Happy Wednesday, half way through the week and one sleep away from my brother and his family coming for a visit. They are doing a college tour trip with my nephew and will coming into Pittsburgh tomorrow and will be spending a few days with us before leaving on Monday. While visiting I plan on letting my niece,… Read More: CYCI#77 »
Happy Ice Cream Cone Day! July is National Ice Cream Month and it brings us three special days: July 1 – Creative Flavor Day July 7 – Ice Cream Cone Day July 23 – Birthday of the Ice Cream Cone, which was invented in 1904, is 111 years old! I needed to make a card with a ‘Holiday… Read More: Double Scoop Mint Chocolate Chip! »
Hopefully were you live you were able to enjoy fireworks last night. For us, next weekend is when our community has their annual community days and fireworks, we watched some firework shows on television and they were great! I enjoyed the 4th by doing some craft projects and spending a few hours in the swimming pool, it was… Read More: PCCCS151 »
Hope you all have a great day today. Thank you for stopping by today, have a great one! Craft On!
Welcome to the weekend. It’s been a busy week with work. Tuesday night my husband and I went to see Train in concert, the opening acts were Matt Nathanson and The Fray. It was a great concert, below is a picture of Pat Monahan (Train), Matt and Issac Slade (lead singer The Fray). On the way in to… Read More: CCREW0715CF – Sparkling Strawberries »
Hi there, how’s the weekend going for you? It rained here all day Saturday and there even was a tornado that touched down about 2 miles from our house. Happy to report no one was hurt, but quite a few trees and power line were taken down. They said winds where 65-80 miles per hour. Today the temperature… Read More: CYCI#76 – Color Challenge »
Happy Birthday to my sister-in-law Diane, hope you have a wonderful day! Today is her birthday and for her birthday I sent her a surprise package (and not a can of pineapples, click here for that story) and a box of my favorite blog cards with envelope liners or handmade envelopes for the odd sized cards. Thought I would… Read More: Happy Birthday Diane! »
Well it’s Thursday and we are one day closer to the weekend. After I beautiful day on Wednesday, back to rain again today, hopefully the weekend will be drier. Any special plans for this weekend? At this point mine is rather open but we all know how fast that can change, maybe something fun will pop up! Today’s… Read More: SIP#2 »
How’s your day going? No better way to end the day than making a card and posting it on your blog. Some people can’t believe how I fit this all in, but after a full day of work I find it rather relaxing to make a card. Normally I already have a layout planned and after a few… Read More: CYCI#75 »
Well here we are one day into another work week. It was a pretty good day work wise and the weather is perfect this evening to be sitting out on the sun porch, not to hot & humid for a change. Today I received an email from the airlines regarding me about my flight to convention next month (like… Read More: PCCCS149 »
Well it’s Sunday night and another weekend is almost over. It was humid and rainy here on Saturday, not exactly the perfect day to be running errands (you should have seen my hair by mid afternoon) but I was able to get them all done. I even finished all the cards I needed for my mail in swap,… Read More: Washi Birthday »
Todays card is for the CanYouCaseIt weekly challenge, this week is the “Summer Fun Edition”. What do you think of when someone says ‘summer’? When I think of the summer one of the first things that come to mind are the ice cream cones we would get to end the evening on the boardwalk in Wildwood, New Jersey.… Read More: CYCI#74 Summer Fun Edition »
Hi there, how is everything going with you? Do any stamping or crafting lately? This Sunday morning I was busy with my Sunday stampers and took a nice nap in the afternoon once I put away all the supplies. When stamping is at my house we seem to use soooooo many supplies, best I guess that’s the advantage… Read More: MOJO402 »
Tomorrow is the monthly meeting of my Sunday Stampers. Thought I would share with you one of the cards we will be making using the new Watercolor Wings Bundle – featuring the Watercolor Wings Stamp Set and Bold Butterfly Framelits – both new items in the catalog. To get started on my card I used the colors in the… Read More: Butterfly Sunday »
Hi there, how’s the week going for you? I’m sitting here watching the CMT Music Award show red carpet show waiting for the show to start. Looking forward to seeing some of my favorite country artists perform, that includes Darius Rucker, Jason Aldean and Carrie Underwood. For Carrie it’s her first performance since having her baby earlier this… Read More: SIP#1 – Stamp Ink & Paper »
