A Special Gift and Card for a Dear Friend

I had the honor of celebrating a great accomplishment with a dear friend.  She was awarded a Honorary Service Award.  I am so proud of her!  I am so glad that I was able to celebrate with her this evening.  I surprised her with this card (I could not find my teacher stamp from The Greeting Farm so I used one that I thought would be the next best one that looks like a teacher. I used washi tape for the border, punches to make the balloons, a die cut for the congrats and the bow.)

and a gift.

Here is a picture of my friend and I at the award dinner.

Thanks for stopping by! Have a good night and a wonderful Friday!

Valentine's Day and Lunar New Year

Happy belated Valentine's Day and Happy Lunar New Year! I hope that all you were able to spend some time with those that you love this week on Valentine's Day and show them some extra love.  Here are the gifts that I put together this year for family and friends.

My hubby took me out to lunch for Valentine's Day.

In the evening we took out kids out to dinner at a Japanese restaurant.  For their appetizer we ordered a heart shaped pizza for them.

I have not made any of my Chinese NY gifts yet so I will just end this post with this picture for New Years.  For those of you that celebrate Lunar New Years I am praying that each of you will have an amazing Year of the Dog with lots of blessings from above.

Have a wonderful President's Day weekend!

A Fun Secret Sister Tea Swap

Sorry I did not have a chance to write a post last week.  Time just seems to be whizzing by.  It just seemed like yesterday that 2018 started and now it's February.  LOL!  Anyways, today I will be posting pictures of the Secret Sister Tea Swap from December.  I had the pleasure of surprising my good friend Dori with some thing crafty

and with some goodies.

Cathy was my Secret Sister.  She made me a super bright and cheery desk organizer

and a stamp set with a coordinating die.

I can't wait to use them next Christmas to either make some fun cards or tags.  Recently I ordered some super cute stamps. I considered it a New Year's gift to myself.  :) Hopefully I get to ink them up soon to make some fun projects.

Have a great weekend!