Big Shot

Normally, in my world, Big Shot means the incredible die cut & embossing system from Sizzix. But this morning, I woke up with Billy Joel. Ah well. Spent last night actually sorting through and putting away the things I brought back into the house Sunday after my workshop. Most of it has been gone thru & stored or put back in place. I am mostly ready start back to work in the card department... but first... TAXES. I wish I could typo that and put TEXAS but no.. I must prepare to pay Uncle Sam. And taxes around here are lengthy because I do mine, Spirit's, Rebel's and then ours all as one, in order to get the best (ie: most $) result. Argh.

So this is a card using mostly Die Cuts from the Sizzix. You knew I would get back to that, yes?

:-) have a blessed day!

TGIF!!! and time on my hands...

Good morning to you all!! And THANK GODDESS IT'S FRIDAY!!!! All that I have pending on today's schedule is 1) entering all tickets to date, 2) posting my deposit, 3) prosecution of (now ex) client for giving me a 2nd hot check (shame, shame) and then #4) off early (2pm) so I can go home and ATTEMPT to oad all of my stuff for my 1st ever workshop. Due to rain (sigh) I am hoping to get it all into my Ford Escape. Key word? HOPE. If Spirit were not at work, this would not be a concern. L5 could do it as well... I have seen that particular individual pack the bed of an F150 so well that it was like a Japanes jigsaw puzzle. I had to study it a bit before I could find the KEY piece that would allow me to unpack said truck. That is a talent, I tell ya!! Sheesh :-) But no, it will be me... and a mountain of art supplies. And y'all know I am good at slinging glue but packing things neatly AND compactly? Not my strong suit. And, as the piucture shows... I am being watched by Diana... Dionysis is still hiding in his cave, it being winter and all. She does not seem to fazed by the weather changes right now.

My 1st workshop!

So, a short day at work Friday because I will be heading off to set up my 1st ever workshop!! I am excited & a bit nervous. So this card is a reminder to me that it will all be as it is meant to be!

Blessings to you all!

the passing of Aphrodite

After some green leaf lettuce, timothy nibbles & a carrot of two, Aphrodite crossed the Rainbow Bridge. I am comforted in knowing that she met her mother, Artemis, there after being apart these last couple of years. You see, they came to us from a rather bad situation. Not sure what, exactly, that situation was, but it could not have been good. They were housed in a chicken wire covered slab of pressboard filled with soaking wet shred. Their food & water were mixed in the shred as well. Shortly upon arriving home to find this "habitat" on our doorstep, we had them in a new, dry house with food in bowls, housing, water bottles and treats galore. That was about 4 years ago. However, not quite a year later, we noticed an issue with Artemis' feet... a black spot on the bottom of one of her front feet. So off to the exotics vet (Yes, exotics. Need a vet? We have FOUR as they go by species.) Turned out, the housing situation prior to their arrival had taken a toll on Artemis (she was old & therefore in that situation longer, we were told). Her feet had been cut from being on chicken wire; those cuts were infected because of the wet shred, feces, etc. The infection had eaten away her tiny little bone front leg bones (the equivalent being our forearms). Our option? Amputation or euthanization. Since guinea pigs use their front feet like we do our hands, we chose the 2nd option. And promptly brought Aphrodite in to be checked out as they had, to our knowledge, been in the same structure together. Sure enough, same issue but to a lesser degree. She got a 'medical pedicure', meaning the vet reopened the closed-over laceration on her feet & packed them full of antibiotics, wrapped her up & handed her to us for convalescence. Two weeks later we took her back to have wrappings removed. Other than a lifelong inflammatory disorder of the feet (poditis) she was given a clean bill of health. And so, for the last 3+ years, we changed shred twice a day in her flat bottom habitat (metal irritated her feet) as well as fed her kale, carrots, butternut, kiwis, timothy hay, etc. The good life. Tomorrow morning, when the knife hits the cutting board, I will miss her demanding squeal. But I will smile to myself, knowing that both Artemis & Aphrodite are restored to health and vigor, both made whole and strong again... and that they are together again, at long last.
Blessings to you both for allowing us to share in your lives until the end.

Life goes on...

