Sometimes the generosity of people

really amazes me. Check out this blog Cammie's Blog and tell me this does not inspire you to do something to help.

I did create a card to send off but it got me thinking about the local nursing homes and the amount of caregivers there are. I am going to challenge myself to make 12 cards to drop off at the nursing home in Wolfville and hopefully let someone know just how much what they do is appreciated.




On a personal note, we have both our daughters coming home this weekend and our soon to be son in law. We are so excited to have them all home and are looking forward to the next couple of weeks in anticipation for the big day on Oct 11th.

23 years ago

on the 17th of August, Paul and I were married. We have had such a blessed life..2 wonderful daughters who we are so proud of and a truly happy life together. What more can a girl ask for!!!

And in less than 2 months we will be celebrating as our oldest daughter gets married and begins her new life.

We have been trying to get the exterior of our house painted and finally finished last night. Hopefully, this will allow a bit more play time for me in my happy place!!

Hmmmm...not so sure

if I would still be able to post as it's been such a long time!!! I can honestly say, consistancy has never been my strong suit!!!!!


My friend Shirley had one of these neat bags for ribbon and of course I thought "hmmm..I can make one of those" So off to Walmart to find a cheap clear bag and lo and behold Dora was on clearance for $4. My cousin's daughter was thrilled to get the goodies from the bag and I was thrilled to get the bag!!! I know,I know, some of you who have seen the way I use to wrap all my ribbon are thinking I'm nuts but it is organized and I don't have to use tape or pins on the ends AND it easy to transport. Have a happy Thursday...

These are the cards I attempted

to post on Monday. I had to restart the computer to get it to read my camera!! My printer is also giving me a hard time. I think I have to take my hard drive into Staples for some TLC but I really don't like being without it!!!!

Obviously the theme for today is "Thinking of You". I'm sure I sure I didn't start the day with this intention, but one never knows just what's gonna come out of this
mind!!!!




As you can tell, I LOVE this line of paper from Cosmo Cricket and was trying to use a whole sheet, unsuccessfully, I might add, but it was fun trying!!

I saw this idea on Splitcoast a while ago and finally made one. Just do a search on the site and you are sure to find this idea. I will warn you, although it is mostly a Stampin Up site there are a TON of ideas there.

I just used coasters as my base and, OH LOOK..., I used that same line of Cosmo Cricket paper.

I didn't use anything to prep the coaster and just used a glue stick to adhere my pp and if you own a *crop a dial*, it punches thru the coaster like butter.

Have a great day and thank you for taking the time to look at my blog!!!

Not so sure I should be posting today....

hmm..tried earlier to upload new cards and the computer would not read my camera or card. That's okay cause I have a recipe card to show you..damn the power goes off and I lose the whole post..Sometimes it just not meant to be.

So let me try it once more...



This really is the easiest and yummiest bean recipe you have ever had. I would like to claim it as my own but my friend Shirley is the one who introduced it to me.

Have a happy Monday...

What a surprise....

it's snowing again!!!!!
I didn't get anything done this weekend but I have had a couple people ask about my new studio, so.....I took some pics this morning to show you. No, I did not clean up anything, so what you see is what you see!!!!!


So when you first come in my room, I have my computer in an armoire, which is suppose to close, but rarely do those doors close!!!!


These are my paper racks and different storage containers. I am slowly getting the drawers organized and labelled in hopes it will help me keep a tidy area (Yeah, right!!!!)

There is a 6FT. garden door on the next wall with a small deck off it (not accessible from the ground) It has an amazing view but today it's just snow and more snow!!!!


This is where I store most of my mounted stamps. My scraps of paper are color sorted in the small drawers and I have punches, ribbon etc in the next one.


This is my worktable and it's probably the cleanest it's ever been!! Paul just put the shelf up for me last week to try to get some of the *stuff* of the table!!

When we moved into this house, this room was used as a master bedroom so it has a huge walk in closet!! I have put storage racks in there and promptly filled it with everything from pictures, magazines and even a corner with boxes of memories from the girl's childhood. Maybe I will get it organized at some point!!!





