Photo Day! When I was out pulling weeds the other day I noticed just a few roses starting to bloom. After all the work of trimming those darn things the first sign of a beautiful flower is a welcome thing!

I worked hard at scrapbooking last night - but I must have been moving really slow because I only managed to get one 2-page layout done - and it was a really simple one! Go figure. But it's one more group of pictures that is done so that's a good thing. And besides it was just nice to spend time with Emily & Sherry. (and Sherry & I had a wonderful dinner at Outback - so in my mind the evening was a total success!)

It will be a weekend of working on class projects - I have three classes coming up starting Monday that I am not prepared for yet. Oh my - time to get to work!

Have a great weekend!

Another card. I know, I need to get some more scrapbook pages done. Hopefully tonight - my friends Emily & Sherry are coming over so I'm sure that is going to motivate me!

Yard work yesterday morning, then I spent the rest of the day and evening trying to get class projects done. Not having much luck with that - I wasn't pleased with anything I did. Back to the drawing board today.

Have a wonderful day!

I can't believe it's Thursday already. My days are going by much too fast. I was a total slacker yesterday and didn't get much done. So now I'm looking at a lot of things I want to do and a lot more things I need to do. I guess today I better go with some of things I need to do. (translate that into yard work and class projects)

This is another one of the cards I did with the fun pinwheel fold.

Hope you are having a great week.

This is a card my stampin' friend Judy S shared with us at our Shoebox Club last week. I loved this layout - Thanks Judy!

After a day of nothing but paper work yesterday I am ready for a change today. Even yard work sounds good! (well, maybe not good, but better than paper work) Not sure what direction I'm headed today, but there's lots to be done so I will be busy.

Happy stampin'

I'm getting my money's worth from this stamp set - so many different layouts to use it on. I rather liked this one that I saw on-line and it was a bit different.

More yard work yesterday - I got the mess cleaned up from trimming the bushes and pulled a lot of weeds. Note to self - do not water right before pulling weeds - yuk - mud!

Today I have a ton of paper work that needs to be done and a class tonight. I am looking forward to class but not the paper work!

Happy stampin'

Simple, but rather elegant, don't ya think? I actually dug out the ol' embossing gun and embossed the white flowers. I love the way embossing looks - not sure why I don't do it more often.

A whole day of yard work yesterday! I got all the bushes trimmed up and the big trees out front - Jeff trimmed the tops for me before he went golfing. I do have to go back out today and clean up the trimmings - I was so tired when I got done that I left the mess.

I hope everyone is having a great holiday weekend!

Happy stampin'

Here are a couple of the layouts I got done the last time I was scrappin' - seems like it was a long time ago - I really need to spend more time scrappin'! I have a hard time with Disney pages these days - I've done so many of them I am running out of ideas. This one is rather simple - (wow - I even used just plain ol' white paper for the background!) But, it worked, and now those pictures are done.

Not sure what happened to my day yesterday - I decided it was too cool to do yard work (yeah, I know, just another excuse) But I did get a birthday present made and went to dinner with Jeff. Even got a card done last night. But today I MUST get out and get the trees in front trimmed so Jeff can finish the top part that I can't reach before he leaves tomorrow.

Happy scrappin'

More cards - I got a lot of cards made this last week, so I have a lot to share with you. (Don't worry, Bretina, I do have some scrapbook pages too!)

Alison showed us how to make this cool pinwheel flower at Shoebox on Tuesday night. I just thought it was fun to do and something different. Thanks Alison! It's made with the small SU tag punch. This is one of the cards I did with it.

Some fun news for me - my son Jeff is moving back to Grand Junction! I am very excited about that - and he is very excited about his new job.

I hope you all are having a great Memorial Day weekend!

Happy stampin'

(I did 2 posts today, so scroll down to see more pictures from the iris farm.)

I am doing 2 different posts today. I just had to share some more of the flower pictures from the iris farm. They are just sooooo pretty!

I was so glad I worked hard on Wednesday and got all my chores done because it allowed me to take a "play day" yesterday. Judy S, Diane and I had a 3-in-one day yesterday - a field trip to an iris farm, lunch and scrapbook shopping!

Our first stop was at Willow Bend Farm - an iris farm, a place I didn't even know existed and it's right up the road from me! What beautiful flowers.

