Designed and Decorated with love

My grandaughter Hailey and I had fun creating, painting and decorating 2 collage frames- one for her mom and one for her great grandfather for the holidays. I love Tulip brand Beads in a Bottle. They come in different colors and work well on picture frames, glass, paper crafts-pretty much any surface including fabric! They are easy to use and they give a 3D effect and harden like a brad or a bead. We got more creative with our frame design as we went along and I even tried it directly on the glass frame on the top left pic. The words For You Mom are in black beads in a bottle. When my grandsons saw these they asked how come they couldn't do one! So for Valentine's day they will be doing small picture frames for their mom- Can't wait to create with them!

Express your Gratitude and Thankfulness

Happy Friday!

There is all the media hype about Black Friday starting early. Why even last weekend the sales hype was already in full gear. So that made me think.
Why not start giving the gift of Gratitude and Thankfulness early too? Start saying Happy Holidays to everyone you meet. How about saying a simple "Thank You" to people who probably don't hear it a lot. Like the postal carrier, the sanitation workers, policemen, firemen, teachers, grocery store clerks, employees who go out and get the carts from the parking lot. You could even say "Thanks" to the customer who takes their cart back to the cart corral instead of leaving it in the parking lot.

There are so many ways to express gratitude, thankfulness and appreciation. This weekend why not challenge yourself and others to see how many different ways that you can find to extend the gift of Thankfulness to as many people as possible.
Then on Sunday evening or Monday compare notes over a cup of coffee to see how many creative ways everyone came up with to spread Gratitude and Thankfulness.

And see how wonderful it feels to make a difference in someone's life by making a big impact with small and simple feel good gestures.

Affirm:
This weekend I will focus on spreading Gratitude and Thankfulness as I prepare for the Holiday.

Have a share the Gratitude Weekend!
Mary Ellen
Motivating YOU with Positive Power!
Get Jazzed & Joyful About You, Every Day in Every Way!

Word Art

Was just doodling the other day and my grandson asked me if I would do his name for him, then of course the other two wanted the same. So I doodled their names in the colors they wanted and decided to use them as templates for a room door plate for each of them. I used art markers and Sharpie permanent markers on small watercolor art paper. Now I am going to talk to my hubby about cutting some wood decoratively and then cutting out the names on the paper to paste on and redoing the scroll work and hearts in paint on the wood plates. Since they have bunk beds in their rooms, name plates will be a great way to identify their space for each of them. AND since I have a total of seven grandchildren I am already working on the rest of their names-don't want to leave anyone out! I will post them as I do them as well as post the door plates when they are done.
Well I am having the darndest time trying to get all three photos on this post so I am going to leave the two on and post the others later. And apparently the two photos even though I see them on my draft as across from each other-show up on the preview as on top and below each other! Well enough time trying to figure it out- I will go with the flow- More later!