A thought for a friend

I have not written anything about a friend of mine who has Breast Cancer, well today I am going to. Today she went into surgery for a Double Mestectomy. She has been in my thoughts and prayers for months now, and it has been a battle for her. I went to church this morning and lite a candle as a prayer to help her through this procedure. Finally at 11:09am I got the call that she was out of surgery and all went well. I was so releived that I felt as if I had been holding my breath for hours. I got home around noon today and started working on finishing my daughters Halloween treats for her class party tomorrow (I am finally done with all of therm). Around 2pm I got the message they were getting her ready to be placed in a room. I am going to go to the hospital here around 6:30pm to see her, just for a quick minute. I know she will be exhausted and there will be lots of family and friends there. I just wanted to let her know that I was thinking of her and bring her a little Halloweenie treat (one of the extras I made for my daughter). I ended up not liking the card I made and will remake and mail it to her on Monday. So on the back of the treat I wrote:

"I might not look that scary to you, but today I kicked some TA TA's butt. I might wear pink and fight like a girl, but that doesn't mean that I'm not strong."

I signed it: Faith, "Courage, Strength with Hope and Love"

I know it sounds corney as all get out, but with everything I have watched and heard her go through, it is what I feel about her. She is a very special and lovely lady who has a heart of gold. I pray that all of this will soon be a distant memory and that her family and her will be able to move on without any other interuptions of this magnitude.

I know that many of you know who I am speaking of and have had her in your prayers lately, but for those of you who do not know her, this wonderful lady is Monique Griffith from Rocklin, CA. Please keep her and her family in your prayers as I have and will continue to do.

God Bless each of you and your families.

Got to Check out this BLOG CANDY at Stamping Boutique

Here is the LINK: http://thestampingboutiquechallengeblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/blog-candy-worth-25000-including-36.html

Wednesday, October 20, 2010


Blog candy worth $250.00 including 36 copics!!!

It's blog candy time again. This time we're giving away a set of "36" yes "36" Copic Cioa's. Same rules apply. Just leave a comment and post this to your blog with the good ole' link back to enter. Double your chances by becoming a follower (leave a second comment) triple your chances by having a friend become a new follower (leave a third comment) The winner will be chosen at random on November 20, 2010.

Blog candy includes:

Creative Imaginations "Card Making for Dummies" Greeting card kit,

Spellbinders nestabilities, Making Memories Advent Calendar kit,

My Little bicycle PP's, cardstock, 10 things pockets, specialty tags, canvas specialty tags chipboard slider and "Merci" shortcake stamp.



Good luck everyone!

Tracey

Halloween Treats

I made these little treats for my daughters class. I am only 13 done and need a total of 33. I spent half the day looking for Orange foam and couldn't find enough. Thank goodness for Michaels sale on Halloween stuff. I found Orange Glittered Foam Pumpkins on sale for $1.49 for a package of 6 glittered and 6 plain. So there was my front base and my back. YIPE!!!!

Well got home at 1pm and had to make a pattern for the Jack-o-Lantern face that I needed for each of these 33 pumpkins. While tracing and cutting out 33 of these little darlings I had to cut 120 boots and 120 mittens, so my treat would have hands and feet. LOL Well I only got 13 of them glued together, but it is alot more difficult than I had figured. So here are my little treats:

These are Sour Punch Twist candies that I found at my local grocery store.

There is a piece of Bright Yellow Card Stock in between the two foam pieces.

Oh, each of them has a front and a back, so there is a boot and hand back to each of these.

The back of these Jack-O-Lantern Treats is just an orange foam pumpkin with no face. Tomorrow night my little one will be writing Happy Halloween and her name on the back of each one with a Sharpie marker.

Hope you like. I did see that someone else did something similar on another site, but didn't get the name of who it was. I wish I had paid more attention, cause when I tried to make these with Card Stock they kept falling apart. So this is why I had to have the foam. I didn't want to cut 33 Jack-O-Lanterns out of Cardstock then again out of Cardboard, cause I would have to do it times 2 and line them up and that is way more work than the foam was. LOL I know a little bit lazy.

Well hope you all have a great day tomorrow and will try to post something. It will most likely be about my vacation as I still have not finished going through all the thousand of pics I took. Thank goodness for digital or I would be in tons of trouble. LOL

Have a great night.

Got supplies for my Treats

Ok, didn't do any scrappin, but did get the supplies for the Treats I am going to make for my little ones class for Friday.

I got Googly Eyes, Sour Punch Twists, Adhesive and more Cardstock (like I really need more). So tomorrow is work on getting 36 of these little treats done by the end of the day. I am praying that I can get them all done tomorrow so Thursday after work I can really do some scrappin.

Will post a pic when I finish the first one that I like. Still foolin around with the design.

God Bless and good night to you all.

DCWV Giveaway!

Over on the DCVW blog they are doing a giveaway for their new 12x24 mat stacks. These are amazing and adhesive backed. Check it out at:

http://www.http//dcwvinc.blogspot.com/2010/10/say-what-giveaway-today.html#comment-form
Good luck everyone.

Cool for you Gypsy Owners or really soon to be Owners

Buy and register a Gypsy by Cricut by October 31 and receive 6 free cartridges downloaded to your Gypsy – including the exclusive, all-new “Smiley Cards” cartridge (and don’t forget about Gypsy Wanderings and Gypsy font cartridges that come pre-loaded on the machine). It’s a $419 value!


Free cartridges include:

- Smiley... Cards (new a...nd exclusive to this promotion)

- Tags, Bags, Boxes and More (not available in retail)

- Christmas (not available in retail)

- Blackletter (not available in retail)

- Printing Press (not available in retail)

- Indie Art (not available in retail)

All current Gypsy owners included! Simply register your Gypsy by October 31, 2010 and get access to all downloads. Register at http://www.cricut.com/gypsy.

Downloads will be available through a special update to your Gypsy starting November 1st.

New Gypsy cartridge downloads are easy! Just connect your Gypsy to your computer and you’ll automatically be prompted how to start. In just a few steps, you’ll be able to download all six cartridges containing thousands of images! And with Gypsy, you’ll have all the cartridge artwork and keypad overlays on your Gypsy screen, so there’s no actual cartridge, handbook, or packaging.

You only have a few weeks. Don’t miss out!!

A Day with the Dolphins in Cancun

For my little ones 10th Birthday we took her to swim with the Dolphins. Here are some pictures before we had are time with the Dolphins.

Here are the pics from when we finally got to play with the Dolphins.

This is Tara getting a very special kiss from Lucas who is a 1 1/2 year old Dolphin who was so precious.

I got to shake fins with Lucas who was winking at me the whole time. It was so cute.

This was Tara's favorite. She got to give Lucas a big hug and a very special kiss.

Well, that is all for the night. I am still really tired from coming back from vacation and getting back to work. So until tomorrow, goodnight and God Bless.