Day 2 - DONE -

It's 9:15pm here and I proudly display my day #2 tag following along with, T!m Holtz and his 12 tags of Christmas.
Last year I had all of the best intentions of playing along, well, I got all the way thru 3/4 of the day #1 tag!!  WooHoo, Party!!  As I was getting out my Christmas crafty boxes last weekend I was greeted with a pathetic looking partially completed tag. - So Sad -
So, at this point I have already doubled my accomplishment of last year and Christmas with T!m!!
There are a lot of items that I gratefully do have, however it is fun and challenging to figure out what to do for items that I don't have.
The next 3 days will be interesting as my husband has the days off, we will see how much crafty time I can steal each day, wish me luck.
Thank you for stopping by Jill's life adventure,
Have a good weekend.
~Jill

Tag #1 of 2010

Well, I'm officially 5 minutes late...But, so is T!m... LOL
Here is my take on Tag #1, I didn't have the rickety house die so I substituted with the cricut and the Jolly Holidays cartridge.  There were bunches of other substitutions as well, but that's the challenge and lots of fun.

Thank you for stopping in on Jill's life adventure...til tomorrow (or actually later today).
~Jill

Let the Season Begin...

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving, it was Vince and I by ourselves...included a very big bird and a day filled with football.

We even partook in Black Friday, which actually started on Thanksgiving day this year.  Did you know that Michaels had their JetMax Cubes on sale for 55% off?  When you stack them on top of each other they make the perfect height for a small table to place my laptop on...what I was using had been glued and nailed and screwed to the point of no longer able to repair -- I was grateful that I had it for the years that I did but it was time to move on.  Having the 4 cubes at my fingertips is wonderful all that extra storage is amazing.

With Thanksgiving behind us it is time to "officially" start the Christmas/Holiday season.  You see, I know this by one thing and one thing only.  Last night at midnight Mountain U.S. time the season began with the first posting on Tim Holtz blog with the 1st Tag of Christmas.

I am off to the loft for the next 12 days to play and experiment and create - Enjoy!

Thanks for stopping by my adventure.

~Jill

Thankful Banner

I got this idea from blog hopping and seeing everyone's super cute banners. My daughter and her husband live about 4 hours south of us, they are raising 2 beautiful, loving children. I started thinking about how to help educate the kiddos with the idea of gratitude and thankfulness... this is what I came up with.
I used 8, 8.5x11" medium weight chipboard pieces, covered then decorated. It's approximately 5 1/2 feet when hung-up.
There are 4 ribbons hanging from each letter and I have used small clothes pins in this example, when it reaches it's final destination I'm hoping they will use something more "secure" with toddlers in the house. My theory is that for the 8 days before Thanksgiving to add something that you are thankful about. A drawn picture, a cut out from a magazine, a photo, a letter, etc... I'm looking forward to see how the family uses and learns from this "Thankful Banner"

I know it's been a super long time since I've blogged, believe me I've been busy. I was gone most of October, I have lot's of photos and stories to tell with my future layouts. I will try and get you caught up when I get some of the layouts done.

Thank you for stopping by to check up on my life adventure, hope you have a wonderful week.
~Jill

Here are a few of the things I've been enjoying...  I used the Martha Stewart butterfly punch as a screen, dab painted around it then "colored" the butterfly with stickles, oh, how I love my stickles!!  This was also an experiment with some doodling on my page. (a first)

This page was a complete accident but I have to admit it's my favorite so far...

This page was inspired from my class with Tim Holtz, these were some of the bits and pieces that were left over after completing my curio cabinet.  It's title is "All Over" because thats the way I feel about my passions, they are all over the place!

Thanks for stopping by to see what's up with Jill's life adventure.
Hope you are having a happy, crafty, healthy week!
~Jill

The Spoon Theory written by Christine Miserandino

The Spoon Theory written by Christine Miserandino

Just when you give up all hope of thinking you can ever put it into words....

Thank you Christine for this explanation, having had MS for 23 years I've never been able to articulate how "I feel", now that my children are adults I am going to share this with them.

Thank you,

~Jill

and the winner is.....

Okay, there is a little story that goes behind this blog candy.  I was feeling very overwhelmed last week with everything I have going on so I considered the idea of asking Kathryn if she would just do a give away of this collection during the crop...(with it being Halloween stuff I was quickly running out of time).  I even called her during the crop to ask her, she didn't answer, so no big deal.  Then I thought well if I have her give it away then she won't have the opportunity to play along so I bagged the idea.  Next stop make a post, girl get off your duff and make it happen.  I have been so blessed & stinkin' lucky in the blog world I really did want the opportunity to share the love.

Well, with the lead up you had to know that fate always intercedes and can you believe that the number generated was #21 on random.org and wouldn't you know it the winner is: Kathryn....congrats girl, it's kinda fun to have random.org repay the favor.  I'm really glad that I followed thru with the original intention of having blog candy, it has been fun for me, going to have to do it again.

BTW, Tuesday I won another prize, it was on the Creative Imagination Blog they are doing a blog swap with Hero Arts this week and it has been a bunch of fun to see all the great things they are creating, I will do a post when it gets here...

I appreciate all of the love and support that everyone has shown.  And for the new followers welcome, glad to have you along on the adventure

Thanks again to everyone, and thank you for stopping by to see what's up with Jill's Life Adventure.
(the next chapter involves me taking my mother to her 50th high school reunion....this ought to be good!!)
~Jill