Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other. - Anonymous.

I really never thought about it!
And I'm glad you're my friends!
I've got a few things to show you that I've been saving, and you'll be happy to know that not one of them has to do with Christmas!
It's my friend Heathers' birthday today.

And since she's sworn off the internet, Facebook, etc., I'm gonna show you the card I made for her!

She's a tea drinker, and there's even a tiny envelope out of hurt your eyes birthday paper inside that's holding a tea bag!

I had another friend that left Facebook, and was back within a month! HA!

We're taking H out for supper next Tuesday.

This deer was at Walmart on Saturday....no kidding!

The street goes up behind him and to the right into the Walmart parking lot!

This next one is the set of 6-3 X 3 Thank You cards I made for a swap.

They should have arrived in Ireland by now, so I'm letting you see them!

Not a great picture, but the little white flower is a metal flower that Vanessa found for me at Michaels.

This next pic is the case for the little cards, and I added a quilled snowflake inside!

I also put foam between the cards, and tied them with ribbon,

so the flowers wouldn't wreck anything in their travels!

This next one shows how cold it STILL is here!

I'm hoping this is counting as March coming in like a lion!

It's even colder with the windchill, and I'm getting cranky going out to do the chores,

and coming in looking like a racoon!

All the paths need to be snowblowed, because they're drifting in,

but I'm not doing it until it at least warms up to -20!

WITH.NO.WIND!

ON the + side, it's still light out right now....sorta!

I'm skipping out on a meeting tonight.

BAD Gail.

Just tired; Ray's cross shift has been calling before 5 am again this week, so the whole house gets up!

I finally remembered to ask Kalen if he got his Valentine, and here's what he said.

Yes, I got my valentine, it was beautiful! Sits on my desk at work.

Remember? He got the other Iris Folded card I made last month!

Better go, I really am going to make some cards, that don't have anything to do with Christmas....yet!

But hey.....CCAYR will have a new challenge up tomorrow or the next day!

Ta ta for now!

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." - Dolly Parton

My job is challenging!
I like that about it.
Something different every day; at my job, and personally!
Yesterday, I did my thing, and left at 2:00!
Remember last week when I was at work at 5 A M!?
I took those hours yesterday!
I had a DR's appt. to renew my drugs.
Unfortunately my BP was through the roof. WTH!?
It's been controlled FOREVER with one little pill a night!
Dr: "Are you stressed out? Worried about something? Feeling sick?"
Me: "I feel good, I'm down to 1 job, been walking on the treadmill for 2 or 3 weeks, I have ME time! OMG, I'm not busy enough!? I HAVE been waking up with a headache, and wondered what was with that!?
More drugs, have to get my BP checked 3 times a week for 2 weeks, if it stays high I have to go back, if it goes too low cause of more drugs, I have to go back.
Then, a whole crapload of tests to be done!
He told me that was one of the perks of getting OLD.
That kinda bothers me....see I.KNOW.HOW.OLD.I.AM!
And I'm usually fine with it.....til someone says something like THAT!
Now he's just gonna try to find something wrong with me!
I did check my BP when I went to town this afternoon, and it was already way down!

I then had a meeting after my Dr's. appt. and some running around to do; and on my last stop, I had a hard time turning left with my van!
I'm a girl, so I thought, oh well, after this I'm on my way home.
I shut off the radio and heat & listened for noises.
My analytical (really) mind starts thinking, "Do I have a power steering belt? Hmmmmmmm..........no, but I think I have Power Steering fluid!"
Which I checked when I got home and the little reservoir thingy was dry!
I call PR Chrysler, who told me it wasn't uncommon in the cold weather for a line to get a leak.
BS, I thought, drove my little Intrepid for YEARS, and never had a leak.
She says they're booking for Tuesday!?WTH, I wonder if everyone has a leak!?
I then called Roadside Assistance, which so far is the only perk I like about a new vehicle!
I got Ryan who asked me if I was in a safe place, Bless his heart!
He told me the tow truck would be here in 30 minutes.
While I'm on hold with him, I was texting my boss for a ride to work this morning!
I just got off the phone with roadside assistance, and the Body Shop calls, it's my friend R and he says, "Gail, I told those guys I'd be there in half an hour, but the tow truck is out of town, can we pick your van up in the morning? "
He also tells me that I'm, "the first Caravan, but all the ladies at the banks driving Journeys and Escapes, all the cross over vehicles......he's hauled them all; because of the power steering lines."
I laugh and tell him yes.
PR Chrysler called and left a message at 2:15 this afternoon to tell me my van was ready.
I gotta hitch hike down there sometime this weekend!

