Lovin' Babyland

I am in paradise, in Babyland!  Got to Milwaukee around four thirt;y this afternoon.  Mason was all dressed up in his little firefighting suit and looked so cute.  He was all smiles and giggles for Grammy.  Much to Grammies delight!  Diana and Jenna were happy to see me, I didn't see Diana the last time I was here as she was at her mother's that week.

I brought my left over cookies along and they loved them too.  A great recipe....try them out!

Mason is growing so fast and changing so much.  I can't believe how different he is since I was here two weeks ago.  I am so glad that I came.

This is another card that I made with the Ornament Movers and Shaper's Die.  So quick and so cute.

I am chit chatting with Colleen on the Im right now so better get back to that!  Have a great night!  Elaine

Mover and Shapers Ornament Card

Hello peeps!  What a rainy, gloomy day here in Mayberry.  I guess we have to take a little rain with the rain bows!

I made this card with the mover's and shaper die.  I did a quick demonstration of how you do this at Maureen's stamping party.  The card stock can only cover half the card stock to make this work.  I called it my "magic card" as the ornament pivots back and forth when you open it.  Pretty cool!

This afternoon I went to the library board meeting to show them my progress with the scrapbook.  They are very happy with what I have done.  They invited me to their potluck in January and I will give them another report then.

I headed over to IGA while I was out and about, to pick up some groceries.  I picked up a new Create and Decorate magazine so I will be enjoying that later!  I do love my books and magazines.

Di stopped over while she was in town to pick up her stamping order, and after she left, I had some lunch, and finished cutting for tonight's card box class.  Now I need to go bake some cookies for it.  I found a recipe that uses a cake mix that looks yummy so I am going to go try that out!  Stay dry!  Elaine

Christmas Card

Hello!  Well...I escaped Dodge today and it sure felt good!  Susie invited me to come along with her to the Rapids today.  I got my outfit for the wedding and it is very nice.  I like it a lot.  They were running some very good sales at Younkers.  The jacket and shell were 50% off, the pants $10.00 off plus Susie gave me a $50.00 coupon so I got a good deal on a Laura Ashley outfit!  It is very dressy but yet I will be able to wear it again.  So I am very happy to have that done.  While Susie was picking out clothing for her Grandkids for Christmas, I checked Penney's out and then the thrift shop.  I found my Christmas sweater for Angela's Ugliest Christmas Sweater contest that we are having at our annual cookie bake next month.  It's a doozy!  LOL  When we were trying to leave Younker's we kept setting off the alarms.  The gal that had checked us out got all the ink tags off but they now have alarms hidden in some of the clothing too.  So we had to fiddle around checking bags through the door before we could finally get out of the store.  Susie had told our clerk that she was the "VP's" mother while we were checking out, which the clerk thought was pretty funny after she figured out it wasn't true.  So we had fun running with that one for awhile.  Then we had lunch at Hong Kong Buffet, made a stop at the Light House, and you would be very proud of me....I did not buy one thing there, but Susie made up for it.....lol.  Then we were off to Walmart and I bought 4 Christmas gifts, the ingredients for the desserts I am making for when we go to Paul's Thanksgiving, the ingredients for the cookie bake, plus some other groceries so felt that I got a lot accomplished today.  Of course when I got home, I had phone calls to return, dishes to do, cat box to clean, laundry to fold, and traced out some towels to stitch.  I am wiped now and am headed to bed!   Have a good one.  Me