Who else has a weakness for punches?

I ordered some new Martha Stewart punches recently and one came today. Its the newest Graveyard punch and I ordered it from Hope Stamps Eternal. Wonderful customer service!!! I made this Halloween ATC for Angie as she was missing the 9th ATC from her sleeve of ATC's so it will be in the mail tomorrow Angie :). I am expecting 2 more to come from Ellen Hutson as she was having a 15% off discount but I will wait until they come in before I tell you which ones. Stay tuned :).

86 years old never looked so great!!!

Charlie's mom and Charlie's brother both share the same birthday - July 26th!! Marie is here visiting from Virginia and we had everyone over for the day to celebrate. Katherine and her family were away on a missions trip so they weren't able to make it (we missed ya Katherine!). We had a great day and had a lot of food and fun! I took a few photos!!

Looks like I never came back to tell about the college tour

Completely forgot about it ... so here I am now, 2 days later. Ha

UNCG was very nice. It was quite large, in my opinion. Charlie thought it felt "compact" but compared to Wingate University which had only 1,700 students, it felt pretty big. Now I never went to college so I have nothing to compare this to so this felt big. Our tour lasted about an hour and I felt like we walked FOREVER!! I was surprised to see about 25 students, 24 girls and 1 boy who were there for the tour. We watched a short video and then they divided us into 2 groups so it wasn't so large with all of us walking around the campus. They showed us the one cafetaria they have which freshmen get to eat unlimited meals for one price which I thought was nice. We got to go in a freshman dorm, all freshmen dorms are air conditioned. The upper classmen dorms are NOT but are larger. They also, like Wingate, have a great teaching program and by the time the students graduate, they will have had 1,000 hours in schools in clinical settings so she will have lots of experience before she actually teaches. If this is what she decides she wants to be. Can you see little Emily teaching? :) Aw, I think she will make a cute little teacher. Emily thinks this school is too big and isn't sure she likes it. Now she is saying she prefers Wingate so we'll see. We have PLENTY of time to decide and I am glad we are doing all this research now.

In a little bit we are headed off for another college tour

We are headed to University of North Carolina Greensboro or UNCG for short. Its about an hour and 1/2 from us so its not too far from Concord. 17,000 students go there. Its on 210 acres so it sounds HUGE. I still can't quite believe we are looking at colleges already for little Ms Emily :). I will report back with our findings later.

I tried another Bella challenge

My latest and first Greeting Farm image - isn't she adorable? Here's the challenge ...


and here is the card I made. Paper is Lime Rickey from Basic Grey (love that too!)

Gorjuss Set #3 are in the house!! All the way from Scotland!

I'm trying something new

I look at other blogs and see other people who try these blog challenges. Well, I have never tried this as I think they are too challenging. Make sense? So today I tried it. And you know what? I liked it. I sometimes think my cards all look the same! I tried this card from the Bella blog and it looks like this



and I came up with this:

What do you think? Do you like it? I do :).