Tuesday, June 24, 2008

AHHH good to be home






It's been a very hectic last 2 weeks. Laptop issues in the truck prohibited me from checking everyone out while I was gone which drove me insane. I usually do my emails when hubby is driving down the road and they got piled up like mad while we were out this time. We went to NC, MN, IA, TX and back. Saw lots of devestating flooding in Des Moines and across IA and IL. Had to reroute some of our trips due to road closures. I am praying so hard for those poor people. And I can't even imagine what the crop flooding is going todo to our food prices. Almost all of IA is a disaster area. The fields that aren't even close to rivers are under water. Even with fuel prices as high as they are we got some great paying loads this time so starting to catch up. Going to take a week off for the 4th to do some camping and fishing, then get after it hard again.


Once home, Arianna, my granddaughter who is now 7 YEARS OLD, and I finished up some tins we had been working on. Playing with her and making memories for both of us inspired this tin. My Dad's wife always reminds me that we are making memories when we do things together. She is such a pleasant girl to have around. Pretty much happy with anything we do as long as we do it together. She is getting a warped sense of humor too(not sure where she gets that from, hee hee.) She pretty much hangs with Nanna Cheri while I am home. Anyhow the orange "Create Memories" tin is mine and the butterfly tin, is one she made for her teacher. She is working on another one, for her other teacher, with some fabulous school fabric I got. Hopefully we will get a chance to play a little today with it. I promised her I would share her tin with all my friends on the internet. So here is Arinna's art beside mine. By the way, she is usually by my side when I blog hop and she loves looking at everyone's art too. So again thank you for sharing your art. I sure missed you all. Hugz, Scary

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Internet friends




How many of you have internet friends you have never met in person? I have quite a few. Some from when I played games at gamehouse, some from when I made name tags for emails, and new ones from art groups I have been in or blogs I have visited. Today one of those new friends blew me away. Fannie sent me the most beautiful, thoughtful gift. If I would have been wearing socks, it would have knocked em right off my huge feet, lol. The cover is done using some of her fabric paper I think. She has been talking a class on it I believe. You can't see it in the scan but there are tiny bits of petals or leaves maybe embedded in the paper. The stamping on the cover is embossed with something to give it a smooth very cool texture. And there is gold tinting when you turn it in the light. The embossed pansy note card is just too much. The pansies and the edging stick right up from the page. I would love to have paper to write on like that. The inside is stunning purple rose fabric. See her gorgeous moo card with the heart? I love that. Her name and info is on the back. Moo cards seem to be popping up everywhere I look lately. Another thing I have to check out. The page with my name on it is again embossed with that cool textury stuff. I have to find out what that is. I have only tried embossing with a heat gun once and it didn't turn out anything like that. Inside the pages are lightly tinted a kind of purple. Fanny... I absolutely adore this journal. I vow to use it for something wonderful. You are such a dear friend. Thank you so very much. Now I know why you wanted my address, lol. Hugz, Scary with or without the Cheri, lol