Busy, busy, busy...

It's been a very busy, with very little sleep day for me, so I'll keep the chatter short and sweet and let the pictures do the talking. It was Mercedes' turn to bring a treat for her class Easter party so we made these little treat boxes and stuffed them full of chocolate, candy, stickers and a cute little pom pom chick (that was apparently a big hit!)

There were 20 boxes in total, and I've pretty well mastered them so it only took about 3 hours to make them all. I thought they looked pretty cute though.


Here's some of the cards that I've managed to get made in the last day or two...in between treat boxes, and the odd hour of sleep that I caught here and there.
A little froggie card.


Gift tag with a dictionary flower on the front.
A few wedding cards.


A couple sympathy cards....I love how these two turned out....I like the way the inking looks and I just love the papers I used. Definately two of my favs that I've made lately.

This is just a photo collage of a bunch of 3x3 gift tags that I've also made recently. Not my best work as far as the collage itself goes but I just downloaded the trial version of Photoshop elements 8.0 and Mercedes would not leave me alone long enough to even begin to really figure out what I was doing, so I just hurried out and threw this together. The next one will be better I promise!
So that's what I've been up to over the last 24-48 hours, and I'm already started on a couple other little Easter projects for some family members. But mostly I'm just looking forward to a good nights sleep and I am really looking forward to sleeping in for the next 10 days!! Woohoo!! Gotta love Easter vacation!

A productive evening...

After my busy weekend, I was lucky enough to come down with a really nasty chest cold, so I haven't been feeling very well the last couple days, but somehow I was still very productive last night.

It started with me finishing the last ten wedding favor boxes...well the last for now anyways. The original 100 are finished, but it's looking like there may be more to be made in the future since my girlfriends guest list seems to keep growing! lol

After that I made a couple cards and then tried to get some sleep, since I'm fighting this nasty cold, but there was no sleep to be had, so I got up and decided to get some cleaning done.

I managed to get my scrappy table cleaned off a bit, and then I tackled my kitchen. Dishes done. Grocery list and menu's planned done. Counters and stove done. Floors swept & mopped done. Bathroom floors done. Toilet done. And by then I was about done!!

Since it was almost 3 am by then I decided to throw today's dinner in the crockpot so that it will be ready to eat when Mercedes gets home from school and finally around 3:30 I finally managed to get a couple hours sleep. I was up again at 6:20am to get Mercedes up and ready since today was choir day so she had to be at school by 7:30.

Then I came home, checked my email, and just finished taking some pics of the cards I made last night. Hopefully today's pics look better than usual since I was actually able to take the pics using natural light instead of the flash which I usually have to use since I'm usually taking pictures at night!

So now, I think I might try to get another couple cards made while I wait for the stores to open, so I can go get my errands done and then I will be coming home and *hopefully* getting a nice long nap, while Mercedes is at school.

These cards are all made using the paper from the K&Co Sue SeraFera Designer Paper pad and I just LOVE it! Everytime I look at the paper it just makes me want to make something! Gotta love paper like that eh?!

These first two are little 3"x3" gift tags and the last card is a 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"

Another busy weekend....

No energy for long stories of my busy weekend, just trust me that it was busy, but fun. So here's some pics of some cards that got made and a couple pics of the scenery that I see as I drive around town. That's all for now, cause I'm off to bed!

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

Been depressed, yet somehow productive

Nothing too exciting been going on around here, lately.

Been struggling with depression again, which is never fun, so I've been sleeping lots and accomplishing little.

Somehow though I have managed to get a few things done.

Here's a couple birthday cards I made one night when I couldn't sleep.

And here's another one made from the same pattern, just different papers and a flower instead of starts.
This is a side view just to see the dimension of the paper rose that I made using cardstock hearts, some glimmer mist and a lot of scrunching and playing around with the paper.

Another gate fold card with matching envelope that I made.

Forty more favor boxes done...that makes a total of 60 done only 40 to go!! Yay!

Gift tags, and more gift tags