Quilts for kids

Last week I saw a post on Two Peas about quilts for kids. They send you a pre-cut kit that you make into a quilt and sent to children who are going through chemo. After just losing my cousin to cancer I felt like this was something I could do in her honor. I spent the afternoon piecing the quilt and have the quilt top 80% sewn together. I was a bit rusty, it has been awhile since I used my sewing machine. It is very relaxing to piece quilts, after completing this one I am going to start on a new one for Wyatt. This is what the quilt looks like right now, I never get to make girl quilts, so it's fun working on this one. I hope it brings some comfort to a terrible situation a child should never have to endure.

No school!

Stamps: bird and branch: Memory box, sentiment: PTI

Today Owen has off, and it's actually another nice day! We need to go to the store, and hopefully later I can go and craft with my friend Debbie. Today I have a card of an image I stamped at her house. It is colored with copics, stamped on bo-bunny dotted paper, love that stuff! I have been perusing different blogs and found this one from hero arts flickr: Paper Therapy, link should be on my sidebar. She does such pretty work, now I have decided I must have the MS edger lace heart punch. Love her bird card with it, so pretty! I recently switched the Internet explorer from AOL and still have trouble cutting and pasting with two or more open windows. I haven't felt like trying to figure it out, but think I am going to have to. So many electronic things to keep up with now it is a bit overwhelming!

I am looking forward to the sneek peaks coming up from CHA, especially from Basic Grey, they have such yummy paper! Scor-pal has something new coming out, and Ranger has 12 new colors of distressed ink! I already pre-ordered quite a few new spellbinder nesties, love their labels. I think they are one of my favorite tools. Hope everyone has a wonderful day!

Productive Day

Stamps: Sentiment: PTI, all other stamps Hero Arts,
Background images stamped with Ranger Distressed Inks, Butterfly stamped with memento, and colored with copics.

It was a beautiful day here today! We spent the morning doing some things around the house, pressure washing it and picking up. The boys enjoyed playing outside for a change, since it has been so cold. It seem that Wyatt enjoys taking naps around 1:30 or so just like Owen did when he was his age. The only problem is during the week this is not possible, we have to get Owen at 2:00. So today I put Wyatt down at 1:30 and was able to play in my craft room until 4:00! I made a few cards, each one totally different.

The card above is a sympathy card, I struggle making these. Sadly my cousin passed away last Wed. , I have another card I made for the family. I cried the entire time I made it. It is strange losing her, she was only a few years older than me. We use to be pen-pals when we were teenagers, but as we grew up we lost touch. She lived in CA, and the last time I saw her was almost 5 years ago. I am thankful that her family is very close knit and will be there for one another, just so strange how things go. I makes me thankful for each and everyday I have, you just never know! Make sure you tell those you love how much they mean to you!

Fishbowl

Another cold day here, I want it to snow or get warm! Chris and I spent our morning picking out our fruit trees we are going to plant in the field. Every year we try to make ourselves more self sufficient with our "mini farm". When we moved here there were two peach trees that never produced, Chris pruned and fertilized and now they are wonderful. We have 3 large plots that we plant every spring and fall, we are still in the learning phase of this! We have a decent spring/summer garden every year now, but the fall one is still hit or miss! This year we want to get our mini orchard going, we ordered plums, apples, pears, and cherry trees. If they do well in 2-4 years we will have plenty of fruit!!!! I guess you have to start somewhere though!

While the boys were watching the Ravens play, I worked in my office. Mostly cleaning up and trying to organize. When I start to work, my area becomes a chaotic mess! It is a little better, but I got bored cleaning and starting coloring with my copics. The fish are from hero arts, they are so adorable. When I have more time I want to work on a better design but it turned out cute enough I think!

Free morning!!!

Yeah, Chris took the boys out to breakfast and to pick up the bobcat and I got to work in my craft room.It is so cold today here , Chris is going to fill the road today with Owen. Not the best day to do it, but it will be nice not to be dodging potholes anymore!

It is nice to start getting back into the groove of creating again. I feel like it takes me forever to get an idea, I think it has to do with having too much stuff to choose from! This card is using some of the new hero art stamps. I love the little bee's they are adorable. The images are colored with copics.

Friendship Card

I got a chance to play some with a few of my new stamps from Hero Arts. I will have to add the supplies when I find my catalog somewhere under all my piles of paperwork. January is always full of papers, year-end reports, W-2's, files all that fun stuff! Hopefully tonight I will get some more time to create!



We all woke up sad today, no snow! Owen was so excited last night he could not sleep, poor kid. Once the kids get older I want to go to the Mountains for a snow vacation!

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Hopefully today I will get some time to work in my office, I have all kinds of new stamps I need to play with! I just got my most recent order and got the new Hero Hues ink in Poppy. I got a chance to stamp with it for a moment and I really like it. I now see that I need the other colors!

Well, I am off to do a snow dance with my boys! It is so unusually cold here, I hope we get something. School is already delayed 2 hours, they are quick to call it here since it is not often we get this type of weather!