Scrapped Clock for my daughter

What fun I have had working on this clock! There is a field down the road from my house that is just beautiful each year. It's about a 20 acre field that is covered in the most beautiful purple verbena that you've ever seen. Last year, my daughter, Gina, and her daughter, Ashley, went and had pictures taken in the field. I've spent the last year trying to figure out what to do with some of the pictures and I finally decided to make a clock for her using a couple of the pictures. Tomorrow is her 33rd birthday and I can't wait to give her the clock.

Stamp Sets Used: Polka Dots & Paisley, So Very.

Cardstock Used: Perfect Plum, Basic Black, and a Designer Paper that I can't remember the name of and can't find a picture of -- someone help me if you recognize it.

Accessories Used: SU Oval Punches, Circle Punches, Spring Flower Bouquet Punch, White Signo Gel Pen, Silk Flower, clock mechanism.

The clock was done on a 14" square artist canvas that I bought at Wal-Mart for about $8.00. And of course, they don't have them anymore -- story of my life! The canvas was painted with a Camel-colored Acrylic paint and then dry brushed with a Moss and a Mint shade of green. After drying, I layered the DS paper and the perfect plum paper and then placed the pictures that had been bordered with Basic Black CS. The clock was really fun to make and easy, too, once I decided exactly what I wanted to do.

Quiet Sunday in Georgia

Morning, everyone!

It's a quiet morning here in Georgia. It's beautiful here and I'm going out to plant some flowers when I finish with this. Can't wait to get some color going outside!

Planned on stamping all day yesterday, but had an offer I couldn't resist. My daughter called early yesterday and suggested that we head off to Macon for some shopping when we got our Saturday house chores finished. Now, tell me, how many of you would pass that up? Not me! We decided to stop at Olive Garden and fill our tummies first so we'd have plenty of energy for Target and Michaels. Poor Gina! First, we had terrible service; sat there for almost twenty minutes before anyone even decided to ask for our drink orders. Then, when Gina got her food, they had not cooked her peppers at all and she can't handle raw bell peppers. The waitress offered to take it back and have them cook the peppers, but Gina said she'd just pick them out because she was so hungry. Then, she cut into her chicken and took a big bite! Oops! Didn't stay in there long because the chicken was not cooked. After several more minutes we finally got the attention of the waitress and Gina told her to take it away. They offered to bring her another plate but once Gina has been turned off of a food, she's DONE! She sat there and ate four plates of salad and breadsticks while Ashley and I enjoyed our food. Then poor Gina picked up a breadstick and bit into it and it was raw dough. Ashley and I almost fell out of our chairs because we were laughing so hard. By this time, the waitress had become our best friend and was joining in with the laughter. She brought out another basket of breadsticks for Gina and we finally were able to finish our meals. When the waitress brought out our check (which they had adjusted quite nicely, I must say) she was laughing and said that the Gods were not being nice to her at all because when she printed the bill, it came out with one of the random survey requests. Oh, what fun! We finally left Olive Garden and were off to Target!

Picked up a few goodies there, not really craft related, but goodies just the same! Gina and Ashley got new outfits for a beach wedding they'll be going to in a couple of weeks. We also had to find something for Ashley to use for a school project on nutrition she's doing. Gina had the brilliant idea to buy a breakfast tray, plate, bowl, and a really cool plastic glass to go with it. Ashley is going to glue everything to the tray and then "build" a nutritional breakfast on it. Can't wait to see it! On the back, she will place a printed copy of the nutritional guidelines and specifics for her breakfast. I'll post some pictures when they finish the project--it ought to be really cute. We finished at Target and it was off to Michaels for more fun. While there, I got some Shrinky Dink to make pins. I've never done this before, but a lady brought in some pins to our last OHMS stamp club and I've decided to have some fun myself. Betty had made 300 pins using Shrinky Dink for a Relay for Life project she was involved in. They were so cute. Now, I won't be making 300 of anything, but I am going to play around. I also had to pick up some Staz-On in colors that SU no longer carries and some of the flat-bottomed marbles to use as feet on some boxes I'm making. Oh, and I found a great deal on some really neat tins that were for Coffee, Sugar, and tea. Of course I bought them and will be having someone pick me up a few more next week as I think I can cover over the word pre-printed on the tin and use them for something else. Ideas still in the works, but for $3.00 for a large tin, you can't go wrong on that! Seems like I bought a bunch more stuff, but I sure can't remember what it was.

When I finish planting the flowers, I'll be back in to do some Sunday stamping! I hope you are all enjoying your weekend and have the chance to "go create something"!

Card and super fun little box

After talking to Deanna yesterday, I knew I had to get busy and make a special card to send to her. After I finished that, I decided to try my hand at one of those special little boxes that I'd been seeing around for so long. And, I just love them! I'll be making more and more of them. I think they'd be great for those little gifts that you don't know what to do with. Here's the card and the box that I made. I used Stampin' Up!'s Floral Background stamp and Mellow Moss and Chocolate Chip cardstock for both. On my box, I used the Au Chocolat Designer Paper and just love it! I also got to play with my Cuttlebug for both -- oh what fun!

What a wonderful day

I had a most pleasant surprise yesterday. A dear friend that I used to teach with contacted me yesterday after about 5 years of no contact. I had moved from the town where we taught together and we stayed in touch for several years. Then, all of a sudden, she was gone and I haven't been able to find her. Finally, she found me and called. What a wonderful surprise to get to talk to her after all this time. Deanna is such a wonderful person who has had many rough spots in her life, but you know what? She's still the same lovable, funny, witty, crazy, dear friend that I remembered. For all of you who are not in contact with old friends, do whatever you have to do to find them again. Friends are what the world is about.

Thank you, Deanna, for finding me. Thank you for being my friend.