This card is a littel fuzzy cause I don't have a sharpen tool and the battery in my camera was dead so I had to use my cell phone. The papers are from the Sophia pack except for the bracket and it is Topiary. I used the card on page 67 of the Wishes book from CTMH. I cut all the shpapes with my Cricut. We finally had some snow and I was able to get out a couple of times and go snowshoeing. Need to get going as we have errrands to do including delivering this card.
It has been forever since I have used Windows Live Writer and it has changed and I am having to look at everything and click on things to see what will happen. The lighting wasn’t good when I took this pic. I used a Darice embossing folder (it works just fine in the Cuttlebug). It is just a tad bigger than a regular 41/4 x 51/2 card so I needed the next size up envelope which is 4 3/4 by 61/2 . The sticker in the middle is a dimensional sticker that I had left over from last year. The sentiment is from Stampin’ Up.
Starting to get some snowflakes. Supposed to get lake effect snow. There is none on the ground and that is so unusual for here. I am getting anxious to go snowshoeing. Monday I have an apt with a massage therapist in the morning and the chiropractor in the afternoon so hope we don’t get too much snow.
This picture of Kambrie just cracks me up. Leola just sent it yesterday. Her hair is going straight out and she has such a goofy expression on her face. If you look closely you can see the third tooth. She is already 9 months old. I love to talk to her on the phone. She says hi and when I tell her goodbye she says hi. She is crawling and will walk if you hold her hands.
It has been so long since I have posted hardly know where to begin.
Our most recent news is that Sam and Samantha were married June 11 in Colorado at Sam’s parents house. We are having a reception here for them in July. Jim is busy with golfing. Yesterday we took a class on polishing Petoskey stones. They are stones with fossils in them found in the Petoskey area of Michigan. It was interesting. You got to pick a stone for polishing and I had the instructor drill a hole in mine so when I get it done I can wear it as a necklace.
Since the last time I posted Live Writer has changed. I think I must have upgraded something and it changed Live Writer also. I think it is a lot more confusing.
A funny thing happened the other day. I had to go to Petoskey for an ultra sound checkup on my legs after having laser ablation on my varicose veins. A friend went with me and were gone all day (shopping and travel time). Jim went to help a friend work on a rental trailer and he got home before I did. He heard a car idling at our back driveway. As he was walking to the road he could see a lady bending over and holding her arms across her front so he couldn’t see what she had. Well she had my bearded irises that had just bloomed. It is rather pitiful when you have to make off with someone’s flowers.
Think I had better close and go make some headway in the house.
I’ll try and post before another three months has gone by.
When I saw the cover of the spring/summer CTMH catalog I fell in love with it. This is my interpretation of 
I have been busy going to doctors. Went to my family doctor because I had been having sinus symptoms off and on for about a month and I had no energy and was running a low grade fever at night. Got that taken care of. The went to see my orthopedic doc because I thought I had a bone spur on the bottom of my foot. No, that is my regular bone and I am losing the padding in my feet. There are other places that I would rather get rid of the padding. LOL Lastly I had an ultra sound done on my varicose veins. As far as bothering me they really don’t. My left leg gets tingly. May 16 I am going to have laser ablation on the left leg.
Tuesday a couple of friends are coming over and we are going to work on Mother’s day cards for Operation Write Home.
Spring is in the air, even though we had 6 inches of snow Wednesday.
Monday Kambrie will be 6 months old.
We have lots of little birds like this at our backyard feeders and they eat us out of house and home. There are three feeders where I can see them from my craft window.
This afternoon I went to town by myself as I had a lot of little piddly things I wanted to do without hubby saying “why do you need to go there etc.”. I got them all done too. One of the places I went was our local medical supply store to buy a boot that goes over a cast. Now I don’t have a cast on my foot and I am not planning on getting one, but I have arthritis in my toes and sometimes they swell up and it is hard to get on shoes. And the straps on most of my sandals come right across the toe.
Then it was on to the car wash. Our car was filthy from all the salt etc. It is an automated one and for a long time I would never go through by myself but now I just pretend I am on a ride at Disney.
Kathi, did you ever read Lad A Dog by Albert Payson Terhune when you were a kid? He wrote several other stories about collies (several are now on Kindle) and last night I read Bruce. That was a big mistake when I was in bed because the story was sad (it did have a happy ending) but I was bawling like a baby and my sinuses were so full I had to get up and it was 3am before I went back to bed.
Almost time for NCIS so I will chat later.
This card uses Basic Grey Sultry paper that I have had for a couple of years. Cardstock is Watermelon from CTMH. The image is a digital one and I don’t remember the site it came from because it doesn’t say once it is downloaded.I colored it with Prisma Color Pencils. Ribbon is from JoAnn’s.
My desk was in a horrible mess and when I cleaned it up I had patterned paper that I didn’t know what to do with so I left it on my desk and will make cards with it until the paper is all used up.
