Month: January 2014

Wed Jan 15th

Valentine's Day

be mineGood Afternoon! It’s been a busy, busy day.  Wednesday, as many of you know, is cleaning day at our house.  I had the whole job by myself since Kevin needed to plow the 7.5″ of snow that we got yesterday. He is still plowing…I think he drags it out so he doesn’t have to work!  Today is also our sons 23rd Birthday.   Hard to believe he is that old since he is my baby.

Better keep moving have lots of orders to get out, emails to answer, and work to do!

Stamps Used:  D229 Swiss dot 1.5″, B244 KB’s XO, E192 Be Mine, HH28 Lines & Dots Border

 

Tues, Jan 14th

Valentine's Day

heart treethis awesome embossing folder is so versatile!  It is a pricey one though…$7.50 for one folder!  But sometimes it is just worth it! 🙂

We traveled a really long way yesterday over 1100 miles in one day.  Kevin wanted to get home before the snow started flying and it is flying this morning!  We got in around midnight and I think the snow started around 4 am so we are glad we kept going.

Stamps Used:  A190 Mini Heart; DD42 Valentine Ticket Words.

 

Monday, Jan. 13th

Valentine's Day

love youthis is one of our new cards on the booth displays!  It so cute in real life.  The circles are actually cut outs which add depth to the card.  Very Cute!

a BIG thank you to Grapevine, TX for making another great show for us!  a HUGE thank you to Andretta and Eden for helping me in the booth!  the long under wear are back on and we are headed back to cold country.  Weather doesn’t look too bad for Tuesday- just 21 degrees and 14 degrees for Wednesday.  I can handle that!  really liked the 70 degrees in Texas.   Have a great Monday!

 

Thurs, Jan 9th

Gift Card Holders

cup 2so we have made it to our final destination of Grapevine,  TX.  glad to be here and relax a little.  by the way, thanks for all the anniversary wishes!  It’s hard to imagine that we have been married that long! 🙂

I wish the pictures would have turned out  better of the little coffee cups 😦 The pictures just don’t do them justice.   By if you are in Grapevine, TX this weekend you can see them in person!  Information about the show can be found at http://www.heirloompro.com 

 

Tues, Jan. 7th

Coffee, Valentine's Day

d&tthis is our project for D&T this year.  Many of you know I’ve been making these little coffee cups into treat coffee cups and loving them!  We have some new stamps that say “treat for you”  “a treat for you” “gift for you” and “gift card value” and they work nicely!

So today is a really special day!  It is Kevin and my 30th Wedding Anniversary!  We are celebrating at an awesome restaurant called Chives in our little town of Suamico.  It is a high end restaurant that is really good but a little pricey so we have to plan for it.  Our good friends, Chris and Rick, were also married on this same day and in the same year so we celebrate together!  Need to get my work done so I can relax tonight!

 

Monday Football Blues

Snowman

snowman 1snowman 2Good Monday Morning to You!  Green Bay is drowning its sorrows in our loss to the 49ers but now we can quit thinking about football!

This super cute purple snowman card was sent to me by a customer and I thought it was adorable so I thought if you could stand another snowman card…here it is!  I just love snowman!  It is really cold here -15 but I think we were so prepared for bitter cold that it doesn’t seem so bad.  We leave for Texas on Wednesday and it was only 19 down there so only 30+ degrees better but you still have to were coats and gloves and things but it will probably feel like a heat wave!

Have a good Monday!

 

Fri, Jan 3rd

Birthday, Gift Card Holders

flowers 1Good Morning!  it’s cold here! -9 this am It’s so cold here that nobody is buying tickets to the Green Bay Packers Game on Sunday so they may have a local television black out!  How crazy is that?  In all the years of living here, we’ve never heard of a local black out.  Green Bay Packer Fans are usually die hards but the forecast will be really cold!

so I’m trying to be organized and get a head start on things…our son, Travis, has a birthday on Jan 15th so I’ve already made a money holder for him so that I won’t forget his birthday.  Since his birthday always comes at this crazy time of year, I’ve been known to forget 😦

travis 2I was greeted this morning with this little cluster of flowers!  I decided to try and save my summer flowers over the winter to see if I could keep them living.  They look kind of dead but then came some new little green flowers, and then some buds, and now flowers!  so awesome!

Have a great weekend!  Go Pack Go!

Happy New Year!

Gift Card Holders

gift card 1gift card 2This is project 2 in my new envelope punch board class!  It’s adorable!  And easy!

Happy New 2014 to everybody…I know I’m a little late…things are always a little frantic right before the first show of the year…Getting all the D&T’s designed, new MNT’s and of course the class, AND re-doing all the cases.  Re-doing the cases is the most tedious and boring job ever!  All the new stamps need places, the non-sellers need to be taken out and of course that means all the cards need to be shifted too!  so we are very busy!  and as many can imagine…boring and tedious is NOT my cup of tea 🙂

We also have this very old dog named Cocoa who is 18 years old and very frail but has a wonderful disposition so we can’t put her down.   But she takes a whole bunch of time!  We even cook for her because she has decided she doesn’t like dog food.  Her favorite treat is Fruit Loops!  I think Kevin will take good care of me when I’m old because he takes such good care of Cocoa!

I hope we all have a good year for 2014 in all the ways that God would want us too!