Yay, it's almost Friday!

Woohoo, I can not wait. We actually get to relax this weekend! The house is ready and I plan on just sitting and relaxing, going to a gymnastics meet, and doing lots of crafting!

Two appraisers come today, as well as, some guy to check to make sure we don't have termites. I have to get everything ready for the Valentine's Day party at school tomorrow in K's class and I have a project for Emma's to get done. It's going to be a busy one today.

I thought I would share a card with you today. This one was published this last year in Cards. This is still one of my favorite American Craft lines. Love the colors.

After creating the card I hand cut out a flower from the pattern paper and placed it on the card. I then cut out petals from a second flower. I used a pencil to lightly curl them outwards and attached them here and there over the original flower. After that I simply tied a button to the center and added some ribbon and the sentiment.

Have a wonderful day!

Ick

Happy Wednesday everyone,

Feeling a bit puny yesterday and this morning. I didn't do a whole lot besides sit around. I did get a layout done that I will show you when I get a photo of it. Hopefully the rain goes away soon. We are supposed to put the house on the market today too. Not so good for pictures. Keep your fingers crossed the weather improves.

I do want to share a layout I did for Emma's Paperie this last week. The challenge was to use the color Kraft. I started with the Kraft colored background but got a little carried away with the other colors. LOL Lots of bling and fun on this one too. It makes me happy though. Have you been over to the Emma's Paperie blog lately? Cindy has been posting lots of yummy products that are starting to come in and you don't want to miss the other amazing kraft projects.

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As alsways, thank you for stopping by and have a fabulous day!

A Tearful Good-bye

Happy Monday to you all!

Whew! I feel so relaxed! Haven't heard that from me in a while have you. We pretty much finished up the house this weekend. All the windows sparkle, the walls are all touched up and everything is clean. My parents came this weekend to pick up Doc and take her to their house. We figured it would be much easier on her that way. I was worried she would end up sneaking out when they were showing the house and the carpet cleaners today would have scared her to death. It was not easy, though. Both the girls had a really hard time. They know this is not a long term situation but to them I know it seems like forever. The girls sat in my office for about 15 minutes just petting her and saying good-bye. There were quite a few tears when it came time for my parents to leave. :( The house does seem extra quiet this morning. Doc usually hangs out with me in my office. She loves to sit behind my paper stacks or on the back of my chair.

Lauren had an especially hard time last night. Doc comes in by her a lot of nights as Lauren is falling asleep and lays down by her. There are many nights I will go in and find Lauren asleep with her hand on Doc because she fell asleep petting her. Last night I was thinking about how we came to get Doc and Lauren's reaction to her. So I thought I would share this layout with you. This one was published last year in a book by Scrapbook Trends.

I have some assignments and projects I hope to work on this week now that most of the cleaning and organizing is done. I can't wait to share some new stuff with you.

Have a fabulous week and thank you for stopping by!

Bear Hugs

Thank you everyone for the encouraging words yesterday. You are all so very sweet. I am feeling less over whelmed today. A little sleep does the body good. :)

Due to all the wonderful cleaning (bleck) that is going on around here I am going to share another layout that I did a while ago. I did this one for Cindy Smith's Valentine's book last year and it is still one of absolute favorites.

My youngest is an absolute stuffed animal fanatic. :) She has more than I care to count. This one was my fault though. We were looking for the perfect birthday present for her when I found this guy. He is huge and soft and she loves him.

Have a wonderful day!!!

A Balancing Act

We decided when we found out that we would be moving that we would try to keep everything as normal as possible for the girls. I though, "no big deal, I can do that." Lately though I have felt like a juggler with way too many balls in the air. I am just waiting for one of them to fall. Besides trying to get the house ready, I need to get everything in line for DD's Valentine's Day party at school next week and get volunteers in line for the school carnival. My sweet realtor keeps finding houses she thinks I might like and has been sending me a billion e-mails. I am volunteering at school again today for the program I wrote about yesterday and I have to meet with the moving people and another realtor tomorrow. All this and DH is out of town all week. The worst part of it is that I feel like it is affecting my mothering. I have not been the most patient mother these last two weeks and this morning I found a paper for yearbooks. It was supposed to be turned in last week. Of all years, my kids are going to want one this year. I plan on going up to school and begging today. :)

Anyway, thanks for sitting through all that whining. As a reward, I have another project for you today. We were challengedon the Emma's Paperie blog to use these boxes from Creative Imaginations.

I have used these boxes several times (love them!) so I decided to change it up a little bit. I turned the flap backwards to open it up a little bit more.

Thanks for stopping by today. You all mean so much to me! :)

The Joy of Children

I had such a great day yesterday. My DD's school does a program called Everybody Counts. The goal of the program is to make children aware of different disabilities. One day each year several volunteers spend a little over an hour with the children doing hands-on activities with them. Each grade level focuses on a different disability. I got to spend time yesterday teaching the kids in L's class about hearing impairment. There was an experiment with sound waves and a quick game. I had such a good time and it reminds me how much I miss teaching. I am not quite ready to go back yet but I do miss those sweet faces and being in the classroom. Tomorrow I get to be with the 4th graders doing activities about physical disabilities. Should be fun!

I wanted to share a quick card with you. I do like that a little bit of the paper piecing is making a come back. Not sure if I am ready for all the paper piecing projects of my past (you should see the little girl on the slide I made) LOL but I do like using it once in a while. To create this card I simply found a soccer ball image and printed it to match the size of my Magistical Memories chipboard circle. I then cut it apart and used it as a template for my black pieces. I did it this way because I wanted to change the direction of the stripes on the ball but you could easily just print it on the back of black patter paper and cut it out. I printed a second ball on white paper and used the back for the white parts after inking the edges. Piece everything back together on a painted chipboard circle.

The mountain of laundry in my laundry room is about to take over the whole house so I better go dig in. Have a wonderful day!!!

how cool is this?

Morning everyone!

I got an e-mail from my sweet friend Sarah last night congratulating me. Of course I was interested and had to check out what she was talking about and found this. Go down about a third of the way and you can see the step by step. That is my layout! :) If you click on the link you can see the full page, although the step by step doesn't actually match my layout. LOL Thanks Sarah for pointing that out! I would have never found it on my own.

Our weekend was quite productive, thanks to my in-laws who came. L had a gymnastics meet this weekend so we didn't have a ton of time to work. We got all the bathroom cabinets and pantry spotless, the ceiling fans and vent sparkle and all the baseboards are now clean. This week I plan on doing touch up painting and catching up on the laundry I have left get out of hand.

I wanted to share a card I made using some yummy Magistical Memories Chipboard. I think I am going to change this into a postcard and send it to family and friends when we move. I used one of the Scalloped photo corners for the roof of the house.

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope that your week is fabulous.