Day: December 28, 2012

digital scrapbooking freebie, Misty Hilltops Designs

Freebie Friday: A Cozy Christmas – Part 2

The Christmas holidays 2012 are over, but for us scrappers the time for scrapping the memories of these days has just begun. So, it’s not too late for you to pick up and enjoy the second part of my Christmas freebie kit “A Cozy Christmas.” Today, I’ll be sharing the first set of papers with you. If you’ve missed the first part, no worries, just click on the tag freebies to find it, or scroll down to last week’s post to pick it up. And if you’re just stumbling upon this blog for the first time, don’t miss out on all the free templates that are still available for download as well as my other freebie kit “A Grateful Heart.” Just remember to properly credit everything you use from mistyhilltops.com, and share the freebies by pointing others this way. Now, I’m going to leave you with my best wishes for the new year, which is around the corner, and as always: happy Friday, scrappers!

The Gingerbread House Aftermath

Do you see this … > ??? It’s all that’s left of our poor gingerbread house. Or, well, in fact, it’s actually less than that. But what are gingerbread houses for, eh? Right? Anyhow. This being my first ever really-made-from-scratch gingerbread house, I was actually pleasantly surprised to find it didn’t taste all too poor. All that sugar-coating had quite taken over any spicy after-taste that might have been left from the gingerbread when I first tasted it. And our friends never minded anyways. They had a blast, ripping apart what we had put together in so many hours, and eating away the candy and the sugar. Talking of “candy and sugar” … by the way, did you know that in Chinese they are one and the same? No wonder, my students keep talking about how they eat sugar, when – in fact – they mean candy. And it is left to me to figure out how much of a sweet tooth they really are! On that note … I’m going to be out for …