Family Newsletter....

I just created a family newsletter for Sheldon & I. We have been married for 3 years and with being so far away from a lot of our friends and family I thought it would be good to create one.

More fun with new ink...

I am procrastinating a little bit. :) I am supposed to be studying for a test. I studied about 4 hours this morning...and a little this afternoon. But I should be doing nothing but studying.

However, instead I have been creating.

This first card I made for my fil...my inlaws went to the Caribbean for Thanksgiving and are coming back tonight. I thought this would be fun for them.

This other card was with a House Mouse stamp I purchased awhile ago. I had only used it once, since the stamp was really hard to stamp and get a clear impression. Which I found out is an ink problem. My new SU ink pad has taken care of that. I colored them both in with Prismas and used a blender pencil.

Christmas Time Is Here (Though it is almost 80 here)

Hi again,


Paper Crafts Magazine is having an online contest on gift wrapping. I am not that big of a wrapper normally....I have finally been able to get my gifts wrapped well enough for my sister not to believe that I have done it. LOL


However, I thought I would try this contest. Especially since this year we are giving away mostly gift cards. It is getting harder and harder to find gifts for family. Even Sheld & I have a really hard time buying each other gifts. We usually just pick them out ourselves.



Here are two of the gift boxes I have completed. One has a bit of ribbon, flowers and bling. The other one is a little more out there...with buttons, glitter, ribbon and snowflakes. :)

I also made a bow out of cupcake liners...but that isn't ready to be seen yet. I did that for my nephew Jared...it is with Scooby Doo liners.

Pencils & Inks, Oh My!

Hi,

I am pretty excited. I went to Michael's the other day and Prismas were on sale. I hard a hard time trying to decide between the 12 or 24 pack...However, I went for the 24. Yeah. :)

The same day my SU black ink came in. I am pretty excited...I am able to use my large stamps without killing my hands. One of my PC MB friends told me that it was pretty sad to be excited over ink and pencils...but that is the world we live in.

Here are the 2 cards that I created....I have some smearing on them. So don't look at that. Both stamps are Penny Black.

I know I just posted...

However, I made my own light box. :) I need to get some lights to go with it so I can see how it works. But so far so good....here are too cards I did using it...with just one light.

WOW...I cannot believe how long it has been

since I have written anything. I have been exhausted and sick. :) Every day all I do is work and then come home and sleep. Now 10:00 bedtime is normal for some people...but for Sheld & I....1 AM is normal. Which kind of happened yesterday. I feel asleep right when we got home....about 6 until 9. Then I was awake until 1:30. Doing a little creating and checking out blogs.

Today it will be around 11:30 that we go to bed...that is soon so I better hurry. Tomorrow I have my final Science class....just a final and then I am done. I don't know if I received the job or not at the University. Since I haven't heard from them....I am thinking it is a no. That is too bad. I was kind of excited....it sounded like a wonderful job. But I will keep looking.

Here are a few items I have created recently...I have been a bit on a down cycle....Most of the products in these pictures are from my SS Traci....I am doing a 25 days of Christmas swap and wow she is spoiling me. I am going to try and use everything as I go. And I am working on CHristmas cards....since I haven't made mine yet. YIKES

Saving the Best for last

I knew I was forgetting something. :) Sheldon found a really cool trestle table plans in one of his Popular Mechanics Magazine. We asked Rich if he could make us one. He said sure. Well we received it this weekend. And it is absolutely gorgoues. It is made out of cherry and the details and workmanship is amazing.

The table comes apart very easily. The top just pulls off and the legs come apart. When we finish school this will become Sheldon's office desk. But for the moment it will be our dining room table.

Thanks Rich!!!!

Expanding my creativity

I wanted to try and make paper snowflakes. I searched all over the internet for directions. Martha Stewart had directions for doing papercut outs like what we did as kids. Well mine did not work out at all. I felt destined to fail at this simple task.


Then I found a link on wiki....(not sure exact link). That had these gorgeous snowflakes with step by step directions. Normally I wouldn't try to do something this grand but I challenged myself. I ended up using 2.5 sheets of 12x12 paper to make this. it is 12 inches in diameter. I tried to get away without using any tape (just my adhesive) and ended up having to go back and taping everything. It was actually pretty easy to make.


