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A few new pictures of our latest bundle.

I wish 4 months old would last forever! Such a sweet age!

Cards

I've been distracted with my Cricut. So much so that my sewing machine is getting a little dusty. I feel bad for my sewing machine, but I'm having so much fun with all the cool things the cricut can do. Maybe I should sit them together. Then they could hang out and look all crafty and useful. Or maybe I should just grow fifteen more arms so I could use them at the same time.
Anyway, I've been playing with the Paisley Cartridge a lot. LOVE the mushrooms and owls and cherries, but I really love the Card Feature. I've not made a lot of cards, but now I don't have an excuse since I finally figured out how to use this feature. It's not a traditional side opening card (or top-folding, for that matter) But it's a nifty little back opening kind of card that has a cut out in the front as a window.

This has puzzled me since I first went through the booklet that came with the cartridge. After all it's called a "card" so surely it must be able to be used as a "card", right? I found this link that helped explain a fun way to make this little card really work. And then this one that had something shaky shaky in the cut out section. SO I had to give it a go!

Using some bugle beads for the shaky shaky part and the queen's crown cutout card from Paisley I managed this for a special little birthday girl.

Taking advantage of the way this card closes, I did everything I could to the window part, then used the back as the new "front" and had the message of the card inside it. It took a while for me to figure out how to make sense of getting our message into the card but I think it came out well.

I know she'll love the shaky shaky part, and I'm sure that her mom will put it up before she reverse-engineers it to get the beads out!

Speaking of cards, OH MY GOODNESS, I have to try this now.

I love this so much I can't stand it! That tree is brilliant! I know I've seen a fence on one of my cartridges - maybe it's Paperdoll Dress UP. So all I need is the stamp, some polka dotted paper, a leaf punch, that Martha Stewart Deep punch and some thick thread! Or maybe I'll just win her giveaway!

Gmail/Google Help

So, I've moved, changed my email, and Google won't let me use my new email address (it's a gmail addy) for my blogger account. Anyone have any ideas how to work around that? Right now I've got it going to my yahoo account, but I just have that address for email lists and it rolls over to my gmail so that Outlook can pull it all up.

The idea of all the spam from the yahoo address coming through my Outlook makes me nauseated. I'm interested in hearing from anyone else who has already come up with a solution!

Swagbucks

I just added a swagbucks widget to the side - join me in getting swagbucks when you search, ok?

Coming soon!

Here's just a sneak peek of some neat little things that are on their way into my etsy shop!

Check back soon!!


Thanks for peeking!

Small town fun, AKA, we don't get out much around here

Have you heard of this guy, the man going across from Tennessee to Arizona in a mule-drawn wagon? Today we just happened to be coming home from the post office and Braum's when traffic in our little downtown slowed way down to yield to John McComsey and his two mules! How fun! The kids were so excited (which was good because they had been crabby after running errands all afternoon!) and we figured he just might keep going straight and go right by our house. Since we were not being drawn by horses we rushed home, threw the groceries in the fridge real quick, and my oldest pulled up his website so we could double check that it wasn't just a crazy kook and something worth getting excited about.


Sure enough, John McComsey isn't a kook :-), and is making his way slowly across the country to visit his sister and her husband in Arizona, and their daughter, his neice, who has Multiple Sclerosis. And he's apparently having a good time with it, too!


Anyway, it was a delight to see him drive past - his mules are so patient as the cars zipped around him (carefully, I hope!) We all went outside and waved - it was like our own private parade this afternoon! We wish you the best, Mr. McComsey! And safe travels and a happy reunion with your family!

Just a little new news

What? I haven't said it here? Oh, a thousand pardons. Here, is our special announcement, then.

We think there's something in the water. Ha!

A new little one to share our lives with is expected to make his or her appearance sometime late September 2009. That's good, because I don't have any birthday parties in September to plan for yet!

Baby number seven we can't wait to hold you in our arms! The Lord continues to pour out His blessings on us!