wouldn't you think.....

that after Monday night and the cards Barbara brought over, that I'd post before now?

Well I should have, but for one thing, I'm a slacker.....

It seems if I don't get up early, I don't post and when you stay up till 12 or 1 in the morning it's kind of hard to get up early...but I am here now and some what ready.

Since there is currently snow on the ground, as of an early morning snow, I think Christmas cards from Christmas Card Night, Monday would be appropriate.

Okay. I am doing something wrong.  I down loaded the pictures and they are not on the computer...

I don't have time right now to reload etc...I have to wash my hair and go to Rachel's today at 8:30..

So until next time,
HS,
Wanda
(hope this isn't the way the rest of my day is going to go...)

it's monday morning.......

and I don't have anything exciting to show for the weekend.  I ended up with a stomach bug Saturday and that pretty much put an end to my plans...but today is a new day and the start of the new week and I have lots of things to do and places to go this week.

Christmas card night is tonight so a busy day getting ready for that, and of course I don't have my samples made yet....did you think I would?

And of course my taxes aren't done yet....did you think they would be?

Well last Wed was my 39? birthday and Friday the kids planned a little surprise party for me..just family, but fun..(it's always fun when I have my babies, big and small).

Here is the card that Barbara made and sent me for my birthday..I took a picture of it, and put it in my computer, but found it nowhere, not even in my camera and no I am NOT getting senile....

A beautiful card, from a beautiful person...thanks again, Barbara..... The colors on here are Vanilla. Crumb Cake and Not Quite Navy. I love the new designer build a brads in the center of this faux quilt
card. I think Barbara did a great job in putting this together, I love the colors on it too.

And speaking of "cake", my son in law, Jonathan made me some really good cupcakes for my birthday party.  If I don't eat them all we will have some tonight at our Christmas card night.

Well I shall be off now.

Have a wonderful Monday..
HS,
Wanda

the goverment is keeping me from being creative....

at least it seems like a good excuse....

I need to get on my taxes, so instead of creating beautiful cards, I must go work on taxes...If I get them done, it will though, indeed be a miracle, as I am lucky to get them done by April 15th....

Well at least I do have a beautiful card to show you, even if I didn't make it.

Hey, where did it go?  I was going to show you the pretty card Barbara made and sent me for my birthday. I took the picture and downloaded on the computer, but can't find it...and I don't have time to do it again, sooo...here is another pretty card Barbara made and let me photograph for my blog....

It too, is lovely.  She used Crumb Cake, Early Espresso and Very Vanilla card stock and the Secret Garden bundle in the spring mini catalog....I don't want to buy that, but I know I will...soon I will own almost every thing in this catalog...and don't tell Eugene why the electric and water will be cut off.....jk...

Have a lovely day....pray for me as I tackle the inevitable......yuck..

HS,
Wanda

so why haven't i posted.....

can you guess or figure it out?
Well actually there are a few reason and yes the new baby is the main one.....but I gotta make this quick cause I have to go babysit today....

This is Noah Timothy Bender less than 24 hours old and all wrapped up in a "snuggly".  Just in case you haven't heard, he weight 9 lbs 12.6 ozs and was almost 24 inches long.  Rachel had him natural and said she never wanted to do that again.  She was told he was only going to be about 8 lbs, plus he had his hand up by his face, so it was harder....poor momma.







And here is Grandpa...he's not much on babies....but he tries....



And Aunt Alicia, my favorite daughter in law....

And Momma Rachel....

 

Well I will have a card for you tomorrow, courtesy of dear Barbara....

 

Have a lovely day.

 

HS,

Wanda



happy friday.....

Well still no baby yet or socks..Rach had contractions yesterday, but was too tired to walk them harder, so I guess tomorrow is the day.  Unless of course the baby gets busy today.....

No stamping at all yesterday, not even punching, but never fear, Barbara's here.....

These two cards are very simple but cute, easy and fast to make....I do love more complicated ones, but I also love the fast cute ones too.  These were made using various clear acyclic blocks just pressed on different colored ink pads and stamped on Whisper White card stock.  Then  words and images from one of the new 25 Years Stampin' Up! collector sets stamped in black Stazon, throw on a button or a few brads and wha la, you have a great card...

