This is a card I made today for a friend's 15 y/o nephews birthday. He is really into sports. The cardstock and background paper are from a kit from Paper Posies. The letters are chip board from American Crafts. The basketball suit and embellishments are from Keepsake Essentials. I colored the chip board letters with close to cocoa ink from Close to My Heart. The happy birthday stamp is from Stampin Up.

The week is almost over. Hubby has been home for 2 weeks with no work, but they called him yesterday and he left this morning for a week on the road. He is a land surveyor and works with the Corp of Engineers. Things have been slow lately, but they always are this time of year. All my big kids are off at school visiting friends or getting there houses back in order before they start back on Monday. Just me and little one home for the week-end. We are going to clean out his sisters room and paint it. She has moved into a house around the corner from us that my dad owns. She has been off at college for 2 years, and moved home to go to nursing school. She was so used to living by herself, that I rented this house from my dad for her. We are going to put the little one in her old room because it is larger than his. We have gotten the bedspread and accessories and he told her I said she had 5 days to get all her stuff out so I could start fixing it for him. I never said that!! Anyway, he wants a red room and I cannot go there, so I compromised and am going to paint one wall red and the rest a blue grey. I may put a red pinstripe every 6 inches on the long wall, but I just don't know if it will look right or not. I plan on getting the rest of her stuff out Saturday, and start painting Saturday afternooon. I also plan on working on some scrapbook pages from our trip to Florida. That really seems like a lot, but I sure am going to try. I hope ya'll are well. I have got to go play 3 games of Uno with little one before he goes to bed. (nightly school time ritual) Take care and I will see ya'll tomorrow.

Well how ya'll doing night? It's pretty quiet around here. I went to the school with Simon this am, and guess what--We got the teacher everyone says is so bad. He said he did not know why everyone was talking so bad about her, because he really liked her. Out of the mouth of babes--it made me feel so bad because I had let them make me not like her and I do not even know the woman. I felt like a heel!!! He said they say she will make me do a lot of projects, but momma that is what me and you like to do. That is our special time together. I felt a knife stab me and twist to make it worse--I thought how ashamed of myself I should be!!! This kid is very wise for his years. So, I think 3rd grade will be a great year. One of my close friends child is in this class also, and I told her I had an attitude change and that by the end of the year we would be spreading good stories about this teacher instead of bad. She looked at me as if I was crazy, and I just said I will tell you the story later.

This card is one I did a long time ago. The card stock and stamps are Stampin Up. I colored with Stampin Up colored pencils (I think). I cannot even remember the names of the colors because I think they have changed several times since I did this card. I was needing a Get Well card tonight and I thought I would share this before I send it off.

I joined a swap on bellaholicsanonymous tonight. I have not done a swap in months. It is a card swap and not an image swap. I am using causeabella and wineabella. It has just opened, so if you are interested and are a member of the bellaholicsanonymous yahoo group or want to join the group and participate, please do. I think it will be really fun. Heidi is getting it together. Well that's all for tonight. I have a really busy day tomorrow, so I need to get to bed. First full day of school tomorrow---wish us luck!!! TTFN!!

Well, how's everyone tonight? I'm doing pretty good, really tired. I had to take call again last night because the nurse on call was sick and no one would take it, so I took the night and as usual I had to work. Got home about 11 p.m., and my little one was awake. He said his soccer coach told them to write down the definition of soccer and bring it to practice today. Well needless to say, no one had helped him look it up, so we did it at 11:20 last night. We popped us some popcorn and looked it up on the computer and wrote it down. I think we got to bed about 12:15. I was definitely draggin this am. I have not taken any call in about 6 months, and 2 days /nights in a row, and working some of that time after an 8 hour day really got to me. And to top it all off, my boss asked me to stay late today, and I said no. It is really taking everyone longer than I thought to realize I am not the manager anymore, and I am not going to do all that extra stuff anymore. Today when I got home from work we had to go get new shoes for school--1st day tomorrow!!! I am going to take him to meet his teacher in the morning and then I am going on to work. After the shoes we had soccer practice again, but hubby took him and I stayed home and cooked supper.

A co-worker asked me to make a birthday card for her daughter. I started on it yesterday, and finished it this am before I went to work--no wonder I am so tired!! I had planned to make several cards last night, but that will be tomorrows project. This card is random card stock, background paper and ribbon from a kit I had, the flowers are from my stash. I used Close to My Heart markers to color some of the images. I paperdolled the chair, shirt, and pants from random background paper. It takes a lot of time to paperdoll those tiny clothes, but I think it gives the card character. The Happy Birthday stamp and the inside sentiment are from Close to My Heart. The inside sentiment says:"Hope you have a special day full of joy and fun and play" The girl stamp is PMSabella from stampinbella.

Tomorrow brings no definite thing I have to do except meet teacher and work. We will be in the 3rd grade this year and everyone says it is not a fun year. My oldest did not like 3rd grade and my middle loved it. I think it all has to do with the teacher. There are 3 teachers--one they say is a booggar. Simon says he really does not care who he gets, but the one everyone talks about is #3 on the list!! He says he likes her, but he likes the others better, so we will see. I will let you know tomorrow if we got who he wanted. I better go get him ready for bed and me too. Ya'll have a blessed evening and I will see ya tomorrow.

