A Stamping We Will Go…

My daughter made this for her Grandma (My Mom) all by herself for her birthday (which was the 2nd, but we were away) with shells from our trip to California…they were from our day trip to Huntington Beach.
Lots and lots of glue! but hey, it worked!

My daughter loves mint…so I saw Nestle’s Mint Chocolate Chips at Co-op the other day and found a recipe, she loves them ALOT!

 
Yesterday we spent the day at Calaway Park, it was Westjet’s Family Day, this was our first time there in the 10 years that we have lived in Calgary, so all 4 of us got in for $20 and we got a BBQ dinner, so it was a heck of a deal (it’s quite expensive [...]

Pop Up Card
Tutorial can be found at Dawn’s Stamping Thoughts
The nice thing about this card is you can “squish” it flat so you can mail it in a standard size envelope as long as the pop up part is down far enough. I love these colors together…Wild Wasabi & Purely Pomegranate, I think I will [...]

I mean a really, really good heartfelt laugh…than check out this woman’s blog her writing is just amazing and sooo darn funny and honest!
This Ebay auction is what actually started it all! Scroll down and read the description and her reasoning.

by James Frey

A Million Little Pieces is a great book, it is very graphic, raw, no holds bar, reading this book I felt like I was right there with the Author experiencing his 6 week stint in rehab.
James Frey appeared on Oprah, his book was picked for Oprah’s “Book Club”. After he appeared on Oprah there was some controversary [...]

for my daughter. I bought these for her yesterday, the colors are so vibrant and bright, these flowers were also my Grandma’s favorite flowers so they are special.
If you live in Calgary you can pick up some at Superstore for $3.99 a bunch (5 in a bunch) or 2 bunches (so 10 of them) for $5 [...]

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Shrimp Linguine
This was yummy, we devoured it, no leftovers tonight!
Some people have added red peppers to it, or some red hot chili peppers for a kick, I think snap peas, sugar peas would be yummy too. I added some Parmesan on the top of it, every pasta dish is better with a bit of Parmesan!
Have [...]

Well I’ve committed to Scrapbooking ONLY now instead of cards, I have so many darn cards and I’m sooo FAR BEHIND on scrapbooking so I must scrapbook!
This layout took me 2 months to do…geez, at this rate I’ll never get ahead! The reason why it took me so long is because I needed 1 piece [...]