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Hello!  Well I had my test today, Di brought me home and I went on the computer for a bit and then slept the afternoon away.  They had given me something to relax, and demerol for pain and I was just dopey so needed to sleep it off.  I woke up about 6 tonight and feel great.  I am trying to catch up on my blog reading and am chit chatting with Colleen from Oregon.  Have a good one! Me

Flower Tags

Hello!  Tomorrow is the big day for my colonospy so I have been busy drinking the prep stuff tonight, and stamping in between things.  Every time I came back from the kitchen, I would be saying...this is nasty sh....!  I just couldn't help it, it was the thought that came in my head immediately after drinking it each time.  The hint I got from Joann today really helped though to drink it out of a straw, but even so, the first glass had tears running down my face while drinking it and the last one had me ready to barf, and I said this is "enough"!  Pure torture, that is for sure.  I am sure glad that I am over that part.  Corrinne told me today that she was on the "ten year" plan.  I want to be on the never again plan!  LOL  Other than that, there isn't much new around here.  I did make a couple of really adorable cards tonight, so you will be getting some good eye candy shortly!  And I wanted to let you know that I used Itty Bitty Bits stamp and punch for the center of the flowers on these tags, and the swirls stamped on the tags are from the stamp set Priceless.  I just love both!  Too cute!

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Hello!  Boy it sure was humid today.  I didn't realize that the heat was affecting me so much till I stood up around 3 o'clock and felt woozy.  I stopped at Practical Cents on the way home which was nicely air conditioned and that really helped.  I felt fine after that.  I found some real cute frog eyelets, a jar of buttons, and 8 little bubble glass dessert plates that I just love.  I won't be keeping them but I have a great idea of something to do with them!  After a phone call and left over Chinese, I zonked out sitting up on the bed with the computer reading blogs.  Being out doors all day really takes a lot out of me.  I am working on some little pins tonight.  The work on the sewing machine is done.  Now it is time for the hand stitching and maybe the addition of some buttons.  Hope you are all having a great weekend!  Elaine

Patty Cake, Patty Cake, Baker's Man...

It's a rainy day in Friendship, WI.  Let's hope it keeps raining and that it get's the rain out of it's system before the weekend so it is nice for the flea market.  I am cleaning out a few stamping things so you may want to stop down and take a look.
Melissa stopped over this morning for a little visit before her hair appointment.  After she left I started decorating the baby shower cake and I have that all done except for the baby buggies I want to make for the top of it.  Hence the patty cake...can you tell I am excited about playing that with the new baby!?!?!  Actually I will get to do that next week at the baby shower in Milwaukee for Jenna with little Saul.  He is now 2 but he loves when I play patty cake with him as no one else does.  I had just finished cleaning up the table from the cake decorating and Sandy Wellumson was over for a visit and to place an order.  After she left I got the order put in and then headed up town.  I had hoped to get to the bank before it closed but no such luck.  I decided that I needed some Hershey's Kisses so picked some up at the Family Dollar store, which I have discovered to be the cheapest place in town to buy them and they are fresh.  An important thing for a chocolate lover!  Any whoo...while I was there I asked if they had any of those touch circles/lamps that people put in closets that run on batteries.  The one clerk said no and then the other remembered that they had them in the baby section and asked if I minded if it was tinker bell.  I said no, I didn't care.  But when I got over there, I discovered that they had Cinderella, my favorite Disney character.  Perhaps I like Cinderella because  I am still waiting for Prince Charming to come and rescue me....LOL  Not much chance of that happening any time soon, so I will happily stay in my own castle.
I may have told you this before, but when I was five my dad told me that if I learned how to tell time he would buy me a watch.  So I quickly learned how to tell time and I got a beautiful Cinderella watch with a pretty blue leather band.  I wore it for a long time and it finally stopped.  I really wish I would have kept it as I absolutely loved that watch.  You are probably wondering what this has to do with the tea of china as I have been rambling on, and you are probably wondering why I wanted the touch lamp.  Well this winter, the interior lights in the van went out. All of them, so if you go any where at night and you open the door to the van, you can't see a thing.  Or if you come home at night, like after stamp camp, I have to park by the back door, turn on the outside light, to be able to see to unloaded the vehicle. The dash lights work fine but none of the interior lights.  I haven't been able to get it fixed, and when Kim and I were going to Mauston last week I had mentioned it to her, and she said she had the same thing happen with her car and she had bought one of those touch lamps and put it in her car and it worked great.  So for $1.50 I now will have a light in my van and if you ride with me, you will now know why Cinderella is sitting on the dash!  I told Di about my Cinderellie lamp tonight and she thought that was quite funny.  So how do you like my stamping project today!?!?!  Didn't these turn out cute!?!?  It is a set of 3 mini note cards and envelopes.  This will be one of the prizes at the baby shower.  I think I will make some to sell also, when I find the time!

Recipe: Stampin' Up! stamp sets: FYI, Baroque Motifs, Priceless, Card Stock: Orchid Opulence, Whisper White, DSP: Cottage Wall. Ink Orchid Opulence, 3" x 3" Square Envelopes, 1 3/8" Circle Punch, Scalloped Circle Punch, Circle Scissor Plus and Glass Mat, Dimensionals, scoring tool, mat pack and piercer

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Another busy day. Breezy and Jessie were here and they put up 3 mini blinds for me. Plus 8 feet of floor to ceiling shelving in the "now storage room" for fabric and craft supplies. Jessie and I worked on folding fabric and getting it on the shelves in the afternoon. She left around 3, and I hit the bed and fell asleep and slept till 6:30. I was so tired and could hardly walk. She is doing all the lifting and everything but I think it is from going up and down the steps. Steps are hard for me and mine are narrow and steep, that is why I have my bed on the main level. Mom stopped over tonight and we visited a long time then I made some supper. I have all of my sewing collection put up in the new sewing room and it looks cute. It really has a personality of it's own. And I have a few other things mixed in with it too that people have given me. When I get it all done I will shoot some photo's.

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Stampin' Up Stamp Set: Priceless
Cardstock: Rose Red & Whisper White
Ink: Rose Red
Ribbon: White Satin & Rose Red Grosgrain
DSP: Rose Red (Retired)

The weather was beautiful today in Friendship, WI. A little cool, it felt like fall, just how I like it. Susie, Melissa, and Isabelle were down to see me today. The house is so quiet now with out Dianna. I picked up a new kitchen faucet, and toilet while in Madison on Friday. Breezy will be coming on Monday to work on projects. I am very excited about getting into my new sewing room. It won't be long now! I will shoot some pictures when I get it all set up!

Jenna stamps her first cards!

Jenna asked me to teach her how to make some greeting cards as she had never made any cards before. She is a scrapbooker. The first one I had her do similiar to a thank you card that I had made for Sarah to use for her wedding shower gifts. We recreated it in different colors. Then the second card Jenna created herself. She signed up to be a Stampin Up Demonstrator and she wants to make cards to sell in her spare time and do a few parties. I also taught Diana (Antonio's daughter how to make a card too and she did a wonderful job. But I didn't have time to shoot a picture of it as I needed to get on the road to come home before the weather got bad. Diana gave it to Jenna for her birthday and Jenna loved it. She told me that she was going to scrapbook her birthday cards!

Priceless and Top Note Card

Monday night was Danene Quigley's stamping party at the church. We had a great time as usual! As one of my stamper's said...(and I couldn't say it better!), I never laughed this hard when I had been drinking, this is a natural high. We have so much fun. Now mind you....you have to be able to accept being unmercifully teased, picked on, harassed etc. But it is all done in good natured fun. A few hours where everyone escapes from there problems and we all need that!