Merry CHRISTMAS Friends....

I just want to wish you all a super MERRY CHRISTMAS. I know I will be taking a short blog vacation and will return by the 2nd.
I have to finish my shopping tomorrow and get the final details done. This flu has not gone away and seems to continue to try to get one nasty grip on me...but hey...the holidays MUST GO ON :)

I pray that this Holiday Season bring you ALL Joy, Health and Peace.

Merry Christmas ladies.
Damaris
Scrapbook Designs Unlimited Inc.

RAK WINNER

Sorry it took me so long, but I have really NOT been feeling well. But...without further blather...here is the RAK winner:

LINDY
Please email me your information at: Scrapbookdui@aol.com

Now for some eye candy:

You all know the FANTABULOUS Tim Holtz. This I believe is my favorite tag. LOOK AT WHAT THIS MAN HAS CREATED...DELICIOUS!!!!

My bloggie friend Linda, sent me this since she knows I love anything pocket or envelope. Wish I new who did this so that I could give credit...but know this...IT IS A FANTASTIC little bag pocket!!!! SWOON!!!! So Kudos to whoever created it!!!! Man, on man, the little things that me me happy...like umm pockets and envelopes..I know..I know. LOL

Leaving you with this Phenomenal tree.

Have a great day ladies.
Me

RAK TIME....

Hello ladies:
It has been soooooooooo crazy here. LOL. It is definitely the HOLIDAY SEASON is definitely in full swing here. Holy Toledo. So much to do and not enough hours in the day. I AM SO LOVING IT ALL!! I am really trying to get it together. Being sick is just not fun. :(

Here is some eye candy for you. The very talented Lynne Forsythe created this. Tell me this is totally DELISH!!!!
Here is the tree for today.

Hoping you are all crossing those things to do off your list.

Hugs,

ME

BLOG HOP!!! & A RAK!!!! WHOO HOOO!!!

Well hello everyone. I certainly hope your holiday season is bringing you joy and delight. As many of you know this is my favorite season, and I just LOVE to give goodies away, so I want to share some goodness going on in bloggie world.

My Paper Tree House Studio is hosting a Blog HOP. There is going to be a ton of free goodies being given away on the following blog hop. I have been asked to join the very talented Design Team of My Paper Tree House Studio and am thrilled to start off with so many RAK's being offered to the PEEPS. You must visit all the blogs (I have listed them below) leave a comment and actually link your LO to (My Paper Tree House Studio) by December 19, 2010. Each Designer will give you a detail to add to your LO...OR NOT... ;)

My detail to this Blog hop: is that you add a sticker or a rub on to your page. I too will be giving a RAK!!!! I PROMISE IT iS DELISH!!!! I will choose the winner on Sunday, December 19, 2010. (If you live outside of the USA, and win the RAK, you must pay your own shipping-SORRY LADIES).

There is some really great stuff going on over these very talented women's blogs. I encourage you to join the fun and ENJOY THE RIDE!!!

(click below to get the 411 details)

Here the are details:

Look at one of the FREE RAKS....this kit is DELISH..it is being given away by paper delights.

Not only do we have RAKS from the DT members, a prize for creating layout, but we have a Grand Prize too!!! All you have to do is comment on all the blogs along the hop!


Dont forget you need to leave a comment on each of the blogs and collect the different items for the Blog Hop Challenge Layout. All layouts and comments are due by
Sunday the 19th 11:59pm PST.

These are the blogs you need to visit and leave a post on.

My Paper Tree House Blog

Maritha Frolid
Jeannie DeGruccucio

Wendy Morris

Ruth Tacoma

Nicole Brenna

Elizabeth Carney

Tabitha Jones

Arlene Camacho

Dolores Cancel

Damaris Rios.... OH WAIT THAT'S ME :)

Nana Campana

Now here is some Christmas Eye Candy:

I leave you with Today's Tree.

Have a fantastic day ladies!
Hugs,
ME

#14..Is it really Christmas time?

Had a bunch of stuff to do and I am sick like a dog!!! YUCK!!!

