Merry Christmas

Love,
The Clearys

40th Anniversary

mom and dad

the main street confectionery

the castle

brody's favorite ride was the carousel (his favorite "show" was the Country Bear Jamboree)
riley's favorite thing to do was the Shooting gallery and his favorite ride was Pirate's of the Carribean.

We celebrated my parents 40th wedding anniversary at Disney World for the past 5 days. Riley and of course Brody had never been to WDW before and as you can imagine they had a wonderful time. We spent the first evening exploring the resorts and enjoying all the Christmas decorations...which were AMAZING. The following couple of days we spent at the parks and at the resort (which was amazing in itself). Today we spent the morning at Downtown Disney at the T-Rex store and fossil dig as well as the Lego store...I think the boys had just as much fun there as they did yesterday at Animal Kingdom. All in all we had a wonderful time watching the kids experience Disney for the first time!

xoxo

nikki

Cosmo Cricket LO's

( the stamps I used in the above LO is "journey to France" by Tweety Jill)

Paper is Cosmo Cricket...other rick rack, felt, DMC floss, staples and ink.
TFL
dream.design.create.
nikki

Polar Express

When Karen asked me to create a mini album using the Creative Imaginations train, I wasn't sure what I was going to do... but when I started playing...it just started to come together. I painted the train blue on both the front and back. I used the Creative Imaginations Lionel train paper and embellishments to decorate the front of the train. I also used the CI Creative Cafe bling for the center of the wheels on the train. For the back I covered it in orange cardstock and stamped a journal stamp all the way down the train...I also stamped train, travel images all over the journaling lines before I journaled. Then I wrote all about Riley's love for Thomas the Train, Polar Express, and our fun adventure when we all went and rode the FL Gulf Coast railroad train...I gathered photos that might not have been the best to "scrap" and used just the heads to place in my "windows" of the train. TFL.

dream.design.create.

nikki

Some misc LO's and projects...

papers, letter stickers. Other: buttons, fabric, sewing machine, pen.

Arctic frog papers, American Crafts flowers, MM chipboard...other buttons and sewing machine.

Creative Cafe accordian Christmas ornaments (all products except DMC floss are Creative Cafe).

TFL

dream.design.create.

nikki

angels from heaven

This LO is very special to me. My uncle sent this postcard out to all of our family after Grandma died last year and this is what it says " I love you all dearly, now don't shed a tear, I'm spending my Christmas with Jesus this year." I wanted to make a special LO to cherish the picture of my Grandma and Grandpa.
The papers and stamps are all from Tweety Jill Publications in her "Collage paper pack". Chipboard is Tim Holtz. Other is buttons, tags, die cut flowers, music sheet (which was my grandmothers), cardboard, coffee dyed lace. Title is "angels" from target and "in" is MM letter stickers. TFL
dream.design.create.
nikki

tis the season...

When walking by the new My Mind's Eye papers and embellishments (at K2 scrapbook studio), it doesn't scream Christmas...but the worked beautifully for my two Christmas/winter themed LO's. The added glitter on the paper is perfect!! I created an adorable Christmas party invitation but it is not pictured, cause I forgot to take a picture of it. :( So you will just have to go to the store to check it out in person. LOL!! TFL

dream.design.create.

nikki

Digital Freebie update...

If you are into digital or hybrid scrapbooking, you need to check out Designer Digitals (in the freebie section) and Weeds and Wildflowers Designs (on their blog) from now till Christmas. They are giving away a freebie a day and everything is adorable. The only catch, you have to check back every day cause the download button expires!
xoxo
dream.design.digi create.
nikki

Luxe LO's

I ran across these pictures of Rileyand Brody this past summer and was in the mood to scrap them. I went to my paper stash and found these Luxe papers and wow, what a perfect match! I love the simple clean lines of both these LO's. Stamps are Autumn Leaves, orange title is Arctic Frog. Other: buttons and sewing machine. TFL

xoxo

nikki

Prima boy LO's

The second I saw these Prima papers at K2 scrapbook studio, I knew they would be perfect for this Halloween! The flowers and also Prima, the smaller circle and outerspace stamps are from Autumn Leaves (K2 has only 1 set left...) and the large circle stamp is from the "it kit". "cherish" stamp and ghost star is Heidi Swapp. The titles are American Crafts thickers, MM letter stickers. Bling: Creative Cafe. Other: rick rack, ribbon, sewing machine, paper clips and tags. TFL
dream.design.create.

nikki

"hangin out"

lately when Riley has been playing outside he wants to climb trees... we do not have very many "climbing" trees, but he wants to try anyway! These photos are of him in our orange tree yesterday afternoon.

xoxo

nikki

Happy Birthday Brody

happy birthday to you...happy birthday to you...happy birthday dear brody....happy birthday to you! (to see more photos of our fun day go to www.lorifrailing.blogspot.com )
xoxo
mama

the legacy trail

Sean goofing off....running down the trail while Riley tried his best to keep up!
Brody on his scooter...

This past weekend the boys were anxious to be outside... the weather was beautiful and so we decided to do an outdoor actvity! The last time we were on the legacy trail, Brody rode in a stroller...so this was a treat for him to go on his 3-wheel scooter! We had lots of laughs...

xoxo

nikki

your love warms me up...

I went online this morning to look for some Christmas themed digital quick pages (QP) and I found the one above (for free) at Weeds and Wildflowers Design...I just love their stuff, it is so me! TFL

dream.design.create.

nikki

first icecream cone

We decided to take the kids for ice cream the other night... Well, we usually order a cup for Brody and help him eat it with a spoon. But, after seeing Riley order a cone, he wanted nothing but... So we said what the heck, have fun! Well, he enjoyed every lick, bite, taste...everything about it!

xoxo

nikki