{Winter Wonderland} December Diva Inspiration Bloghop

Hi everyone,

and welcome to our December Diva Inspiration Blog Hop. My Internet is currently down so please bare with me as im posting this from my cell phone. :) 

I'll be back as soon as i have access but in the meantime here's my  card and my inspiration. 

hi!!! Ok my internet is back up and running! Unbelievable how helpless you feel without it isn't it? lol Anyway, can you believe it's December already? 

It's time to break out the cookies, get the tree out and write those cards. I also like to take this time to think about the past year, the highs and lows and for me there were quite a few of those. 

I got lasik eye surgery a few weeks ago and no longer need glasses. It's an amazing feeling!! Especially when you don't even remember the last time you were able to see without glasses. I finished my very first project at the company I now work out and I'm extremely proud of it. It's called "Tomorrowland" and is a movie by Brad Bird that comes out next summer. I fought hard to get a raise at work so please keep your fingers crossed for me there. I moved into an amazing apartment - no more roommates for me so yay. I'm way too old for roommates anyway but with rents in San Francisco being as high as they are it's unavoidable unless you move 30miles outside of the city which I did. :) Gives me time to make those phonecalls in the morning. :) 

And lastly...my mom was diagnosed with cancer about two weeks ago. She has multiple myeloma, stage  3  and if you follow my blog you know that I just lost my dad to cancer two years ago so the diagnosis came as a shock and in some ways we're still dealing with it.

My mom started her chemo treatments this week and as anybody who has gone through it or has seen a loved one go through it you know there are good and bad days. There are days when she's full of hope and then there are days when she wants to give up. What makes it harder for us is that I live on the westcoast and she is in Florida but thanks be to God that I have such an amazing family. My uncle told my aunt to go to my mom as soon as she can and stay with her for as long as she wants. Did I mention the rest of my family all live in Germany? Yes so my aunt will fly in to be with my mom next week and will be there with her for the entire time. 

I can't even begin to describe to you how grateful and relieved I am. 

God is good!

So...let me tell you what this month's blog hop is all about:

It's the 5th of the month and that means it's time for the Divas to serve up some fresh inspiration with their Verve stamps! Leave some comment love along the hop spots for a chance to win a prize, then grab some stamps and play along with our December inspiration challenge for another chance to win!

This month's challenge is entitled O Christmas Tree:

Ribbons and sparkle and merry galore! Create a card inspired by the decorations of the season!

Need a little inspiration? Check out the blogs linked below to see what the other Divas did with the challenge! It's sure to be a treat, and speaking of treats, we've got a prize for one lucky commenter along the hop! Check out the Verve Blog today for all the prize info and deadlines!

This here was my inspiration for the card I made above - a little side note: that believe fence I actually made myself. 

	1. Julee	6. Karen
	2. Amy	7. Sankari
	3. Anya	8. Sarah
	4. Betty	9. Sony
	5. Jen	10. Susan

Happy Holidays and a Merry Christmas to you!!!