Layouts

I have been busy scrapbooking. 

Let's Scrap sketch

Here are the layoouts I finished this past week.

I popped up the buildings and added bling to the snowflakes.

This is the bottom half of the above paper. 

It was perfect paper for our trip to the Big Apple!

I got really good at making rosettes for the wedding,

so I decided to put some on this page.

Here are picutres from a battlefield right down

 the road from us.  We enjoy hiking the trails.

Here is this weeks sketch over at Let's Scrap.  This layout was going to be two pages but it was hard for me to figure out how to cut the papers so I kept it a one pager.

Looking at all those cookies makes me hungry!



Tomorrow I will share all the cards I made with

Jule over the weekend.  Stay tuned.......

Finishing up NYC

On our last day in the big city we walked down 5th Ave.  We stopped by St. Patricks Cathedral.  It is a beautiful church.  It reminded me of the churches in Germany.

They had a huge nativity. 

"After the angel announced Jesus’ birth to some wide-eyed shepherds, a chorus of angels began “praising God and saying: ‘Glory to God in the highest!’” (Luke 2:13-14). The shepherds responded by running to Bethlehem where they found the newborn King lying in a barnyard bassinet.

They returned to their fields “glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen” (v.20).

Coming face to face with the Son inspired the shepherds to worship the Father."

The alter was adorned with wreaths and the stain glass glowed as the light shined through them.

But what we thought was so impressive was the organ. It had such detail and so many pipes! You can barely see the organist playing.

Next we stopped at St. Thomas Cathedral. 

Their alter was all hand carved!

Love the details!

Then we walked farther down the street to check out all the commercialism of Christmas.  The stores were wrapped in lights and the windows filled with sparklely things.

We are in the Apple store elevator.

I had to check out FAO Schwartz!

Well that pretty much wraps up our little trip to the big city.  Thanks for following along.

NYC Day 2

Today we spent the day hiking around Central Park. 

This was a great respite from the business of the city.

We took some time to skate at Wollmen Rink.  I was a bit wobbley, but Michael pulled me around the ice!

It was beautiful day on the ice!

At dusk we went down to Rockefeller Center

 to take pictures of the lights.

These giant ornaments were really cool! 

 I loved how they sparkled.

Isn't this a cool shot.  Michael saw it,

and I grabbed the shot. 

Boy, is this a big tree.  This area was sooooo crowded! 

 Not too many people are ice skating.  

It costs big $$$ to skate down there.

 

Thanks for stopping by............... 
Tomorrow I will post the rest of my NYC pictures.

NYC Day 1

It has been about 6 years since we have been to New York City.  So we thought we would go during the holidays to check out all the lights and activities of the season.  Our hotel was near Times Square.  It has changed a bit since we had been here before. 

They have added tables and chairs to the area.  The roads are blocked off so it is more of a open walkway.

Of course it is still the brightest and visually stimulating place in town!

There is a new store just for M& M's, really?? 

 Just another gimick to get us to spend our $$!

They did have a pretty Christmas tree!

The screens looked so clear. 

We went to go see the Broadway play Wicked. 

 It was really good.  Tomorrow I will share all the Christamas lights and our day in Central Park.

Thanks for stopping by................