Meagan's Birthday Card

Meagan turned 15 on May 1st. Its hard for me to believe she is 15, and I've only known her since she was 12. I can't imagine how Jamie feels knowing that his little girl is almost grown up.She will be down for a week later this month and we will have her party then. We'll also definitely do some stamping together.


So, its only appropriate that I made her card. I used cool Caribbean as a base and a sheet from the paisley dp as the second layer. I stamped happy b-day onto whisper white in cool Caribbean ink using my new whimsical alpha set. I used whimsical to stamp an m onto a frame stamp and mounted that atop a turquoise grossgrain ribbon strip.
I've got a few stamping events planned during June, so contact me if you want details.
Happy Stamping!!

Garden Sunday

The kiss of sun for pardon,

The song of birds for mirth--

One is nearer God's Heart in a garden

Than anywhere else on earth.

-Dorothy Gurney

I've finally got a little flower bed in front of the house. We have hydrangeas, gardenias, and roses.My favorite thing is the cedar tree trunk on the right. The bird bath came from my great-great uncle Bruney. Scattered through out the yard we planted native azaleas, an umbrella tree, and a ginko tree.

Flowers and gardening always make me think of my Dad and my Mamaw (great-grandmother). Every summer Mamaw had a big garden that we all helped in. As she got older, and wasn't able to keep up with a big garden Dad always made sure she had at least a few tomatoes and cucumbers planted. Now Daddy grows just about everything, and all of it from cuttings he picked up here or there. They both loved working in the garden and its something they passed along to me. I'm just now beginning to plant my flowers and I haven't tackled a vegetable garden yet, but I hope someday that my children will remember spending time in the garden with me and my Dad and it will inspire them to plant their own someday.

Rock n Roll All Night

Not the Mother's day weekend picture you were expecting, huh? Let me explain: The youth at my church put on talent shows every 6 months or so. The youth and other church members dress up and perform as Grease, Tina Turner, Conway Twitty, Elvis, etc. As you can see we were KISS. It was so much fun ya'll. I was a little nervous until I got my make up on, but then I felt like a rockstar! My parents and grandparents were there and they were totally suprised to see me drumming for KISS. Wowzers, that was a hard secret to keep.

Tagged

I've been tagged twice! Each time you are tagged, you are supposed to tell 7 things about yourself and tag 7 other bloggers. I'm kinda lame and don't have 14 cool things about myself to tell you so I'll stick with 7!
1- My favorite meal is my Mom's meatloaf and potatoe dumplings. Her meatloaf is topped with cheese instead of ketchup and its delish!
2- I can sing with my mouth shut.
3- Paula Deen just topped Martha Stewart on my list of personal faves, incidentally Rachel Ray was crossed off the list.
4- Today I made the first entry in my gratitude journal. Evan and I are doing this together each morning. Today he was thankful for the birds and my biscuits.
5- I was in Drama club in high school.
6- I'm having fun planning my yardscape with my Dad.
7- I'm making my rock-n-roll debut this weekend.

I'm tagging these 7 bloggers: Daniela -http://danieladobson.blogspot.com/, Vera- http://www.cropsandcards.blogspot.com/ , Kurtis- http://www.stampinkub.com/blog/ , Lori- http://loricraig.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/, Tracy-http://inky-doodles.blogspot.com/, Kendra- http://inkinitupwithkendra.blogspot.com/, Emily-http://waterpixie.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/. Check out their cool blogs.

Love Notes

Told you I'd be back today. I don't have anything new, but this is a little project I like alot. My anniversary was last week, so I got the hubby direct tv a few days before the big day. (Yes, we have lived with 3 channels for the past year and it really wasn't bad.) To make it extra special for Jamie, I added Nascar hotpass. Now, this means absolutely nothing to you and me but to Jamie it means I'm the best wife ever- I mean tons of kisses and a lift me off the ground spin style hug. I also think it prompted him to upgrade my gift to something better than the slippers I received for Valentine's- but thats a whole other story :)

Of course he had to have something on the actual day, so I altered this $0.25 walmart journal I've had for a couple of years for him. I used the doodle that and paisley stamp sets in close to cocoa ink. The background is certainly celery and happy is stamped on bashful blue paper with paper piercing in the corners. I used the tab punch to make the tabs for each page. The tabs are stamped with sayings like you're sweet and simply adorable on each side. The inside pages are stamped with the doodle flourishes .The binding has celery and taupe ribbons knotted around each coil. Simple, cute and he liked it alot.

We found out Sam had a double ear infection on our anniversary, so we weren't able to go out as planned. Instead, we had a meal at home and danced the night away in our own kitchen. Good times.

"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."- ford

Slacker Stamper

So, school has been killing me the past week or so. Who knew nutrition could be so hard and who really wanted to know the complete workings of the digestive system-eeks! I've been doing a little stamping, but its all been secretive. No, I'm not submitting anything professionally- I only wish I were half that good. I've been doing things for other people that are surprises, so I've had to keep it on the low.

The card with the girls was made over spring break while I was in Tennessee. The pocket is paper pieced with random designer paper. Graduation is coming up and I needed a couple of cards for Granger grads. I'm not sure what the actual mascot is, a granger or the granger star- but since I had a star stamp I went with the star. I think its cute and simple, which is important since 18 year old boys will be putting them in the trash soon!

Ok, so maybe not my best work ever but I'll post something good tomorrow - I promise. Speaking of good, I just finished reading the delish book "Savannah Blues". Its part mystery, part romance, and 100% southern fun. The best friends remind me of my relationship with my #1 top best friend (she insists that I call her that). What great books would you recommend?

Spring Break is Over!!

Thank goodness, er, I mean poor kids finally had to go back to school. We had seven kids in the house for the most part of last week, and it was busy to say the least. We started spring break with a visit to family in Tennessee. Meagan and I had tons of fun stamping with Nanna. Meagan said she could really get hooked on stamping, so I guess it is contagious ( one visit to SCS tells ya that!). I don't have pics of anything we stamped, but I have a picture of all of the kids while we were there- the wind was in Sam's hair!

I've got lots of stuff I want to work on this week, but I've got to do some organizing (again..grr) before I do anything. I think I'll do some work tonight while everyone is at Evan's ball game. Before you flame me for being a bad mom and skipping a game to stamp, let me explain that I'll be home with the baby who has an earache. Maybe I'll skip stamping and take advantage of the new swing I got for my anniversary. Yes, you heard that right my terrific hubby got me an outdoor swing/ futon type thing with canopy for our anniversary yesterday. Now to see what surprise I get for my birthday on Thursday!!!