Happy Happy Wednesday!!

Posted on | August 4, 2010 | 10 Comments

Hi again peeps! I hope it’s a happy Wednesday for you! I can’t believe it’s mid-week already!! We’ve had a very busy and important morning and I can’t wait until tomorrow! It’s the start of WPlus9′s countdown. Awesome awesome stamps I tell you! If you liked Mehndi (I used it on the above card) you’ll LOVE the new releases!! Not only are they gorgeous, they are also very versatile. Friday I have a few fun announcements. I can’t wait to share them with you!!

Ok, that’s it for now. I want to make it sweet and short. Too many things going in my head and going through two different language audio tape is NOT good for my little gray cells. This is me: Ich mochte eine Kaffee, s’il vous plait (translate: I want a coffee (German), please (French)). I also say Kaffee like the French cafe. Aaahhh… I am though starting to like the Rapid German and French the music first annoyed me but now it’s tolerable. I think the audio files are working on me. I woke up with a few German sentences this morning! Laters!

Materials:

Cardstock: SU
Pattern paper: Digital paper from Sweet Shoppe Designs, Zoe Pearns Alphabet Soup for Boys
Tag, ribbon, and button: I don’t know. It’s from Etsy but not purchased. it was a gift from one of the stores I purchased from.
Stamp: Mehndi Medallion by WPlus9

Sweet Saturday

Posted on | July 31, 2010 | 4 Comments

I’m not sure if I’ll get sick of it after awhile but right now I am loving the UK rain. It’s not violent like in Missouri — I don’t have to ask hubby every other minute if it’s tornadic outside — but just the usual soft sound of rain. It’s lovely and it actually reminds me of the time in Indonesia. I’m not a fan of heat and the rain always bring coolness. Also it’s so dusty where I was from and the rain calms those dust down a bit. On weekends I’d just sit around and read and that activity was my favorite thing to do back in those days.

Today it was lounge around day for us. We had friend over last night for dinner, our first time since we’ve been here, we went straight to bed after they left and today, after cleaning up we just watched movies and while I worked on some projects.

Here’s one I did today. Hubby got a new color printer so I was able to print out some digital paper from Sweet Shoppe. This particular one was printed of a Zoe Pearns kit: Alphabet Soup for Boys. I know it says for boys but I think this thing is perfect for anybody. Love the cute cute images!! I printed in draft mode for the pattern paper while the swirl was in normal mode and gave the pattern paper a more soft feeling while saving some ink.

I hope you’re enjoying your weekend!! We know we are!

Materials:

Cardstock for card base: SU
Digital paper printed on card stock printer paper from WalMart
Ink: SU
Stamps: Waltzing Mouse Vintage Label and WPlus9 Hooked on You sentiment
Accessories: Pom-poms
Tools: Nestabilities and Sizzix

Happy Holidays

Posted on | December 3, 2009 | 6 Comments

M and I are almost done looking at sketch #4′s submissions. The break really made us lazy!! Oh, I want to share this too:

There are eight photos that I uploaded last night to Flickr. Half were us playing with the timer and the other half M took. Click on the photo above and you should get to the rest of them. They crack me up!

Last night I also made this card. Very quick card, just layers of paper with embellishments here and there. Another holiday card using leftover paper from Zoe Pearn + My Mind’s Eye, My Mind’s Eye die-cut, and some ribbon that Quirky sent me from Malaysia for my birthday. So very nice of her to think of me! Thanks, girl!

Oh, yesterday we updated our wills. Have you made one up for yourself? If you haven’t you should! Even if you have no children you should do it. If nothing else get yourself a living will. I love life, a productive life that is, and living in a vegetative state will not be for me. I hope somebody will pull that machine off me so that I can go home to my Creator. Now, I did think that funeral arrangements were written out in the will but I guess not – the will’s usually read after one’s long gone they told me. The lawyer said that I just need to make it known to all how I want it done. I will, again, let my family know but I want to also shout it out here… please cremate me after they get all the organs they need out of me and somebody please take my ashes (in a pretty and simple white urn) to southern France and dump me somewhere nice. Preferably after a delicious meal. You think that’s legal? Probably not but hey, one can wish, right? {::SMILE}. I do want to be cremated though and if Europe isn’t possible the Oregon coast will do.

Any hoot, nuff about death. More later!

Not Bright Here!

Posted on | December 1, 2009 | 7 Comments

NONE of our Christmas lights work. NICE, huh? I’d hate to buy new ones cause we’re moving to a 220v country soon. Aaaah…

Something did brighten my evening though! I’m glad I sat down to go through our pile of mail!! Amy Tsuruta is just awesome. Out of the blue she sent me some goodies… oh and for Miss M too! I haven’t taken a snapshot of them or dug through her blog to find these gifties but they’re just beautiful and the contents are so delish! Thanks, Amy! Even Jovie loved them… the plastic had just the right amount of noise. The pics will be the gifts out of the plastic cause the plastic’s full of drools ha ha ha…

I did make another card. Another hybrid card using a kit by Zoe Pearns from Sweet Shoppe: Little Joy.

Christmas

You know I LOVE Zoe Pearn’s work, right? You SHOULD check out her store! Her papers especially are very paper crafter friendly. Zoe knows what we like because she’s a paper crafter herself and a designer for My Mind’s Eyes. The kit below is what I used for the card. See all the other goodness that I didn’t even touch?

Then this, if you want to update your blog but you’re not very good with graphic design, or like me just don’t have the time, check out her blog in a box. This one is using the same items as the kit above: