Barak Obama McCain and Sarah Palin

Posted on | October 31, 2008 | 7 Comments

Ok, I can’t wait until next week! No, this is not a political post but my daughter, the 4-yr-old, she said that if she ever have a brother or a sister (she’s been dreaming about this for the last two years now) she’s going to name him Barak Obama McCain or Sarah Palin. Uhm wow… mom and dad would have to say: no.

I think we need to quit watching and listening to the news and talking about politics at home. Poor Joe Biden though, I think we need to talk about him more because M said, “Who’s that?” Ha ha…

Happy Halloween everybody!! I have no Halloween post to share. Like I said, the only Halloween thing we do is dress M up and go trick-or-treating in the evening. I hope to get some good pictures this year though so that I can do a decent Halloween page. We’ll see.

My parents are leaving tomorrow. It’s been great but man I can’t wait. My schedule has been so crazy and unusual that I am looking forward to the old routine again AND my craft room he he he…

So here’s one last item from my stash that I haven’t shared with you. Good timing because after Saturday, I can hoard my craft room again and create, create, and create. I made a similar card but the window was on the opposite side, the scallops were done a bit differently and a different ribbon. The Window Dressing is a fun set but probably not one where I’ll use a lot of the stamps together often just because it takes too long to create. I am just not that type of stamper. My cards got to be quick and easy {::SMILES}.

Have a fun and safe night! I can’t wait to blog hop again!!

Self Checkout

Posted on | October 29, 2008 | 5 Comments

First of all, sorry for being such a bad blogger. I haven’t been blog hoppin’ much and my Google Reader is probably uber full. I’ve only posted here and there and that’s pretty much it. I have just been too occupied with my visiting family. So until after this weekend, I’ll be sporadic. I can’t wait to see what’s out there though. I tried doing a card last night and I felt so rusty.

Anyhow, this is another page that I did a few weeks back. I got this orange card stock at my lss and even though it was bright, I was determined to use it. So here it is, I combined it with some black and whites, light colors, and red and here’s what I came up with. I think everything came from one of my Scarlet Lime kit. The alphas came out of my Klic-n-Kut and so did that paw. The paw I did myself, my second creation after my tree. I used a lot of dimensionals, so this page is not super flat, just my kind of page! Oh, notice the sewing too? {::SMILES}.

The story… Shady is such a daddy’s girl. She’s so into him that she knows when he’s going to leave the house and she’ll either follow him around, won’t get off his lap, or be dangling somehow on him.

Another story… I took my parents to the city. They thought the KC Plaza was so nice… quite unique and the buildings were fancy. But, I think what got their attention the most was the self checkout at the grocery store. We went to Price Chopper because they wanted some fruits. I saw the self checkout and thought that they’d get a kick out of it. Sure enough they had to go twice ha ha. The last one was just for a bag of chips. My mom thought the voice was cute… I have to say the one at Price Chopper sounds better than the other ones I’ve heard. So that was the highlight of yesterday…. the self checkout.

Ok, ta ta for now. Hope to share more soon!!

Another Week…

Posted on | October 27, 2008 | 8 Comments

And another Christmas card. This is a super simple one and didn’t take long to create. Just stamped, stamped, stamped, one trimming and then glue glue and voila. You might have to click on the image to get a better view but I did scor on the top and bottom of the Kiwi paper. There are also dimensionals on one of the tree and also the white card stock where all the trees are stamped. Really love the new in colors!!

Over the weekend, we went to the homecoming parade and then we went to Branson, MO. We didn’t go to any shows, we just went shopping to the outlet malls. My parents have been pumping up the economy. Which at the same time is so odd since a lot of the clothes are made in Indonesia and when I’m there I’d shop at the outlet and buy American Eagle stuff for $2 for example but there are my parents here, hoarding Levi’s and more. They say the ones that made it to the U.S. are better quality and the same ones in Indonesia are three times as much. Ok, whatever {::SMILES}. It’s interesting too to see how they are so into brands. Just the itty bitty Levi’s tag won’t do, you got to have it showing, the bigger the better. I showed my mom this cute top and she said no, the brand name isn’t known in Indonesia. Wow.

Then we stopped at Lambert’s, which we thought was a must stop for them. How many restaurants throws their food around, right? Also, it’ll give them a taste of some mid-west home cooking… and all you can eat. My parents cannot get over that. How much food were going around and served and how much people eat.

So that was our weekend. More adventures tomorrow, Tuesday, when I take my parents into Kansas City. Maybe we’ll stop at the Kansas City store and buy something with a HUGE KC on the chest, ha ha!

Bavaria Trip

Posted on | October 24, 2008 | 6 Comments

After a year I am somewhat motivated to do more vacation pictures from last year. These pictures were taken at Sonnenhof, in Horn which was 15 minutes walk from Neuschwanstein aka Ludwig’s castle aka the Sleeping Beauty castle, a small B&B, which Rick Steve described it as a big, woody, old house with four spacious, traditionally decorated rooms and a cheery garden.

From our room we could see Hohenschwangau. It was gorgeous!! Well worth the 45 Euro (cheapest stay that week!) per night. We accidentally found this hotel. It was a weekend and we didn’t book a room. We looked everywhere and no room. We were about to give up but decided to check if this one place who had a “zimmer frei” sign in front of their home have a room. They didn’t but the owner asked us to follow her after telling us that her home was full. So we followed and we came upon the Sonnenhof. At that point we didn’t care what the room fee would be so we were super delighted to find out that it was only 45 Euro. Our room didn’t have a private bathroom. The one room that did was available but we opted out of it because of the view from our no bathroom room. At the B&B we met three other American couples. Two of the couples were around our age with one little girl and the other couple were older. We had a great visit with them and enjoyed a two nights stay since it was so inexpensive and also just plain gorgeous in that area.

So here’s the page. Bayern is what the Germans calls Bavaria. I made this a month ago for SoSketchy and I kind of forgot what the materials were. I think the papers were KI and Making Memories. The alpha’s American Craft and Sassafrass Lass, the flower is My Mind’s Eyes and the strawberries is K&Company. The strawberries were added because the B&B had a little strawberry patch.

Blog Candy Winner

Posted on | October 23, 2008 | 1 Comment

And the winner goes too….

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

Timestamp: 2008-10-23 18:10:37 UTC

Kim aka ohradiogirl! Yeah!!! I didn’t use the M generator but instead used the random.org one since somebody’s just too busy for mom and her silly blog. Seriously, M’s been busy (and rottenly spoiled) with her two sets of grandparents.

Here’s what Kim posted:

kim/ohradiogirl posted the following on October 10, 2008 at 10:02 pm.

Okay … I’m pretty simplistic in the kitchen. But just this morning I was thinking how much I like my spatula. Nothing fancy – black and plastic.

Thanks for the opportunity for the wonderful blog candy.

Congrats, Kim! Email me your snail mail and I’ll have the package sent out to you ASAP.

Now, a lot of you posted your rice cooker. I have one but I have to quickly unplug it after it’s done. I can’t leave it on to make the rice warm, even if it’s for a few minutes. Any brand suggestion and where to buy one where you can leave it on to warm mode?

Thanks again everybody for playing!