Well, I am back in the wonderful USA. Apparently I don't know how to walk though as I tripped down four steps, fell like a lump and thinking I twisted my ankle I continued to limp for a few days. How wrong I was. It is broken. Good thing I was visiting my sister who insisted I have it checked. Yep, it is broken so now I have a cast for the next 6 to 8 weeks. lol But as it is a walking cast, I don't think it will slow me down too much. ha, ha.
So, I have my stampin up goodies to color and cut out to keep me busy and new designs to think of.
That is all for now
Friday, February 18, 2011
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Amazing Children
Let me begin by saying I have visited throughout the years, many, many schools in this country. As a matter of fact, right next door to our complex is a grade school and a high school. It is funny to hear the little guys singing "I'm a Little Tea Pot" song in Mandarin outside during exercise class. Yes, these children go outside to exercise and to play. It helps to burn off some of that daily energy they expand while being couped up inside during classes. Here in China, the children have a couple outside play periods each day. Hmmmm, wonder if that would be a good thought to return to in US schools. Some fresh air.
These school trips have always been a rewarding experience but this past Sunday was a little different.
I went on a trip Sunday to visit a China children's middle school (compare to a high school in the US). The students are a funded project for the last eight years by the Beijing Rotary Club in an outlying village about a two hour drive from Beijing. Sunday I met 25 of these young students. What an experience and as we talked with them about their goals and objectives we learned something of their family struggles. You have no idea about struggles if you live in the USA, trust me. It was interesting to here time after time that the student felt his/her grades were poor. These young people are diligent and maintain high grades A's and lowest is a B, certainly nothing to be ashamed of in my opinion. One student said how the mother had died, the father could not afford to maintain the student and the students sister, so the sister was given away. That is only ONE of the heart-rendering stories. The staff and major of the village were surprised that the student's discussed their hardships with us. I was also. They are so grateful for the support they are receiving that doing anything to provide them with an education is rewarding just to see their smiles and their hopefulness for their futures.
Needless to say, they sent along thank you cards for all the help they have received throughout these eight years to the members of the club. This week I am privileged to make for each of these students and donate a handmade card encouraging them to continue with their endeavors. It is my great joy in making these cards that in turn will be given with a personal note written to each student by an individual Rotarian. What fun this is and I am glad before I return to the USA, to do this. I have already finished five cards and only twenty more to go. I have all week. This is so much fun. Bye for now.
These school trips have always been a rewarding experience but this past Sunday was a little different.
I went on a trip Sunday to visit a China children's middle school (compare to a high school in the US). The students are a funded project for the last eight years by the Beijing Rotary Club in an outlying village about a two hour drive from Beijing. Sunday I met 25 of these young students. What an experience and as we talked with them about their goals and objectives we learned something of their family struggles. You have no idea about struggles if you live in the USA, trust me. It was interesting to here time after time that the student felt his/her grades were poor. These young people are diligent and maintain high grades A's and lowest is a B, certainly nothing to be ashamed of in my opinion. One student said how the mother had died, the father could not afford to maintain the student and the students sister, so the sister was given away. That is only ONE of the heart-rendering stories. The staff and major of the village were surprised that the student's discussed their hardships with us. I was also. They are so grateful for the support they are receiving that doing anything to provide them with an education is rewarding just to see their smiles and their hopefulness for their futures.
Needless to say, they sent along thank you cards for all the help they have received throughout these eight years to the members of the club. This week I am privileged to make for each of these students and donate a handmade card encouraging them to continue with their endeavors. It is my great joy in making these cards that in turn will be given with a personal note written to each student by an individual Rotarian. What fun this is and I am glad before I return to the USA, to do this. I have already finished five cards and only twenty more to go. I have all week. This is so much fun. Bye for now.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
2011 IT IS HERE READY OR NOT ! ! !
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL YOU WONDERFUL FRIENDS AND FAMILY
I realize as we grow older time flies but goodness, so quickly did the last year pass. I am looking forward to many exciting SU projects this coming year and hopefully you are as excited as I am. Soon the new Spring Mini catalog will be available and there are so many goodies it is hard for me to make up my mind. I want them all naturally. So many options, it will be difficult to decide. The papers are scrumpious, the new ribbon roses I am so happy to see, as now I do not have to spend time making my own. These are dyable also, so you can make whatever your little heart desires for color. Oh my!
