Vacaton and other stuff

Tomorrow my mom and dad come in from Texas!!! I am so excited; Saturday we will leave and go to Beach Lake, PA to Dellwood Acres. I have been there a few times before, but Craig makes the trip a couple of times a year. It is a very family orientated place, it has a pool, tennis courts, horseshoe pit, a little miniature bowling alley, ping pong table, paddle boats and a bigger lake that Craig puts his little boat into, to fish. I anticipate alot of relaxing and laughing!!

School starts for all of us soon! Sarah will begin 6th grade and Faith is going to 5th. I can't believe it! They are growing up soooo fast. Where did my little toddler girls go? Now I get to deal with the attitude of adolescence. JOY!!! Maybe I will ship them off to grandma and grandpa!! LOL.

Here's Sarah on the hammock with Lucy and Dale around her! This was at the beginning of the summer can you believe that summer is already coming to an end???

I don't know what the heck Faith was doing, but I do know that we were coming back from the pool. I love the look on Sarah's face in the background!

Italian Festival

I know it has been so long since I have blogged!!! Sorry, I have just been getting into making cards, it is my new creative outlet. I figured however that all I was doing is posting cards that I had made on here and some of you may not be that interested so I started another blog strictly for my creations. If you are interested in looking at them you can find them HERE. Anyway on to the Italian Festival.

Last month Craig and I both did the clown thing at the Monmouth County Fair (there aren't any pictures of us, just wanted you guys to get an idea). Anyway we told the girls that we would take them to the fair on Sunday after we did the show with Vince. Well that go rained out, so we told them we would go to the Italian Festival. So Craig and I made sure to save $50 from each of our checks. Now if you know me, that is hard!! When I have money, I can think of all kinds of things I want to spend it on. Anyway, we went last night. And do you have any idea how fast we blew through $100??? We bought a kabob & Lemonade for Faith, a cheesteak for me (wasn't that good) and $20 worth of tickets so they could go on the rides and had like $40 bucks left! I was blown away.

Anyway when we go there they were doing 50/50's which they did every hour. I told Craig to play because he is one lucky S. 0. B. If you know what I mean. He said he didn't feel lucky and didn't want to play well when I was on line for my not so good cheesesteak, I guess he got the lucky feeling because he bought $5 worth of tickets. We were over by the rides when Craig looks at his watch because they were drawing the ticket at 8:00 and tells me he is going to go over to hear the number. They call out the number and I say to myself, I bet you he won. He comes back to where we are all smiles and tells me that sure enough he did win. He won $350!!! CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT!!! I told you he was lucky. I said to him, "We are going to split that right?!" And he said, "No I bought the tickets." To which I responded "yes out of the money we pooled." So we had a great time at the fair, not having to worry about running out of money which was nice for once. And after we came home I had $150!!

SSHHHHH, don't tell the girls

A couple of weeks ago, we inherited a hamster from our neighbor who was moving back to California. We had watched Hammy for a couple of weeks when they would go on vacation and knowing how much the girls loved Hammy they wanted to know if we wanted him. Of course the girls begged us and after agreeing that they would clean the cage once a week and take turns doing it we said okay.

All was going well, although they sure didn't play with him as much as they did when we were just hamster-sitting but we knew that would happen. Anyway today we had a couple of the girls friends come over and play and of course the hamster was taken out and played with, it peed on Faith's bed, and crapped on Sarah's hand! LOL!! Lucy also loves the hamster. She takes every chance she can to say hello up close and personal.

Well tonight Craig is going to bed so I am on my way back to our bedroom to change in to my jammies and I see something on the floor. YEP, you guessed it, HAMMY. I am assuming the girls didn't close the cage all the way and he got out and Lucy finally go to say "hello to her little friend!" Now she didn't hurt it, there were no puncture wounds or blood, I think she just scared it to death. I was definitely in her mouth, but again no wounds. So I called Craig and made him get rid of it before the girls saw it. I feel sooooo bad! We have decided to tell the girls that Hammy has gotten out and we need to keep a look out for him, and when they never find him they will think he got away. Needless to say we will be having no more hamsters.

I just hope Kaitlyn doesn't call and ask about him!!!

