The end of an extremely long weekend

 My weekend started on Friday with a few garage sales and a trip to Ron's for a cook out.  Saturday was a busy day at the flea market, then supper at Mom and Dad's with Sarah and Zach.  After supper my dad had an accident in the garage and we spent the rest of the night in the ER.  His cat scan and x-ray turned out fine.  But he slit his knee all the way across it and will be laid up with that for awhile, 8 stitches inside, and 14 on the outside.  Sarah is staying with Mom as it takes two to get him in and out of the chair, and Sarah said I am not strong enough to do it, he is too heavy.  So Zach and I ran the flea market on Sunday which was busier yet.  I was dropped dead tired after that.  We had made plans earlier in the week to go out to the Camps for a cook out.  My sister and her family came Sunday after noon and Bob helped Zach clean up the flea market grounds, while Lenore and Mike were helping Mom at the house.  They stayed and helped Mom so Sarah, Zach, and I could go out to Camps.  I brought Brooke along with me.  We had a nice time visiting with them, and I chilled in the lawn chair with a couple of much needed drinks!!!  Zach went home as he worked today, Sarah stayed and helped Mom with Dad, and I ran the flea market today.  Jim and I got mom's booth restocked for her, Mom came down to do the collecting then returned home.  I was glad to close the doors for the weekend tonight.  The holiday weekends are great but exhausting.  Zach came tonight, and we all had a pizza party in the office by Dad (sitting in the recliner).  They sure have good pizza available at Subway now.  I left after supper, got the trash to the road, then hit the bed with the lap top.  I couldn't keep my eyes open any longer and took an 1 1/2 hour nap.  I decided that you dear readers needed some eye candy, so I made a couple of cards.  I am getting sleepy so I will be headin' to bed!  I hope your 4th was wonderful!  Love, Elaine

A productive day!

I have been working away putting my house back together.  The mountain of boxes in the corner are now gone.  I need to hang pictures back up yet, and put a box of video tapes away.  I really made a lot of head way and I have been making changes too.  I moved my computer into the living room and I have lots of work area in the stamping room that I can use for that or to sew.  I probably will do some sewing down here this summer as it gets kind of warm upstairs. 
I felt like stamping right now, so I made a card while chit chatting with Lady Di on the phone.  I am wide awake unfortunately, but I think I will try and go to bed and see if I can fall asleep.  I am such a night owl...LOL  Have a great day!  Elaine

Ho Ho Ho....off to Tomah we go!

Hello!  Lady Di and I took a road trip to Tomah today.  She had a doctor's appointment there.  On the way over, I asked her if she had read the blog last night.  I asked her what she thought of it.  She said "I thought you have been in the house too long!" and she started laughing.  She then told me she had laughed the whole time while reading it.  This is not the first time she has told me this.  She knows me so well that she KNOWS when I need to get out of the house!  LOL   Any whoo....we had a great day.  Lots of fun and laughter.  We went to Walmart and I bought some groceries.  I am happy to report that I got my grocery bill down from $82.00 to $65.00 and saved $17.00 with coupon's.  I am finding out that certain places will not take internet coupon's, Pamida, Dollar General, and IGA won't accept them.  But Walgreen's and Walmart do.  So I am a happy camper.  Di treated me to Chinese which was very good, and then we went to Good Will before heading home.  We had a great time....thanks for getting me out of the house Di!

Fun day with Sarah

Hello!  Today I met Sarah at Kohl's in the Dells and left my van there.  We went to Madison to Joanne's to get greenery, berry's and ribbon so that Sarah can make arrangements to put on the pews for Jen's wedding.  We had fun picking out that stuff but not so much fun trying to checkout as we were at the checkout for an hour.  Our clerk was very rude, slamming things around, and we had our purchase rang up three different times, the last time by a different clerk by the time we left the store.  We were not happy camper's and Sarah said if we hadn't spent so much time picking it out and that it was for her sister's wedding......anything else and she would have just left it there and walked out.  We are both pretty easy going but this tested our patience to the max!  But the main thing is that we got it done and we are going to have beautiful arrangements on the pews!  Maybe I will have a picture to share with you of them at Thanksgiving.  Sarah plans on making one up right away so that she will be able to show Jenna it at Thanksgiving.

This card was made with Stampin' UP! window sheets.  It was a fun, fast card to make and they are inexpensive to boot!

On Your Birthday

Not too much new here.  I had people in  and out picking up orders and Melissa came to visit for a few hours this afternoon.  She dropped me off to pick up the van before she went home.  I parked it over in the parking lot just in case they do decide to pave the road.  They never tell you when you are going to be blocked in so it is best to be prepared!

I made the flower on this card with the Bloom's and Blossom's Die that came in my Big Shot starter kit.  It is sitting on a Top Note Die that was also cut out with the Big Shot.  A quick stamping with a stamp out of the Stampin' UP! Set "On Your Birthday", a quick addition of a few brads and pattern paper, and you have a quick and easy card!  The colors are Rose Red, Barely Banana, and Certainly Celery.

