Simply For Nicky...

Baby Girl....

So, last year I made wedding accessories for my niece Cortney, and today I attended a baby shower for her!  Here is the card I made.  One of my favorites! I love mono color cards!

I'm Back!

(Warning...this may be a looooong post!) You may have noticed that I have updated my blog banner and background recently and sidebars, etc., but that is about the extent of my blogging in a long, long time! Since last I posted (yes....7 months or so!) there has been alot going on!! I can't even begin to recap the last 7 months in detail as it has been soooooooo crazy!! Here are the bullets:

• we finished the "office" and immediately found out we had to move (after 16 years)
• youngest daughter got engaged!!!
• we moved
• took months to settle in
• I had foot surgery
• off work for 8 weeks
• we finished the "new office"
• I go back to work Monday :(
• I really didn't craft or otherwise create anything in almost all that time!
• now we have a wedding to plan (and pay for!)

So, the new office (what we now call the "Command Center") is finished and I will be posting pictures hopefully next week.  I was able to get some card making done just recently while I was off my feet. I can't post a couple of them until I give them to their recipients! Now that most of my stuff is now organized, I hope to make more stuff and blog more often!! Although it seems that all I do is organize, re-organize, buy more stuff and organize again.  This is probably why I have so much retired DSP paper!! I need to have a workshop or something and start selling stuff!!! (To support my SU! habit, if nothing else!)

Here are a couple of the cards & (and other stuff) I made! I hope you like them!!

I love this!!

I Like this one, too!

I made one for Mom, too!

A card sketch from "Papercrafts Card Makers" magazine

Under Construction!!

Well, we have finally (and I mean FINALLY!) almost finished the office (just need to paint).  Hubby and I now each have a space to work! (Of course, now that we've finished, our daughter decides to move out! Isn't that just my luck!? Well, we decided to make it a guest/kids room for the grandbabies.  It would now be too much work to make it my very own room!) So, I am slowly getting back into the groove.  I made a few things over Christmas and I just received a big box from Stampin' Up! today!  My goals are to slowly get back into it!  I will be slowly re-vamping my blog and maybe even coming up with a new one!  I am excited to start the New Year with new plans and goals!! Happy Creating!!

Wedding Accessories!

Well, I have finally finished my niece's wedding accessories!  I started making the basket and pillow a few weeks ago and although I was making some progress, it just wasn't coming together like I pictured.  I knew I wanted to incorporate flowers but I was stumped...until I ran across those cute felt flowers everyone is making with their Big Shot!  Inspiration struck and I finished them on Saturday.  I gave them to her on Sunday with 2 weeks to spare in case she didn't like them and she would have time to get others.  What do you think!