My favorite flowers are roses, so with these beautiful new papers to use with the ribbon roses, I am excited to get started. Can't wait to arrive back in the States to start making goodies and, yes, I have already placed my order/s. Could not wait for the sales to begin either, so guess when it starts January 27, I will have to order MORE !!! LROTF
I realize as we grow older time flies but goodness, so quickly did the last year pass. I am looking forward to many exciting SU projects this coming year and hopefully you are as excited as I am. Soon the new Spring Mini catalog will be available and there are so many goodies it is hard for me to make up my mind. I want them all naturally. So many options, it will be difficult to decide. The papers are scrumpious, the new ribbon roses I am so happy to see, as now I do not have to spend time making my own. These are dyable also, so you can make whatever your little heart desires for color. Oh my!
My favorite flowers are roses, so with these beautiful new papers to use with the ribbon roses, I am excited to get started. Can't wait to arrive back in the States to start making goodies and, yes, I have already placed my order/s. Could not wait for the sales to begin either, so guess when it starts January 27, I will have to order MORE !!! LROTF
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Are You Ready for 2011?
Happy New Year, Almost
and the DIRECTIONS FOR 13TH BIRTHDAY SURPRISE BOX :)
I'm now in the process of packing and getting ready to leave Beijing by February and then head home to the good ole USA. Having dragged all my SU goodies with me, I now have to take them home. LOL First I have a stop to go to in Hong Kong for New Year's holiday with my hubby. He is doing some business there, so lucky me, I get to go along. Yea!! Naturally, what grammy doesn't shop for her grands. My husband thinks I could skip it, but I don't think so. LOL
The weather here is really cold now but I'm sure not as cold as is upstate New York! Yikes. My grands have kept me informed as to how much snow they have. Too much for me as we have no snow here in Beijing. My only grand daughter has a birthday Friday, the last day of the year. Just think forever, she will have lights andcelebrations on her birthday. I made her a special card for her first teenage year. So here goes, keeping my fingers crossed. Wow! I did it! I hope she likes it. Unfortunately she will not have it by Friday. She actually will be lucky to get it my Spring, since through miscommunications it was not sent swiftly should I say. Rats! Do men really hear us I wonder sometimes.
DIRECTIONS FOR 13TH BIRTHDAY SURPRISE BOX :)
I have been asked the directions for this. Mine is custom made with lots of readjustments that perhaps others don't want to go through, but out there somewhere on SU and splitcoast there are instructions on surprise boxes. That is how I found mine, I just didn't save a link--sorry.
I will do my best to rely what I did however.
I cut out first a 8.5 in square of cardstock as it has to be sturdy, then I scored the width of each panel to 2.5 or 3 inches, whatever fits the 8.5 square. Next I cut out the corners, scored the edges for folding and viola, there is the basic box without the lid.
2. Add as many panel insets both on the front and the inside as you want. I did incriments of three both inside and out, with embossing on the white panels. I glued everything with my hot glue gun as I wanted this puppy to stay together for shipping.
3. I then punched out leaves for each flower, then out of various dsp I punched flowers with eight layers together, held by a brad. I used my Big Shot to do the flowers using several dsp paper layers at one time to go faster. Now curl the flowers or scrunch each set up so it gathers. Attach each braded flower cluster to a clear heavy acrylic stem and insert the scored tab through a slit you have made for each insert through the three layers you will be glueing to the bottom of the box. (Each stem is pushed through the three layers then it will be hot glued to the inside bottom of the box). You need three layers to firmly hold the flower stems and grass you will be cutting out. Measure your stems to make sure they are not too tall to fit inside the box. That is the mistake I did and had to do the flowers and box over. Yuk. That is then hot glued to the bottom of the box. The 3 panels on the bottom give the flowers strength to stand vertical of course along with the plastic acrylic stem covered with glued on green paper grass. Looks like a flower bed doesn't it?
Make any type of card insert, attach to a clear acrylic post and there you have it. I know I keep repeating myself about the stems but it is very important they can stand by themselves. One slit for each inserted item. I cut my slits at angles so they all would fit, afterall, I had to make thirteen blossoms remember. Perhaps you will not need as many layers.
I had colored the butterfly that I meticuleously cut out by had AFTER I COLORED IT!!! I did several as the antenna somehow didn't quite make it on the first couple. Be sure to use sharp, sharp sizzors my friends otherwise, well, you know.
THE LID:
Cut 1/4 inch larger than the width of the box panels so it will fit over the top of the box. You can make your multi-colored panel layers however you want. I used a drop-down incriment of 1/8 inch on all panels including the lid. Then I hot glued multiple extra flowers, punched out from various punches and gathered on the lid. A tiny small acrylic folded stem holds the butterfly above the flowers.
