The Q-4 Festive DEE-va’s Q-4 party!

So glad to see you here. I am off to the arena for the day to watch my dgd play in a hockey tournament. Keep your posts coming. I hope to read and respond later this evening.

Look at all you partiers, havin' a good time while I was off doing some grandparenting! I love it!


Our Thanksgiving is this upcoming weekend. One of the things about having a large family spread so far apart is we don't often get all together. I have learned to be happy with having just one of the families here at the farm, and dd and her dh & ds will be here for turkey and all the trimmings this upcoming Sunday.


(((((HUGS))))) to you. The special days are always the hardest when we are dealing with loss. I hope you can find a smile remembering her Halloween birthday joy. And when you bite into one of those muffins you will feel her love of you.


So exciting! A new baby is the BEST!!! I am jealous that you can create something as special as a crocheted baby blanket. I know how much I dreamed of my yet to be born grandbabies while I put together their baby books while I waited. My youngest--and last--is now 7 years old. I miss those baby years. Ha ha! They are MUCH easier when you are the grandparent!


I wish we had more fall activities around here, but our season is way too short to host many of them. People are usually busy harvesting and getting their kids all set up for school and hockey and other winter events. I love baking for Christmas, and spend much of November making Christmas cookies. This week I need to cut up some pumpkins and make some loaves I can freeze and some pies for this upcoming weekend. Mmmm... I love the smell of pumpkin spice!


Sorry gals. For me, football is just something that happens between lazy daisy summer and HOCKEY! Have fun watching your teams. Our CFL will be done by the beginning of December.


What a great idea, to get all your ducks in a row once a year. I tend to be drawn to most recent most exciting things to scrap, and put the more mundane photos aside. I love how you scrap about everyday adventures and comment with so much insight into what you are doing and how you feel and think about them.
You have a BUSY season ahead of you. All I can say is drink lots of water and take lots of photos. You can spend a whole year scrapping those photos and reliving your memories of this upcoming quarter! (the water is just to keep you healthy enough to hold the camera )


I love candy, too. Too too much LOL! Just bought some Lindor Christmas chocolates yesterday. Any bets on how long those boxes will last me? So glad to see you back here and feeling well enough to contemplate scrapping. Hope your health continues to improve.


Ain't that the truth! I think that scrapbooking is the gift we give ourselves to force us to remember the good stuff that comes out of that work. It also extends the fun rather than the effort. So what if it took weeks of effort to grow that pumpkin and hours of labour to cut it up and cook it to turn it into that pie? If I can get a cool pic of someone happily putting whipped cream on it? That reminds me of the joy and the good times!

That was where I started. Began making Christmas cards at a local gathering, and then decided after I did those cards one year that I would make all the other cards I would be giving out the next year. Sounds like you have a busy season coming up, too. Fall crops are so much fun! And see my earlier advice to look after yourself and take lots of pic's as you enjoy all the other activities this fall.

Changing traditions is hard. I hope you scrap about your Christmas House, this change, and how you feel about it. HINT: take a look at this month's DONNA challenge. I know you love points and that would earn you a truckload of them!


I love the LOOK of stitched items and mini albums and stamping on cards and pages, but I don't DO any of that very often if at all. You make such gorgeous pages and I look forward to seeing more of them this quarter, and your cards!


Time to answer my own questions:

Introduce yourself. Tell us what festive events you look forward to—or dread—this time of year.
I live in northeastern Alberta on a farm, although the only remotely farming thing we do is the vegetable garden each year. Dh & I have four adult "kids" who have gifted us with eleven wonderful grandkids, aged 7 through 23. Those are the people whose adventures I scrap most of the time. I love Christmas, and my stash of holiday decorations and wrapping paper and scrapbook supplies would attest to that. For me, Halloween has always been a fun kids' activity and I scrap the photos I get of them in costume. Gave them all pumpkins from the garden this year so am hoping to get some carving pic's to scrap. I dread the loss of the light and the leaves this time of year. I love the fall colours, but they last such a short time. I try to get as many outdoor shots as I can so I can keep the rich colours close longer--and use some of the fun fall papers .


What are your scrappy plans? Is there anything you need a bit of a nudge to get started? Or finished?
I am working on getting my summer 2022 photos scrapped, and am just starting my Fall album (ordered one from Amazon that should arrive later this week). And this past weekend I snapped a bunch of pic's of cousins together and kids out in the leaves, so I am excited to scrap those. Also got some good hockey pic's of my dgd's tournament, and ddil shared some back to school pic's. I have October and November to complete for the family calendar I put together for everyone each Christmas. (One of those fall pic's will be heading for that October page, I think).

As for plans, I am registered in a weekend crop the end of this month, so hoping to get a bunch of pages together, there. Looking forward to that. I have not started on Christmas cards, so have that to look forward to as well this quarter, and might get a start at the crop. I also usually host a card making day here at the house in November. Before Christmas, I also need to create a shadow box for my ddil who's horse died suddenly and she wants something to remember her by. This is going to be fairly deep and large as it needs to include her rope halter and three 5x7 photos.


are you a scrap booker? A card maker? A journaler? What crafty activities do you most enjoy? I am a messy scrapbooker and card maker. I like to play with paper. I like to try new techniques with inks and colours, but I am no artist.

Looking forward to a fun and creative quarter. Party on, DEEva's!