Convention In The Air

Soon we are off to the Stampin' Up Covnention.  Needless to say I am probably entering too many swaps.  There is the 3x3 swap, then another one, next comes the 6+1 regular full card and I am doing that two times.  One swap will be 25/25 also regular full card and that entails twenty-five finished cards and 25 pre-packed sets ready to assemble.  Whew!  Also, we have the 75 + 1 swap again, regular size cards, and oh yes, one "fancy as you want" swap, a great cd swap by my friend Virginia Killmore, and finally the extra swaps that I just want to swap.  I have heard some people manage 400 samples to swap.  Aaaaaaa, I don't think so although I would LOVE to have 400 samples for ideas for the coming year.

I am all set, I have my papers, inks, assessories and stamps for 2011 Convention.  HooRay, HooRay, HooRay.  All I need to do now is start making cards.  I promise to start really, really, really soon. 

Gee, am I ever behind--so far behind, I think I am ahead

Where oh where does the time go.  Here we are already past Mother's Day.  My Mom was 94 this year.  It was her sister who is 102 in March.  All of her siblings, and I mean all of them have been fortunate to live into their high 90's or early hundreds.  She says that her father made sure they had lots of fresh fruit when they were children and not to mention the fact they lived in the country and grew their own food, raised their own milk and meat.  Hmmmm!  Does that make anyone wonder why all the preservatives we use today causes issues perhaps?  

I have been busy trying to preserve my sanity as I prepare for several different cards to take to Convention in Salt Lake City.  Oh, lucky me, I get to go.  I am soooooo excited.  Shortly I will post my latest cards on my blog here for you to see and hope that you will enjoy them.  As for the cards for Salt Lake, not showing those till I'm on my way to SLC so it will be a surprise for all.  :)

Again, thanks for looking and enjoy your Spring weather.  We had snow on Mother's Day.  A first that I can remember where I live in upstate New York, when I am not overseas with my hubby. 

102 years young

 

Today my Aunt was 102 years young.  Below is the card I made for her special day.  The scallop circle has multiple wishes although they do not show the layers in the scan.  Oh well.  Inside the card there are lots of vellum butterflies.

rain today

Well, I guess that beats snow right?
  I have to wonder where my photo has gone.  Maybe I should put up Fred the basset in the meantime.  He sure requires lots of attention and keeps me too busy to do my SU projects.  LOL.  Oh well.  When I take a decent photo of him I will upload.  Working with him as my son and daughter-in-law don't have the time and before he becomes too obnoxious I am hoping I can teach him manners.  The vet calls him "willfull" do you think that means anything?

my regional swap

Finally--- I have uploaded the photo of my regional swap card that I have swapped with about 40 other people to date.  Hope that you find this as an incentive.  The challenge of making a ribbon rose was my goal for this swap.  I made about two hundred little flowers, sometimes I wonder what I was thinking.  I guess this year I will be making many cards with lots of little ribbon flowers.  ha, ha.

Sorry to say if you don't know by now but the Regional Convention with Stampin' Up didn't happen due to snow, snow, and more snow.   Maybe next year in a more reasonable seasonable month such as May perhaps when chances of snow are not so possible. 

Finished SU swap items

Swap items ready!  Yea for me!  Okay all we need now is NO SNOW for Friday and Saturday and everything will be 100% perfect.  Right?

I will try and scan a photo of my sway item and post it on the demo SU site before Friday.

Looking forward to meeting many new friends.