Mother's Day Totes

I will be celebrating Mother's Day with my family and friends at my daughter Lisa's house.  I will be headed up to her house later this afternoon and will be spending the night.  We will be celebrating with 8 wonderful moms, ranging in age from 88 years old down to 30 years old.  The men in our family are really picky eaters and Lisa and I couldn't decide on a menu that would please everyone, so we decided everyone loves Taco's,  so we are having a big Taco fest!!  I know.......mom's aren't supposed to cook on MOTHER'S DAY.........but, the men in our lives really don't have a clue when it comes to planning a meal.  We are hoping that they at least do up the dishes!!!

I've been busy all week making tote bags for all the moms.  Right after work each day I hit the sewing machine and I just finished up the last tote about an hour ago.  These are my first totes ever.  I didn't have to buy one piece of fabric as I have tons of it from my quilting days.  Now I need to get some cards made.....so I better get started on them.  

SO...........HERE'S A LOOK AT MY TOTES!!!!

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

I'm wishing all my blogging family and friends a very HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY. I lost my mom in August of 2006. This is for you mom............

If Roses grow in Heaven,
Lord please pick a bunch for me,
Place them in my Mother's arms
and tell her they're from me.
Tell her I love her and miss her,
and when she turns to smile,
place a kiss upon her cheek
and hold her for awhile.
Because remembering her is easy,
I do it every day,
but there's an ache within my heart
that will never go away.

OCC CHALLENGE - BEAUTIFUL BUTTERFLIES

This weeks challenge over at the OCC blog was to use butterflies on our card.  I have these beautiful butterflies from my blogging friend Lisa, so I was excited to get started on the challenge.  I came across this challenge late last night and I had just made a butterfly card on Tuesday, so I entered that card......but then I decided to make another, so hopefully they are okay with me submitting another.  If not.....sorry!!!  Here's a LINK to the challenge.

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Monkey print drawsting bag

I bought this monkey print fabric in December and wasn't sure what I was going to do with it.  A couple of months ago I was at my daughter's house and Dominick had his puzzle pieces all over the place and Lisa was trying to put the puzzles back together.  So I told her I would make a bag for them.  I've never made a drawsting bag before, so  I did a little research on the net and thought I knew exactly what I was doing.....wrong!  I made a mistake and had to wing it from that point.  It actually turned out great!  I reinforced every seam to hopefully make them hold up to all the wear and tear of a toddler.  Next time I will make a few changes, but I'm very happy with my little monkey bag for my little monkey grandson!!

Fabric Flowers

Well......here's my first attempt at making these fabric flowers.  My blog friend Lisa posted a tutorial on her blog on how to make these little gems.  Lisa recommended using a sheer fabric when making them, so I bought 3 different colors and made my first four.  I was surprised on just how easy they were to make.  I think they turned out really pretty.  Then I thought how cute they would be in some bright print fabrics.  So.....  I dug around in my quilting stash for the polka-dot fabric, but my flower ended up being pretty bulky and I had to do a lot of tugging and extra stitching to get them into a some-what flower shape!  I do like the fun look of the polka-dot cotton fabric, they will look cute on a card or on one of my granddaughters scrap pages.  Maybe with practice I will improve on their look.  I do recommend using a light fabric if you should choose to make them.  You can find a link to Lisa's blog...."What A Beautiful Mess" over on the right under "blogs that inspire me".

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Butterfly Card

Yesterday I finished making 6 Christmas stockings for my cousin Rhonda.  I had been working on them for a couple of days and just needed to get my hands on some paper!!  So I was sitting in my scraproom watching a little TV and decided to make this card.  I got the butterfly images from Lisa's Blog....What A Beautiful Mess.  She posted them for us to copy, you should go grab some for yourself.  (You can find them in her April blog archive).  They print out beautifully.  Thanks Lisa.  Oh and by the way, she has a flower tutorial that you must see if you like making your own fabric flowers.

Bubble Time

I had a great time with family and friends on Easter Sunday.  I bought my grandkidlets bubble machines and they had a ball.  My little brother enjoyed them too!!!!  He's our I don't want to grow up kid!!!  

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!

