Cute wall hanging for my niece.

So this is what we (my sister, Keri, and friend, Paula, spent the day doing. (Keri thought it would just take a couple of hours to get done. Ha ha ha, I laugh at her, she has crafted with me before and yet still has an innocence about crafting with me........)


It started with this
I had Keri cut out tag shapes......seemed simple enough. Then I started thinking about it........"and then we should"......"this would look super cute"........"I think I have here"........"oh, oh, oh, wait, wait I think I".........."it needs bling".........."grab those stamps"......."where's my distress powder"......"where is the distress sponge"....."grab the mat"......"oh wait, wait, let's do this"......."AAAAAAAhh, why would you use that stamp?"......."give me that"........."let's do this, and this"..........."need ink pad"........"where's my Tim Holtz"...... Well I think you get the general idea.

(I laugh at myself and the poor unfortunate soul(s) who craft with me while my mind creates. I speak in short hand and expect them to follow along.)

Well soon enough my scrap room looked like this: (This is after Paula cleaned up and put most of the stamps back in there place. :)

However, they were well worth it. They turned out cute, and I think my niece will love it!!

Returning to the Real World

We have had company, or family in town, or more company for weeks now. Poor Rick is traumatized wondering what happened to his wife, and his organized life, there is tons of dirty laundry because I have only been doing to the bare minimum to get by, and I am going to have to start cooking again, which will actually be nice since I feel like I have over dosed on food, which is confirmed my the overnight tightening of my pants. Oh, the pain of returning to the real world. However it will be nice to not receive anymore dirty looks from Rick when he asks, "Do I have any clean jeans?", or "I guess you didn't wash my wool socks?". Yes, it will be nice to return to, as close as we can get anyway, normal.

I Wanna Be Like My Friend Carolyn

I look at my friend Carolyn, and I want to be like her. She is amazing. So I thought, hmmmmm, well let's start with blogging and see how it goes from there. So here it goes.......again. Me trying to blog.......ready or not world, here I come.