WEIHNACHTSZAUBER times three!!!

My three beloved girlfriends from Germany showered me with magic this holiday season both for my birthday and Christmas. Click pictures to see all the deatils of Stefanie's magic. A silver angel and a polka dotted red heart framed by vintage winter ATC's! The advent calender birthday card is the most charming I have ever seen!
Birgit sent incredible magic. A mysterious DVD we will watch when our TV is fixed! A vintage Christmas sticker book along with a beautiful vintage ATC collection.

Anja spread magic all over my cozy cottage! Guess who was very happy with the German chocolates? I love the blue fabric kitty and the German rubber stamp (my first) but the kitty angel stamp is amazing!!

Thank you or I should say, "DANKE SCHOEN" to my three fairy Godmothers in my beloved homeland!

VICTORIAN KITTIES a sketchbook by Roberta Mau

This stunning paperbag sketchbook came to me from Roberta Mau. The theme is Victorian kitties...how can you go wrong with two of my favorites? Thank you Roberta and all the artisits who meowed all over the pages. Click to bigafy!

Second row Sheila Turin & Bobbi Nessly

Third row Rebecca Stiles & Jody Briles

Last row Barbara Simpson & Susan Petersen

I am delighted to have this in my collection!

WINTER WONDERLAND ....

These two delicious holiday confections came to me as a birthday gift from the talented Etha Schuette. My photo does not do them any justice but was meant to highlight the radiance they create. In my opinion she is a paper artist extraordinaire!

SEND IN THE CLOWNS!!!

The happy CLOWN sketchbook was made for me by Paulette DuQue out of oversized playing cards. With a Joker cover it sure did make me smile! Thank you Paulette and the artisits who clowned around all over the cards. Robin Cramer stamped the romantic scene above. Below, Roberta Mau sent me a monkey clown. Sheila Turin colored a sweet raggedy Andy clown. Susan Petersen sent a trio of acrobats. Sandy Hampson stacked her clowns. Barbara Simpson sent me Bozo the clown and Bobbi Nessly sent a clown as round as his balloons! This is the happiest book I ever got! Thank you all so much...

BITS OF BEAUTY!!

Down the flowery garden path with Lorraine Layne and her tribute to this inspiring photograph. Can you just imagine the smell of the wildflowers?! Snowflake glimmer in lovely seashell colors from Becky Partan of MWS...

THE 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS

I find my decorating for most all of the holidays revolve around my paper arts. There is nothing more refreshing than the newest masterpiece to fit the season! MWS never disappoints me there. I am always enchanted by the artwork of these talented ladies...

MOON, STARS & NIGHT SCENES by SUSAN PETERSON

Here is my newest HOMER for you to enjoy! Please click the photo and it will enlarge so you can see the details of each artists page. Thank you for this nice book Susan...I love the theme.

Roberta's page says, "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, and cats are from the moon!" How true...thank you all for this clever book!!!

HALLOWEEN PAPERDOLL SWAP with Stefanie, Birgit and Anja

Look at my wonderful charming little paperdoll witches that finally flew in on their brooms all the way from Germany! This was my first paperdoll swap and I hope not my last! Thank you all for these sweet little witches. Kleine Hexen!! Stefanie's has a sweet little babydoll face...Anja's Hexe is very 1960's chic with her mini skirt...Birgit's Hexe wears a wonderful Mary Poppin's style skirt perfect for flying high in the sky and have a soft landing! Oh and look at those perfect witch shoes she is wearing....I want those!!

OCTOBER DELIGHTS.....

I made these fun paperdolls for my dearest friends Stefanie, Birgit and Anja in Germany. They were my first attempt at paperdolls. I will look in my book and...
then bewitch you as I cast my spell.....
HAPPY HALLOWEEN ATC SWAP with MWS

Pumpkin patch kitties I planted for my CCCC friends....

MWS BLACK ATC SWAP

MWS PURPLE ATC SWAP

BOO!!!

My fireplace mantle decked out for the spooky time....

CCCC cards to delight me this Halloween season! Of all the cards, I love the Halloween and Valentine's seasons the best... Lots of spooky witches and cats here! click to bigafy!Last fading autumn roses. I love the autumn roses the best of all the seasons....

BIRGIT's package of treasures for the Cat's & Bird's swap...

My dearest friend Birgit knew just what would sooth my homesick heart, so she sent me these vintage postcards of my hometown Augsburg in her swap package. Yes, there were some tiny happy tears... All of her treasures were wrapped in pink papers and in delicate shades of rose from the ribbons to the delicate patterned cut our flower blossoms. Even the tissue has roses on it.
One of the things I love so much about all of my dear friends, Stefanie, Anja and Birgit is that each one of them sent me some kind of delicious German chocolates with their thoughtfully selected treasures. Birgits's tea is called Balance and the other is Lighthearted..yummy fruit flavors so right for a chilly autum evening. Such a cute altered tin with birds all in pink and a pretty dress to wear to Miss Peach's wedding on Halloween for me along with a vintage rose pin.
This rose covered box held all the many candies. Look at the pretty footed planter...have you ever seen such shabby chic roses on blue before? A perfect place to display all the pretty ATC's.

Here is the rose pin on my mother of the bride dress...

She never forgets to include the most wonderful napkins and papers...

A vintage photo confection...

And now for Birgit's ATC's....A meowing trio....

Miss Wings...on vintage paper I like so well.

Nice touch of ribbon stamping, aCATually on lace. Very tricky to do...

Sleeping cats seldom get into trouble as they dream of dinner...

Birgit's trio of fine feathered friends...

This is my favorite ATC. Birgit has such a fine way of shading her colors that I so admire. I just love this delicate graduation of the rose shades.

Sweet little wren...true king. I love the crown stamp and have looked for one just like this for such a long time.

A happy family in blue...

Thank you so much liebe Birgit for all of you kindly selected treasures. My heart is happy and I look forward to our Halloween Paperdoll Swap!

ANJA's Brids & Cats Swap

My new friend Anja from Germany begins her swap package like a good German with Schokolade!!! Oh how good it was on that hot summer night to share it with Cole and Dennis. Perfection! Miss Peach was delighted to have her very own wedding ATC's made for her by Anja. I just adore these tiny wedding reminders.

Miss Peach as the beautiful bride...

Mickey the black cat as the handsome groom....

Our swap was all about birds and cats...a purrrrfect combination. thank you Anja for the pretty card. I am so glad you are going to join us from now on in our swaps!

All the nice candies a girl needs were included in her package. Tissue, daisy stick pins, a bird and a butterfly...tea bags for a chilly autumn evening soon to come. The flavor is interesting, raspberry/chili called Sweet Devil! Pretty roses and pearls wire garland that I can bind sketchbooks with. I love the nice notebook with it's handmade papers...

Look at the wonderful scrap inside the nice wrapping paper....

So purrrrfect for Valentines Day and Miss Peach's wedding.

Kitties and a Vintage day at the ocean side complete the themes. I adore these scrap papers and remember them so well from my childhood days in Germany. I was very surprised by them and thank you so much for the purrrfect candy Anja!

Birds in Blue~Pink~Green!

Duet in Pink...

Green with rhinestones and shimmer ribbon...

Blue with tone on tone coloring.

A trio of cats....

One of my favorite looks is to add some vintage newsprint to an ATC! I love the hat Anja!

Elegant black lace sets this ATC to purrrrfection!

A purrrrfect feline quartet!

The bride and groom once more because they are so special!

See the sweet little bird on the lamp? Anja's mother made that for me!! How precious is she to think of me.

I loved our first swap together Anja...look how happy my fireplace mantle is with all of your beautiful ATC's all lined up.