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