Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries. --James A. Michener

Good morning, and it is morning!

I'm not sure WHY I was up insanely early, I could have been at work by 5:30 am.
It scares them when I do that! hahaha

The temperature has warmed up about 15 degrees, and I don't see a wind......YET!

OMG, to do my 'chores' the last 4-5 days, I dress in layers, and nothing shows but eyes!
It's been -30, with an extreme windchill of -40 something!
By the time I get back in the house everything is running, nose, eyes, I look like a raccoon on work days..................and my butt is cold! hahaha
There's a little FYI for ya!
Sure I have ski pants; I need to be able to move when I get out there!!!

Anyhoo, had dinner with the gf's last night, they told me I was cranky! WTH!

Had my last meeting with FCSS on Monday, it's not as big of relief as I thought it would be; we met once a month Sept-June. Oh well...........

I've been making cards, nothing outstanding, but I'll share.
I need to make Kalen a birthday card, so tried this fold ......
I should have taken a pic of it open...it's kinda cool......
I couldn't find it on her site, and the link on this page didn't take me there........
I AM trying to give credit! OI!

 

This next one, I wanted to try this technique.

 

 

Then I fooled around cause I found 1 (ONE) sheet of the funky heart paper!

Oh, and I had an embossing folder that wasn't open! WTH!

 

 

I wanted to try a 'twisted card' for a gf that has a birthday coming up, and is getting lottery tickets!

These are all over blogland!

 

 

Here's a deer I see on my way to town from work daily!

There's a small herd of them that lay along this bush line at a guys place on the highway;

pretty sure they're trying to stay out of the wind;

that honestly,

is coming right from the North Pole!

 

 

Welcome to Cindy, Susan, Grandma Jean (I don't want to scare anyone!), Vicky  and Rosalee.

They're part of the Fiskateer family, and Jean started this for support.

 

Hope this finds you well!

Better go toss my stuff in my lunch bag!!

Talk to ya later!

Ta ta for now!

 

 

Slow down, simplify, and be kind. - Naomi Judd

Hi everyone!
Hope you're all well, and having a great weekend!

Welcome Queenie Jeannie!
Not sure if you`ll learn anything here, but you might get a laugh or 2!

I'm waiting for it to warm up (HA!) before I go fire up the snow blower!
Yeah, I blew snow last Saturday, and shoveled twice this week in between............
It was supposed to be -6 today, it's -20 something, and I can't push the electric start button on the snow blower if it's more than 20 below!
I can hear you saying "Oh dear, tsk tsk.......she only has to push a button"!
The button is about the size of a dime, and it's FROZEN people!
I don`t know why the start button can`t be as big as the primer button....about 1 1/2 inches!

Anyhoo, had dinner out with the gf`s twice this week....different gf`s!
One group meets every Wednesday, and the other decided we`d meet the last Tuesday of the month, and who ever could come, would just show up!
We`d also take in a movie if there was one playing that night!
With all the texting & emailing these days, I think people loose sight of what`s important, and staying in touch IN person IS important!
The laughter & stories are just better in person!!!!

I`ve got to find a resignation letter on the internet.
Monday will be my last meeting for the FCSS. Family & Community Support Services.
I`ve been on that board 10 years, figure I`ve done my time! hahahahaha

All the snow blowing & shoveling this week has cut into my craft time, but I DID make a couple cards last night!
Oh, I also made this first one last weekend, cause Kalen said his room mate was grumpy, and it`d cheer him up if I made him a Valentines card! hahahaha

And it`s a crappy picture, and the `Valentine Greetings`looks blurry, and maybe the picture is blurry!
Oh well, it`s all you get, cause I already mailed it; and OMG Blogger is letting me post pictures from my computer, not having to go through Picasa, but I`m getting those French symbol thingys again!
OH sigh!
It wouldn`t be any fun if everything worked like it should all the time!

 

This next one I tried a chalkboard technique I saw over here!

HI MR. CARDMAKER!

 

 

I still have different chalkboard technique I want to try, maybe later!

 

I made this next one for the Stollery Kids, I`ve been looking at that funky paper on my desk for days!

 

 

Gonna make a few more different ones, and that paper will be GONE!

Of course there`s only one sheet!

Why do you ask!É

There`s that damn E thing instead of a question mark!

 

This next one is all over the internet;

 I wanted to try it with a LARGE stamp instead of several.

 

 

I didn`t put a sentiment on it.

I thought as the occasion arose I`d use a sentiment from SU

Teeny Tiny Wishes, and insert that in the bottom right!

 

Alrighty,

these next 2 pics are the view out of my kitchen window,

when it`s light out! hahaha

Only on weekends am I home to see this,

but I`m pretty sure the days are getting longer by the minute!

 

These are Grosbeaks, all male by the looks of things.

They`re not as brave as the chickadees.

The chickadees are little terrors!

When I`m outside walking by a feeder it`s like-

``INCOMING!``

 

 

Oh all right, the hoar frost is lovely!

You should`ve seen the way it sparkled in the moonlight!!