It is quite icy out because we had several days in the 30’s and 40’s then a hard freeze and no snow to cover it up. Last night after church an elderly lady (almost 90) wanted me to follow her home to make sure she got in her house okay. This morning Jim went over and sanded her driveway for her.
Sam and Samantha have set a wedding date of June 11. Right now their plans are to get married in Colorado at Sam’s folks. They live on top of a mountain. They are almost eloping as they don’t want anyone to be a part of this grand day.
Kambrie is growing like a weed. She is 5 months plus a week. In three weeks she will be 6 months old. Where has the time gone?
Kathi, I am liking my Kindle more and more. The other day I was looking at some free offerings and I saw Old Mother Hubbard so downloaded it. I didn’t know there were so many verses. I had only ever heard of the one where she goes to the cupboard to get her dog a bone and the cupboard is bare.
Today I am 41/2 months old. Great Grandma thinks I am a wonder because I can sit up. Those are my Daddy’s legs in the background. I want to eat what my Mom and Dad eat. I don’t like baby food.
It is supposed to be below zero tonight. I am have some kind of upper respiratory bug with low grade fever, no energy and just want to sleep all the time so that is what I have been doing the last few days. If I am no better on Monday will call the dr.
We are having some frigid temps –15. When we first moved here 50 years ago it was nothing to have temps to –30 and sometimes in the day time it wouldn’t even get to zero.
Kathi, I like my Kindle a lot. I read it when I am doing my treadmill. I have word game on it and sometimes I will play that while watching the news. It is very handy to take to appts. when you don’t know how long you will have to wait cause it automatically saves your place for you.
Sam and Sam had their kitty declawed and one of his paws got infected so now he has a bandage, cone collar and antibiotics.
Kambrie had her shots earlier this week and was not a happy camper-was very fussy for a couple of days.
I made this card for Operation Write Home’s Sketch 52 Challenge. This is the first time that I have ever participated in a challenge. I have been wanting to get involved with OWH for awhile. I think it is a great idea. For my card I used the Olivia paper packet. The bird is from the Hot Diggity set. Sentiment is from Hero Arts. The little green flower is from Prima and the center is a Itty Bitty sparkle from CTMH.
I feel like I have been away for ever. Had some nasty bug that while it wasn’t right out disabling I had no energy. Some days I would sit at my desk and look out the window and just nothing would come to me.
Jim gave me a Kindle for Christmas so I did sit at my computer a lot and download dozens of books. There are a couple of free sites that I like to go to. www.thefrugalreader.com and www.freeEbookdeal.com and when you choose a book you are directed to Amazon.
We are finally getting some winter weather. Went snowshoeing the other day.
Kambrie was 4 months old on the 14th. She weighs 12 lb 40z and is 24 inches tall. She is a very happy baby.
I was re reading some of my earlier posts and my goodness I should really read them before posting. So many words left out etc.
This card front was in my stash and I have no idea who the stamp manufacturer is since I most likely stamped it at a friends house. It is layered on Pansy Purple textured cardstock. I had trouble photographing this card. Can’t seem to get rid of the shadows.
Talked to Leola yesterday and we decided I would make a 12 x12 shadow box frame with the idea from the cover of the spring CTMH catalog. Kambrie is 3 and a half months old and already copying everything her parents do. She pets the dog and the other day Leola was having a glass of water and she could tell Kambrie wanted it. Leola put the glass so Kambrie could reach it and she put her two hands around the glass and stuck her face in it. Told Leola she has to put some more videos on their blog.
It is more like winter here, now we need some snow so I can go snowshoeing.
Kathi, I chuckled when you said you couldn’t get rid of the little embossing specks. I don’t have much trouble at home but when I go to classes I have the worst time and I follow the same procedure as at home.
My word is goal. One of my goals is to use up my crafting products before buying more.
I am getting my craft room more and more fine tuned. And rearranging where I store some of my stuff.
It is time for supper.
I had the worst time making this card. I bought the stamp (Northwoods) at our local craft store after seeing a card made with it. But I could not get anything to look right. Wednesday I went back to the craft store and took a look at their card. There’s was on stripped paper but I didn’t have any stripes that looked good. So after getting out several sheets of paper the plaid (Paper Pizazz) hit the spot. Down the side they had two big stars but I couldn’t get the stars to look right. I took the mittens and cap from All Decked Out. The sentiment is from Hero Arts. Brad is from Hobby Lobby. Ribbon from JoAnn’s. The card is on dark brown paper. I stamped the image with CTMH’s Cocoa and it is colored with PrismaColor Red. Hat is stamped in Cranberry and mittens in Outdoor Denim. When trying different color cardstock to put the card on again I kept coming up empty but I had a piece of brown cardstock already cut and folded and I just hadn’t put it away so I picked it up and the rest is history. The sled is stamped on kraft paper from our local craft store and there is no name on it. The rope handle is natural hemp from CTMH.
