Sunday

Howdy fellow bloggers.
Yesterday was stamp camp and I have to admit it was tons of fun. We learned how to stamp on tiles, put photos on tiles and made three cards. Its always fun to get new SU sets and play with them. I am loving the Clear stamps. The quality of Su clear stamps and their blocks are just awesome. I love the fact I can store 4 clear sets in the space I could store Just one of the sets mounted on wood. While I have always said one day I would unmount all my block sets, I look and think to myself oh goodness what a BIG task that would be. For now I will just keep them mounted on wood. I sure hope everyone had a wonderful weekend and has a very blessed week.
Stampin Hugs~~~"T"

What a happy day!

Howdy all,

Life has sure been busy. I forgot just how long its been since I my last blog.

In the past few months I have become a SU demo and loving it. I teach a stamping class once a month at a retirement home and have a stamp camp once a month in my home.

I recently found Jesus Christ again and am happier that I have been in a long time. My husband and have been lead to take a bible study class Sunday morning followed by Worship service. We have even been lead to help our church with their food ministry. I find myself looking forward to Wed. night service. Its so nice to have a mid week refresher after dealing with so much during the week. Its that little something extra that gets me through the week. ........ Jesus Rocks!!!!!

On another at our last stamp club I wanted to teach my girls paper roses. I never knew how much fun they could be. I decided we would cover journals with Su throughly modern DP, sing the stamp set Nature silhouette. The roses are made with Soft suede CS and spritzed with some glitter. I am very pleased witht he way my project came out and my girls seemed to really enjoy their creations.

We also made a fun friendship card using vintage vougue, melond mambo, old olive, pumkin pie, ww and crush curry. I really think this card is a fun happy card.

Hope everyone has a Happy Sunday.

Stamping Hugs "T"

Happy Fall

It is so nice to wake up to cooler weather. However I am sure its going to get warmer as the day continues. I hear its suppose to be in the 80'S which is so much nicer than the high 90's...

I have been in a BIG funk lately. Just not sure how to work my way out of it. I have all these new stamps and have no want to, to walk in here to play! Guess I am feeling pulled into every direction. Between working, school, cooking, house work, lack of sleep, there is NO me time! Late lastnight I made myself make a card. I was thinking of Fall with this cooler weather and the evening getting dark sooner. I see the pumpkins being carved and people putting out their fall decorations. Make me wonder how I can be feeling so non excitant.... Ok back to the card....

I pulled out Chocolate brown, always artichoke, some fall deco paper, primas from my stash and new stamp set and this is what I came up with. I really love the deep rich dark colors of Fall... Hope you do to.

Busy Day!

Another busy busy day!

Its hard to believe the weekend is almost over. Where does the time go to? After a long day of marketing, making dinner, doing laundry and studying for a big test tomorrow I decided to take a break and be a little creative.... I pulled out my new Stampin Up deco paper, some designer eyelets (ghost and bats) My new Stamp set and started playing. I decided to use stickles on the eyes to make them glow. I am very pleased with the way this card came out. Hope you had a creative day!

Hugs,

"T"

Already Sunday...

Happy Sunday,

Its hard to believe this week is already over.... Man where did the weekend go to....

Today I decided I needed to make a copic marker journal. I went to get some markers for a friend and bought a couple for me while I was there, the only problem is I bought the ones I ALREADY HAD! UHG!!!!

Today I used my digital stamp from TGF, nesties, copics, ribbon and my bind it all.... Of dont forget about hodge podge hardwear and primas.... Hope you enjoy my project..

Have a happy Sunday evening!

Hugs,

"T"

Happy mail day for me!

HAPPY HUMP DAY!

Hello my fellow crafters. I wanted to share my new box of goodies. Mr. Brown delivered it and It was here when I got home yesterday. I just had a chance to open it. I am so excited I got 18 new stamp sets... Tons of CS, DP, several new ribbons, a ton of other stuff. Its like Christmas...If this doesnt keep me busy in my craft space then nothing will.... lol... I seriously dont know what to play with first! Anyone wanna come over and play?! Ok friends, I hope you all had a wonderful day!

Hugs,

T

Its Monday

Howdy crafters,

Lastnight I was looking through some old photos of my Grandparents and came across this picture. This was taken on their wedding day back in the 40's. I LOVE this picture. My grandparents looked so happy and so in Love. I decided I wanted to frame it but wanted something vintage to put the picture in. I found the back ground paper and thought it would be perfect. Then I came across some OLD buttons that grandmother had, flowers and ribbon and decided to make a tag. I have to admit this framed picture of grandma and grandpa is one of my favorite things. Who knew that 3.00 in products could make such a wonderful frame...

Thanks for looking at my project today. Hope you have a super day!

