I *heart* Abby.
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How cool is this card? My buddy Abby is the only person in my 38 years who has actually shortened my LOOOONG name to give me a nickname. She sent me a little goody bag in the mail and how awesome is she that she enclosed a card to me and even decorated the envelope? Like she’s got all the time in the world on her hands, she draws that humongoid C on there and colors it in. Abby, you rock! I loved it and I LOVED what came with it.
I think the card might have been my favorite part, though. It said:
Roses are red.
Violets are blue.
Just sent this card……
(inside) for the hell of it!
Totally cracked me up!
Thank you Abby. It was just what I needed!
Filed under Life | Comments (2)Are you smarter than a 30-something year old?
Just look for a couple of seconds at this cute little wooden advent calendar. Imagine you are shopping in the Michaels arts and crafts store. Imagine you are me and thinking of buying it for your little girl, who is standing beside you begging you to buy it, of course, because she loves the idea of looking in all those little doors every day in the month of December and she wants to paint it herself. You’re in a hurry to get to a birthday party and you’re about to be late. There’s also no price on the damn thing (I HATE THAT), but you do have a 50% off coupon so it might be affordable…..blah, blah blah……..but you’ve only got a few seconds to think about it because you’re LATE as usual…….
See anything WRONG with this photo?
More handmade cards!
I am on a roll and have listed more cards in my etsy shop for sale. Here are two more I added.
New cards in my etsy shop.
Just wanted to share a few cards I made and added to my etsy shop the other day. I originally made them for the holiday bazaar coming up in a couple weeks, but figured I’d put them for sale in the shop first and see what happens. I can always make others if I’m bombarded with orders! LOL
We all live in a yellow submarine.
I’ve been reorganizing my scrapbooking studio and getting photos filed away where they need to be. Some of the photos I printed myself 5-6 years ago I don’t like the looks of them, they’re starting to fade (cheap photo paper maybe?) and I’ve been scanning them and reprinting them through an online processor. This is one of those photos. We traveled to the Indianapolis Children’s Museum back in 2003 when Summer was 3 years old and that place rocks! Here she is in an actual yellow submarine. I love this photo because of her sweet little heart-shaped face and a little bid of pudge on her wrist and arm and her little curls at the ends of her hair. Oh, I miss seeing those curls. Why did I ever let that kid cut her hair off? And how did 5 years go buy in the blink of an eye?
Filed under Scrapbooking, Summer Rose Scrapbooks | Comment (0)Designs by Summer.
My kid loves to draw and lately she’s been designing clothes and sketching them out for the fun of it. Maybe she’ll be a future Project Runway contestant? I love how it all matches, right down to the shoes. This one’s going in the scrapbook.
Opinions needed.
So I made this card and then I decided to add a ribbon to it and now I can’t decide which way I like it better.
Tell me what you think in the comments please!
Ribbon or no ribbon?
Go Illini.
I really hate to disappoint my fans (Hi Connie & Sandie!) who read my story about my wonderful ordeal at the Illini game in 2007, but this year I really don’t think I’ll be able to amuse you. Yes, there were ramps to walk up again, and yes I lagged WAY behind my husband and daughter, but since we weren’t late we weren’t in such a big hurry so my hubby didn’t feel the need to hold my hand and run up the ramps dragging me behind him! But damn, have these people never heard of ELEVATORS? When the stadium is sold out there are like 40,000+ people there, maybe SOMEONE would like an elevator, ya know!?!
Anyway, I made it to the seats, which thank God were not as high up as before, and I was feelin’ pretty good. That must mean I’m in better shape than a year ago, right? Well, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it so shut up. Summer was VERY excited about going to the game and seeing a football game that normally is watched on TV, and she got into the spirit by doing this…
Hubby’s company had a huge tent set up before the game with catered food, a band, bounce houses for the kids, a clown doing balloon animals and face painting. Summer knew right away she wanted her face painted like this. She thought she was too cool! Except she drove me crazy by saying every 10 seconds (and I’m not even kidding) “Mom, is my paint coming off my face?” And I’d have to say, “No, but if you don’t quit touching it, it WILL.” :O
Last year we missed stuff that happens before the game (like the kickoff!), but this year we got there in time to see some cool stuff. The band was performing out on the field and they did this. How COOL is this?
See the thing I’ve circled in the photo below? That’s a paratrooper from the U of I ROTC coming in for a landing. There were 3 of them I think, but I could only get one of them in good enough focus and even this one’s not so great. But it was pretty neat to see.
One of my favorite things is to see the cool stuff that the band does. How those people play their instruments AND walk around spelling words and making designs just boggles my mind. It is awesome! They actually spell out I L L I N I at one point.
Here the players come, ready to kick some butt. I was so disgusted with the Illini fans when the Indiana players came running out next and people in the stands were booing them. So unprofessional and unsportsmanlike.
The kickoff!
Yeah, you can see here she was real interested for about the first 30 minutes of the game!
Can you tell by this photo that my ass is FROZEN?
Really my only problem with this event, besides the COLD, was Summer asking every 5 minutes “When is it going to be halftime?” cause she knew the band would come out and do neat stuff again. Then once it was halftime and that was over with, she started asking “When is it going to be over?” cause she was cold. I told her she’d better enjoy her first football game because it was her last; I’m never taking her to one again!
Filed under Scrapbooking, Summer Rose Scrapbooks, Life | Comments (2)Dear Sandie and Connie…
Just wanted to tell you girls that I am traveling to Champaign today to see the Illini football game. I remembered that just about this time last year you were so thoroughly amused at my “ordeal” at the first football game I attended that you had to call me laughing to tell me how much you enjoyed it. In case you need a refresher, you can read about it again here. Hopefully this year things will be a bit easier. Except for the fact that the game doesn’t start until 7 p.m. and I’ll be freezing my ass off. Maybe I can amuse you tomorrow with reports about frostbite or something, who knows? 
Altered Autumn Candle + Altered Christmas Candle.
My aunt is such a big support to me and my scrapbooking business. When she needed a gift for her fellow teacher (needed it RIGHT NOW but I rolled with it), instead of going and spending the $10 somewhere else she said she was thinking of a candle and I whipped up these instead for $5 each. I’m going to make more for the holiday bazaar I’ll be at in a couple of weeks.
What do you think? Would you pay $5 for these at a craft bazaar?
