A Stamping We Will Go…

I received my new Just So Hippy stamp set in the mail yesterday. I won blog candy found here. Gina K. Designs (where you can purchase your very own set!) generously donated a stamp set of my choice so I orderd “Just So Hippy” designed by Melanie Muenchinger, you can find her blog here. I think [...]

Weight loss this week: 2 lbs
Southwestern-Stuffed Turkey Burgers (or chicken) (click on the title for recipe)
This was a yummy recipe I made Sunday night for dinner. I changed a couple of things, I used lean, ground chicken, I didn’t use any Miracle Whip (hate that stuff!) and we just had the burger by itself (no [...]

It’s still another brutally cold day here in Calgary - currently it is -31C (-23.8F) but with our 41 KM / hr winds right now it feels like -49C (-56.2F). I am so not looking forward to taking the kid’s to school today, I would just keep them home but my daughter has some stuff [...]

Well today I have been doing a wee little bit of scrapbooking.
Today in Calgary a cold, cold storm front is blowing in…right now we are experiencing 53 KM/hr winds (32 Miles / hr), even though we are sitting at -17C, with the windchill it feels like -32C (-25.6F) & we will be dipping down tonight [...]

I FINALLY altered these big letters that I bought probably 8 - 12 months ago, they were sitting in my container of stuff to do & I finally pulled them out a couple of days ago to get them done.
They take forever to do because you have to do everything in layers & than wait [...]

Remember those heart tins that I posted about early last week that I bought from Michael’s for $1.50? Well I finally got around to altering them thanks to Cheryl from God & I on the Railroad Tracks, she left a couple of messages wondering when I was going to finish them! so she pushed me [...]

You don’t even want to know how long it took me to make the first card! (far too long!), once I got the first one done it was a breeze though. I used Stampin’ Up!’s new Scallop Notes, they are SWEET! Cupcake stamp is from Michael’s for $1.50 and I used Basic Grey’s new paper…Two [...]

Weight gain this week: 1.2 lbs (not sure what happened this week, I can pinpoint it to a couple of things, I only got the chance to workout 3 times this week instead of my usual 4-5 days, I had maybe 2 battles with portion control, & I was not feeling great for about 3 days but, other [...]

We made this card at my Monday night workshop. I thought I was kinda smart to use the hearts & than stamp the saying “Heartfelt” on the front & inside I stamped “Thanks.” Tutorial can be found here.

We made this card last night for my regular workshop gals! You can’t really see the “faux silk” in this pic, IRL it’s better! Tutorial can be found here.