Time Well Spent

I have been procrastinating and doing everything but get ready for Thanksgiving tomorrow. I'm just not in the mood to cook so I decided to stamp!

I just had to do something with the new stamp set that i received from SU! I'm usually not into all the doodle stuff, but i'm liking this set, and after playing with it a little more i may even come to love this set! who knows. i decided to try using the flower and making it a little Christmasie. I used cranberry crisp, truely thyme, cool caribean, and white paper. The DP is from SU, now retired. I used the SU markers and dressed it up with some May Arts Polka Dot Sheer Ribbon. it's growing on me.

By the way, you may have noticed that i added a few things to my blog. I wanted to see what the top spot was all about and added it to see where i am ranked in the blogging world. I am now at 502! LOL! How funny is that! And after visiting some other blogs I decided to add some music. I'm still figuring that one out. I don't know how to get the music to just play without clicking on it...but while your reading this you might enjoy what i have on my playlist.

Have a Wonderful Thanksgiving....now I really should get into the kitchen and start preparing.

The Birthday Invitation

Here's the update about the birthday invitations that i have been making. On Monday, as my sister in laws and I were making Chiccuciadada's ( the spelling isn't even close...they are Sicilian Fig Cookies) my one sister in law starts talking about her mom, and her birthday is coming up, and she needed to think about invitations...well , i just jumped right in and said, " I'll make them! How many do you need?!" and she said, "oh, about 25" and i said ok, i can do that. and she said, but i need to mail them out by Friday! and i swallowed hard. OK...I can still do this. (I just love her mother, and Paula is not just my sister in law, she's more like a real sister, ykwim?) Paula told me that her mother's favorite color is peach. So after making cookies all morning I drove home and started to think about what i could do. I wanted to make a pretty card, but they couldn't be too involved cause i didn't have alot of time to do them. (We live an hour away from each other, and my sil has 2 yr old twins so you can imagine what the schedules are like!) Peach kept ringing in my head. What does SU have that is peachy? Ahhh, Apricot Appeal. So I started cutting up paper for 26 cards, started stamping toille blossoms with groovy guava, started layering, cuttlebugged, glued, sponged and tied ribbon, and about 10- 12 hours later they were all done! My sil came over yesterday and with the twins and picked them up. She loved them...I hope her mom likes them. And Paula, if you read this....Hugs and Kisses. I love you!