Today is a foggy icky drizzly day for winter in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. It is supposed to start freezing tomorrow night. We will need a foot of snow to cover up all the ice. It will be nice to have fresh snow, right now it is all brown and dirty.
Picked up the new Spring/Summer CTMH catalog and I fell in love with the cover. A baby girl scrapbook page all in pink and delightful saying: I am so glad to meet you! This most definitely love at first sight. And I know the perfect baby girl to send it to. I just need to call Leola and find out what size baby book Kambrie has.
I am going to be spending what is left of 2010 cleaning. Tomorrow I have to hit checkbooks big time and get bills paid.
Last year we received a store bought like this. And I thought hey I can duplicate that almost. I used the snowflake cuttlebug folder and on the boughten card it was flocked. Otherwise the card is pretty much the same. Cardstock is White and Juniper. Wreath (Serendipity) is stamped in Aspen Green (retired). I used the Cricut to cut the white square but did the rest by hand as my Circuit goes in 1/2 increments. I did the ribbon in two stages. First I put the hanger part and then made the bow and attached with glue dots. I used red stickles for the berries on the wreath.
The first of my packages have arrived in Colorado. Now this coming week just have to get packages wrapped for here. I use a lot of bags. And the ones for Sam and Samantha all get tagged “Sam”. They have fun figuring out which package goes to whom. And they usually get it right.
Yesterday PJ posted a 30 second video of him playing with Kambrie. He would growl at her and she would try and growl back. I am going to wear it out watching it.
Went for a little snowshoe hike today. Jim put a fence around the birdfeeder that is outside my craft room window as the deer have found it. They have been tearing up our front yard also.
Leola and Kambrie made the paper. Leola and PJ both play instruments in the community band. They didn’t have a baby sitter the day of practice so along went Kambrie. She loves music. Mom plays the French horn and Dad is a drummer.
The caption says: A potential future community band member listens while her mom, Leola Romero, and Joanna, Duane, Jack, Walter and Michael rehearse.
Kambrie is three months old today and a very happy baby.
I went to town to today to have lunch with a friend, then I took some fudge to Sam and Samantha and checked out Wal-Mart. Saw a friend there I hadn’t seen in awhile. It was 5pm when I got home with three small grocery items. Jim said “you were gone all day and only bought three things:? I said “Yup and I had a good time”.
Sam and Sam and their kitty are coming out Christmas eve, spending the night and enjoying Christmas with us. It has been a long time since anyone has been here overnight on Christmas.
I promised Leola I would have the fudge in the mail tomorrow. Better get it made.
This card uses papers from the Heirloom paper packet. The tag is white cardstock. Stamp color is Ponderosa Pine. I made the tag about 4 years ago. The stamp set is Art Gone Wild. They are cube stamps. The ribbon is probably from JoAnn’s and the star is most likely from our local scrapbooking store.
This has been a crazy week. Sunday night through Wed. we had lake effect snow and ended with over a foot. Jim blew out the driveway Monday and when he got all done the tractor died. It is a small one that you can put a mower deck on in the summer. We went to town and bought a new one and it was delivered today. Jim decided to go with a walk behind one as there is less things to go wrong. I has an electric start and power steering. We are bracing for a major winter storm of up to 14 inches of snow starting tomorrow night and lasting all day Sunday and accompanied by 40 mile an hour winds.
My craft room is such a mess I need to clean it before I go any further in my card making.
I talked to Leola yesterday and Kambrie is now weighs 10 lb 8oz and is 23 inches long. Tuesday she will be 3 months old. I talked to her also but she wasn’t in a talkative mood. LOL. I always make fudge at Christmas and Leola asked if they were getting fudge. I told her yes but she might not get it with her Christmas packages. I hope to get them out on Monday. And then I will make the fudge and send it.
Better get busy and clean my craft room. There a papers everywhere except on the ceiling. LOL.
I just haven’t had any mojo lately but I think I finally have it together. Card stock is CTMH’s Bamboo and Parchment. Patterned paper is from DCWV from about 2 years ago. Embellishments and ribbon are from JoAnn’s. I used a wide plaid and a narrow gold ribbon. The sentiment is from Inkadinkado. I cut the ovals (3 “ and 4”) with my Cricut and the George & Basic Shapes since I am mass producing this card for folks at our church. I rubbed the parchment oval in Cranberry ink.
Today I had an interesting thing happen. In checking my e-mail there was one from my credit card company asking me if I had made a certain transaction. I hadn’t made the transaction but before I responded to the e-mail I called the credit card company. Because you are always hearing that they don’t contact you that way. And I asked how they knew to question that transaction. And she told me it was outside of my spending pattern. I have an Amazon.com credit card and only use it for making purchases from Amazon for books. I also used it for Shutterfly and she asked if had made that transaction. I thought that was pretty neat.
