I'm finally back here again...

We had a blast at the ACP convention even though we have nicknamed it the "red cross" convention. Our hostess had strep throat, two ladies slipped down the steps and bruised their bums and arms and legs, and the worse... another missed a step and strained her ankle **EEKKK**. That made for 2 trips to the ER in one day. We all have had several good laughs over it though. We also hope that is our first and last "red cross" convention ;-).

I'm at work eating my lunch right now. Have a 1:00 meeting and as soon as it is over - I'm out of here for the rest of the week! My parent's are on their way now and we are hosting my MIL's side of the family for Thanksgiving dinner! so after visiting with my folks this afternoon, I'll be cleaning and preparing for Thursday evening. Mom will do as much as she can to help but she's not as able. I'm hoping Dad will just be lazy and rest. He is in a lot of pain with a bad knee and hip. Both will be replaced at the first of next year.

Hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving!!!

Where does the time go?

I know the answer to that question. Work and home! I'm very busy at work now and I usually post here while I'm at work. So I'm not getting here as often.

I'm really excited this week. Getting ready for my girl's weekend with my "charming friends". I leave early Thursday morning and get home Monday afternoon. It will be fun. I need to keep focusing on "it will be fun" while I stress over meeting a deadline at work and getting packed at home.

Hope you all had a great weekend.

WOW - 6 days sure go by fast...

Seems like I just posted all my creations yesterday. Not much happening here. Just daily life. OH - Happy Halloween! My son is too old for TorTing now so he has 2 friends spending the night and they are planning to hide and scare the TorTers that come to our house. I've told them they cannot scare the young kids.

My son has another cold that is turning into a sinus infection so will be taking him to the doctor next week. Speaking of insurance, got the details of my company insurance this month and the one I use will be paying 100% of preventive well physicals next year so I've cancelled mine and my son's and will reschedule for January - lol.

I'm going to a Scrap Pink crop all day tomorrow and plan to make my Christmas cards! I'm excited about it! I'll have time to play with some things I've never used. I can't believe all the Christmas stuff I've collected and not used. I keep finding more and more. I thought by making cards I wouldn't be toting as much stuff as I would doing pages... WRONG!!! LOL I have just as much to take. I plan to load the car tonight so I'll be ready to roll as soon as I can drag myself out of bed tomorrow.

Hope everyone has a safe and happy weekend!

Here are 2 more cards I created as part of the 13 days of October challenges at startascrapbook.

This first one we had to alter/embellish black or regular chipboard. I painted regular chipboard letters black then I mixed up some homemade glimmer mist with my emerald green perfect pearls and used a stencil on the letters and sprayed them. I think you can see the design but not the glimmer too well. I also sprayed the card and I won't do that again. Makes it curl up and you really can't tell. well, the black paint kept smuging the card even though it was dry so when I was looking for some ribbon to tie around the Y saw the wide green ribbon and decided to add it . Stick and hang holly charms from ACP and wa la - JOY Card. This was a lot of fun to make once I got the letters ready.

The second one we had the sketch to use. I love how my card turned out! I used Figgy Pudding papers, a piece of ribbon from a Christmas ribbon swap, a Jolee's leather poinsettia and two swirl charms (which are now my favorites) from ACP.

Here's another of the 13 days of October challengs at startascrapbook. we had a tag sketch to follow. I really love how my tag came out and plan to use it on a Christmas card :). I used Basic Greg Figgy Pudding papers to make the tag and the words are from another Chrismtas stack. I cut a piece of paper up to get the individual words.

Wanted to share some more cards I've created as part of the StartAScrapbook's 13 days of October challenges.


We had to use 13 stickers on this one and no alpha stickers. Thankfully I had some sentiments stickers - lol. my 13th sticker is inside. It says "Merry Christmas". The lights on top are 3 stickers together. Santa is a sticker himself just stuck behind the sled. The star on top the tree is also a separate sticker. Christmas stickers are the only ones I have left - lol.







This was a use your scraps challenge. The card is even from a scrap of 12x12 paper :). Star, santa and present charms are from ACP.

















This was based on a Tim Holtz's challenge and we had ot use paint. I painted the red background and the chipboard C. I combed the red on the C. I also put glossy accents over the "cheer" tag I made with my tag maker:). Holly charm is from ACP














For this one we needed to use 13 eyelets. I didn't have enough of one color or type so used silver and white with a triangle at the top :). The swirly tree is from Sam and Hailey Designs at Paperthreads (PT is currently down).

Here's a layout I did for a sketch challenge. I decided to use two of my Platelet donation pictures I got last time I donated. I want document my donations.

I used Rusty Pickle paper for the base and the embellishments. I cut up a piece to get the flowers. The grey were on one side and the tan on the other. I only have two sheets of this and now I'm wishing I had more . I added a strip of blue bazzil and my title is some distressed stickers I had in my stash. Of course I always try to make my layouts and cards charming so I added some flower charms from ACP. Here is my journaling and if you want to know more about platelet donatation and see more pictures you can go to my older posts. But don't do it if you don't like needles!

I've been donating blood for 20 years. Several years ago I started donating platelets instead. I think donating blood or platelets is a simple way for me to give to my community. I remember my Dad coming home with his arm wrapped from donating blood. I thought it was so heroic. I started as soon as I graduated from college. (I took a 6 year hiatus while trying to get pregnant.) Dad never thought anything about it but it was his donating that influenced me to donate. I hope my simple gift of time and platelets will give someone hope during their illness.