Argh! My Hair!

No, this photo isn't me! Close to elbow length was! WAS!!!! I went in for a trim today and told the girl to take off "this" much and showed her from the ends to where I wanted it cut. I have all one length hair (after growing out nasty ugly bangs for years). I even reiterated how much to cut after she put that plastic gown on me.

When I have a pony tail, my hair was still way below my shoulders even if the tail was high on my crown. Not anymore! I can hear her snipping away in the back and when she spun me around, my hair was just tapping my shoulders! She had to have cut off 8 inches! I have Rachael Ray hair without the bangs-yuck!!!! I tried to put it into a pony tail and it is an ugly stick out the back of my head thing now. I had 5 inches cut in late January and just wanted the ends trimmed up neat to get it colored. I am sooooo pissed. Hubby said it was okay but this is a man with no frigging hair but a tuft in the front.

I want my hair back!

Catitude

My animals are driving me crazy-even the human one. He went to work at 4 AM and didn't get back to town until almost 8:30 PM. He says if we lived closer, he would be earlier. Liar! If we lived closer, he would still work 12-14 hours a day. I get so depressed when I think of all the stuff I need him to do here and I end up doing them or they don't get done. They create more work and me time goes out the door.

Here is another archived card. I used a base orange card and took that red double-sided tape and made strips up both sides and across the top and bottom. Then I poured on the glitter after peeling off the top protective layer of the tape. Use as micro fine as you can or maybe even Perfect Pearls. I then stamped on a matching orange piece and layered it with black. Then I just popped it in the middle. This is so old, it's fading. I don't use glitter enough as it's such a mess sometimes-last night there was glitter all over the counter in the kitchen and I am sure, in my soup!

The Garden of Life

Today is sorta an anniversary for me. I had my first (of two) dates with hubby before we got engaged. It was 36 years ago.We never had another date after that second one. Once he had me in the bag (or bed) out went any romance. He didn't say a word today either-other than he called his twin sisters to wish them happy birthday. Guess I shouldn't have scheduled my first date with him on a family holiday. It was my only day off from my job and school at the time. Sofa slug is out for the night now. I am talking to my steaming Brussels sprouts.

This isn't a very good photo but it's the best I could muster at the time. This is from my file. Maybe two years ago? It looks more complicated than it really is. A plain cream card (square) is the base. Make two pieces of the front size cut from double sided paper. Cut on the diagonal and save two pieces for another card. Tape the two pieces with opposing fronts showing on the diagonal (tape on the back).Fold up one corner to meet the middle and the opposite corner down to meet the point.

Apply this whole piece to the front of the card leaving the upper right corner unglued for the tag insertion. If you like the distressed look, ink up the edges before gluing this down. Punch out a tag (die cuts or ready tags work) and ink or powder it up using resist methods. Stamp a flower using a ink that is pleasing. Also ink the edges. Use whatever you have in the stash. I used a huge brad with the prongs cut off that I stamped on with Staz-On but a rub on would work too. Pop dot it in the middle where the points meet.

Stamp a phrase in the lower left. I wish I had photographed this outside before sending it because it is so spring-like. I need to make more of this design. It used up a lot of larger scraps too. And is adjustable for any square size (this is 5 x 5).

Triple Sunflowers

I should be in bed-but had too much tea today. I went to Costco and spent a bazillion dollars. Then hit up a stamp store and a scrap store AND didn't get lost. Thanks to my handy dandy GPS! I let my fingers do the traveling on the screen and am finding places I have never known. I always plug in the scenic route!

So this one from the file-many moons ago too-was one of the very first cards I ever made. Nothing spectacular about it but it works. Yellow and black was one of my fav combos when I was in grade school. I always made my mom buy me yellow dresses. Now I would not get caught dead in that color. So this is easy to figure out and I think the stamp image is a small one from Hero Arts.

See ya later this week-with hopefully something current.

He Killed A Tree!

Remember this a while back? Well, Saturday hubby took me down I75 to shop at Whole Foods and he showed me the area where he let his car get chewed. He killed a tree! Poor little tree babe was only about 2 feet tall and just a pine bough and now he is dead. Hubby is a murderer. Damned lucky it wasn't 100 feet farther south-hubby would have nicked the guardrail and gone down a 200 foot embankment into a swamp-and probably killed a troll.

Sadly, no photos. Traffic was moving at 85 MPH. No radar in site. I need Valium on that road!

Lookie What I Bought!

You will never guess how much-normally 9.99-on sale for 6.49! I can't wait to paint!

Love Is The Key

As I try to work thru some "items" in my life, I have promised myself I will stay off the internet searching for the truth that ultimately upsets me. Some of that comes in emails from family. My mom is very ill and even tho I have not seen her in almost 9 years (by her choice I might add), I love her and always will. Unconditionally. Someday I will go into more details but at another blog. I try to keep this one short and sweet but it's pretty tough some days. It helps to write (it's kinda like primal screaming-remember that?)

This is the dreaded square card. I cut a hank of a scalloped piece from Bazzill and added it to a square textured card. Laid a piece across the middle with matching colors-I just love that pumkiny orange (I heard Bazzill is discontinuing some colors and textures-hope this isn't one). Punch out a flower and top with a tied button and pop dot i where the scallop meets the plain centered on the patterned strip. Add a rub on (or a stamped phrase on the lower right (hopefully, not as close to the edge as I did-but that is me-close to the edge).

See you later this week-and go check my other blog for photos of dinner!

May All Your Wishes Come True

I have been gone a few days and will be gone a bit more as I try to catch up on some stuff. I have a sick doggie on top of it. He saw me getting out of hubby's truck the other day and tried to jump out to go with me and hurt his butt/hips area. We think. He went to the vet and had shots and meds but still is not perking up at all. I have to basically play wait and see but nothing appeared to be broken. I wish he could tell me where it hurt.

I found this card in my unpublished file (actually found a bunch of them) so thought I would post it while I remembered. My brain is not working too great recently. I think you can all figure this out as I used a bunch of layered scraps, inked the edges and glittered up the image after I colored it. The photo is crooked but the card is not. The stamps are both from Great Impressions, so ask for them at your local stamp store. They have a SOTM each month and usually a deal if you buy more than one of them from the chart.

I will return when I can find something else worth posting-I really need to shake my brains loose soon.

Creating Keepsakes

May 2008 issue

Page 56

Did she say yes?

Mondays