Sweetest blog friends, I wanted to be sure to peek in and wish you a Merry Christmas! I could not be more blessed than to have spent the day with two of my daughters. We connected with my son this morning over the iPad so that we could spend some time together and we also opened the gifts that we’d be sending to him. Gotta love technology! I’ll have to admit that cooking was at a minimum at my house this year and for the first time in my life we went out to dinner on Christmas eve and went out to breakfast on Christmas Day. It was jam packed, something I would not have guessed. I was telling the kids how different it was when I was younger – no stores were ‘ever’ open on Sunday and if you didn’t get something by nightfall you had to wait until the next morning and we never felt it was an inconvenience :-) Sweet daughter is on road driving back home now so all is quiet. I truly hope you too have been blessed to spend the holiday with loved ones. I couldn’t resist one more Christmas item (made late in the evening while I was wrapping gifts) before I pull my papers and stash them away – I made an old worn bookmark with a distressed seam binding tassel. I kept it all simple, but I do really love to make bookmarks and really do use them. This one is for a small book so my little flower doesn’t get in the way, but for a larger book, simply omit it.
| SUPPLIES I USED |
| Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs – Bookmarks Snowflakes, Snowflake Sentiments Paper: The Paper Studio – Cream, The Paper Company – Red Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Brushed Corduroy Distress Ink Accessories: ODBD Custom Bookmark Dies, Seam Binding, Darice Pearls, Darice Crystal, filigree, Spellbinders™ Layered Poinsettia, Spellbinders™ Fancy Tags Two |
Bless you all and again, Merry Christmas 
Merry Christmas Becca! I truly love all that you do!
Merry Christmas, Becca. So glad to hear you had a beautiful day. I too remember when the store were closed on Sunday and after dark. Oh… the good ole days. But what would we do without our computers? I love your bookmark. Beautiful – just beautiful. Hugs, Mary
Merry Christmas Becca! I was just thinking this morning how Christmas had changed…nothing was open, and that was ok. That’s the way it should be.
Happy you had good time with your family.
Merry Christmas!
I love this pretty practical project.
Merci!
Merry Christmas to you too! Love your blog. . . I too tell my boys (25,& 28 yrs old) that back in the day stores were closed on Sundays and ALL Holidays, never was there fast food stores open 24-7. We were raised with family values and traditions! Sounds like you are like so many holding onto tradition! It’s nice to know in the big world there are still those that value traditions.
Wishing you a wonderful day!
Gorgeous bookmark, Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Hugs, Lori m
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!! :)
SUCH A PRETTY BOOKMARK BECCA!!!!!!!!!!! :) SO HAPPY you had a WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS!!!!!! :) It IS SO NICE to have your loved ones around you at this time of the year, isn’t it? :) Times HAVE changed! It’s up TO US to make Christmas FOCUSED around what matters! God & family!!!! :)
Merry Christmas and may God bless you and yours. I love the bookmark!
Love the bookmark and the spellbinders make it. We had a Christmas Dinner at our church with our church family and friends. It has been a tradition for us now for 7 years. I am glad to hear you had a nice Christmas with your daughter and son. Love the technology too!!!.
Hugs from Maine
Becca, trust you had a Very Merry Christmas….
I have to change my Credit Card number on the club, would you please let me know how to do that, my bank changed everyones number.
Thanks
Billie Rice
I don’t make many comments but wanted you to know that I so enjoy and love everything that you do. God bless you and I am happy you had such a wonderful Christmas. We had ours Sunday with allnof my kids and spouses and grandkidscand it was truly just to have them all under the same roof.
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to you too! It’s been awhile since I’ve commented. often I’m peeking in at work and don’t have time to linger. I’m so glad you were able to spend time with your daughters & son. Technology is great, what would we do without it. Wishing you continued blessings & prosperity for the New Year!
Thank you for the bookmark. Glad to hear you had a blessed Christmas with family. Hope you are feeling well.
So glad to hear from you on Christmas day! So your girls were home = how nice!! Glad you enjoyed the holiday with family. I had 17 for breakfast and 13 for dinner. My husband and I did all the cooking. Lasagna with all the trimming and homemade cheesecake for dessert! Wish you lived closer, you and the girls could have come too! Love the bookmark.
Hugs,
Mstgane
Ann
Sounds like you had a Blessed Christmas indeed…so happy for you! Ours was quiet too – lots of long distance phone calls – cooking while listening to Christmas music – delicious meal around 1pm, and then naps – all and all a wonderful day! Now on to the pumpkin pie!
Paper Hugs,
Jan
Merry Christmas and good to know you had a great one. I too love bookmarks and find them so useful to include in any greeting card. Your design is really nice.
Having your family with you and that cares enough about you to make an effort to be with you is such a blessing. I am so glad you have children who love you so much. I didn’t think I was going to get to see my grand children at all today. They only live less than 2 miles from here but we always seem to get put on the back burner and are usually an after thought. They are one of the only joys I can seem to find these days and so I spent most of the day just hoping and praying their parents would find time to bring them by. This is also my first Christmas without my mom. It has really been a tough year for this family all the way around. Anyone who reads this, if you pray , and don’t mind praying for a person you have never met before, I would sure appreciate you saying a little prayer for my family. Just that we can be a happy Christian family with love for one another. If there is love in Christ, all else will fall in to place. I hope you all have a wonderful grace filled Christmas. God bless……. Denice
Merry Christmas Becca. Beautiful bookmark.
