Not only did the temperature finally drop in Seattle by about 30 degrees, but oh my, I haven’t gotten such a nice surprise like this in a long time! I received this beautiful birthday card from my friend, Linda, in the U.K. (check out her blog; she does wonderful work and is so talented)!
Then, I realized she had sent me a package, too! This is the awesome part!!! And you can see for yourself why:
I feel like I won the jackpot! Linda included in the package another card; a 6″ x 6″ pad of designer papers from Anna Stemplewska, of the U.K. (with my favorite color Pink); 8 1/4″ x 6″ papers from Joanna Sheen; Posh Milly and Max Fishing stamps designed by Janet Roberts, from Spiral Whisper; Lily and Lily and Milo stamps designed by Rachelle Anne Miller, from Stampavie; some brads, and finally some little pink and red heart buttons.
The package was topped with this little decoration:
Wow, Linda, I don’t know what I did to deserve these wonderful gifts, but Thank You so much!
I decided to work on my craft room today to get it cleaned up and re-organized. After reading Christine’s blog today, I decided to try her suggestion - get all my supplies in front of me where I can seem them when I’m trying to be creative. I will only be using this room for two more years, but I need it to work until then. I have two 4′ tables on one wall in my room. I have a floor lamp in the middle of them ( there is no overhead light except for a small light in front of the closet - who ever heard of such a thing?) so I had this wasted space. I removed the wheels off of a 3 drawer Sterilite stacker to make it fit in between the two tables. I put my little small 5 drawer stacker on top of that. I now have room for my new Clip-It-Up stand on the table, which puts everything within reach. Well, except for my Stickles, wooden stamps, ink pads, and …. the list goes on and on and on! I guess those items will have to stay in the closet.
Here are 4 more scrapbook pages I made at a recent crop. I’ve decided to use this album for my recent family reunion! And since we “camped” in my son’s purple bus, this album will be a perfect match!
The bad thing about living in Seattle on HOT days is that our houses aren’t air conditioned . . . so we suffer. It has been hot all week, in the mid-90’s today and hotter tomorrow. Our house just doesn’t cool off at night even with all the funs running full blast in front of the windows, so tonight after work I stayed downstairs with Jim watching the Olympics (YEAH, Michael Phelps won his 7th gold medal)! My craft/computer room is on the 3rd floor and it’s really just too uncomfortable to even be in here for too long.
And, to top it all off, there were major power problems in downtown Seattle this afternoon. The core downtown area is powered by four transformers; the power company had one transformer off-line performing maintenance when a second transformer failed. All buildings had to go to 40% less power which meant working with only one little light at our work stations, no air conditioning, etc. If that wasn’t accomplished, the power company would have no choice but to enforce rolling brownouts. HUH? Things like that happen in California, NOT Seattle!
My fingers are crossed that this hot spell ends soon!
While I was reading my blogs today, I noticed that one of our scrapbooking friends had a new post. Imagine my dismay when I read that Cynthia had suddenly passed away today. She was 39 years old and married with 6 children. If I recall correctly, she always made the most scrapbook pages at our yearly retreats! We’ll miss you Cynthia.
I absolutely love getting fun mail and today was fun mail! I got this beautiful card from Henderica in Holland! If you look closely, you will see that she cross-stitched the insert. It is just adorable and I absolutely love it! Go to Henderica’s blog and check out her work (just click on her name)!
It was so hard to get up and go to work this morning after having three days off. Before going to work, I had to go have a mammogram - phew - with a clean bill of health, it’s done for another year!
Here are two more pages for my purple album. I added different colored brads to both pages.
I combined a purple, metal flower with the multi-colored cardstock flower that came with the paper pack on this page. I never thought I would like paisley!
We just got back to town after three days away for my family reunion. We camped at Hood Park where the Snake River meets the Columbia River out of Pasco, WA. We camped with my son/daughter-in-law in their 40′ bus conversion.
At the recent crop I went to I made scrapbook pages. The pages are ready for pictures - I just haven’t decided what pictures to use! Here are the first two pages.
I’ll show more pages tomorrow!
Last weekend on the way up I-5 to the crop, we stopped at the A Muse Stamp shop! It’s a cute shop and it was so fun to check out the stamps I see on the blogs all the time! I could have spent many dollars, but settled on only buying three stamps. But I can always buy on-line!
I wonder how many Christmas stamps I need? I already have a tote full of them but I still needed to buy more! Aren’t we all like that though?! HA HA HA — or is that HO HO HO !!!
Before we left the crop Saturday night, Pretty Girl Patti took a group picture (but, how can it be a group picture since she wasn’t in it?). My camera was already packed in the car but I did some sleuthing and found it! Can anyone guess where I got it?
Front row: Jolie, Sandy, Nicole (she’s wearing her 25th birthday crown), and Deb
Middle Row: Anita (me), Sonja, and Donna
Back Row: Tracy, Amanda (HA - we got you on film TWICE !!!), Jill, and Darla
First Swap Blog’s Swap 8 was “In the Garden”. I made this card for Henderica Lammertsma.
Supplies:
CTMH: “With Love” stamps, “Everlasting” paper, “Cranberry” ink, ribbon.
SU: “Slot” and “Designer Label” punches.
