Birthday card suite

Once again a new month is just a day away and I'm already behind on birthday cards! I worked on these for a while this weekend. But, need to get more done oh, and then there are the Christmas cards and I haven't even thought about presents for this year... How did I get so behind? Part of the problem is I'm waiting for inspiration or for someone or a few someone's to tell me what they are thinking about this year! (Mom) and, where did I put my decorations? Oh man, I guess I better go get busy.




Have a great week and I'll talk to you again soon.

Wow! What happened to November!

I can't believe I let almost a whole month go by without a single post. I'm sure like most of you the month of November was super busy. I hope you got a chance to take a couple of days to rest between all the busy. I started the month and ended last month by spending two days at the local stamp show with my Close to My Heart upline's upline. We had a great time and a few of you came by to see me and stopped to do the make and take. We dressed in "costume" for the first day of the show. That's me, the one in purple.

When I wasn't demonstrating the make and take I did work on the super cute Everyday Celebrations kit from Close to My Heart. It made a ton of cards, a couple of them are shown below.

The kit came with everything you needed including ribbon, brads, ink, papers, cards and envelopes, stamps and other embelishments. They went together quickly.

Well, I'll try to be better and not let a WHOLE MONTH go by with out checking in. Hope everything is good with you and I'll talk to you again soon.

Welcome to the pumpkin patch

To celebrate the end of the month I made little pumpkin patches for a few of the people at school, they turned out pretty cute.

Everyone really like them. The surprise is in the back...

Have a happy and safe Saturday. I'll talk to you again soon.

Desktop Birthday Party

My friend had a birthday this week so I threw her a desktop birthday party.  She loves purple (yes just like me) so that was the theme, "purple".  She also likes minitures hence the "miniture" chocolate cake.

We have only worked together for about a year and a half but she is a sweetheart and I hope her birthday was great!  I made her a shades of purple birdhouse with frames on it so it can also be used for some of her favorite photos.

I used a small wooden birdhouse and modge podged it with a variety of purple papers.

It originally had a rope hanger coming out of the top but I removed that and used it to hold flowers and a ribbon.

I used my Cricut and cut several chipboard frames and then stacked them so you could slide pictures in and out of them.  Painted them purple and covered them with glitter, very sparkly.





Have a great Friday and I'll talk to you again soon.

New Mexico Style snow storm

Around here we don't get much snow so when it happens it can be an event, people get sent home early or school gets cancelled.  The nice thing about NM snow, it's usually gone in a few hours.  I took this picture this afternoon from the driveway.  An hour later... gone.

Hope your week has been good so far.  Welcome Friday!  Have a great evening and I'll talk to you again soon.

Birthday card for the box

Finished another birthday card for giving at school  I need three more to finish the month of October!  Lots of people born in October on our staff.

I'm working on a costume to wear at a stamp expo next weekend and a friend's birthday is coming up so I've got some picture to share from those projects too.  Hopefully, I'll have time to post again later this weekend.  Have a great one and I'll talk to you again soon.

Homemade award ribbons

I host a pumpkin decorating contest at school and I always make the award ribbons.  Here is this years batch.  Three winners per grade level.

I think they turned out pretty good.  Happy Friday!!! I'll talk to you again soon.