You may have heard that we had a little earthquake today in SoCal.  The epicenter was about 40 minutes away from where we live and it was rated as a 5.4.  I’ve lived in SoCal my whole life and have been through lots of earthquakes including Northridge and Whittier Narrows (both much bigger than the […]

Bet you never thought you’d hear me say that!  LOL!  I have to admit that there IS one area where Less really is More…and that area is ME!  I have put on quite a bit of weight over the last couple of years.  It started out as a way to deal with grief (gotta love […]

Warning:
the following is a rambling NSR post ’cause sometimes I just have stuff to say.
I love going to tea and have for many years.  It’s not the tea I love (although it’s nice enough) it’s the experience.  Sitting in a beautiful tea room and being served pretty and tasty food in dainty morsels that […]

It’s Saturday and the Dare to Get Dirty Challenges are continuing.  I had the pleasure of being a sample maker for Jen del Muro (genie1314 - the oh so fabulous creator of the Genie Bag) for her challenge today.  You can check it out in the Challenge Forum here.  For today’s card I was very excited […]

Happy Friday everyone!  It’s time for another TECC (Taylored Expressions Cupcake Challenge - cucpcakes not required) Sketch.  AND my card for today pulls double duty as Taylor is also hosting a DTDG challenge on SCS today.  I won’t tell you what that challenge is, but I know you’ll want to play - so go check […]

Even though I stamped quite a bit yesterday, I didn’t manage to get anything posted.  The good news is that I have several cards now ready to share over the next few days.  For today’s cards I combined two of the DTGD Challenges - Jody’s ribbon challenge and Sharon’s challenge to stamp simply.

I started by […]

It’s Dare to Get Dirty week at Splitcoaststampers and there are multiple challenges to play every day through Sunday.  I really wanted to play yesterday, but it just never happened.  For today’s challenges I started with JulieHRR’s because I have been dying to get out some Fabriano notecards and make a set of some sort.  […]