Blurfday!! Friday Feb 27th

Not too many links today, sorry, but it's been a bit of a strange week for me , hehe!

~Secret Decoder Card
~Bar Wrapper
~Paper Flower tutorial

YouTube links:
~Charlie Bit My Finger


...and I wanted to pass on this info to anyone who lives in the Calgary area:

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Do you live in Calgary, Alberta? Are you looking for something fun and exciting to do on Saturday March 7th? Come join us for a fun filled day of scrapbooking at the March Madness Crop:

March 7th 2009 10am - 10pmCanyon MeadowsCommunity Center848 Cantabrian Drive SW, Calgary, AB

We will have lots of prizes and goody bags for each cropper. The grand prize is a new Stampin' Up Big shot donated by Char Smith. In the morning there will be Tim's Coffee and doughnuts and we will also have lunch and dinner. There will be a make'n'take and we will have some on site scrapbooking shopping from Savvy'n'Sassy.

For more details, the latest updates and to sign up, visit our blog


Or contact us at this email for other payment options or for any questions.

Hope to see you there!!

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Have a great weekend everyone! I'm heading out of town this afternoon and won't get back until Sunday afternoon! I'm gonna have some FUN!!!!!!!! Wahoo!!!

All torn up...

That's the challenge this week at Scrapping Out Loud!!! Go see!!!!! Here's my LO:

Rub-a-Dub Dub

I'm getting really excited about the weekend crop at Springdale!!!! I had better start packing, though............... TONIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Yikes!!!

Here are my fluffy slippers I have for the weekend!!!

