Blah Blah Blah!

So the painting is almost done. I finished almost all of the trim tonight. I have one spot literally 1 foot wide to paint but I need the ladder which means I have to move my car and well. It's cold outside so tomorrow! Dave is doing ok, he's been really tired lately. His sleep is all messed up. The last couple of days he's also been really really hungry. It's the first time he's really felt hunger since he broke that part in his head! So I suppose that means he's healing!

Tonight Dianne and I attended our first Copic Marker Club Class. It was so fun! Simone is so fun and a great teacher. I can totally see why Emily loves taking her classes so much! We went out afterwards and laughed all the way through dinner! It was good to be out and about.
Here is a card I made for the color challenge over at Paper Craft Planet. The colors were Ivory, White, Old Olive and Certainly Celery. I also worked it into the Christmas card challenge over at Linnecards.com for Scallops! 2 birds and all! The stamp is a retired SU set Trim The Tree I also used Stickles(I know your shocked)!

Here's a funny! Emily lost a tooth tonight and she left a note for the Tooth Fiary. She wanted to know her name?(Answer: She just listened to the Wicked Soundtrack while painting....um working so the answer was Idnia) She also wanted to know what would happen if she saved up all of her teeth and left them for the Tooth Fairy all at once.(Answer: Nothing she said she would just visit once but still give her the same amount for each tooth.) And lastly she wanted to know which the Tooth Fairy preferred. Apple Pie, Brownies, Cake or Candy. She asked her to circle one please. (Answer: The Tooth Fairy is smart she just circled Apple and said she didn't care for sugary snacks just fruit!)

Have a great day I'll close with this:
I received this email from my Aunt Judy today! Have to share it's exciting news for the tiny little town I grew up in!
Lowell just won over Griffith with 28 seconds on the clock, One more game and they will be playing in the Indianapolis dome!!! GO RED DEVILS! 19to13

Working Working Working

Well with all the excitement yesterday everyone was truly exhausted. After I grilled hamburgers in the snow and we ate.then everyone relaxed a bit. Dave finished sanding a couple of places and then it was off to bed. It was completely quiet so I finished most of the living room tonight. I have a little touch up on the edging to do and it's done, well only the trim to do.

Then I had some time to myself to stamp. My piece is drying right now so I can't share yet. In it's place I'll share some cards I worked on last week. These stamps are from Impression Obsession. I love these cute little snow people. The cards are Fabrino which I used my watercolor crayons on and a little bit of stickles! The colors remind me of snow!

Have a great Day!

Update and This Weeks Feature

First for the update. Dave is doing better. He will have surgery on the nerves for the paralysis on the left side. This will happen in mid-December just after his birthday. Happy Birthday to him. He'll be in the hospital recovering. Today we drove into the city for some more tests. We took the girls out of school, especially Emily I wanted her to see where Daddy would be and that it's not so scary etc. etc. We were up at the crack of dawn so we all came home and slept for awhile then went to a movie(HSM3 yes Dave loved this.......HA). We had planned the zoo but walking around with temps under 35 are not acceptable to even me! It's been snowing off and on for the last day. It's pretty but I'm not ready I feel like I missed fall!

Ok so yesterday I painted more, I almost have the living room done. Dave's Dad came and did up near the ceiling for us. Dave spackled and sanded and spackled some more. I have to do a double coat on some walls and then do around the lower trim. We also started one wall in the DR tomorrow it's back to the painting! Lots of spots need to be sanded.

This weeks feature over at Linnecards.com is Pink Paislee. What fun I used some of there stamps to make this bright Love card. Colored with my Prisma color markers. Working on my shading! Check out what everyone else is working on Here!
Ok so I have tons of holiday project photos to share that will be coming up this week! Happy Monday!

OH my even more!

No photo today! They will be back tomorrow! Sorry! Ok so we were up at 6:30 getting ready to head out the the Dr. this morning. Randi stayed with Em and took her to school the rest of us headed into the city. I will say traffic wasn't terrible we got there a little early and they took him right away! It did take over an hour but hey we were home by 10:45. Anyway, Dave is going to have surgery to figure out what is wrong with the nerves on his left side. This will take place next month. On Monday we start going for Scans and the basic preparations for surgery. The recovery time from the surgery???? At least a month.... So now we've cancelled physical therapy that will wait until after the surgery.

Our field trip for Brownies was cancelled. So I had to quick come up with something to do for today. We are hopefully going to the Vet. soon so we focused on animals! So we would have questions when we get to our field trip. Em is trying out another dance class tonight though it's full. Ooops! So that's about it for today. I'll be back tomorrow with more.

Veterans Day!

So for Veterans day we're doing Peace cards. A little known fact about me is that I am a Veteran. I never served in Wartime though. So anyway here is my Peace card. All images justjohanna's Oddbird Planet. I colored the topiary with my Copics and the word Peace is done in Doodlebug rubons.