And it doesn`t need to be shoveled! hahaha

And yes the sun is shining,

but the forecast is for cloudy tomorrow,

and snow again starting Monday! OH JOY!

 

Better go!

See if it`s warm enough to start the snow blower!

Talk to ya later!

Ta ta for now!

House Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge

NEW CHALLENGE

Our first challenge this Year is hosted by our mega talented Teamie, Christine Craig, and she's chosen to go with the most fitting theme for this time of the year...

*** New Beginnings ***

Your creation could be for a New Beginning in the New Year with Resolutions, (like being healthier, or, being more organized). It could also referring to anything that is New; like a New Baby, a New Job, a New Home, a New Love, a New Life in Wedded bliss, New Friends, NEW crafty tools... really anything that brings NEW Beginnings!
If it's New, it qualifies! :)

 

I thought I'd play along.

 

 

This is for a friend that's starting a new job.

And career!

After about 13 years with the same company, she made a leap.

The saying is for all the arguing she did with herself, because we were behind her 100%!

The little metal tag on the left that you can't read, says 'Believe'!

 

The inside says

'If at FIRST you DO succeed,

try not to look ASTONISHED"

 

She'll be fine, and this card will make her lol!

 

You have another week to play, it's the first challenge of the year over there,

and those people ROCK!

 

Talk to ya later!

Ta ta for now!

 



There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened. - Jules Renard

Hello peeps!
How are you on this snowy cold morning!?

I have pictures for you.......of course I do!

Here's bad Shadow coming down the drive way as I come home!

 

I don't want her on the main road chasing vehicles!

 

Here's the mutt I put up with at work!

A very scary Buster!

 

Seriously!?

I must be boring!

 

Here's the baby card I made for Vanessas' friend!

Outside's great!

On the inside I put,

"SPIT HAPPENS!"

hahahahaha

 

 

This is the scarf I made for one of my peeps that didn't get one at Christmas!

The snowman is a kleenex box cover, and she's a hoarder collector of snowmen!

I'm just helping out the cause!

 

In other news:

it's snowing!

OMG!

 

I have stew in the slow cooker, bread in the machine, laundry in the washer, dishes are done.

Ray's gone to work.

I am (in 5 minutes) going to get dressed........I.KNOW!

And go out to fill the bird feeders,

water & feed the cats & Shadow,

fill the wood furnace,

and fire up the snow blower!

 

I have 2 projects on the go on my desk, and I can't find a die I want to use on a card,

so will be digging for that when I come in!

They DO (the dies) have their own spot.....someone must not have put it away!?WTH!

I might have to haul the Christmas paper box back out, maybe it ended up in there!

I've already dug through the garbage!!!!

I need a better system for my stamps, so was working on that before Ray got up.

Also organizing the chipboard letters I have...............

who knew I had so many..............

I see using them on everything in the near future!

 

Hope you're well!

Have a great weekend!

Talk to ya later!

Ta ta for now!

Celebrate what you want to see more of in your life.

Alrighty, you guys are getting a 'twofer' today!

I slept in until 8:47!
I. KNOW!
Don't get excited, I was up at 4:00, and had to talk myself into going back to bed....
come on, it's Sunday!
I went to turn the coffee on and seen this guy/gal napping in the back yard!
Sorry the pic is blurry, but it's still dark-ish!

 

 

He tasted the Mountain Ash..........

 

 

Don't think he/she liked them!

 

Here he/she is making a run for it!

 

 

 

Right across the fence to the neighbors, where he/she napped for hours!

 

 

 

Hope he's not in the yard when I leave for work tomorrow!

It will be dark!

 

I played in the craft room for most of the weekend!

Got lots done!

My desk is all mostly cleaned off!

I made a birthday card....you can't see it yet!

Made 6 more Christmas cards....what can I say!

I need a baby card; one of Vanessa's friends had a boy last night!

 

I finished my note cards!

 

 

Will get some in the mail tomorrow!

I watched GI Joe something Cobra, with Channing Tatum.

 

I knit half a scarf........

I know!

One of my peeps didn't get one at Christmas, but has a birthday next month!

I need to knit my own too!

 

I watched Night at The Museum!

 

I watched the cat 'bird watching'!

 

 

And Friday night I discovered a cracked window in the guest bathroom!

WTH!?

 

 

I know it's a great sunset......you're looking at the crack!

It's the top half of the window!

I noticed the frost first and thought WTH!?

 

I called the window people, and someone's getting back to me tomorrow....I hope!

 

Better go, hope you're all well!

Talk to ya later!

Ta ta for now!

 

 

 

January Challenge at Christmas Cards All Year 'Round

WARNING: This post may contain Christmas Cards!

 

I'm playing at CCAYR!

 

Welcome to our first challenge for 2013. To keep it simple for the first one the theme is:

Anything goes so long as it's Christmas.

 

I kept it 'simple', and made 6 of these.

One of my goals is to make cards that don't need extra postage!

Talk to ya later!

Ta ta for now!

