Hopping in to say

HOPPY EASTER!! :)

Yay!

i am back & yes ok! thank you for caring!! just on so many drowsy & dizzy meds right now it's difficult to focus, but i did get some more card photos uploaded!



some close up details of a couple shown above:



all my own design of cards but not designs of graphics! hope you enjoy! and YES, Mrs. Miles i will highly consider joining in on the Mojo Monday fun!! thanks so much for asking!! :)
hubby & i still have that dollhouse fun on a back burner...just can't seem to focus on it enough yet but we haven't lost our passion for it by far. until them, i am definitely enjoying playing with cards! thanks so very much for your visits! HUGS!!

good morning!

this morning (before taking those 'drowsy' meds) i focused on getting some cards uploaded! yay!! some are clean and simple and others are more elaborate. all pretty much my own style, i hope you enjoy.
this one i just cute the card to the shape of the dog and add a bow for some dimension. some of the graphics came from Graphic Fairy and other from Fred She Said.

i like the way this one came out. the cover

and inside:

this is one of the clean & simply made ones:

here are a couple similiar but not the same.

and a close up of one:

and one more for this morning, one that i pencil colored (sprayed with fixative) and added a few sparkly things.

i have quite a few more to share but not yet uploaded AND i have been working on pastel chalk backgrounds too.
like this one:

and to show you a work in progress using that background:

that's all for today but i do hope you come back soon to see more! until then stay safe and have a FABULOUS Friday! OH and Happy April Fool's day, try to keep your pranks safe too! hehe :)

back with some photos

Good evening! since i have been mostly foggy with these meds, & unable to think of things to blog about i have been just goofing around on twitter. but i finally got a few photos uploaded & til i get around to sharing some of the cards i have made, i hope you enjoy these! :)
Hubby went to a yard sale the other day and came home with this for only $3.00. it surely looks like its maybe from the 60's or 70's, we think and makes a pretty cool whirlpool of beads. which is totally different from any kind of lava lamp kind.

i put a towel in the background hoping it would show up better, should have used a darker towel maybe!?

here a couple of sky shots that i really like.


one of my favorite cat shots. a cat in the window just says "home", to me.

and lastly, THINK SPRING!

that's all i have tonight but let me tell you, i found another folder FULL of older bargains that we gotten... although i may not remember all the prices we paid for them, by now anymore, if you have followed me for any length of time, you know, we don't pay much... we are poor and very cheap! hehe :)
so until i get them uploaded. have fun, stay safe and know i love when you visit! :)

Rest in Peace Dame Elizabeth.

With the beautiful Elizabeth Taylor's recent passing, i got to thinking about old Hollywood that is gone forever. the so called 'celebrities' today are nothing like old Hollywood. which got me to thinking of the beauty lost. all the stories about Elizabeth and everyone saying she was the most beautiful woman in the world, got my husband thinking about Hedy Lamarr and her beauty. alot that i read up on told me that Hedy was fascinating & smart, as well as the same story about being the most beautiful woman. did you know that Hedy was co-inventor of a component that is still used in wifi systems!! but they were both so interesting and lovely!!so we looked up images and well, you be the judge...
the beautiful Dame Elizabeth Taylor:


and the beautiful Hedy Lamarr:


how can you compare such beauty, really? hey, if this works, maybe i can be back with two more beauties! hehe
thank you for visiting and have an AWESOME day! :)

time for a new kit soon

thank you all for such supportive comments on my latest kit. the links have now been removed so it must be time soon for a new kit...i better get working! hehe
we are just getting over the worst winter storm this season, which happened on sunday, the first day of spring. and it wasn't even so much that we had snow, but it was bitter cold and the winds were tremendous, along with some rain. we lost power early afternoon (about 1:30pm) and it didn't come back on for dinner (all electric house), heat or my breathing treatment. we lit quite a few candles and even put one of the cats in the kennel so we would have less chance for mishap. but when it came to the time for my breathing, i needed power! so we remember that a rock hounder (from the rock club) lived close by and off the grid with solar panels, so we called and luckily he was happy to invite us over. i, of course, felt like we were imposing but he could not have been nicer, offering us some warm pizza and time to plug in. but even though driving there was only about 10 minutes tops, it took much longer because there were sand walls of wind!!! it was really awful and then we use the wipers to clean the windshield from sand covering it completely, only to find there was some rain mixed in. and the rain, though it wasn't much all at once, those drops were huge and just slushed up the window! so then we expect they will get the power up the next day and no such luck, till late, only AFTER hubby moved the generator and got the whole thing set up and filled(yes we have one but it was not ready, obviously). it was over 30 hours before they fixed it!! and we weren't going without power ANOTHER night! the very next day, it went out again but for only about a minute! and all this after an upgrade right after the holidays, that was suppose to last no longer than 6 hours without power and turned into over 16 then!! so now, just since we turned the clocks ahead (what? two weeks ago) we have had a MINIMUM of 4 outages!! i think 6 but the guys say they know for sure 4, well, now 5 (since that one minute outage)!! and the topper was that when we got 2miles down our sand road to the blacktop one, there was power ALL AROUND on the other side of that road! UN-freaking-BE-LEE-VA-BULL!
most of the day, i either read or sat and cut some of the stuff i printed out for the card making i am getting into. hubby still wants to continue with the dollhouse making, and me too, but now not only do the drs. have me on a high dose of anti anxiety meds, but now have started me on an anti depressant as well, so today i was like a zombie! didn't get too much done but i wasn't angry or depressed! hehe
hubby got through the outage by getting some of his homework done in the day and our son had most of his hand held games charged up, luckily, so he was quite entertained!
today, i felt so out of it, i could not cut or even read, it is now after 8 pm and i can finally sit up and see enough to type a bit. it's been honestly rough but we shall overcome!! thank you for your continued prayers. HUGS! i will be back soon. have an awesome evening!

Have you seen the movie UP?

just before retiring for the night i saw this post on MSN page and had to share, i thought it was so cute! for anyone who hasn't seen the movie, it's about this old man who flies his house with balloons. well, for yet another new show, scientists have made a recreation . just thought you might enjoy this small article too!
hugs! :)