So I'm driving this!

Impressive huh!?

A company vehicle!

I just think D didn't want to be my chauffeur!

When I come home from work, Shadow comes in and lays on the rug in the entry; while I change to go outside and feed the cats, fill the stove.....whatever.

Because she is an outside dog, she doesn't come in very often.

Well here she is trying to sneak further into the house!

She's so funny!

We took her to the vet last Saturday for her Rabies shot.

The vet was going to give us hell for having an overweight dog, then realized she just had a really thick coat!

Shadow's not a  great traveler, so I asked the vet about a sedative, and did you know you can give your dog children's gravol?!

I'm sure gonna try it!

Alrighty, I know this has been painful, but I'm done now!

I made a couple of these cards.

I know it's a Christmas card!
This was in about a  2008 Cardmaker magazine!
I'm working my way through the magazines and books!
I purposefully stamped the JOY crooked, cause I knew I'd never get it straight!
This was simple yet looks cool I thought!

Ya know I never did get my cards linked on the CCAYR site.
I did link them in a comment so they could see if I was playing along, but I don't think anyone cares!
Oh well!
*OMG, just checked the comments over there, and I wasn't the only one, and it's fine we linked them there!
I'll quit pouting now! hahaha

I see others have linked, and I've tried the computer at work too!

Better go!
Ta ta for now!

Trying Something........

I want you to check out this site. CSN Stores has over 200 online stores where you can find anything you need whether it be outdoor playsets, fitness equipment, or even cute cookware!

It's a promotional thing, just sayin.
You might need something to do today; like surf the net.

Talk to ya later, ta ta for now.

Family Day!

That's what day it is!
I debated going to work, and banking my hours for another day, but decided to stay home!
Had a visit yesterday with some friends that have moved away!
The kids call me Gramma Gail.
Long story....!
I told them I'd come for a sleep over in June!

Vanessa made a surprise visit home last night!
And I DO MEAN SURPRISE!
That girl can't keep a secret!
She left before lunch today!

We had our Stamp Club last Thursday....this is what we did.

I really like this one.
I couldn't get my ribbon to lay right, so I only have the piece going around!

We made pansies for this one, out of a butterfly punch!

I was having a heck of a ribbon night!

This one is cute!

The barrel is the cupcake bottom from a stamp, andyou could have anything coming out of the basket.

Some of the girls did cherries.

This last one is too busy for me. Or maybe I'm not liking the pink & orange....I dunno!

And it's stamped crooked.

The girl beside me said, "Good enough."

But really it isn't!

Oh well, some kid will get it that doesn't know! And will be HAPPY!

This big guy I saw on the way to work on Friday!

Look how deep the snow is!

It was still sort of dark!

Now I've done the vacuuming, laundry, washed floors, put some of the snowmen away, burnt the garbage, walked on the treadmill.....a whole whack of stuff that needed done!

Now I'm going to play!

Well, stamp & stuff, you know!

I need a background for a card I want to make, and I found an awesome tutorial for clouds, thought I'd saved it, but nooooooo!

Oh well, I'll see what I can come up with.

I went to check out Michelle Zindorf tutorials, she makes everything look sooo easy,  I'll wing it!

I don't have a lot of stamp colors, but did order more last week, so if I can't make do with what I have, I'll have to wait!

Ta ta for now!

I live in my own little world, but it's ok, they know me here.

Hahahaha!

I'm a bad blogger!
Almost a week!
And I've only got a minute!
Well, you know, that can turn into a pretty long winded minute!
It's turned cold again = more chores! Or they take longer?!

Anyhoo, glad to see Curt's up to his old tricks!

Just wanted to tell you that I won this on the Fiskateers site!
Nevermind Curt!
I was in the right place at the right time!

One thing I don't understand though....is how come everyone needs a street address?

Wait, let me finish!

I know they deliver by courier, but, and I took a picture, and it didn't turn out, of the pick up card that was hung on my friend with the street addresses door!

I picked the parcel up at Canada Post!

That's the POST OFFICE!

That's where I have a box number!!!???

Us rednecks that live in a rural area, have post office box #'s.

We have legal land descriptions!

Nobody delivers!

Anyway, my friend at the PO gave me their street address and told me I could use it anytime!

Then the card goes in my PO box! Imagine that!?

This next picture is a Feller Buncher.

