SNOW?!!!

Okay, everyone up north have been posting the beautiful pictures of their snowfalls and talking about how cold it is. Well I live in south Texas just north of Houston. It does not snow here very often BUT this year, just before Christmas it DID. I teach Kindergarten and most of the students in my school had never seen a snowfall here. If they wanted to see snow they had to visit Grandma in Vermont! I had a difficult time getting a shot of the snow as it was falling since it didn't show up in the photos. I was standing at the back of the school where we load the buses taking pictures of the snow as it fell, but you just couldn't see it in the pics, so I gave up. As I went to my car parked in the front of the school I was happy to find some snow that I could take a picture of. Now if you are from the north where you get lots of snow, don't laugh at this picture. It was a BIG deal to those of us in Houston!

FORE His Birthday!

My DH and I are going out to dinner with friends this weekend to help celebrate my friends DH's birthday. He is a golf pro and instructor so I wanted to make him a card with a golf theme. I remembered seeing a swap at convention last summer that held golf ties. Luckily I had taken a picture. I was trying and trying to figure out the dimensions and where the folds should be in order for it all to fit right. I finally decided that if I had some golf tees it would help me decide on the where the folds should be. So I looked in my DH's stash and there was a pack of tees in a folded container just like what I was trying to make! Huh! So that became my pattern although I adjusted it to fit a 11 x 4 1/4 piece of old olive cardstock. The designer papers are scrap pieces I had right there on my stamping table. I used the Round tab punch to make the tees on the card front and inside. I used my empressor and the paper piercing template to make the impressions on the "golf ball". All materials are from Stampin' Up!

Last Tuesday, my scrapbooking class met and made this 6x6 acrylic srcapbook. We used ski slope designer paper and Real red, kiwi, and chocolate chip textured cardstock. We embellished the acrylic pages with Old World Santa rub-on. All materials were from Stampin' Up! Who else?
I hope the slide show I put together works. Let's see.

My first New Catty Order

Well I am $403.00 poorer right now! That's right, I couldnt resist all the new papers, ribbons, accessories, tools, die cuts and stamp sets! I made my list, compared it to Julie at Paper Pleasing Ideas, and found out that we had the same things on our lists. So I just bit the bullet and ordered ALOT of what was on my list. In case you are interested here's what I ordered:

Taste of Textile pg 156
Sweet Nothings Simmply Scrappin'

Designer paper pg 158-161
Rockabilly
Candy Lane
Raspberry Tart---my favorite
Tea Party
Bella Birds
Parisian Breeze

Punches
Heart and Eyelet pg 185

Corduroy buttons pg 176
Flurettes pg 177
Library clips pg 176
Jumbo Brads pg 174
ww organza ribbon
Butterfly die pg 196
Litte leaves pg 200
Texturz paletes pg 203

Stamp sets
Friendly words wheel pg 81
Petal Pizzazz pg 90
Cheep Talk pg 90
Good Friends pg 91

plus I took advantage of the bulk buy: Good Morning sunshine, sunshine garden and button latte.

Then I got the circle scissor plus and glass mat FREE with my hostess benefits!

There's more on the list, but that will be for next time!!!lol

Making My List!

Okay THIS time I am making my Wish List for the new catty, NOT my TO DO List. I got everything on it done except for the message, they were already booked! So, I have an appointment for Tuesday!! Yea! I did a couple of extra things that were not on my list: 1. I went to Office Depot and got my new SU catalog spiral bound. Note to you SU demos out there: A fellow demon suggested that I print off the dormant list (which now has pictures of the sets and is condenced to about 4 pages, and print of the supply list for the samples in the catty. Well that was 24 pages so I passed on the since I can look at it on-line. But I did have the 4 pages of dormant stamps bound into my catty)2. I stopped at Wal-mart and bought 3 packs of fresh blueberries to put in the freezer. I love them frozen in my cereal each morning.
Before I go make my list, here is something I made Saturday. I got the idea from No Time To Stamp?'s blog. She had made it alot bigger, but I wanted to be able to use my tag punches so my is tiny but still cute!I will being sharing it at stamp club next month.Here's the link to Sharon's.


Here is my version using the large and small tag punches.

Monday To Do List!

Well there IS one good thing about this Monday---I don't have to go to school!!! So of course I have a list of things I want to get done today. After, stripping the bed and getting the sheets washed, I came upstairs to tackle my stamping room. After all the projects and cards I made over the holidays, my room was a disaster!!! I'll show you my stamping table before I started cleaning. This is just a small portion of the cleaning that needed to be done up here. I won't even show you the carpet before I vacuumed!!! Anyway it looks so much better now and I can't wait to sit down and work at it. But the LIST is still not complete so stamping will have to wait. I've go to run by a fellow demo and pick up a pack of coasters I need for my Feb club, go to the dr. for yearly Mammogram (yuck!) see if I can get into the massage place (to work out these knots in my shoulders and neck) fix dinner, pick up a perscription, put the sheets back on the bed, AND place my Stampin'Order from the new catalog!!! Whew, I better get to it! If I get done, I'll be back to show you something new I did.

My stamping table before operation clean-up

My stamping table after operation clean-up. What a difference!!!!!

Demonstrator's Meeting

I can't believe it has been a week since I last posted. I had my acrylic scrapbook class on Tuesday and my two stamp clubs this weekend. Today the Glittern' Gals (my Stampin' Up! sideline)met at my house for our monthly demonstrators meeting and swap. Terri and Judy had just returned from Leadership and had lots to share. Plus we had the new catty to drool over. We can't believe that none of us have received our complimentary copy. However, my catalog order HAS arrived and all my club members can come on over and get their FREE copy! I am placing my first order Monday afternoon. There is so much I WANT and need! The papers are lovely!! I am ordering everything I need (except for the mini occasion)for the classes I have scheduled so that I can go ahead and start making my samples. At the end of our meeting the demonstrators swaped cards featuring NEW sets from the Spring/Summer catalog. I have put together a slide show for your enjoyment. I'll have more to share tomorrow.