March 23

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So we are apparently waiting for a very large snow storm😳 oh good grief!  We are so over snow. The weather was awesome yesterday… very spring like.  I guess I will be taking boots down to the shop in anticipation of snow. My neice came and helped yesterday since they are on spring break. It was nice to have an extra pair of hands working. 

Up early today trying to get caught up. I feel like I’ve been behind for weeks now😣

Stamps Used;  C283 need a hug?; F235 Triple Flag Banner; AA31 tiny butterflies; G335 Peace & Comfort; EE54 Stella Flower; FF54 Stella a Flower Lg; 

Jan 26

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well it’s been a long day today. While we we have been working on the floor the rest of the work has been piling up!  Plus we woke up to this…

  
and while it was absolutely beautiful… Kevin spent the day plowing so that left me in the shop by myself. Kevin came in around 4 pm and we just finished.  whew! glad to be done….now for some frozen pizza and off to bed.

Stamps Used: F229 KB’s Lavender; G296 Earth has Circle; G335 Peace & Comfort;

Once again…

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Once again a very late in the day blog 😦  Whew where does the time go?

Sorry the pictures are so dark.  I needed a thank you card and two sympathy cards so with very little time- I needed to make them simple.  But I do like simple 🙂

Stamps Used:  DD63 Dots & Lines, DD59 Sending Love Fun Cube, CC61 KB’s Birthday Bird; Mini, D299 KB’S Trio Butterflies

Unmounted Stamp Organization

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Stamps used: E265 Death Leaves a Heartache, HH27 KB’s Whumsy Daisy Lg

KB here, blogging for Beth since they are driving back to Wisconsin this afternoon. Earlier, the question of how I keep my mat so clean came up and it is simply baby wipes (the mat was fairly new too which helps). I think I bought this little pack for $1 at Target a couple months ago. Photo Feb 12, 4 00 18 PMSpeaking of cleaning, I was getting frustrated with my unmounted stamps and have been trying to figure out a good way to organize them. I have a binder, a bucket, and a rolodex. I’m still not sure which works best but today at Target, in the dollar section near the entrance, I found some containers which might work nice.

These are the containers I found. Photo Feb 12, 2 32 05 PM

This is what my bucket looked like before.

Photo Feb 12, 2 45 05 PM Photo Feb 12, 2 38 11 PMAs you can imagine, it is very difficult to find the one I want. Also, they get stuck together, bent, damaged, etc. It would be easier to leave them scattered all across the desk but that looks messy and the cat enjoys chewing on them.

This is kind of how it looks now.

Photo Feb 12, 3 46 01 PM (1)Photo Feb 12, 5 19 20 PMPhoto Feb 12, 2 51 21 PMThe dividers help keep them separated. Yet, I can still keep all the cube words and the reverse sets together. The larger stamps don’t fit in any of the containers but I think they will work better in the binder anyway. If anyone has a good suggestion or something that works for them, we are all ears (or eyes since we will probably be reading your responses)! Happy Thursday!

 

Kim’s Card!

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Good Evening!  Boy was I glad to get a text today with this card attached!  Sometimes finding the time to actually stamp cards for the blog is tough!  I often get behind with that.

A wonderful customer named Kim sent this card to me! Love the simplicity of Kim’s card.  Sympathy cards, I believe, should definitely be kept simple.  Love the colors too!

Now to get a card ready for tomorrow….

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!

working images

And here he is not so helpful!

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Arrival in MA!

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simple and easy sympathy card.. no need to make them complicated!

We made it to  Erie, PA last night at 10 pm and got up and going early this morning and arrived in Windsor, Ct  tonight around supper time.  We had good driving weather except for some rain yesterday.  Our boxes of product arrived so we are getting them all priced tonight so we will be ready to go this weekend.  Looking forward to our classes tomorrow!  Come out and see us this weekend in the West Springfield, MA area.  More information at http://www.heirloompro.com  We will have the awesome brother Scan and Cut machine for our class students and Make and Take students to use during the show.

Fan Flowers with Sympathy

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Happy Friday Saturday! Sorry for the delay. I’m not sure what is happening with my uploads but I kept getting an error message. I think I have it working now. Here are two with sympathy cards. One is portrait layout and the other landscape. I colored the flowers with Copic markers. Stamps used: A190, EE40, EE39 and G335EE40 EE39

Pink Fan Flowers

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Purple Fan Flowers

 

Have a wonderful weekend!