Okay, now it is your turn.
and the DIRECTIONS FOR 13TH BIRTHDAY SURPRISE BOX :)
I'm now in the process of packing and getting ready to leave Beijing by February and then head home to the good ole USA. Having dragged all my SU goodies with me, I now have to take them home. LOL First I have a stop to go to in Hong Kong for New Year's holiday with my hubby. He is doing some business there, so lucky me, I get to go along. Yea!! Naturally, what grammy doesn't shop for her grands. My husband thinks I could skip it, but I don't think so. LOL
The weather here is really cold now but I'm sure not as cold as is upstate New York! Yikes. My grands have kept me informed as to how much snow they have. Too much for me as we have no snow here in Beijing. My only grand daughter has a birthday Friday, the last day of the year. Just think forever, she will have lights andcelebrations on her birthday. I made her a special card for her first teenage year. So here goes, keeping my fingers crossed. Wow! I did it! I hope she likes it. Unfortunately she will not have it by Friday. She actually will be lucky to get it my Spring, since through miscommunications it was not sent swiftly should I say. Rats! Do men really hear us I wonder sometimes.
DIRECTIONS FOR 13TH BIRTHDAY SURPRISE BOX :)
I have been asked the directions for this. Mine is custom made with lots of readjustments that perhaps others don't want to go through, but out there somewhere on SU and splitcoast there are instructions on surprise boxes. That is how I found mine, I just didn't save a link--sorry.
I will do my best to rely what I did however.
I cut out first a 8.5 in square of cardstock as it has to be sturdy, then I scored the width of each panel to 2.5 or 3 inches, whatever fits the 8.5 square. Next I cut out the corners, scored the edges for folding and viola, there is the basic box without the lid.
2. Add as many panel insets both on the front and the inside as you want. I did incriments of three both inside and out, with embossing on the white panels. I glued everything with my hot glue gun as I wanted this puppy to stay together for shipping.
3. I then punched out leaves for each flower, then out of various dsp I punched flowers with eight layers together, held by a brad. I used my Big Shot to do the flowers using several dsp paper layers at one time to go faster. Now curl the flowers or scrunch each set up so it gathers. Attach each braded flower cluster to a clear heavy acrylic stem and insert the scored tab through a slit you have made for each insert through the three layers you will be glueing to the bottom of the box. (Each stem is pushed through the three layers then it will be hot glued to the inside bottom of the box). You need three layers to firmly hold the flower stems and grass you will be cutting out. Measure your stems to make sure they are not too tall to fit inside the box. That is the mistake I did and had to do the flowers and box over. Yuk. That is then hot glued to the bottom of the box. The 3 panels on the bottom give the flowers strength to stand vertical of course along with the plastic acrylic stem covered with glued on green paper grass. Looks like a flower bed doesn't it?
Make any type of card insert, attach to a clear acrylic post and there you have it. I know I keep repeating myself about the stems but it is very important they can stand by themselves. One slit for each inserted item. I cut my slits at angles so they all would fit, afterall, I had to make thirteen blossoms remember. Perhaps you will not need as many layers.
I had colored the butterfly that I meticuleously cut out by had AFTER I COLORED IT!!! I did several as the antenna somehow didn't quite make it on the first couple. Be sure to use sharp, sharp sizzors my friends otherwise, well, you know.
THE LID:
Cut 1/4 inch larger than the width of the box panels so it will fit over the top of the box. You can make your multi-colored panel layers however you want. I used a drop-down incriment of 1/8 inch on all panels including the lid. Then I hot glued multiple extra flowers, punched out from various punches and gathered on the lid. A tiny small acrylic folded stem holds the butterfly above the flowers.
Okay, now it is your turn.
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Merry Christmas, Season's Greetings, and Happy Holidays
I think that just about covers it, so hope you and yours are celebrating with joy and wonder and peace. Weather here in Beijing is delightful, no snow! Yea! The wind is blowing fiercely however.
Our tree is up, decorated, cookies are made, family handmade cards (naturally) have been made and sent last week. It is unknown if they will arrive to their destination however or even on time (doubtful) BUT it is the thought that counts right?
Last night as I packed cookies for my husband's office staff, I notice there was a serious shortfall--of cookies! How they all disappeared amazes me! My husband could not have eaten all of them so quickly and he has been away on business for over a week. Hmmmmmm, did he manage to hide them in his luggage BEFORE HE LEFT? You bet! When I asked, the answer was--gee--ah--gee--ah I don't know, with a giant grin on his face.
