An oldie! Sarsparilla and Lovely Buckles

I found this old (2008) card in my stash just in time for a masculine birthday!  This one had two interesting techniques on it - the liquid glass accents on the "raised" part of the belt buckle, and the belt itself - done with a faux suede technique that blends re-inker into liquid applique, spread it on paper, then hit it with the heat gun.  It looks (and feels) like suede!  I knew I hadn't posted it because it was very well buried and I only started my blog spring of 2009.


Thank Goodness tomorrow is Friday!  I'm so ready for some "me" time.  I need to put away Christmas!!!  I started gathering things on the dining room table (I can do that now that the kitties aren't here to play with them).  It will feel good to get it cleaned up - like a weight off my shoulders.  

I hope you have been counting your blessings.  I know I have!
Hugs!

You Rock and Springtime

One of the new paper packs in the Spring CTMH catalog is called "You Rock".  It's bold and vibrant, I didn't think I would like it at all, but, as usual, I'm growing to love it as I work with it!  This stamp set is called "Springtime" - I just LOVE these little ducks!  The umbrella has different patterns you can use - but I just stamped the outline over the patterned paper and made matching rain boots.  The umbrella, the top boot, and the chick on the boot are all on pop-up dots.  The "grass" was trimmed casually by hand.  I forget who taught me (was it Vicki?) to distress with the scissors closed (much safer!) and it really works (thanks!).  


I got my stitches out today!  It was easy-peasy!  The ones that had "grown in" were actually under the skin and will dissolve (silly me!) so I had been worried for nothing!  I'm continuing to gain strength every day - thank God!  Soon I can return to Yoga class . . .



Namaste.

Caboodle - by Joanne

Our unit swap for the new catalog was due over the weekend - look at this GORGEOUS card my upline, Joanne Zubal, made to show off the new Caboodle papers!  Just yummy!

Well, my annual huge spaghetti dinner at church was last night and I might have over-done it a bit.  I'm pretty wiped out.  I should have gone home after setting up . . .   ahh, live and learn. 


Hope you're having a wonderful weekend!
Hugs!

YaYa trip - beaches and bridges

 

Two more pages of the YaYa scrapbook!  Both of these pages have flip-flaps that go on the outside of the page protectors!  Jeanne said the most brilliant thing in a recent comment - about using one of the spaces in the flip-flap to tuck the journaling!  I hadn't thought of that - and I'm very grateful to her for the idea because I was pretty stressed out that one of my photos was vertical instead of horizontal!  Now I can replace it with the STORY instead - tuck the photo somewhere else (maybe even behind the journaling).  This is just one of the many joys of blogging, if you ask me!  I learn so much from all of you!  Thank you for helping me grow!

Day 3 - YaYa Scrapbook Sisterhood trip

 

Day 3 - a very exciting "discovery" for me - FLIP-FLAPS!!!!!  If you haven't used these, you should.  In the foreground you can see "extra" photos on the chair?  These are the NUMEROUS photos that I took on this fantastic day - and to actually scrap all of them would have filled the entire album!  So, I have 3 photos where each 1 photo is placed on the layout.  How you do this is you decide the layout page (photographed here out of the page protector) so that the "best-est" photo is actually going to be shown on the top of the FLIP-FLAP on the outside of the page protector.  Amazing, huh?  I'm sure I'll be thinking about orientation of my photos more on the next trip (such as - "I have 2 horizontal photos and 3 vertical, I need another horizontal one").  :D

This part of the trip?  Well, Keri couldn't actually move into her apartment until Tuesday so we enjoyed the day together by driving over to the ocean (Newport, Oregon) and up along the coast to Lincoln City.  From Lincoln City we realized that there was fog swooping in from the North - so we jumped into the car and kept moving - stopping at many places along the way until the fog caught up with us.  It was really fun - racing the fog!  We had a lovely lunch at Rogue Ale House (a micro-brewery that also had fabulous food!) and visited park beaches as well as wineries!  What a perfect day!  The Oregon coast is wild and beautiful - much more so than I had imagined!  It's amazing.

So - first day back at work?  I am tired, but not overwhelmingly so -  It was a good day.  I'm getting around so much better than before.  I'm truly blessed to have such an excellent health care team! 

Hugs!

 

Day 2 - YaYa Trip Scrapbook

 

Day 2 of the trip - working on this scrapbook has been so much fun as I feel like I'm doing it all over again!  This day was mostly just driving - but if you look for it - adventure and interesting things come while you're driving, too!

I enjoyed an afternoon with my dear friends scrapbooking today - what a blessing!  I go back to work tomorrow (I'm strong enough!) and I'm sure the week will test my will-power!  Have a wonderful week full of a sense of awe and accomplishment! 

Namaste.

YaYa Scrapbooking Sisterhood Adventure of 2009

I've finally got to work on the YaYa Scrapbooking Sisterhood Adventure!  These are the two pages from our first day on the road (or rather, the end of the day) spent at Harris Ranch in Coalinga, CA.  I've used a mish-mash of photos, clippings from brochures, and post-cards!  The bright green image on the 2nd page is actually from a shower cap (my friend Pam's idea - and a good one!).

Hope your New Year's Day was good - ours was quiet.  I attended a funeral (a dear church family member), and went to the gym to do my rehab.  After a late lunch, I fell asleep and slept hard for a couple of hours.  Tonight I'm playing in the craft room for a bit while running loads of laundry.   Tomorrow should be a little more fun as we're hoping to go exploring a bit.  

Hugs!