These are all of my parents grandsons.
It is hard to believe that Travis was just 4 years old when I first met him and Kenny.
Time flies when you aren't paying attention!
Mark and Travis, two peas in a pod... but more trouble! LOL!Take care
This is a new toy that I haven't had a chance to mess with yet. It stinks to be a grown up somedays when all you want to do is stay home and play, but you have to go to work! LOL!
Another page from my CMC's last crop. This one with some really cute and bright stickers and paper choices. They would even be cute for a young girl page. The orange paper is an older one of CM, it is actually an orange with tiny white polka dots on it. The cardstock is called raspberry. I used the new petals punch on this page too. It punches out little petals and it also does fancy corners. My CMC sold completely out of her first order that evening. I am sorry it didn't photograph better. I have been having some issues with my camera the past week or so, not so sure what is going on, but is has been a really great little camera for over 5 years now. I do look at new cameras off and on, but don't consider really researching to buy, since I really don't NEED a new one. There is a little part of me that would love to splurge and get a great new camera, but I have become attached to my trusty old Kodak. (Plus I just got really good at using all of the features and would have to learn a new camera, not feeling so motivated to do that!) 
Let me tell you that it took me all day today to recover from the picnic yesterday! Slept in, didn't get out of my jammies all day! Dear Lord, the food we ate... 100 pieces of my Dad's Chicken BBQ, 25 pounds of Uncle Lumps BBQ Ribs, burgers, hotdogs, baked beans, macaroni salad, potato salad, pasta salad, augratin potatoes, grilled summer veggies, keilbasa, spicy sweet and sour smokies, pizza casserole, spinach dip, buffalo chicken dip, beef cheese ball, and then there were the desserts...Frozen Oreo dessert, jello cake, cupcakes, rice krispie treats, cream puff cake, banana cream pie, Oreo whip, cheesecake..... Can you tell why I needed the whole day to recover????
Pray for nice weather for us tomorrow, we are going to Idlewild! NO RAIN!!!
This is one of the pages I made for my CMC's crop last Friday. We were celebrating the decades with goodies from the 40's and 60's. All papers and stickers are CM. The Quote stamp is the SM Star Spangled Banner(M4459) and is from Stampington & Company and it says copyright 1996, so I am not sure that it is still available. It is one of my favorite stamps. All of those delicate little star frames were cut using the Cuttlebug nested star die. I was so pleased with how this page turned out and the ladies at the crop just loved it too. It was so cool to hear them talk about the photos they were planning to use on the page... husbands in their uniforms, old army pictures of Dads from years ago, July 4th pictures that haven't even been taken yet. 
It is really a mini-tote, but I am using it for a purse. Too CUTE! The surprise part is that it is from Creative Memories! Free gift with purchase of their Little Boy or Little Girl album kit bundle. 
Sorry about not being so bloggy this past week. It was such a busy crazy week! I worked daylight all week, which was quite the challenge for me who usually works later in the day and gets to sleep in. The alarm clock is lucky it survived a week of 6:30 AM wake up calls. From work it was straight to Vacation Bible School for 3 hours, where I am the crafty lady. We had a pretty good week there. Our theme was a Fiesta! We made shakers to use when the kids were singing, painted flower pots and planted seeds in them, made bird feeders from 1 liter bottles and wooden spoons, and of course a VBS tradition--photo magnets for on the refrigerator. We had about 20 kids, which is pretty good for our little church.*******
So, I have all these pics saved for blog posts and I promise to do much better this week!
Take care!
A page I did a while back, just getting around to sharing it with you all. I still need to journal on it, but sometimes it is hard to find the right words. It is for Melanie's graduation book. Still plugging along at it. Here is a Mel newsflash! She is now a licensed driver, the proud owner of a PA Jr Driver's License... I haven't experienced being a passenger with her yet, can't wait for the opportunity!
Last week when I was having the really bad couple of days at work Kenny and Travis came to pick me up after a particularly horrible day. Kenny asked if I needed to do some shopping after work, and even though there was a ton of stuff that we needed I told him that I wasn't staying at the store one minute longer than I had to, so no shopping that night, I was going home. Travis at that point informed me that he had just the thing to cheer me up... They had gone for wings for dinner before coming for me and while they were waiting he played the claw machine until he won the above pictured just for me. He told me knew I would just love it, since it was purple....Um, Ok. Sooooo anywho, I named her Violet, and she is sitting on my scrap-desk to keep me company and remind me that a very special little guy spent more quarters than she is worth with the thought of making me happy, and you know what, every time I look at her she makes me smile! Great kid! 
