace store for some wonderful lace pieces in many colors, lace menageries (1 yard lace assortments), lace embellishments all perfect for your crafting projects!! LacePlaceByHolley  

Guest Designer Kathy

Here's a stunning card from Kathy Dippner!  WOW how beautiful is this?  I so love the time following the celebration in February when I get (either physically or email wise) so many amazing projects from people using their prizes.  how lovely.

 Check out my lace store for some wonderful lace pieces in many colors, lace menageries (1 yard lace assortments), lace embellishments all perfect for your crafting projects!! LacePlaceByHolley  

Be the Happiest

Happy Friday everyone!  Hope you have some lovely plans for the weekend.  I think i will be hmmm, getting up at the middle of the night then napping all day. LOL, (that's true if you saw one of my comments from about a week ago).  I haven't told y'all the COUNT...count meaning the countdown from now until the day I will get to go to Istanbul, it's 132 days!!  wow, that seems long and short at the same time.  

Check out my wonderful Etsy store.   I sell precut lace in wonderful packs so you get 20 or 40 pieces all different in a wide array of colors, beautiful embellishments, or Lace Menagerie which is 6 yard assortments!  You can find the store here: https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Happy Birthday Samantha

 Wishing my dear niece, a very Happy Birthday today.  Best wishes from Holley and John.  May all your birthday dreams come true. 

Check out my lace store for some wonderful lace pieces in many colors, lace menageries (1 yard lace assortments), lace embellishments all perfect for your crafting projects!! LacePlaceByHolley  

Mid week....

Well, it's mid-week during our first week back.  Happy to see the kiddos again.  It will take a period of time for the 2yr olds to adjust again.  You wouldn't think it would be hard, but two weeks (some longer as they took vacation before school ended) is a long long time in the mind of a 2 year old.  Here's a card for one of my kiddos who speaks predominately Spanish.  

Check out my wonderful Etsy store.   I sell precut lace in wonderful packs so you get 20 or 40 pieces all different in a wide array of colors, beautiful embellishments, or Lace Menagerie which is 6 yard assortments!  You can find the store here: https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Coffee Please

 Today is the first day back with the kiddos, In elementary school it's usually a mix of upset and crying to excitement at seeing their friends again.  It takes a good week or two to get back in the groove of things for the littles.  I thought a coffee card was definitely on the agenda for today.

Wanna see the prize that are coming in February?  I have a huge folder in Facebook that I am adding photos to all the time, it's HERE:  Facebook

Check out my wonderful Etsy store.   I sell precut lace in wonderful packs so you get 20 or 40 pieces all different in a wide array of colors, beautiful embellishments, or Lace Menagerie which is 6 yard assortments!  You can find the store here: https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Back to work

 Wow, so today the staff (including me of course) goes back to school for training day to get ready for the kiddos tomorrow.   Oh, coffee (or diet dr pepper) don't fail me today, lol

Check out my wonderful Etsy store.   I sell precut lace in wonderful packs so you get 20 or 40 pieces all different in a wide array of colors, beautiful embellishments, or Lace Menagerie which is 6 yard assortments!  You can find the store here: https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Guest designer Gaye V

Here's a lovely card from Gaye using a prize she got from me. I just love the paper layers she added on top of that printed card.  So very nice.  I have other wonderful cards from her to share in upcoming weeks.  Thanks so much for sharing your winnings.

 Check out my lace store for some wonderful lace pieces in many colors, lace menageries (1 yard lace assortments), lace embellishments all perfect for your crafting projects!! LacePlaceByHolley  

Ruff days

Happy Saturday everyone!  I hope you are having a great weekend.  This is my last weekend before I have to go back to school with the kiddos. what is so weird is that when I am off and not working, almost immediately I can't sleep all the way through the night, and I am constantly waking up in the middle of the night and getting up to do things.  It's crazy.  During school, I sleep on a dead tight schedule, like 10 hours a night.  When school is out and even on a weekend, three hours here, three hours there...what??  It makes for weird days....

Check out my wonderful Etsy store.   I sell precut lace in wonderful packs so you get 20 or 40 pieces all different in a wide array of colors, beautiful embellishments, or Lace Menagerie which is 6 yard assortments!  You can find the store here: https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

King Racoon

 Wow, the first friday of the year.  I hope you all had a great week and are looking forward to the first weekend of the year.  Here in Austin they are having a huge International Gem and Jewelry show which I may go to.  I haven't done nearly as much jewelry as I used to do, esp when I did jewelry for the church bazaar, but I still love beads, esp when I am in Turkiye.

here's a cute king racoon "Be Awesome"

Check out my wonderful Etsy store.   I sell precut lace in wonderful packs so you get 20 or 40 pieces all different in a wide array of colors, beautiful embellishments, or Lace Menagerie which is 6 yard assortments!  You can find the store here: https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Thanks so much

Man this break is sure going by quickly lol.  Funny how that works huh?  I said I would do something like 100 new cards during the break.  At my last count I was well over 40, so I have to check and see how many I have done now.  I did get some great crafting items for Christmas as well as a couple gift cards turned into crafting tools.....HUGE thanks to all for the crafting goodies...my mom, sis, bro, Mother in Law, Hubby, the school PTA gave out goodies personalized!

Check out my wonderful Etsy store.   I sell precut lace in wonderful packs so you get 20 or 40 pieces all different in a wide array of colors, beautiful embellishments, or Lace Menagerie which is 6 yard assortments!  You can find the store here: https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Thanks AISD!

 So happy to have this break during the first week of the year.  There's one good thing that the school district does.  Instead of putting all the break in December, they put a little right before Christmas and most of the break after Christmas.  With that type of break I feel a whole lot more refreshed and ready to go when school starts back on the 8th (for teachers, 9th for the kids).

Check out my wonderful Etsy store.   I sell precut lace in wonderful packs so you get 20 or 40 pieces all different in a wide array of colors, beautiful embellishments, or Lace Menagerie which is 6 yard assortments!  You can find the store here: https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Hola!

 Happy January 2nd!  Day 2 of 2024.  WOW.  when I was kid (of the 70s and 80s) did i think i would be saying that?  I mean of course logically i knew that would come but really?  dang I am old lol!  So now that we are in January, you all know what is coming...yep, February Celebration!  WOO HOO.  I am so happy to be celebrating another year of seizure free life.  WOO HOO.  Huge thanks to God for that and huge thanks to Dr Aboumatar for that.

Here's some goodies from a photo play card kit with some wonderful Turkish lace added on.  Check out my wonderful Etsy store.   I sell precut lace in wonderful packs so you get 20 or 40 pieces all different in a wide array of colors, beautiful embellishments, or Lace Menagerie which is 6 yard assortments!  You can find the store here: https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Happy New Year

Happy New Year!  Wishing everyone a new start to the year with new dreams and new goals.  Many Blessings for all.  As the card says, Bloom Bright.

 Check out my lace store for some wonderful lace pieces in many colors, lace menageries (1 yard lace assortments), lace embellishments all perfect for your crafting projects!! LacePlaceByHolley