My son.....

Congradulations to my beautiful son! We are very proud of you. You graduated with high honors, and that is such an accomplishment! Thanks for being the wonderful boy you are, and stay close to us always! Love you!

Good Monday.oooops, Tuesday Morn!

It sure feels like a Monday to me! I will be confused all day and all week! Well this starts the week of the next to the last week of school. My boy graduates on Friday, and I hope I make it thru that day. He is my second child, and that boy was glued to my hip till he was about 10 years old. He has turned into a young adult so quickly, but yet, he is still very close to his dad and I. He is very opinionated, strong willed, but he is still my baby. I still have 2 more in school Angela Elizabeth will be in 7th next year, and my little baby Nicholas willbe in 2nd. But David graduating really hits me in my heart. Anyway, I hope to have some pictures if he'll let me take them! Meantime here are a few things I wanted to share.




Those are some boxes I made to put some Avon gifts in for a few people I need to have a little gift for. The bird and flower are made from templates from Paperwishes. I love those templates. I have a Cricut, a Big Shot, a Cuttlebug, but still love to cut things out with scissors once and a while. I love how these boxes turned out....




This is just a little t light votive holder I made, again with the paperwishes bird embellishing it. I will be making a whole bunch of these for my daughters shower on July 18. They will be a little gift for the bridsemaids to take home with them.

Well, I hope you all have a wonderful Memorial Day weekend! Mines was not long enough, but summer is coming and there will be many long summer days ahead! Have a great day! Hugs,
!

It's been a long time...

It has been a long time. I have alot to share, but I will share in two posts. First look at Sally and Will together on my couch. I was sleeping there and got up for a minute and came back and found them both. Sally looks less than happy about me snapping her picture....




I also got a couple stitcheries done, and stuffed them into little pillows for decorating with. I got the snowman pattern from Oldetime stitchin, a wonderful place for really nice prim patterns. The other I got from a free pattern site.



At the end of this week, my second child graduates from high school. I am already crying about it! I can't stand it! He is not 18, and is not graduating! I cannot beleive it! We will be having a small party on Saturday. He really didn't want a party, but it is also my youngest birthday, will be 8, and so we decided to have a small party. I'm doing all the cooking. I hope the weather is nice! Well, I'll stop by tomorow with a few more things to share. Happy Memorial Day to all! God Bless the U.S.A.!

First Picnic of the year

This is just a quick post of the first picnic of the year here in our backyard. I don't know who invited the gnome....

It's been toooo long....

Since I've updated my blog. I have some projects finished that I would like to post soon as I get some batteries for my camera. In the mean time I would like to leave you with some family pics that I have. Enjoy....

Please meet Will...our new addition.....

I'd like you all to meet the new addtion to our family! His name is Will! He is a Yorkie/Shitzu mix. Is he not adorable! He is less than a lb. at this point. Sally is afraid of him! She hate when he starts whining, she goes over, looks at him, and he will start walking toward her, and she takes off. She is so cute when she does that! Anyway, my friends dog had a litter of 6 puppies, one was a girl, the rest were boys. This was the only one who looks most like the yorkie, so I picked him! She pretty much gave him to me, because we are friends, and she wants to be able to see him all the time, so he is a shared puppy! I needed this like I needed a hole in my head, beleive me! Sally is enough work for 3 dogs, but I just had to have this one! The kids love it. The poor dog will never have to walk, because they carry him around all day. Great, another one that will not climb steps! Sally will not, except for the 2 porch steps, and she flies up those. She will not climb any other stairs, not even for scooby snack! The vet says, alot of dogs have height issues, mostly smaller dogs, like her. It's actually kinda nice, when a repair man comes or something, you can put her up stairs, and she will not bother the guy who is fixing the sink! My other dog, Terry, used to get up under whatever someone was fixing, and lay there, till I had to drag him out by his collar, and then he would whine the whole time, because he wanted to play with the plumber! Luckily, our plumber was a friend, and he would laugh about it! Anyway, I hope you like Will, we do! Pray my son Nicholas does not squeeze him too hard, because he is afraid he will drop him, so he squishes him to his chest and the poor things eye's bulge out! Goodness, it's been a weekend! Hugs to all! Michelle

Snowstorm!!!

Wow, I'm sure there are alot of you who got dumped on this past Friday/Saturday. We were only to get 8-12, we ended up with over 24 inches. Many friends in my neighborhood do not have power. I fortunately do, and I feel badly that I do. I'm warm, have lights, furnace, and my friends are worried because they are told it may be 5 days till the power can be restored. I offered help, and so far all I have been able to do is charge some cell phones. I dont have much room, but I would like to help in some way. I offered my freezer to my friends whojust did a big grocery shopping with alot of expensive meats, since they had gotten thier income tax check, they shopped big. I told them there is room for thier most expensive things, to please bring it over. They will today. I cannot beleive how bad that storm was. It was worse than the blizzard of '93. We actually got 36 inches of snow that time, but for some reason this one caused much more problem, they say. I hope where ever you are, you are warm, and have power. I am going to post another post, hope you'll stop in to see it, its a cutie!!! Hugs, michelle

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