Guest Designer and Happy Birthday to Shannon A!! wishing you the best birthday ever! Here's an amazing journal that she made using Turkish Lace
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
Happy Saturday! WOO HOO, first Saturday of May and just 22 days to the trip, though I am most likely to go to Dallas TX beforehand anywhere from a one to two days early. YAY! so maybe just 20 days to the trip, lol. Will be nice to spend some time with the sister before my trip and I am SO SO thankful to her for taking me to Dallas to catch a direct flight to Istanbul. I am so used to having a 24–27-hour experience from TX to Istanbul that a 13-14 hour experience is nothing, lol! I am going to be delighted.
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
Happy May. I am sharing a food theme card today since it is FOODie Friday. I don't think we will be able to have watermelon since that is not in season, but I can't wait to see what we will have for the kiddos. The other week we had cherries and only about 2/3 of the class liked them. In fairness I didn't taste them, so I don't know it they were ripe or not, but I was surprised by that. I think the topic for the week is called "SMOOTHIE" friday and all the kids will get a blend of something.
I can't believe it's the last day of April. Woo Hoo, payday. Just 24 days until Turkiye now and 13 school days left with the kiddos left WOW. I guess this upcoming weekend is MAY, so let's break out the suitcases, lol. Here's the cutest little dog theme card using a doodlebug shaker.
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
Happy Hump Day. Sharing this fun card today and looking forward to seeing my kiddos. What do you have planned for today? it's nearing the end of April. WOW. just 25 days until Turkiye. What do you all think I should look for there in addition to lace?
Happy Tuesday, back to school today. Looking forward to seeing my kiddos, here's a fun card for today. I hope all of you have a good day too. Let's hope for no tears today, just smiles and laughter. It's the last week of April and just three days to May.
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
Happy Monday. Glad to have a day off this week to get more chores done before starting up my school week. Just three more school days here in April and then we are on the last month of school. WOW. I am so thankful that this year is coming safely to an end and that we are approaching May. I realized this past weekend that I had only like 6 days to pack and the rest of my weekend time was busy so I had to bust out the suitcases and start!
Today's guest designer is Adelaide. I met her at a Children's market where she was selling the cutest handmade cards. Here's one of them. She gave me permission to share.
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
Happy Saturday. Did I tell you there's a store in Round Rock (just north of Austin, I mean, like a suburb of Austin practically) called Istanbul Market ATX? I am so going to visit there sometime. Gotta see what they can supply me with....YUM I might need a little pre trip treat. Sounds like a good Saturday time trip
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
YAY! so happy for Friday! That makes the count just 12 working days until the end of the school year. WOO HOO. Gonna be hard not to go all over the top packing this weekend, but I will hold off until at least next weekend. OMG, my excitement is going to get more and more each 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
Happy Thursday. It's almost the end of this week and I am hoping for some relaxation this weekend. I am still trying NOT to get all excited and pack my suitcase just yet....lol. we're still 31 days away from the trip! WOO HOO. Here's another "tiny card" BEE awesome.
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
Happy Hump Day, we are month away from the end of school. (My last day is the 22nd of May). I am going to miss these cuties. They have grown so much over the year. Here's a cute Winnie the Pooh card for them "It's always an adventure with YOU!" Hugs kids
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
Happy Tuesday everyone! Time to go and work with the kiddos. I can't believe there's just 20 school days left. WOW. I wonder if they will miss me? I am not sure if this card is for the kiddos or the flowers. Perhaps both! It will be so nice to see the kiddos next year in school, I am sure I will be so surprised to see how much they grew over the summer.
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
How SWEET it is to BEE loved by you! how cute is this little banner card that I made with some Echo Park Bee themed items? It's super sweet to BEE loved by my DH that's for sure. Love you too dear.
