Isn't this cute? I got this great card and a couple others from my downline & friend, Stacy. Isn't she awesome? I love it. We have very similar styles. She's so SWEET!

I am now beginning to wonder if the blogger issue is with ME. It is doing it to me again tonight (er, a, this early morning since it is after 1am again!).

OMG! I ordered a bunch of items for my 'unveiling party' aka open house and they arrived today. OH! WOW!!!! I can't wait to play. Of course, I am surrounded by WOODIES! heehee! Now now, not what you might be thinking, this is a G-rated site! Woodies are my wood-mounted stamps. I've had a lot that have fallen off of the wall shelving unit over time and the plastic cases have broken, so they got tossed into a big bin. I've been digging thru them and trying to match them back up with their original set partners and plan to adopt a few out to other loving homes. I've replaced quite a few of my favorite sets with acrylix sets and those that I have not found or was able to order, I am hoarding. Yes, packrat. I can't help it. I'm not really bad... if I know I won't use it, I will pass it along to someone else. There are a few that I might play with one more time and then pass them along. There just isn't enough time in the day!!!

It's Friday (well, it was) and my family crashed early. I've been the only one up for HOURS. Nice and quiet but I may have to pay heck in the am when they all get up early and I am feeling like crud and craving more SLEEP.

Guess I will head towards bed. Taking my new "Imagine" with me (Cherish 2-ish!). Yummy! NIGHT!

OK, I have tried uploading an image of a card.... Blogger is being a booger right now and keeps asking me to log in. Errr.... technology! Heehee!

I guess I will come back and try again tomorrow (um, well, today since it is after 1am FRIDAY!! Whoops! Off to bed I go! TeeHee!)

Oh my kids!! Can you see something in the picture??? My kids are a hoot. You won't catch all of them handling one of these things. I don't like to. I will if I have to. That's not often. T came running in and said he'd caught a toad!! A little while later, A came in to tell me that they'd caught a toad and I should come see if I wanna. LOL! J was no where near the thing. That's not unusual. So, I went outside to investigate. I figured if the two of them were out there, the poor little creature may be somewhere that he'd rather not be. Indeed he was... in a cardboard CTMH box with a bunch of fresh grass clippings on top of the water table. Poor thing! I am not sure that this little guy is different from the one they have caught a few other times this summer. He should learn to stay UNDER the deck for his own safety. LOL! I had T put him back in the flower bed and I went in to get my camera. He blends right in with the summer-faded woodchip mulch. I think he needs a name. Got any suggestions?

OK, here is the result from my first Watercolor Magic technique. I currently have a small set of Prismacolor pencils so my colors are limited right now... I was trying to match this cute orange and light blue ribbon that I got on a recent trip to M's. The pencil was a little more purpley than light blue so I matched it up with my CTMH Spring Iris cardstock. Perfect! The Prismacolor is called Light Cerulean Blue. I stamped in CTMH Black and used the Prisma Orange & Limepeel pencils, CTMH Orange B&T and my new Gamsol and stumps to blend the colored pencils. I like how it turned out.

I also have to thank my friend, Rhonda, for reviving an old pair of decorative scissors! I was at her last SU Stamp Camp and she had us make a tag from a rectangle by taking off the corners with these old corner rounder scissors. One side rounds the corner and the other side takes away the corner. WHOA! I have not used these things in YEARS! HA! Too funny! The Gingham ribbon was from my last SU purchase as well.

Thanks for looking!!

OH! My July 25th order from Inky Antics FINALLY arrived today!! WAHOO! I had written a little vent, but backspaced it out... I am just happy to finally have my Gamsol and stumps so that I can go COLOR! Artwork coming soon!

Oh joy! My kids have not been sick all summer (knock on wood), but one or two of my four-legged kids MIGHT get sick. My mom's friend got a new dog from the Humane Society and she had this weird cough and was hacking up some flem stuff. His vet gave him some meds for her but didn't say what it was. My mom exposed her dog, Mugsy, to it not knowing. She figured it out and took the dog to the vet. Her vet said that he had "kennel cough" and that it is a HIGHLY contagious illness for dogs. I've kept my dogs away until Mugsy was over it. We took them over yesterday so that Gracie could get clipped (side note: my mom took her all the way down and the kids FREAKED!). Anyway, my dogs were running the fence with the neighbor's dog and my mom noticed him coughing... GREAT! So now my dogs may be getting it too. I'm calling my vet in the am. Not an expense I need right now but I don't want two dogs coughing, feeling icky, and flemming up my hardwoods. HA!

The kids went camping with my parents and I have been catching up on some organizing around here. I don't know where the time has gone. They'll be back tomorrow and we'll be in the groove of getting ready for school to start. We've got to do a little shopping for some clothes, register / pay book rental, and start going to bed early and setting alarms. We've all gotten into the habit of sleeping in... past 9:00am or later!! I'm right there with them. I'll be starting back to work a couple of days before they do. I am looking forward to getting back into a routine and a paycheck!! heehee!

I've got a lot planned for my CTMH biz this fall / winter. Our new Fall / Winter 2007 Idea Book begins on September 4th and is so WOW! I can think of several customers who are going to just flip! LOL!!

OK, back to work. It's almost 10 and I have a lot to do before tomorrow comes! Night!