I tried to imagine him suffering along the Silk Road at 10,000 feet, cold at 28 below but he did have his cookies to keep him warm. LOL Okay, so the staff doesn't get all the cookies I had planned for them, so this morning I talked with his office manager to be sure they had received those I had sent with him today, just in case and was informed that yes, the cookies had arrived and he had shared.
Okay, I guess Santa will leave him a present after all.
My intent today was to post the photo of the card I made him for Christmas, and that of my granddaughter's surprise box card for her 13th birthday, but after searching through his drawer of computer connections and various other electrical paraphernalia somewhere in the neighborhood of 40 or so, at least, I could not find my camera cable. Imagine that. So no photos till I find the cable. Sorry once again.
Have wonderful holidays
Our tree is up, decorated, cookies are made, family handmade cards (naturally) have been made and sent last week. It is unknown if they will arrive to their destination however or even on time (doubtful) BUT it is the thought that counts right?
Last night as I packed cookies for my husband's office staff, I notice there was a serious shortfall--of cookies! How they all disappeared amazes me! My husband could not have eaten all of them so quickly and he has been away on business for over a week. Hmmmmmm, did he manage to hide them in his luggage BEFORE HE LEFT? You bet! When I asked, the answer was--gee--ah--gee--ah I don't know, with a giant grin on his face.
I tried to imagine him suffering along the Silk Road at 10,000 feet, cold at 28 below but he did have his cookies to keep him warm. LOL Okay, so the staff doesn't get all the cookies I had planned for them, so this morning I talked with his office manager to be sure they had received those I had sent with him today, just in case and was informed that yes, the cookies had arrived and he had shared.
Okay, I guess Santa will leave him a present after all.
My intent today was to post the photo of the card I made him for Christmas, and that of my granddaughter's surprise box card for her 13th birthday, but after searching through his drawer of computer connections and various other electrical paraphernalia somewhere in the neighborhood of 40 or so, at least, I could not find my camera cable. Imagine that. So no photos till I find the cable. Sorry once again.
Have wonderful holidays
Thursday, November 4, 2010
From the Far East
Hello or Ni Hao, (pronounced knee how)
Thank you Lord, I can finally access my blogsite. Who knows how long this will be applicable due to gov watching your every move, especially if you try and blog ANYTHING!! That's what your looking forward to my fellow bloggers if you keep letting gov run the show in the good ole usa! Watching, watching, watching. Lucky me, a friend from another country showed me how to do a work around to access my fb, blog and on line games. I am sooooo happy!!!!
However, that being said, here goes from the Far East!
Weather here is nice the last few weeks, nice fall weather and all. No smog yet as the gov doesn't turn on the heat till November 15. I kid you not folks, no heat till mid November and that is all over the country. They also shut the heat down in mid April so for those of you living in the Northern states, you understand that it can still be quite cold in April. For instance, we had snow in NY state on Mother's Day 2010. How do I stand it? I am married to an electrical engineer sweeties, and he has purchased oil filled heaters to keep the chill out of the apartment for a few more weeks. Luckily for us the weather has warmed again for the last couple of weeks and hopefully will last till heating season. Yesterday a maintenance guy came and check our heating system getting ready for the winter season here that usually has a minimal amount of snow, if any but bitter cold weather although dry. The sun usually shines during the whole of winter if you can see it due to the layer of coal smoke wafting throughout the sky during the winter and if there is a weather conversion then that "stuff" hangs over the city for weeks on end. Traffic doesn't help.
Can you believe that Beijing actually licenses over 1500 hundred cars here daily. the traffic has become so bad they have to pull cars off the roads in Beijing depending on their license number and the day of the week. Not to mention no one wants a four on his apartment, license plate or telephone number. Why? Bad luck. Four is unlucky here for them just as we don't like the number 13, so it also applies to floors in any buildings. For instance: there are no fourth floors, no fourteenth floors and ha, ha, also no thirteenth floors in any building so although our apartment is the sixth, we really live on the fifth floor. LOL
Things here are never dull and as much as they try, they ALMOST GET IT RIGHT. Yes, that is my mantra for this place. Almost Right! It really applies to everything and anywhere. I know that seems to be hitting below the belt but if you are very observant, you will see it is also true and has been for over 25 years.
