Melissa's Holiday Craft Party

We call her "ambitious Melissa," because she never met an idea she didn't execute. She has an annual holiday craft party at her house, and this year we all made holiday cookbooks. The assignment was to bring ten decorated recipe cards with your favorite holiday recipe, then we made the covers at the party. After all the stressing about making the cards, everyone came through with flying colors. Here are some of my favorites:











And here are my card and my cover:





I can't wait to try some of these delicious recipes!

Wine Harvest Postcards

The colors for this month's postcard exchange were awesome for me. "Wine Harvest" colors were everywhere in the California Wine Country, where we traveled the week of Thanksgiving. I took some photos and stole a few from some brochures (I wanted to add the grapes, and they were all gone when we were there) then turned them into a "Wine House: