My Cross Country Runner

Here we have the "before" picture...all set to race.
And here is the "After" the 3.1 miles in warm weather. Ugh...exhausted. He didn't "PR" but he still came in first for our school's varsity team. His time was 19:45 for 3.1 miles (pretty darn good for a freshman that ran for the first time in July). It's hard to believe the winner came in at under 16 minutes!! That's just incredible.

Look at this candy!

Yummy! Check out Cindy's outrageous blog candy!! I would so love to win this! Wouldn't you???

Stair Step Happy Birthday

Love how this turned out. I used the little $1 acrylic stamps for the medallion and thought it turned out great. For the medallion, I used the SU scallop punch. I absolutely had to purchase the "Wonderful Words" from Papertrey...I had no choice. It was a need. Really. Need. I love them. I would like many more words that cut out so beautifully!!! I think the majority of paper is DCWV. I'm happy with it!

First team in league and third team ALL STATE!!!

I couldn't help but post about my junior daughter. So proud that she was recognized as the awesome softball player that she is in getting selected to 1st team for her league and 3rd team ALL STATE!!! She plays 1st base, and she hit really well this year too! Proud mama moment.

Make and Take Winner!

I was SO excited to be one of the winners to get a little bag of make and take stuff to play with. Cheryl, from the Fiskateers blog sent me a wonderful envelope of Vintage Street Market stuff to play with. Was it ever fun. As soon as it came, I stopped what I was doing and started crafting!! I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it, but it was a blast! Thank you Cheryl!!!

Cuttlekids!

I don't think these are my typical cards, but I just couldn't help myself. I went through my bin of Cuttlebug accessories and had to use the KIDS' Cuttlebug stuff!!! I used the party hat for the banner and I love it! On the bottom card, I used the kids' tulip die. I even used the Cuttlekids cutter! It's so tiny and did an excellent job cutting. It's a shame they didn't make it the right size to accept the border embossers. I think it would be a lot more popular if they had. But, I am impressed with the dies. Some of them are quite detailed and they're all really cute!

Belated masculine birthday card

My dad's birthday was in January. He's getting it today. I have a great excuse though. They (Mom and Dad) went snowbirding right before his birthday and have just returned. I made the card today. Hmmmm. Procrastination at its finest? I had visions of having a great card made and having it and his gift sitting on their dining room table so he'd be surprised when he got home. Yep. It was a great vision.

I love the SU Cool Tools stamp set. It's perfect for any guy, but especially my dad! He's one of those guys that can fix anything, build anything! I paper pieced some of the tools, computer generated the sentiment, and randomly stamped the background. He'll love it.