Let me give you some eye candy...it's the least I can do. :)

Check this LO by Leena Loh. Love the colors.

Check this out...my cuz sent me this picture....have no idea who did this, but I tell she whoever she/he is...they ROCK!!!! Just looking at it makes me happy. :)

Here is your tree for today...or should I say....TREES? LOL

You all have a great day,

Me

#10

I am in a frenzy here to finish decorating TODAY!!!! Whatever is out is out...and if it is NOT OUT...it is not COMING OUT!!!! LOL

Wanted to share some stuffesses I have been working on....This was one of the pages from my 10 page Christmas class.
So glad that I did this class because I was able to scrap 2 Past Christmas seasons in one sitting...gotta love that!!!

TIM HOLTZ I AM NOT...but I too have been working on some tags...simple peeps...simple...

Sending Happy Birthday Wishes to my aunt Judy. LOVE YOU LADY!!!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!Wishing you all a fantastic day and a fruitful Weekend!hugs, me

#9...I think I need an extra 4 hours in my day :)

Oh my goodness. The days are FLYING BY!!! It's so exciting trying to get everything done. I remember the words "HUSTLE AND BUSTLE"yup...that is certainly describing my life right now.
My house is full of STUFF...but I am seeing the light!!! WHOO HOOO!!!!
Working on these.....

Here is our tree for the day.

Have a fantastic day ladies.

Hugs,
ME

#8

Is it cold or what peeps? For those of you NOT LIVING IN SUNNY FLORIDA...can you please return our heat BACK!!! LOL.

Here is another tree for your Christmas eye candy....
Gotta leave you with some scrappy eye candy. This is one of the pages I did in my 10 page December Class. So glad I do this. I tend to catch up on Christmas fairly quickly with these classes. I help my customers scrap and I get my stuff done too. Can't beat that!!!

I HAVE GOT TO SHARE!!!! My daughter lovesss.....did I say LOVE with capital letters: BUDDY from Cake BOSS. She wrote this amazing letter to him and waiting anxiously for a reply. She would ask me every day...MOM...did I get anything? She actually drove me a little crazy. I really did not expect her to get anything back. Anyway we got something back today.

BEFORE OPENING ENVELOPE

"HIS" company or workers or SOMEONE...sent her a plain autographed card and a 5x7 postcard telling her to buy his book. She was a bit devastated. I felt so bad for her. She tells me I am so disappointed mom. I tried to explain to her that stars tend to get super busy...more so than us regular people and we are SUPER busy. That he probably never even read the letter. Most famous people have someone who reads their letters and answers them back for the person. I really tried to make it a positive moment for her.

(Now my true opinion is: I wish they had NEVER SENT HER ANYTHING....especially the flyer promoting his book. I have no problem with the flyer...just sending it to a KID who has just poured her heart out in a freaking letter!) Please note this is MOMMY speaking!!!! LOL

AFTER OPENING ENVELOPE

It is a lesson learned. I explained that in the future if she was ever in a position where children were writing to her...to remember this experience and do something differently.

BY THE WAY...I was planning on buying her the stupid book for Christmas, just waiting for it to get here at Barnes and Nobles...sad but true.

Have a great day girls.

Hugs,

Me

#7

I feel like I am on a roller coaster, but hey, no matter...
It's Christmas time and I am enjoying every single minute of it.
MY TREE IS OT UP YET!!!! HOLY TOLEDO!!! NOT EVEN THE FOREST!!!
Can you believe that?

But no worries, I have three whole days to make my home a Christmas wonderland...

Now let me share...I have hosted a tag swap this year for the Christmas Holiday, and let me tell you these ladies have really impressed me. They are all getting here, slowly but surely and I can't wait to get them into every ones hands.

Have to leave you with Mr TAG HIMSELF!!! Tim Holtz...yikes...this man is like umhhhmmm..oh yeah...

FREAKING AMAZING!!!! LOL

This is tree #7. Anyone out there into blue?

I hope you are all having a wonderful time with your Holiday Traditions.

