No Such Thing as a Lazy Saturday

I am battling a little bit of a cold my husband brought home and I was hoping to get some sleep today, but Noah decided 7:30 was a great time to come wake me up and ask if he could take a shower. He is one of those kids who has to be kept track of or he will stay for hours in the shower. Good thing I got up though, it gave me time to finish my card for the day.

I used a new image from Sophie Moose (the one on the right) and used Hanna's reverse image block to add her friend. I love the way it looks like they went to have pedicures together. The sentiment stamp is from SU's Riveting set and I used black brads, ribbon, Bazzill paper scraps and colored with copics.

Noah had decided he would like to lean how to spin yarn and a first step to that is to learn how to use a drop spindle. So, weeks ago we went out and bought a cheap spindle and some colored wool and today he finally had his class. he is very proud of himself. I just hope he keeps working on it. I can easily see this being something that now that money has been spent on the items and the class he will never do it again. But he had literally been talking to me about how much he wanted to do this for months. So, now he has done it and we'll see if any good comes from it.

I came home after class and picked up Seth for lunch and Scott ran off to clothing shop while the sale was still on. The boys wanted to go to the grocery (for ice cream and potato chips) and Seth has to go to a birthday party this afternoon. I have a friend having a trunk show of her sewed items and I am really hoping to find time to squeeze in a visit with her. Whew...All I really want is some sleep. And to win the lottery. And have a nanny. And a driver. Maybe a lock on my bedroom door to keep the kids out.

Undress Me

I made this foir the Thursday challege to use only left over supplies on hand. The challenge was called Go Frugal, and if ever there was something I can do, it's be frugal! I had an image from inky Abntics that I stamped at a friend's house and I used left over paper,ribbon, flowers, and brads.

This card is a sneak peek of one of the new sets coming our Monday from Hanna Stamps. The new set is called Dress Up Hanna, but I really just want to undress her. She has on pretty underwear that would make this an R rated blog, if I showed you what she looks like in her natural born rubbery goodness. I used two colors of ribbon, light blue on bottom and pale pink on top, then mostly hid them behind the flowers, but you can see their luscious texture in real life.

I made chocolate cookies with vanilla chips yesterday and today need to make oatmeal scotchies. I am preparing for a meal at church on Sunday. The main course is lasagna. Mmmmm. I also have to drive across town to a Michaels store. There are two not far from me and I bought all the frames they had in the 10x10 size a few weeks ago. They are on sale again, but the local stores never restocked. I am making framed art and I need more frames. I asked at the store closest to me and was assured that the frames would in by the end of the week, when the sale ends, but so far, no luck. The frames are only five bucks, so they are a bargain worth searching for.

Does a Bear.....Oh Never Mind

I made this with Stampin Ups Happy Camper set. I really think it is an adorably cute set, but I am dying to have some very witty sayings to go with it. The only ones I can think of are not exactly Rated G for my blog, if you know what I mean. The layout is from the Sketch Challenge over at SCS.

I used Hanna Stamps' new Bowling set for this card. I love the layout and the Spring colors. Did I happen to mention that Hanna is moving to a new release date? The releases for new sets will now be on a Monday, First Monday of the month, which happens to be Monday March 2nd. I will start showing the new sets on my blog on Friday and plan to post over the weekend, which is a radical departure for me. So check back often and see what is new. In addition, Hanna has two Guest Designers for the month of March, Jennifer Buck and the Silkie. That means two more fresh looks on our soon to be released sets.

On a personal note, I am still stinging from a neighbors' meanness yesterday. Most of you know I have a child on the Autism spectrum. We also have neighbors with kids who have special needs and their child was calling my child names and the neighbor man came to my house. I really feel like kids need to learn to work out their own issues out without adults trying to save them all the time. I also feel that people who have nothing kind to say, or who are so angry they cannot hold it in, should stay home and get themselves together before making a public appearance. It is safe to say that in many cases, the adults involved are part of the problem and not the solution. Some days I simply feel heartbroken by the unkindness of others.

Technique Lovin'

On Mondays the challenge on SCS is the Technique Lovers Challenge. The technique today is to wrap rubber bands around a block (acrylic or wood is fine, whatever you have around to help with your stamping.) Then you pick up your ink with your rubber banded block and stamp with it. Finally you add embossing powder and heat it so it sticks. There are many technique challenges that I truly do not love, but this one was completely do-able. Unfortunately I decided to use my white embossing powder, as black seemed like the common choice, and I am anything BUT common. Unfortunately, the pattern I was left with looked a bit like what happens after birds fly overhead. But I was on a mission and stuck with it!