Well, I hope you enjoyed the *tour* of my space and yes, it can double as a guest room if needed!!!

Have a happy Monday..

UGGG...I don't like winter

but apparently you have to get use to it if you live in Nova Scotia!!! Oh well, the countdown is on, only 3 more months til spring!!!!

I did have the day off today and actually made a couple of cards. Wow..it's been a very long time since I've made one let along two!!!

The first one is based on a sketch from Heather's Blog



I used Imaginese pp and the stamp is from M's.

The second card is using the same pp, but it is two sided so it allows both sides to be seen. This is a tutorial at Leslie Miller


I had fun playing in my room today although the camera did not do the cards justice it was fun just to play.

I took a couple of hours and tried to get caught up on looking at some other blogs, thankfully not everyone took 3 months off so I had lots to look at.

Have a good one...

Gee.. the weekends

just go by sooo fast!!! Oh well, I just have to learn to make the best of them!!

I did work on a couple sample invitations for Jocelyn but I had best wait for her to see them before I show them to anyone else. We are hoping to get everything together for me to fly out to Calgary at the end of February to help her make the invitaions. I think she's just using this wedding as an excuse to finally get me to visit her!!!

I had an old magnet board I had gotten from goodness knows where and decided to cover it and use it for the little spice cans.


I am such a sucker for anything that I think will help me organize my space.

I finally got some clips for my version of the popular clip stand. I got a second made using a lazy susan as part of the base so I can spin it around. I just set the first one I made on an old turntable so I can also spin that one. It makes it so much easier than trying to see all around it. I couldn't find the clips locally so I ended up ordering thru Joanne's and had them sent to my cousin in Texas. Kinda the long away around to get them but it worked!!!


The second stand looks so much larger but it's not. If you look closely, the stamps hanging on it are the little See D's stamps. They are so inexpensive and such a great value. We have some at work and the rest I got at Coldbrook mall.

Have a happy Monday and here's hoping we don't get too much snow!!!!!!

Hello,Hello...

anyone out there. WOW... it's been awhile. Hmm.. our oldest daughter could tell you as she's been sending me weekly reminders to get my butt in gear and start posting again.

Well, I would have to say we are officially settled into our new home!! We got to host Christmas Eve here and it truly felt like home with our family and friends here. My studio ( do you like that word Lisa?) is at about 98% and will probably never get beyond that.

I haven't made a card in so long I'm not so sure I remember how!!!! Yes, that means I gave out store bought cards this year, although I did include a family newsletter to let everyone know what was happening in our busy lives.

This included the news that our oldest daughter Jocelyn is marrying her sweetheart Mike on Oct 11th, 2008. Yep, that's in 9 months but Joc is so well orgainzed, so I have no worries.

I did get a new cool tool for Christmas from Paul, I have hooked it up and tried a couple of cuts with it.

It is a digital cutting machine that uses the fonts and dingbats from your computer to diecut letters etc. from 1/4 to 9 inches. I am looking forward to playing with it more and possibly even getting some more scrapbook pages done!!

Well, hopefully I can get back into the groove and start posting more often.

Have a happy Monday

OH Boy....

Here we go again. I hope to be back to a semi routine in a couple of weeks. We are in the process of moving and I am involved with a course at work that takes me out of the province every couple of weeks for a bit. I have sooooooooooooo missed looking at everyone's blog and look forward to getting back at it!!!!

This is from the 52 Card Pickup Class. This was using different techniques with buttons. Well..as life would have it, my buttons were packed away in the first move and are in storage, so I used acrylic clear circles from my stash and just poked holes in them to make them look like buttons!!!
Take care....

I am so proud

Of our daughters!!! Our oldest dd Jocelyn, who lives in Calgary, is running in the Run For The Cure this Sunday. She set an amount of 500.00 as her personal goal to raise this year. Well...not only did she raise that but surpassed it by an additional $1000.00 for a total of $1500.00 to go towards Breast Cancer Research. Way to go Jocelyn, this card is for you honey.

