Easter cards done *check*

• SEI patterned paper
• Barely Banana, Positively Pink, Tempting Turquoise, and white CS
• Flopsy's got an Egg stamp (ECG)
• Karen Foster 1/8 inch snap stamps
• Cuttlebug Swirls EF
• Marvy Mega scallop oval punch
• Word Window punch
• Prismacolors and gamsol
• ribbon, piercing tool, and pop dots

All the cards measure 4 1/4 x 4 1/4. I'm not one for repetition when it comes to cards but It's a little hard to finish them when this is what you see outside.....


Hey momma, I'm dwelling on the good and lovely, really, I am!

I also have to make some chocolate covered marshmallows tonight for our Kingery side Easter that we are having tomorrow. I love making these things! The kids love to eat them too, and even the adults! They are super easy to make and I'll post a pic later of the ones that I finish.

All you do is buy a bag of the big marshmallows, stick a small pretzel stick into the top, swish (yes, I know, such a fancy word) it around in the chocolate, and cover it with whatever you want. My favorites are the ones covered in toffee pieces! They are so yummy! I am sticking with white chocolate and Easter colored sprinkles this time around though! Fast and easy!

I also have other food to make but that stuff isn't nearly as fun!

I did, however, get all the kids' Easter basket stuff done this morning. We are going pretty minimal on it this year. Mostly just candy that Joe and I can steal and eat! {wink} A few other small things though like jump ropes for Ava and Jolee. They keep seeing the Jump In advertisement on Disney channel and new they try to jump rope with anything they think might be long enough. Most of it isn't, so I hope this cures that!

I guess I'll be back later to post pics of my marshmallows, that is unless they look ugly. Don't wait up for me! {wink}

We've got the yuckies!

I really thought we could avoid the 'bugs' that are going around (and not the Cuttlebug kind unfortunately) but as of yesterday, they have hit us too. Clinton carried a fever for most of the day yesterday and was completely attached to my hip or lap the entire time! Ava wasn't hungry at dinner so I felt her head and she had a temp too. I put her in bed around 9:00 pm and at about 9:15 she was calling for me because she threw up in her bed. {sigh} I had to strip her down and give her a quick bath. About the time we got done with the bath Clinton woke up and started crying for me and it was back and forth like that all night. Today they are both still clingy and now I am starting to hurt all over. I CANNOT get sick! I don't have time and if I'm sick who will take care of the kids? Can't happen. So, I am rebuking it! Can I hear an Amen!?

Alright, moving on. I finally got this card put together. I had made a piece here and a piece there but it kept getting set to the side.

It's alright. Not my favorite. I like the trees (although I think I need to sponge some blue for the sky) and the paper but I don't know about the whole layout. Oh well, someone in my family will appreciate it!

• Trees Three, All the Best {grass}, Riveting stamp sets (SU)
• Karen Foster 1/8 inch snap stamps
• Paper Studio patterned paper
• Cuttlebug slide die
• Slit punch (SU)
• Aloe Vera and Pixie Dust Versamagic chalk ink, Close to Cocoa classic ink
• ribbon
• pop dots

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If you haven't checked out Gina K's blog yet, you better get over there! She is giving away BIG prizes until April 1st when she (along with Erika Martin) will be announcing something great!

Also, Nicole Heady will be unveiling her new stamp set on April 1st!

These people better not be tring to pull any fast ones on April Fools day!! {wink}

Changed my watermark.....again!

I think I finally found the one I like. I like the font and it's just the right transparency (for me) so I think this will be my primary wm. Although, if you haven't checked out Mama Dini's you really really need to! Her watermarks are beautiful and the price is even better! Right around $3!

• Flopsy's got an Egg stamp (Eat Cake Graphics)
• Karen Foster 1/8 inch snap stamps
• Cuttlebug Swirls embossing folder
• Marvy Mega scallop oval punch
• American Crafts patterned paper
• Cool Caribbean CS and ink
• Word Window punch
• silk ribbon

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Just wanted to share our first Spring picture! I am always so anxious to get out and get pictures of the kids when it finally gets warm enough! I love taking pics and I think they get really sick of me saying "hold on, let me get my camera!" It's usually followed in an "ugh" sound but then again I have daughters that love to be in the spotlight so sometimes it's followed with "let me get my crown" or "is my hair okay?" I wonder where they got THAT from!



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Well, I think I have a future photographer on my hands! Jolee is always wanting to take pictures. And when I say always, I mean every day. She has a 35mm camera that takes pretty junky pictures so I decided that I will let her start using our digital camera. I have to be beside her (unless I'm in the pic) and she has to make sure she wraps the cord around her wrist before she does anything else. I really honestly think she is a natural. She took a picture of Ava yesterday and she was like "stand over here, put your hands there, smile pretty but not too big". I swear she was a little me! Here are a few that she took yesterday. I'm teaching her how she needs to make sure she holds her arms still and how to use little tricks to be able to.

She had to take a picture of the worm we found under one of our stones.


And of course she had to take a picture of the first flower of spring!

Watercolor woman!

I am absolutely LOVING my aquapainters!!! If you don't own these yet, you NEED them! I have been quite an enabler lately haven't I? Sorry about that! Really though, they make things go soooo much smoother and there is no dipping it into water over and over. Go call your SU demo and buy them now!

Alright, now onto the cards. I absolutely love this image from Eat Cake Graphics! This stamp is called 'Flopsy's got an egg' and the smirk on his face just kills me!

• American Crafts paper
• Flopsy's got an egg stamp (ECG)
• TAC word (unknown set)
• Word Window punch
• re-inkers and aquapainters
• ric rac
• brads
• pop dots
  

• Gerbera Daisy (TAC)
• Happy Harmony (SU)
• Paisley Backgrounder (Cornish Heritage Farms)
• re-inkers and aquapainters
• egde distresser
• RABOM ribbon

I went outside of the lines a little with this one but I really think that with watercolors it doesn't look so bad when you do.

I keep adding to the blog candy pile! It's getting big!!!!!! I think you guys will like it! I am going to make you earn it this time though. If you know me by now you know how I love humor........