What a lovely post, Becca. You always seem to have just the right words to express your feelings and it’s a delight reading your blog. I’m glad you were able to spend some quality time with your children, even if one was over the internet. It wasn’t very long ago that would not have been possible and now it’s commonplace! We’re having our family celebration tomorrow when my son gets home from working offshore. He’ll be off from tomorrow until after the New Year but we had to delay Christmas one day to accommodate his schedule. I spent today with my daughter-in-law helping her bake pumpkin bread and doing laundry and having fun with the grandkids. All of my cards and gifts were handmade this year and I was really happy with the way they turned out so I hope the recipients will be as happy with them as I am! LOL Your bookmark, simple as it may be, is just beautiful. I ever enjoy seeing your gorgeous creations even though I may not always comment. I’m off to bed so I can start my day early tomorrow.
Blessings to you on this special day and on into the new year.
Hugs, Anne
Merry Christmas,Becca. So happy that you had a Happy Merry Christmas with the girls! Love the bookmark. I love to read and will grab anything that’s not nailed down to mark my place…HATE page benders!
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Merry Christmas Becca…..Happy to hear you had a great time with your
girls…..Thanks for all the wonderful inspiration with all the beautiful things
you made and shared with us this past year…..You are Awesomd…..
Merry Christmas, Becca! I’m delighted to hear you had such a lovely time with your family these past few days. Thank you for taking the time to create something to share with us in the midst of your celebration with family. This is a charming bookmark and will delight anyone using it! Thank you for sharing it with us!
Dear Becca
All the best to you too and Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and continued success in all your work.
Your a wonderful artist and a wonderful person..
when are you going to have another Becca Bit :LOL
pat
Love your elegant bookmark
Merry Christmas Becca!
Becca, I loved your bookmark. We also discuss at our home, how, on Sundays, if you did find a rare store opened, you did not patronize them…I was raised, that by patronizing them, you were enabling the store owner to stay open, and pay for the poor sole who had to work on the sabbath. Now this memory was one of childhood…
Sundays were a day of worship, rest and wonderful family time. Honestly, looking back….how did it happen? When did it happen?
I am thinking it happened, prior to me graduating from high school, which was 1972, because as an adult…I can’t place it…what is your memory?
Love the bookmark! We celebrated as a family on Sat. so Christmas we went out to eat on Christmas night at a Fuji Steak House and experienced hibachi cooking for the first time…what a treat! Merry Christmas Becca!
Merry Christmas, Becca! Our day was wonderfully noisy and chaotic and messy and festive…everything a family Christmas should be. All the kids and grandkids were here…and I cooked for 8 days straight in preparation. So, Christmas Eve dinner and Christmas breakfast at a restaurant sound pretty good to me right about now! LOL I haven’t crafted in days and days and days…I hope I remember how. Love your bookmark…it is simple and elegant, and the distressed tassel is wonderful. Today is officially ” PJ’s all day and no cooking at all ” for me, so hopefully, I’ll get some time in studio. Hugs to you, sweetest of all bloggers!
So glad you were able to spend time with your daughters and yes technology sure can bring us together when we are so far away from each other… your bookmark is just gorgeous and love the vintage feel it has!!
I too LOVE bookmarks – even though I’m in books on my Kindle. I give
them to friends in my cards…and they just love getting NEW bookmarks.
this one you made is soooo special and I will strive to make one similar
to yours. That’s practically impossible but, you are my teacher and my
mentor and Hope to meet you face to face.
So glad you enjoyed having your daughters with you and contacting your
son…Oh My, how tender your comments were today. Thank you for this
“inspiration” again…you never let us down –only surprising us each and
everytime.
Yes, a MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR to you as well.
Love in Him,
Joyce
SO VERY PRETTY ANS USEFUL TO MARK YOUR FAVORITE PASSAGE. GRAND JOB
Glad you had a good christmas. My daughter is also heading home. She has a 5 hour drive & some of the drive is thru the snowy areas.
Few days late seeing the posts. So glad your girls were with you.
Christmas is all about Christ and families, those are the most important
things in this life.
Yes the good old days when stores were always closed on Sundays and all holidays. My church still teaches us to keep the Sabbath day Holy. We
don’t shop on sundays, play sports, go to movies, etc. We spend the day in rest, visiting family, reading, music, and going to church. Our bodys and our souls need a little rest in this busy world.
I love your bookmark and would really like to see how you make the tassle as I see you have a little topper on it. Could you please, please do a tutorial on it, ????
I like to put tassles on bookmarks and this is a really a neat different one
What a lovely sentiment to put on your beautiful bookmark.
Good to hear that your daughters were with you at Christmas. Hope you had a wonderful time.
Hugs
Anne (UK) x
Just absolutely lovely!!
Beautiful bookmark. Lovely sentiment