 

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. --Harriet Beecher Stowe

Hello all!
Hope this finds you well!

Things I've learned this week....hell, I learned it Tuesday already, and the week had just started!
Do NOT fill the outdoor wood furnace on a work day without wearing your stylish toque.....
2 words..............
HAIR SPRAY.
Go ahead & laugh, you've all seen the movie Backdraft ........nough said!

Anyhoo, I did get a picture of the back of some deer trying to escape down the cutline on the main road across from the driveway.

I also laughed when I saw this,
but was pretty happy that some of Vanessa's 20something friends weren't playing on it at the time!

 

Guess the tire swing needs a new rope in the Spring!

 

I did make some cards for Valentines.

 

This is for Vanessa, pretty sure she's forgotten how to lurk!

 

 

 

I got the inspiration here!

 

Here's Kalens.

I told him that I hoped it made up for the slippers/ his word,

that was his Christmas card this year!

 

 

I got the inspiration over here;

she does waaaaay better stuff than me,

but she's ok about sharing ideas;

 and I DID listen to her, and got a watermark for my pictures...

SEEEEE!!!!!!

Now I just have to have a minute to make it cool!

I STILL have to download my pictures through Picassa...WTH!?

 

In other news,

I was supposed to have my second turn driving the Handivan for the community run this morning;

but called there, cause I'd heard the lodge was quarantined.

It was;

I didn't have to go,

and one of the volunteers in town was going to check the seniors apts. to see if anyone from there wanted to go to town.

I figure the manager at the lodge should be calling us in a case like that!?

 

Also, I'm so busy at work, I'm not sure if I'm coming or going!

We had 68 employees last year.

When I told one of my bosses that;

He said: "68 stellar employees."

I said: "Not even half....hell not even a dozen!"

And we laughed.........

I know I'd go bonkers if I had to deal with some of them every day!

 

I figure by Monday I'll be caught up enough to work on some more T 4's.

Good thing they don't have to go out until the end of February!

 

I'm working on some note cards.

I'm getting pretty stingy with my Christmas card sending!

I received a few after Christmas, so will send a card!

 

I also got a lovely letter from a dear friend's daughter. 

My friend's in a facility way down south, and I try to stop now & then.

I don't think the daughter knows that!

She thanked me for keeping her mom in my thoughts at Christmas time!

So I've printed out the picture that was taken of us last time I was there,

and I'm going to send it to her.

I know her mom doesn't remember that I've been there!

 

Hope everyone's well, and staying out of trouble!

Talk to ya later!

Ta ta for now!

HM & Friends Monday Challenge

Lucky for me the HM gals took a break, and allowed lots of time to play!

Our mega talented Teamie Kate Wiles has chosen the final theme for 2012 and she wants to see you creating anything that reminds you of

* * * Christmas Hugs or, Kisses * * *

 

Not a great picture, sorry, but it is snowing again!
You still have time to play!
There will be a new Challenge on January 14!

Talk to ya later!
Ta ta for now!

 

Happy 2013!

This post was started Saturday the 5th
I got the pictures added on Sunday!

OMG!
Life just gets in the way sometimes!~

In last weeks episode I was going to clean off the roof.
Let me tell you, last Saturday I cleaned off around the satellite dish, cause I only had 1 channel in the craft room.
I told Ray, & he said: "yeah, I couldn't even get the news"........HELL O!
Tuesday I cleaned off the whole north side of the house....I was a hurtin' unit!
Thank GAWD for the jacuzzi!
More from dragging around the evil ladder, than pulling the snow off.....Wednesday I had supper with the gf's, and Thursday & Friday I was back at it!
I'm DONE! Stick a fork in me!
Finished early this afternoon, and you'll never guess what the forecast is.......yup/ SNOW!?

Alrighty, got the pics added.
Had to go through Picassa??? Anyone?
Very painful!

I can't do the far east end of the house, cause the weight would collapse the little deck, and I'm not a make work project...I'm only moving that snow ONCE!

One day when I was going back to work from town it was so unbelievably foggy!
I work, right in the middle of this picture!
Unreal huh! Up at the top is blue sky and the sun was shining!

 

 

Christmas got put away this morning; you do know that for the next week I'll be rolling my eyes every time I spot something that should have went to the closet!
The snowmen get to stay out until the snow's gone or Easter, whichever comes first!

Here's a picture of my desk.
I made some poinsettias with a punch I bought before Christmas, I've got quilling on the go, I finished coloring a HM I had started before Christmas, and made some 3-D trees.
Eventually they will all go on something! Sometime!

I've also filled the furnace, scrubbed a bathroom, did the laundry, and dishes, (in the sink...I'll turn the dishwasher on later!), fed the birds, cats & dog, my supper in the slow cooker should be done, then I'm back in here to try this technique! Looks like fun!
http://scrapbookgirl.typepad.com/paper_scissors_and_superh/2012/11/chalkboard-art-meets-stamping.html

Hope you're all well!
Talk to ya later!
Ta ta for now!