Hugs,

"T"

Being Thankful

Hi every one!

What a better day than today to be filled with happiness! After all its a day of rest after an oh so ever busy week! I am very thankful to have God, family and friends not to mention a job....Even though sometimes we seem to take things for granted sometimes you need to stop and be thankful for the things we have and the special relationships we have built. With that being said I woke up thinking about a very good friend whom is going through a nasty divorce. She has been the back bone of her husbands military career for 25 years. She put her wants and needs above anyone elses. Now that he has retired, he's decided he wants someone different, something new. I feel so bad for her. I have watched her agonize over the what if's, what could have been... He left her, their 7 year old son for a 21 year old. Anyway she has been on my mind alot the past few months. I woke up this morning wanting to do something to make her smile if only for a minute. We spent a girl day not to long ago and she started telling me how she wanted to change her room and bathroom to a different color. Browns, blues, tourquoise colors. I decided to take this 18x20 canvas I had laying around and do something with it. I headed to M's and found the perfect deco paper to match her room, came home and this is what I came up with. She recently went with her family to the beach for the weekend and has a fantastic picture of her intire family. I think this would be a great place for that photo. I sure hope she likes it!

Take today and hug your family and tell them how much they mean to you..

Happy Crafting,

Hugs "T"

CRAZY MONDAY

Hello fellow bloggers,
I must admit Mondays are always crazy! I left hom at 7:30 am and just getting home at 9:00 PM... We have a student in our office and I really dislike training students. It seems like you get ONE good one and 10 bad ones. {This one is just UGH} So, I decided a few weeks ago to continue my eduaction. So I enrolled in a couple courses. I also took a second job two days a week in a Orthopedic ER. I started last Fridat after I got off my real job. Lets just say I now only have ONE free day a week and man ole man am I'm pooped today! The alarm went off at 5:30 and it took all I could to get out of bed and get ready for work. My big plan this week is to study on my lunch hour, work on a few cards and Keep a good attitude and stay positive. After all who could complain with a GREAT Husband, kids, friends....Thank you Lord for all the blessings you've given to me!!!!!. Hope everyone has a super night!
Hugs, "T"

TGIF

Hi everyone,
This is just a quick post to let everyone know that my good friend Joni is giving away some awesome blog candy. Head over there and check it out! http://inktegrity.blogspot.com/2009/08/blog-candy-giveaway.html

Hugs
"T"

Happy Thursday

Howdy all,

So I recently got in touch with my long lost friend Susan. We went to school together. Anyway she went threw some old pictures and found this one of me (solid red) and our friend Linda. This was taken at Susan's sweet 16. I have to laugh when I look at this picture because our hair was something else. We used to spend forever blow drying it straight just to turn around and feather it. The styles are so funny to me. Susan says Beyounce didnt create the booty dance I did. Ha...Ha... Get a look at our facial exspressions.... To stinken funny! Oh those we the days. All we had to do is worry about our friends, school and our boyfriends. Oh yes, lets dont forget about the parties and what we were doing on a Friday night. Gotta love old memories. Thanks Susan for sharing this silly photo with me..... Love ya girl!

have a super night everyone!

Hugs,

"T"

Happy Labor day...

I am so excited I have a Monday off to do whatever I want and not feel quilty... I slept till 11:00 this morning. Oh goodness I must have been tired.... Late lastnight I relized I promised my friend Martina I would make her a baby quilt for her new baby Reagan. The problem is she doesnt want the same ole same. She wants something retro and fun just like she is....I decided to look at my material stash and started pulling out fun material. The I started cutting. The only problem is now that I have my top almost done (I am deciding if I want to put a small boarder on it) I need to find some fun material for the back. Decisions... decisions ... Here's my thinking..... Do I really want to go to a material shop today? I know I will be in there forever and a day and buy more material to place in my stash.. Yes, I do, No I dont.... HA. I think I will stay out of there for today.... At this rate Reagan may be a teenager before I get this thing finished....

It's funny , no matter what kind of craft we do its bascially the same. Weather its, card making, scrapbooking, quilting, ect.. we have to put on our thinking cap and think out of our box. I also think very few crafters love their personal work. We all find flaws in our own work. Why is it that we can never seem to be satisfied?! Anyway that is my thinking for today.....lol...

Hope you all have a blassed day...

Hugs, "T"

Sunday evening

Hi everyone!

It's so hard to believe it's already Sunday. I am sooooo glad I dont have work tomorrow however Tuesday will be a busy day. Why is it that in a medical office people wait until the very last second to call and get script refills? Not to mention some pt's wait and insist on being seen the same day when they've been sick two weeks.... I dunno I just dont get it...