A tootie, some sillies and some scaries

OK, my toot is that I got another LO picked up for Canadian Scrapbooker's magazine.Now that doesn't mean that it will be published, as I learned that lesson.So I'm just saying it was picked up as possibly being published.I have to get it ready to send in... Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The silly is that I ended up in an ambulance yesterday afternoon! I was getting out of the truck to go to the post office and fell and split my back of my head open on the step of the truck (or I think it was the step) I went in to tell the postal worker there that it was very slippery out there and that I fell.When I put my hand on my head and took it down, I saw BLOOD!!!!!!!!!! So, I told the ladies to get ready because I would probably be fainting in the next few seconds! Well, guess what ...I did! There were a couple of people at the post office who were there and got a towel and started wiping my face as I was fainting and coming to and fainting again! It was mostly a blurrrrrrrrrrrr, but my FIL came in (they live across from the post office and someone went over to tell him what had happened) and everyone was saying that I needed stitches in it and that they were calling the ambulance because I could have a concussion.Well, I didn't really want to go on the ambulance!!! But they insisted , so they dispatched the ambulance to the post office.That's the silly part...At the same time-this is the scary part coming now!!!- the post office worker got a call from her husband who is the bus driver for a group of our school kids. He was telling her that there had been an accident with the bus and that she needed to call an ambulance there immediately as it had been an accident involving the school bus (full of kids!!!) and a car. So now, here I was with a little cut on my head, with the ambulance showing up at the post office for ME when they needed it at the scene of the bus/car collision! Well, I started crying and saying I don't need the ambulance and to get the ambulance to the accident.So that's what they did, as per my request.The ambulance turned around at the post office and took off to the other scene. In the meantime the ambulance from the next town had been dispatched so they told them to come here to get me....Oh boy! So, here I was sitting with my head bleeding a bit, fainting, and not knowing if any of our kids had been hurt on the bus or who was in the car... So the ambulance arrives with siren blaring and lights flashing, they put me on a stretcher, people watching the whole thing outside.Ughhhhh!!! And the ambulance drives off with siren blaring and lighs flashing!!! I felt so stupid. OK, here comes another scary part.There was a VERY quick snow storm that started a few minutes before that was creating a lot of blowing snow, white outs and total nastiness (which probably caused the bus/car accident) and here I am in the ambulance and we have to travel in this weather! Now, the hospital trip took about an hour as we have no hospital in our town! We are slipping and sliding on the roads at times (the driver said it was the WORST time he has EVER been on the road, but he was a GOOD driver!!!) Yikes!
OK, so I'm at the hospital lying on a stretcher in a small room because there were no rooms available (a very SMALL hospital now, but it USED to be big.I was actually born there some 40 something years ago!!!hehe!)
The nurse comes in to check it and says I'll probably need a stitch or 2. A while later my sister and her husband come to see me, we chat about it and have a laugh or 2!. Then a long while after the dr. comes in to see me.He says that he'll clean up the cut and put a stitch in it...well I waited and waited... Now , in the meantime the people that were in the car/bus accident arrive a few minutes after I arrived and the passenger is in bad shape so they are spending a lot of time getting him ready for tranfer to a bigger hospital in another town. The driver walked out of it unharmed (well, he's probably stiff this morning, I'd say though, and has aches and pains) Thank GOD none of the kids or the bus driver were harmed other than a few bruises. ( I heard after)
Oh, this is getting long,sorry.Anyway the nurse comes in and gives me a tetanus shot! (that's good for 10 years!!! haha!) and she asks if the dr. was in to see me.She asked if he checked my pupils, I said no, she was shocked that he didn't.She said someone's going to have to check your eyes in case you have a concussion.Well, no one did... (well, the EMT did when I was in the ambulance, but that's all) Another while later she came in and started telling me how to clean up my cut when I get home...she told me the symptoms of a concussion (headache and throwing up) so if that happens I'd have to get to the hospital again (now the storm is still raging too, so I was HOPING I didn't have a concussion, but no one really knew that) Anyway I was sent on my way a few hours later with the same bloody mess on my head as I got there with.Not a soul cleaned me up, no one at the hospital checked my neck, or even asked (Now, the EMTs did!!!! They are certainly on the ball! I tell you, they were better than doctors and nurses!!!)
The ambulance guys waitied for me there and I came home with them in the ambulance.They were so kind to do that.If not, then someone in my family would have had to come up over the road for me last night and it was not nice on the roads.
Someone got the word to Todd last night at work about what happened but told him it wasn't serious but he decided that he was going to come home anyway.Thank goodness he did because I was wondering how the heck I was going to clean myself up last night.I was figuring I would have to do it with my boys on guard outside the bathroom door, in case I fainted again.
My next door neighbour, who is ALSO an EMT came to visit me last night to see how I was as she was on the scene at the post office because she was across the road in a coffee shop! (yeah a VERY small town where everybody knows you!!!) She was shocked that no one cleaned me up, let alone at least put one stitch in it (She figured yesterday after looking at it at the post office that I would probably need a stitch)! She was also shocked they didn't tell me that I had to be woke up every hour or so last night to make sure I wasn't suffering from a concussion. If Todd hadn't been home I would have had to get one of my boys to wake me.Todd was very tired of course, from working the day shift and then driving home in the storm.He just konked out for a while and Alexander set his cell phone to go off and he checked me a couple of times.Bless his heart! He was so worried last night when his grandmother told him what happened. She had to calm him down by rubbing his arm and telling him I was OK. Imagine a 17 year old getting all worried about his momma! Gotta love him, hey!!! Now, I bet Nathan was worried too, but he is not the type to wear his emotions on his sleeve.
Anyway, that's my excitement for yesterday...Sorry to be so rambly (is that a word, even??) and probably not making much sense!!! I'm home from school today because I'm stiff and sore all over! Thank goodness ,no headache though! So, that's a good sign.

Well, that's it from me!

Hi!

Here's my card for 2 Sketches 4 You card sketch #20

Happy Friday the blurfieth!!! (Feb 20)

I just have a few but they are GOODIES!!!

~Post It Note Holder tutorial
~Nugget Purse
~Goodie Box
~Ribbons and Staples
~"Peeps" basket
~Stamping tips
~Quilt Card tutorial

Enjoy!!!