Picked this new stamp up last week on our little field trip to Art Tech. I have wanted an outline stamp for a very long time, but I was looking for a rather "generic" one that I could use for anytime of the year. I would always find ones that were kind of theme-y, like Christmas or autumn. I was so happy to find this little gem and it was under $10! WOOHHHOOO! 
Made this wedding cake last night/today for a good friend from work. Wishing Lois and Robert many years of happiness! They had one of the nicest wedding receptions I have been to in a long time. All delicious homemade (by family) traditional Pennsylvania wedding food... pigs in the blanket, chicken, ham, rigatoni, corn, parsley potatoes, rolls, salad, wedding cake and TONS of cookies. Lois looked so pretty and I am very happy for her and Robert! I also have to say that they were very nice to each other when they cut the cake. It is so hard to watch couples smash the cake that you worked for two days to make. I just hate to see the bride's hair and make up get all messed up. Enough rambling of the cake decorator. Thanks to them for being so nice to each other. 
Wedding cake days are so busy. I am glad that we are strictly a friends and family operation because I could not do this every weekend. Thank goodness, too that it is me and Mom working together to do this, wouldn't do it alone! Fresh cake is the best, one of the things that we always tell people is that their cake is fresh, never frozen, and rarely more than 24 hours old. This was my first "beach" theme cake and I was quite pleased with how it turned out. 
A graduation card, my first attempt at a tent topper card. Not bad. I love that scallops are back "in." I have several scalloped edge punches that I used for doing spirelli so I am glad to be able to use them for another purpose!
Travis seems to have adjusted to country life very quickly this summer. He is having a great time with the baby goats. These are some pictures of feeding time. All of three pregnant does have given birth and the final count is 7 baby goats total. (4 bucks, 3 does.... 2 sets of twins and 1 set of triplets.) 
Trav was quite proud of himself, he was the first to find one of the babies after it was born. We are bottle feeding them, which is alot of work, but they are so much tamer when you do that. 
Trav also got his first pair of barn boots (black rubber boots) that you wear only to the barn, and never never ever bring into the house. You take them off on the porch and they stay outside. Like most of his other boy stuff they are covered in mud and manure..how pleasant! LOL!!
New Papers!
Wow! What a great day I had yesterday! I spent the day with some wonderful ladies making cards, having lunch and scrapbook shopping.
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We started the day at Art Tech in Greensburg where we made the two cards in the first picture. The Dad card was made using Perfect Pearls to make a faux hammered metal look embellishment. Let me tell you, making faux metal is fun! We glued, inked, powdered, brushed, watered, and pounded the crap out of those letters! The card on the end is my friend Sharon's (AKA BS#2), she and some of the other ladies made seashells on their card fronts instead of letters and wow did they come out super nice! Although they have been around for a while, perfect pearls are a great new product/technique for me! I have wanted to learn how to use them for a long time and now I know!
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The second card in that photo is a neat paper weaving technique that is great for using up scraps! Gotta love that, who doesn't have a ton of those? It also uses the "leftovers" from a die cut as well! Bonus!! I like the cute quilty look of it as well. After I got it home here I added some glittery pen stitching to it and I think I may add a ribbon as well. It is definitely a card that I will make again.
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Thanks Luan, our teacher and Celelia, the store owner. We had a great time!
Art Tech Supplies, Inc. is located at 135 S. Pennsylvania Ave. Greensburgh, Pa
(724)-832-1770
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Deanna, Sharon, Mary Agnes, Joan and Jean and Mickey and I had a delicious lunch at a little diner two doors away from Art Tech. I can't remember the name of the place unfortunately. I had the Hawaiian Ham sammie, thin sliced grilled ham, with melted provolone and a pineapple slice on grilled sourdough with honey mustard. The food was yummy and inexpensive and the company was very good as well! After refueling or bodies and resting up a bit, we were off to do some more scrapbook shopping.
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Next on the list was the Crop Shop, a new scrapbook store in Greensburg, located near the new Sam's Club. I encourage you to check out their website. The store is brand new, beautiful and has lots of new product. I like how it is organized by theme. They have a quite impressive class/crop area with many die cutting tools and a Cricut! I will be going back to shop some more I am sure, since they have 4-H theme product and some other goodies that I am interested in!
Snowball above (obviously!) and Magic below are two baby goats born on Monday at my Dad and Mom's 4-H project farm. They were named by my nephew Tyler who is 3. Naming them is always interesting, the last two were named Bo and Luke. Go figure! We have a couple more pregnant mama goats and hopefully we will get some baby girl goats from them. 
We also call Magic Tiny and Peanut since he is only half the size of Snowball. 
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