So yesterday I had a good time being creative with some Su punches and a Hostess set. Boy ole boy did I create one BIG MESS..... I have to admit it was enjoyable making my mess...lol... So here are a couple cards I played around with. Now go grab some stamps and have a blast.

Hugs, "T"

Almost finished!

Happy Sunday!!!

Today I am going to share a Twin size quilt I have been working on for what seems like forever! This is a pretty simple quilt to put together. I really LOVE fall colors. To bad Florida doesnt seem to have seasons. It really makes me miss Texas..... Anyway, I chose to put a green print on the back of my quilt to make it pop. The only thing I have left is the binding on the edges. I dont think I will get around to doing that today. However atleast I have finished it thus far. Hope you enjoy my little project.

Happy Sunday!

HUGS "T"

Finally back to work

HI everyone!

After what seems like being sick forever and a day I finally got released to go back to work on Monday. The only bad part of being released was being told I needed more blood work done. UGH!!!! I laughed and asked my dr. why he needed more lab work, I mean after all I was in the hospital for 7 days. Didnt he get enough blood then!?! My veins are exhausted and dont want to give any more blood for awhile.... I am thankful our heavenly father guided the Hopsital Dr.'s in the testing and showed them what was wrong. I am still feeling weak but better. Just taking things day by day. I would like to Thank my friends and family for all the flowers, plants, get well cards, books, stuffed animals and support they have shown me. Thanks to my husband for putting everything on the back burning and being by my side during what seemed like the longest hospital stay ever. For washing my hair and drying my tears..... STEVE YOUR THE BEST!!!!! I LOVE YOU. Justin, You somehow knew how scared I was but you kept me laughing... Thanks Boo Boo Bear!

One of the things I missed was my friend Martina's baby shower. She is having her second child on the 26th. She is naming her Reagan. How cute is that. One of the gifts I made her was a scrapbook out of the words BABY.... I had limited supplies with me but somehow came up with a simple book Martina loved..... Congrats Martina and Richard.....

Hope everyone has a Happy and eventful day!

"T"

Lost in the Ocean!

Happy Sunday!
We'll Steve and I decided to take the boat out for a fun filled day with Ash and Justin. We had a great time going down the springs. Swimming in 60 degree springs....Man ole man it seemed like it was 50 in the water. Then we water skiied and just had a great time. However an adventure begain when we noticed it was starting to storm and lightning started! This is where the excitement began...... We decided we would try and make it back to the boat launch where the boat is housed. Well we didnt make it in time. It started raining and I mean raining hard. Steve was driving the boat, Ash and I are covered up with towels to try and keep heavy rain off us. We are in the middle of the Ocean, couldnt see 5 feet in front of us. OMG I had to pee so bad...Finally after what seemed like forever we saw shore. Now finding where the boat was housed was a different story... The boat started rocking and rolling , rain falling harder and well to be honest I got a little scared and I know Steve did too. We have Justin saying man this is the best trip ever, Ash thought it was pretty kewl too. My camera, the cell phones, ipod everything got soaked.... Next thing I know the wind started to blow and I mean blow hard... Now I was really starting to worry. All the sudden we couldnt see shore it was like we were lost at sea. Things started blowing out of the boat.. It was an experiance..... You'll be Happy to know we finally made it, boat docked safely, However, two cells phones got soaked, Ipod doesnt work now, my glasses blew into the ocean and my camera well we wont even go there. The funny part is it wasnt suppose to rain today!
I would say we had quiet the adventure...
Hope everyone had a happy Sunday!
Hugs,

A good friend ask me to share my craft space. So here it is my Favorite room in the house. Its still a work in progress but still a fun place to be creative. I hope you enjoy my space...To see the rest go to my Gallery on SCS.... Thanks for looking..

Hugs, "T"

Hi everyone.

I am SO glad today is over... One of the girls at work is on vacation so we are short handed at the nurse station....It was a crazy insain day! Lots of physicals and lab work...

I am so Looking forward to this week being over with....

I want to share a card I worked on for Lorris bithday... This was really fun... I am loving the colors.....Not to mention who doesnt love some "Bling" I know I do.... I went ahead and uploaded everything on SCS I wanted to have it in my gallery for future ref.

Thanks for stoppin by and have a super night!

Hugs to all

"T"

Name Frame

Happy Monday everyone~~~

It was so busy at work today but I wanted to take a couple minutes to share with you a name frame I made lastnight for my friend Lorri's birthday this Friday. I didnt want to give her a same ole same gift. So I put my thinking cap on and came up with this.... I used SU black and turquoise, Su punches, Misc Ribbon, brads, I even broke out my sizzix machine and what girl doesnt love flowers.. The white background is all Dry embossed... I am really wishing my name was Lorri....lol.... Hope you all had a super fantastic Monday~~~

Hugs to all~~~ "T"

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