Currently reading "Keepsake Crimes" by Laura Childs

"Keepsake Crimes" by Laura Childs

Kate's 21st Birthday!!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KATE!

Daily Herald article - Tiger Woods is hardly due a profile in courage

Read this article... It puts the notion of heroism back into perspective...

RIP LCpl Joshua Birchfield

Big people words

A group of kindergartners were trying very hard to become accustomed to the first grade. The biggest hurdle they faced was that the teacher insisted on NO baby talk! You need to use ‘Big People’ words,” she was always reminding them.

She asked John what he had done over the weekend?

“I went to visit my Nana.”
No, you went to visit your GRANDMOTHER. Use ‘Big People’ words!”

She then asked Mitchell what he had done.

“I took a ride on a choo-choo.”
She said “No, you took a ride on a TRAIN. You must remember to use ‘Big People’ words.”

She then asked little Alex what he had done? “I read a book,” he replied.
That’s WONDERFUL!” the teacher said. “What book did you read?”

Alex thought real hard about it, then puffed out his chest with great pride, and said, “Winnie the SHIT”

What kids think about Moms

What kids think about Moms

The following questions were answered by 2nd grade school children:

Why did God make mothers?
1. She’s the only one who knows where the scotch tape is.
2. Mostly to clean the house.
3. To help us out of there when we were getting born.

How did God make mothers?
1. He used dirt, just like for the rest of us.
2. Magic plus super powers and a lot of stirring.
3. God made my Mom just the same like he made me. He just used bigger parts.

What ingredients are mothers made of ?
1. God makes mothers out of clouds and angel hair and everything nice in the world and one dab of mean.
2. They had to get their start from men’s bones. Then they mostly use string, I think.

Why did God give you your mother and not some other mom?
1. We’re related.
2. God knew she likes me a lot more than other people’s moms like me.

What kind of little girl was your mom?
1. My Mom has always been my mom and none of that other stuff.
2. I don’t know because I wasn’t there, but my guess would be pretty bossy.
3. They say she used to be nice.

What did Mom need to know about dad before she married him?
1. His last name.
2. She had to know his background. Like is he a crook? Does he get drunk on beer?
3. Does he make at least $800 a year? Did he say NO to drugs and YES to chores?

Why did your mom marry your dad?
1. My dad makes the best spaghetti in the world. And my Mom eats a lot.
2. She got too old to do anything else with him.
3. My grandma says that Mom didn’t have her thinking cap on.

Who’s the boss at your house?
1. Mom doesn’t want to be boss, but she has to because dad’s such a goof ball.
2. Mom. You can tell by room inspection. She sees the stuff under the bed.
3. I guess Mom is, but only because she has a lot more to do than dad.

What’s the difference between moms & dads?
1. Moms work at work and work at home and dads just go to work at work.
2. Moms know how to talk to teachers without scaring them.
3. Dads are taller & stronger, but moms have all the real power ’cause that’s who you got to ask if you want to sleep over at your friend’s.
4. Moms have magic, they make you feel better without medicine.

What does your mom do in her spare time?
1. Mothers don’t do spare time.
2. To hear her tell it, she pays bills all day long.

What would it take to make your mom perfect?
1. On the inside she’s already perfect. Outside, I think some kind of plastic surgery.
2. Diet. You know, her hair. I’d diet, maybe blue.

If you could change one thing about your mom, what would it be?
1. She has this weird thing about me keeping my room clean. I’d get rid of that.
2. I’d make my mom smarter. Then she would know it was my sister who did it and not me.
3. I would like for her to get rid of those invisible eyes on the back of her head.

Currently reading "Lost - Signs of Life"

"Lost: Signs of Life," by Frank Thompson.

Bridal brunch invites

LeAnn asked me to make bridal brunch invites for her best friend's bridal brunch... The wedding color is clover, the complimentary color is yellow... Hmmm... talk about working outside of my comfort zone... I worked in different stages, playing around with both colors... At the end of this post you will see which template LeAnn chose... Here are the different stages:

The original creation (before I knew about the complimentary color):

Changed the swirls, and added some yellow:

I didn't like the yellow triangle as seen above, so I decided to have the flower yellow instead:

Another template, with paler yellow:

And finally... the winner is:

Baby girl congrats

When simple "rhymes" with cute and quite elegant...

Quotes from "The Catcher in the Rye"

Chapter 1 (opening lines of the novel) "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first pace, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them."

Chapter 2 ""Life is a game, boy. life is a game that one plays according to the rules." (...) Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it's a game, all right--I'll admit that. But if you get on the other side, where there aren't any hot-shots, then what's a game about it? Nothing. No game."

Chapter 3 ""What really knocks me out is a book that, when you are done reading it, you wish the author was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up whenever you felt like it."

Chapter 20 "Anything except sticking me in a (...) cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap? Who wants flowers when they're dead? Nobody."

Chapter 26 (closing lines of the novel) "Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing somebody."

Currently reading "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger

"The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger

Dancing Latin Labrador

quite amazing if you ask me...

Flower corkboard cubes

I like to call them portable corkboards, because yes you can pin things on them...... Whatever you call them, they are cute... I made one for Mel (big blue flower) and one for me (big yellow flower)...

Mel's birthday

The card for Melanis's birthday. I am quite happy with the way it turned out...

Making that card was so much fun. The easel card is not hard at all to make. Take a look at the Splitcoaststampers tutorial and have fun with it! Stamps used include Close To My Heart, Stampin' Up, and The Angel Company.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MELANIS!!!!

Door handle

A door handle sign I decorated for Melanis!!

Nos enfants ne nous accuseront pas...

English speaking friends and others, no worries, there are subtitles in English...

http://nosenfantsnousaccuseront-lefilm.com/bande-annonce.html

February Winter Storm

About 10 inches of the white stuff on the ground (plus whatever has been blown around and away...) and 2 snow days later, we are digging ourselves out...

Baby Boy Congrats Card

Close To My Party from January 23

The layout and cards we made during the January 23rd Close To My Heart party.

Will you be there?

Those lyrics always get me when I hear them. Regardless of who wrote them, they are quite touching..

"In Our Darkest Hour
In My Deepest Despair
Will You Still Care?
Will You Be There?
In My Trials
And My Tribulations
Through Our Doubts
And Frustrations
In My Violence
In My Turbulence
Through My Fear
And My Confessions
In My Anguish And My Pain
Through My Joy And My Sorrow
In The Promise Of Another Tomorrow
I'll Never Let You Part
For You're Always In My Heart."