Mom's Birthday

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM

For mom's birthday we got her some beautiful flowers that Veronica did for me.

They were absolutely georgeous.





Veronica also put the cutest green butterfly on the arrangement.



We had Fran invite mom over for coffee so we could sneak the flowers in. Then we called mom in a panick and surprised her with the flowers and a cake.

It was great. Fran came over too and we all had the cake and coffee.

House Warming for Mom's Friend

So it's friday morning and I am having a leisurely day. Then she springs it.

"Crickey, can u help me make a cake, I have a house warming to go to."

SureMom, meanwhile I know what she wants...LOL...I end up making the cake and all the decorations.

I think I did a pretty good job too. Only took me about four hours.

It was three layers, all buttercream icing with white cake. It looked awesome.

TOP FLOWERS - ALL ROSES



SIDE VIEW - POKA DOTS AND TRIM



It turned out awesome.

However, "dum dum dum", when dad went to put it into the box to transport it. The "LOSER" put his finger into it. LOL. At the time though it wasn't too funny.

But that called for an emergency fix. Thank goodness I had some extra icing. It looked good as new when it went out.

I am told it was good. I don't know for sure though because I didn't try any. But I can tell you those people that ate it were probably on a good suger high for the rest of the day.

Stamping Bella's Challenge

Emily issued another challenge to use a button on a layout and any of the following colours for a combo. Red, black, cream, or baby blue.

I did a layout with the new Ketto's, some stamps from Inkadinkado. It turned out awesome.

The fan and latern are all 3D. It looks awesome up close, now I just have to figure out what picture I am going to put with it.

Face Cream

Had a great day at work! Came home, ate, and watched some TV. I was kinda cold so before I went to bed I decided I would take a quick shower before I went to bed. When I got out my face was pretty dry, so I decided I would borrow my mom's face cream. Seemed pretty normal...until I wake up the next morning with an orange face and two orange hands.

Scary.....

Apparently on the bottle, when it says "glow" it means there is self tanner. WOW! Was the blonde showing then.

Of course when I went into work the next day everyone got a good laugh. My self included.

Just goes to show you, if it ain't yours don't use it!!

PJ Crop

Veronica hosted an amazing crop on Saturday, the theme PJ's. Over 30 ladies joined us. Here we all are in ournight wear.


I had an amazing time at the crop. We had two card swaps that were hosted by Vern. The cards were amazing. Everyone did such an amazing job. The food was fantastic as was the store. Got lots of work done.I will upload the photos from the card swap tomorrow to show all the lovely work.

Workshop Retreat

WOW! It certainly has been some time since I wrote.

I am getting ready to go to the Workshop's retreat in Collingwood. I am so excited I don't think I will be able to sleep. Well I will try. My bags are packed, my fingers are twitching and I am ready to emerse myself in glue, gitter, and all kinds of fun stuff.

I am bringing quite a bit to work on. Hopefully I will get a lot done, and be able to post some more work I have completed.

Well got to get finished organizing.

Cottage

Got to spend some time at the cottage last weekend. Sarah and I left Friday night around 11pm. We had to make a small detour at Sarah's house but then we were off. Driving through Bradford and the smell of the farms and the onions is one thing I miss about living there. Every year you could smell these amazing smells, the fresh vegetables, the cow poop being put on the fields.

So on our way up Sarah and I encountered the WORST fog I have ever seen in my life. I could not see three feet in front of me. It took us almost three hours to get up north, not including the extra time we spent because i missed the cutoff, mainly because i could not see it. At one point on the highway we were doing 30 mp/h. Can you believe that. I was horrible. But luckily we got there safe and sound. I was up really early on Saturday Morning, about 6am. Got some really great shots of the fog on the lake.

I love this photo. It has to be one of my favorites.

We ended up leaving sunday afternoon. On the way home while in Barrie there was this horrific accident that took up two lanes on each side of the highway. We managed to pass it just in time.

There was debris all over the highway, it was like a mine field trying to avoid all the bits and pieces.