Little Red Hat

Sheryl had a great tutorial on her blog on how to make these adorable hat favors! Aren't they they cutest! A little tedious but the end result is soooooo worth it! This little Hershey Nugget is all dressed up with somewhere to go!

Chocolate Skittles!!!!!

I love Skittles and just found some CHOCOLATE ones at Target!!! Ok.....maybe they have been out for a while, but I don't go to the candy aisle much! Too tempting! But I was looking for some black and white type of candy for tins.....didn't find any.....but did find these! And boy are they YUMMY! I wanted some small little candy to put in these tins that you get at Michaels. I used them at Halloween with some DSP and ribbon and stamps, but wanted to try them with my rub-ons! So look how cute this is and "Oh how easy!" I used a rub-on from A Perfect Day, and added some of our new Chocolate Chip Poly Twill ribbon!

Let Yourself Go.....to the beach that is!

I challenged myself to use a stamp in my drawer that hasn't seen the light of day in a while!!

This was a fun card to create! Wasn't sure about the colors at first, but liked the end result. The umbrella stamp is from Vippies. I stamped the image on watercolor paper and colored in with my Prisma color pencils and gamsol. I added the cuttlebug embossing folder for a wavy/watery look. The die cuts are Cuttlebug as well. I added some glitter with a stardust glitter pen.

Lion Birthday

I haven't stamped in a few days so I figured I had better post something that I did before! This was done with the Wild About You set. I love the colors on this! I used background paper that is now retired and a Cuttlebug embossing folder.

Almost Done with Day 2!

So far so good! Don't want to jinx myself, count my chickens before they hatch, etc. etc. etc. I kept Chatham on his leash today and walked both of them. Wasn't the greatest walk of my life with both of them going in different directions. My neighbors probably thought I was doing some crazy dance as I spun around and twirled my arms to get untangled! But he pooped outside which was a GOOD thing! Has been attached to my hip all day. I took my life in my hands and put both dogs out a little while ago. They both tinkled.....and I didn't use the leash as I was hoping he wouldn't dart under the fence again. So I feel like I won today.......PLEASE don't let this post jinx me!!!!!! (this is an older photo of the dogs. It was taken last June. My dog Snowy on the rt is about 6 lbs and Chatham is much larger now!)

Dog Sitting Woes

My sister and her family are away for over a week in Mexico. I volunteered to watch their dog. He is the cutest little thing...............and so far, he is winning. We have a toy Maltese. She is jealous and isn't in the mood to play. Chatham, their dog insists! I have decided to keep a little blog journal of this adventure. Last night was the first night so I will start there. 4/5/08-pick up Chatham and bring him home. IMMEDIATELY put both dogs outside to do their business. Dogs come back in, play, growl, then plop on sofas. I go up to bed later in evening, notice pile of poop in living room......not my dogs. (Yes, I know the difference!) Our dog goes to sleep with son and I take Chatham in my bed. Chatham restless all night as he is not used to traffic noise. Hears EVERYTHING and jumps up. 4/6/08-wake up and take Chatham outside. He is out for a while so I assume he is done. I go about getting my morning coffee. He sits with me. I finish coffee and go downstairs to change laundry from night before. He follows. Walks around basement investigating things. I am folding clothes. Son comes downstairs and yells, "There's poop on the floor!" Sure enough, Chatham has pooped again! (this is in a matter of being let out 3 minutes prior!) I give him benefit of the doubt as I think he is used to being let out on leash. We have fenced in backyard so I don't see the need to have to walk him to poop! I go out to Costco to get some things we need. I get home and hubby says dog came to him and wanted to go outside. He goes out and throws up! Good Boy! At least it wasn't on the carpet! Now I am worried as I know my dog will throw up if she doesn't eat. I notice he is not eating out of his bowl. Figure he is out of sorts. I take some kibble and put a little pile on the floor and he eats it. This will be a fun week! LOVE YOU KERRI! (sis) Stay tuned................ Ok! This day wasn't quite complete! The doorbell rang, I answered, but only opened the door a CRACK! You guessed it! Chatham squeezed through! Proceeded to take off across the street. Neighbor kid who rang the bell took off after him. He ran more. So off I go with CLOGS on my feet! Keep in mind that I already have bad knees, and CLOGS are not easy to run in! He decided to play cat and mouse with me and would not come to me. Every time I got close to grab him, he took off again. Then he saw someones dog chained up outside and decided to say hello. I pounced! It has been raining, this other yard with dog is very un kept and muddy!!! No picture me with muddy dog trudging home! BAD DOG! Hopefully this will be the last for today! NOT!!!!!!! Getting reading to call it a night and decided to let the dogs go outside one last time to do their business. Mine goes out, comes back in. Chatham decides he needs to sniff around and take his merry old time. Uh OH! He sees a RABBIT! Chatham takes off after rabbit. Rabbit slides under slat in fence. Chatham SQUEEZES through slat in fence! Now he is off again, this time chasing a rabbit! I yell for husband and son! It is dark, we are outside trying to catch this dog! The scary thing is that he lives out in the country and has run but comes back. Here, we have a lot of traffic and right behind us is a major road. If he gets through the one large fence out behind our house he will surely get it! So think from now on he will have to be walked with his leash! My heart is still pounding!

