"Gift Giving"

Hello, hello, hello friends, followers, visitors and viewers.
Yes, it's me...I'm back!  We went on holiday/vacation and had a great time.  Today, we're back to the things we love to do at home.
My oldest daughter and myself had a conversation and discussion about "gift giving".
Some of the questions that came up in our conversation are:

• do you participate and give a gift if your office or production line is having a "pick-a-name" and you provide a $10 gift to the person whose name was drawn (you really don't know the person)
• do you provide a gift to everyone who works on your team regardless of their socialization with you
• do you bring a gift (can be used by male or female) to the holiday party and you don't know the person it is granted to but you were required to do this
• why do you give gifts...

Christmas is just around the corner...27 days away...so how many gifts are you giving and what's the meaning behind them?

I had some sheets of Kaisercraft cardstock paper from the "Glisten collection".  One of the messages at the end of the cardstock and my conversation with my daughter prompted today's card.  Look and enjoy the card but think about the message I placed on it:

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Enabler's List:

cardstock: Neenah white; silver from PaperandMore; Kaisercraft Glisten collection; black Recollections

die: Sizzix woodland

embellishment: Jolee's boutique snowflakes; Sandy Lion Essentials gifts

sentiment: bottom of Kaisercraft cardstock

While away on our trip, I thought about all of you and what you were making in the crafting world.  I appreciated some people who reached out to me and was wondering what was wrong...why wasn't I posting.  That's what I call LOVE!  It touch me to my core and really made me feel good to know that you really cared about me.  You know who you are and I want you to know I appreciated it so, so much.

Thanks for coming by today.  Thanks for commenting and please come again.

Sending you a hug and LOVE,

Lois

"Shadow Box Christmas Card?"

Happy Tuesday, October 17, 2017.
I'm very chilly this morning with temps in my area coming in below 50 degrees.  We will warm up to about 65 degrees today.   Yes, summer is really over.  For me, it seems as if we went from summer to winter overnight.  It is time to move some plants inside because of the temps.  It's all over...summer ...not unless I move to a warmer climate for the winter and come back home when it is summer again.
Maybe this is the reason I decided to do another Christmas card this morning.  My body feels as if it is really, really cold outside with snow in the forecast.
(This is a side joke or laugh...DH told me to go outside and stand in the sun for a little while and maybe I'll feel as if it is still summer...  He is a character that needed a good laugh himself this morning).
Here is my share with you. 
I'm admiring shadow box cards.  A craft show that comes on the TV...Create and Craft...has been showing a lot of shadow boxes recently.  I've also researched the ones on Google and Pinterest.  Today, I made an attempt at making one:

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and

http://www.cropstop.com/blog/autumn/october-challenge-link-party-33/

Enabler's List:
cardstock: Neenah white; Recollections black; Ranger watercolor paper
inks: Distress Oxide broken china; Distress Oxide black soot; Distress Oxide faded jeans
dies: Sizzix woodlands; Cottage Cuts Christmas Winter Night; Echo Park Reindeer Sleigh Die Set
embellishment: Stickles glitter glue
Big Shot machine
foam tape
Nuvo glue

Get those Christmas cards ready.  October is almost over and November will be a blink.
Try making a shadow box card...they aren't that hard to do and they look so 3D.

Thanks for coming and I hope you enjoyed the view from your place today.
Come again and comments are always welcome.

Sending you a hug and LOVE,

Lois