Love You

 Happy Valentine's Day.  I hope everyone has a special day filled with love from friends and family.  Do you have anything special planned for the day?  I made this card using one of my favorite stamp collections, Oddballs from Stamping Bella.  I just love that skull barrette in her hair.  I also had to add some gorgeous Turkish Lace.  Love  you DH!

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:  Who are your favorite stamp companies?

Card Contest: LOVE THEME

Card Contest 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 valentines 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 post the cards below 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 and EXTRA goodie to be included in their packages.

Just EMAIL me your cards to htondre@aol.com or on FB Holley Tondre Barnhart

I will add them here.

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 adhesive?

Card entries:

Susan T

Susan T 

Audrey

Audrey R

Karin

Suzanne H

Glennis 

Glennis 

Mel

Mel

Birgitta

Birgitta

Becca Y 

Denise 

Denise

Tina Z

Gaye

Gaye

Jean M

Sindhu

Tina Z

TATY

Marjeta 

Guest Designer PeggySue

Guest Designer PeggySue is sharing some awesome works that she made using the items she received with her Advent calendar from the LacePlacebyHolley Store on Etsy.  I really admire her talent she's on the Design Team.

These all contain goodies or parts of goodies that she received from her Advent Calendar.

The store has opened, there's lots and lots of wonderful items including tons of lace by the yard, great handmade items, and a Christmas Advent calendar!  Check it out   https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Happy Halloween

Here's a fun card using an image from Paper Nest Dolls and some wonderful Turkish lace.  I thought this card would be just perfect for Halloween time.

The store has opened, there's lots and lots of wonderful items including tons of lace by the yard, great handmade items, and a christmas advent calendar!  Check it out   https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.comhttps://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Bunny Ears

 Hope for lots of wonderful lace sales today, if you haven't checked out the store and you live in the USA, please click the link below and go check it out.  There's so many great goodies!

The store has opened, there's lots and lots of wonderful items including tons of lace by the yard, great handmade items, and a christmas advent calendar!  Check it out   https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.comhttps://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Guest Designer and Bday wishes to Shannon

 Happy Birthday Shannon!  She's a great artist who makes wonderful Junk Journals and my friend on Facebook.  She has a wonderful store on Etsy. I'm sharing two different photos of her work today.  She uses the most beautiful Turkish lace

Love

How are we doing today?  I wanted to ask what are your favorite embellishments now a days?  I of course love LACE and lace embellishments but also buttons.  What's your favorite?  I love this Unity stamp!  How about you?  do you also like Unity stamps?  (in addition to your favorite embellishment)

Have you check out my lace store, I sell wonderful packages of lace in every color and beautiful embellishments too!  https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

did you see the week one winners, they are listed on this post HERE, week two winners were shared sunday! click back 

Thanks so much!

 Happy Friday!  just one more week until celebration month.  I hope you are all ready to join in the fun and get a little gift from me in celebration of year #15!!  WOW.  what a true miracle I have been given. I am so thankful.  You will get to see lots of thanks cards coming soon,

Have you check out my lace store, I sell wonderful packages of lace in every color and beautiful embellishments too!  https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Coffee please

 Happy Monday everyone!  Today is a teacher workday, so back to the office, well, not exactly, we are going to another location for teacher training then back to our school in the afternoon.  Tomorrow will start up the school week with the kiddos. 

Have you check out my lace store, I sell wonderful packages of lace in every color and beautiful embellishments too!  https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Happy Birthday Mom

Wishing my mother a very Happy Birthday today. I hope she had something special planned and is able to get out and enjoy the day.  huge hugs, Love,  Holley

Here's a cute card from Pink and Main using some wonderful Turkish lace to go with it.

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

Thick and Thin

Aren't we all glad it is Saturday?  Just curious for all my dear friends overseas....I notice this when I am in Turkiye for example, but most of my friends there don't get off work on Saturday (just the teachers and gov't workers).  Most people that I know from Turkiye work 6 days a week.  Is that true in your country?

Just curious. 

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

Last day to celebrate

 Well, I say that but really everyday of life is a celebration for me!  Everyday that I get without any seizures and my health back is truly a blessing from God thanks to Dr Aboumatar.  So even though there won't be an everyday celebration here on the blog for the rest of the year, there is an everyday celebration that I am living on!!

Question of the day:  anything else you want me to know?

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

Dear Sandra, I miss you

 Here's a wonderful image from one of my favorite artists!  Sandra Caldwell.  I am sure some of you are aware that she passed away unexpectedly.  It made me quite sad, but her memory lives on in these beautiful images that she created.  I was on her design team from the start and worked with her at several different stamp companies.

Question of the day:  what shape/size of cards do you make?

Me?  I still think my favorite size is 6x6

see the prize winner list HERE

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

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

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

Christmas card

 

Well, it's the last day of November!  I can't believe that December is upon us.  WOW.  That was fast.  Seems like the first couple of months of school have flown by.  Pretty soon we will be in Spring!  well, that's pretty relative.  I mean, jan-feb can be cold in TX too.

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 - Etsy

Happy Thanksgiving

 Wishing all of you a very Happy Thanksgiving today!  Best Wishes. I hope you all have wonderful plans and get in a little bit of pumpkin pie :)  One thing I am thankful for this year is my amazing new job at the school that started last year in like February or so working part time with the 2 year olds.  What a delight.

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 - Etsy

Be Thankful

 There's always something to be Thankful for.  That's what this reflective card says.  I added some lovely Turkish lace to it as well.  I have been adding little comments this month about just a FEW of the things that I am thankful for...i mean I am leaving out the most obvious things that we are all thankful for, the roof over my head, the food on my table, the wonderful hubby, the fact that I have a job, that I live in a safe neighborhood, .....

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 - Etsy

Give Thanks

 Here's a love fall/thanksgiving theme card in many lovely fall colors. I added some great Turkish Lace to the project.  How sweet is that?  I just love the beautiful "fall" days, which for us is anything but summer or winter.  Could be 80 could be 40?  Hmmm....but in Nov, closer to 80, lol.  For thanks today, let me give those to my DH who gives me just everything I ever want and dream of including amazing tickets to Turkiye every summer!

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 - Etsy

Thankful

 Here's a wonderful Thankful card for today.  I will be sharing a number of Thankful cards over the month and I hope each time doing a little reflection about something that I am thankful about.  I am using some wonderful Turkish lace here, it's in the brown color family. I hope your November is off to a good start,  So, let's see, things I am thankful for:  I am so very thankful for all the medical personal that I have been seeing lately.  I know I seem to complain about it a lot, but the truth is these people are really wonderful and doing nothing but helping me better my life.  

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 - Etsy