Snow we have Snow hee hee

Shot these the week the computer was at the fix it shop, we ended up with two "snow days" of closed schools... ( This has never happened here in J's life as of yet) so, now he gets up really early on school days and watches the news with us to see if there will be more of them. (snow days)This is the first time we have had a blower (its on the front of the lawnmower) and is such a neat blessing, our driveway is pretty big, plus the width of the property is fairly good sized when you are coming home from work to shovel. :) view looking north from the kitchen sink window. View looking North East (that is a lilac bush) our neighbors bushes were almost on the ground on our side of the fence. We've had snow almost every day for about two weeks now but, it has not piled up, it gets warm enough in the day to melt off the streets and such. not too long before these photos were taken Tim had trimmed all the fruit trees and i had seen daffodils, and crocus stems coming up out of the dirt already. maybe the snow crocus will make an appearance soon? More later, Me

some recent cards

These are just some simple ones... after throwing a fit and selling off so many of my SU stamps last summer ( IE hissy fits about non existent angel policy) I have Purchased a few more over the last couple of months and told myself i better use them. It was harder then i expected it to be. This one i am not happy with at all the "wings" part is a one direction stamp ( which i didn't notice that looking at the photo in their catalog) so to get it balanced you'd have to flip one side over and use the non stamped side to make it work. I am messing around with things i have and using Pink as a base thinking of embellishments i could make as a gift for Alice since she is working on her younger dd's wedding album... and so when i ordered these it was with the thought that they would be really elegant and fun to play with. This card was done with left over scraps from the card above. its A-2 sized. I do have photos of the last two classes i will teach cards ready to go and may post them later, but this is pretty much it for the moment. tfl.

Well {Sad News}

If you read this blog to peek at stamped things you may want to skip this post, Very sad here today. Our furbaby Slick ( a 2 year old black lab) has had ear infections pretty much all winter (she dives in a swims under water to fetch the ducks) so, shes been on antibiotics and making frequent vet visits for months now, last month when i finally got rid of the ear infections i found a lump on her jaw bone and it seemed to double in size in like 3 days, so they put her back on antibiotics and sent out a sample of it to a lab to be tested. results came back that it was a cancerous lump ( after they had tried to remove it ) so, they went in again and tried to remove more of it, and found more new lumps, sent those out to be tested. they are also cancerous. so the vet leaves that latest tidbit as a message in DH's phone and says please come by my office so we can talk about this, i guess there is a specialist Vet in Medford (about 80 miles away) that may be able to do something. but when we got to the vets office this afternoon all the Dr's there had already gone home for the day. ( they only go in for emergency's or scheduled surgeries on Thursday and Fridays...) so now you know what i know, that i am worried this dog is the most Loving dog we have ever had and she's only two. We've been hearing from people that these cancerous lumps will not spread through her body but, they are like an old doggy thing. something that commonly happens to Labs when they are much much older. so now we are waiting for a Dr. to go to work and call us back again. what a deal hmm? You'd think if they could leave a partial message they would also set aside time to say when they have free time to meet. I spent some time upstairs when i got home and used up some scraps from a card from a few days ago to make another one but i will start a new thread with card photos for those people who are just looking at the photos. More later, Me

gave notice today at the LSS

so, that is almost over with. ah ha your thinking WHAT? the thing is I have given this a great deal of thought, and I spend so much time making cards for the the stores, and thinking of ideas for the stores and putting together packets for the stores and the teaching part is actually only a couple of hours twice a month. but all the behind the scenes time is actually almost as much time as i spend at my "real" job. and as soon as it stops snowing and becomes planting season/weeding/watering season there wont be time to do this the way I have been doing it, so i am ending it. Store owner is upset and that cant be helped but, its not my responsibility to keep her store going either. and i don't want to have that worry on my plate anymore. so, today i did not create anything at all. (just dinner) and that's kinda OK too. who knows maybe i will find time to scrapbook again... and cross your fingers finish off the atc swap. and so this is a good thing, My DH is excited about it too. Next on the list of things to plan is J's b-day which he is already totally excited about. :) More later, Me

Still snowing here

So Yesterday Tim turned 40 and we took him to Applebees for dinner after work. this is one of the cards i did for him ( he had more than one) the die cuts on the side is one that was cut in half from DCWV. the sentiment is up on pop dots. I'm thinking about submitting this one Thinking about submitting this one too...

one just for fun, i just got the sympathy set (close as a memory) from

my MIL's recent party and so these flowers are from that SU set, but i don't

remember the name of the set the sentiment came out of. but it is stamped

with burgundy (distress ink) and the printed paper is basic grey.

each of these cards are 5X7 in size

Tomorrow's Scrapbook Garden Class

The new owner of the Scrapbook garden asked me to do a "Basic stamping class" to do 4 cards that were all Happy Birthday and they all had to be "simple" and they all had to use this paper line (which as you can see is nearly impossible to stamp on lol) I did get a few of these MSE stamps onto a few of the cards... But most of them i did with the PP as the focus.

at any rate she did not sell any spots in this class

so it will not hold.

I also have a few other cards made with this paperline

on display in that store and some cards made with stamps

purchased in that store also on display but, i think if she askes

me again if i will teach there the answer is no.

I like that she has rules for people who want to take classes

but, i find it easier to make up what ever i want to do like

wandering around the store and picking the stamps or papers

my self. this paper is not something i would ever have chosen to spend money on my self. (not to stamp on anyways)