Good evening ya'll. Hope everyone has had a wonderful weekend. Mine was good. The fishing trip yesterday was fun, although it was so hot! Our friend and her son caught some fish and had a great time. As long as they had fun I did not care how hot it was. We have been trying to take them for a while, and I am glad it turned out so well. I took pics, but I did not finish the roll, so I will post them when I do. Today was quiet. We went to church and then out to eat. My big kids got in from Arkansaw safe, and they had a real good time. I finally got some time to work in my stamping room and these cards are the end product. I am on call today and tonight for the operating room, and I had to go and do a case a little while ago. When I got home my daughter had cooked supper for us and that was great. Hopefully the rest of the night will be quiet.

These cards turned out cuter than I thought. The cardstock is some random that I received in a kit. The background paper is by MOD. It also came in the kit. The ribbon and brads are from my stash. The stamps are bellas. If you are not familiar with them, you should go to their site--www.stampingbella.com. They have bellas and fellas. I love these stamps. They have one for almost all personalities. The words and sayings are Close to My Heart stamps.

Well I guess that's all for tonight. I need to get some sleep in case I have to go back to the hospital. God bless ya'll. See ya tomorrow.

I Have Been Tagged

Well I was reading through my comments and saw that I was tagged last week by Yvonne of http://www.stampyourartout.blogspot.com/ So here goes:
1. I am married to the first date I ever had in my life--we both went through previous married experiences (HA! HA!), but we ended up together in the end.

2. I love Tootsie Roll Midgets--best friend at work keeps me some in her drawer in case of emergency!

3. I am an only child---SPOILED!!!!

4. I love life--good or bad--I believe there is a lesson and a reason for all of it.

5. My children are my top priority--lived life to the fullest before I had the little rug rats, so I could devote the rest of my life to them.

6. How many of you remember Lassie? The music to the show makes me cry--always has and always will---Loved the show by the way--still need more of those type shows for kids to watch now and things would be better for our young folks.

7. Love animals!! If I had a dollar for every stray I have picked up and nursed back to health, or took to the vet to be cured if it was more than I could do, I would be the richest woman in the world. Always found a home for them also--only kept one and still have that one, her name is Sweetie, and my little boy named her and begged to keep her--understand we already had 2 dogs and 2 cats at the time we found her, but glad we kept her. Her name really fits her.


Ok, I am supposed to be cooking supper, but I need to tag 7 other people so:

1. Jeni from http://deltastamper.blogspot.com/

2. Patti from http://hugsnstuff.blogspot.com/

3. Tresa from http://www.fabulouslyartsy.blogspot.com/

4. Amy from http://amymowbray.typepad.com/my_weblog/

5. Susie from http://susiestampalot.blogspot.com/

6. Linda from http://justlindab.blogspot.com/

7. Brenda from http://www.inkedart.typepad.com/

Ok, friends are here and hubby has been back here 5 times to see what is taking me so long to get going!! TTFN!!!

Guess what!!! I got my first RAK today. I got home from work and there it was in the mail. Isn't it cute? Judi Rose (aka jovialjudi) sent it to me. She and I are in the bellahollicsananymous group on Yahoo. We have the same birthday. Is that cool or what? Inside was a little note about our birthdays and a Fishafella stamp. I do not have that stamp, and tomorrow my hubby and I and our little boy are taking a close friend and her family fishing. Hubby (who does not come anywhere close to understanding the stamping thing) thought that stamp was great, and I could take pics and do a scrapbook page with it. THEY DO HAVE GOOD IDEAS SOMETIMES!!!!!

Hope ya'll are having a good day. Mine has been really nice so far. We are having friends over for supper later. Very casual and laid back. My little one has gone to a spend the night birthday party, and my big kids have gone to Arkansas to white water raft for the weekend. My oldest son is 22 today. It seems like yesterday he was just coming into this world. He and one of his best friends have the same birthday, but a year apart. Every year they always do something together. This year a bunch of them decided to go on this trip, and at the last minute some of them backed out because of work and other things, so he called his sister and asked if she and her boyfriend wanted to go. They are really close and always have been. They are only 19 months apart. So anyway they did not have any plans, so they are meeting them in Arkansas. Doss came by last night and we ate supper together, and kind of did the birthday thing, but he did not want his cake until he got back in town Sunday. He loves a Butterfinger Cake--if you have never had one let me know and I will post the recipe. It is delicious!!!--So all are coming home Sunday for a good supper and the cake. Little sister is coming also.

Well I hope to do some stamping and scrapping Sunday after church. I have lots of projects to do now, and I am sure they will bring home pics to do one for each one of them from their trip. Ya'll have a great weekend, and I will see you tomorrow after the big fishing trip. Probably won't last long though, the temp is supposed to be over 100, and the heat index between 105 and 110. Please continue to pray for the miners that are lost , their families, and our soldiers and their families. God bless all!!!!

Well, hey ya'll!!! I'm back. We had a great vacation and ended up staying 2 extra days because it was so much fun. Destin was beautiful and the water was great. There were a lot of jelly fish though. In the 10 years I have been going to Destin, I have never had any of my children get stung until this year. Most of them were small, but they still sting!!! We spent most of our time on the beach, but one day we went to the water park, and another day we rented a pontoon boat and went out to one of the islands in the bay and caught crabs. We cooked out one night, and ate out a couple of nights, and cooked in the others. The pics are a few of what I took--#1 me and my 9 year old; #2 mine in the middle and my friend's kids that went with us on either side; #3 all the big kids--my oldest son to the left and my daughter next to him, her boyfriend next, and a friend of my son's that went with us several years ago, and asked to go back every year since on the right.

Have not had time to make anything since back, but plan to do something this weekend. I hope your week was as pleasent as mine. Take care and I will see ya'll tomorrow.