October Fall Family Day!!!

Oh how I love October!

Fall is in the Air....Leaves are changing

Mountains are snow capped...Apple picking time!

My hubby took us the back way to the Apple Orchard...

oh the beautiful colors of the trees with the winding road...

laughter in the backseat...FAMILY that is what counts!

Lee and Emilee sharing their fall spirit!

Kettle Corn

Windy Ridge Apple Orchard

Smell of Fall....Yum!

Olivia was behind the camera for this trip...there

is so much to see at the little shop.

Great shot Livy....Nothing screams Fall like

PUMPKINS...

Hey there is our Olivia....she is so adorable!

Family making memories...make everyday count!

THANK YOU FOR SERVING!

Happy Veteran's Day

To all Men and Women who have served and are serving today!

Thank you!

We are blessed and proud of you all...

My Father 

George Tilley, Sr.

(we love and miss you greatly)

My Father-in-law and Lee's Father

Carl Baker

(we love and miss you greatly)

&

My hubby

Lee H. Baker

Thank you all for your service....I so thankful I snapped

this photo of father and son...it was shortly after 

this moment we loss dad...hugs.

Take time to thank your loved ones and those you do not know but deserve honor and thanks.

I also want to thank all my family members who have and are serving today!

THANK YOU

Holiday Recap and New Year 2015

Well our 2014 year was full of many hardships and blessings....so closing out 2014 with the Holiday's with our girls who were home from college break.

We did our tradition with Christmas Eve Candle Light Service at our church.

Here is my hubby Lee singing us "Oh Holy Night"!

Here are our angels at the Candle Light Service....so beautiful

Olivia and Emilee are in Ministry School in Portsmouth, NH

 InPursuit: School of Creative Arts and Discipleship

Christmas Eve after celebrating with our Church family....

we come home and open one gift each.

(been our tradition since the girls were small)

and we watch Christmas movies...

Livy (Olivia) got a pearl earrings.

Our tree late on Christmas Eve...setting out the last minute

gifts for our girls.

To celebrate the New Year 2015 

we had a family photo day....here is one

of all of us...so love this photo

(it was such a cold bitter cold day)!

Photo by GabrielleRenae Photography

Getting my 2015 list ready!

Happy New Year Everyone.

Peggy Lee

What I've been up too.....

I guess it's Monday....early early in the wee morning...

I thought I would start to change up my blog post a little bit, a little bit more personal! See when I started blogging way back in 2006, now hold on don't go looking for my oldie blog post...they are no where to be found...

some time ago I accidentally deleted my oldie blog and blog name...ugh

So that is why you won't find those years, years of memories and pics gone..

like that in a blink of an eye or should I say a click of a button.

So fast forward to today 4-14-2014

I knew I wanted to have a every day kind of record of memories for my girls and friends to look back upon and remember when....

See life has thrown me another curve, I've been fighting something within my body since Jan. of this year and now it's developed into my lungs...I have been very ill for the past few months...but the last few weeks have been the worst...I now have "allergic bronchitis.

I can here you know what is that....well I really don't know whatever I am allergic too has now settled into my lungs...

So with that weakness, I so needed to lift my spirits and I have had to do something...what can I change...my hair.

So I cut it all off I had really long hair for over a year now...I did it I got a cute spring hair cut and I LOVE it!

I have been doing daily post on face book which I love and hate at the same time. I have decided that posting more on my blog and only try to update status on face book.

Here is a handmade flower I created the other day using Marion Smith Designs new Bloom Impressions Dies-Peony Petal Die...LOVE 

Along with her Junque & Gems!!

Isn't that flower center FABULOUS?

On Saturday was my day to post on the Marion Smith Designs Blog, here.

And this is the little Altered Easter Egg Decoration I made.

Do YOU see? 

Yes the flower I created and a bunny from the dollar store I painted and crackled....see more details on the blog, here.

And look who came with many friends the other day 

my little friend

Robin

makes me so happy 

here in the White Mountains of New Hampshire the winter has been a long and cold one.

I love spring birthday right in front of my eyes...and seeing our neighbors come out and get out of the winter blues...amazing.

Lastly just a few weeks ago we got to attend our youngest daughter Emilee's concert for the North Country Concert, hand picked...

She is right in the middle of the photo..

LOVE YOU 

EMILEE

Can you see her 

oh I wonder what she is really thinking and saying 

to herself...lol

Mom and her camera!!! 

Well I suppose I should close this for now...I have so much to do in the morning or real morning when others awake.

My To Do List

-see family off lee to work, Emilee to school

Can't believe she is a senior and this is it only a few more months...and our oldest Olivia will be home shortly from college..we miss her a ton...LOVE HER

-work on Spring Fling projects

-mail out a goodie

-start to unpack will explain in another post

-spend a little time with my amazing Lord and Savior!

-figure out supper, food shopping, eat better

-call the doc for an update

-be grateful

-be kind

-be a gem for someone in need....

hugs, 

Peggy Lee

Scrap Room Make over / Olivia Graduation from High School

Here is my scrap room cleaned out and now my dinning room holds all my stuff (crap like my hubby calls it)!

 Love my five book shelves that hold alot of creative items to play with and to hold inspiration to keep around me!

