Back to the real world!

Just checked in to my blog and saw I hadn't been here since April 28th! Wow, wish I could say time passes fast when we're having fun was the reason, but in my case it just passed. So much has happened since my last post. Let's see, one of my dearest friends went into the hospital, I had a birthday, I fell and broke my left wrist and yesterday my dear friend lost her battle with cancer and went home to be with the Lord.

I had made quite a few new cards before the arm thing and need to post some of them. I'm just now getting back to being able to use two hands, well one hand and some fingers. I'm really missing stamping and scrapbooking, but I'll be back to it soon.

I'll be adding some pictures of some cards in the next day or so (hopefully) including pix of my embellished cast.

Ok, here it is the embellished cast. (No pictures of cards yet, you can see what's on my mind) I actually only had this one for about a week and then moved on to a plain black one - I'll publish those pictures in my next post!

Mom's Birthday Celebration

What a fun filled weekend. Mom's birthday was today (4/27) but we began the celebration yesterday with lunch at Le Madelines and a shopping trip! Last night we had a quiet dinner at home with cake and reminicing. Lot's of birthdays to remember!

Today we had a big dinner at church (unrelated to the birthday) but in celebration of mom we all sang to her and had a big cake for everyone to share. She's now the oldest member still in attendance.

Tomorrow she'll wear her new outfit from the shopping trip to the monthly "primetimers" gathering at the church.

You can see that she's sharing her cake with Jack (dog) - after all, he's a member of the family too! This is actually our birthday two months - Mom 4/27, my husband Bill 4/29, Grace (cat) 4/29, me 5/15, Jack 5/20 and Bill's mother 5/22! Bill's mom doesn't live with us, but you do notice that we have a house full of "bulls".
This is the card I made for her - it's all Stampin' Up except the picture and you guessed it - that's mom - just shy of a year old. A cutie then, a cutie now! We are so blessed to have her with us and as she says - she's greatly blessed t0 have her health and as you can tell by the jigsaw puzzle on the table - her mind!

We look forward to many more birthday celebrations!

Stamping Room

I am always trying to make my work area more organized and I loved the idea of the punches on the wall from the Stampin' Up April Success magazine. I was at IKEA the next day getting the "punch bar" - I'm so thankful for fellow demonstrator Kelly Lunceford for sharing her creative space. I still have a long way to go, but I'm on my way to a more productive work area.

Blossoms Abound

Love this stamp set! Wisteria is one of my favorite flowers and mine have just stopped blooming in the garden (spring comes early in Houston). I did this card for a friend that just had surgery. She's home now, but needs to know I'm thinking about her and praying for complete recovery.
Stamps: Blossoms Abound, Label Classics (retired) and Sincere Salutations.
Paper: Very Vanilla, Perfect Plum and Mellow Moss
Stamp Pads/Markers: Perfect Plum, Pale Plum and Mellow Moss
Ribbon: Eggplant

Farm Fever

Two different designs from Farm Fever (SU-retired). All products are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted.
Card 1-

Stamps: Farm Fever and Take Three

Paper: Almost Navy, Bashful Blue, Barely Banana,

Ink: Almost Navy

Accessories: Uniball white ink

This card was done for a friend's husband.

Card 2 -

Stamp: Farm Fever

Paper: Apricot Appeal, Bashful Blue and Mellow Moss

Embellishments: Apricot Appeal Brads