Today is the DAY…

He comes HOME for GOOD! Can you hear the excitement?  Today really is a monumental day!  My sweetheart has been gone in DC since November.  He has been flying home once a month for the last 7 months.  Normally this Navy wife does GREAT.  While deployments are NEVER easy (ask any military wife! Quite frankly they SUCK!) but we can do it.  We are use to it.  The last 7 months has made me re-think what kind of strength I actually have.  Maybe it's the kids getting older? Or maybe it's the fact that I could talk to him every night on the phone?  Who knows and who cares… he is coming home today!  He has a one way ticket!  We will jump in the van with 2 cats, 1 dog, 2 kids and me and crazy guy in just a week or so.  YIKES!  Another monumental thing about today… it's the official LAST stamping day in my little stamping paradise.  {A tear just fell!} I have lots of ladies coming today to stamp and laugh-no crying…sniff!  Sunday I will begin frantically taking everything down and boxing it up.  I wonder if Russ knows what he's coming home to?  Honestly I don't like myself during moves.  I'm quite cranky! <sigh> 

I have been SUPER busy the last week stamping crazy to get some things ready to share over the next couple of weeks during the move.  I will share new product fun-ness as well as my cranky self during my move.  <smile>  I think you will find it entertaining.  I hope you don't mind me sharing the adventurous move with you.  I promise it will be an adventure. Maybe not Thelma and Louise adventure,  however Russ and I never do anything haff-a$$! 

So, onto a few fun pieces for today.  Have you checked the retired list of all the goodies that are going away? Is there anything you can't live without? Here is a stamp set you should consider.  Just Jawing-111660! This was one of the first stamp sets I ordered when the catalog rolled out last year.  You know I love SKULLS!  Ahhhhhh! 

Seriously! This card has someones name on it.  Someone who appreciates these skulls just as much as I do.  <yippie>

I used Melon Mambo, Early Espresso and Crumb Cake cardstock.  Everything I stamped is with the Early Espresso.  SO yummy I am barely stand myself.  The bow was stamped in Melon Mambo and then I used a Sherbert Button on top of it.  Did you know those are discounted through my online store on my Stampin' Up! website?  Run…..

Now, the eyeballs I placed Itty Bitty Heart Buttons from the Summer Mini Catalog.  Love these.  The ribbon is one I love from the Ribbon Originals called Masterpiece-116230.  It's retiring and it's so pretty.  I also used a chipboard piece at the top of my card, "U".  That comes from the On Board Chipboard Timeless Type-112083.  I {HEART} Chipboard.  

Last thing I used was another stamp set that is NOT retiring.  It's called Favorite Things-115436.  Surely you have this?  It's one of my favorites!

I hope you will join me again tomorrow.  I am hoping to have special pictures to share of some of my last stamping days in Colorado and maybe one of my sweets!  I've been velcro'd to a few of my friends the last few days.  Not sure I can let them go.  ??? 

Hugs! XOXOXO