Judy needed a piece of paper that she could only get in Delta so.........yes, indeed, we drove to Delta for one piece of paper. (but of course we came home with more than that!) It was lunch time so we also got to eat at our favorite place in Delta.

What a great day! Food, fun, scrapbook shopping, beautiful flowers, tons of photos and spending time with friends - the best of times!!!!!

Have a great day!

What the heck is up with this weather? One day the temp is 90, the next day it's 60. Now this morning it's cold and raining. Geez.

This is another one of the cards I did during my marathon card making day. I pretty much copied the whole thing from one I saw out there in blog land. Some of you will probably see this same layout popping up in card class.

Happy stampin'

I had a card making day yesterday. It went pretty well, I liked some better than others - but what can you expect. This is one of the cards I did. Please ignore the imperfections - I had just re-inked my ink pad and the "enjoy" came out a little blotchy, then I got my hole punch too close to the edge and it left a "dent". But you get the idea. I will have to redo this one before I send it to anyone.

Today I will be spending the day getting ready for a project class tomorrow night. All those pieces to measure and cut! (not my favorite part of teaching classes!)

Enjoy your day!

Here is one of the layouts I did last Friday. I am really into simple these days! I have sooooo many pictures to scrapbook that simple is working for me right now. I am also finding it harder to work with so many pictures that are closeups - can't crop much, so don't have much room on the page for anything but pictures. But, I guess the pictures are supposed to be the important part, right?

Have a wonderful day!

Monday morning - again! It's the beginning of a busy week for me so I have to be diligent and stick to my schedule.

Here is a layout I did a while back. I don't usually mess with enlarging photos, but I liked this layout I saw in a book and thought I'd try it. I don't get to use flowers on my pages very often either, so this was a fun page to do.

Woo hoo! I finished trimming the rose bushes yesterday! I'm glad that job is done! Now a couple of big weed patches to clean up and the spring clean-up will be done!

A note: sorry about the picture from yesterday. I didn't realize it was out of focus until after I had already posted it. The card is actually much prettier than it looked!

Happy scrappin'

I hope everyone is having a good weekend. Here is another card I did with the swiss dots embossing folder. Very simple, but I like the look.

Not sure what my plans are for the day. I have so many things to get done this week that I'm not sure where to start. I think I'll try for some yard work this morning, then work on class stuff this afternoon.

Happy stampin'

No stampin', just paper. This is another one of the cards I did the other day when I was playing hooky. Simple, but rather pretty I thought.

Ah ha - I got the rest of the flowers planted yesterday! And sprayed weeds and got the lawn watered. Yea! Then my buddy Kim came over last night and I got 3 - 2 page scrapbook layouts done. I'm hoping to get a little more scrapbooking done this afternoon.

Have a great weekend!

Ok, I have to admit I played hooky yesterday. I found yet another excuse not to work in the yard (the weather was bad! Well, it was!) and I ended up playing in my stamp room making cards. I had to run some errands yesterday morning and decided to check out HL - I have been looking for the pin dot embossing folder forever - they had it! And it was 30% off! Yea! So, I just had to play with it, right? Here is one of the cards I did.

Today I really am going to get the rest of the flowers planted. Honest!

Happy Stampin'

Good morning. I used a Becky Higgins sketch for this layout. I'm still not sure I'm comfortable with all the blank space, but I love the colors.

The weather is throwing a kink in my plans for the day - at least for now. It's amazing how my days revolve around the weather - especially this time of year. Hopefully it will warm up and the sun will come out this afternoon - I still have flowers to plant. (and there's still more rose bushes waiting to be trimmed) So I guess I will get some things done inside this morning and see what the afternoon brings.

Happy scrappin'

Photo day. I love sunsets! And one of the things I love about my house is I have an unobstructed view of the sunset each evening from my living room window. This was the sunset last night.

The UPS guy delivered several boxes of goodies last night just as my class ended. Now I have some fun new stuff to play with and will hopefully have some new class projects done soon.

Have a wonderful day!

A dreary, cold morning! What happened to our sunny, spring weather? I'm glad I had no outside plans for today. Class this morning and another class this evening - maybe some stamping in between? I'm running out of new cards to share so I need some stamping time and today might be the day!

A simple birthday card today. I love blue & green together and this layout was just quick and fun.

Happy stampin'