Hugs,

ME

Day #5

What an amazing day I have had today. I hosted my Annual Holiday Luncheon with some of my favorite people. We ate, laughed, cried and even prayed. LIFE IS GOOD. SO BEHIND ON A MILLION TINGS!!!

Here is a tree for your eye candy...

Have a great day ladies!!!
Me

Can you believe it's the 3rd already?

My goodness..time has really flown by. OK, I know I am behind on the December Daily...I have been doing it, but have not taken pictures. I promise to post those by Monday..I will catch up. I promise.

Here is another tree for your delight.

HUGS,

ME

#2.....Did December just creep up on me? LOL

Man, I am trying to do way tooooo much stuff....but is that not the fun part of it all? Trying to get everything done so your loved ones can enjoy the HOLIDAYS?

I have a ton of stuff that I NEED TO TAKE PICS OF AND SHARE...but I am running on full speed right now. I have a super busy weekend, and plan on doing a ton of stuff.

I have not taken pictures of the December Daily, but will be posting some time this weekned...HOPEFULLY...I promise to catch up.

Now for the eye candy...Cari Fennell created this beauty. Isn't that pretty?
Here is the second tree for the season.

Happy Thursday!!!

Hugs,

ME

It is the beginning of the HOLIDAY'S FOR ME!!!

I am sooo excited. So the hustle and bustle begins here. I am working on the following for the next several days....

1. Putting up the main tree and the forest
2. Decorating the living room and dinning room
3. Beginning my December Daily..(will be posting on this daily beginning tomorrow).
4. Shopping with my momma
5. Working on the Scrapbooking yard sale.
I am tired already :)

Here is another tree for your delight.
Have to share the joy I felt seeing these amazing wonderful people. This couple used to live here and moved to Texas a while back. They came visiting and Rios and I just had to invite them over for dinner. We have laughed....so hard. It was an absolutely amazing evening.

Hoping you are all having a great time getting ready for the Holidays. See you tomorrow.
Hugs,

Me

It's almost the 1st!!!!

I have sssooooooooooooo much to do. AND SO MUCH TO SHARE...so I certainly hope I will not drive you all crazy with all my Christmas goodness that I will post in the next several weeks.

I am cooking for some very special people coming over tonight. Can not wait to see them. Will share more tomorrow.

I leave you with the first tree for the season. (WHITE HOUSE TREE...from the past)
I hope you are all getting your list taken care of and enjoying your holidays.

Be back tomorrow.
HUGS,
Me

Wow...what a weekend!

Thanksgiving was amazing. We had the most fantabulous time with family.

We began the day with breakfast at mom's.

Then went to the park where we celebrate our annual tradition with my aunt Celina.

She truly outdid herself. We had amazing food, hysterical games....

and spend some amazing time with family and friends.

This place had enough space for ALL OF US!!! :)

NOW...let's talk about BLACK FRIDAY!!!

YIKES!!! Did I mention that I have been going shopping on Black Friday since the 1800's? LOL

It was wild. I can honestly say that the dynamics for Black Friday have changed for sure. I have always been able to come home, sleep 6 hours and off I go by 3am. NOT THIS YEAR!!! I wanted to score some very BIG items and we left the house (at my husbands insistence) by 8:45pm. I waited in line at Target with a very good friend ALL NIGHT LONG!!! It was worth every single second. I was able to score the BIG item due to our buddy Edward. (THANK YOU EDWARD!!! I LOVE YOU TO PIECES BROTHER!!!)

I am gearing up for the holiday crazies. I LOVE THIS SEASON!!! I Have begun to decorate but am no where near where I would like to be. I will continue to post pics as the days go by.

Hoping you all have a great day!

Hugs,

ME

It's almost here..

