Finally

Hello Everyone,

I know it's been a few days but I was having trouble with my blog.

I couldn't post anything and in some cases I couldn't even leave a

comment on some of the blogs. I know that I wasn't the only one

having technical diffulculties Robyn over at My Pink Stamper was

feeling my pain too. Since I was not able to post almost all week

todays is going to be a little lenghty but if you stick around I have

a good tip for you at the end. In my header picture is one of the

twelve tags that I made for a tag swap that was being hosted by

Velma Griffen from Creatively Outta Control. I really liked how my

tag came out and decided I needed to make a card. Pictured below. Once I got the card done I decided that I needed to make smaller

tags. The next two pictures are of the card and then all three creations

together. The next picture is a close-up of just the small tags.Here is a couple of pictures of other things that I have been working

on. These are really small canvas that I took some scrapbook paper

and modpodged onto the canvas. One of the pictures shows the canvas

before I did anything to it. I fell in love with the paper and did not want to use it on a card or

page so this is what I came up with. I haven't decided how to

display them yet but I am working on that. I have been searching

for some really small frames. Once I figure it out I'll post the end

result. Ok so now on to my tip. Now that we are living in a small town I have

been missing some of the big eatry food places. I loved a rice and chicken

teriyaki dish that this place call Bentos made so I set out to try and

figure out how they made their teriyaki sauce because it's not just the

marinade that you buy in a bottle. I figured it out. First off let me say

that because of my mexican heritage we really don't measure things out

other than a pinch and dash with that said here is the receipe. Take

teriyaki merinade pour in a bowl about 1/4 of the bottle, add about two

table spoons of brown sugar, and about two and a half tablespoons of

honey. Heat in the microwave for thirty seconds so that it can be mixed

well together. I cook my chicken in the pan till it is done then I add the

sauce and let the chicken cook at low heat for about ten minutes then I

serve it over white rice. Oh so yummy and it cost me a lot less then going

out to eat. Now to figure out Silver Dragons sweet and sour sauce...LOL...

Hope you liked my cooking tip.

Until next post Have a Splendid Day!!!!!

When Fall arrives

Hello Everyone,

It's been really busy around my house lately. With fall upon us I

try and put up as much food as I can for winter. When you live in

a farming community winter seems to bring less work around here.

In my header picture is the corn that I managed to get put away.

The next picture is of bell peppers and jalepenos that I also got to. This year the crop was very late because of our mild summer. So

now we are at a mad dash to try and get everything we can out of

our gardens before we get a freeze. And in some cases like our tomatoes

we are trying to find people who want tomatoes....LOL... I've put up

enough tomatoes for an army. As you see in the picture below. Those

are just a few of the tomatoes and salsa jars that I haven't put in the

pantry. Our pumpkins are doing great. I'll have to get a picture of them. I'm glad that they are doing great especially that they say that we

will be having a pumpkin shortage because of the hurricane on the

other side of the U.S. I have also been busy crafting making tags

for a tag swap, and getting things done for the holiday season. I'll

get those things posted later this week.

Until next post have a Splendid Day!!!!!!!!!

Thank You Butterfly card

Good Morning Everyone,

Todays post is going to be short and sweet for I still have salsa

that I need to finish canning. In my header picture is the card that

I gave you a sneak peak of a few days back. What I'm trying to do

is show different variations of cards done with the same paper I

designed. In the picture below is the first card that I showed you

with the paper I designed. The only difference is that I used a

mulberry colored cardstock instead of the brown. Now on to the recipe. Oh and by the way in the picture below of

todays card I lightened it up a little because I think it shows the

punched edge a little better.

Recipe:

Mulberrry cardstock (Bazzil Basics)

White cardstock

Striped cardstock

Thank You Stamp (Skipping Stones)

Distress Ink ( Antique Linen)

Butterfly (Recollections )

Emcossing folder (Cuttlebug Textile)

Silk flowers

Shear cream ribbon

Hope you liked this card.

Until the next post have a Splendid Day!!!!!!!

Plans? What Plans?

Hello Everyone,

This morning I had planned to share another card but once again

lifes road took a different turn. All weekend I spent putting up

tomatoes, salsa and bell peppers. Monday I was out of town all day

and came home to find a sick dog. Tuesday I spent the day cleaning

the carpet and other things we won't go into because of the sick dog.

