Random Facts ABout Me

Caught this from a few other blogs. Try it yourself, it's fun! The lines in color are things that I have done throughout my long, lovely life:
1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland/world
8. Climbed a mountain -
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors (Germany)
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language (just not fluently)
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied (is this a trick question?)
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business - (teaching CPR)
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Gotten flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check -
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy-my chimp, Zippy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt.
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job – (my first, I was 15)
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life – (neighbor was choking, did the Heimlich).
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous-Steve Sanderson, WGN News
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee

Made a New Album

This is my first attempt at making one of those albums that spell out a word. If you can make out the word, leave me a comment on what it is and if there are more than one comments, I'll randomly choose one to receive this album with a baggie of related embellies. Just testing the waters here as far as Blog Candy and such goes. PLUS, I've always wanted to make a word album and I think it's good but if no one lese agrees, I'm shutting my mouth and just purchasing them from now on. So let me know...

New Cards

Finally got enough time alone and at home to clean a space off my table and do some creating. After packaging up some PIFs and a giftie for my Bella Sistah, I sat me down with a stamped image of (I think) LuckyBella. I colored with Copics, glammed it up a bit with Liquid Glass and Stickles, and layered onto some colred chipboard and patterned paper. I used a decorative scissors and a corner punch, and finally layered a few primas and flowers.

I have more LuckyBellas, and St. Pat's Day is on its way, so I think I'll play around with the design and come up with a few more cards.

My girlfriend and her family came over for their New Year's Dinner at our house. We made BBQ ribs and garlic bread and corn on the cobs and had a wonderful supper.

Their son is one year older and a foot taller than my daughter (who is no pipsqueak herself). They used to play like cousins who see a good deal of each other, but that was when they were so much younger. Now they're 13 and 14 and shy and awkward with each other. I was concerned that Michael would feel left out since Wendy had a friend over for a sleepover. Not to worry, between the Wii and the computer, it took all of 15 minutes for them to be exchanging cell phone numbers!!

My bff, Janie, gave me back the stamping supplies I tried to start her out on. She just never got into it (can't understand that!!!). One of the items was the Kanji set from SU. There were two of the four stamps not even mounted yet! So in appreciation to her returning said items, I made a small note card set for her, using the stamps.

That's five more items made in 2009, and no new supplies used, just the stash I had on hand. I'm also getting projects ready to scrap at the end of the month. Got pics for three new pages ready along with paper and embellies. I also need to work on a card kit swap while I'm there. I'm glad I work at a school, I have tomorrow off! Maybe I'll clean off my desk from the work I did today!

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It's all about the Sock Monkey!! go check it out and leave a comment!

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Bella's Second Year Album

I had so many pics of my beautiful Bella that I just had to do a page with all the extras to start her Second Year Album off.

I used leftover alpha stickers, and some flourish diecuts I had made last year from the QUikKutz Revolution, in keeping with the stash bash rules.







Her album really starts with her First Birthday party. The large-ish photo in the right corner of the first page is actually the invitation I sent to guests, with the caption "I'll Be Looking for You...at my first birthday party. I have so many more pics of the party, at least four more of her eating her bday cake. I might have to re-do the page and put the two pics of her and her cake onto a folder mat, so that I can open it and place the other photos hidden inside.


I was so busy this Christmas I ended up not taking as many pics as I usually do of all the Christmas festivities! But these pics show her off the best, and now her album is up-to-date and ready for her next visit (hopefully soon).

More Bellas

Here are more ATCs for a Bella ATC swap I'm in. I have two more to make to complete this swap. I really like how the Chocolate Mountain ATC turned out.

The TinkerBella ATCs all have just a slight difference in each, from an outline color to some background mulberry. I don't have any of these three Bella stamps myself, I've just been lucky enough to receive stamped images of them from my Bella friends.

New Bellas

I worked all day long making ATCs for a swap on Yahoo LuckyBug Group, and then rediscovered that they had to be Bellas!!
SO I continued to work hard all day and here are a couple ATCs that I made.
The first is I think PresentaBella. The full stamped image is of her on top of a tall present. I colored her with copics, outlined her, gave her shine with CTMH Liquid Glass and my glitter gel pen, then cut the present out from under her!! Oopsie!!
The chocolate bars I cut from a 12x12 piece of patterned paper. To give the ATC dimension, I used pop dots at the top of the chocolate mountain, as well as Bella, too. Of course I had to add just a little more bling with the jewel in the corner!

Here's a couple ATCs of TinkerBella. Again, I colored her with copics, used Liquid Glass and the tiniest of clear jewels on her skirt.

I need to make ten Bella ATCs, and I already have four more cut, colored and ready to put together.

The ATCs I made earlier that weren't Bella? I'm in a Mini-Card Swap, so I'll just make them into cards and use them. I'll put them on the blog later.