Busy with a ton of goodness here. Getting some shopping out of the waym abd getting ready for that major scrapbook yard sale coming up. BUT...I am most excited about getting ready to participate in my Aunt Celina's Thanksgiving FEAST!!!! (I am just showing up!!!) LOL

I am eternally grateful that MY FANTASTIC, BEAUTIFUL, AMAZING, AND ABSOLUTELY PHENOMENAL Aunt CELINA Host this EXTRAORDINARY EVENT.
(that's Titi Puchy..as we call her, on the left in red)...Margie and Bethsy (my sis's). This was last year's Thanksgiving, and let me tell you something...this woman makes it better and better every year. She takes a week off to prepare this amazing feast for us. It is a labour of love!!! I promise to share pics of Thanksgiving this year!!! :)

Leaving you with another layout. Believe it or not there was a ton of 3-D going on in this page, but I could not bring it to justice with ANY of the pictures I took. I sometimes challenge myself NOT TO USE FLOWERS and just enjoy the paper...voila...here it is.

Hoping your preparations for the Holidays are coming along well.

Hugs,

ME

Christmas has hit the RIOS home...

So I began with a massive cleaning this weekend...I promise...I cleaned for 8 straight hours!!! Fans, walls, moving furniture..you know the works. I then began to decorate for Christmas THINKING that I would put up the tree...LOL...but I was ssooooooooo tired after cleaning, cooking and having guest over for dinner.

This is last years set up...I might keep it the same...or not...I will post tomorrow. :)
Have a fantastic day!!!
Hugs,
Me

Where did it all go?

I can not believe that another week has gone by...are you serious? I have a million things to do...feel the pressure here...but I promised to blog so here is some eye candy.

I was dying to work on some of these old pics my sister Margie gifted me a while back...so created some delishiness with Websters pages...and of course PRIMA...you know me and flowers. :)

Hope you all have a fantastic Sunday.
Hugs,

Damaris

Thankful mini

Had a class a couple of weekends ago and thought I share one of the mini's we completed.

Simple and cute....right up my alley lately... :)
This is a close up of the tag...I cuttlebugged the blue paper, added a leaf and voila..simple front cover. The mini door handle is from 7-Gypsies.

The shiny side is an ovealy from Teresa Collins...I LOVE OVERLAYS...Delish.

The left page opens up to a flap...

and it looks like this when opened.

Love to play with old stuff...I have had these stickers for YEARS!!!! Thought I raid my sisters stash and play with her stuff!!! (THANKS BETHSY!!!)

Hugs,

Damaris

We...what we..that is too many people...

I AM GETTING READY HERE for the largest Scrapbook Yard Sale I have ever had.
I am seriously just wanting to get this stuff OUT OF HERE!!!!! I keep pulling stuff from EVERYWHERE!!!! I decided to keep dumping on the desk and as I go I stop every several hours bag a bunch of kits to sell and continue to make a mess. I HATE THIS!!! :(
But it has got to be done. So a lot of organizing and bagging going on here.
Believe it or not, I have already organized 4 large boxes and kitted at least 50 bags to sell. I have got to finish this room by tomorrow!!! I can not stand the mess!!!! I am getting this scraproom/business room in order !!!!

Send a prayer for me.

Hugs,

Me

MIA...

Don't I know it. I have been so busy with family stuffesses and wonderful amazing life that I have not blogged like hmmmnnnn in like forever...heehee,ha.

Christmas is definitely in the air here. BUT...before I get into that, let me finish my FALL HOLIDAYS first...LOL

I have a ton of pictures that I need to download and share. I am hoping to get into the swing of things by tomorrow...so hopefully I will not overload you with a ton of stuff I have done in the past couple of months.
Can you believe it is almost Thanksgiving? HOLY TOLEDO!!! With that thought, I leave you with this beautiful album my buddy shared with me. Have no clue who did it...but tell me it's not divine?

Have a great day! Hugs, me

Working on some Christmas presents....

Been working on some stuff as I am gifting quite a bit of things this year for Christmas...so wanted to make sure I get maybe a kind of sorta head start....LOL

This book is actually for me. I have wanted to celebrate a great deal of people in my life who have simply been NICE to me. So I took to stock of events and people that have done something NICE for me in the past....this is a journal of the amazing things these people have done for me. This is a work in progress....will update by the end of the year.
This is definitely a Christmas present...SSHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Will share more later.

Hugs,

me