Newest Addition to our Family

My brother and sister-in-law finally found out what they were having....ANOTHER BOY!!! Congratulations Dave & Carrie....His name is Leland Mitchell. I am already trying to give him a nickname...LOL. Luckily for me I am the aunt and I can do that.

I made and sent them a card to celebrate the newest edition. I added some flowers because Carrie hasn't been able to have all th frilly girl stuff...YET. They are already planning their next one. If they aren't careful they might end up with 3 boys. Caleb, Leland and....

Sheldon's Birthday

Friday was Sheldon's 36th birthday. I asked him what he wanted to do and he said go out and eat. :) I knew that wasn't true (but he was trying to make me happy).....because he prefers home cooking to restaurants. I guess I spoil him. LOL

So....I bought some cream cheese spread, little baguettes, cheese fries........and then I made steak and veggie kebabs.....they were delicious.

We had anice weekend...though all weekend he kept asking to go out to the movies...but we haven't made it there, yet.

Pet Lover's Swap

This swap turned out FANTASTIC. Everyone who participated created such amazing cards. The orignal premise of this was to give cards from you to your pet....but it turned out to also be from your pet to you....pretty easy. My Goal was to do 50/50 between kitties and dogs and it turned out well.

Thank you to the following swappers for making this great:

• Fgrif


• Donna2257


• Beaglelover


• 40isFun


• Janice W


• Kenzlane


• 2for2


• jennie_hi (hostess)

Inchie Contest Winners & Participants

{Finally Revealed}

I cannot believe how slow I am on getting this finished….I think it is because I don’t want to give up these inchies…. They are all gorgeous. I was amazed at how different each card was and the different styles. All in an inch. Everything from flowers to shoes.

Officially…..(But everyone is a winner.)

• Ant Me. #3 Wins with the most “Layers”. She has over 134 separate pieces on her incihe. It is also hard to see in the photo but her inchie is actually on transparent plastic. (She wins a Stamp.)
• Reidy2099 #8 is our voters choice. A lot of people loved the 3d effect of the layers. (She wins a stamp.)
• Singaling #7 came in second place. She combined different colors and lots of layers. (She wins the inchies.)
• Beauuuuutiful #1 is our random drawing winner. Her card became a bit squished in mailing because of the layers she had in her flower. (She wins 20 stamped images.)

Here is the great group of swappers we had:
1---Beauuuuutiful
2---AllyCatPixie
3--- Ant Me.
4---Travler3
5---Crazy4Paper
6---Busyb222
7---Singaling
8---Reidy2099
9---GSMom385
10—Polarbear
11—LittleDevil
12--AustinMom

My posts for the contest...

I thought I better list all the links so I can keep an eye on the contest.....hope we get lots of votes....

Day 1
http://www.papercraftsmag.com/gallery/details.ihtml?idx=53297

http://www.papercraftsmag.com/message_board/topic.ihtml?topic=73063&page_num=1&

Day 2---Thursday
http://www.papercraftsmag.com/message_board/topic.ihtml?topic=73095&page_num=1&
http://www.papercraftsmag.com/gallery/details.ihtml?idx=53413

Day 3---Friday
http://www.papercraftsmag.com/message_board/topic.ihtml?topic=73168&page_num=1&
http://www.papercraftsmag.com/message_board/topic.ihtml?topic=73196&page_num=1&

Inchie Contest---Layers Galore

Click on the 1st pictureto see a close up of the inchies.

Please vote for your favorite inchie!!!!

Each swapper worked very hard on their cards...can you believe that each one is only an inch? Origianlly the contest was open to 20, but we have 12 entries....so a whole foot!!!!

You can vote either here or on the PCMB link....please remember though....1 vote per person. I will be taking votes from today---Sunday morning!

thanks...

Jennie

PS...if you vote here and don't have a blogger account you can still leave a comment...just as annonyomous....however leave your pcmb name!

