Hello Birdie!

On Monday (August 9th) our friends Sara and Quinton, their kids Will and Whitney and us all got up early and went to a short trip to Holiday World in Santa Claus, Indiana. It was so much fun!!! I am not the roller coaster riding kind of girl but that day, I actually braved it and rode all of three wooden roller coasters in the park. : )  I didn't think theme parks would take my attention anymore, but I was totally wrong. We stayed at a nice hotel in Evansville that night, did some craft shopping the next day. 


I found DCWV's Songbird on sale and didn't have second thoughts and bought it, I also picked up a couple stamp sets, and other little crafting things that were on sale. The card above is what came out of that trip... Hopefully Sara was able to take enough pictures to put in the scrapbook. What a wonderful two days!!!  

Happy Holidays

At new year's this year, I have made a promise that I will make Christmas cards early in the year so when the holiday comes, I am not stuck in the house everyday making cards, missing out on all the winter fun and still come up short of cards to give away.

My goal was to make at least one Christmas card every day in July but it turns out that I have been so distracted that I was only able to make three. Isn't that sad? LOL This is better than last year though, I didn't make any last year, I ended up buying cards. So here's one of them I made. 

The blue flower is handmade (by me) using white cardstock and lots of glimmer mist, inspired by one of the blogs I follow. : )

For U

I made this 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 card out of odds and ends from cards and scrapbook pages I've made in the past except for the chipboard letter. Sara and I went to our local scrapbook store and found them on clearance a few days ago. All the rest are just stuff I found while organizing my stuff this week. 

Thinking of You

I made this 5 x 7 card out of cardstock I've forgotten I had. I remember this one really good because I just had to have it when I saw this at the store. Anyway, long story short, I bought it, took it home and stashed it somewhere, and FORGOT about it!!! LOL That's why John would not let me put anything away or tuck anything in a folder. Especially my craft stuff because he knows me so well... He knows that if I don't see 'it', 'it' never gets used -- just like this cardstock I used to make this card. 

I made this one specifically for Brandi. She has been in and out of the hospital in the past month and have not seen her for a while that I thought I would send her a little pink pick-me-up. She loves everything pink! A little something about Brandi, she has had a lung transplant (about 9 or 10 years ago), she is battling cystic fibrosis. and is now dependent to an oxygen machine (or whatever they call that thing that helps her breathe). She is John's cousin and she has become so dear to me. She is my prayer partner, my friend, and a great listener too. I admire her strength and her faith in God. We don't have much time with her, and she knows it. But she has peace like no other. I love her laugh and her giggles. And the way she asks John to talk in his "lady" voice. 

This one's for you, Brandi!!!

My Craft Haven... It was truly worth all the wait!

I have been gifted with a great husband and a great dad-in-law, who have worked day and night since Spring this year to finish up my craft room. This week marked the almost-end of it. I say almost-the end of it because we still have to replace the dark lauan doors that came with the house when we bought it in May, they still have to hang a new ceiling fan to replace the dingy old one that used to be in the room, and install thresholds that match my new bamboo floors. My dad-in-law is very good at wood working and he has been a great teacher to my Hubby so this whole time since spring, I have entrusted my vision to the two of them. Two and  a half months later, they delivered a totally awesome craft room. : )

We bought the house we live in now just recently. It is a nice bungalow. My husband and I and our dog, Iddy and our three cats, Voodoo, Mr. Peapers and Foozie Woozie fit in it just fine. However nice and sturdy this house is, it came with its little quirks...  The interior looks like the 70's blew up in it. So since the home loan closed, we have been updating one room after the other. We turned a room adjacent to the kitchen into our den/home office and my craft room. But now, it is mainly all mine. We have left the desktop computer in the craft room for now but it will be going somewhere else soon as I decide to get a Windows laptop or a MacBook Pro. (Yeah, it is a very big decision for me. I am tech-savvy, I am very particular with high-dollar purchases, I am a penny pincher and a bargain shopper but I don't settle for cheap stuff just because they are cheap because that could mean a lot of problems too especially with technology nowadays).

My craft room has all the stuff I want in it except for the tray ceiling. It was John's (my husband) idea, which magically turned the room 180 degrees. It doesn't like it used to!!! I picked out the paint colors, the bamboo floors, the curtains, everything! I am currently shopping for shelves and currently making stuff to decorate my walls with. I am so excited, so happy and just plain thankful that my room will be fully completed very very soon.