Flowers from my Love

Out of the blue the other day, my husband picked up this little bundle of flowers for me! What a nice pick-me-up!

Some cards

I wanted to get a head start on the week, so I worked on these cards on Sunday so that I could be ready.
These little cards are for my niece and nephews. I had started them a while ago, but life got busy and I didn't finish them. I used a die-cut machine to make the stars. I also used the same font to write the names. I made the one for my niece as a stand-up card.

One of my co-workers is having a birthday on Saturday, but we'll have a party for her on Friday. I made this card from a new template from CPS. I used 4 different papers. I got some neat alphabet stickers that also had the flowers. The little bit of sparkles on the flowers & B add a little more to it. Inside, it says, "wishing you a very happy birthday!"

This last card is for my sister. I've had the little card with the quote about sisters for quite some time and just haven't found a place for it. I used a varied of papers that had pink and green in them. I also put some organdy ribbon down the middle and tied it on the right side.

Pretty productive afternoon!

Visiting in Cleveland

We went to my sister's in Cleveland for the weekend. It's been several months since we'd seen them and my nephew is just growing!

As I got into the bedroom to start getting ready for bed, Delilah was there sleeping and keeping my spot warm!

After several tries of getting him to smile, I finally got this almost smile while he was eating some cereal.

Here are the other tries -- just as I would snap the picture, he wouldn't be smiling!

This one kind of has some scary eyes! He was super surprised, I guess!

It was a great visit and we loved hanging out with Katie & Andrew!

A new floor

We woke up Monday, February 22, to a sound of rushing water. Sunday night it had rained and so I sort of thought that was what I was hearing, but as I stepped down the hallway and got closer to the kitchen it was slop, slop, slop. I called for Barry and he rushed in and was able to stop the water. The hot water pipe under the kitchen sink had burst and evidently had been flowing for a good bit of time since there was about 2 inches of water on the floor.

So, our landlord got a call at 5:30am. To her credit, she had a plumber and ServePro ready to go right off. Unfortunately, the water had started soaking into the floor and that proved to be a big problem. We had to have these huge fans in our kitchen for 3 days! They were so noisy and I can't even begin to guess what our electric bill is going to be.


So, we ended up having the flooring all pulled up. They were going to replace it on Thursday, but it was pushed to Monday. Also, since they were going to have to lay new flooring, we had to pull everything out of the areas that had linoleum before.
Here's the extra bedroom with items from the kitchen, bathroom, and closets. We were glad for the space to put the stuff since our weekend was full and we needed to get it out of the way earlier.

Here it is! The wonderfully new floor! We got a bunch of the stuff back in the kitchen area so that it was easier to make lunches, etc., but will have to do the intense cleaning throughout the week.

Card-making again!

I've actually been making cards along the way, but neglected to get pictures taken. I've had several birthdays, a bridal shower, and a project that I'm working on for a friend. But, here are two cards that I did Sunday:

A co-worker got married on February 19. She had a shower here at work, but I wasn't able to go to it. So, I picked up something off her registry and made this card to go with. I used several wedding-ish papers and then added the periwinkle because I think that was the color for the bridesmaids dresses. I found the flowers with the little jewels in them that I used to embellish it a little. The silvery swirl paper is something that I had picked up for another project and it just worked!

Here's the inside that I wrote with my calligraphy pen - blessings & together and just printed the in-between words.

This card was made up for our landlords. We are so thankful that they stepped in and took charge of the crazy situation with the water pipe bursting (see next post). I used a couple of papers that were just laying on my table and happened to match. I used a chipboard t and covered it with paper. It's very bright! :)

Can you believe it? Snow #3!

Looking from the back porch, you can see this snow isn't as bad as it was on January 30th. They say that we got about 1/2 inch. BUT, the problem was that it rained all last evening so when the temperatures dropped after midnight, everything turned to ice.

So, my office called at 6am to say that we were delayed 1 hour and Barry decided not to risk leaving until 7. As we're driving (very slowly, I may add) on the side roads to get to the interstate, we find out that they have CLOSED the interstate! Over 30 accidents were reported in about a 15 mile stretch. So, we ended up taking Hwy. 70 to Nashville. It was a very long drive -- it took more than 1 hour.

Here's the view from my office window. Can you see it snowing?! It really is! It's not too bad though because we finally did get our pizza lunch (since it was a snow day)! The problem will be with another night of below freezing temps. Tomorrow the high is 31. We'll see what happens!

Valentine cards

This is a simple card - that uses pink as it's theme! I added pink ribbon with hearts on it, a quote on pink paper, some white ric-rac, and some pink cardboard hearts. The quote says, "There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved" (by Charles Morgan). Inside it says, "Happy Valentine's Day!"

This is approximately 3 in. x 3 in. and comes with an envelope. I added the red paper with hearts on it, white organdy ribbon, and two hearts. I wrote Happy Valentine's Day toward the bottom.

This card is 3in. x 4 in. The envelope is cute with the little white flowers on the yellow background. I used a variety of papers that had red in them, added the white organdy ribbon, and a cardboard love that I had painted red.

As you can see from the following pictures, I made a TON of these little valentines. They are approx. 2 in. by 3 in. and are for the most part blank on the back. I added all manner of items to the front -- ribbon, metallic hearts, sequins, hearts with 3d tape... Almost all of them have been picked up -- just 5 left!

I sold these at work to earn some gas money until the next paycheck. Thankfully, I sold almost all of them. Isn't it great how God provides?!