I made these cards with some leftover paper from the page I made in the previous post. I am not sure how I got so low on birthday cards but January will be "guy card month" until I get a small stash again.

I am not sure why they have the greenish tinge but the batteries in my camera are low.

January 8 2010

Here are some photos from Brynn's second birthday in September 2008. We don't get together often enough and so when we do every event turns into a photo op. I am sooo far behind but hope to get caught up this year.

January 4 2010

I spent the evening working on Josh's book and listening to a Diana Krall CD. Time well spent. This is about a year old so he has changed a lot and I have a lot of catching up to do.

Our Girl

Here is a picture of one of the "changes" I mentioned earlier!! Aries is a 135 pound English Mastiff and the sweetest gentlest girl you could hope to have in your family. She simply thinks she is much smaller than she is LOL!!! She often tries to climb on our lap. Our Suzi, the Border Collie we have had for 10 years will soon make her journey over the rainbow bridge. She has Lymphoma and although she has lived an exceptionally good life and brought us much joy, we know it will soon be time to let her go. Aries has learned a lot from her, she is a good teacher, and although we will miss her, we have hundreds of wonderful memories.

I'm back!!!

Its been a long while since I used this blog and a lot has changed for us. My New Years resolution is to make much more effort to keep this site up to date, to share my ideas, my joys, my trials and my ramblings with you. A second and more important resolution is that of getting my scrap book pages up to date for all 8 of our grandchildren. I will no doubt be winding down the Stampin' Up business in order to do this and that makes me somewhat sad but I also derive a great deal of joy from preserving the memories of those beautiful children growing up. I will not likely make a final decision on the SU business until the end of March but winding it up is is an option. Here is a picture of the card class I did for Christmas this year. It was very well received and a lot of fun to deliver but the prep time was considerable and it took me away from other things that I would liked to have accomplished.

Here is another card from the take and make selection...these were such fun.

A few recent additions to my gallery

These are some cards I did for the "take it and make it" potion of the GCWCC vendor sales event at work.