Having two ears and one tongue, we should listen twice as much as we speak.

Our 2008 Christmas scrapbook:

I found a whole lot of Christmas stickers on eBay for less than $5...
and they were poofy...
and while I was making Christmas tags...I made some extra...

and then I found the mitten and Christmas light punch for $3 on eBay in one lot... and I found these great photos of Oakland on Gretchen's blog...the tree in the bottom corner is the one that she decorated for the square...

then I used a little fine tip black marker for the strings and the wires...

all the paper was old from the last several years that I had in my drawers...

the string came on the tags...

I used my star punch and corner punch that I had already...

I cut articles out of the paper...and Doug had photos since my camera wasn't working right at the time...

I cut out stars of the wrapping paper scraps...and glued some ribbon on...

Doug got Craig and his dad lottery tickets...too bad they didn't win... and I copied only one side of a $50 bill... so technically it's not counterfeiting...right?...

I glued everything to white card stock and then into page protectors...used just a basic white notebook...snow theme there...

and finally what I wrote for the paper for the Christmas Is A Child toy drive I do with my friend Terri...we supplied toys and gifts for 107 children in our district this year...it was awesome...so I hope this gives you some ideas...I love looking at other people's pages...and you can scrapbook without paying a lot of money...just use your imagination...

Hope your day is good:

I had this large bag of chicken pieces in the freezer...so I baked them with all the wonderful prep spices for BBQ...there's peppers and Mandarin oranges and all the good stuff...
when it was done...I put half aside for one night's supper...
cooked down my BBQ sauce and sugar in a medium sauce pan...then I poured it over the remaining pieces in the same pan and threw it back in the oven...it will be done in half an hour and then there will be 2 nights worth of meals in one mess...the oranges or most of the time I use just plain orange juice contains citric acid...it is what transfuses the BBQ flavor later into the meat so it's not just coating the outside...once the citric acid penetrates the meat...it will pull all the other flavors in with it...
Rebecca- you could so do this...and it smells so good...you can use your chicken strips...

Not so long ago:

making my garden collages to scrapbook...this was back in April...we even had snow then...