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Isn't that what life is suppose to be about? Making it special for you and yours? I was checking out blogs this morning instead of doing the wash, and checked out Amy's blog. I fell in love with the idea of the stars card so this is mine. It's bright and sunny today in Dallas and this will hopefully reflect my mood!
Back later!
It's hump day and I'm just trying to make it through. Don't you just feel like sometimes? Maybe it's the winter blues or something like that. All I know it's the middle of the week and I don't feel like doing much. I finished all the design work I had to do for Kitchen Sink Stamps. This is another Love card. I love the wonderful richness of the colors of this one. I used a piece of Basic Grey for the base layer and then SU's Basic Grey and Real Red.
The stamps make a simple card special!
Have a good day and I'll be back tomorrow! Blessing to you all!
Anybody who knows my work, knows how much I love stamping on picture frames. They make a quick, simple, and elegant gift. This one is stamped using the newest Kitchen Sink Stamps. Just stamping nice bright red hearts and some smaller pink ones was all this frame needed!
The second thing to show you today is the matching card. It's also made using the same set.
I think everybody needs a little luck and sink these stamps are part of the newest group from Kitchen Stink Stamps I thought I'd share with you! Cute card! I found this bright green and black combination very warming on a cold Texas day. This card is really made up of things from my stash. I'm trying to use up "stuff"! The card stock was just the right color green I wanted but very thin so I added a layer of white and then the SU printed paper. The ribbon was a scrap I found and while looking for it the black flower appeared! Yesterday we hope was our lucky day and I wanted a card to say it!
More about the LUCK! Barry went on his day long interview yesterday. He had several while at the company. They liked what they saw and in the end offered the job! It is with a contract company but with a chance to roll over as employee of the company at some point. We really don't care right now. The pay was fair and we'll have insurance that won't cost us an arm and leg. Monday Barry will meet with the company again to do all the paper work, drug test and anything else they want from him. Then he'll start on 2/4! Will I be a happier camper? Let's put it this way, I'm happy when he takes a nap in front of the TV for 30 minutes and I can play on my computer with him asking "what's you doing"!
I want to celebrate our good fortune and having 30,000 hits on my blog so I have to do something special! Stay turned for the candy on Monday!
Hope all your days are blessed with LOVE!
OK, a little corny, but it's that time of the year! I'm finally getting a chance to play with my new Kitchen Sink Stamps today. You know me, better late then never! I made this cute, cute Valentine card using a lay out that seems to be working for me right now. I just love how clean it looks! Even I can't get carried away with embellishments with this lay out!
Nice looking card!
Barry is gone on a job interview right now so I have a few hours to myself. I said "self, what are you going to do"? Self didn't know---so I guess I'll just sit at my desk and stare out at the world! No really, you should try it some time!
The job Barry supposed to have gotten and was supposed to start next Monday has been pushed back a week. I just don't want to get excited about anything right now. When a company called this morning about an interview with a company for another contract position, he even jumped at it! I think something will break soon. I'm hoping that's just not wishful thinking on my part.
Well, I'm off to clean the kitchen up so I can make some more dirty dishes. It's surprising that for only two people we use alot of silverware!
Have a great day and I hope you all are blessed with love!
Today was one of those cold winter days in Dallas. It was cloudy and a little rain off and on and just a good day to stay in bed and watch the DVR. We did that and then I got a little bit of cabin fever and so off we went to the $ movie. Well it's not $ on Tuesday's. No it's .50! They aren't first run movies, but still movies I haven't seen yet and I can't pass on a bargain! Before the movie we went to Dollar Tree for candy and I found packages of paper in the craft section for $ as well. I'd show you the paper, but I forgot it in the trunk of the car and since I'm getting ready for bed I'm not going outside again! I got two package with lots of spring time colors. Check out the section in your Dollar Tree.
Barry still hasn't heard about the job yet. He did get a few calls about others, but nothing in the bank yet. Great day for the stock market. I hope nobody has to live on that income! Tomorrow is another day!
Another funny card with the Inky Antics stamps. This gal is just darling and seems to be so full of life. Everything can be solved with Tasters Choice Hazelnut Coffee I'm sure! I had an Aunt Dolly and this gal's outfit reminded me of her. She was a very special lady and a large part of my growing up. I always wanted to be as tall as Dolly when I was small. She seemed to be ten feet tall. As I grew up I realized she was only 4'11"! I think it was her heart that was so big!
