It’s only been 6 months since I started making my own cards! I love it though and it is a ton of fun to be so creative. I love being so creative and being pleased with the end product..though I can always think of a cuple of ways to make to better! So my friend Jen (From Reelections In the Window)came over today and she showed me her cards she made for Father’s Day which by the way is this Sunday! i had already been planning to make a card for my parent’s 29th anniversary so it was a card making day instead of scrapbooking! So below is the final mater piece. The stickers were cooperating i think mostly because of the humidity! But the rest was pretty smooth. I had a couple of first though that went very well. In between the purple Flower stickers are dainty silver flower brads. Then there is the ribbon with 2 eyelets. there are the sliders which are die cut I and may I emphasize I made with my Cuttlebug Die Cutting Machine! And finally my favorite new thing that i tried was a rub on monogram that makes this card seem professional in some tiny way!. It actually looks printed and it’s not!!!!! I have had these rub ons for a while now but have been too chicken to try them on a scrapbook page! not anymore..Bring ’em on! isn’t being creative so invigorating!. If i need a fix, don’t get me coffee or even chocolate (but shh don’t tell hubby I said that). Just give me an hour to create and I am a happy girl! How about you? What gets you going creatively! Jen if you read this I tag you to show your cute father’s day Card. It is absolutely adorable! 
Category: daily life
Today
Today a wonderful friend will probably pass on into glory! Hubby has been taking this hard and i have not even shared the newest news that Kevin was taken off life support early this morning. We are going to send him to the funeral though we don’t know when that is! So please pray for us. But Mostly pray for the family. They have three kids ages 9 and older. He was removed from life support at about 12 am this morning!It’s only a matter of time. UPDATE: Kevin passed away this morning a little before 6 am. My heart aches for his wife and three children. Their names are Micheal, Daniel, & Kara and his wife’s name is Barbra. Again Please keep this wonderful family in prayer!
A few spare moments.
So I have a few spare moments. Ok so not really. I should be doing dishes, Sweeping the floor, unpacking, repacking, Straightening the living room which I have already done today, folding Laundry washing laundry, cleaning the medicine cabinet or at least a million other things but I have been going non-stop today and I am feeling like I am getting no where fast! It’s only 7 pm and I could really go to bed at this point. but there is so much to do and so little time in which to do it in! All day today I kept having these moments where I panicked thinking I only had a few short hours til we had to leave on another trip. I have to keep reminding myself it’s only Wednesday and we aren’t leaving again until Saturday. Oh how I long to be here at home for longer than 5 days! There no time to relax and there is no time get things dome. I am frustrated! I feel like I am doing things halfway. You know clean on the outside but a true wreck on the inside. GRRRRR oh I guess it’s all I can do for the time being!
Not so much from Illinois!
well I told you I was going to post from Illinois well we are back home and I never really got the chance. We had a great time, I got to do a lot of fun things and I even got to go to a huge scrapbooking store called Archivers. We got to spend this past Saturday in Chicago and saw such sights as the Sears tower, the Lincoln Park Zoo and the Bean ( It is a giant silver Kidney bean)! We had a great time. and I made a really great friend. We will see where God is leading!
One of the hardest letters i have ever had to write!.
We are leaving very early tomorrow morning for our trip to Illinois! So despite deep sadness I feel for missing our last youth group “thing” I will have to miss it. I am very sad! I had to put together somethings for the girls and I wrote a letter which will be read for us when we miss it. Here it is! Dear Girls, Well it is Friday afternoon and I have procrastinated in writing this as long as I possibly could! This has to be probably one of the saddest letters I have ever had to write! We are so very sorry we can’t be there for our last AWANA banquet but know that we will be thinking of you and praying for you. The last three years have been way too short for Ron and I and we have loved every minute of being a part of your lives. As this year closes a chapter in all our lives close, and what a lovely chapter that has been. You girls have taught me something very important and that is to stay young! We have watched you blossom into beautiful young women. There have been some decisions made by you and we will be praying for you. You have impacted our lives so very much and we won’t forget that impact! You are about to receive a gift bag and in that bag are a few things I would like to explain! First off there is a book titled Don’t Check your Brains at the Door. Hopefully this book will help you to understand the ways in which this world thinks about the God you love and serve and show you how to defeat those ideas with Scripture. You will be bombarded with many things in life and know that you have the troth right before you in the Bible. Second there is a candle…a pretty smelling one at that but as you light this candle and watch the flame flicker remember what Pete taught us by his candle illustration. We are one candle in the dark and we are a light that helps others see the way to God! So be that light. Thirdly you will find a bag of Chocolate- to remind you to always be the sweetest! Also you will find a small bouquet of flowers…These are to remind you that you are beautiful in God’s eyes. But individually the hold significance as well-the white one stands for purity, always stay pure in your thoughts, in your actions, in your speech. This is not easy I know but this leads me to the next color yellow. Yellow stands for friendship. Make godly friends that will help you in your daily walk with God. Pink is for beauty -you are who God created you t be, and finally the purple is for joy. You can be sad and still have joy. Joy is what you have when you know that you are going to spend eternity in heaven, no questions asked. As a Christian you have accepted all that Christ has to offer you and No One can take that away. And nothing you do will keep you from entering heaven! Oh what joy that brings! And last but most definitely not least and perhaps most special of all you will find three letters: One from Tom and Laura, and from Pete and a copy of this letter From Ron and myself. As all of the other letters say please keep in contact with us we want to know the best ways we can pray for you! You are truly very special people and I think I can speak for the other leaders when I say. You guys have been so wonderful and a real joy to work with. We love you and will miss you and your joy that bubbles out of each and every one of you. I could ramble on and on but I am sure that whoever is reading this is getting tired. So again we love you and best wishes. With all of our love