Kambrie and I had our first phone conversation the other day. Leola put her on speakerphone and I was chatting away and every once in awhile Kambrie would “say” something and I when I said “goodbye” it sounded just like she said goodbye. Both Leola and I laughed.
There was a lake effect snow warning for our county but so far we have escaped the snow but the Soo 20 miles north got dumped on and all their schools were closed.
Better go and get some dinner.
Today was one of those really really gray November days. In the middle of the afternoon it was so dark that you needed light in every room.
I used paper from CTMH’s Olivia paper pack. The frog is from Penny Black’s Toadily set. Sentiment is Inkadinkado. I stamped the frog and saying with Pear. I colored the flower with PrismaColor Pencils. The ribbon is CTMH. The striped is from the Sunset Collection and the sheer is from Autumn Terracotta Ribbon Rounds. Button is also from the Sunset Collection. They are adhered with a glue dot. Originally when I made the bow I was just going to have the width of the Colonial White, but I liked it long and thought it would be a waste of ribbon to cut it off. I popped up the rectangle piece with foam tape. I got the idea for this layout last Saturday when a friend and I went to some craft shows and a CTMH consultant had this layout. Her ribbon was tied in a knot and she used a flower for the image. She was selling the cards for $1 and I bought one for a guide. I am going to put this card in a padded envelope and send it to Leola.
This has been quite a week. Monday Jim and I got our yearly physicals. After which we went to town and did our errands and had a chat with Sam. The dr is 30 miles south and town is 20 miles north from our house. Wednesday the dr.’s office called and said Jim needed a thyroid scan and set it up for next Monday and Tuesday. That appointment is 75 miles south of here. I figured I was doing okay and since they had said any thing about my test results. Thursday they called and said I had bacteria in my urine and needed an antibiotic. That solved the mystery as to why I was so tired but thought it odd that I didn’t have any other symptoms like fever or going to the bathroom all the time. The arthritis in Jim’s hands have been getting really bad so the dr changed his medication and gave him a prescription for a pain pill to take occasionally. And guess what that pill (Darvoset) was on the news tonight as not safe to take.
I hope that I feel better tomorrow as there are a couple of craft shows that I want to go to.
Kathi, I should have gone to the ones you and your Mom and sister went to as I was looking for jewelry and didn’t find anything. Only saw one jewelry vendor and it wasn’t what I was looking for.
I have been reading the new Father Tim (from the Mitford series) series. I have finished the first one, Home to Holly Springs and have started the second one, In the Company of Others. I never could get into the Mitford series but I couldn’t put down Home to Holly Springs.
Paper used for this card was from Passages. Stamps were Inkadinkado. All the emellishments are from CTMH. I just love the new Mocha Pearls. Turkey and saying were stamped in Pepperwood (retired). I am going to be sad when my ink pad finally gives up the ghost.
Today was another nice day. It was a little more cloudy but still nice enough to go out and do some yard work. I think I have finished cutting back my perennials. We modified my bird feeder outside my craft room window as it was too low. We got a taller pole and Jim put a squirrel baffle on it. The squirrels are fun to watch also I just don’t want them eating my bird seed out of the feeder.
Talked to Leola today and got a Christmas wish list from her. Kambrie is progressing well in every way. She will sit in the corner of the davenport and watch what is going on around her. When PJ plays his drums Leola says her little legs go a mile an hour keeping time.
Kathi, how is Miranda doing? When is her due date?
Time to do a few things before supper.
Trying to upload my pictures to Shutterfly is some undertaking. I think there is a software glitch somewhere. I thought I would put pics from our 6 trips to Colorado. I have until the end of Nov to put them all in.
Now on to Michael’s. I bought a twelve inch Martha Stewart Cutter ( I had given my 12 inch swing arm cutter to Leola for her scrapbooking. She is just starting to get into it doing pics of Kambrie and doesn’t have many supplies.) and a Martha Stewart Scoring cutter. When I checked out the gal gave me a 40% off “coupon for my next visit. I replied “ I wish I had known that before as we live 300 miles away.” Bless her little heart she said “Return one and buy it back at 40% off.” So that is what I did.
We have been having some nice weather. Tomorrow I hope to get some leaves out of my back flower bed. They were all out once then we had terrific winds and they all blew back.
Yesterday I was sitting at my desk in my craft room looking out the window and lots of birds were flying around. I found a bird feeder we hadn’t used in awhile and hung it on a pole that in the summer holds a hanging plant. It didn’t take the birds long to find it. So far I have chickadees, red breasted nuthatches, white breasted nuthatches, downy woodpeckers and hairy woodpeckers.
I feel a nap coming on and since I am fighting some kind of upper respiratory bug I am going to go find my bed.