I got another SNOW DAY!!! How cool!!! But it peeves me to no END when people think that TEACHERS have anything to do with snowstorms and school closing!!! We don't!!! We are not makers of snowflakes! However give us a piece of paper and scissors and we can whip up an awesome paper snowflake for ya, no problem!!! We are NOT the decision-makers when it comes to anything having to do with the school being closed for the day!!! I think SOME people just get pissed that THEY have to take care of their own kids for the day, poor them!!! SOME say that we don't WANT to be teaching, because we happen to whoop it up in our facebook status that we have a SNOW DAY!!! Yeah, whatever! I absolutely LOVE teaching and would not want ANY other job out there.I would never trade with anyone! I love it! I teach grade 6 and I think that GRADE 6 ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If those people wanted snow days and summers off, well then, THEY had the opportunity when they graduated just like I did to get a Bachelor of Education degree, right! Let them teach for 20 years straight and see how happy they would be to get an unexpected day off!!! Let's see how they would whoop it up!!!!!!!!!!! OK, that's all from me...sorry...I haven't done this is a while! Whew!

It's Wednesday already???!!!

Oh my!!!

Here is my layout for Scrapping Out Loud blog this week...
Check out the blog to see what this week's challenge is! I'm not tellin' ya!!!

Happy Sunday!!!

Guess what! It's STILL snowing! It's been snowing now NON-STOP since Thursday night! Yowsa!!!

Here's my card for Scrappy Hour's reveal! It's simple this time! Create a card or layout around a "birthday" theme. I created this card for my mom who has a birthday tomorrow.Sorry mom, but it's gonna be late getting to you.My bad!

It's been snowing A LOT here!!!

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

~Anne Bradstreet

I just took these pics a few minutes ago in my backyard! We're getting so much snow today!!!
... and here's my puppy! She loves the snow!

...and me. I don't like the snow all that much!!!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Hope everyone is having a great day!

My darling hubby gave me some beautiful placemats, napkins, napkin holders and a table runner for my kitchen! They are gorgeous.I'll get a pic of them later!

Here's the card I made for him...


I have announced the new design team for my JUST MY SKETCH blog.See them HERE.

Happy Blurfing Friday- Lucky Feb 13th

FIRST I want to tell you about my RAK I am offering on my Just My Sketches blog. I have 2 sketches posted and you have a chance to win a RAK if you try one or both of the sketches!

I just have a few links today.
~Lace border from paper doilies
~Squash Book
~Pretty card
~Candy Holder Card tutorial
~Pretty pink card
~Card Purse and how to make them

Happy Friday 13th!!!

Lucky day for us! We got a SNOW DAY!!!!!
Guess what! I was featured today on Craft Critique, not one, but TWICE!!! hehe!!! Check out this AWESOME list of Valentine projects from bloggers all over the place!!! I am going to have FUN checking them out!!! They're posting another set later today, so be sure to check them out again!!

Can I ask you a favor,please!

My sister is eligible for a music award and needs votes.

Could you all please go to this website.
Scroll down the list of names to where it says Sharona Clarke, click on her name and then the vote button. It's very easy to do! I appreciate it so much!!

I'm the QUEEN of the CROP!!

I won the title of Queen of the Crop at Scrap My Memories!!! Thanks so much Zoe and the design team!!! I was so excited when I found out this afternoon!! How cool is that!!!

...and today is reveal day for the challenge at Scrapping Out Loud!!!

Here's my LO! We were to create a LO of an amazing moment in our life.Well, I created a LO about 2 of the most amazing moments in my life, when my boys were born.

Valentine Project #7-"U R Sweet" Heart Door Hanger

Materials needed:
~piece of chipboard
~glue
~patterned paper
~something to sand the edges with
~embellishments

1. Freehand draw the heart onto the chipboard.Mine is approx. 8X6. Cut out and cover with glue and then place the piece of patterned paper over it.Let it dry.
2. Cut around the heart and then sand the edges. You can ink the edges after if you like, but it's not necessary.3. Embellish as you wish.See my pic at the top for an idea of how I did mine.

Thanks

This is my card based on 2 Sketches 4 You sketch by Laura Davis this week.

I would also like to take this opportunity to THANK all of my visitors who come here and check out my scrappy and non-scrappy stuff that I post and take time to leave a comment for me! You are greatly appreciated like you wouldn't believe.Makes my day to read the comments that you post here! Again, THANKS!!!!!!!!!!

I want to leave you with this awesome quote:

“Dream your dream. Follow your heart. Imagine. Listen to the wind. Drink sunsets. Be free. Let the wonder never cease. Believe. Wish on EVERY star. Create adventure. Be Kind.”
—Debbie Coulter

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh, it's Monday...