The other irritating thing here is that one has to do is outlive the workman redoing the apartment below us, for new renters or possibly the owners of the apartment. Seems like as they are laying tile floors in the entrance way with lots of volatile glue that would be way too much to spend on renters. Here where we live in cental Beijing, in an ideal location within a 15 minute walk to a major transportation hub, everyone wants to live in this area. You don't need to drive and can basically hail a taxi and go anywhere in the city for the equilvalent of $2.00 usd. We had to abondon our apartment last weekend due to the glue fumes seeping into our apartment due to these morons. How they lived through the application is beyond me, or maybe they didn't and new workers came in, however, my husband went to the complex management and they (management stopped the workers). Made them ventalate the apartment they were working on, use fans, open all windows and now we are back with no fumes but lots of drilling, hammering and noises that go from 8:00 a.m. till 5:00 p.m. Something my husband doesn't let bother him as he is never here till after 7:00 p.m. The workers are not allowed to do these things on the weekend so there is hope on the horizon. Today is Friday also.
Now for myself, I have cloistered myself into my apartment and each day I work on my SU cards, gift tags, goodie bags, etc for the upcoming fundraiser for the Rotary Club here. I have participated in this event for almost five years this time around living and working here for my husband in Beijing. However, I usually travel back and forth several times a year so I have the best of both worlds. We basically first came to China in 1985 and have lived all over the country due to my husbands business. Now some of you might think how wonderful this is or isn't. Depends on your point of view. Travel wears you down after so long, there is always something you forget to bring with you or can't bring along due to weight and limits however, this time my husband graciously allowed me to use his allotment of luggage to bring my su goodies. Naturally, I forgot to bring a sqare and oval punch, enough paper, but plenty of glue and tape. Never enough stamps and lucky for me my IB&C and the current holiday mini. If only I had the demonstrator option for China, can you imagine how many downlines I could work up too? LOL
I head back to the States in January and will reload my goodie suitcases for next trip here. By then the new catalog will be out and new stuff that none of us "can do without". Next time I will travel smarter and have all of my cards, tags, bags and bows done in advance so I don't have to carry the whole "kitchen sink" so to speak.
Looking forward to posting again soon and maybe if I can get my camera to open the lens, I can take some photos of some of the items and the fundraiser to be held on the 20-21 of this month.
So so long for now, or how they say here: zai jian (pronounced: sigh gin)
BTW, there is an elementary school behind our complex (the complex consists of 24 high rise apartments each with 21 floors or 18 if you discount the 4, 14, and13th floors) and they are singing outside in their playyard right now. The other day they were playing music from "I'm a little teapot", it was interesting to hear them sing it in Mandarin. Cute.
OMG, the walll drilling has started AGAIN!!! and the workers don't go to lunch till Noon!!! It is now 10:30 a.m and they have been at this since 8:00 a.m. :(
Thank you Lord, I can finally access my blogsite. Who knows how long this will be applicable due to gov watching your every move, especially if you try and blog ANYTHING!! That's what your looking forward to my fellow bloggers if you keep letting gov run the show in the good ole usa! Watching, watching, watching. Lucky me, a friend from another country showed me how to do a work around to access my fb, blog and on line games. I am sooooo happy!!!!
However, that being said, here goes from the Far East!
Weather here is nice the last few weeks, nice fall weather and all. No smog yet as the gov doesn't turn on the heat till November 15. I kid you not folks, no heat till mid November and that is all over the country. They also shut the heat down in mid April so for those of you living in the Northern states, you understand that it can still be quite cold in April. For instance, we had snow in NY state on Mother's Day 2010. How do I stand it? I am married to an electrical engineer sweeties, and he has purchased oil filled heaters to keep the chill out of the apartment for a few more weeks. Luckily for us the weather has warmed again for the last couple of weeks and hopefully will last till heating season. Yesterday a maintenance guy came and check our heating system getting ready for the winter season here that usually has a minimal amount of snow, if any but bitter cold weather although dry. The sun usually shines during the whole of winter if you can see it due to the layer of coal smoke wafting throughout the sky during the winter and if there is a weather conversion then that "stuff" hangs over the city for weeks on end. Traffic doesn't help.
Can you believe that Beijing actually licenses over 1500 hundred cars here daily. the traffic has become so bad they have to pull cars off the roads in Beijing depending on their license number and the day of the week. Not to mention no one wants a four on his apartment, license plate or telephone number. Why? Bad luck. Four is unlucky here for them just as we don't like the number 13, so it also applies to floors in any buildings. For instance: there are no fourth floors, no fourteenth floors and ha, ha, also no thirteenth floors in any building so although our apartment is the sixth, we really live on the fifth floor. LOL
Things here are never dull and as much as they try, they ALMOST GET IT RIGHT. Yes, that is my mantra for this place. Almost Right! It really applies to everything and anywhere. I know that seems to be hitting below the belt but if you are very observant, you will see it is also true and has been for over 25 years.