Sharing a wonderful project today from Karin of KarinsArtScrap CLICK HERE, she makes the most beautiful works. Check out her blog and see her projects,
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
It's Saturday! Yay, just 36 days to Turkiye now. I am totally fighting the urge to open my suitcases and pack....I know I can at least make it to the beginning of May, then, they are coming out and I am packing up, lol just a few days early, Ha Ha
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
YAY it's Friday! I am so looking forward to the weekend. I hope you all have had a great week. Today the kids and I are having FOODIE Friday. Who knows what goodies we will get to try today. Something yummy I hope. I just had to put this card, wouldn't it be fun to see the kids get a snow cone? yeah, but not giving the kiddos all that sugar....
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
Happy Thursday. Looking forward to grabbing a bagel this morning and seeing my kids at school. Then coming home and cutting up some lace and seeing the DH. What's your plans for today? anything special?
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
Happy Birthday Mom! Wishing you a very special day! I hope we can go out soon. Big hugs from Holley and John today.
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
It's Tuesday and thus the week gets started and I am going in to school this morning to see the kiddos. I hope that they are ready to have some fun!! WOO HOO. We are a play based school where the kids learn based on playing and conversations. Current studies show that play based learning actually has a higher retention and long term effect over sitting at a desk (at preschool levels to kindergarten).
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
Happy Monday. Time for a new week, I am glad that I am off today, so really it's like my week doesn't start until Tuesday when I goto work. Here's my cute little card today it says, "Be someone's sunshine when their skies are grey" How cute is that?
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
Sharing this fun project today from a place called the Turtle Shop. It was a child in the recent Children's bazaar. She didn't want her name, just the name of her store. All the money she made was going towards saving the turtles in Texas. How sweet is that?
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
Well, it's Saturday. YAY! I hope everyone is getting some rest today and having fun. Do yall have any plans for today? Tell me about it. I am happy to be relaxing at home with the DH. Then I am hoping to get together with my mom and sister to celebrate my mom's birthday that is during next week.
Then, cutting up laces for the store and taking a good nap. Yep, that's my Saturday.
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
YAY! It's finally Friday. Been looking forward to that three day weekend. Woo Hoo. Here's a tiny card. Isn't is just BEE-utiful? I got these cute die cuts as left overs from a kit that I made cards from (Simple Stories) and I used theme to make the cutest baby sized cards.
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
Happy Thursday everyone! I hope this week has been going well for you, I can't believe we are 1/3 of the way though this month already! WOW how did that happen? Just 45 days now. It's so close I can feel it. I wanna grab my suitcase and start packing, lol.
Huge thanks to Susan T in Austin for a great Bee theme thank you card!
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
Happy Wednesday. I am excited to go and see the kiddos today. I'm continuing on with my Spring themed cards, I love this one from American Crafts, Lets BLOOM this spring and all be happy. I have to say I got two amaryllis plants this christmas from my kiddos at school and they were such a delight to watch bloom.
Hello! I hope you all had a great Monday and are ready for today. I am off to school this morning to see my kids. I hope they are ready for a new week. Here's another little spring theme card. This one is a TINY card. just 1.5 x 2"
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
Good Day everyone! I hope you are ready for a great week in April. I am happy to have today off. I am still posting lovely cards for Springtime. Though here in Texas sometimes spring actually gets pretty warm. We have already had days that hit 90F (32.2C)
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
Happy Easter Everyone! Many Blessings to you all on this day!
Here's a guest designer project this week from Peggy Sue using some gorgeous laces from my store. Don't you love this? amazing work Peggy!!
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 another adorable Easter card. The school is closed today so we have a four day weekend for the Easter Holiday. I hope you are enjoying the Easter theme cards that I have been sharing this week. Do you have any plans?
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
Happy Thursday. I wanted to share another little Easter theme card today. This one is using some cute images from Echo Park. Happy Easter everyone! well, it's still three days away... But I hope you have something special coming.
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 another great card from Pink and Main. I haven't done anything at home for the Easter Holiday. I really hope I can avoid the yumminess of all the chocolates, because I really want them. LOL
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 darling little bunny card, now that we are just a few days from Easter, I'm going to be sharing some Easter theme cards for the rest of the week. I hope you are all going to enjoy them. Do you all celebrate?
Here's a super cute Easter card from Pink and Main. I just love their stamps and their cute card making kits. If you haven't checked them out, you should look them up sometime. (No, i'm not a paid promoter, just a fan.)