It just came out of the shop across the way!

These are REALLY big machines, and they're both in the yard now, so they must be done cutting the logs down out in the bush!

See this chunk of ice on the power pole!?

I spotted it on the way home from work a couple days ago!

Looky here!

Neat hey....I bet he was from Hogwarts school!

Someones owl!

Gotta go, Stamp Club tonight!

I will let you know what we make!

Have a good night!

Ta ta for now!

I used to be indecisive, now I’m not so sure. - W.C. Fields

Alrighty.......I have memorized this Emerson Drive CD!
From walking on the treadmill silly!
Now I'm working on this Tracy Lawrence CD!
Just kidding, but I crank up the tunes and giver!

The weather's been great here again this week!
I'm worried!
We can't have cold & snow flurries, then warm on the weekend all the time!?
It ain't right!
We've got at least 2 good months left of WINTER!

So, I made a separate post for the CCAYR challenge, and now can't upload them!!!???
I even left a comment to that effect, and it hasn't shown up!GAWD!

I had a real hard day at work today.......NOT!
I worked all morning & had to have my computer in town by 1:00 pm, so they could transfer the stuff onto the new one!   
I got sent to Baron to pick up boxes, and Venture for parts, and had to drop them off at a trucking company to be sent to the bush tomorrow!
I had coffee with a friend, got some groceries, and signed up for a Bob Ross painting class in March.
I did 2 pictures about 6 or 7 years ago, then the woman doing them quit!
V & I even did a class together; I got her a class one year for her birthday, and the pictures are so different!
I stopped back at the computer place at 4:00 pm, and the tech was having some trouble.
I went to the office and got him discs for some programs, and came home.
Guess they'll call me here at home tomorrow if they ever get everything transferred!

My friend Curt is having a horrible week, can you go here and leave him a note of encouragement!
He also wins the week from hell contest.......there is NO prize!

I have some cards to show you!
I sent this first one to Ray's aunt.
She's aunt to us, but Sister to others.
She's a retired nun. Her and the O/S are great friends, and she always needs his address!
I keep trying to tell her that she can write him at the base, but she thinks every time he's on a ship or something, she needs a change of address!
Maybe she just wants me to send her cards!?

The big heart was left over from our last stamp club.....I always grab onto the left overs!

The instructor knows they get used so she doesn't mind.

Put your sunglasses on for these next 2!

I sent them to 2 aunts. (My side of the family!)

I didn't write in them so they can use them!

I'm giving them a heads up on when I'll be in their neighborhood on my way to moms.

(Not til June, but you know how organized I am!)

I also asked them if they wanted to come with me, cause this year for fun;

I'm going with mom to the Amish auction sale in Montana!

Mom got her parcel I sent her, and was thrilled!

I've also found several things I should have put in it!

Mom also told me she quit everything.

I asked her if she was sick and dying, and should I come stay with her!

She said she quit the Red Hatters, her supper club, her bridge club, good golly!

I"ll have to ask her if she quit hospice!

She also said she was going to be part of a study for Osteoporosis.

I told her that was great, cause she signed her drivers license to donate her body to science,

 she might as well be useful while she's alive!

Gonna have to find out what's up with that!

Might have to call my brother!

Well I'd better go, gonna dig out the scrapbooking again for a minute!

Have a great weekend!

Ta ta for now!

 P.S.
I forgot, Michelle Zindorf has some blog candy here!
And check out Pinky's blog candy HERE!

CCAYR - February Challenge

The challenge for February, with Valentine's Day coming, is to have red and/or pink on your Christmas card as well as dimension of some kind. The dimension can be an embellishment like buttons or brads or can be done with using foam tape under something. There just needs to be some dimension to your card.

"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." - Proverb

Happy Monday!

Had a great weekend!

Didn't cook at all! Saturday night we went out with Ray's company, and last night the SIL invited us!
SWEET!

I DID craft though!

I finished my cards for CCAYR! I'll do a separate post for them later this week!
I will show you though!
They turned out like I wanted them to!
I've been making 6 Christmas Cards at a time, and I'm putting 4 aside for the Family Rebellion Silent Auction next year.
I'll do that until I have a collection of 12 or 16.

Had to show you that I'm finishing the insides too!

I used every scrap of that red & pink swirly paper on the left!

Ray's hauling logs to a mill about 100 kms away. They make a paper there......I made the 'scale girl' (she weighs their loads of logs) a Thank You card.

The little rectangle is out of the paper they make.

I made the flower too!