Thanks again Barbara for supplying me with cards to post when I don't have time to do it myself....

Well not sure what the day holds for me, hopefully some swimming, but I know definitely baby sitting.

Have a lovely weekend, I am pretty sure I will have a new grand baby by Monday...

HS,
Wanda

happy valentines day or where are my socks all going?

some days I just feel random.......I got 6 pairs of new socks for Christmas and right now I can only find 1 1/2 pair...of course you know this has nothing to do with Valentine's Day.....

Well still no baby, if  he doesn't come by Saturday, Rachel will be induced on Saturday afternoon.

Happy Valentine's Day to all.  No stamping done at all yesterday, wait I take that back kind of.  I did help Rachel make 2 adorable skunks for Scott's teachers yesterday and although we didn't actually stamp, we punched and glued....you can see the skunks at daneesdelights.blogspot.com, they are soooo cute in real life.

But for now, here are a couple of things dear sweet Barbara P made and let me post...thanks again so much Barbara...Happy Valentine's Day to you!

and this.....

Very cute, wouldn't you say....

 

This, of course, isn't card, it's a Red Velvet Cake my son-in-law, Jonathan made for Sunday dinner.  He is Rachel's husband.  He likes to bake and we all like to eat what he makes...yummy.
He said he made it for Valentine's Day, Red Velvet is his favorite....which reminds me of a story.

When Jonathan and Rachel first got married, I decided, being the wonderful mother-in-law that I am, to bake him a red velvet cake for his birthday, since it is his favorite, complete with original cooked icing, no store bought stuff for me, everything from scratch....well it look good, so proud of my self...but the cake taste like kerosene....don't ask me how, I don't know till this day...all I know is I haven't bake a red velvet cake since....so much for my endeavors....

Well have a lovely Valentine's day, with no kerosene in your life, unless it's for heat, and I hope you can find all your socks (if you see any of mine, pass them this way.)

Lots of Love and Stamping,
Wanda

i forgot yesterday....

that I even had a blog....

Yesterday was quite a day, and no still no baby.  Mom came over Monday afternoon for me to help her make Valentine cards for most of her younger grand babies and great grand babies and older single ones.

I was busy with WOW Monday and she was really tired so we didn't start then, but Tuesday, that was a different story....

It started with us starting Valentines, then swimming, back home, lunch, then the fun began...47 Valentines later, we (Mom) cleaned up to some simulates of order and we got ready for Angie and her two, Alana and Grant, to come over so we could their Valentines for school. 

I had been working on Alana's Smarties candy butterflies after I had finished helping Mom.  We made a little over 50 Valentines with them (including the teacher).  I wish I had thought to take a picture of them...The kids worked hard and did a great job... For Grant's we did an elephant's head made with 3 lg. hearts and made the trunk out of Skittles put in our 1 by 12 in cello bags.  We cut them down and to 4 ins and put 7 or 8 Skittles in them.  I got the elephant idea from Vashti.  For Alana's I cut butterflies out with the Big Shot and covered the Smarties with black paper, then taped them in the middle of the butterfly and we put wiggly eyes on them..both turned out cute, but no pictures.....

But I do have a few more pictures of Barbara's cards to show you....

I guess these are more like holders..for candy or a little card insert.  Grant made one of these for his teacher, but he put yellow eyes on his because he said owl have yellow eyes....
These were made with a 3 1/2 x 8 1/2 piece of paper scored in half at the 4 1/4 mark and then scored down the sides at 3/8.  You can find these at stampingpro.com.

This is another card made with our Big Shot Heart Framelits and some pretty DPS.

Well I have to babysit again today for Rachel to go to the doctor.  She may schedule an induction....
I do think we will have a baby sometime by this weekend. 

I hope to get a little nap this morning, since I've been awake since 1:30 am...if not, it's going to be a really long day..

Hope your day is as long or short as you want it.

Till next time, HS.

Wanda