For the Dave update: He's doing a little better everyday. The bruises are almost completely gone and his left eye is starting to go from red to pink and even white in some spots. He sanded some of the walls today for about an hour but physical stuff really knocks him out so he had to rest. That will just come with time. Tomorrow we're heading to the ENT specialist that does nerve damage to find out about the paralysis and hearing loss. His stomach issues are all over so far it seems everyone has had it but Emily(knock wood). Hopefully it's all over!

Nothing big happening today rain, sleet and even snow. I did get my hair done(which is probably why it's raining). Just my luck! HA! I made and took some cookies over to Dianne's DH for his Birthday. I suck, I totally forgot and when I did remember it was over. Better late than never I guess? That's all for now I'll let you know how the Dr. goes tomorrow! Stay dry!

Ahhh Monday!

It's a true Monday here. On the phone all AM trying to make appt's for various things Dave needs done to him. 2 steps forward 2 steps back etc. Oh well.

He was pooped last night after Mr. Schumann left. Way to much excitement! He went to bed before the kids around 8:30 and slept all night therefore he was up this morning with the kids! Later he was back in bed with a stomach ache maybe residual from the giant meal we ate on Sunday? Who knows after a nap it was all gone.

Emily tried out a Musical Theatre dance class tonight. This week she is sampling classes to see what she likes. This one she loved but it's at 4pm which means we would have to run to class as soon as she got home from school so we're going to try a Jazz and Hip Hop she even said maybe a Tap at other times to give her a little break in between!

Here is another Holiday card from last weeks Camp. The dots are stickles but it's hard to see in the scan! I love the color combo! Have a great day!

Getting in the spirit

Dave seems to still be recovering from his stomach issues. He's asleep on the couch right now. One of his friends is driving down from Oshkosh for the day so hopefully that will perk him up.

I'm trying so hard to get into the spirit of the holiday's not just for Christmas Card camps but for the Holiday Bazaar's and Open Houses coming up. It's hard to create cute holiday stuff when your head is still in summer! So I found these really cute cookies at the grocery store and made them for the Camp Friday. They were cute even before they were baked(I slaved in the kitchen you know!). It was perfect weather to be baking though or I guess I just had the oven on! HA
They were also cute after they were baked and very yummy! This reindeer cracks me up! I also ordered some new Holiday music from the library mine is getting a bit old! How is everyone doing with their Holiday plans?
Why not make some cookies today!

Winter is Coming

It's been a busy day here. Dave well he slept most of the day he wasn't feeling very good in the tummy so he slept and slept. I don't think it has anything to do with his head injury except maybe his eating habits aren't really back to normal and he eats so sporadically that may have something to do with it? Anyhoo Sharon and Lily invited us to the movies this morning to see Madagascar II it was really cute and so sweet of them to invite us. We had a great time! Then the girls had their Kids Craft class over at Craft Fancy. They love this Simone does such a great job with them. Whatever they made is a secret until Christmas. They are funny though they just want to show it to us! Also Dianne and I met Sarah Moore today quickly she was cleaning up after the class she taught. It's very cool to put a face with a name online!

Yesterday we saw our first snowflakes. Nothing to speak of and none on the ground but they were there in our faces none the less! ICK It was snow/sleeting as people left the Christmas card class last night. Maybe I didn't need all of the Holiday Cookies, Cupcakes and Candy? And then Anne brought some beautiful Christmas music for us to listen to I could have just turned on the backyard lights and watched it spit at us! Nah that wouldn't have been as much fun! This was another card everyone made. They made 2 of each card. We had lots of fun!
Hope your weekend is wonderful!

Friday AM

Well this morning Dave asked if he could take the Halloween boxes up to the attic. Seems a little crazy to me, I think I'll go up the ladder this time!!!!! It seems like it's a good day today! Still early to tell.

Camp is cut and ready to go for tonight! Emily is going to ROCK her spelling test today. Abbi is better she went to dance last night and seemed fine she was a little thirsty and said her tummy hurt just a little but no sickness. Later I'm going to send Dave over to the grocery store to pick up the Christmas Cupcakes for tonight. It will be good for him to try!

Here is a Christmas Card for tonight. The ribbon looks a little odd in the scan????? It doesn't look like that IRL, I don't get it! Anyway everyone else is using a green gingham that works perfectly but I only have 12 pieces of it so the sample had to be different!
Have a great day!

Thursday

Dave was completely exhausted from all our running around yesterday. So he slept well last night. Today we went to our regular Dr. he gave Dave the go ahead to start working from home next week. Also an order for physical therapy and we were told he should tape his eye shut at night when he sleeps. Since it doesn't close all the way. Other than that he's good, tired again the waking up and running around but he's good.

