It’s Valentines every day in my house!

So, this is what I made for my sweet guy for Valentines. It really is Valentines everyday with the two of us! I do believe he deserves a medal for putting up with my crap, however I deserve a medal for the many moves!!!

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Feeling a Little Doodle Magic

Happy Valentines Day! As I was watching the snow come down last night, it was so peaceful in my stamp room. I thought I would play a little with my Spring mini stamps. I always enjoy watercoloring, even if I am not the master at it. This set is so fun to work with and the options that can be done with this set make it a real winner for me. The colors I used were Taken with Teal, Certainly Celery and Tempting Turqouise. Three of my fav colors. I also used some of they new designer series paper that I know will impress you! I added lots of embellishments on this card. More than I normally would, but the flowers just called for me to add the buttons. You will note one of the buttons I doodled on myself with my favorite white gel pen.
Hope you like it!

We received about 3 inches of snow yesterday. Since it’s Hump day Wednesday I will give you a laugh. Those that know me, know I do NOT work out. Well yesterday, I did. I went to take my son to school and noted there was a considerable amount of snow on the winshield. I took my snow brush and wiped it away, only to find it was ice. After scraping ice for 10 minutes I was not happy about living here and only could think warm thoughts of Flordia again. Needless to say, my son was late for school! I just kindly told the teacher we are not use to scraping ice off windshields. Now my priority will be to get the car in the garage!!

I do have a Valentines card I will upload in a while. May your day be filled with LOVE!

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Finally!

Yes, I stamped. I told you I needed to get those Valentines done for Brandon, and that is exactly what I did. I was really looking for a WOW project, but when it comes down to the wire, I just needed Valentines. You will have to excuse the lighting on the pics until I figure out the best place to take shots in my new room. I was hoping for a bright sunny day, but it is snowing!

 

Back to the Valentines… As you can see in the second picture, these open up and display a little fun chocolate. I hope this brings a smile to someones face. So just how do you make these darling little matchbooks? First let me give credit where it is due. I have met a few fantastic demos here in the Springs and the first time I met them they showered me with Swaps. Can you believe that? I was so tickled and so welcomed. They probably had no idea how that made me feel. Anyhoo, one of the swaps came from them. To make this, cut your cardstock 10.5×3.5. Score at 3", 3.5", 6 3/4", and 7 1/4". Viola! Now, fold on your score lines and decorate to your liking. I used a few stamps on this little booger. I used our new Spring Mini stamp Doodle This. (Scrappers…. this set is a MUST have!!!!!) I also used the set Sweet on You from the Winter Mini. To make "SWEET" pop I stamped it and punched using my 1" circle punch. I then took it through my xyron and dusted it with Dazzling Diamonds. I also used our new Label punch in the Spring Mini. WOW is that a fun punch. The possiblities are endless with this!! You will notice that I embossed the Doodle This with detail White EP. I thought it really made it pop more. Lastly, I took our grograin ribbon in Light Pink and finished it off. While I know just a bunch of 5 year olds will be tearing into these, it did give me a sense of accomplishment… something I haven’t had in a bit.

 

The house is still coming along. Still lots to do, but I have come to the reality that it’s going to take a LONG time anyways!! Smooches!

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It’s getting there!

The house is starting to look much more normal. Russ and I worked all day yesterday. From the time we got up until we went to bed. It was fun to giggle with him and feel like newlyweds. When you move and you are unpacking you run across items you don’t see for awhile. Including pics of us right before we got married. Gosh we were cute! Makes me fall in love all over again.

*Most* of the boxes are unpacked in the house. However, there are many boxes in the garage and I am praying those boxes have some items I am surely missing!! Russ can’t find his jeans. Ha. I shouldn’t laugh, but it is *his* missing item. I don’t think its a bad thing! But, you can’t run around naked here that is for sure. Must find his pants! Hee hee!

The weekend has been gorgeous. 50 degrees here feels almost like 60 in Florida. You would think the kids would want to play outside. Oh no! We found a toy box yesterday and literally it was like Christmas revisted. That part of a move is actually fun! Watching them get reaquainted with old toys. I must admit, it is almost the same when I go through my own stamp room. I always here from many of you that I have sooooo much stuff. I found out through this move, YOU are correct. It was fun seeing some stamps that have been neglected. I have a few projects in store. Promise.

Let me take a minute to say thank you to the many of you who listen to me ramble about this move. This little blog has been more of just an outlet to express my true feelings about this move. I have felt so much closer to home than I ever thought I would. It has given me a chance to vent and also a chance to go back and laugh hysterically at some of the calamitys we have been hit with. All and all, this will become my creative place to inspire you in some way. May it be a good laugh for the day, or an actual creative piece… it will happen. I believe all the right tools are in place now. The only tool needed is my hand and ink. I think that actually might happen today. So hold onto to your pants. You may be surprised tomorrow.

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Fabulous Friday!

Glad Friday is here. Why you ask? Russ will be home this weekend to help unpack! ***GRIN*** I have worked all week on this house and about to go crazy. I admit to a complete melt down last night and Russ stayed up way to late helping me get my office organized. I’m sure you have heard these things before when you move… I have no friends, my business is crap, the house is a wreck, I don’t like it here, I wanna go home! These were my feelings last night! Change is always so hard and I’m finding that as I get older it is getting harder! So my husband, the great guy that he is, listened to me cry, held me tight and told me to get in my stamp room and get to work. I love it when he brings reality back. That is who he is! He kindly set up the computer! Smooches to him. While I love the laptop and I can shimmy all over the house with it, my main computa’ is my LIFE!!! It has EVERYthing on it. When he first hooked it up I was afraid that it wouldn’t work. Remember, this is move #7 in 10 years… it has happened before. So far it is working fine.
Today should be the same. Unpacking! HOWEVER! Brandon needs Valentines for his school. Guess what I will be making??? You betcha! It has to be cool because I need to WOW some mom here. Hmmm… any suggestions? A girl has to start somewhere!! Valentines it is!

I’ll check back later. Hope to have a progression picture of how it is coming along.

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