...and I thought that by now I'd be feeling a LOT better, but I'm not :o( I usually can fight this crap off and go on with "living", but this is lingering. Oh well... Back to school tomorrow, whether I'm well or not...

Anyway, let's see if I have any new stuff to show you...

Those Were the Days
~based on a sketch by my sister, Susan Coish.This LO was also done for the SISTERHOOD OF SCRAP Monday challenge

Our BoyIs Forever Enough?
~based on a sketch by J R.-Murray. Also done for Scrapping The Music challenge

HEART You
~based on a sketch by Allison Cope

Ohhhh, and last but certainly not least...here's my EYE CANDY for 2 Sketches 4 You!!!
My man loves his Harley!!!

Little bit o' this 'n' that

OMG, I love YOU TUBE!!!

I just sat and listened to some of Trace Adkins videos and bawled my eyes out!!!

Listen to THIS one! "Then They Do"

Here's a couple of pics taken of me and Meika this morning...

...and here are a couple of LOs I did this weekend.I'm still not feeling all that great.I'm getting a cough now.And, of course, it's wayyy worse in the night time.I HATE that!!!

SNOW ANGEL
~based on a sketch by Allison CopeYOU WARM MY HEART
~based on a sketch byZoe NemburtAREN'T WE CUTE!
~based on a sketch by Julie BonnerThese layouts were done for the crop at Scrap My Memories

Valentine Project #6-"Loads of Love" Treat Box

...and yet another EASY gift idea!!! I love using the items I have around the house to make gifts. This one was a container of candy treats that one of my boys got for Christmas.Of course, I DID NOT throw it out!!! Horrors!!!

All you need are:

~Quality Street candy container box
~a sheet of patterned paper (2 sided if possible)

~adhesive such as 2 sided tape

~embellishments such as ribbon, tag, flowers

~candy to fill your treat box (if they've already been eaten! I filled mine with Hershey's Kisses!)

1. Tear off any labels on the container.It is not necessary to get all of the "gluey" stuff off it as it can be used as adhesive later!

2.Cut a strip of patterned paper 2 1/4 X 10. Fit it inside of your container.You will have to trim it a little.

3.Fill the box with your candy treats. Place the cover on it.

4.Cut a piece of your patterned paper 2 3/4 X 10. Fit it around the outside.Trim off excess and adhere the pieces together on the bottom.

5.Embellish as desired. See my photo at the top to get an idea of how I embellished mine.

A crop this weekend...

...taking place at SCRAP MY MEMORIES!!!

Check out the info HERE on my sister's blog!!! They invited me to be a guest sketch artist for their crop and I said YES!!!!!!!!!!!! Can't wait to have some fun there! I don't know how much I'll be able to participate because I don't have much energy these days. Boy, I'm hoping that by the time next week starts I'll have fought off this stinkin' bug!!!

Happy scrapping, everyone!!!

Happy Blurfing Friday- Feb 6th

I've been sick for the last 2 days and I've been sleeping a lot! Good thing the pup likes to sleep too, because I don't know what I would have done with her!!!

Here are a few links for you to check out!

~Figure Skate card and template
~Embossing your Silk Flowers or Fabric
~Cute owl made with punches
~Sock Dog, just the cutest!!!

DT links:
~Jean Marie's rag doll.It's gorgeous!
~Beautiful layouts by Carla
~And one by Jessica for Scrapping Out Loud challenge
~Read about Vanessa's wonderful idea to get her students writing using the altered journals they made! (Leave her a comment and she'll add your comment to their journals!!! Cool!)
~Very pretty LO by Pat
~Check how Izzy is progressing with her broken leg
~A journal idea by Camilla! A journal for her family to write words of love in!
~Trace has a cutie layout done about Memphis! Go see who Memphis is!!! :o)
~Beautiful card by Susan
~Marcie's been busy creating beautiful layouts
~Great layouts and cards by Carla P.
~Altered project by Beth
~Couple of cute cards from Katie
~2-pager by Pamela
~Cute card by Ceal
~Adorable House Mouse card by TA!!

You Tube:
~Kid's Rock