Butterly Condolences

This is not typically the kind of card

you see for a sympathy card, but

 I think it works anyway.

The inside says "heartfelt condolences"

 

My brother came for a visit yesterday

and we had a great time as always.  I

treated him to "Moe's" which is a new

Mexican fast food joint.  You tell them 

what you want, taco, etc. and then go

down the line and pick what ingredients

you want in it.  Kind of like a Mexican

subway only far more calories, I'm

sure.  It was good, but way too much

food.  I've been wanting to try it

for a while but with it just being

new at the beginning of the year

you couldn't get in for a long time

without waiting in a two hour line.

Well, OK, maybe I exaggerate-but

not much!

 

I'm looking forward to class tonight,

but I didn't realize we were almost at

the end.  I think there is only three

more classes.  Then I guess I will

have to get out and do some yard

work.  Not fair.  My yard needs to be

de-leaved big time.  All the leaves blow to

the side of the house.  I just planted vinca 

last year and you can't find it due to leaves

and weeds.  I am not an outdoor person

and I hate playing in the dirt.  Which is

why I planted the vinca in the first place.

I guess you have to take the good with the

bad.  Personally, I'd like to pour some

cement in the flower beds and be done

with it, but I guess that wouldn't look very 

nice.  I am not a flower person.  I am not

an outdoor person.  Did I mention that?

I accept that.

Is there anyone who loves to garden

that would like to do this stuff for me?

 

Please??

 

Happy Monday!

 

Dragonfly dreams

Stitching patterns put out more

patterns so look for more.  This was

my absolute favourite so I did it

first.  If you look carefully you can 

see the wink of stella glitter on the

body.  I was going to try to use it

on the wings as well but I was 

afraid I might mess up the stitching.

Isn't he pretty?  I liked the colours 

they chose so I used the same ones.

 

I'm attending the first of four

new members classes today.  I

don't know if I will become a member,

but I'm thinking about it.  I'm also

signing the last two songs.  "Lord

I need you" and "Only King forever"

both of which I've done before and

when I practiced last night kept

messing up.  So, like the song

says, "Jesus take the wheel", Jesus

take my hands.    I've been a little

stressed out this weekend, so I'm hoping

He will just melt the stress away if only 

for an hour and half during the service

so I can turn my mind to Him and

remember that he is in control, not

me.  I just got done texting Cody,

who is having car trouble, that we

can still have God's joy in the midst

of the world's troubles.  I'm clinging

to that today!

 

Happy Sunday!

 

Acetate card base

This whole card is made with

acetate and then cardstock inside/

outside/sideways and every other

which way.  That's to cover the 

adhesive, naturally!

Lots of bling.

Card closed

 

Card open

 

I would have matted the inside

sentiment panel but there

is already a lot of layers since I

did layers front and inside and then

the white panels on the inside and

back.  Maybe inking it would have

worked.  The secret is that it wasn't

supposed to have a sentiment panel

there in the first place but when I

stamped inside the card I messed

it up.  Shhh.  Don't tell anyone!

 

I have religious signing class today

and then I'm going to lunch with

my friend, Coleen and looking 

forward to it very much.  Before church

tomorrow I am attending the new

members class.  I don't know if I 

will actually become a member or

not, but I'm thinking about it.  So

far I've seen nothing that differs

from my belief system and I've been

there for a year now.  In the

afternoon my brother is coming

for a visit.  So it will be a busy two days.

 

Happy Saturday!

 

 

Acetate and dragonflies

I decided it was time to play with

acetate again.  It makes such an

unusual card.  The problem is, you

have to be careful, because

*obviously*

everything shows through.  But

it's a really cool way to make a

card.  I have another idea that

I'm going to be doing for tomorrow,

probably.  It's  not completely 

thought out yet, but the card

base will be acetate rather than

card stock.  That's how this was

supposed to be, but somewhere 

along the line I strayed from 

my vision.  I still can't find my muse.

I'm not completely thrilled with

it because I'm still learning how

to use the fuse tool, but it's

not too bad.

 

We still haven't gotten any white

stuff-YAY!  But it was miserable and

raining the last couple of days.  I think

it's supposed to warm up though!

