Blessed Mother

I am blessed to have a loving, talented Mother. She will be 80 years old on April 7^th and she is amazing. She loves to cook and trips to her house always add a few pounds to my body. But it is definitely worth it! In years past, she has been a superb seamstress and gardener. The thing I love about my mother the most is her faith in her children. She has always encouraged me to do my best and has been a great example for me to follow. She and my Dad have been married for over 60 years. Wow!!!
When I saw the new SU set "Blessed Mother", I thought of my Mother. This card is in honor of her.

March is Birthday Month!

March is such a big birthday month for our family. There are six family members and three good friends with March birthdays. Needless to say, I have been devoting most of my stamping time to fulfilling this need. Most of them are men, so I am really challenged to make cards without a lot of frills. Here is the card I made for my hubby who will be turning 55 on March 27. Gotta love the "Lovely as a Tree"!!

March is Marching On

We are having a beautiful Spring here in North Carolina. It is still not warm enough for me to want to be outside in the garden very much, but by the end of this week that should change. March Madness provided much stamping time for me this past week-end and I have several items to share. I will give one a day so I have blog posts for the entire week! Woo Hoo!! When I started this blog I had no idea it would be so difficult to post daily.

 The first project for this week is a baby card I made for one of my Sunday School girls. A few years ago I taught a 5^th grade girls class. Now, one of them has a baby! I am feeling really old! I used the Baby Bundle stamp set and pretty papers from the Sweet Pea stack. I know Destiny will like the card and especially the Target gift card tucked inside.

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great Monday!

Where Does the Time Go?

Just because I have not posted to my blog doesn't mean I have been idle. I have been crocheting every spare minute I have and when I am home, these mini clip boards have been my passion. My sister and I are planning to do a couple of craft shows this fall and I wanted to get started on some things. I understand that these are great items that sell well.
Hope you enjoy!

Boy, What a Wonderful Week-end!

Well, I haven't done any stamping for a while, but I have really been enjoying time with my daughter. She is a junior at Bob Jones University and she took a long week-end to come home. One of the many things she wanted to do was learn how to make my "famous" Monkey Bread. Here is the recipe and a picture of her creation. She did a great job!

Quick Monkey Bread


1/2 cup chopped pecans

1/2 cup sugar

1 tsp. ground cinnamon

3 (10 ounce) cans refrigerated buttermilk biscuits (honey butter flavor)

1 cup firmly packed brown sugar

1/2 cup butter or margarine, melted

Sprinkle pecans evenly in bottom of a well-greased 10 inch Bundt pan. Set pan aside.

Combine sugar and cinnamon. Cut biscuits into quarters; roll each piece in sugar mixture and layer in pan. Combine brown sugar and butter; pour over dough. Bake at 350 for 30 to 40 minutes. Cool bread 10 minutes in pan; invert onto serving platter.

Yield: one 10 inch coffee cake

 
I have also been working with yarn. I don't know what got into me, but I just decided one day several weeks ago that I needed to crochet…..or knit. So, I have been doing both. Here is a project I finished over the week-end. I hope to see it on one of my favorite little girls soon!

 Hopefully, I will have some paper crafts to show this week!

Oh What a Beautiful Day

It has been absolutely gorgeous in North Carolina today!  After a few morning hours in the yard, I came in to finish up these two cards so I could share them today.  There are so many March birthdays in my family that I don't know if I will be able to keep up.  Most of them are men, so I really have to get busy with the masculine creativity. I just got an order with some new sets that should help with that.

Hope you enjoy!

Happy Hump Day

I love Wednesdays!  Why?  Because I get to go to church tonight and learn from God's Word and fellowship with some really awesome people!  Wednesday also marks the middle of the work week and that means the week-end will be here soon.  Don't we all live for the week-ends?!!

I wanted to share another card I made while stamping with my sister and niece a few weeks ago.  Seems like lots of our friends are saying farewell to their parents.  Though we know they will be reunited someday, it is still so hard to part with them.  I will be sending this one to a special friend who recently lost his father.