So today when I thought I was going to get to blogging again the power

was out for a few hours. Here it is after ten and i'm finally gettting to

do a blog post. My header picture is of some ribbon and lace that I

got at a yard sale a few weeks ago. I got this huge bag for under $5.00

It has several cardboard pieces with different colors. I'll show you

some of the others at a later date.

The picture below is of our sixteen year old dog and I think she was

laughing at me for all of the cleaning I had to do because of the other

dog. What do you think? Is she laughing? So I was not a happy camper yesterday and you know how it is with

pets they seem to be under foot when you are trying to get things

done. So I was doing a lot of yelling for them to go lay down and stay

out of the way. We do not have a fenced yard so I just can't put them

outside someone has to be with them when they are outside. The

picture below is of them trying to hide.....LOL... I thought that once

our kids were all grown up. I would not have to be cleaning up after

anyone except for myself and then of course my husband...LOL...

Boy was I mistaken. Having pets is like having kids. feed them, groom

them, clean up after them. I do love my dogs don't get me wrong but

some days they drive me nuts. All I can do is take one day at a time

and try not to stress over the little things. Life goes on. Until my next post, hope you are all having a Splendid Day!!!!!

Inspiration

Good Morning Everyone,

I know I'm running a little late in posting today sorry about that.

I have a lot to do today and this weekend and because my week

seemed to get out of control I'm running behind. I wanted to get

my tomatoes in to bathe this morning before I have to run to town.

I almost forgot to get the garbage out and it's garbage pick up day

so I went running out to get the garbage in before the truck took it

away. The poor garbage men must think I'm a crazy woman.....LOL...

I bet it was a sight to see with my hair wrapped in a towel them just

knowing that I had just stepped out of the bath tub to catch them no

make-up on, and my shirt was on backwards. Oh well. Enough

about my morning lets move on. Yesterday I gave you a sneak peak

of two cards and decided I would share the red, black, and white card

today. The inspiration for this card came from a Macys ad that I had

seen in a magazine. The picture of the ad is my header picture. Below

is the picture of my card that was inspired by that ad. After I finished it I thought to myself I should have distressed the

white embossed part. By then it was a little late. I just might take

it apart and distress it just to see if that makes it look more interesting.

So on to the recipe:

Recipe:

Black, red, and white cardstock

Black grosgrain ribbon

Black ink pad

Cuttlebug Textile embossing folder

Inkadinkado stamp

Cricut cartridge Plantin Schoolbook (oval die cut) Hope you enjoyed my card. Until next post. Have a Splendid Day!!!!!!!

Sneak Peak

Good Morning Everyone,

In my header picture I give you only a sneak peak of one of the cards

that I was going to share today but because life seems to get in the way

sometimes, I have to share a kind of funny story with you today.

If you remember yesterday I posted very late in the day the reason

for that happening is that on tuesday a committee that I belong to had

a financial meeting. When the meeting was over I thought that we were

in agreement with everything but apperently not. On wednesday

morning I have several e-mails from one person wanting confirmation

on certain numbers that were talked about. Now I don't now about you

but as for me when I go to a meeting I take something to take notes in

so that I can refer back. If i'm not understanding something I ask for it

to be explained till I understand. I also give any and all information that

I am holding on the subject. In other words I go prepared with all my

ducks in a row. To make a long story short after two hours of back and

forth e-mails and phone calls I was at my limit and If you know me I

hate beating around the bush so I was very frank and to the point. I

finally said to the person that I did not have time for all this back and

forth all day thing I had better things to do. I had a check list of six

things that I needed to get done. We could set up another meeting day

and the day I had available was next tuesday. All the e-mails and phone

calls stopped after that and no meeting has been scheduled oh well.

See the picture below of all the tomatoes? These tomatoes had been now waiting a week to get canned. If I

hadn't been sick all last week they would have already been done.

I needed to get them done before they went to waste. I finally got

them done about three in the afternoon and only had one bad tomatoe.

I have to thank the lord that it was only one. So here is where it really

gets funny. At 4:30 in the afternoon I have a knock at the door low

and behold it's my dad with TWO MORE BOXES OF TOMATOES.

