Thanks

for a great week!!! Except for this nasty head cold I got! Probably from walking in the rain downtown Chicago last weekend for Sissy's v-ball tourney! Aaah-choooo!

Saw a similar card in SCS gallery and whipped up a few of these babies. I had forgotten about the embossing folders I had and it just completes these cards.

Simple layers, a few left over scrap pieces and two cute Thank you notes!!!

Burgers on the grill last night... the two boys home last night thought they were delish!! It's all in the Dale's seasoning, Well I gotta run, I got a lunch date today in Gurnee and have got to get stuff (take the boys for a walk) done. Thanks for checking into my creative greetings!! blog. I appreciate y'all!!!!
Happy Day!!!

What's up... chicken butt?

Ooops, sorry, corny title, but I'm feeling in a silly mood. I've drawn these two characters before. On this card are some of the paper flowers I punched out and created (and smooshed) myself... I love, love the Prima flowers you can buy, but I've got to try and make my own.

Almost feels like Ground Hog day the movie.... I'm typing this about the same time I have the past 3 days, Tucker is in my lap, and the sun is shining in that same spot on the barn behind the field in the back. The only thing today is that the sky isn't quite as blue... but I'll take it!!!! Compared to some, I live quite a dramaFREE house. I just got done reading Heidi Swapps blog, she is this terrific paper crafter, designer, extraordinary mother of 5, lived in Beijing for 2 years, I could go on and on... but she does a live telecast every Wednesday night from her home. One of her cute helpers last night went out to her car after the show and found in this safe SLC neighborhood, her car was broken into and her purse was stolen. I feel so sad!!! Well, and for a bit of my own non drama drama....

Yesterday, I'm out in the yard raking and cleaning out the flower beds. Cooper (almost 5 year old lab) knows the yard boundary and actually has a collar for the invisible fence and Tucker (almost 2 year old tiny fluffy Pomeranian) is adventuresome and has no boundaries, but 'normally' stays close to me and Cooper. The boys were playing in back near me, but just out of my sight line.... I could see Cooper, but not Tucker... so I went looking after about 1 minute. Couldn't find the Fuzzy Butt.... went to the front yard calling his name... normally I can see his tiny movements... didn't find him... came to the back asking Cooper to tell me where he went... I hear some noises to my left in the neighbors yard.... and I see Tucker struggling to get out of a hole... well, the neighbors have a nice sized pond in the back of their yard, but they had originally started out with this little pond real close to their back door. Tucker must have been sniffing around and fell in... his back end only...they don't really 'use' that pond... it's a cess pool(I think literally).... so I pull him out and wonder what in the world I'm going to do with him (stinky).... I wish I had a camera!! He was a soggy mess from the waist down, that is if a dog had a waist....I had to wrap a towel around him, carry him into the house and give him another bath (he just got one Sunday)in the laundry utility tub... he didn't put up a fight. Maybe he smelt(?) himself and his pride was hurt!! It would cost about $350 to put Tucker on the 'fence'... so now I've learned my lesson, poor boy will not be able to wonder too far with the 10 foot leash around his collar!!!!! My drama!!!

3 chicks

Happy St. Patricks' Day!

Whatever that might mean to y'all. Here is a cute little card with 3 chicks bearing gifts. A little shadow effect going on here, the card front is shorter than the back, so I didn't know how to prop it up to take the picture.... so I leaned it into my supply basket. On the bottom of the back part of the card is a strip of embossed paper with buttons on it.... can't see it! Darn... I've seen a lot of blogs on photography lately, I should have taken two pictures, then one with a close up of the coolness that makes this card unique. Sorry, I'm not running upstairs to take a picture. But darn darn.....

Yay, another sunny day. It got up to 60 degrees yesterday. I was outside cleaning up dead leaves and was working up a sweat. I did not want to complain!

Slow, turtle crossing!

Happy Birthday Kim!!!

Here's a friendly turtle by Whipper Snapper that I've done before, but he is so cute that it's fun to draw him over and over and over again.I've noticed with the whimsical cards I need more glitter. I had gotten a clear glitter gel pen through an online mass order.... but it never seemed to work... so I am on the hunt for a clear glitter gel pen.... something that dries faster than Stickles.

