I {heart} you

Good Morning and Happy Tuesday.  I hope your week is off to a good start. I am sharing this LOVE theme card today from American Crafts.  I love the bold colors on it. Let's just say, I {heart} you times three.  Off to work today to see my kiddos, only 8 today compared to 12 tomorrow.  Should be a little quieter, lol.  Just kidding 8 kids (3years old) make a lot of noise.

Please check out my lace store, there's lots and lots of wonderful items including tons of lace by the yard, great handmade items, and lace assortments!  Check it out   https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Question of the day:  do you have a die cut machine?  can you use thin dies and thick dies?

Celebration 2026 winners

 Winners, please email me your addresses

First winner is:  Karin

I love you

Well, keeping with the LOVE theme, here's a card from Bo Bunny.  I love the black and white with the gold stipe heart.  Just a simple I love you.  Perfect for this month's love theme.  Don't forget about the contest, more info coming soon...  Now my work schedule has changed and Monday is my only day off during the week.  I do Tue to Fri at the school with my class.

Please check out my lace store, there's lots and lots of wonderful items including tons of lace by the yard, great handmade items, and lace assortments!  Check it out   https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Question of the day: what's your favorite card topic?

lol, i think y'all know mine, probably coffee, but I do love some cute girls and cute animals too.

It's celebration time! WOO HOO.

 Can you believe we are in FEBRUARY AGAIN?  this makes it 16 years since 2 brain surgeries in 2010.  WOW. I never believed I would be alive at this point.  What a time to celebrate.  Let me first thank God and a second and million thank yous to Dr Aboumatar who tested, qualified me and arranged and set up my surgeries. Third a giant hug and kiss to my DH who stuck with me through all this.  And of course, huge thanks to all of you, the crafters who sent cards, prayed, texted, and gave so much love and support.

Theme this month is LOVE.  If you want to participate in a little card making contest, it will be love theme in general, or if you want to go full Valentine's theme, that's ok too.  I will post a page to share your cards on and you can EMAIL your cards to me at htondre@aol.com

I will set up a page to share the cards on, probably somewhere at the end of this week and you will have until the 25TH!! No more than TWO per person.  I will pick top 3 and my hubby John will pick his favorite.  Winners will get to PICK an EXTRA goodie to be included in their packages.

If you are new, here's how this year's contest will go, simply leave a comment each day and watch the WINNER LIST. When you see your name on the winner list, email me htondre@aol.com and send me your mailing info for your prize.  NOTE: for my out of the country friends, I am typically limited to what I can send inside a card like a stamp set or a die set.  For my USA friends I can send a package with an assortment of goodies.  All packages all get mailed at the beginning of March.  Please play along all month as I am asking little questions each day to help me choose what goodies to send you.  On the blog posts in March I will post each day whose packages are mailed that day.

Please check out my lace store, there's lots and lots of wonderful items including tons of lace by the yard, great handmade items, and lace assortments!  Check it out   https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Did you see just SOME of the prizes for this month? check out here and here and HERE and HERE and HERE and here and HERE!

It's Time to CELEBRATE!! are you ready?

It's Time to CELEBRATE!!  are you ready? The celebration will start with the first card tomorrow morning (Feb 1st Austin Texas time).  Just leave a comment.  Everyone commenting during the month will get prizes.  Please answer the questions as that helps me choose what to send to you.

Cheers, Holley

 Please check out my lace store, there's lots and lots of wonderful items including tons of lace by the yard, great handmade items, and lace assortments!  Check it out   https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Did you see the prizes for next month? check out here and here and HERE and HERE and HERE and here and HERE!

Much Thanks

WOW just two days now!  Happy Friday everyone, I am happy to see the kiddos today and have Foodie Friday.  I hope we have something great to try out.   Dare I say, Pie?  Back in fall time we did give them pumpkin pie, that was a hit.  I wish I could share the photos with y'all but since they are little kids I don't want to invade their family privacy, Trust me though, it was just darling.

Much thanks to all of you for ready and coming to celebrate next month!

Please check out my lace store, there's lots and lots of wonderful items including tons of lace by the yard, great handmade items, and lace assortments!  Check it out   https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Here's a few last prize photos

Did you see the other prizes, check out here and here and HERE and HERE and HERE and here  

I appreciate you

 As the Celebration Month approaches, I just wanted all of you to know that I really appreciate you.  Back when it was surgery time, all the people in the blog world and the crafting world were such an enormous support and uplifting help.  Now every year since surgery I give back to all my crafting friends.  

Thank you all so very much

Please check out my lace store, there's lots and lots of wonderful items including tons of lace by the yard, great handmade items, and lace assortments!  Check it out   https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Here's some more prize items

Did you see the other prizes, check out here and here and HERE and HERE and HERE 

Thanks in advance

Time to see the kiddos today, the last two days schools have been closed here due to the weather. It's still very cold for us at 29F. Starting to get used to such a huge class.  It means I have mastered the art of counting from 1 to 12 over and over again, lol.  Both inside and outside.  Here's an early thank you for visiting and hopefully coming to celebrate in February.

Please check out my lace store, there's lots and lots of wonderful items including tons of lace by the yard, great handmade items, and lace assortments!  Check it out   https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Here's some more goodies that I have... There is so much more I have to admit I get tired taking photos lol so you only get to see so much of them. 😂 

CONTEST PRIZE CHOICES

There's other prizes posted during the month to check out. Some of the prizes today will be used for a contest next month (hint hint get ready to share a love theme card).  Did you see the other prizes, check out here and here and HERE and HERE