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baby shower

2008-03-08T19:40:00.000-08:00

I've been working on invitations for a upcoming baby shower and well my friend isn't into pastels so she chose brights. Wow! I had hard time functioning to this idea. I always like to look at my cards and say "I really like this" and I just couldn't do it with this card. Here a few shots of what I have and I haven't really made a final decision on the actual invite yet but well again I'm trying to grasp this whole bright color baby shower concept. I believe we're going to go with the one on the right I may tweak it a little and add some embellishment so that my mind can tell my heart that I like it.

another year

2008-03-08T19:29:00.000-08:00

Well Feb 17 has come and gone and I'm now a year older. I've had so much happen and it saddens me that now my mom resides in Oregon. I still get teary when I write or talk about it.

Here is a pic of me, my mom and my younger sister. So needless to say I had to spend this birthday without her and it was hard cuz i can't remember the last time I had a birthday without her by my side. I had a great birthday and my wonderful sister gave me a dillards gift card, to spend at Mac cosmetics of course. Here is a pic of the cake I made for myself and only because i wanted a certain flavor and a certain filling. hmm! strawberry cake with vanilla pudding topped with strawberries as the filling. oh yeah did mention I took the first bite, and literally!!!

oh my how time has flown by

2008-03-08T19:17:00.000-08:00

Well here we are in March already! and well I didn't even get to post all the things that went on in February such a bad blogger I promise Michelle I'll try to get better at this. I was doing so well and then time, tv got the best of me. hee hee
here are a few pics of things I worked on in Feb. We made some of those wonderful mailboxes (added some michael's $1 spot bling) for our girlfriends and then made sugar cookies dipped in chocolate and put them inside the mailboxes for a wonderful valentine's treat. Sorry again this is so late but I'll try to stay caught up.

MIA

2008-03-08T19:13:00.001-08:00

okay i've been M I A for awhile but i was reading blogs as I always do and found this on a blog. I'm not really that good yet at this whole blog thing so i don't know how to give a link to her blog but her blog name is "listen to this" let me give credit where credit is due. I liked the way she added her signature to her posts so I thought i would try it. Oh wow! this does work thanks Katie

DH

2008-01-05T15:36:00.000-08:00

well I haven't learned all the blogging or texting shortcuts but I do know DH.

So on that note looks like my DH got off to a good start for 2008. He showed up with these today.

Well I'm off to make labels to mail off cards. See ya soon

New Year's card

2008-01-05T15:22:00.000-08:00

I had a vision in my head as I sometimes do and go searching all over Austin to find what i'm looking for to make that vision onto paper. It has to be just right or I'm not happy and well this time it was a new year's day card that looked like it had bubbles in the background. I started out with this

It was a brainstorming session to make sure my card was going to turn out right and then I decided this was what I was going to go with . And so was born my New Year's day card that hasn't been mailed out yet because My family got an ugly stomach virus that somehow attacked me too!

It's still new years right so again "better late than never"so here is the final product.

I couldn't find anything that said "celebrate, 2008, or cheers" in the font or size I was looking for so I left the front of the card blank and embossed "happy new Year" on the inside with silver tinsel and I'm happy with the card. What do you think?

Other projects

2008-01-05T15:03:00.000-08:00

Here is a few more items I was tangled in over the holiday season. I have a friend who graduated from beauty school and we took her out to dinner and this is the card I whipped up for her.

My friend Vicki also had a birthday before xmas and I whipped up a card for her too. It was given a little late but better late than never right ? wink! wink! I have a group of girlfriends that are like family, well some of them are family LOL

my sister, sister in-law and the others well there like family so I wanted to make them a little something and so I did .

I used my new spica glitter pens, some holly stickles to go over the "merry christmas" and Voila! I had a masterpiece. I filled it with yummy chocolate chip cookies and lots of love .

2008-01-05T14:29:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year Everyone in the blogging world! I've been MIA for awhile and it's because I got really busy and tired and not to mention sick. So here is what I've been up to. First let's go back to Christmas, I know it seems like so long ago but well I haven't posted for awhile so I have to put story and pics right? So my sister throws a Christmas eve party every year and me and a friend of mine (Suzi Q) are always in charge of sweets because we like to do the cute Martha Stewart desserts and this year we tackled the every so popular gingerbread cookie. Let me just say that I never have made or tasted gingerbread. The verdict on that is yes easy to make from scratch, well lots of ingredients but easy and I didn't care for it too much it's okay but my favorite is still oatmeal raisin. So here are a few pics of our creations.

So here is my second dessert ok it's not Martha Stewart but my family and some of my friends love my cakes and I'm known for my cute cakes.

99 Bottles

2007-12-17T20:39:00.000-08:00

99 bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottles of beer. ha ha okay okay maybe not 99 bottles and maybe not beer but 65 empty frappucino bottles on my table. Every year around this time I like to make something cutesy for my co-workers and this year I chose these. My wonderful friend Geeta made examples and when I saw them I knew i had to make some but maybe I wasn't thinking clearly that day or did someone say "don't make those" lol yes she, Geeta, said that.

Then my friend Suzette saw Geeta's blog and had the same thought about making them for her co-workers and some for her daughter's school teachers and soon enough she racked up the number 30 and so there was 65 bottles that had to be made.

Well we knew that 4 hands were definitely better than two for this task so we attempted to do this in one sitting and to much sadness we didn't succeed but we did almost get there.

My friend packed up all her 30 bottles and headed home but I was determined to have these finished and delivered some time this week and mind you I have other projects that still need to be finished. We started these bottles on Sunday Dec. 16th and today is Dec 17 and I am happy to announce that my 35 bottles are packed up and ready to go! I even went the extra mile and made gift tags for these wonderful little bottles.

still going

2007-12-12T19:46:00.001-08:00

Wow! thanks for all the comments. I'm still working on the same card and I decided to add one more task, as if I didn't already have enough. I started by adding liquid applique' to the little santa suit and then dazzling diamonds before heating it gives it that crunchy feeling as Geeta would say. I learned this technique from her and absolutely love it. I started out by doing approx. 10 with that technique but then thought "this is going to take way to long" so I had a bright idea to use stickles. I love sparkle, glitter, and bling so of course i had to add it to my card. I love all the stickles colors and how you can almost used them anywhere you'd like. So I'm now waiting for the little santa suits to dry before i go on to the next task. If I get any more "bright ideas" I may never finish this card. So i'll post the journey for this card. Before I close I'd like for you to pray for my co-worker's daughter. She was in a bad accident in Kansas City and is in critical condition. Thanks

xmas cards

2007-12-11T19:38:00.000-08:00

well I've been pondering blogging for awhile and not sure if could do it but I figured since I was so hooked to reading them I might as well join the blogging world. VOILA! Here I am. I saw this card on the a muse site that I had to have or should I say make. LOL

I first had to conquer the cutting of all 80 pieces for my card. I somehow always pick cards that take lots of cutting and then I'm hitting myself on the head saying "what was i thinking" but nothing that a DVR and a sofa can't fix ha ha I sat in my living room, started the DVR and the next thing you know i had finished cutting the first 40 pieces and the next day same routing but this time from the dinner table. Well the first part of a large task was finished and now to actually creating the card. Well here it is and now I have to see if the postal system is going to like or dislike it so I will send my good friend Geeta my first creation and see if I get it back. Wish me and my card luck!