                                       PATRICIA ANN MCQUEEN
                        APRIL 2, 1933 ~ AUGUST 6, 2006

These photographs were taken of our mom on her 70th birthday.  It was less than a year after these were taken that our mom started the battle of her life.  Cancer won.

"THE BEST"

God saw you getting tired

And a cure was not to be,

So He put His arms around her

And whispered, "Come with Me."

With tearful eyes we watched

Her suffer and fade away,

Although we loved her deeply,

We could not make her stay.

A golden heart stopped beating,

Hardworking hands put to rest.

God broke our hearts to prove to us,

He only takes the Best.

  We love and miss you so much mom.

    You will be in our hearts forever and ever........

 Our arms are wrapped around you tightly, especially today.

      Love from your children.......Karen, Mike, Gail, Jacob & Krista     

                                 

Easter table centerpiece & new pic's of the grandkidlets!!!

I had the day off work today and spent it with my daughter Lisa and my grandson Dominick.  We took a trip over to JoAnn's craft store and bought some stuff to put together a centerpiece for our Easter table.  I think it turned out really cute.  I had a ball with my grandson.  He calls me maawww!!  Lisa also gave me the new photo's she had taken of Dominick and my granddaughter Mia.  

                         DOMINICK 17 MONTHS ~ MIA 27 MONTHS

A Few More Cards to Share

I got a few more Easter cards made this afternoon.  I'm done for today.  I guess its time to wind down from my weekend.  There is work tomorrow......boo-hoo!!!

A Card Makin' Kind of Day

  

Good morning!!  I got up this morning and figured I better get a few Easter cards made so that I could get them in the mail tomorrow.  I had planned on using some Easter images that I had found, but when I went to print them, they just weren't right.  So I thought, great, what am I going to do now.  I had made this same card a month or so ago and I really had fun making it, so I made a couple of changes to the original design and this is what I came up with.  I know this isn't your typical Easter card, but I'm not always your typical little card maker.....LOL!!!  I love this paper.....its called "paper bag".  The cord I used to tie onto the flower is a hemp glitter cord used in jewelery making.  I bought a bunch of different colors of it the other day.  I like it!!  Now I better get back to making more cards.  Enjoy your Sunday!!

sunshine - Creative Scrappers #96

I just finished my layout using the above sketch from Creative Scrappers.  I've been working on this one for a couple of nights.  I'm really happy with the way it turned out.  But how could I go wrong using another photo of my granddaughter Mia!!

#1 Cool dude - Sketchy Thursdays 3.18

I had fun with this one!  I used burlap and I cut up a cardboard box, I also did a little stamping and used a rub-on!!  I've had these little animals for some time and I think they found a home on this layout!!  I used the above sketch from Sketchy Thursdays as my inspiration.

Gazillion Bubbles

Take a look at this awesome bubble machine that I found at Costco!!  It was just under $20.00.  I actually bought two of them, one for Dominick and one for Mia.   You know how little ones love to play with bubbles.  Well........this little guy puts out 5000 bubbles a minute!!  Have you ever seen such a big bottle of bubble solution?  Not me!!!  I thought this would make a great Easter gift.  I'm so excited I can't wait to play with this myself......LOL!!!!  And promise me that you won't look at my messy scrap table.  I was in the middle of a layout and pushed it to the side to take this photo!!!

1st Day - Creative Scrappers #95

I've been working with this sketch for the past couple of nights and finally finished it!  I stamped  and embossed the green, orange and yellow cardstock.  I always forget that I have my little purse embossing machine. All the flowers are Prima's.  I just love these with the crystal like sprinkles!!  This is my granddaughter Tallie on her 1st day of kindergarten last July.  

I'm a couple of sketches behind this month over at Creative Scrappers, hopefully I will get them done before the end of the month!  I so enjoy working with the sketches provided by the girls over there.  If you need some scrap inspiration you should go check out their blog.  Just click on the link over on the upper right of my page.

"HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY"

Swinging with daddy - Stuck On U Sketches

I just spent a couple of hours using the above sketch from Stuck On U Sketches.  This week we were to use a couple different patterned papers.  I love mixing patterned papers, so this was right up my alley.  This time my darling little subject was Dominick and his daddy Steve.  These photo's were taken last Sunday when we walked to the park.  Yep.......I walked to the park!!!