I woke up with the Beatles...do not remember that happening recently. LOL. So, on that note, a picture of my Celica... who will be TWENTY NINE years old next month. Yes, life goes on, even for cars. She now has antique plates and does not get driven much. Battery is dead from sitting so she goes on the charger this weekend. She is now what is considered a "Limited Use" car, and even more so since she does not have heat or AC. She gets driven in April and then again Sept/Oct. This is Texas, after all...

Have a blessed day & remember that, regardless of what happens during the day, life goes on. :-)

darn picture thing

Darn blog would not let me upload my pic for the 600th post.. .now it will but this is post #601 ...sigh

Regardless... great day... both at the IMAX and now today at the board meeting... Lots of exciting things on the horizon for the Re-Formed Congregation, Austin Circle. Curious? Come see us!

For now... I am on my way to seeing my pillow!

Cherie amour... & #600!!!

this is my 600th post. Somehow the 100th, 200 300 400 500 all passed me by, but this one I noticed. LOL. And, Blogger will not let me upload any images this morning... sigh. But I uploaded 10 new images to my facebook last night, so go see them there.

1 post away from 600!!

This is a "Shaving Cream" card... will be demonstrating this at my workshop Feb 6 & 7 in Bastrop Texas.

Lovely dinner with Rebel +1 tonight... got to show off the THREE scrapbooks I have done (birth thru HS)

:-)

g'nite!

You really got a hold on me

Okay... so I was just over @ Creative Greetings (Peggy's blog) where I saw that she was lamenting having nothing exciting to post, no funny work stories to share, etc. I KNOW HOW YOU FEEL!! It is Monday so I am off the workplace.... and it was an uneventful weekend for me. Uneventful means no snafus, no dog excapes, no dragons amiss, no deaths in the extended area, no fires to report.... it was a very RELAXING time. Friday we watched "Benny & Joon" for movie night @ Spirit Stone Sactuary. Saturday I put my card rack back up @ Bastrop Producers Market ( OH ! the things they have added in my absence!) . Sunday we went to a social gathering, got to play some Pictionary and hung out around a fire with good food & great people.

This card is made from plain CS, a strip cut with patterned scissors, some yarn ribbon stuff, a couple of stickers & glitter glue & a sentiment stamped in black. I made a couple dozen new cards last week to go on rack but still trying to show all the previously made cards.

So, weekend after next is my workshop... not freaking out yet but absolutely certain I will forget some key thing... typical fears... sigh.

TGIF...for me!

This card is to encourage others to actually write & send "Thank You" cards or letters...postcards even!. But it seems to be a lost art these days?

I am off until Monday... tomorrow 9am is a court appearance with my ex-husband re:Child Support. Keep in mind, the "child" is 23 now. Sigh. So from Uhland to Georgetown...how many counties is that one way? Lemme think... only 4. Tee hee. Not that he is worth the drive, but it is required that I be there, just in case he actually appears this time. He is (95%) of the time a "no-show" but this time he has an attorney. Umm,...why? I know you are peeved about still having to pay support 5 years later but if you had started paying way back when you would be done by now.

Stay tuned!

Happy Hump Day

For me, that means filling propane bottles. We rotate (in theory) between the 3 office staff...but somehow I got to do them yesterday... hmmm. Sigh.

This card was done bc I had a tag but nothing to do with it all by its lonesome... and I had some frenchy looking images in the same sepia colour family. So... they became one. It is a "bon voyage" card with a removable bookmark (the tag).

Use scissors to make a pocket from the image using a backing piece of DP & ink. Insert tag. Done!

So, a total of 12 women for the workshop.. that is where I am going to cap the attendance, I think. Too many & we'll be gluing each other instead of our art projects...YIKES!

today I meet Serena

A guy came into work to talk shop... mentioned he & his wife were new to town & that she was into making her own greeting cards. Well, who would *I* be not to welcome her to town? :-)


This is a lovely handmade paper, some stickers & a ribbon.
"I love You" in a way I love best...simple.

Have a LOVELY day... I know I will! Propane season calming down a bit, fully staffed today (was not yesterday) and my annual rentals (pain in neck!) all billed out!

Like L5's shirt said... "Life is GOOD"

:-)