MissyB Designs!!

New RUBBAH!! So as I am sitting here sulking in my pink robe. (Did ya know I love everything pink??) The doorbell rings -it's Can Post with my new MissyB stamps! YAY!! I got Alexa's Set and Sassy Girls. If you don't know about Alexa she is a inspiring little girl battling leukemia and you can read all about it here. I love princesses and pink (have I mentioned that before??) and the Sassy Girls set might be fun considering how funky I feel about my family. I am still really sad but the bottom line is I did what I had to and will walk out the consequences proudly as I watch my kids grow up. TTYL!

Hugs to my girlahs!!

So I spent Thursday and Friday evening with my GF Jenn. Just love her. Spent all Thurs. eve talking and not stamping (gasp-the horrors :) ) but really had a fabu time!! Fri. we got a little more stamping done and I made this baby card using the wiper technique. It's really cute (I think!) cuz when you open it the giraffe pops out! I love the colors which came from a card Jenn had made. I love stamping with her cuz we share ideas and come up with these awesome creations. I think lots of our cards are collaborations but they make me smile cuz of the time shared making them -ya know?? Which brings me to the conclusion that I really like my friends!!

My sister and I used to be BFF. We are very different and she is 5 years younger than I but somehow it always worked. Well a couple of years ago Kevin and I decided that we needed to pick new guardians for the kids as she only wanted the boys (they are biologically ours and the girls are not). We felt the right thing to do was to tell her the truth. She also doesn't go to church and wouldn't have kept them in private school. She told me herself. So my kids would lose both their parents, their sisters, their church and their school in one fell swoop. So we chose good friends of ours who would support our dying wishes. She has been mad at me ever since. And unless you have had my sister mad at you, you can't even imagine what it could be like. Well, now she is getting married. My mother had to tell me and we just came from a family get together where she showed everyone the pictures of her dress. Well, everyone but me until I asked point blank, and she isn't having me in her wedding party. I know it shouldn't matter but it does. She was my maid-of-honor and I know she's upset but we are sisters and I still love her -ya know? She is using the excuse that she can't count on me cuz I didn't come to her birthday party this past year. The history on that is that the past few years this has been an adult only dinner at a restaurant. This year she decided my boys were invited but not the girls. I couldn't take half my children to a party and leave the others at home wondering why their Aunt didn't invite them too. So we abstained. Now supposedly this means I can't be counted on. I know I have done the right thing for my family and don't' regret my decision, but it still hurts. I don't think her fiance likes me either. I have no issues with him. He's not an easy person to get to know but I try to talk to him. The only way to fix it would be to make her the boy's guardian and just not have both of us die. ;) But I just can't, this is all my kids futures we're talking about, and I am not sure it would change anything between us anyway. So tonight I am sad, but holding on tight to those who love me despite my flaws and my 6 kids and even when I make mistakes or do things to hurt them. Sleep well my dear girlahs! Hugs to you all!!

Dirty Dare '07

I really like the soft colors in this one. Almost Amethyst is another favorite color of mine. And I LOVE LOVE LOVE this flower. Isn't it cute?? I colored the coffee cups to look like Starbucks. I love Vanilla Earl Grey Mistos..............just thinking about it makes me want one right now! LOL!! My girlah, Jenn loves her coffee too! I think I am going to RAK her with this card. Hopefully, she will take no interest in my blog and my SCS gallery! Delayed gratification is not my strong point so I always post as soon as I finish a card. Makes me feel like I really accomplished something!! I have an SU order coming on Friday and I am looking forward to playing with some of their new stuff. I just haven't been inspired by my SU stamps lately. :( So I finally managed to create something with my new Lizzie Anne stamps! I was having stamping block so I headed over to SCS to the Dirty Dare '07 Challenges and used Lauren Meader's Sketch (Mytime) to create this card. I love everything and anything pink!! And pink and brown together are my all-time favorite combination!! I'm still a bit blocked tho and am looking forward to some of my other stamping goodies on the way! Poor Kevin!! I have been holed up in the basement on a stamping rampage lately, and now when I am not stamping I am hogging the computer uploading to SCS and blogging. I think he is hoping for some face time tho, so I guess I better get off soon!

Lizzie Anne Rocks!!

I just picked up my new stamps!! I got Jolie Fleurs, Blissful Blossoms, and Daisy Dots and a variety of singles including the coffee cup and the saying that goes with it!! So much for working on my new blog, I am off to my Stamping Spot (which I cleaned in anticipation last night) to play with my new RUBBAH!!! Love it!! TTYL!

My babies!

So these are my darlings this past Christmas. Bailey -11, Alliyah -10, Thania -9, Nikolas -8, and Max and Summer -6. And the 3 GSD's. Hooch is with Bay and Max, Kiwi with Alliyah and Nik and Georgia (or as he insists on calling her -Mary).

Blingabella

So this is my current favorite card. I made it for my lil' sisters engagement. Actually I made 3 but this is my fav. I am really proud of this one tho 'cuz it got mentioned on FAVORITES WEEK ENDING AUGUST 19 on SCS!! Yeah, baby!! Maybe I do have some stamping talent after all!! Currently I am stalking the mailbox for 4 orders. That's right FOUR orders. One from SU, Lizzie Anne, MissyB and All that Scraps. The Lizzie Anne one was delivered by Canada Post while I was at swimming lessons for the kids and they didn't leave it 'cuz I owe duty. I swear they stalk me stalking my mailbox and only bring my packages AFTER they see me leave. *SIGH* Hopefully my package will be at the local post office soon 'cuz I need some new inspiration!!

Once upon a time.......

I had this friend who I loved and lost. Then recently we reconnected thru email for a "catch up" on each others lives. She has been out of my life for so long and email is so not the same as hearing someone's voice, that when I was emailing her I felt like I was talking to no one at all -KWIM?? But I found the experience strangely cathartic, like many of you out there must find writing in a journal. We really aren't buds again but I find myself wanting to email her often. Now I have never been a writer. I am left-handed and my penmanship is awful so I have never experienced anything like this. So I thought blogging just might be the answer. I have no idea who might actually read this, but it is an opportunity for me to unload my life and share my successes with the great unknown. LOL!! Also, apparently all stampers are blogging now and I am caving to peer pressure ;) so here goes!!