Author: dreamincolorvp

I am a wife, a mom, an engineer, and a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator in Arkansas.
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Easy Like Sunday Morning……..

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Although it was an early morning, it has been a great day. By 1:00 PM we had been to church, I had been to the gym, we had eaten and cleaned up lunch, laundry was started, and I was in my scrapbook space. Add to that, we have had a great weekend – basketball game, watching the Olympics, church, and Benjamin planning and cooking dinner last night.
Benjamin had to complete one of the final requirements for his Wolf Advancement for Cub Scouts. We had cheeseburgers and cheetos (see a theme here) for dinner. Dessert was Trix yogurt (he thought he would win the Grand Prize). he still thinks he will be the big winner off the marketing come-ons. Here is a shot of he and Mike cooking the burgers….

When we went to the grocery store yesterday, we tried tog et some groceries for the coming week. No Can Do. All we were there to get was ingredients for Benjamin’s dinner. It was all we could do to grab milk and get it home.
Storms this afternoon – but it is clearing to the west……hope Spring is on the way.
Virginia
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It started showing last night. I didn’t think much of it. Well, while I was in the shower getting ready for work this morning, Mike came in to tell me that schools were closed for the day. So, I decided to make the best of my extra day at home.

Here are three cards I made. I built on the theme of Cricut Card #1. I am still learning how to makethe cards (and how to post photos to the blog).

These were made with Wild Card and Home Decor.


Off to tame the grocery jungle….Got to get the Velveeta and Rotel, IT’S SNOWING!!!!!

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Cricut Card #1

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Well, I am finally in the production mode with my Cricut. My friend Jill does beautiful work with her own talent, inspiration, and Cricut. I am trying to learn from her. I am a slow learner. Her blog is DivaInPink’s Thoughts and Ideas.

This is my first completely Cricut card. Used the Wild Card Cartridge, and D1198 The Gift of Love. This is a sympathy card for one of my friends who lost her mother just before Christmas.

Jill – Thanks for the patience and the lessons…..

Virginia
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New Computer…..

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Working through the kinks of a new computer, new OS, and then resetting all of my stuff back the way I like it.  Hey, in the big picture, it isn’t that big a deal, but it sure is annoying.

The Christmas tree is in the house and has been almost completely fluffed.  Lights will go on tomorrow followed by the ornaments.  I know it seems early but we are ready to get into the holiday spirit around here.  Maybe I will post photos…..who knows??

Headed to Abundant Life to visit and then to a class at the Corner on Sunday – making an Advent calendar.  Should be cute.

Hope everyone is staying nice and dry tonight.  Glad we are not involved in High School football playoffs.

Later!

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Vacation Update!

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Here we are – Fort Walton is really nice this time of year. The weather has been in hte high 80s/low 90s. No rain since the little showers on Sunday.

We worried about B (and his not wanting to get into the big waters – there are animals in there!!). On Saturday night we bought a body boards (giant kick board). We didn’t even take it down on Sunday.

On Monday, the water was so calm – it was like a lake. We took the body board out as a family. We were one of about eight families in the immediate area. BP was talking big about the third grader wearing floaties…..I told him that was big talk coming from a boy on a body board that wouldn’t let his mom let go. With that: BP said, “Then Let Go!!!” He has not stopped since then.

This morning, I got up and had breakfast before 7:00. BP was already awake, playing Nintendo in his bed – such a vacation thing. Mike got up and started getting ready to go to the beach aroud 8:30. With that, I said something about going back to bed. I managed to get out of the bed aroud 10:30.

By the time I got to the water, this is what I found……

….followed by this…..

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New Slideshow

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Hi guys –

A couple of months ago I spent a weekend cropping with some friends. I love going to crops but I find I always, always, always take too much stuff with me. So, to combat that issue I decided to take a SINGLE project – albeit a biggie. I had promised a friend I would make an album of the cadid shots from her daughter’s wedding (11-08). I did this for the other daughter about a year ago.

Well, I traveled with very little that weekend and this is what I have to show for it. I used about 4-5 packs of cardstock from CTMH (Cocoa, Taffy, and Sweet Leaf, 5 loose sheets of the prettiest copper/bronze paper I have ever seen, and 1/2 – 1 pack of white and colonial cardstock).

I spent the first night random stamping paper. Then, I used a couple of the xx pages from 1 pack type layouts that are shared on the CTMH bulletin board.

By keeping the colors consistent and limiting the embellishments, this was a pretty fast project. Hope you enjoy!

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New Laptop

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Well, in the last eight hours I have purchased a new laptop and gotten almost everything back like I want it. Still working on getting one more piece of software authorized to the new machine and getting some files back where I can get to them.

We made pizza tonight for dinner. We used a premade pizza crust. Lightly brushed it with EVOO – baked in a 450 oven for 3 minutes. Then, topped it with fresh spinach, tomato/pesto mixture, proscuitto, and mozzarella cheese. YUM!!