Winery in Oregon

Card for Ed

Dinner for Mother's day in Oregon

Jason and Kim

Here are three layouts and I card that I did the weekend of March 19.  I have not up loaded any more pictures as yet.  Maybe that will be part of this 3 day weekend's project.

So much has happened in the past 4 months

It really has been a whirl wind around here.  I have managed to do some scrapping and card making, but have yet to post any.  In the mean time, my father has not been home since his last hospitalization.  He has been in and out of the hospital, nursing home and now back in rehab ( about 6 months now).   My parents sold their house in December and we needed to pack my mother up in 5 weeks!  She just didn't understand that she would have gotten back her house insurance money pro rated until closing if she had given us a little more time to get things done.  My sister came down and packed all the big items, which left me with all the little stuff.  You know, the things that you just can't throw away, but have no place to put them in a house that has 3 less rooms.  Parting with items has been difficult.  we finally made the move for mom, and have unpacked and re-arranged the rooms twice.  After 34 months my sons finally got pictures on the wall even though she wasn't sure of which ones or placement.  we just made most of the decisions for her and made her feel as if they were her own.

During all of this, my youngest son, Scott announces that he is going to marry the love of his life, Melissa.  She is a wonderful woman, and will add such more love to this family.   They will be getting married on May 22, just one day after he graduates from medical school.  Talk about a busy weekend!  I am just so happy for the two of them.  Without even realizing it, they picked Jason and Kim's 7th wedding anniversary to be married on.  they came down here in March so that Papa could see them marry as he will not be able to go the the religious ceremony in Maryland.  It was real nice of her father and his girlfriend to travel down to Florida for this event and to meet people that they have never even spoken to.  I think that my father understood what was happening.  sometimes it is hard to tell.

I got a new job in January, 35 minutes from home, in Weston, Fl.  It is all highway driving, but the tolls are getting outrageous along with the gas prices.  The job itself is fine, it's just that it still isn't permanent or steady some weeks.

March, my eldest son Jason, came down to Florida to visit with the grandparents since it had been almost 1 1/2 years since he last saw them.  Living 3,000 miles away and being on deployment can make visiting some what tricky when you are working for the armed services. We certainly do, as this family has been at it for 14 years with at least two sons in at a time.

Ed and I celebrated my 60th birthday with a trip to discovery Cove and Sea World for the weekend.  what a fabulous way to spend a birthday, relaxing and swimming with the dolphins.  Of course, I managed to come home with a slight sore throat, and now have a full blown cold with wheezing!  It is now 2 AM and I can't sleep because of the steroids that thy have given me.  I really need some sleep.

Chanukah and Christmas cards, catching up with my life.

 Here are a few cards that I made for my sone and Daughter-in-law.  As you can guess, they celebrate different holidays.  I have been having some difficulty uploading myopic to my blog, but  I think that I have finally figured out!!

I have also been busy with my parents.  My dad is going into a nursing home after he gets out of the rehab that he is in.  It has been a very difficult and time consuming period for me.  My mom sold their house and needs to be out by December 28th.  We bought her a villa in a 55 and over community.  I am grateful that my sister has come down to help pack mom up.  I just couldn't handle that plus working at the same time.

A few more cards.

Here are a few more cards that I made a week ago.  Some of them are not Magnolia cards, but they are gong on deployment with my son.  Shhh, he doesn't know what they look like or even that they will be with him.  They are going to be snuck into his duffle bag by his wife.  LOL

Life has gotten in the way.

I'm so sorry that I haven't written in a while.  A week ago I went to a two day crop and ended up sick on Monday with a fever and cold.  Ended up having to go back to work on Wednesday and put in a lot of hours in two days.  Now my dad is back in the hospital, so it is never ending.

 I have sent this card off to my son who is going on deployment December for about 3 months.  That is three month of silence as he is on a submarine!

Here is a card that I have made for the Mingle contest on a Magnolia site that I belong too.  Hope that you like it.

Another card

Here is another crd that I did this past week.  It is a fold card with fall Edwin inside.  The papers are BoBunny and Bazzill yardstick.  I used my nestabilities for the format with an old Dynamo fall saying that I bought ages ago.  I also used some distress ink on the scalloped circle.  The saying inside is from Wordsworth stamps.

Copics used:

E 00,01,11,33,35,37

Y26,21,13,15,

R 20

B 93,95,97

Thanks for looking,

Shelley

Cards, cards and more cards

I have been working on more Magnolia cards in my "spare" time this past week  I need to put them separately as I am going to try and enter some of them in some contests that are going on.  Her is my Tilda with Tulips.  I also mused Floral background. The flowers are sprayed with Glimmer Mist and are from Prima.  the buttons are just some odd ones that I had left over, probably from Michael's.  The saying is from Wordsworth.

Copic colors are:

Y00,21,13.08,26

E01`,00,43,30,41

YG67,17,07,91,63

G94,28,82

R20,83,85,81,27

RV34,000

YR24

BV01,000,00,13

V93,95

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