I read about it in a post somewhere, and if anyone's seen it, they can tell me and I'll credit the proper crafty person!

You punch out a shape, these were scalloped circles....just 2 of them.

You run it through your crimper until you can pull the papers apart. The inside of the papers look like suede!

You put a brad through the center, scrunch them up, and scrunch and scrunch, then carefully pull them apart, and shape them into  flower!!

The butterflies were left over from the last Stamp Club.

And I LOVE that newsprint paper!

Ray had brought me samples of paper from the mill before; I used a whole sample sheet on Kendras' card I made her in this post! (She likes purple! When she went out with K; do you know how hard it was to make purple Christmas cards?!)

Last week he brought home 12 X 12 sheets!

I'll have enough 'local' paper for a lifetime!

 I also received these in the mail today!
The "I Hear A Symphony" ATC's.

I've been walking on the treadmill!

Things I've learned .....You.Should.Not.Face.The.Clock.!

That's it. You shouldn't face the clock!

I'm getting there!

Want to do 5 miles a day!

So, I get home, do my chores; dishes, laundry, fill the stove, make muffins, read the mail, etc.!?

Whatever comes up actually! 

Then walk on the treadmill before I come to craft & play!

Better go, have a great week everyone!

Ta ta for now!

Ever Notice That The People Who Tell You to Calm Down Are The Ones That Got You Mad in The First Place!?-Maxine

Nope, I'm not mad.....just having issues this week with my fellow Friends of the Library, the Library Board,  the town council, and the (ex?) librarian; I'll get over it! Or maybe The Friends of the Library will un friend me!
TGIF!

And the news makes me cranky..........if it is news!
I don't watch the news on TV cause it just makes me sad.
I DO know what's going on in the world, I do Not live under a rock; I just like to read about it.
Here are some headlines for today!

    Obama challenges Egypt's president: Consider your legacy

Army denies Arlington cemetery burial for Hmong general

Sarah Palin's bid to trademark her name refused - for now

Vatican says Pope Benedict no longer an organ donor

Son of former Enron President Jeffrey Skilling found dead

Lawsuit: Mets owners owe Madoff victims $300 million

Two Canadians die swimming in Mexican resort town

Former B.C. teacher guilty in murder of pregnant wife

Ont. woman fights off shark while swimming in Mexico

Ice falls from Super Bowl stadium roof injuring six

Man caught driving 170 km/h over speed limit in Quebec

    Miley Cyrus adds another tattoo to her growing list

Seriously!? Miley Cyruses tattoo is in there with the breaking news stuff.........oh bother!
That's what I'm talkin about folks!

Okay, so I just popping in to tell you to have a great weekend!

I have a few pictures for you, and not one of them includes all my Stampin' Up goodies. But I'll tell you what I got.
The Big Shot, 3 double sided embossing templates, a spider web template (embossing), some filler plates for the Big Shot, 5 stamp sets, 2 sets of designer paper, a Stampin around wheel, 2 sizes of envelopes, and that might be about it. All for less than $100.00 Canadian! I played last night! Gotta find a spot on my desk for the Big Shot, cause I know; out of sight, out of mind!

I'm working on my cards for CCAYR!
Decided what I want to do, so need to crochet 5 flowers...yeah, I do that too!

Alrighty, stay tuned for the pictures.

I'm not sure what these chubby little fellers are! Grouse? Ptarmigans?

The weather warmed up again this week, and these guys were everywhere!

The first pics were when I turned into the driveway, just under the neighbors fence, there was about 6 of them!

This one was in the yard at work. He had friends too, I just couldn't get them all!

This next one is a sunrise out my office window!

Yeah, I go to work in the dark!

This picture is of the Valentine card Ray & I got from the kids......doesn't it just make you go awwwwwww!?

There you have it.
It also rained last night and most of the day.
Which is not good when the temperature's hovering around 0 degrees!

The mechanic at work came in at noon and told me he'd had enough fun, he was going home.
I said: "Oh, what did you do?"
Him: "Well Gail, when you get out to the highway, you have to stop, even thought the sign's not there."
Me: "Oh, where did it go?"
Him: "I took it out when I hit the ditch trying to get on the highway with the service truck."
Me (cause I'm tactless) "hahahahahaha!"
You KNOW if that was me I"d never hear the end of it.
Him; "Didn't do any damage to the truck."
I didn't ask! I was still laughing!

So have a great weekend people, I'll try to have some crafty pictures for you by Monday!

Ta ta for now!