Easter Almost Here!

I made a card for Remi. I sure do miss her. It's been 3 months now since we last saw her. I'm hoping we get to see her soon. I've been trying to send her something once a week but sometimes the week gets by me before I know it!

These papers are some I had in my stash that are Basic Grey Valentine Collection a few years ago. The bear stamp was one I picked out of a $1 bin at Michael's. The sentiment was a stamp from Stampin Up. The ribbon is from Really Reasonable Ribbon monthly club.



I bought some things for Remi to give her for Easter. I got that package in the mail today. Here is the Easter card I made her.

The DP is TPC Studio from a couple of years ago...I think. I used the cardstock stickers that came with that paper collection. I did add googly eyes to the bunny and some ribbon then popped the bunny with foam tape. Now I need to get Kennedy's Easter card made!

Kashton is 3 weeks old today! Hard to believe. Vanessa took this picture for me.

I'm messing with my phone because I was trying to take the picture myself but it just wasn't working for me!

Here's Granddad with him.

They almost have the same hairline! LOL!

He is opening his eyes more but he still sleeps ALOT but I know that's what babies are supposed to do!

Sister still thinks he's pretty cool although she would prefer that I hold her and not hold Kashton!

I need to go make Kennedy's Easter card and get her Easter basket ready.

Have a good one!

Do Over

My last blog post I showed you a card that I entered in Digi Haven: Love/Valentine Challenge. One of the design team members after complimenting my card graciously pointed out that it didn't meet the criteria for the challenge in that I didn't use a digital image.  Now mind you I have done Digi Haven challenges before and I KNEW that! I guess in my creative frenzy I was concentrating more on the "theme" of the challenge! Silly me. So...I created another card with a digital image this time!

For this card I used sketch 32 from the sketch challenge over at Seems A Little Sketchy. Here's the sketch.

Here's my card

The papers are from Echo Park's "Yours Truly" Valentine collection from last year. My image is from Sliekje Digi Stamps. I just love her images and have used several to make cards with. She is very generous to offer them for free which is an added bonus.

I colored the kitten with my Copic markers. I used my twinkling H2O's "poppy" to color the hearts. I wrote "Be Mine" with a white Signo uni-ball pen. The ribbon is from Really Reasonable Ribbon Club. I think I may send this card to my granddaughter Remi for Valentine's Day.

That's it for me. It's moving day for my kids tomorrow. I think my part will be to watch the kids while everyone else does the hard work.

Have a good one!

Squirrel Saga Continues

I did get the Christmas lights down last Friday at least what was left of them.

Out of five strands of 100 lights only one strand survived.

You might say they didn't have anything to eat. And I would say since when do squirrels not like pecans?!

You see all these pecans?! Now we didn't pick these up because they are the small natives and they are very difficult to shell to get the nuts out. Now you may say...the squirrels didn't feel safe collecting nuts from the ground. Then I would say....what about these!

Look at all the nuts still in the tree! Why on earth would the squirrels prefer electrical wire to these jewels!
I think part of the problem with the squirrels is we made it easy for them. We have what are called "boxed eaves". Doyle had to do some repair that required him taking down the enclosure. He did not complete the repair at the time and hoped he wouldn't cause problems but....

He left these openings which he discovered the squirrels had been entering as he found pieces of my light strands in there! He closed them up while I took down the lights.

Ok, I'll quit venting about the squirrels. At least they waited until after Christmas to do their destruction as the lights worked up until New Years.

I didn't not get to ride that day. I had planned to after I took the lights down but Doyle needed some help with the repair and then I ran out of time. I did get a glimpse of what was left of the sunset.

Kennedy came over on Friday night and spent the night with us. Since I didn't work at the store Saturday we slept in. Well, she slept in! After she gets up we go take care of Clyde. We come back and I make us some breakfast. Mom comes over to see Kennedy and have some coffee. After she leaves Kennedy and I play. We stamped, painted, played hide and seek.

She is painting a picture for Mommy. We also made one for Daddy and Remi.

We went outside for a while but not long as a front had moved through dropping temperatures drastically from the day before. But in that short time Kennedy fell and kissed the sidewalk. I saw it happen and was afraid to look to see what the damage was. She busted her lip and scraped her nose. I thought for sure she would want her Momma but no she wanted me!

Kennedy went with me to Tractor Supply to buy horse feed tonight. On the way to the check out she saw this huge container of "Cheese Puffs"! She LOVES these things! Guess who got suckered?

One happy girl! If you click on the picture you can get a better look of her battle scars from her fall on Saturday.


A very dear friend had a birthday Sunday and I made her this card.

I just love this "triple stamping" technique. You can make so many different variations of this card  and its so easy! For the tutorial go here. The ribbon I used is what I get from Really Reasonable Ribbon monthly ribbon club.
 Come back tomorrow for WOW Wednesday. I have more creations to show you!

Have a good one!