So how was your weekend, mine was filled with events followed by a busy Monday at work. Saturday we went to a 60th Birthday party (card & gift bag in this post) and Sunday there was a family gathering for my cousin Shari’s daughter Erika. Erika graduated from Wittenberg University, post for the graduation card is here. Memorial… Read More: Fav new Color Combo – Mint Macaron & Lost Lagoon »
Well it’s Sunday and I was able to sleep in just a little, the boys (Bandit & Baron – our dogs) don’t see to know the difference sometime between workday and weekend. Last night we went to a 60th Birthday party for our friend Walt and I thought I would share his card and gift bag with you today. Here… Read More: Happy Birthday Walt! »
Happy Saturday. I’ve a busy day planned today, need to do some food shopping, need to make a card for graduation party Sunday and have a 60th Birthday party tonight. Tomorrow I will share the card and gift for tonight. Weather here to day is cloudy but they say it will get sunny and less humid as the… Read More: PCCCS147 »
So how is everything with you? Things are pretty good here. Looking forward to the weekend, hopefully the weather will be better than they say, rain should only be allowed Monday-Thursday is my option. My order of new Stampin Up products came, I treated myself to 2nd day delivery so will have some new stamps to play with… Read More: FMS189 »
Happy Hump Day, boy has the weather changed around here, 80’s and humid on the weekend and needing long pants and jackets today – hey it’s summer not fall. Bring on the warmth and sunshine please. I’ve been lucky enough to be asked to be part of the Splitcoast Stampin Up Creative Crew Group for the May-August 2015… Read More: CCREW0615CF – Birthday Wishes »
Well today is the day – the new 2015-2016 Stampin’ Up Catalog goes live. Hopefully it will not take to long to place my order today. I’m sure there are stampers who stayed up late last night so that they could place their orders just after 2am MTN time (when the catalog should be active). I did set… Read More: CYCI#72 »
Happy Monday, hope you had a nice weekend. For me Saturday was busy with running errands and visiting friends, Sunday was busy with some housework and moving all the retiring product out of my main stamping area and marking the catalog to know which stamp sets, punches, embossing folders, thinlit and framelits I have, what about you do… Read More: Butterfly Birthday »
Welcome to the weekend, any exciting plans? Last night we met friends for a night out to listen to the band No-Bad-Ju-Ju, it was a nice mix of old and new music. While sitting there waiting for the band to start we noticed the ladies beside us and a rather large drink one of them had, it’s a special… Read More: FMS188 »
Don’t know about you, but I surely had my days mixed up this week, thinking Wednesday was Tuesday and Thursday was Wednesday – guess these short work weeks have a tendency to do that to you. One think I know for sure is that today is Friday, woohoo !!! After work we are meeting friends for happy hour –… Read More: MOJO399 »
Todays card is one I completed for the Splitcoast Stampin Up Creative Crew project for June 2015 – Holiday Focus – June is the time for graduations and Father’s Day, make a fun fold card that is for a grad or dad in your life. For my choice, I picked a ‘Building Block’ card made for my cousin Shari… Read More: Congratulations Erika! »
Did you survive the Memorial weekend? Hope you had a great time know matter what you did. Here the weather started in the low 70’s on Saturday and by Monday ended up with temperatures in the mid 80’s with in/out sun and some humidity. The weather combination Monday was perfect to take that first dip in the pool. The water was rather chilly, or shall… Read More: CYCI#71- Retiring In-Colors »
Happy Memorial Day 2015! In memory of many, in honor of all. thank you to those who gave all, so that we can have all. God bless the U.S.A. Made with the new Sprinkles of Life Photopolymer stamp set with matching Tree Builder punch available June 2nd. Sprinkles of Life is the new Ronald McDonald House Charities stamp… Read More: Memorial Day 2015 »
Happy Birthday to my favorite nephew Jake, he turns 17 today! I stayed up late Friday night until just after midnight so that I could send him a Happy Birthday text! Here is a picture of Jake, rather handsome devil, isn’t he. He seems to be taller each time I see him. I hear he now wears size 12 shoes and is… Read More: Happy Birthday Jake »
Ready for the weekend, I know I sure am. Unfortunately the weather will not be warm enough for swimming, but we will be grilling out and having some homemade macaroni salad, hamburgers, hot dogs and ribs and hanging out with some friends. A great way to spend the weekend. Today’s post is for this week’s Paper Craft Crew… Read More: PCCCS145 »
Well it’s over the hump day, only two more days until the weekend. Anything special planned? The weather here has taken a turn, it’s much cooler than the humid days earlier in the week. They say the beginning of the weekend should be in the 70’s and sunny, with rain Sunday night. Doesn’t sound to bad to me,… Read More: MOJO398 »