Eastern Blooms and On Your Birthday

My favorite cards that I make, tend to be ones that look really feminine. If I just made what I wanted, all of my cards would be very pretty like this one. But I know different people have different tastes so I experiment a lot with what I make. I love color and I think that is one of the reasons I like stamping and quilting so much as you are always putting together new color combination's. I am sure that I will want to recreate this card so I kept track of the measurements so that I can make it again and so can you!

Recipe: Stamp Sets: Eastern Blooms & On Your Birthday. Regal Rose Ink & 5/8" Grosgrain Ribbon. Circle Scizzors Plus 3 1/2" Circle debossed with Big Shot Texture Plates 1, Sizzlet Tag Die, 2 way glue, Half Backed Pearls from Pretties Kit. Regal Rose DSP from Hostess Level 1 (retired) 3 3/4" x 3 3/4". Score front 1" from the fold.

Lovely As A Tree & On Your Birthday

Good Evening! Yesterday, Lady Di and I took Bernie to the Rapids for his haircut and then we shot up to Plover to Michael's to do some shopping. After we picked Bernie up, we had supper at Hong Kong Buffet, then we stopped at Lighthouse Books. Of course we founds some new goodies :-)

Today, I frosted the 6 dozen sugar cookies I made earlier in the week for Sarah's and Zach's picnic that is tomorrow. I had some taste tester's begging for a cookie today. I had made the mistake of telling them on Tuesday that I had baked the cookies and froze them. So Debi Wehby and Melissa Varga each had a cookie and thought they were very good. Melissa was over for a visit and she brought me some more goodies of her's to play with. She is so good to me. :-) I got some more images colored and if I ever get a free day....I should be able to make up a bunch of cards pretty quickly as I have so many images colored now! I worked on stamping some sentiments in some other card's that the fronts were finished and got them packaged up to go to the flea market & the Dell's tomorrow. I will do the flea market in the morning and close around 1:30, come home and rest, pack up the food, then head to Hill of Beans before going to the picnic. It will be a busy day....that is for sure!

Recipe: SU Stamp Sets: Lovely As A Tree & On Your Birthday, Ink: Chocolate Chip, Circle Scizzor's Plus, Card Stock: Whisper White, Very Vanilla, Certainly Celery, Retired Blue Bayou DSP

Embrace Life/ On Your Birthday

Greetings from Mayberry! I am in my stamping cave working on gift card holder's for Hill of Beans Coffee in the Dells. I plan on stopping in there on Thursday to put more items in before we head out for wedding dress shopping in Madison. If I have time, I will shoot some pictures of the shop for you to see. I just had a salad with tomato's from my tomato plant. Boy are they yummy! Thanks Sarah and Zach!

Recipe: SU Stamp Sets: Embrace Life & On Your Birthday. Card stock: Pumpkin Pie, Kiwi Kiss, DSP Ski Slope (retired). Ink: Kiwi Kiss, Pumpkin Pie. Markers: Summer Sun and Pumpkin Pie, Retired SU Striped ribbon. Dimensionals

Danna's Party

These are the project's we made at Danna Petersen's stamping party this month. The Popsicle card was made with the stamp set's Tart and Tangy and On Your Birthday. We used the Scalloped Circle, 1 3/8" and 1 1/4" Circle punches, and the slot punch. Ink used was Only Orange. Card Stock: Only Orange, Yo Yo Yellow, Whisper White, Gable Green. Hole's were poked around the scallop's with the mat pack and Apricot Appeal ribbon was tied around the popsicle stick and attached in place on the back of the popsicle stick with a glue dot so that it doesn't slip down. The other card was made with the stamp set Circus Circle, stamped in Rich Razzleberry Ink. Other supplies used were the scalloped edge and scalloped circle punches, 3/4" circle punch, round tab punch, "for you" from the stamp set Fresh Cuts and it was stamped in white craft ink, leaves were cut out with the big shot and the card was embossed with a texture plate. Piercing was done with the mat pack and paper piercer. Card stock: Bermuda Bay, Whisper White, Rich Razzleberry. Dimensionals were used to pop up the 3/4" circle for the flower center's.

Birds with Leaves & Flower Die/On Your Birthday

Since I have been a slacker and didn't get my post's done over the weekend, I thought I would make up for it by doing a few extra! Lucky you! This card was made mostly with the Big Shot and the die, Birds with Leaves & Flower. I stamped the saying on the front with the stamp set On Your Birthday. The bird has a silver brad for his eye, and the flower has a Rhinestone Circle Brad for the center. The designer paper is Tea Party. Such a fun, springy print. The card stock colors that I used are Old Olive, Pretty in Pink, Chocolate chip, and Barely Banana.