This was done with Chatterbox PP, bazzill, ribbon from stash, Hope stamp from Prairie Rubberstamps . It is a Canadian company that sells unmounteds. The ribbon is from an ad for a local stationary store. Both of these cards were made with Di Hickmans's sketch She is going to think I'm stalking her!!!!!

I thought I'd better get at least a start on my Christmas cards!! Again I used Chatterbox and bazzill as my base. Ribbon is DCWV Holly Jolly. I love this ribbon as it is self adhesive. The snowflakes came from a bag I purchased when the lss closed.

Yesterday, we had a birthday party

for a dear friend who turned 50. There must have been 100 people at the pot luck!! This is her with her cake. She said she needed a tiara, so we took the beads from one of the beautiful centerpieces for her.

Now, how is that for a cake!! The same cousin who made the cake also does flower arranging and graced the tables with these gorgeous dahlias

Although I missed our regular stamping day yesterday, I did manage to get a card completed. It is from Di Hickman'swebsite. I know, I know..what a surprise, but I just find her sketches so easy to work with.

My pp is Chatterbox. I love this paper and dread the day I completly run out!! Hero Arts stamp and the scallop paper is made with my corner punch. The flower is from my stash and the biggie brad is from Heidi Swapp.

I saw a project a while ago

on Rocky Mountain Hobbies They were doing the class as a cybercrop and they had many great projects. I kept this one in the back of my head as I did not have the supplies at the time. My biggest dilemma has been trying to figure out what to use for clips that wouldn't break the bank. I was at a yardsale one Sunday morning and found a whole bag of curtain clips for .25. I wasn't sure if these were my answer but I couldn't pass them up!!

I used elecrical ties to put them into place on the lampshade ring. One to have the clip going in the direction I wanted and the other to hold it on the ring. Now, I will tell you if you have problems with your hands this is not the clip for you as they are stiff to open. I am still on the lookout for different clips that are easier to use if anyone has a suggestion.

This one has 3 tiers as I had an oddball shade that I could turn upside down and place on the top. I also have not painted this yet as we have purchased a house (instead of building) and I am not sure what colour to paint it, but I do know it will look good in my new room and be practical also!! If you check out the Rocky Mountain Class they will show you just what you need to make your own Spinner Rack. And trust me, once you get digging, you do have enough packages to fill at least one of these!!!

Do you remember in May

when I posted about the class I was taking thru Big Picture Scrapbooking

Well, the class is over now and I am not done all my pages yet but I thought I'd post a couple of them. The idea of the class was to inspire us to try different techniques and ideas. As expected, Tena Sprenger was an awesome instructor and I am looking forward to meeting her again at Scrapgala in November.

This first one was using a resist technique with paint. I just love this idea and have used it often.

The next is using pp to layer. I used a photo with mine also. These are all 5x7 cards that are intended to inspire us to try something new when we go to create. I will try to post a couple of more later.

It's time to get back

to reality...We have been on vacation and loving every minute of it. BUT.....I guess it has to end at some point and today's the day. I have been creating some but just have not been home long enough to post. I will try to get back into the habit but life often gets in the way.

The first 2 cards I am posting are both from Di Hickman. The first one is way late!!! For this one I used American Crafts pp (Play) bazzill cs, mm Cajun ribbon, M's $1 stamp, Marvy scallop circle punch and 1/4" punch for circles.


For this one I choose BG Infuse pp along with a very pretty Daisy Vine embossed paper. The ricrack is from AMM (Wheat grass) and the stamp from HA's.

As usual Di has a great sketch to try!!

Well...hi ho hi ho it's off to work I go.....

I love having the chance

to spend time with people who share the same passion as me. Our local
stamp group was invited to Truro to meet up with the gals from there. We had a great day, wonderful company, awesome food and a lot of giggles.
These are some of the girls trying to catch up on things as we haven't seen each other for quite a while!!!!



This is the card project Barb had ready for us to complete. This is actually Barb's card as I did not get my images colored in!!!!!

