Christmas Sweet Peek #6-Tags

Today's set was designed by Dina Kowal and it's super versatile. The set comes with a whole slew of interchangeable sentiments that can be stamped inside the beautiful tag or used alone.


Instead of making a card with this one, I decided to create a gift item. This little package would be so sweet filled with green and red M&Ms or Hershey Kisses :). Don't you agree?

I used the beautiful Blitzen papers by Bo Bunny, added some pretty Christmas embellies and tied the tag on with gold-trimmed ribbon. I love this set!!

And in case you were wondering how my trip to Pine Grove went yesterday....

It was bittersweet. The church I grew up in took an offering Sunday tofill 45 buckets with cleaning supplies, toothbrushes, etc...so a group of us got together to hand out the buckets to flood victims in town. It was a blessing to see and hear of some many people in the community coming together to help the flood victims, but it was hard to see all the damage. Thankfully, we missed the worst of it....Friday & Saturday the sidewalks up and down the streets were piled high with "trash".....people's belongings, furniture, clothing, books, toys, anything and everything you can imagine. The pictures I saw were just heart wrenching. Many homes are being condemned (some will condemned until repaired but some must be completely torn down). You just can't imagine it until you see it. Houses completely gutted out...some even abandoned by the owners because they just didn't know what to do. The town is really pushing through, though. School started back up today and many of the roads are open again (but still needing much repair).

One of the ladies who organized the community service project yesterday took pics of our group and posted the album on FB. I shared it on my wall if you want to see them.

Today it's back to the grind....but it will be a long time before the images from this last week fade.....never away....but into a distant memory. May the Lord bless the little town of Pine Grove and draw the people closer to himself through this tragedy.

Thanks for stopping by today! See you tomorrow with another Sweet Peek....