Have a great day and a blessed life!
How many of us have looked into the mirror and said "oh, no, that's my Mom"! I say it all the time and so does my little sister. We are the image of our mother. Shame, shame, shame! What happened to those good looks we used to have? Why is her butt following me? Well, my new stamped card says it all!
She's a new Inky Antics stamp that I got at the Stamp show this weekend. I couldn't resist going back for her! I colored the image in using my blender pen and refill ink for the shirt and Copic marker and blender pen for the pants. The paper is new from SU.
The next card is also an Inky Antics stamp. You have to love these images or at least I do! It's all colored with my Copic markers and a blender pen. I love to make the pants seems a bit faded.
Have a happy night and blessings to all!
Aren't we pretty? We're part of the many North Texas stampers that showed up at the stamp show yesterday in Mesquite. From left to right is ME, Gretchen, Jen , & Susan. Please check out everyone's blog. They all do wonderful work and I'm sure you'll know who they are from SCS!
Gretchen and I along with Fred and Barry had a good time and bought some new rubber. Cute new Inky Antics stamps. I need to make something with them soon. Yesterday I also got my new Kitchen Sink stamps in the mail. So much work to do with so little time. And that doesn't include all the special orders I've got pending.
Not much else is new in Bloom Land. We're just laying low and kickin' back today. Take care friends and come back again soon. I'm almost at 30,000 hits! I'll have to dream up something nice for that moment!!
I'm depressed! I watched the ad on TV and it asked if I wanted to sleep all day and I said yes, then I saw an ad about money troubles and I again said yes, and the final draw was I saw who was sleeping next to me and then I knew--I'm depressed!
I guessing that maybe you've missed the widget I have on my blog about collecting money for Cancer and that you really want to help out, but don't know how. Simply, part with a dollar and we'll make it grow to two to help out a good cause! I know we're all having hard times, but I don't know anyone who hasn't been touched by this disease. Friends, family or even co-workers. We must doing to "stamp" it out! Please help with what you can!
Just kidding sort of. I'm so sorry to hear that many of my friends and their families are going through troubles too. I guess we're not along. I've borrowed money from our saving again for the mortgage and the cobra payment will kill me, but at least we have that to fall back on for the moment. If the market keeps falling the way it has, we won't ever be able to retire.
Don't you just to run away to a warm sunny place where no bill collectors will call you, and no one will ask the age old question "what's for dinner?"! OK, maybe I'm caught up in this down thing right now, but I thought I'd enjoy it while I can. I'm sure Barry will want to eat dinner later and his clothes will need to be washed, so I only will have so much time to feel sorry for myself. I guess time is up! I hear the beast moving about!
Just another fun Ellie to share with you. I can't make enough of these fun cards. I used the CB on the top and some Basic Grey Two Scoops on the bottom. Maybe tomorrow I'll use another set, but right now I'm lovin this one!
Stamps-Happy Hearts Day-Stampin Up
Have a blessed day!
Isn't this cutest little boat card you've seen? Sorry it's another idea I saw somewhere out there in blog land and made my own. My mind is not working well these days it seems with any ideas of my own, or at least all my own. I used the "a" from a new SU set called Always. I thought the heart stamped out and cut on paper would be cute and bring some of the red into the picture. For the sea I used my cuttlebug and cut the wave out with a Creative Memories cutter. The polka dot paper is from SU Spring Fling.
I made it through the weekend in one piece. I'm sure that might sound strange since we didn't have any bad weather or anything like that in Dallas. It just was a bad mental time for me. Maybe I should say emotional time instead. I think Barry and I are both getting down about the employment thing. It's beginning to beat us down some. He did have a great interview this morning with nice big company as a contractor and was offered the job, but that's pending all the backround stuff. Who knows what they look for. Our credit is a little shaky these days with some late payments so I hope that doesn't count against him with getting the job. I'm really scared about that. If all goes well, he won't even start for 2 weeks. Everyday I pray the Lord will give me strength to make another day. I know there are lots of nice families out there just like ours these days. Men and women who don't have jobs and lost their health care. We wrote a check today for the Cobra payment that's more then my mortgage! I'm so glad the government cares enough to have health insurance made available to us. Now if they would only find a way for us to pay almost a thousand dollars a month with unemployment at 1400! See the problem of late mortgage payments?!~
Well, enough of my problems. I'm sure there are lots more important one's in the the world these days. Thank goodness there aren't at my door!
Blessing to us all!
