Sitting Pretty

SOMEONE is complaining that I haven't updated my blog - you know who you are! So here is a single page layout that I did last month with the rather difficult to use May Stamp of the Month from CTMH. I am not sad to see the month and this stamp set gone, but I did manage to scrap this photo from LONG ago using one of the chair stamps from this set and a B&T paper from the Lucky collection. This is my daughter from winter 1977. After I took this photo, I realized that I had the 'r' upside down. I have since corrected that but am too lazy to take a new photo!

New camera - puppy pictures

Got an awesome new camera to take to Disneyland this summer for the CTMH convention and a bit of a vacation. I have been trying it out today following our puppy around and I just LOVE the pictures. This is our TJ, son of our DD's French bulldog, Ivory. Isn't he the cutest? He was so little and has grown so much.

I have Great Grandpups!

My daughter's French bulldog Ivory had her puppies today. Five beautiful little dark puppies (one more than we expected!) Ivory seems to be a good Mommy dog licking all her babies and growling at Christi's other dog Haley.

There is a challenge going on at heart2heartchallenges.blogspot.com to share our organization hints and I thought I would share 2 items I have found very useful.


The first is my rolling file cart, bought at Office Depot. It will hold either letter or legal size hanging files . I use legal sized hanging file folders to file all my CTMH cardstock in alphabetical order with the exception of putting White Daisy and Colonial White at the front. I have 3 of these files for the 60 current colors (61 if you count the new Kraft colored cardstock that will be available for purchase Feb 1st) and a few retired colors as well. Plus the box is heavy duty with a locking type of top with a handle. It comes in handy for transporting stuff when I vendor at crops.



The second item is a little wire rack I found at Walmart in the bathroom section. It is just the right size to hold 20 CTMH re-inker bottles on each shelf. Since I don't currently have enough to fill it, I use the top shelf to hold the recently retired ink pads and a cup organizer. It looks white in the photo (I don't have that great a camera) but is really metallic.

Another Happy Birthday

...to my daughter, Christi, as you start several new milestones in your life. Love, Mom

Halloween art

This as a 5x7 art piece that I created after seeing another consultant's work where she had twisted the tree from the stamp set Grown With Love (D1372) to make it more Halloween-y looking. This shows a little brayer work and involves a 'masking' technique to allow the moon to show through unaffected by the brayer work and to allow the spooky fence to be 'behind' the tree. I love the little owl and spooky cat from the stamp set Fright Night (B1359). I used one of the bats from the Dracula doorway stamp found in the September SOTM Thriller (no longer orderable but I do have a couple of extras available for sale.) If I were going to do it again, I would stamp the ghost in White Daisy on Gray Flannel rather than the other way around, but White Daisy ink takes awhile to dry and I wanted to cover up a little bat boo-boo!

I love the Grown with Love tree set and have used it for quite a few other seasonal 5x7 art pieces that I display in an inexpensive acrylic stand frame.

Am I old now?

My baby's birthday was today. He is 31 years old, so I guess that makes me around 50??? Too bad my birth certificate doesn't agree. Oh well. Age is only in the mind (and the joints) right? Happy Birthday, Jared!