A couple of new Valentine Cards

I was playing around with my digital stamps from Whimsie Doodles this morning, and my oldest son saw them and decided to give one to his girlfriend. Then my tiny boy saw them and thought he might like to give one to his girlfriend! LOL! One is 18 and one is 7! Nicholas likes a girl named Nicole. He likes her because she has horses at her house and wants to go see them! So he wants to give her a special Valentine so she'll invite him over! (She already has, but he does not know it yet! We are going over next weekend!) Anyway, hope you like the Valentines. I had fun making the newspaper flowers on them! Hugs, michelle

Who wants pie???

I'm so proud of myself! It may not look like the best pie in the world, but I did it myself! Now, don't get me wrong, I can bake. I bake alot! I love baking cut out sugar cookies, pizzelles, jelly cookies, all kinds of cakes, cobblers, etc. But pie was never my "thing". I could not get the crust right , ever! I got a food processor for Christmas, a Black and Decker, and have been looking at the pastry crust recipe for some time now, and finally said, today is the day. I'm going to make a pie, a real pie with homemade crust. It worked out so well! I made one crust, then another! I made a 2 crust apple pie! I usually use storebought crust, which there is nothing wrong with that. They come out just as good. But this was so awesome! I can't wait to cut it for dinner later! I hope it tastes good! Ok, now that I have accomplished this, I may move on to homemade bread one day soon! I'll let you know!

Meantime, its an awesome day here in the North East. It poured rain yesterday, flooded my basement, of course, made mud everywhere due to all the melted snow, and all the rain. Today it's about 42 degrees out there, and there is this foriegn orange thing in the sky....oh, it's the sun! LOL! I have not seen that for weeks! I take that back, it came out for 5 minutes on Saturday!

I am waiting for a few things I ordered from HSN, and Papertrey Ink. I can't wait till they come. I think I will go sit down now, and finish my Valentine candle mat, so I can share it. I actually got one stitched up, coffee dyed, but I am working on another one, and then I will finish them so they can be used. I'm also working on a little coffee cross stitch project and of course, cards. Soooo, off to work on these things, then a trip to the Goodwill before Nicholas and I go pick up the other two kids at thier friends houses! Have a great rest of the day! Hugs,

Valentine Cards...

I finally got to sit down and use my new Crafters Companion this morning. I also got to use my new Bow-easy. Don't you love gadgets? I love all my gadgets. I got the Ultimate Crafters Companion as a late Christmas gift, and I'm so glad I did! It is so fun to use, just be sure to watch the DVD it comes with, and you can get the basics and do your own thing. I love the little Bow Easy too. It makes perfect little bows for cards everytime! Flat, and the ribbon always turns the right way! That has always been a major problem for me, making 1 sided ribbon work. Sorry the pictures arent' the best. They never are, but these are really giving me a hard time. I think it is because the paper is shimmery. It came with the Ultimate and it is such nice heavy cardstock! It is awesome! I'm ordering more of that! Anyway, one of the cards is called an Accordian Card and the other is a pop-up, the inside and the outside. I've used the digitals images from Whimsie Doodles, and used my Nesties to embellish them. And of course the Ultimate and the Bow Easy. Thanks for stoppin in. I appreciate your visits! Hugs, michelle

The snow just won't quit!

I thought I'd share a couple of photos with you, my poor doggy in the snow, my bushes covered, there are Christmas lites under there somewhere! And my corner with the Christmas stuff still out. It will probably be there till the spring thaw!!!
Have a warm day where ever you are! I'm going out with my husband this mornning to do all the things I have not done all week. I need to go to the bank, which closes at noon, I need to go to Target and get some more of those flocked hangers they sell from Joy Mangano, I love those hangers! I need to go to the grocery store to get some supplies to cook and bake, and maybe I can talk him into Jo-anne fabrics, I need my craft supply fix! I hope you all have a great day! I'm going to try to get a few things done to post, yesterday with the kids home, I got nothing done! I spent most of the day in the kitchen making breakfast, lunch dinner, snax, getting hot chocolate, what a day!!!!! Hugs to all! Michelle

First Project of 2010, calendars....

I got the little calendars at Lolly Chops, blog (see sidebar) I thought I would make a couple little gifts to give to some I have not seen for the holiday! I love them! I had such fun making them! I will have some cards to share next. I also wanted to leave you with a look at my little guy doin his homework!

He is only in first grade and he gets so much homework! We forgot to do this one yesterday, since we were closed due to bad weather, so we had to get up early to do this paper. He was not happy! We are expecting another snowstorm today, so look out! Another day to walk to work! Stay warm all! Hugs, michelle

Is it ever going to end.....

SNOW! It has snowed for almost 6 days now! We had 2 delays this week for school, now today they canceled because we got another 4 inches on top of the 3 yesterday, and we are in for more! I'm sick of shoveling and sweeping! Wish hubby were here to do it , but he won't be back for quite a while.

I have a few projects I will be sharing today or tomorow. They are paper craft related. I am also hoping next week to start a little beginner quilting. I got a quliters' kit for Christmas and I have a few things I want to try to do. I also got a Debbie Mumm quilting book, it looks pretty simple, so I would love to start something there soon!

I also got some cool things for Christmas that I had been wanting. I got a new food processor. I used it twice since I got it. I got a really nice set of melamine mixing bowls, some decent knives, a good pair of kitchen shears to cut food with, which I really wanted. Got some crafting things too, a sizzix die to make baskets, and a Cricut cartridge from my sis-in-law. We bought ourself's a Kuerig coffee pot before Christmas, the platinum version. We love it! No more coffee sitting in the bottom of the pot cooking and getting nasty after an hour. A fresh cup each time. Ours came with a My K-cup, and we bought another so we can just used our normal coffee in the pot. We got various K-cups to try also. I got a bag of Mistletoe coffee from Sam's club the other day, it is 3 lbs! It was orignially $14.95, on clearance for $3.95! I have a coffee grinder so I ground some up and tried it! Awesome! It has a hazelut,vanilla, cinnamon flavor to it. Anyway, got some gift cards too, so I used it to buy an otteman for the living room to go with our new furniture we got a few months back. So now I am done spending money, time to hibernate and use all the things I have, so I can cook, craft, and drink coffee! LOL!

Have a great day, and hopefully will be back later with some projects....Hugs, michelle