Is it a letter?

or the purr-fect card with the

purr-fect gift....

whatever it might be, it was a fun card. One of those clean and simple ones. the kind that is easy to go through the mail, the kind that you just pick out and send to anyone, right? Just purr-fect!!!!

With the sun beating on the thermometer it was reading 44 degrees.... heat wave.... oh I just looked in the shade it's a balmy 30 degrees. The house has been creaking and cracking and ice is sliding down off the east side... kind of weird. That's it for the weather report!

Moving on to foods.... just love making French bread pizza.... fresh loaf of bread, sliced in half, toasted a bit in the oven, then we can each top it how ever we want. Hits the spot! Turkey burgers tonight.

Who dat?

Aging wisely? Happy Birthday.... you know, I didn't get that "who dat" thing with the Super Bowl until a few days later. Oh sure, I heard them saying it... but then Bubba told me the WHO were playing the half time show and then I said 'Who?' and we got on to this whole thing about Abbott and Costello with their bit on Who's on First, What's on Second... I don't know Third Base.... ha ha ha.... I didn't know there was this licensing stuff going on as a Saints saying.... Who dat!..... This punch card has already been sent out to my oldest friend Suzy Q. It's amazing when you see everyone's take on a similar card... it's all in the eyes and how people arrange them and the size punches they have.

Sissy got her braces on yesterday. The drama! She hates them.... she(says)it looks like she is in 5th grade, they hurt, they make her lips puffy.... maybe this will keep her mouth shut for a bit! ha ha.... Yes I know they hurt...I had braces, her dad had braces as an adult, her brother has braces, her cousins had braces and most of her friends (already had ) braces. We all know how it feels, uncomfortable for the first few days.

Cloudy, gloomy winter day. I really need to clean, but hate my job as being the maid today!

Simple Shower card

I think this is an old card that got stuck in the bunch..... it could be an under the weather card, or it could be a bridal/baby shower card.... I wonder why this was in the bunch of cards I took pictures of . One of those things that makes you go hmmmmmmmm!!!

Got a dusting of snow over night, but the sun is SHINING and the sky is blue. Missed a whole weekend with Sissy at a tournament. Feel like I'm 3 days behind. I got to go to Ikea yesterday... didn't find all the things I was looking for. That place is always so crowded. I'm getting old, I really hate it when people stop in the middle of aisle and you can't get around them, creepy sniffling children crawling around touching everything.... it's too hard to look and imagine what I can do with their stuff. On different blogs people comment about their great finds.... I didn't find those~ Oh well, saved money. Sissy's team won their silver bracket... hard to explain... but they came in 11th out of 20 teams in their division Well, we're off to get braces.....

Happy coffee day!!!

Right? Isn't that what an asterisk* means when inserted into a sentence... in this case, where ever the heart is... on the coffee cup... it's happy coffee lover's day! Will the person who receives this card understand that? I have found a few sites doing clean and simple cards.... like here where less is more. It's a challenge to do a clean and simple card, just as much as it is to do a labor intensive card, layers of paper, coloring in, cutting, fiber & embellishments. Ah simple is better.

Presidents day, no school here in the land of Lincoln. Sissy is playing the final day 0f a 3 day v-ball tourney. They won all of their matches yesterday.... each match went to three games.... so the teams were all pretty even. Got more volleyball news on an already strange team.... the coach is stepping down due to medical issues.

Tomorrow is braces day.... I don't know how I could actually work with this small bit of chaos going on..... yadda yadda.....

Happy Valentine's Day

In the Spirit of Highlowaha and 218 Happy Valentine's Day to my 3 favorite sweeties!!!! The first pic is of the kids cards and their ribboned gifts.... then DH's card and all 3 gifts combined. Nothing extra-ordinary.... just a thinking of you ... all gifts purchased at my fav... Kohls.

Get Well Soon

... is what it says on the inside. I could give this card to both of my kids. They both have colds. I'm trying to stay away from them and the germs that explode from their nose and mouth as they let off loud sneezes. Aaaaaaahhh....choooo....ie!!!! Yuck! It's as if they are sick for the first time in their lives.... sorry, no babying mommy here for those two!!! Heartless aren't I.

Yay the sun is shining and there are bright blue skies.... like the color on this card. Happy Day!

This weeks Zindorfs

You know, from a distance, and actually up close too, these cards
(once again I say this) of Michelle Zindorf are too wonderful words. Little masterpieces of joy. I am just amazed. You should see my drawer full of 4"x4" mistakes. It's not that you make mistakes from her great tutorial, it's that as easy as she makes it seem to add highlight here or shade there.... putting ink to paper isn't as easy. For your viewing pleasure today... the grasslands of middle America or


the Bayou of a gulf swamp.

It's been officially set.... Sissy gets her braces put on next Tuesday. And the first of March Bubba gets the word of when his will come off. Easy balance of overlapping payments, two kids in braces! Yikes. And speaking of balance....one of my goals I'm sharing for 2010....

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance
Paul Boese