Happy day after Thanksgiving! I hope you got all kinds of great stuff at FKS. LUCKY! I have never been able to go to Black Friday Sales in St. Louis because we are at Mike's family in Southeast Missouri. We've had a good time catching up and seeing people at the high school basketball tournament that went to school with Mike and his brothers. I love spending uninterrupted time with my guys and they love spending time with their cousins. I hope everyone has a safe trip home. When we get home I am taking down Thanksgiving decorations and start working on the samples for the January card class.

The tree is up, not decorated, but standing. Got the lights to work, with the help of a friend, except for one grouping on the tree. I'm just going to hang a string of lights on the tree and forget it! Put up the hearthroom tree and used the stand that rotates. Way cool!

Steph was excited to have her first Thanksgiving with her 1st classroom. Greg arrived home from school today. I am so thankful to have everyone sleeping under one roof tonight.

Hope to see some of you at FKS tomorrow. I love spending my turkey bucks! I hope everyone has a safe and wonderful Thanksgiving weekend.

We put up a new Christmas tree yesterday. I thought it would be easy but of course it wasn't. First we put together the train track and I had to run to Lowe's to get felt to go under the board so it wouldn't scratch up the floor! Went home and put the felt on the board. Went to put the board together and discovered three of the tracks were broke! Went to 2 stores trying to find the tracks! Bought parts to fix the track. Fixing the tracks was not as easy as I was told! Mike and I finally fixed the tracks. Y-e-a-h, now I can put up my new tree. Wrong! I bought a new tree stand that rotates my new tree. Got the tree in the stand and after screwing 6 screws into it I start to put the tree together. When I put the 2nd section on, the tree started to sway! Mike helped me take the tree apart and look at the stand. W-E-L-L, we figured out the tree's truck is too big for the stand and the trunk didn't go all the way down! We finally used the tree stand that came with the tree and I put the tree together. I love my new Christmas tree even though it won't rotate but I still haven't figured out how to connect all the pre-lit lights!!!!

Only one more day until my son comes home from college!! I can't wait until everybody is under one roof!!!

I went to FKS today for the Christmas open house. I left with a bag, well really 2 bags, of stuff to make Christmas cards and layouts. I also got the coolest tool by Zutter. It is a corner rounder for chipboard and acrylics! Sue had a great demo on different ways to make acrylic tags. The Christmas music and wassel put me in the mood. I was inspired to go Christmas shopping after I left.

I can't wait to start teaching card classes at For Keepsakes Scrapbook Store! The classes will be the 3rd Wednesday of the month with the exception of May (it will be the 2nd Wednesday)! I will offer the classes at 10:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. I start January 21st!! The theme will be Valentine's Day. I'm working on the designs. When they are finished I'll give you a sneak peek.

The first day of my blog. Wow it took forever to figure it out!