Circle Journal - Secret Obsession

This is for Roxie's circle journal. My secret obsession would be to be a great photographer, maybe even a FAMOUS photographer one day. How fun would that be???

22 stampers + a 4 day weekend = FUN

I had a fabulous weekend in Angola, Indiana with 21 other stamping friends. We came from Utah, Virginia, Ohio, Kansas, Iowa, Michigan, Illinois, Maryland and North Carolina. (Did I forget anyone?) I put together a slide show of our fun.

We did alot of stamping, talking, laughing, eating ... what more can one ask for?

My new watermark

I have had a few people asking me how I added the watermark to my photos. First, I went to this blog and paid Karen $2 for each watermark. I bought 2. I have a different one for each blog. I do not have Photoshop Elements so I had to download a free photo editing program called Gimp and I found that here. It took me some playing around but I finally got it to work!! I also have Picasa 3.0 and Infanview photo editing programs which I downloaded free from the internet but I could not get the watermark to download with those. Karen is super nice to work with and she answers emails pretty fast. Thanks Karen! You're the best!!

Circle Journal - Childhood Memories

When I first heard this was going to be Cheryl's circle journal, I hit the panic button. What childhood memories (click on each photo to see it larger) would I have that I can "stamp" about? Well, once I started writing things down, I was shocked to see everything I remembered. These are my two pages. Aren't I cute? ha ha

The easiest gift card holder ever ...

I saw this awesome gift card holder on Splitcoast and had to try it. Its out of an empty paper towel holder and took me all but 5 minutes to make it. Gotta love that!!!


Start off with an empty paper towel holder


Then flatten it using a bone folder. Cut it in thirds


Tape the inside of the bottom using sticky strip tape. Decorate with cute paper and voila! Super easy!!

The new Octogon nestabilities

I took Nicholas to the dermatologist today and on the way back, we just happened to go right past Stamper's Alley. Right in front of the store, there they were .. almost all of the new nestabilities. All shapes and sizes. I got the Octogon ones and I love them. I made 2 cards, one with octogons and one with the Labels One nesties which I already had. I also used my Martha Stewart picket fence that Susan sent me. Love it Susan!! What do you think?

Did everyone have a happy Easter?

We did here. I made a big dinner for the 4 of us. We went to Katherine's house Saturday night for an Easter dinner there and that was really good too. Charlie got his stitches out today so that's done. He will go back to see the surgeon in 2 1/2 weeks. He will continue his physical therapy twice a week and each session, they work his arm a little more. Its been 10 days since the surgery so now he is to do a few exercises at home too. He continues to wear the splint WITH the pillow for at least 5 more weeks, he's hoping less. He is allowed to take it off during the day when he is home but it hurts more that way so he's keeping the sling on.

I was helping Nicholas take out the trash today and I tripped over my shoe and down I went. I landed on both knees in the grass but my hands I caught myself with IN THE GRAVEL IN THE ROAD so my left hand (which is the one I just had the surgery on) is KILLING me. It is hurting just to type this so I will cut this short..