I used paper from Basic Grey's Cupcake pack, stickles, white gel pen, Marvy punches in oval and scalloped shapes and both the sentiment and trophy stamps are from my beloved Hanna Stamps.

It is still early so there isn't much to say, but I had a nice quiet weekend and have dihnner in the crock pot. I do love crock pot food, fork tender and delicious and out of the way early. MmmmGoood!

Metal Challenge

I am again trying to do two challenges at once. The SCS Challenge was to use green and minimal layers, the Hanna Stamps Challenge is to add metal to your card. So, I have a metal brad and a beaver charm on my card. We have a friend who goes to Canada for two weeks a year and fishes, and the beaver gives this a Canadian charm (pun intended.) Hanna Stamps has tons of stuff at 25% off right now, so this is a great time to go help the economy.

I wish I had a photo of my oldest son to upload today. I took him to my friend Steph's house to get his hair buzzed. She put on a longish buzzer clip and half way through his haircut it broke. Rather than leave him shaggy she had to trim him up a bit. He loves it, but it is pretty short. He recently started Tae Kwon Do and he said his hair makes him hot and he needed it cut off. His hair grows like a weed and I am tired of paying Great Clips every month. My husband has clippers, he just needs to learn to use them, it could save us tons of money in the long run.

Todays plan includes laundry and a trip to Target for a wedding shower present for a niece. The invitation for the shower just came and the shower is next week. I have plans and can't go, but need to get a present in the mail so I don't look like a deadbeat aunt.

I need to come up with a topic to teach in Sunday School, too. I am the teacher of record for this week in our adult class, and I planned to talk about the group Answers in Genesis. This is the group that founded the Creation Museum in Kentucky. They state the earth is only 6,000 years old and that man and dinosaurs lived at the same time. I tried to get info off of their web site and couldn't find anything I could download. I sent a very polite e mail requesting info but did not hear from them. Maybe they sense I think they are odd as scientific evidence refutes a lot of their claims. I was surprised no one in class had heard of this group which appears to be taking over fundamental Christianity very quickly. Our class is a group of well educated individuals and I was hoping we'd have a great discussion, but it looks like I may need to come up with another plan. I am open to suggestions.

Liar, Liar

I told my friend Steph once that I DO NOT sit around and craft all day, no matter what it looks like. At that time it was the truth, I worked in advance, getting lots of samples made for the Hanna Stamps release each month. But then I discovered a little secret, if you participate in the challenges at Splitcoast more people view the challenges and more people comment on the challenge items made.

So now I wake up and get the kids off to school and head straight for the computer to see what the challenge will be and whether I want to participate. Mostly, I do chose to participate. So, I look like a liar to Steph, since I craft ,most mornings. But really, I just had a change in strategy.

The card above was for yesterday's Sketch Challenge and the card below is for todays' Use Stripes Challenge. I used the Sweet Celebrations Hanna and Riley Moose with his horseshoe. I love that he looks like a Colts fan in his horseshoe. Go Colts!


For about the last week everytime I eat, my stomach hurts. Anyone got any ideas? It doesn't matter what I eat, my stomach is a churning and complaining battlefield. It is annoying and I'd love to have all of your armchair diagnosis and remedies.

And doesn't the shape of the top card make you think of breasts? You don't know how hard it was yesteday when I posted it on SCS not to make some kind of a joke about it. If you didn't notice it yourself, I take full responsibility for my dirty mind.

Card of the Day

I know, this card is not a stunner but it was all I could manage today. Today is Tuesday which means the challenge of the day is a color challenge. The assigned colors: More Mustard, Rose Red and Old Olive. I always find the color challenge to be the most difficult challenge of the week. It forces me to use colors I normally would not put together. I thought Hanna's Moose would be perfect in his battle colors for the Old Olive portion of the challenge.

I used hanna Stamps' Backyard Dwellers (on the ground by Riley's feet), her sentiment set and GI Jon. The Rose Red stamp set is Seeing Spots from Stamping Up and the paper is from DCWV.

We had a nice time in French Lick this weekend and we went back to Abraham Lincoln's boyhood home in kentucky so the boys could get their Junior Ranger badges from the US Parks Service. It is a programmed that is offered at all the Nationa Parks. Kids get a workbook and have to explore the site and answer the questions then meet with a Ranger. The kids are rewarded with a pastic badge and a form. My kids only discovered the program recently and only havetwo badges. If it were up to them, we'd live in an RV, homeschool them, and travel from park to park collecting badges. It sounds good to me, too, but we'd have to bring along a tutor as I would hate to miss all that knitting time on the road.