Chalkboard/Dry Erase w/rub-ons!

I have been going through my stash of things to stamp on. I got these quite some time ago. I used a strip of the rub-ons from SU. I added ribbon to the top. (now in my Etsy shop!)

Retired SU sets for Sale

I have posted these retired sets for sale in a few different places. First come first serve. I will ship Priority mail only. (prices do not include s/h) If you are local, you can come and pick up. I accept paypal. Fruit Medley & Fruity Phrases (selling as a set) $23.00 Very Merry $6.00 Made from Scratch $6.00 Festive Friends $6.00 Simple Somethings $6.00 Alphabits $10.00 Fun Filled $10.00 Shapes & Shadows $20.00 Fish Frolics $20.00 Steppin Style $15.00 Sweet Treats $10.00 Some Like it Hot $15.00 On the Beach $20.00 sold Garden Pleasures (rare) $30.00 Daisy $15.00 Celebrate the Season (rare) $25.00 Wreath of Roses $15.00 sold Booglie Eyes $15.00 sold Fabulous Four $8.00 Year Round Cheer $ 6.00 Letters of Love $6.00 Holiday Hellos $15.00 Delightful Doodles (1 is mounted) $6.00 Watercolor Minis $8.00 sold Tropical Fish $25.00 Papa’s Pocket $20.00 reserved

April Fools

I didn't get a chance to do anything great this year! I did get Connor last night with glue on my hand. I let it dry on my palm, then said,"Oh my gosh Connor"! Look at the skin where I burned my hand!!!! He was really concerned and pulled some of the "dried skin" off while I whimpered! Got him! So he wanted to do the same thing to his father today. So when Mike got home from work he greeted him with his hand and a story that he got burned at school. Mike went off til he realized it was glue! hee hee! And I got Mike at work today with a phone call telling him we got an email about being audited. He was NOT a happy camper.

Pet Peeves

This isn't stamping or knitting related..............just some thoughts. I have quite a few pet peeves and two of them have made me wonder if I am the only one. Here in Maryland, there is a law that requires you to have your vehicles headlights on if you are using your windshield wipers. Therefore, when it is raining, you are required to have them on. I am amazed at all the people who don't comply. Especially when it is foggy too! I don't know what year this became law, but it has been a while. Now I know, I don't always obey the speed limit, but do for the most part. I also drive with my seat belt on, which is another law. The other thing that bothered me today was magazines! No, not the magazine itself, but all those pesky paper inserts. I HATE them!!!! I cannot flip through a magazine with them in there. When I a new magazine I go through and rip all of them out! (and I do put them in the recycle bin) Does this bother anyone else???