Doctor's Appointment

Yesterday was our doctor's appointment....Yeah. Though I hate going to the doctor. My blood pressure is doing pretty good. It was down when he took it and then today I took it and it was 115/73. So exercise must be helping. I have one more Doctor's appointment in a month and then we are going to be officially trying. :)

My online weight loss group is creating scrapbook pages each member and sharing them with each other....since we are all in this journey together. So I had Sheldon snap my picture yesterday.

Then while we were taking pics of the birds....I snapped one of him and the "Princess" Oreo. I notice today that we were matching....Yikes we are married.

Where is Batman?

I noticed that we had pics of Rocky & Oreo....but none of Batman. I didn't want him to feel left out.....as if he would notice....but last night we decided to give him his own little photo op....

And because he is mostly black with a little bit of white he doesn't photograph as well as Rocky....who was lying on the bed looking all cute and cuddly....if you don't know the story...his real name is Rocky Road (Ice Cream).

So we took a few of each of them.....

Eat your Veggies....

Since we are growing lots of veggies...we thought we would start practicing eating them early. We made a cucumber, tomatoe, onion, lettacue and cream cheese sandwiches for lunch....they turned out pretty good. I knew we were missing something....mushrooms. Don't tell my mom...growing up I absolutely hated MUSHROOMS....but I like them now...but only when they are fresh.

A Day in the Life of Rocky....

I have to say. Rocky has it pretty good. He usually gets fed when he wants...and as much...as much loving...even Sheldon will normally pet him when he wants...since he is normally such a mommy's boy...(Sheldon likes to stay in his good graces.)

This day was no exception....I went outside to water the veggies and in the process did a little kitty photo shoot.....He just loves the sunshine.

What a happy boy....MEOW!!!!

Kitty Cat ATC's

Even though this is just my 3rd swap hosted...I have been so lucky! Every one's ATC's are wonderful...they are each different and I am so excited because I just love Cat's.

I just finished swapping this out this morning and I hope everyone is as excited when they receive their packages....Just be aware....my quality control crew of 1 "Rocky" was helping....so there might be a little kitty hair. Which is bad for Brooke because she is allergic. I have to give an extra thanks to Brooke....she helped out at the last minute when someone unfortunately had to drop. So thank you. This is the 2nd swap of mine she has participated in and her work is great.

Thanks to all:

• Becca--The Prima Donna Card...reminds me of my Rocky
• Michelle---The kitty with the binoculars....reminds me of Batman trying to get the birds.
• Cindy--Fluffles Exploring...once again reminds me of my cats!!!
• Brooke--What's New Pussycat...reminds me of my other prima donna....Oreo.
• Chris--Cattitude...Do we need to say anymore. I love her bottom and charm.
• Bec--Cats are really people.....That is definitely what my kitties tell me everyday.
• Jennie--Play with me....I made this because my cats want to do this all day...I thought that the older they get the lazier they are. LOL

They are going out in the mail today....I had one swapper I was waiting to see if she had sent her items in. But I didn't hear back from her...and yesterday was my due date for sending out.

Thanks again everyone...

My Winning Entry...

On the Paper Crafts message board 5Treasures (Deb) did a round of challenges...the first round I am sorry say my card was a bit pathetic. However, the 2nd round I did a lot better.

Our goal was to "alter" something....anything...but we had an hour. I used an old soup can that Sheldon was using for his metal detecting money and finds...to melt down.

I had found at Michael's the other day some totally cool metal stickers (on sale of course) and bought a set...it has a firetruck, airplane, police car, etc....I first was going to use the fire truck...and had to pull it back off.

I layered the can with light blue paper...then darker blue ribbon, made some clouds out of a in between blue, highlighed them with black & white markers...then shaded them with dark blue chalk....I popped up one of the smaller clouds...the rest I just taped to the paper....then I added the air plane and another sticker that said ALL BOY.

&

I WON!!!

So I am pretty excited....I loved how the can turned out.