Inside Out

This week's challenge over at Stamptacular Sunday Challenge blog is to decorate the inside as well as the outside of a card or other creation. My dear sweet friend Carolyn sent me some Elisabeth Bell stamped images, so I used this one of Emma. I think she is so cute in her cropped pants with her kitty in the basket. I thought pink and orange would be fun summer colors. I then pulled out my K & Company Que Sera and thought perfect! So I colored her and then used nestabilities to frame her. Then added some details like rub on stitching, stickles, rhinestone flowers, a ribbon and a charm.


Tim and I have been stopping at our friend Charlotte's on the way home from Karmanos and she encouraged me to bring my scrappin paper to use her punches and die cuts. So I was able to add the punched butterflies to the inside. I've been looking for butterfly punches or dies without any luck. It was so nice that we've punched a few. I say we because Tim and I sat on the couch and chatted with Charlotte while punching away! Last week Thursday we went up to visit because we hadn't been able to stop in awhile with Tim having pneumonia and Charlotte is still healing. I also wanted to go to the huge JoAnn's in Taylor...Charlotte just lives a few mins down the road. Well it's such a great JoAnn's! Much like the one in Milwaukee, WI. that was just remodeled into a super JoAnn's a year or two before I left Milwaukee. Gosh there were so many stamps and they had all the new Fiskar's punches. I got an Effervescence punch and some Memories ink and a few journals that were on clearance. Everything was on sale so we couldn't use our coupons. Tim bought me a sizzix flower punch that was on clearance. Yesterday when we drove by that JoAnn's, there was a sign out by the road that said Hobby Lobby coming soon! So I had Tim call Charlotte and tell her. Tim's niece works for the one here in town and said there are going to be 5 added to the Metro Detroit area. Guess we found where one of them will be.

Not blogging in awhile makes for an awfully long post. Here is a LO I've done of Michael Jackson. I got the sketch from Scrappy Sunday group on PCP. And I entered this LO in the 3x3 contest on scrapbook.com. For that contest you have to have three different patterned papers, 3 buttons and three photos. I wasn't sure I'd find buttons that would work but I remembered a bag buttons I received from my SIT Secret Sister. I found some buttons that would work and Tim cut off the shank. I sanded the area down a little with my emery board and then glue dotted them down.


Well that's it for today. I do have some cards to show you for Cards for Heroes, but will post tomorrow or later this week. Thanks for taking the time to stop by and I hope you have a wonderful week!

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.

Link someone something you love

Wow this could be a lot of links! LOL My family would be first of course first there is Tim
next would be My boys
my friends
my mom and dad
then there are things like music, scrapbooking, stamping, sewing, travel, photography, shopping and hanging out with friends.

Here is my latest layout These photos were taken at the Olson family reunion in 2000. I just love the photos of my boys fishing and of the nature scene around them. Hopefully we will get to Wisconsin for the Olson family reunion this coming August.