A Little Mojo

Wow it's  been  awhile. I  saw the Mojo Monday 405  sketch  and  thought it was one I could  easily use. I decided  to go summery, recalling that I  had some flip flop printed  paper. Then I  also realized  I  had a Unity flip flop stamp and Unity sentiment  stamp that would work well. So Friday night after a 2 hour nap I proceeded  to get creative and come up with a card to enter.

The other  side of the flip flop paper is a nice fuchsia  grid, so I   included  that as well. I finished  the flip flop flowers  with some glitter  and stickles. I also used stickles for the flower  center. Here is the card I came up with. I  can see using this sketch  again  and again.

A few weeks ago I was introduced  to Pocket Page Letters on the Unity Show and Tell Facebook  page. So after  watching  several  YouTube  videos  I started  creating   a pocket  letter. I  got a fewhole creative gals from my friends and family  interested  in swapping  a pocket  letter. So looking forward  to everyone's creativity.

Thanks for stopping  by, I hope you have a wonderful  week. Today here in west  central  Wisconsin  it's  going  to be a hot and humid day. Hope your Sunday is fun and creative!

Summer fun

Happy Saturday! Summer has finally arrived - a few days ago. The past couple of days have been mild thankfully. It's hard working in heat or humidity. Next week the weather is supposed to be in the 90's. UGH, don't even want to think about it! I'm working on trying to create one card a day/night. I see Sandy Allnock's entries on Facebook and she seems to be able to do one - two a day. If she can then I should be able to right? Well I made 3 cards in the past few days. I hope to create something today/tonight. So at least I'm trying :). Here are the most recent cards I've created. I created this card with Unity Stamps, Basic Grey's Life of the Party Shindig and Bazzill Swiss Dot. I thought this would be a great card for Operation Write Home. I love sending cards to such a great cause. I've been sending for about 2 yrs now.

Entering the above card in the challenges listed below: Stamptacular Sunday Challenge - Fun in the Sun Catch the Bug - Red, White, Blue & Ribbon Stamp Something - Red, White, Blue

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My second & third cards are based on this weeks' Mojo Monday. Flip flops are my choice of shoes for summer so this Unity stamp is perfect summer stamp for me. Love the sentiment too. I added a little bit of shimmer with a glitter gel pen for the flowers on the flip flops.


This last card just came together. I embossed the sentiment in Stampendous EP and then embossed Core'dinations Chocolate box with a cuttlebug folder then used an emery board to distress the embossing. Love these colors together, I really should use them more often.


Thought I'd share this wonderful summer photo with you. Makes you drool, huh? These are strawberries from my parent's garden. They're so yummy. I really lucked out this week. I got a 5 qt pail last Sunday when we visited for Father's Day. Then yesterday my mom called and said they were in town for a dentist appt. and that she had more strawberries for me. So I met them at Famous Dave's. I had a sweet ice tea while they had supper. This is the pail they gave me yesterday. Some are being frozen whole, so we can enjoy them with vanilla yogurt. Kind of like a parfait, I guess. The rest are being sweetened and I'm going to make shortcakes. MMMMM sounds so good.


Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope your weekend is wonderful and that your weather is warm and sunny.

RWB Stamptacular Sunday Challenge

Today's SSC challenge is RWB and a star too! Well I was able to put together a card today and even though it didn't turn out as I thought it's... growing on me! LOL Some cards are works of art and some are just okay. This one is just okay. I finally colored one of the beautiful Sarah Kay images that my dear friend Priscilla sent me. I am intimidated by all the little details on these stamps. I would've liked to make the bows red and white, but just couldn't see trying to get all those tiny dots white! The same with the picnic cloth it would've been so cute red and white or blue and white. Oh well it's done and it's not horrible I guess. As you can tell from the past few cards I've done I really like the opaque white for wet embossing. I thought I'd go with a different star this time around. I also used star beads...that's what the small silver stars are. I also had some of this red & white fiber from a swap on sb.com probably 2 yrs ago by now.

I thought I'd also post a couple of pix of my flowers. The garden spot isn't weeded enough yet, so I'll only post the ones in pots. The potty chair has red impatiens and a spiky accent plant. And of course I had to have some purple petunias for my mailbox. Once the flower garden is cleaned up I'll take some pix of that and oh I really need to take some pix of my small vegetable garden. The cilantro is nearly to my waist and hey I'm 5'11" so thats one tall cilantro plant! The tomatoes are nearly as tall. The peppers may become overshadowed by the tomatoes hey this is my first veggie garden. give me a break. LOL. The cucumbers aren't that tall but do have blossoms and some of the blossoms even have a tiny cuke on them! So here are the potted flowers.




















Oh and Mitch has been lucky enough to find a ride for rehearsals. So we don't get to Adrian as much but I thought I'd post a pic of The Spotted Cow. The ice cream place with free WIFI. They have some wonderful flurries there. The hand dipped ice cream is yummy too. Tomorrow Mitch has a ride there but needs me to come and get him. Its funny how you're used to running and then when you don't you think you can finally get some stuff done, but it's nice to just sit and relax for once too! At least I have time to cook a little better than just sandwiches or hot dogs. :D.





Hope you have a great week and I hope to have another post or two this week. Thanks for dropping by!

Summer

Sure seems like summer is flying by. I can hardly believe that it is almost the middle of July. I keep hoping that a job offer will come, although I've only had a few interviews. This week I interviewed with the Alzheimer's Association for a PT Office Support position and with Bolt Express for a Customer Service or Logistics Coordinator position.

My teenage casanova has been chatting online and sometimes on the phone with a new girl. She seems sweet and shy. She is vegetarian, so Noah thought that for this week he'd like to give that a try. I said it's nice to try something different out, but you do not have to be vegetarian just because she is. Every time we pass by meat type items he grumbles that it's something he cannot have. We told him he doesn't have to be vegetarian and he says he wants to try it for the week. We also told him that vegetarians do eat fish and chicken unless they are Vegans. We'll see how long this all lasts.

Thurs Tim had his third round of chemo. We also saw the Chemo oncologist on Weds. He is going to have Tim have one more week of chemo and then send him for the PET scan to see how this round of chemo is working. Then we'll see him again on the 4th or 5th of August to find out the results. Please keep Tim in your thoughts and prayers that these chemo meds are working.

One thing nice about being home is making supper. I don't feel exhausted from work and am able to get supper on the table early so we can enjoy the rest of the evening. The other is that I'm baking more, not sure that it is such a good thing, but it is nice to have stuff and not have to run to the store to buy baked goods. We really like Miss Ellie's banana cake and I tried Aunt Pat's Cinnamon Coffee Cake last week. Both are in the Olson Family cookbook. YUM YUM! I've made a Dream Pie this week. Those are so easy and I should make them more often. It's something that would be easy to make low fat too, using lowfat milk and sugar free pudding.

We ordered our food from Angel Food Ministries this month. I wish we didn't have to wait two weeks for it to come in! This time they had a special that included fruits and veggies, so I made sure to order that one. We actually ordered three of the four specials this time besides the regular menu which you must order to be able to order the specials.

Here is my recent LO. It is for the Making Memories contest. I like how it turned out this time. The deadline is Tues July 15. It was nice to have it finished today, so I do not have to work under pressure. :)

I think this is a photo of me at my Aunt Pat and Uncle Duwane's house. You can see my cousin in the background. Looks like they just plopped me on the kitchen table and started taking pictures. I love being able to use pink and glitter and girly stuff. Yes, I still do use flowers on a few of the boys' layouts but it is not as girly looking as this.