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Hi ,
Are you ready for Christmas yet? I'm not either, but we made one giant stride forward in that department this week. We got our tree! It's quite an ordeal, and it goes like this:
 We plan to get our tree in the mid-afternoon, but by the time we drive away, the sky is turning dusky and we know our time is limited. We drive to the same place we went to last year and the year before. Never mind that the trees are all $30 for U-cut. (What's this economy coming to?)
Next we tramp through
the lot, looking at all the hopeful little trees that would like to come home with us. When the lucky one is chosen, Charlie makes his traditional remark about how he feels terrible cutting down a pretty little tree who was minding its own business.
Into the trunk goes the lucky (or hapless, depending on how you look at it) tree. Once home, it's Charlie's job to put it in the stand and
string the lights. Then the kids and I decorate the rest of the tree while Christmas musics wafts through the house.
There was one new twist to the tale this year. Caleb got his first tree for his new apartment, so we lugged home TWO trees in our trunk. His tree is tall and skinny to
fit in his oh-so-small-but-cute living room. We started him out with some leftover ornaments and a string of lights we had never used.
And so the traditions get passed along to the next generation. All is well with the world for one small moment.
Love and scrapbooking success,
Linda Sattgast
Tag from the Christmas Past kit by Susan Bartolini.
Font: Orator Std
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Digital Scrapper Tradition Challenge
Come join the fun and enter our latest challenge by creating a scrapbook page
that documents your favorite Christmas Tradition!
Read all about it and get some great ideas in the blog.
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Free
Video: Make a Shutterfly Calendar
Learn how to set up your digital calendar layout on the Shutterfly website to make a fun and unique Christmas gift.
Check it out at our blog!
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Tip of the Week
 Bevel and Emboss: Letterpressed
by Lisa Hanks
Letterpress involves the pressing of inked
letters into a paper, creating an embedded look. It sounds complicated, but it's actually pretty easy to accomplish on the computer.
Read Lisa's Tip:
for Photoshop Elements
for Adobe Photoshop
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