Finally some cards...

It's been a busy week around here it seems. The music festival is here and Mercedes has been a participant on Tuesday and today. Tuesday she sang with her school class and they did a good job and then today she sang with the school choir and they were excellent! I am always amazed at how awesome the choir program is here, especially for such a small town, and although it isn't always fun getting up early on Tuesday mornings so that she can be at school for the 7:30am practices, it does seem to be worth it, when it comes time for them to do a performance.

But I digress, this post is supposed to be about cards, so here they are...I do even have more made, just haven't gotten around to taking pics, and I don't have time now since I need to get out the door and head off to parent teacher conference, but here are some of the ones I've made in the last few days...

Gift tags...
This is the card that Mercedes helped me make for my mom's birthday. Mercedes picked all the colors for the flower and got to do all the spraying of the glimmer mist!

The flowers on these two cards are from a Stampin Up set that I have...

This is a new stamp that I found at my LSS in the discount basket...it works perfect for this card pattern...

Another birthday card using the same pattern as I used a few posts ago...

The hardest part of these cards was putting all the little gems on around the scallops! lol

This was supposed to be Friday's post...

So for Christmas one of my bff's Amy had promised me a haircut as my Christmas gift, so Friday we finally managed to arrange our schedules and got together to go get our haircuts. We decided that we might as well make a day/night of it so I went into the city on Friday afternoon and stayed overnight and spent most of Saturday with her too and then came back home on Saturday evening.

We have been best friends since grade four so no matter what we do together we always have fun, and this time was no exception.

Here's the pic before the big cut...
And here is the after pic....as you can see I had alot taken off, but I really love it!

After the haircuts, we went and picked up her hubby and the three of us went out to dinner at the Cheesecake Cafe...yummy, yummy, yummmy!!! Here's a pic of her and her dh.

And a pic of me and her together. After dinner we headed over to a local pub to play name that tune and then we spent the rest of the night listening to a really good country band....not only was the music good, but the lead singer was very pleasant to look at too! Gotta love that! lol

As usual we had a blast just hanging out together, being silly, laughing lots, enjoying the eye candy and just enjoying each other's company. And even though we didn't get back to her place till after 2am we still managed to stay up until after 5am talking and just hanging out! Needless to say we slept in until noon on Saturday!

Saturday afternoon we did a little shopping...nothing too exciting, just Walmart, a couple things at the scrapbook store and then a quick stop to use my 40% off coupon at Michael's. After that it was back to her place where her sweet hubby was nice enough to help me check all the fluids in my car and make sure everything was looking good and up to snuff.

By then it was time for me to come back home to real life and being a mommy, but we will definately be making more time to do some more girl's nights again, since I had forgotten how much fun they were. Maybe we'll do it again in June when that band is back in Lethbridge again. If ya want to check out who we were listening to go to http://www.craigmoritz.com Not only did they do some great covers, but they also had some really good original stuff too, in fact I even ended up buying a cd and I've had it playing in my car ever since I bought it!

So that was my fun weekend! I'll be back a little later with some new cards that I also managed to get made during the time that I was home, since the one thing that I didn't do much of this weekend was....SLEEP! lol

This was supposed to be Thursday's post...

As I have mentioned earlier this week, I had been struggling with some major depression, so on Thursday night when Mercedes suggested that we have our party night, since Friday was a day off school, I was less then enthusiastic to say the least.

But I decided that I would summon up every ounce of energy that I had and try to have some fun with my daughter, even if that meant leaving the dirty dishes on the counter to wait until morning to be done.

Being the creative little girl that she is, she decided to make up a game for us to play. First she gathered almost every blanket in the house and spread them out end to end from one end of the house to the other. Then on each blanket she put 3 Webkinz. The rules were as follows...we were each to stand on a blanket 2 blankets apart. One Webkinz was our "enemy" that we had to protect, the other two were for us to use to attack with. The idea was to try to get onto the other persons blanket without getting hit by one of their webkinz or to hit their "enemy" with one of our webkinz. How she thought up this game I do not know, but we ended up having so much fun!

We were laughing and giggling and trying to be sneaky....trying to inching forward on our blankets without the other person noticing, or trying to hide our enemy in the farthest corner of the blanket as possible. Well we played that for about an hour and we had a blast! I was so glad that I made myself get up and play with her, cause those are the memories that I want her to remember.

Much better then all the memories she will have of mom barely able to get out of bed and get dressed.

You can see in the pics the different blankets laid out and the webkinz (3 per blanket) all set out carefully selected in appropriate groupings.

After the Webkinz Blanket game, Mercedes decided that we needed some music on and she decided to play rockstar for awhile and I took advantage of it, grabbed my camera and did something I haven't done in quite awhile...took 100 pics of her just being her!

But I will save the best of those pics for the next post.

By the time we were done all that it was almost 11:30 and she had worked up quite an appetite and as a final fun treat we jumped in the car in our jammies and drove down to the local 24 hour convenience store and bought a bunch of junk food and came home and had fun junk food at midnight for our bedtime snacks!

Mercedes said it was one of our best parties ever, and I honestly had to agree with her!

I was so glad that I had made myself get off the couch and just get up and play. It had been awhile since I had just played with her and it was fun...just plain, good old fun!!

And it was good for me too! It was the beginning of me getting out of this slump that I've been in.

But you'll hear more of that later...don't want to post all the good stuff in one night! ;)

So I'll be back tomorrow with more of my fun weekend adventures, including a couple new pics of me...with a new look.

And even with all the play (and there was lots of play this weekend, both kid play and grown-up play), I even managed to get some cards made too, so there will be some of those posted as well, so make sure you check back soon...you never know what you may see! :D