Birthday RAK

Yesterday afternoon I received two Birthday RAKs in the mail. Many thanks to Kitty and Janet. Both the cards are absolutely gorgeous. Thanks for thinking of me.

I have finally managed to make my Fathers day cards and I just posted them. Here's hoping that they get to Greece and England on time!!!

I used my new Penny Black clear stamps that I received the other day from Isabelle at the Stampbuzz.

We are OK

I have had a few messages asking if we are all OK what with the weather as it is or has been!!!

Apart from the trampoline incident we are all fine and the weather here in La Crosse is back to normal hot and sunny!

However, in some parts of Wisconsin they are having it really bad with flash floods and tornados!!! I just hope people are OK and manage to get through it all.

Pics of the trampoline its upside down!

 

 

 

Dee in the garden last weekend.

Does she look like she is talking??????

Birthday RAKS Tornado winds

Its my birthday next week and today I received some lovely cards from two lovely ladies of SCS, Thanks go to atouchof_sol and 4everstamping it brightened up my day especially seeing as I was at the dentist first thing this morning. I also received some lovely Penny Black images from my friend Cindy (Cynamon) on USCS, thanks Cindy.


My cricut finally arrived at what time I dont know as dh came home from work to find it sat in his parking space in the gargae, I had the garage open most of the day as I was in and out of it but I was not impressed that it was just left without him even knocking on the door or ringing the bell!!! I still havent had time to play with it yet!!!!

Last night was a really bad night as far as the weather goes, we woke up at 3am, I looked out of the window and the trampoline had gone!!! now its a 15ft trampoline so i was shocked . Anyway I looked out of the front door to see if I could see and there it was!!! Will post a pic of it later!

Cricut Expression

Last Friday I ordered myself a cricut expression for my birthday. I got a great deal at AC Moore for a bundle which included 4 carts for $330 or there abouts!

Now according to UPS its been in town since 1.30am yet it still isn't here!!!! I keep looking out of the window wondering if I missed it but nope its still not here!!!

1 YEAR

We have now been living in the US for 1 year!!!!

What an amazing roller coaster it has been!!!! There has been a lot of ups and a few downs but the ups certainly make up for the downs if you get my drift!!!!

I haven't blogged for a while as we have had some not so good news, which I couldn't share on here!! Anyway for those of you that do know which is probably all of three people things are OK now.

I have almost finished my design team projects just need to get them to the LSS.

I am also in a Penny Black card swap on SCS, so just need to finish my cards off and get them in the post and then I can start on the Card club cards I need to do at the LSS. Not too sure what I will do but I am sure it will involve a Penny Black card. So much to do!

Spring

 

 

I have been doing a little bit or retail therapy today!!! I went to the dentist this morning and my treat afterwards was to pop to Hobby Lobby and Michaels!! I got my MM Carousel with a raincheck I had months ago they were always out of stock, they phoned me last week and I got it today, its so much bigger than I remember!!! I am sure I will have no problems filling it up.

BUT my star buy today was the Threading water punch!!! I have been hunting for this for months now, on SCS people were finding them in Target. I have checked approx 8 times now and even today, but they never had it in stock!!! Anyway when I went to get the MM Carousel I had a quick look in Ms and there it was shouting at me to buy it!!! how could I resist? So all in all I have had a really good day!!!!

 

 

One of my assignements for the design team was to use 8-10 stickers from the sheets I was given. Anyone that knows me knows I HATE stickers!!!!!! I had no idea what I was going to do with these stickers! the fact that they are stickers and also to do with Teeth was difficult!!! Anyway here is my layout, not my favourite in the whole world but never mind, I just need to add a photo and then I am finished!!!!

UPDATE PHOTO ADDED>

Just thought I would share something I am working on at the mo, nearly finished just need to get some brads and them its finished.

Storage

I have changed the way I store my ribbon! the frame that me and dh made was getting a little bit heavy and to be honest was not that stable. So I have been looking around for cup hooks that would be big enough to hold a cafe rod and I found some a few weeks ago they are not cup hooks but very similar, I bought them at K mart but I also saw some at Menards but these are the only 2 places I have found them. I also bought some 1" curtain clips from target $4.99 for 10.I had seen a few home made clip it ups and thought maybe I could do something to hang on my cafe rods. Well this is the result, it works brilliantly I just need to find a cheaper place to buy the clips as I can see me using quite a lot of them. I can also attach book rings to the rod and hang the $1 buckets that I store other things in.

Had a little trip to Michaels yesterday with my coupons!!!

I was very well behaved and only bought some Primas and stamps! The new studio G stamps are fab, I didn't have much time to look at all of them so only picked up 4 so next time I will check the rest of them out!!

I also got a bargain at our local supermarket (store) they were selling 12x12 card for only $1.49 for 40 sheets what a bargain so I picked up a few packs!!!!

Coupons

One thing I love about living in the US is coupons!!!! especially when it comes to Michaels or Hobby Lobby!!!! I think it has become a sunday ritual for me to check the paper to see if there are any coupons!!! This week there was a regular 40% off coupon and 50% off coupon (Martha Stewart products only) .

The thanks to a post on SCS I found out that the Parade mag that comes with all the ads in the paper also had a 40% off coupon in there for Michaels too!!!

Every now and then I have started to get email coupons from Michaels and someone always manages to post a link to a coupon on one of the forums I surf!!!

Most weeks I get a coupon for Joannes!! but sadly we do not live near one, but I still subscribe to the website just incase we go somewhere where there is one!!!

Anyway here is a coupon for Michaels and a coupon for Jo-Anne maybe someone can use it!!!!