Another Day!

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Another busy day here in Green Bay,  WI!  We’ve been working on the website trying to get the new stamps and triple flag banner paper added.  And No Kathy, we did not have them in West Bend.  They didn’t arrive until the next weekend in Minneapolis.  I will get to all of your answers as soon as I can.

We have Bible Study at our house tonight.  The whole house had not been really cleaned since we started the five week show schedule so cleaning the house was a top priority today.  I started at 6:30 am!  We then worked on the website this afternoon and did some much need paper work.  If I let that get too far behind I have a real mess.

We are actually taking the next few days off and going to my parent’s home in Minnesota.  Dad does a “thrashing show” every year selling antique tools and this is going to be his last year.  We have never gone to the show but have heard lots about it over the years and so Kevin wanted to go over and see and help Dad.  We will leave at 6 am in the morning so we can be over there by noon.  My sister is moving to an apartment and we will be helping her with that too.  We will also sneak in some Karissa time too 🙂  My Mom had her bathroom re-done a year or so ago and it all looks fabulous except nobody has painted the heat register so I plan to do that while there too!  And hopefully we will see my brother and his family also.  Does that sound like a few days off!??!!

This is what we are going to be doing when we return on Monday!  No rest for the wicked…maybe I should try being less wicked?? 🙂

woodThat is 1300 sq ft of wood flooring to be put in the living room, dining room and master bedroom!  So Exciting!

Hello, Just a Note

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Good Morning!  Here is a simple triple flag banner card.  We are hoping to get these cards on the website on Wednesday so I have a few more samples this week.  This stamp doesn’t cut well on the brother so I have to use the trick with acetate and then it cuts beautifully!  Went back and made a mat for it too!

A little bittersweet day for me yesterday.  We have a young girl coming to stay with us while she does an internship here in Green Bay so I needed to clean out my son’s room.  I’ve been avoiding that room because it makes his leaving home so final (even though I know it’s final…it just seems like closing the book on a chapter of our lives!)  So I texted him to see if he wanted anything from his room and his reply was “do what seems best, I have enough of everything!”  so it all went.  Well, I did keep his lifeguard shirt ( I don’t know why!), a few pair of jeans ( I want to make a quilt with some of the fabric), and all his ties went in his Dad’s closet!  So the book is closed!. We even took it all to Goodwill so I can’t go back and take things out.

Well, I still have some orders to get out so I’d better get to work!  Our rule when we are off the road for awhile is we work until noon in the shop and then play catch up on all the things around the house that need catching up from us being gone so much.  So much to do in a little bit of time.

Home Sweet Home

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so happy to be home and off the road for a little while!  🙂  We are very far behind on things though so it will take us a little while to get caught up.  Especially the paperwork ! UGH!

Had a little chance to play in the studio yesterday after we got home and got all the suitcases unpacked.  I have been wanting to take the svg. files and convert them on the brother website and then cut them out.  Here is an eyeglass svg. file that I got for free!  so adorable.  Should have made it just a bit smaller but I was still happy with it.  The card is actually a scallop heart card that I also did on the brother website.  Working on the big computer screen is easier than the little screen on the machine and then I just download it to the usb port and take it to the machine and there it is!  Love it!  Today I’m going to try and cut some felt that Amy sent me.  Have to get a few orders out this morning first!

Happy Monday!

Stampaway!

Creatures, Friendship

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Wishing everyone a great day today!

We are here in Sharonville,  OH getting ready for Stampaway.  We had an awesome group in my class yesterday.  We are going to go and finish setting up this morning and then the show starts this evening.  It was really nice to get mostly set up yesterday before my class and now just some finishing touches to do in the booth.

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Have a great weekend!

Cincinnati OH

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A switch from the big fox to the little fox today!

We made it to Batesville,  IN last night around 10 pm.  We are up and ready for set up today in Cincinnati, OH and for my class at 2:30 pm.  We have about an hour drive this morning into Cincinnati.

Here are some pictures of my niece who loves horses!  She was at a horse show of some kind this weekend and took home several ribbons.  Way to Go Hallie!

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Here we go Again!!!

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Here’s a card to go with the cup we posted last week!

Sooooooo we are off again!  Leaving today at noon for the last leg of this journey!  I admit it!  I am weary!  🙂

Have a last few stamps to make this morning but we are mostly packed!  I don’t really unpack.  I wash the clothes and just put them back in the suitcase.  So they went back in the suitcase this morning and the suitcase went back into the truck…Looking forward to Cincinnati!

Tuesday Morning!

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Hope your day is a good one.  My sister came over to help me make stamps on her day off.  Thank Goodness!  We have a lot to do and we leave tomorrow at noon.

For all you ladies with the Brother ScannCut…I have figured out how to virtually cut out ALL (that’s right 100%) of your stamps with this awesome machine.  I used to say you had to have a continues line and not a solid stamp but I have figured a way to fool the machine.  Someone mentioned to me about the Scan mat that is available from Brother for scanning fabric and how it worked so I wondered if we could apply the same concept to our stamps.  This is what I do:  (when I have time I will try to do pictures! just a little busy right now :)) I stamp the image on paper.  Lay it on the standard mat.  Take a piece of acetate that is a little bigger and place over the stamped paper.  Draw a line where I want the machine to cut on the acetate with a sharpie.  Scan the image.  When it is done scanning, I take off the acetate and then have it just cut the paper!  Works Awesome!

Have a great day!

Oh My Goodness!

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oh my goodness!  It ALL starts over again 🙂 We got home from Novi, MI last night, well really this morning!, at 2:05 am.  Up and at them again so that we can leave on Wednesday for Stampaway in Cincinnati,  OH  show.   Kevin is still in bed since he does all the driving!  My brother in law is coming over this morning to help me.  Thank Goodness!

Here is Karissa working on some new images.  She draws them by hand!  Mason her little cutie is helping her!

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And here he is not so helpful!

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