What a week.  I finally went to the orthopedic doctor after trying to heal thy self.  He was able to draw out over an ounce of fluid from my knee.  What a differece  No pain today!  Now I was able to sits down an do some scrapping.  The first is a card that  was just fooling around with Distress markers.  So grateful to You Tube.  I don't think that there isn't a thing that you cannot find on there.  Then I decided to play with my Kiwi Lane templates and learning how to weld letters on my explore.l  Again, You Tube came in handy.  These were pictures from last spring from n art fair in Jupiter, Fl.  I still need to think of my journaling, but I thought that I would show it to you know.  Journaling is my weak spot in scraping.  Thanks for taking a look.

Here are the Christmas cards that I just finished from the kCTMH Workshop on the Go collection.  There are a toto of 15 cards with  envelopes.  Once I got the cutting and stamping done,  it took no time at all to get them put together.  You can go to my site:  scrappygirl123.ctmh.com and click on October party to order this or other products.  Don't forget your stamp of the month for $5.00 with a $50.00 order.  Start your holiday shopping now for yourself and your scrappy friends,  If you decide to host an online party, you can earn free and 50% off items.  Happy shopping.

I finally to this card done yesterday.  I am still new at using my Cricut Explore.  This took me 5 tries to get it sized correctly.  Whew!, I think I finally have it down pat.  Our anniversary is tomorrow, the 17th.  Let's see if hubby remembers.  I have not given him any reminders yet.  I might not leave this in the bathroom tonight after he goes to sleep like I usually do.  What do you think?

As promised, here are a few photos.  first is Harper, then Max and Finally Bruno, my new puppy.

Here is a Tim Holtz tag that I did a few weeks ago.  Right now I am not working on any projects as I just had some surgery on Monday, and am not allowed to raise my arms for a few more days.  Will write and show you  ASAP.

Thanks for looking.

It has been a few years since I have written on my blog.  Just to catch you up a little, I now have three grandchildren.  I just love visiting with them.  My eldest, ?Max is almost 2 1/2 years old and lives in Washington state.  The middle one, Jett, lives in Connecticut, and the baby is Harper, living in Las Vegas.   I gave been retired for a little over a year for medical reasons.  I recently bought a Yorkie,Bruno.  He is such a joy to me, keeping me company during the day.  Thanksgiving this year will be in our house.  Three grandchildren and a dog.  Should be complete chaos, but I am looking forward to it.  It will be the first time that I will have all three together at the same time!  So, for now, that is my crazy life.  I have also become a consultant for Close To My Heart.  I love their stamps, and they have teamed up with Provo craft for their own cricut cartridges.  For now, I will just let you absorb this info and look back on the previous years.  I will get to all the crafty stuff in a day or so along with pictures.

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.