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?? 🙂

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

I do still like bib cards too!  The Triple Cards haven’t taken over completely.  We are in Collinsville, IL this weekend for the third of five shows in a row.  More information can be found at http://www.rubberstampevents.com.  Hope to see you there!

A cute little treat!  This uses the same sort of pattern that we use in my class for the snowman treat holder. So cute and so fun!

Karissa came home this weekend to help us celebrate the Fourth and to get a cute little present:

our newest addition to the family that will live in St. Paul with her.  Maizie!  She is adorable.  We had to take Karissa’s last kitty to the barn because she was being really naughty and this little kitty is a runt and was getting picked on by the other cats so we rescued it!  Yes, that is my stamping area in the back that always looks like that!  ugh!

Have a wonderful Fourth of July!

the wedding is over, the company is all gone, the stamps are all done for Orlando and there is still one more day before we leave.  I do have some odds and ends to do yet for Orlando and maybe get the house clean?!??

Here’s a picture of my sister and her beautiful family!  We wish them the very best!

It’s a Spec Tacular Day today because we made it home tonight around 9:15 pm.  It was a very long day in the truck and we are certainly glad to be home!  If we look like we gained 20 pounds while we were gone it is all Nancy’s fault!  She sent us home with an awesome pan of brownies which we ate all the way home!

Good Evening!  Here is a fun card using some of my yellow paint chips that I got when I was re -decorating my laundry room.  Emily bird was cut out using my awesome Brother Scan and Cut Machine…see how nice a job it does around the feet?  Love it!  The tag the saying is in was from a pattern in the brother machine too!
I have 30 cards done of my 40 and 10 more to go in the morning and then to get them to the postoffice!  Yikes! I’ve noticed that I’m making the cards more complicated…need to get back to simple!

We have an appointment for the truck at 9 am all the way in Green Bay so I need to get up real early and get going if I’m going to get anything done tomorrow!

here are a few of our stamps cut out with the brother Scan and  Cut machine.  It seriously makes all your stamps into a die cut!  How many of you have more than 16 dies???  That is approximately the cost of the machine but is  so much more versatile.  It does have some built in patterns and I’ve seen how to take svg. cutting files and convert them to the brother.  Amazing!  The machine can do so much but all I really care about is stamping and then cutting and THAT is incredible easy with this machine.  The only thing that I always forget to do is add the .04 edge to the scan.  Otherwise the machine cuts right next to the stamped image and I feel that it is more pleasing to the eye to have a little border!   Melissa – I saw someone on You Tube take one of their cricut cartridges and do something in the brother with it – you might want to look it up before selling your cartridges 🙂

We are up early and getting some last minute things ready for the Sayner, WI show.  Just a 3 1/2 hour drive for us so nice and easy.  Have a super weekend- we have rain, rain, rain and more rain predicted!