 

Judy and I had an awesome breakfast

at Bob Evans yesterday.  I hope we

can get together again soon!

 

Happy Friday!

 

Pastel Easter boxes

I love making little boxes with candy

inside and the Hershey nuggets

lend themselves perfectly to

projects such as this.

Aren't they cool?  I like making fiddly 

little things and wrapping paper 

around the candies certainly is

fiddly.  But it's fun, too.  

 

I'm going to have breakfast with my friend,

Judy, soon.  I'm looking forward to it

because we don't get to spend much time

together.  After, I think I'm going to pop

over to Hobby Lobby (it's right across the

street, after all) and see if I can get a 

package of acetate.  I've been in the

mood to play with it again and I've

seen some cute cards done with it.

It looks like until Saturday I'll actually

have some time to make some cards.

The weekend looks like it's going

to be rather busy.

 

No white stuff!  But while I was out

walking B'Elanna I did see snowflakes

trying to fall.  We are under a wind

advisory until 10 pm-unless they changed

it since last night-but it's not particularly

windy at the moment.  It doesn't

hurt my feelings any because it's 

downright chilly out there right now!

 

Happy Thursday!

 

The windy city has moved!

The windy city  now resides

in Fremont, Indiana.  It is super

windy this morning.  A friend

told me a few months ago that I

should want the wind because it

dries things out.  That's true.  It 

rained so hard last night that I was a 

little scared.  Trucks are whizzing

by me and it's so dark I can barely

see the road.  But while the wind is

busy drying things out, we are 

expecting more rain.  Maybe

it should have waited?? 

I finally made a card using some

of the red vellum.

I think it turned out pretty well!

I lined the edges of the diamond

folds with gold and also used gold

for the "berries" on the flower.  

Artistic license.  😄 

Class was awesome last night.  I
practiced finger spelling with my
teacher from two semesters ago
and we laughed so much.    I also
worked with Matt, the deaf young 
man.  He is so funny and so patient
with my stuttering fingers, LOL.
Finger spelling is  just not that easy
for me.  I know what I want to spell
but my fingers don't always cooperate.
I did find a program, though, that
will finger spell words for you and
you type in what they spelled.
You will get a yes or no answer.
BUT unlike the test in class when
we take it (twice now, for me)
you get do-overs and can watch it
as many times as it takes for you
to get the word.  I am still learning
how to sound the words out rather than
go letter by letter.  That's a problem if
it's a long word because I forget what
the other letters were by the time I get
done seeing the whole word!  So it's 
really helping me there.    I'm not
good at not saying the letters in my
mind as I'm spelling them, either.
It's a skill like any other, I suppose.

Happy Tuesday!!   

Welcome Spring?

Sorry I've been MIA.  My muse went

on vacation again and I've had a

very busy weekend!  Saturday a

friend invited me to go see the 

Blackwood quartet!  They sing

Elvis' religious songs and they are

really good!  I had so much fun.

The leader of the group told

us a cute story.  His father and

Elvis used to go to school together.

So when he was born, Elvis tried to 

touch him and his mother told his

father to "tell that boy to get his

dirty hands off her baby!"  LOL

Not an Elvis fan perhaps?  I'm sure

that was way before he became

famous!

At church we had an email 

group for writing scripture  

and it has ended.  I'm really

bummed about that.  But I

wanted to let her know how

much I enjoyed it and I hope

she does it again next semester.

So I made her a journal.

The only thing I wish is that I

hadn't put the "Prayer journal"

where I did.  I debated putting it in

several different places but nothing

looked quite right.   I think maybe the

flowers could have been spread

along the bottom of the journal a 

little more, also.  I may still add a ribbon

along the edge and tie it in the front

but I haven't decided yet.  Hopefully

I have some brown ribbon because

that would look nice, I think.  You

will have to imagine that because

I probably won't take another picture!

It's been so nice!  We had a lot of

rain last week and at least today

it's supposed to rain again and

possibly thunderstorm.  I haven't

looked past today.  But the weekend

was really  nice, so I enjoy it

while I can!

Happy Birthday to my son,

Nathan!  he's 41 today!

And Happy Monday!!!