We Are Home

Except for the frog all the other stamps are from Hero Arts. The frog stamp is Inkadinkado.  I colored the grass and flowers with markers.  Ink pad colors are New England Ivy and Sunflower.  The center of the flower is orange stickles.  Background paper is from Fiskars.  The writing says I Love My Family.  

After 12 days and slightly over 3,300 miles we are home.  Since arriving home at 3:10 all the clothes are put away or in the process of washing and drying .   The mail has been gone through and I even had time to make a card. 

We had a good time in Colorado.  Graduation was nice and Leola’s baby shower was fun.  I even won a door prize (a metal flower in a pot). 

Tomorrow I will be gone all day.  Making cards with some friends and in the late afternoon going to a Mother Daughter Tea at a neighboring church. 

On The Banks of Plum Creek

We stopped in Walnut Grove, MN this afternoon. The only thing left from Laura's time is the depression in the side of a hill where the dugout was. And that is basically what the sign says. And since I am a distant cousin of Laura's it is very fascinating. There is a museum in Walnut Grove with all kinds of Ingalls artifacts. We will be home on Friday.

Road Trip Day #3

We are in Colby Kansas, which is in the northeast corner of the state. Tomorrow we will get to our destination.

This picture of the arch over I-80 in Kearney Nebraska was taken out the window with my digital camera. I wanted to check out the chip. I can't believe how sharp the pic is.

Trial and Error

I have wanted to do something with this stamp for awhile.  I colored it with chalk pencils.  Then it smeared.  The hints that came with the chalks say to take a piece of tissue paper and rub quite firmly with the back of a spoon.  I did, but I didn’t get all the excess chalk and it looked dirty.  My next step was to take gold Pearl X and go over the image.  That helped some but I still wasn’t satisfied, so I took a 2 way glue pen from Stampin’ Up and highlighted a few areas and then put  on Stampin’ Up Diamond Dust.  I walked away and decided to come back to it later.  I finished it up this evening.  Cardstock is white, Pansy Purple, Sunflower and Sweet Leaf.  Except for the white all is textured.  Dew Drops are in each corner.

It was a beautiful sunny day today but with a very cold wind.  I’m glad I have no plans to go anywhere tomorrow as the weather is going to be downright nasty with rain and that “S” word in the forecast.  Anyway I have plenty to keep me busy trying to get ready to leave on Sunday.  I still have to make a graduation card with a cosmetology theme and a baby card.  JoAnn’s didn’t have any embellishments for cosmetology so guess I will go on line and see what  I can find.

Happy Mother’s Day

I wanted to make Leola a Mother’s Day card but didn’t have any pregnant lady stamps so got this image all colored from Microsoft Clipart on line.  The sentiment is also computer generated.  CS is Colonial White and Smokey Plum.  Background paper is K & Company Girl Plaid.

It was a pretty good day here.  Partly sunny.  Jim and I got our walk in and somehow Jim came home with a tick. 

Thanks, Kathi for the nice comment on my last card.  Making those kinds of cards isn’t really my strong suit but I like making them.  I have some other stamps in that set that are pretty neat with a garden theme. 

Sleeping Beauty

The bench and cat are one stamp from Art Impressions unmounted stamps.  There were several other stamps in the set.  The vines and flowers are small wooden Art Impressions stamps.  I used Twinkling H2o’s to color the image.  Flowers are stamped in CTMH’s Hollyhock.  I used watercolor paper.  It is mounted on CTMH Textured Dutch Blue.  The Cuttlebug Happy Birthday is the reverse side of the blue.

Today it was supposed to rain all day but not one drop fell.  I worked cleaning my area.  Still have some fine tuning to do.   I need to go and get some groceries, there is mighty slim pickings in this house.  Tomorrow I plan to spend it working on laundry and getting  some things ready that Leola wants us to bring out.  I hope it is somewhat nice tomorrow so I can work outside even for half an hour.  Sam has his second interview at Wal Mart  this week.  He has one algebra class that  he is taking this summer.  One of these years he will get through college. 

The trees here are really starting to leaf out.  Daffodils are all blooming, tulips are all coming up and some have buds.  And the black flies are out in force.  Gotta go get those groceries. 

Kathi, if  you ever get over this way, would love to have a cup of coffee with you.

Mighty Mac

This is the Mackinac Bridge as seen from the north end.  Every time we want to go south we have to cross this bridge.  It is 30 miles from our house.  Most of our doctors are south.  People that live north of the bridge are called Yoopers and those living below the bridge are called Trolls.  At one time the Mackinac Bridge was he longest suspension bridge in the country. 

I did not sleep well last night.  Hope it was the full moon.  Sam said he didn’t sleep well either.  I wanted to get down to my cards this afternoon but didn’t make it.  Only have  a week and a half before we leave for Colorado so I have to get with it. 

Jim left at 2 this afternoon to take our car to get the tires balanced.  Four hours later and $450 poorer he came home.  We needed new tires and the dealer didn’t have any in stock so had to go find some.