After making the snowflake, I tried making smaller ones to see if I could make package decoration sizes. But the smaller you go, the harder it is to staple and put together. But one section, looks like an icicle so I used that to make a card. It would make a great package topper too.I also, tried some different style Christmas cards. Not my favorite, but different.






My aun't s birthday was this month. I did send her a card but wanted to create another one for her when I saw her over thanskgiving. She loves black/red so I tried to create a graphic card for her.

After Thanksgiving

For the first time in years, I went shopping the day after Thanksgiving. I was up by 5:30 AM and out the door by 6 to go to Kohl's and do some clothes shopping. I have an interview on Tuesday and needed some new clothes. It is pretty exciting. size 16's were way too big. 14's are big in the waist but my hips get in the way. LOL

After that my mom & Rich came and we went to the mall to do a little more shopping. I wasn't planning on buying anything but mom was nice and bought me a new workout outfit and a couple of tee-shirts. Which I appreciate very much. I already wore them out, when we went to workout last night.

Then after going to lunch with mom & Rich, Sheldon and I decided to go to OfficeMax. We ended up getting me a mp3 player so I had something to listen to at the gym. Sheldon bought himself some memory. (Though I still think his memory will be bad.) Plus, we ended up getting a good shredder. We are planning on shredding all of our paper and making handmade paper out of it. Recycle, Recycle, Recycle. :)

To my delight, Joann's is next door to Officemax. So we ran in there to see if they had any stamp deals. Found some darling Christmas $1.00 stamps and stamp pads.

After that we went to Cinnabon and the bookstore so Sheldon could get a book on Tunisia.

When we got home I found two PIF packages in the mail for me. One from Jacque with this cutest stamp and one from Jess with ink pads and Luminaries. I am so excited to use all of them. Jess is hosting a domino swap and I believe all of those will work for it. And the stamp is just my personality....Jacque did a great job in picking that out for me.

Yesterday, we did errands and chores. Trying to keep the house clean. Since I scrubbed it down for my mom's visit. Plus, we went to the movies and saw American Gangsta. It was a really good movie. I was quite suprised.

More Thanksgiving

When Sheld & I got to Dave & Carrie's house....mom and Caleb were already upstairs playing. So I went and visited and took some pictures of all the fun they were having. Caleb was showing grandma that he liked to take all his toys out of the closet. He doesn't quite understand the one toy at a time rule.

Later on everyone hung out and talked.

Plus, I snuck into the kitchen and took a picture of the chef.

Thanksgiving 2007

This year Thanksgiving was at Dave & Carrie's house. With Leland only being a couple of weeks old and Carrie's mom visiting this seemed like the optimal choice. My mom and Rich drove in from North Carolina and my aunt and uncle drove in from Tennessee. So it was a nice and full house.

Carrie's mom, Donna made the majority of dinner. My mom and I the day before got together and made some casseroles and dessert. AJ & UD bought his famous mac salad which we forgot to put out, plus the fudge & caramels.

In this first set of pictures you can see who one of the stars of the show was. :) While mommy is his favorite person...Leland allowed Sheldon, Dave & myself to hold him for awhile.

Semi-Professional Photo Shoot

Well....kind of....Sheldon & I took these pictures of each other. Sheldon wanted to go and metal detect at the WOW Park. And I wanted to get some pictures of the changing leaves. Right before leaving I thought...maybe we can get some photos of each other, to send out to family. Sheldon doesn't like posed shots...but I do. :)

Luckily for me...when we got to WOW, it was way too crowded for Sheldon to metal detect. So we went for a walk on the path to see if we could find any trees to shoot. Most of the trees back in the woods weren't very attractive. So we had to improvise and of course Sheldon will tell you how bossy I am. However, unlike him it takes a few shots to get a good photo of me. Or I am just pickier about myself. He is a good photographer and it didn't take too long. We first had it on a setting that turned our faces ghostly white. So he switched it to automatic and that turned out a lot better.

The best pic of me....I am a little out of focus but it looks like that is what we are going for. His turned out good...they always do. :) My very own Matt Damon. LOL

Then we took some funny shots in Sheld's hat.

Last but definitely not least....is a photo of a little bridge going over the water. Since we are having a drought here in Georgia there wasn't much water.