Can someone shoot me now please? Oh and that is not all my dad

informs me that he will be back saturday or sunday with more because

I'm the only one in the immediate family that cans food. Are you all

laughing now? About to wet your pants? Really funny huh? NOT

...LOL...... Now you know why you only get a sneak peak today. I'll be

in the kitchen canning tomatoes. Anyone need tomatoes I have more

than plenty? So I don't know which of the two cards I will share with you tomorrow.

Maybe the one pictured above. Or the one I did with the paper I designed

pictured below Hmm I don't know. Oh and by the way I only got three of the things done yesterday that

I had on my list. I'll let you know how many quarts of tomatoes I get

done today. Until tomorrow have a Splendid Day!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry for the late post

Good Afternoon Everyone,

I'm sorry for the late post today but life just kind of got in the way.

I wish people that don't have anything to do would realize that others

do and that our time is valuable. Today I got up with plans of posting

my blog, cleaning the car, putting away some of the summer items

that are on the deck, canning tomatoes, and freezing bell peppers.

Well things didn't go as planned.

So here it is after one in the afternoon and now I'm posting my blog.

In the header picture is the Baby card that I made using the pink and

brown striped paper that I designed. The paper I designed is in the

picture below. Like I said sorry for the late post and a short one at that. So now

on to the recipe:

Recipe:

Brown, white, striped and Luxury cardstock

Fiscar edge punch

Linen distress ink

White paint pen

Plantin Schoolbook cricut cartridge (letter B)

Shear pink ribbon

Chocolate ink pad

Corner punch

White cardstock rectangle Until tomorrow. Have a Splendid afternoon!!!!!!!!!!

Double Take

Good Morning Everyone,

I'm a little late in posting today sorry about that. Sometimes life

just gets in the way. In the header picture is a picture of a different

card I made using the same cardstock that I used in yesterdays card

but with a different theme. I used some of the paper I designed shown

in the next picture. The next pictures are of the card that I posted yesterday and the

one I posted today for comparison. I know that todays card the picture is not that great. I will try to

get a better picture of it. I was kind of in a hurry when I did it.What

I did a little different is that I took the chocolate ink and distressed

the olive green to give it a more earthy tone. If you look closely you

can tell where the chocolate ink is done a little darker on the edge of

of the card. Now on to the recipe for todays card.

Recipe:

Olive green and white cardstock

striped cardsock

brown ribbon

onzie stamp by g Studio

letter stamps by g Studio

1/2" square punch

black sharpie

2" oval die cut Cricut cartridge Plantin Schoolbook

Black ink pad

Chocolate ink pad

Colored pencils

Hope you liked the comparison of the two cards. Have a Splendid

Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Masculine Thank You Card

Good Morning Everyone,

I wanted to show you that besides everything else that I've been

invovled with that I still have been crafting and creating. In my

header picture is a card that I made because my husband needed

a thank you card and he wanted a masculine card not a frilly one

like he calls it. This was not an easy task for me because I think

I'm better at making the frilly type of cards. I had an idea in my

head what I wanted it to look like but with all the cardstock that

I have the color combinations were not looking right. This is

where I became more creative. I went to my computer and with

one of the programs created a paper that would work with the

cardstock I have which is pictured below.I liked how it turned out. Before I remembered to take a picture

I had already used some more of my creation on another card

which I will show you tomorrow. So what is pictured is of what is

left of that design. The next picture is of another paper I created

and this time I got a picture of it before I cut into it.I have a few more designs that I created and you'll get to see the cards

that I created with them. The next couple of pictures are of some pages

that I made for the contest that I enter every month at Faes Book and

Craft store. I am not a scrapbooker so this is very challenging to me. Especially

because you get a package with usually two pieces of cardstock and

some embellishments. Everything that is in the package must be

used on the page. Other items can be added just as long as what was

in the package is visible to the eye. I still have a problem with what

colors to use together which is where the next picture comes in.I had a really hard time with that page and the colors. I wasn't happy

with it. I did win first place with the red, biege and blue page that is

shown first.

So on to the receipe for the card I did.