Another Card

I got a call from work yesterday (I work for a Pedi. Surgeon) telling me that we would be down another person on Thursday. We see patients only one day a week so it is a heck of a day. Anyway, my co-worker may not be there because her mother (who is 92) is very ill. She has had cancer and has taken a turn for the worse, so I figured I would make another sympathy card. I have to say I really like the way it came out.

Details:
Image: Flower is SU (I don't know the name, I used a stamp from my SU demo as I don't have any yet), Sentiment is Inkadinkado
Copics: R32, R30, R05, G24
Ink: Brillance Black Ink
Card Stock: Bazill

Summer Life!

Not much is going on here besides the normal everyday, summer stuff. I am going to take the girls to the pool today (I don't really want to go!) but this way I can take tomorrow off from the pool and say that I took them on Sunday. There is a method to my madness. What I really want to do is stay home and make some cards.

Yesterday I went over to my SU demonstrator's house and she let me use some of her stamps because I needed to make a Sympathy card for a women in our church. Her MIL died, I don't know here really well but she does so much. I don't think I have ever met her husband, but I can't even think of how I would feel if my mother died! KWIM! I know that I am getting older as people around me are having family members die, I DON'T LIKE THAT!!! Anyway here is the card I made for them.

We finally got Lucy groomed, we had been trying for 3 weeks. The first week, the groomer called at 8 am to tell us she was canceling because she was up all night sick. I can understand that but I had just given Lucy the last sedative that we had! She was pretty stoned and I must say quiet all day long. I wonder if it is bad to give her a sedative every day LOL! The next week we took her to PetCo, because the first groomer never called us back to reschedule like she said she would. I took Lucy in at 11 (when our appointment was) and they said to me, "You were supposed to be here at 10am." I told them, "Well, my appointment card says 11 am." They took her and then called me at 3 pm saying they had been trying to call me all day, because they weren't able to get her out of the cage, so they didn't groom her! URGH! When I went in I noticed they had copied the wrong phone number from the vet paper which showed she had all her shots and told them that it was wrong and gave them my cell to call. All I want is for this dog to be shaved for the summer so she will be cooler! They asked me to come and get her because they close at 3:30, so off I go to get this ungroomed dog! We make an appointment for the following week as an immediate appointment (which costs more money!) so she won't be traumatized by being put in the cage, she is such a prima dona!!! LOL, so here is a before and after pic!

Before

After

Isn't she cute! She looks like a completely different dog! I do think she likes this hairstyle better for the summer. I think she looks NAKED! Dale likes it alot too, he just can't seem to leave Lucy alone! She snips at him when he gets to be to much.

Blog Candy

Artfully Ila is giving away some blog candy from High Hopes Rubber Stamps. She also has an example you can look at and what a great job she has done. I can see me using these alot!!! Go HERE to check them out!!!

Sorry it's been so long!.

Well, I have been on the computer, but I have just been looking at other peoples blogs seeing all their beautiful work. I found an SU demonstrator and she gave me the catalog and she has a club that meet every other month. Now when you come she teaches you a new technique and you are obligated to buy $25 worth of product and each time you meet one of the ladies in the group will be entitled for hostess benefits. So I figured I would give it a shot. I have to say that I wasn't extremely impressed with her cards, they are nothing to fancy, but she was very nice and I like the idea of the hostess benefits.




Although as I have been looking at other blogs I have seen all kinds of stamp companies out there and a lot of them I like. So I don't think I will be strictly SU. I am dying to get some stuff though.





Here's a card I made for a friend of mine that I have just recently seen after 8 years. She and her daughter stayed with us for a couple of months. Then they moved to Florida. She had a hard time, but things have turned around for her. She is now married and lives in South Caroline and 6 months ago had another child. So I thought that this would be nice to send her. This card also was a sketch challenge for Spitcoast Stampers (I tried to link it here but it isn't working) Anywhoo here's my card! SC182

Recipe:

Card stock the base of the card is Bazill and the green squares and the purple card stock is Creative Memories

Patterned Paper is Creative Memories

Image is G Studios.

The base of the card measures 4 1/2 inches, I punched the green squares and the polka dot squares using my creative memories square punches using the 1 1/4 and 1 in punch. I stamped the image 3 times and colored it in using my Copic markers. Hope you enjoy!