Abbi on the other hand complained of a stomach ache, which we thought was because she really didn't eat this morning. In between appts. today she lost her cookies. And then started yelling at me I told you so! Apparently I didn't take her stomach ache seriously enough for her. (bad mommy) Oh well, she's all bathed and in bed and Dave is resting down stairs.
This is a new stamp I got. She's from Stampland. I love it and in case you can't tell from the pic it showcases my love of stickles since I stickled every little star. It's very sparkly!

I have some more stamping to do so have a Great Day!

Wednesday

So Dave is ok he rested yesterday and slept all night which is really good. Today he see's an ENT and hopefully will get his ears looked at and cleaned out that has been a goal for the last couple of weeks. This Dr. did his residency with Dr. Clymer so that should be good. We'll see what else he has to say about the broken bones in the ear and sinus' and how their healing.

The election is over and the lines weren't long at all around here midday anyway. Although voting for judges was a forever list, or so it seemed. The speaches were touching and thoughtful and it was over way sooner than I thought it would be. Now hopefully we can move on, well, after we over-analyze what happened and how it happened and how even though, it seemed to go smoothly, it was ever so wrong! HA Job security for the news people I suppose.

Other than that I've been painting yesterday I got the big square up above almost done. The low area needs to be touched up but that is easy and today I did the big outside wall up at the top except the edging. I need to move the stuff on the floor and go around the bottom but again easy peasy lemon squeezy as my girlies say. I tried to start the wall with the window but the sun was way to bright that will have to wait until later when it's not coming through right into my eyes.
Love love the Gnome Home stamp from Odd Bird Planet. Cute cute cute! I colored it with Prismacolor pencils and doodled around the edge with a fine tip pen.

That's about it for our home today the kids are back in school and things are getting back to some sort of normal hopefully!

Election Day!

Finally Election Day is here! I'm a bit tired of listening to and getting all the campaign stuff. It will be nice and quiet after it's all over. The girls voted at school yesterday. Abbi was crushed her candidate didn't win(in the school) she cried and couldn't understand why no one liked her guy! Poor kid it's hard to explain to a 5 year old.

Here is my little fashion designer and mouse. It was so nice on Halloween they were pretty warm the sweatshirt didn't last long nor did the beret. Who knew? Abbi had a boy in her class dressed up like an Eskimo very cute but Oh my I bet he was steaming by the end of the night!
Dave has been resting after his 24 hours of no sleep. I think maybe his medications are keeping him up. We'll have to keep an eye on that.

I almost forgot this weeks Linnecards feature is masking. Here I stamped these Doodlebug presents over and over masking with a postie note! I love my postie notes for stamping. I colored everything with copic markers. The fun patterned paper is American Crafts! Be sure to check out the gallery and what the other designers have done! And the store has the Tim Holtz masks in WOO HOO they are going to fly out the doors! Must have the barbed wire!!!! Have a great election day hopefully the lines won't be tooo toooooo long!

Monday Monday!

It's been kinda eh around here. Dave didn't sleep for almost 24 hours he's having real trouble with that. But he went to bed around 5 tonight and will be there the rest of the night I'm sure. He was kinda sluggish today and we're with a slight wind I'm worried about him and the eye that doesn't blink or close. He wanted to go out to the hot dog stand for lunch so that was our big outing for the day that and to the post office and the toys r us for me to show him what I wanted to get the girls for Xmas. He talked on the phone a bit after that and that was about it for him he was done after all that!

In hindsight it seems kinda silly I needed this color on the wall so badly we needed to paint? I mean really it's not that different from the white! Anyway the half done living room is starting to bug me so I'm going to start painting what I can with my new long reach thingy my FIL brought over. If I do one wall a night after the kiddos go to bed I should be good. This is the wall Dave was painting when he fell. It's hard to see how high up it is. Here or the scratch marks made by the ladder as it came down. YIKES!

The furniture is all over the place there so that we had paths for him to walk through when he got home and we could sit down if need be.

The offending ladder is there on the floor. I think I may put it out at the curb this weekend.

Oooh and here would be a picture of a Fox I saw on my way home from Subway(dinner YUM) tonight if I could have gotten my phone out of my purse quicker to take a photo. It went around the fence on our street and disappeared in the Alaska House's backyard? Makes me glad my yard is fenced in! Not that I have dogs or anything but he was on a mission! Just running along!

So that is our Monday!

Good Day(Saturday)!

So Dave has had an excellent day today! He's going up and down the stairs on his own and talked to friends etc. I even got him to do a little library research on the Internet for me and he emptied the top half of the dishwasher! He is a little bored but that's ok if that's what he wants to complain about I'll take that any day over double vision and pain all over his body! He's sleeping much better and seems to be eating better as well! So it's all good today!

Here are some cards I've been working on with the Oddbird Planet rainbow stamp. It's just so cute and I used more googlie eyes! HA