I did reach my goal of getting 2 cards made yesterday!!!!! The first is
from Di
Hickman
I can't say enough about her sketches. I just love doing them each week and look forward to the next one.


I used more of my DCWV Pocket full of Posies Stackmat, Cuttlebug mat, SU corner punch and ribbon from my stash.

This next card is from HOTP Vintage Collection and the stamp is from M's. The sketch came from Laren M.

If you are looking for sketches the best site to
start with is Alison's as
she is always up to date on every one's happenings.

It really was a great day and so much fun to see the girls again. I hope we
behaved ourselves and maybe get invited back again....PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Oh..I changed the template on my Blog as I found the other one too dark. What do you think?? Is this one too bright??

Yikes..it been a week

since I last posted. Our dd and her bf are still wisiting with us so I am going to use them as my excuse for not posting more often!!!!!!

These cards are all sketches from other other peoples blogs. If your looking for inspiration just surf some of the links and it's certainly there for you!!

This first one is from Carla and I am so slow at posting that I see she has another sketch challenge up for you to try!!

I used SEI Winnie's Walls pp, DCVP Holly Jolly adhesive ribbon, Bazzill cs, and M's acrylic stamps.

The next one is a sketch from Di Hickman
...hmmmm..I did get this one up before Di posted her new sketch!!

For the pp I used DCWV Pocket full of Posies Stackmat, stamps from M's and SU.

And this last one is from I {heart} 2 Stamp
and with this one I used pp from BG Infuse paper pad, stamps from M's and SU, ribbons and brads from stash.

I haven't checked yet, but hopefully I got it posted before Jen puts up a new sketch.
Ladies, thanks for the inspiration, I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love summer...

I had a great time at the lake this weekend with Jocelyn and Paul. I didn't get there until after supper on Saturday but we stayed until yesterday and enjoyed the sun and fishing.

Jocelyn had agreed to make a guest album for her friend that's getting married
this weekend, so we spent yesterday getting that done. We did 10 pages
and the same amount for the guests to use as signing pages. These are 2
of my favorites.



We tried to keep a simple, elegant feel to the album and there are a couple of pages we are not so sure of, but we have a few days to think about how we want to change them.

My goodness this

week has gone by so fast. It is not often I say that!! Picked our oldest daughter up yesterday morning as she is home to visit for 2 weeks. She hasn't been home since Christmas and it is so nice to have her around again. Her and her dad are headed to the lake this afternoon for a fishing tourney tomorrow. Looks like great weather and hopefully the fish will be biting!!!
Wendy has a great color challenge that I tried this morning. I usually stick to sketches, so it was fun to try something different. She has a great blog with lots of ideas. If you get a chance, check it out.

The challenge was to use orange, blue and white together. You could also use some black. I used my SU Doodle That set, my sentiment is from The Stamp Barn. The orange cs is Bazzill and the blue linen is unknown.

It's great to

have my husband home again!! He was in Calgary this past week visiting our daughters and it was a verrry long week here without him. Our youngest dd had surgery on her knee and it went so well she is back on her feet already. Although I know they
loved having their dad with them I am happy to have him back here!!


I have been trying to organize my new craft space without success and
finally figured out the problem. The walls in the room I was using are
a very deep purple and it just was not working for me so on Friday
night I switched rooms and feel so much more comfortable in my new
orange room. I actually have it organized that I can reach most of my
stuff quite easily.

I went to New Ross on Saturday and got a couple of cards made. The first 2 cards are made using the DCWV Pocket full of Posies Stackmat. These are perfect for card making
as you waste such a small amount of paper from each piece. They are both from sketches although for the life of me I cannot find where the first one came from!! The second is from Di Hickman

I also used MM's paint, HA stamp and SU stamp from Doodle This.

I used my SU punch, HA and SU stamps as well as Stampendous Diamond stickers.
This next card is from Beate
The PP is from my BB Gypsy pad. Paint is MM's and stamps from SU.

and this last one is using Doodlebug pp and HA stamp.