5th Card of 52

Here is a birthday card that we will be making at the February Stamp camp.
The technique is Faux Tearing. Using the Stampin' Pastels and the Daubers. Again got this idea from Dawn!



All Materials Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted.

Valentine Lollipop Holders

Today I woke up feeling under the weather so I stayed home from work.
I kept myself occupied by finishing the Valentine Lollipop Holders I made for coworkers. I lifted the idea off of a fellow Stampin' Up Demonstrator Dawn Griffith. She always has such neat ideas.
The Lot of Them:

A Closer Look at One:

The Inside.


Not difficult to make, we will have to make these at a future camp but with a different theme.

Ok, I am finally sick of it

I announced this morning that I have come to the point that I am SICK of winter for the year. I don't mind snow, I don't mind cold. I do mind multiple days of below zero temperatures, rain turning to ice and blowing snow drifting snow especially when one is shoveling or snow blowing.
This has been one of the most unpredictable winter in a long time. Yesterday we almost hit 50 degrees, today we are at 7 below. What the heck?
Last night we had blizzard type conditions, blowing snow with white out conditions. Now they are calling for another snow storm for Thursday night 2 to 4 inches by Friday morning, wonderful!
My car is even protesting the sub-zero weather. The poor thing, the steering column is moaning. I know it's the cold causing my car to protest because when we almost hit 50 degrees yesterday, the car didn't udder a sound; but this morning, it was loud and moaning again.

March 20th can't get here soon enough!!!!

Young at Heart

Last night there was really nothing much on TV (watching the SAG awards didn't even cross our minds) so Todd turned to TMC and found the movie Young at Heart starring Doris Day and Frank Sinatra.


We both felt after watching the beginning that we weren't going to watch the whole movie but we did end up watching the whole thing. A few observations: Frank Sinatra doesn't appear in the movie for the 1st 45 mins and there are times especially towards the end of the movie that you felt they wrapped things up quickly to end the movie.

This movie is a remake of the 1938 movie Four Daughters. A short description of the moive that I got off of IMDB: When Alex enters the lives of the musical Tuttle family, each of the three daughters falls for him. He is charming, good looking and personable. Laurie and Alex seem made for each other and become engaged. When Barney comes into the picture to help Alex with some musical arrangements matters become complicated. He is seen as a challenge by Laurie, who can't believe anyone could be as cynical, and she is more than a match for his gloomy outlook on life.

4th Card of 52

This card was not my creation, I lifted the idea off of another stamper and tweeked mine slightly.

All materials used to make this card by Stampin Up!

4th Layout of 52

This layout is almost complete. I still have to journal down the center. I have a hard time journaling sometimes; I either don't know what to put, I'm afraid I will make a mistake when journaling or I really want to be creative within the journal and don't know how to begin. So usually I put the journaling off to complete at another time.



This was either the day before Ethan's 2nd b-day party or the morning of the party. He helped me make his b-day cake and then got to lick the rubber scrapper.

Senior Night

Tonight was Senior night for the Wrestlers. They had posters up with the Seniors featured and between the JV and Varsity meet they honored each wrestler by having the wrestler and their parents come to the center of the mat and they would say somethings about each Wrestler.
This weekend will be the last weekend of wrestling, I can't believe 4 seasons of early mornings, late nights, injuries, smelly laundry and meets are coming to an end.

My hope is that years from now Ethan tells stories to his children about his wrestling experience and that he has fond memories of this time in his life.

Another Conversation with a 5 Year Old

I was driving to pick up Jordan from his chess meet and had Nikolas in the car with me. I ask him how was school but once I asked that question I remembered it was Tuesday and he didn't attend school on Tuesdays. So I ask "How was school yesterday or did you not go to school yesterday?"
He replied: "I didn't go to school yesterday because it was a holiday." Testing him I asked "Do you know what holiday it was?" He answered: "It is King Luther’s Birthday"
I thought that was so cute, he was close. I think in a 5 year olds mind a King would deserve to have their b-day be a holiday.

Freeeeeezzzzing

This weekend was unbelievable cold outside.
I was very grateful to my stamp campers for coming out to stamp last night in this bitter cold.
I found this picture of Garfield that I think fits this weekend.

After we went grocery shopping real early this morning and I spent the rest of today under a blanket, on the couch, fighting a migrane staying warm.

3rd Layout of 52

I went scrapbooking with my sister last Satuday. So I got quite a few layouts completed to keep my 52 layouts in a year going. So here is my 3rd layout:

This was Easter 1991. We were living in a basement apartment at that time. Ethan was 1 year old.