Sometimes, I treat myself to buying Take Ten magazines on the half off table at my LSS (that’s local scrapbook store, for those not up on scrapping lingo). It is a window into a world that some like the birthday girl Nancy live in, and some like me just get to visit now and then. I like to take several days to read through all the amazing ideas – usually I read just a page or two each morning while eating breakfast. I am continually inspired by the ways that paper is used, and the ideas for using my many, many supplies (or scrap cr*p for those not up on the lingo, or my husband).


Recently, I noted a brilliant (and so simple in retrospect) idea of stamping your art twice – once on the cardstock, and then once on patterned paper, and using the patterned paper to accent the cardstock I played with the idea, and created these cards for friends with January birthday (including my much craftier twin, Simone. Check out what her talented son did with the idea too).

Stamp by Cat’s Life Press , patterned paper free from Stampington.

Goodbye and Godspeed!

My dear friend Dawn is moving to California for love (and who can fault that decision?) so I traveled up to her parish on Sunday and attended a lovely Liturgy (the mission is growing by leaps and bounds) saw good friends and a new grandmother even (I can't get J's blog to load, but hi)! Our time to talk was short, but I did snap this photo as we were chatting at the end (there was one of the two of us, but it was particularly bad of me, so I’m hoping the one she took was better)*

Then, I zipped home and we hosted the Mousethief family to watch a well played Superbowl. I’m not a huge football fan, but the game was good, the results unexpected, the company great, commercials a treat and the snacks absolutely fabulous. Unfortunately, the littlest Mousethief was not feeling well, so they left pretty quickly after the game was over (which was ok, because I’d gotten too dehydrated and ended up napping for a bit as I had a headache). While I was napping, I heard this exchange after Xavier was bouncing a ball in the house. - Crash. “Your mom will be pretty upset you broke that”. Groan. Thankfully, super glue seemed to have worked on the wine glass.

*side note – I got a hair cut on Saturday that didn’t work out so well. Today when I was fiddling with it while looking at my reflection, I ran into a wall with my elbow, ouch. Which goes to show once again - vanity is bad for you.