The other irritating thing here is that one has to do is outlive the workman redoing the apartment below us, for new renters or possibly the owners of the apartment. Seems like as they are laying tile floors in the entrance way with lots of volatile glue that would be way too much to spend on renters. Here where we live in cental Beijing, in an ideal location within a 15 minute walk to a major transportation hub, everyone wants to live in this area. You don't need to drive and can basically hail a taxi and go anywhere in the city for the equilvalent of $2.00 usd. We had to abondon our apartment last weekend due to the glue fumes seeping into our apartment due to these morons. How they lived through the application is beyond me, or maybe they didn't and new workers came in, however, my husband went to the complex management and they (management stopped the workers). Made them ventalate the apartment they were working on, use fans, open all windows and now we are back with no fumes but lots of drilling, hammering and noises that go from 8:00 a.m. till 5:00 p.m. Something my husband doesn't let bother him as he is never here till after 7:00 p.m. The workers are not allowed to do these things on the weekend so there is hope on the horizon. Today is Friday also.
Now for myself, I have cloistered myself into my apartment and each day I work on my SU cards, gift tags, goodie bags, etc for the upcoming fundraiser for the Rotary Club here. I have participated in this event for almost five years this time around living and working here for my husband in Beijing. However, I usually travel back and forth several times a year so I have the best of both worlds. We basically first came to China in 1985 and have lived all over the country due to my husbands business. Now some of you might think how wonderful this is or isn't. Depends on your point of view. Travel wears you down after so long, there is always something you forget to bring with you or can't bring along due to weight and limits however, this time my husband graciously allowed me to use his allotment of luggage to bring my su goodies. Naturally, I forgot to bring a sqare and oval punch, enough paper, but plenty of glue and tape. Never enough stamps and lucky for me my IB&C and the current holiday mini. If only I had the demonstrator option for China, can you imagine how many downlines I could work up too? LOL
I head back to the States in January and will reload my goodie suitcases for next trip here. By then the new catalog will be out and new stuff that none of us "can do without". Next time I will travel smarter and have all of my cards, tags, bags and bows done in advance so I don't have to carry the whole "kitchen sink" so to speak.
Looking forward to posting again soon and maybe if I can get my camera to open the lens, I can take some photos of some of the items and the fundraiser to be held on the 20-21 of this month.
So so long for now, or how they say here: zai jian (pronounced: sigh gin)
BTW, there is an elementary school behind our complex (the complex consists of 24 high rise apartments each with 21 floors or 18 if you discount the 4, 14, and13th floors) and they are singing outside in their playyard right now. The other day they were playing music from "I'm a little teapot", it was interesting to hear them sing it in Mandarin. Cute.
OMG, the walll drilling has started AGAIN!!! and the workers don't go to lunch till Noon!!! It is now 10:30 a.m and they have been at this since 8:00 a.m. :(
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Summer Flys Away and School Begins !!!
Here we are one day away from September 1 and most schools have started and for those parents who are STILL WAITING FOR SCHOOL TO START? It really is only a few days away so HANG IN THERE!!!
I have been very busy designing new goodies for the upcoming holidays and getting ready to order from the new holiday catalog that begins September 1, 2010 in case you are interested. There are so many items I love personally but then again, Christmas is my MOST FAV of all the holidays.
I have also been working on new "star albums" to share with party goers on September 23 at a workshop. We are all making the Star Album design as that was the project requested by the hostess. Don't think I plan on doing this each and every time for a workshop, but I believe all those attending have had LOTS of experience with paper creating so it should go rather smoothly and most of the work has already taken place. Can't wait to see if every one enjoys this great project.
I have been very busy designing new goodies for the upcoming holidays and getting ready to order from the new holiday catalog that begins September 1, 2010 in case you are interested. There are so many items I love personally but then again, Christmas is my MOST FAV of all the holidays.
I have also been working on new "star albums" to share with party goers on September 23 at a workshop. We are all making the Star Album design as that was the project requested by the hostess. Don't think I plan on doing this each and every time for a workshop, but I believe all those attending have had LOTS of experience with paper creating so it should go rather smoothly and most of the work has already taken place. Can't wait to see if every one enjoys this great project.
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