 My hubby scored me some counter tops for my room and we just had to buy the wood and nails, a make over for $30.00+ whoooo awesome deal, love it Lee, thanks to you and Tom for doing this for me.

  Computer center and a place to do my videos and who knows what else is in the future, and a standing counter for me. Love it.

My daughter Olivia is graduating this Saturday June 18, 2011 from White Mountains Regional High School. We are so proud of her and love her! Great job and momma and daddie loves you!

What I've been Doing!

So after being sick with a head and chest cold, that I still have a small touch of! Life here at the Baker home has been really busy, with school events, teen sleepovers, and snow storms! Life is full....

My oldest daughter Olivia went to a college weekend in Portsmonth at Master's a Christain College program that is totally awesome. Here is a couple of pics she snapped love the first one of the sun peaking through the clouds and of course Miss Olivia herself!!

 And at last I finished my CTMH Banner using the "Wings" Workshop on the go kit-papers and the SOTM Find Your Style stamp set. I also got to play with our New Spray Pen (my mixture was, Blush, Vineyard Berry reinkers and Create a Shade Paint with water) you can see this on the first and last banner pennants.

                                       of course I had to add some rolled paper roses and pearls

with the images I stamped in Black ink and then on another piece of card stock stamped the same image in black again and Versa Mark ink and clear embossing powder, heat set and cut out. used pop dots to give depth.

This banner was so fun to create if you would love to make your own banner, leave me a comment or call me (number on the left side) "My Creations Banner" is $5.95 (8 chipboard pennants with jump rings) and you to can make a adorable banner!!
Peggy Lee

All products used are CTMH (expect rick rack)

Day 23 HomeSpun Holiday

Day 23 of 25 Days til Christmas!!! Just one question I have for you today.

 IS YOUR CHRISTMAS CARDS DONE YET?

(i have all the supplies, but still have a few to make)

Day 21-22 HomeSpun Holiday

Getting close on the countdown of 25 Days til Christmas, and just like everyone out there I have been super busy shopping, creating those special gifts, crossing off our list, baking cookies, attending School Chorus Concerts. To mark another creative scrap off my list are these beauties, here is a satin peony flower pin!! These are so fun to make and it's awesome to see the end result.

 love this white cabbage rose pin I created this morning with a hint of pink pearls in the center....

 And yes I did share about a school chorus concert we attended tonight-our daughter Olivia pic below, she is a Senior this year (holding back the tears) we are not ready for this season to approach us so fast. She kept saying this is my last Christmas Concert, my heart just broke inside-as a mother we are not ready for our little birds to fly out of our nest as fast as they are ready. This momma bird ain't ready ( I know not good English) but this is hard and not going to get any better. But we are so blessed and happy to have Olivia as our daughter. We do have a freshmen daughter to, Emilee and boy I know for a fact it goes by fast, before your eyes once they are just a freshmen then next day we are buying graduations gifts. ok enough Peggy....

This Christmas is very special in our heart, home and hopefully will be a long lasting memory for all to enjoy...

Day 17-HomeSpun Holiday

Day 17 of 25 Days til Christmas

Card Inspiration today, I created this cute little card as a add on for the gift I made for my mother-in-law. As I gazed at it's saying that I stamped on the front I couldn't help but think that I'm celebrating today because of you and the love of the Holidays. So Day 17 is a thank you to all who have been following me during this HomeSpun Holiday special. With the busy hustle and trying to fit everything in for a grand holiday. I know we all lose sight of the true meaning and reason for the season. Family and friends gathering around and for the birth of Jesus Christ.

Peace be with you, Peggy Lee

Day 15-16 HomeSpun Holiday

Day 15-16 of 25 Days til Christmas HomeSpun Holiday.

My days are starting to run together as the time for Christmas day approaches, my list get longer and more projects and gifts to make get longer. Not even the making of cookies and goodies to give.

 All this to share one of my gifts I finished last night is this stationary box filled with cards for my mother-in-law. I am so glad it's done, and I love it so much (I kinda want to keep it) but I won't, it turned out really sweet and pretty.  I used Claudine Hellmuth Studio white paint and covered a paper mache box, then I selected my papers and Lee's mom loves old vintage story books (that we all read as a child) and this new paper line from Creative Imaginations IOD was perfect for this little box. I used multi-medium glue also by Claudine to adhere the papers to the box, added some pink trim around and created a little collage of papers on top, added this little white frame from Melissa Frances-created a little photo scene with the little girl and frog..how cute.

 I took the same papers IOD and created these paper roses (which I have created alot, but this style is a little different-I learned this decorative edge from Tracey Mason a CTMH sista), please hop over and visit her blog and you will be blown away by a wedding cake she made out of papers and these roses! I added some more trims, punched out some pine bowes and finished off the roses with pearls. Last step I hot glued some wooden balls that I painted white to match for the bottom of the box for feet.

                                                          Shabby Chic goodness...

 So this morning for Day 16-I am enjoying my hot cups of coffee and yes that's right cups!!! lol I started to remember last Christmas and how we enjoyed the family time together so I wanted to share a memory with you on this day...our girls sure know how to have fun fighting over the last of the candy canes...silly girls I had another whole box to put out....no they were really have fun...honest!Give me that Candy Cane!!! NO!!! UUU give me it!

 

Girls will be Girls!!

blessings, Peggy Lee