Merry Christmas!!!!

Using some Hero Arts Christmas Ornament stamps, I created these cut images using red glitter embossing powder, silver embossing powder, gold embossing powder, and clear embossing powder (with Distress Ink on it).
I threw a few blings on it to give it a little jazz.

 Amuse-Bouche:

T and Colt

C is tracking Santa on his map.  (They're watching some Santa Tracking channel)

SamUL and Grandpa

Christmas eve meal...

Colt knows where the most optimal location is

C and his sashimi

Chocolate Fondue with bananas, graham crackers, mango mochi, apples, angel food cake, and marshmallows (that disappeared!)

SamUL and his toy from his cousins

Colt and his toy

Everyone has that aunt that breaks the rules when giving gifts. I'm that aunt.

Santa brought T an ipad.  

Christmas morning breakfast:  Egg/cheese/ mushroom/spinach/ bread casserole and then a potato/sour cream side dish.

My gift to T- My attempt to move them away from Nickolodeon and to the CW.

Within 2 hours, T had already finished two Lego sets!

Misrepresentation.  This is not a full package of Salmon!

Dad (and his wireless headset) and SamUL

Mom and her wireless keyboard for her ipad

Merry Christmas form Colt and SamUL

A few gift tags....

I used my Stampin' Up Holiday stamps and Copics to create these little holiday tags.

Hope you have a wonderful Christmas Eve!

"Tis the Season..."

Thank you Paper Smooches for these cute animal images.  I colored the with Copics. (The Tree is a Lawn Fawn tree.)  The snowflakes are from my Martha Stewart Punch and then I put glitter on them!!!


Amuse-bouche:
Do you recall the last scene of The Christmas Story?  The family at the chinese restaurant for Christmas dinner?  Well, we had our own version of a Holiday Dinner at Hop Li in Chinatown (Los Angeles).

Here are the photos to memorialize the event...

Leah and T

C and me

Dad and T

T, doing the 'angry bird.'

And now the food....

Duck on a bed of shrimp chips and the soft bun bread (like a cha shu bao)

More duck with Hoisin sauce

Honey Pepper Fish Fillet with Beans

Garlic Green Beans, Salt & Pepper shrimp, and Sweet Sour Pork

Chow Mein !!!! Yum!!!

Garlic Eggplant (my favorite)

Honey Shrimp with candied walnut

Me and Aunti Kimi

C and me

T, doing his best impression of Sheldon Cooper smiling, (Big Bang Theory)

Mom and Aunti Kimi

G and I, doing our Addams' Family impersonation

Funny photo!   G: I do not think a finger up the nose is FUNNY!

Leah and I, unaware of the Angry Bird behind us.

Normal family... NOT

Some of the male family members....

I thought this was supposed to be a nice photo!

The fight over the check.

Neal, G, and dad

Their impression of Sheldon Cooper