It's a Mother-Daughter Day!

Yippee my daughter is on her way over and we get to spend the day together. We're going to scout out some garage sales looking for things to upcycle for our Etsy shop and Farmer's Market. It's just so much fun finding things that might otherwise end up in the landfill and transforming them in to something useful that will bring a smile to another person's face!

After our shopping trip we're going to make a valiant effort to cut my little Harley's hair. He does NOT like having his face, neck, legs, or well, just about any place touched by metal. I managed to hand cut the fur on his back and have snuck up on him and cut off some mats around his neck, but as soon as he discovers that I've got a scissors he tries to bite it or me. Wish us luck!

The perfect gift!

Here's what my awesome daughter got me for Mother's Day. I can't wait to start using it!

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Fresh Brewed Blog Hop please vote for my cards!

Please join the Fresh Brewed Designs Blog Hop today to see some awesome cards made with their newest rubber and digi stamps and while you're there please hop on over to Vote for card kit creation and vote for #3 (that's me!) There are some very talented designers and I completely understand if you want to vote for someone else, just have fun doing it. I made five cards using their new card kit and had a blast doing it!

Challenging challenge card

I came home from work totally exhausted AGAIN yesterday and made this card for the Latte Lounge Beach Party challenge. Even though it's certainly not my best work it was a fun challenge.  You should hop over there just to see the amazing cards and tags made by the other talented artists! Oh btw... that is supposed to be embossed clouds, not blue dust flying through the sky. The basket, ice cream cone and castle are all brand new, not-yet-released digis from Fresh Brewed Designs.  I'm determined to try this again after running errands this morning with DH and DD. The riding mower broke AGAIN, so we're replacing it with a new one, then WATCH OUT GRASS cuz this old gal is ON A MISSION!!! lol! Hmm, wonder if there's a stamp for that one? I've seen the fluffy gal on a bicycle, but haven't seen her on a riding mower yet (hint, hint to all you designers out there!). If anyone has seen a stamp or digi like that please send me the link. Thanks!

Mother's Day Card

I recently became aquainted with a talented stamp designer, Heather Dennis, at Fresh Brewed Designs and have just begun using some of her digis. The card below was made for a challenge in The Latte Lounge that ends tomorrow night, April 28th. The hot latte and cupcakes were fun to color with my Staedtler colored pencils. I love the ergosoft material and the triangular shape that makes it so much more comfy for these arthritic hands of mine (sigh). The challenge is to use one of her stamps (digi or rubber) and flowers. I forgot the red stickles on the cupcakes until after I had submitted the picture. That really jazzed them up a bit. The two cupcakes in the diamonds are cut from a DCWV stack. I made another card for my MIL but can't show that because she might see it online.

Happy Easter from Our House to Yours!

Happy Easter from Matt, Emily, Mike and Sharon!

and now for the outtake (we didn't realize the camera was set to video!)

Pot decorations for fundraiser at work

On Friday we're putting on a fundraiser at work called Spring Fling and will be selling, among other things, gift baskets. One of the themed baskets is gardening, so I immediately thought of that Cricut cartridge that came with my machine called Walk in my Garden. Here are some of the picks I made to stick in the basket and some of the plants we'll be selling. I think they're the cutest things and might just have to make some for around my house! I love how the faux stitching looks, especially the blanket stitch on that purple butterfly! I used bamboo skewers for the sticks and glued them with Diamond Glaze. What fun!