Guest Designer Gaye made this lovely card using stamps that she won LAST year. I just love these cute images that she got. If you got a prize and made a card, I'd love to see it and share it here on my blog, just send me a photo at htondre@aol.com
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
Hooray for Easter! Here's a cute little mini sized card that I made for the Easter holiday. I used some rainbow background paper and some easter egg paper with a cute layered front message. I hope you like it. Are you ready for the holiday yet?
Here's a beautiful Easter theme card, since we are just over a week from the holiday, I wanted to share some of the cards I made for the occasion. This cutie comes from Pink and Main. I just love their easter kits. So during spring break I got this text "Your flight is cancelled." It came at 3am, and of course I am awake and cutting lace. UGH. I went to my flight booking and sure enough, my flight was just cancelled, no replacement, nothing! Sigh, so I, like I would do, decided to rebook for three days earlier than I was scheduled. Ha ha!! 58 days to go
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
Hello everyone. Can you believe this week is coming to an end? and just five more day of March? WOW, now it feels like Turkiye is closer than ever. Just 59 days. I think my counting begun at 260 something lol. That was a LONG time ago. At the beginning of the school year. Back in Oct when I actually bought my plane ticket.
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
Happy Wednesday. I will see other kiddos today, since my Tu/Thurs schedule kids are somewhat different from my MWF schedule kids. Some overlap, but not all. For those kiddos it will be my first time seeing them since Friday the 13th. I hope they at least missed me a little....
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
Hello all! First day of the week that I will be in school. Hope the kids missed me since it has been 11 days since they have seen me, I look forward to seeing them, even in just 11 days sometimes you can see them GROW. It's amazing.
Special thanks to Suzanne h, Sue T, Audrey, Gaye and Becca Y for some lovely cards. I will plan on sharing them later s guest designer projects.
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
Happy Monday everyone! It's time to start a new week. I am glad that I am off today. Before I used to take off the Monday after Spring Break so I would be able to catch up my store and recoup from a severe lack of sleep (I have a super hard time sleeping in a strange place). Thankful for this day off
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
What a great little mini vacation. Today I will take the bus back to Austin and get home to see the DH. Did he miss me? lol, he better say YES, but in reality, I know he LOVED having the bed to himself. It was so nice seeing my God Mother and I hope we will visit again real soon
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
Hope you are ready for the weekend. I am currently still in Irving Texas at the Scrapbooking and stamping convention. What fun! Today is the last day of it and I will have to get back home tomorrow. I can't wait to get home and tell y'all about it. Here's another TINY card, just 2" by 1.5"
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
Happy Friday everyone! The actual show starts today. I hope I get to take a class maybe two and then go to the sales floor and see all the make and takes plus see what the current trends in crafting are. What fun. I am staying this year walking distance to the convention center.
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
Happy Thursday everyone! I am taking a luxury bus (Vonlane) to Dallas today and then going to Irving today for the Scrapbooking and Stamp convention tomorrow. I can't wait to see everything and enjoy some special time with my god mother. I hope it's tons of fun.
Hello! Happy 18th! I am packing up for my trip today making sure I have all my crafting goodies ready to go for the convention. I hope to get some fun cards made, especially little tiny ones. I am just loving those currently.
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
Ahhh, this is actually the first day of work that I am off. I am so thankful. There's actually only 35 days of work left this year and I take off for Turkiye. Can that be right? WOW. Just 9 weeks of four days minus one holiday. Can you tell I am excited? Packages that went out for prize winners today are Jean M, Audrey R, and Sue. That should be all the prize winners this year. Did your prize arrive?
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
Happy Monday everyone! so happy to have this week off. I am just three days to my trip to Irving and 72 days until Türkiye. Anyone else having spring break now? What are your plans? Here's my spring theme card today.
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 wonderful project from Gaye V. She's sharing this project using a prize that she won LAST year. She made this lovely card with it. What a cute baby card! I love it.
Do you have a project you made with one of your prizes? Share it with me, htondre@aol.com
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
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