What a nice morning to look out in the backyard and see the sun in the back field. Blue skies and no snow. I see new houses (about 8 years old) and then a big Red Barn that the sun is SHINing on.

OMG, how instant is that.... I just got my point and shoot and took a picture and uploaded it.... what amazing technology!!

Our poor (ha!) little bird friends must fend for themselves.... Mr. Squirrel found numerous ways of getting on the bird feeder....so that was taken down over the weekend.... they are searching the ground for left over seeds.

Tucker is not feeling so well... per usual, he is on my lap as I type this and I hear his stomach making gurgly noises, he didn't eat breakfast. I'm a lucky gal.

Shine on....

Here is a special card I whipped up yesterday as part of the Yellow Envelope Project at HLA. Every Saturday we are given the name of some deserving friend, distant relative, co-worker etc... who has done something special just by being a 'normal person'. They wont be on the Today Show, or get their name in their local paper... but they've done something nice and they SHINE at what they do. So, we try to fill their mailbox with Yellow Envelopes as a RAK (Random Act of Kindness). This card is going out to Rhode Island.

So, soon I will hopefully be starting another project 29 Gifts a book written by Cami Walker. She talks about her MS and how when she just started giving every day,(as a recovery tool from a medicine woman Guru) she received so much back. Just tiny things, it didn't have to be an all out present.... putting loose change in a homeless cup, giving tissue and a bottle of water to a friend in distress etc... one comment I read last night I believe on the 26th gift day.... trying to decide if you want your gift to be anonymous. But I think it can be a mix of both.... when you give it has to be a conscious effort. To make "ME" feel better... I might record my steps along the way here on my blog (we will be doing it HLA too), big or small.... one shout out I have to do... I gave a pint of blood on Friday, felt good. Today I got a thank you email from the Blood Center... that place is a well oiled machine (with their reminders too).

Maybe you'll join me and SHINE and give 29 small gifts, just because!!

Coffee & tea and me at home....

Here's a colorful spring diddy I did for someone who participates in my Card of the Month club. Each month they receive a card hand created by moi and it relates to the theme, season or holiday of that month. CKB wanted her cards to have a coffee theme so that she would be able to make an effort each month to invite someone to join her. The coffee cup bird houses also have a springtime feel with the colors. Of course the image is CASed.... it would take me so long to come up with something original..... but look at the hundreds of things I can create with all that cool imagery everywhere I go!

Last night was a Hockey banquet for Bubba. Sadly it will probably be our last. In speaking with two other sets of Junior parents whose sons are also on JV.... it sounds as if they are going through the same "non drama iffy-ness" that their sons don't want to return their senior year to play.... with the strong possibility of being on the bubble once again of possibly NOT making Varsity? It's a club team through the high school.... politics like everything else! And Kim.... even bullying is going on amongst the players. A stupid SOB junior (of course not Bubba) is picking on the freshman players making them do idiotic things... and he never gets caught... according to one freshman mom who nervously talked to me last night thinking her kid was the only one being targeted.... when she realized how we openly talked about the 'bully' who was conveniently absent from the festivities. His parents can't face other people. Cowards!!! More about bullies another time.

Almost ALL of the snow if off our yard.... but it's like a sponge. I can't tell you how many special presents I picked up in the yard from my favorite four legged friends! Yikes! I'm off to give a pint of blood today.

Out the door

Here is a sampling of mail that went west to my friend BE who is a realtor. I think she was tired of me sending out emails and bugging her, so she placed an order. Thanks BE!! This first one is just a sample thank you I sent her because she didn't want all the cards to read "Sold" she couldn't decide. Sometimes she needs to thank inspectors and other realtors and the bank.... so that could be the next order. They have a Zindorf feel to them!!!



You just get a sneek peek below at the Sell-a-bella cards....it was more to see how I packaged them up.



Sonny with a chance??(isn't that a tv show).... or is it Cloudy with a chance of meatballs????(movie?) The ground is quite squishy out there. But this means spring is coming! Yay!

Had potstickers they other night for dinner.... can I say D-lish! The kids have been eating and enjoying these frozen ones for a while, then I say my buddy Rach (Rachel Ray) making them..... very easy to make and they were so good. Had them with steamed rice and a sauteed slaw salad. Yummo! Glad everyone is enjoying trying new things around here... with little complaint I might add.