What A Day…

Posted on | October 7, 2009 | 11 Comments

Hi! I hope you all had a great day! I know I did!! Before I start, to those who sent me some good birthday wishes through the different social media that I’m on, thank you! I really appreciate it and I’m glad you all are in my life!

Today I spent with friends and of course my little family. We didn’t do anything extra ordinary but I had a lovely time celebrating my birth. It took me a few days to accept the fact that I’m older (it’s the same every time since I first turned 25 I think) but today I am not only older and as a few people wrote to me the other day… wiser {::SMILES}. The happiest part for me is knowing that I have accomplished everything I said I wanted and that I’m surrounded by wonderful people. There are two big thing left… getting a Ph.D. and living in Europe but we’ll see how that goes with the Ph.D. and as of today we are still scheduled to move to the UK next year. I am truly blessed and everything else that falls on my lap is just a bonus — even the challenges I will welcome since it’ll just be something that will help me become a stronger and hopefully better person.

Here’s a little card and no it’s not a card from me to me but a card for one of Jovie’s daycare gals. Here’s the interesting part of this card… I had the stuff prepped yesterday but I got too tired to finish. Earlier today I was blurfing and I saw this card by Sarah. WOOOAH!!! I thought she peaked through my computer (or something) but later I found out that it’s me peaking through her computer since she made the card a few days ago. I was going to make almost the same thing. Ok, not quite exact but I did initially pull out that same color PTI ribbon. Today, I decided on the yellow SU ribbon and to move the happy birthday verse down and put a tree branch and bird on the top right instead of a sentiment. I also embossed using a Cuttlebug embossing folder. I just couldn’t do it… going with the original idea and making the two cards look more similar. I have to be different {::SMILES}.

Okie dokie, I’m off to bed. I’ll yack more later!!

Material: Stamp is by American Craft and pattern paper is My Little Shoe Box.

Some Color Challenge!

Posted on | August 11, 2009 | 26 Comments

Goodness, Dawn, some colors you got here!!! It was hard!!!!! But I managed something {::SMILES}. I almost forgot I have this SU butterfly template. I love it, so big!!! I’m liking my Martha Stewart punch better too. It sucks that it can’t punch thicker paper, like PTI white paper but when it can, it’s fun. The one I’m still fighting with is the Fiskar punch. I literally have to use all my weight to use it and the result looks crappy looking. Did I get a bad one? Oh, I also used 2sketches4you sketch by Laura for this card. Lovely versatile sketch!!

Nothing new here. It’s now one more week until I go back to work and school starts for M and I. I have one online course that I’m teaching and I’m also taking a photography class. I love working at a university, you get to take college courses for free. M… she’s not super excited about kindergarten. I think she’s kind of nervous. I hope I won’t have to ask her teacher to hold her down while I run for the door. I might have hubby drop her off, she’s not as attached to him as she is to me. We’ll see.

Here’s what we had for breakfast. I’m getting better at it:

I have a few people that I hope to visit this week. One is an old college friend from Idaho and another one is a blog friend who lives in Kansas City. Yes, I’m trying to get over my fear of meeting new people {::SMILES}. Then I have Jovie’s 2 months appt. which includes her first set of vaccines. Poor girl! Have a great day and hope to post more soon!!

Hugs and Kisses

Posted on | July 19, 2009 | 10 Comments

How’s your weekend? Ours was BUSY! We had a yard sale and a lot of cleaning. But, come Sunday afternoon and we all got to relax a bit. I even went in to work for a few hours, which was sooooo nice. Just quiet and I got what I needed to do done.

Here’s a card using Dawn McVey’s colors: red, pink, green, and cream. I’ve had this SU embossing template for a while. Bad me, huh? I wanted to highlight the embossing and so left the card as clean as possible. I did use all the colors but the picture seemed to have blended the pink and red together. The ribbon is PTI’s Rasberry Fizz and the sentiment + twine is red.

Ok, another week. Hopefully it’ll be a great one for all!

2-in-1

Posted on | July 17, 2009 | 28 Comments

A card for Kristina’s colors and Cuttlebug challenge. Yeah me {::SMILES}. I had fun making this. I had no clue what I was going to do with all the many colors but I did it! I LOVE the new SU animal set, love me these owls!!! Behind the owls there is twine going around the frame but I got carried away and ended up covering it. Oh well. But it’s not bad, I kind of like having bits of red poking out.The clouds and branch is Sassafrass (an owl set too) and using one more of Cloud’s flower (LOVE!!).

Ok, short post. M and I are going on a lunch date. She wants Mexican, YUM!!! Laters!

No Baby Yet…

Posted on | June 3, 2009 | 12 Comments

Well, tomorrow’s my due date! If this is just like M then I’d have her tomorrow. If not then Savitri’s off to some who knows what procedure at the doc’s office to get this girl out. SCARED!!!! Ok, not scared but I’m just a big pain wussy.

In the mean time I made this card today to help me relax. I used more stuff from the Matahati (Scrap Orchards) paper I printed out the other day and a tag. The sentiment is SU rub-ons and the ribbon + polka dot stamp is PTI.

Here’s a story… We had some neighbor’s kid + her friend stop by last Sunday. M loves playing with them. The weather was warm and just like any other year we haven’t turned our AC on (our house stays cools and we have a lot of breeze too). Lately at home I’ve just been feeling like wearing hubby’s Ts and my under-roos. Yeah yeah, TMI but without this detail I can’t tell you my story… But really, on me, his Ts always look like a little mini-dress. Quite appropriate, right?

So while the kids were outside playing I said to hubby: I hope the girls don’t come in. I don’t want to change. Soon after I said that M came in to get something and hubby said to her: M, make sure the girls don’t come in. Mommy’s walking around in her underwear.

URGH! Did you see the problems? First, hubby reworded what I was wearing. Second, I knew and he knew too that M would repeat it. Sure enough, soon after hubby told her that M went back outside and screamed: Girls, don’t come in the house, ok. My mommy’s walking around in her underwear.

I gave hubby the death look and hubby laughed his little ass off. He knew M was going to repeat it. He knew!!!! One day, one day, I’ll get even!!!!