Receipe:

Olive green, brown and white cardstock

brown ribbon

linen lace distress ink

striped cardstock

Cricut Camp Out cartridge

Thank You rubber stamp Until the next time. Have a Splendid Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good morning everyone,

As promised today I'm going to show you what went on in our little

town on Labor Day and what all it takes for all this to take place. In

the header picture is the ribbon awards that I made to give to the

parade entries that were judged and won. Our town doesn't have a

lot of businesses that we can ask for them to sponsor the parade so

we make do with what we have, with this being the case I saved our

community days committee almost a hundred dollars in making the

awards and we still have material left for next years awards.

For many that don't know it takes months to prepare to put on a

parade. Fliers and letters have to be sent out inviting people to come

and be in our parade. There is insurance that needs to be bought to

cover and it has to be a certain amount of coverage dictated by the

city. Arrangements have to be made with the city for a staging area,

road closures, when the parade will start and end, and when the roads

can be re-opened. We have to find an announcer that will announce

the parade entries. The day of the parade we need volunteers that

will make sure everyone that has come to our parade is registered so

that we have a discription of the entry for the announcer. We also

need volunteers that will get the entries on the parade route moving

along in an orderly manner. If all of this is not taken care of then we

would not have some of the entries you see in the pictures below.

The Ritzville Float. The Royal City float.

Wardens' FloatAfter the parade everyone heads to Volunteer Park where the festivities

continue. All of this also takes months of planning. There is also a certain

amount of insurance coverage that needs to be bought for this event. Ads

are placed in the paper and craiglist as early as march to hopefully get a

wide variety of vendors. We do give those that were here the year before

first dib to return before we start seeking more vendors. Besides working

on the vendors we start looking for entertainment. We plan with the city

on getting portable out houses, portable drinking fountains, road closures

around the park, power at the right locations for vendors to use, water

availability for the vendors to use also. Then theres figuring out placement

of booths so not to have vendors with similar items next to each other.

Making sure that we have banners to hang up around the area. The day of

the event we mark off the vendor spaces. Pictured below is some of the

entertainment and vendors.

Our Queen Madison singing. I wish I would have taped this so you could

hear her beautiful voice.

The next two pictures are a couple of higschool classes working to make

money for their senior trip when they become seniors. They start

working on their trip fund as freshmen. This is Wardens' FFA class raising money for their trips. Believe me it's a lot of work, and only about half a dozen people did it.

Yet there are always so many complaints about the way things are done.

The money that is taken in sits for next years event to pay for all the

paper, ink, stamps, ads, awards, etc. I've been part of helping put this on

for three years and this is my last year doing it. I'm tired of all the

complaining and people not realizing what I spend out of my own pocket

in fuel, the quicker oil changes, running around taking care of some of

these things. I've been sick to my stomache the day after the event and

am still sick. I don't know if it is stress, the heat, or food poisoning. For

the sake of my health that is why I will no longer help with this event.

Sorry for the long post but I had to get this off my chest.

I wish next years volunteers the best of luck in continuing the event.

Hope you all have a Spledid Day!!!!!!!!

Good morning everyone,

I know that our summer is almost over and I just wanted to share

some more of the wonderful garden ideas that I got from the fair.

It may be to late this year but I hope that my header picture and

the picture below will help give you some ideas for your garden

next year.

The next couple of pictures of some more art work done on feathers. I couldn't seem to get a picture of this one without some type of glare

not even in the close-up picture below.

See what I mean about the glare?

My husband really liked the scene on the feather pictured below. The next picture is for you my friend Deb. Some of the crochet and

knitted entries at the fair. There was alot of really beautiful items entered in the fair. So much

work put into their craft. Thank you to all that still hand craft. I really

enjoyed seeing all the love put into it.

I actually went to the fair three times that week. First day was to see

Marian the second was to see the demo derby and the third time was

to go see the Rodeo. I'm not a real rodeo fan not even when my husband

use to rodeo. I'll tell you all about that some other time. The only reason

that we went to the Rodeo is because my husbands boss gave him the

tickets and then come to find out they were box seats it was a different

way for me and my husband to see a rodeo. LOL....Tomorrow I'll show

you some of the things that went on here in our small town on Labor Day.

Have a Splendid Day!!!!!!!!!