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The prompt was "hot & cold" this week. I wasn't quite sure how to capture both, so Nancy suggested we each take one word. Mine was hot and her's was cold. It took quite a few shots of the grill before I got the flame I wanted. It's quite the opposite of the goodies in her freezer!
This was one of the first layouts I did for our vacation album, but it was just posted on the Scrap-Mart blog this week so I waited to post it here. Scrap-Mart, by the way, has an exclusive Spellbinder Nestibility label die available for pre-order. Nestibilities are one of my favorite dies, and I especially love the labels.
The Getty Center is one of the most amazing places we've visited in California. We spent about 3 hours there and barely scratched the surface of what there is to see. There are five different museum buildings (we only got through the photography museum) and fabulous gardens. The architecture is also worth the visit as are the views of LA and surrounding areas from the top of the hill where The Getty Center is located.
Cardstock (American Craft); patterned paper (American Craft "Dear Lizzy;" journaling spot (Jillibean); buttons (Sassafras Lass); alpha and brackets (American Craft Thickers)
Mel posted a challenge of sorts on her blog today. Take the 8th photo from the 8th folder and see what it is. I wasn't particularly excited by this image. It was taken on August 23, 2008 on a hike on part of the Finger Lakes Trail. I suppose I was interested in the texture of the image.
But two images down was one of my favorite photos of the day so I'll post it too.
For this image I held my point and shoot down below the flower and shot up. I think I took three or four photos, but this is the only one I left in the folder.
I've spent several days celebrating my birthday. When you get older, that's a very good thing!!! And I'm not really done yet since I'll be celebrating with one of my best friends on Wednesday. The best gift I got was having Sarah and Adam here this week. We had a lovely time, and a big family get-together on Thursday night with lots of food and a beautiful birthday cake.
The icing appears a bit more blue than lilac in the photograph, but lilac it was to go with the annual Lilac Festival in Highland Park this week and the beautiful flowers Tracy sent me.
Last night we had dinner with our book group and when I got home I had an email from Katie telling me to check the Making Memories blog. What a surprise! I was one of three winners of a lovely package of new product just out by Making Memories.
Last month I won another fabulous prize from Moxie Fab World. The Hello, Sunshine papers from lily bee are just so bright and cheerful. I know I'll have a lot of fun using them. I'm feeling very lucky these days.
Today Sarah was off leading a retreat in Canandaigua and Matt was working all day so Tracy and I drove to Ithaca. It was a beautiful day for a road trip and we visited some of our favorite places, starting with the Ithaca Farmer's Market.
We bought quite a few varieties of herbs and a few tomato plants from this stand for our garden. And some rhubarb for rhubarb coffee cake---a favorite of everyone here.
But the market has more than just fruits, vegetables, and plants. There are food and bakery stands. I had a berry scone.
There are pottery stalls, weaving stalls, basketry stalls, and stalls selling homemade food products.
I love the packaging for this Finger Lakes Popcorn!
From there we drove to the Cornell Plantations. I was pretty sure the azaleas and rhododendrons would be in bloom and I wasn't disappointed.
The dogwoods were beautiful too.
And I was glad to find these beautiful blue flowers for a photography challenge.
On our way back to campus this deer appeared out of the woods and was happy to pose for a photo. We've never seen a deer marked quite like this one. He has a neck band and two ear tags.
Our next stop was the book store on campus. I got a new fleece and Matt wanted a set of license plate holders. The Cornell campus is just beautiful.
Our last stop in Ithaca was one of our favorite restaurants. Matt found it when he was there, and the food is always superb.
We did a little shopping at the Waterloo Outlets on the way home and were here by dinner time.
Sarah just arrived home from her retreat which went very well, and tomorrow should be a much quieter day.
Nancy and I decided to choose our own word this week: text. My photo of our BananaGrams game is on the left, Nancy's photo of old family documents is on the right.
We've finished all the "must do" items on our list before Sarah and Adam arrive tonight. They fly into Buffalo at 11:10 tonight. I hope they're on time since Tracy and I were wide awade at 5:00 this morning. It's only 8:00 their time so they'll be chipper! :-)
After exercise class this morning I got to work on three cards that needed to be made. The first is for my BIL & SIL's anniversary tomorrow. Since they'll be here for the family party on Thursday I'll give it to them then. I saw the punched heart technique in a magazine I was browsing through at Barnes & Noble when we were keeping warm there on Saturday night, so I can't give credit for it. The mat on the focal panel is actually green, but came out really dark in this photo.
Card base: Impress; patterned paper: Scenic Route and unknown scrap; sentiment: Saavy Stamps; heart gem: A Muse
The next is a sympathy card; the message is on the inside.
Cardstock: Select White and Sweet Blush Papertrey Ink; embossed cardstock: Creative Imaginations; flower dies: Papertrey Ink; pearls: Michael's; silk ribbon purchased from Ellen Huston
Yesterday I got an early birthday gift from my friend, Mary, when we went out to lunch. It's this beautiful berry bowl. I have nothing like it and navy blue, red, and yellow are my happy colors.
I had lots of fun making this thank you card for her.
Cardstock: Bo-Bunny & PTI New Leaf; patterned paper: Bitty Dots PTI; label and chipboard: Cosmo Cricket "Garden Variety;" alpha stickers: October Afternoon.
Here's the inside of the card:
Patterned paper strip: Cosmo Cricket; alpha stickers: Adorn It.
A question for anyone who has a Typepad account. In my draft, all the images in this post are centered, but none of them are in the published version. Any ideas why?
Before our power went off yesterday, I got two cards made for the Moxie Fab "Three Cheers for Chairs" challenge. For the first card, I debossed the chair to create the dotted pattern and then colored it with Prisma colored pencils. I’ve wanted to try this ever since I got the stamp nearly a year ago.
Cardstock: Lemon Tart
by PTI; patterned paper: October
Afternoon “Thrift Shop,” button twine: PTI; distress ink: PTI; stamp: Memory Box; ribbon: Paper Source; scalloped
punch: PTI; flower from stash.
The next card is for friends of ours who are celebrating their anniversary this week. It gave me a chance to use my new “Chair-ished” stamps from Papertrey that arrived last week.
Cardstock: True Black & Vintage Cream PTI; patterned paper: Lush MME; stamps: Chair-ished PTI; computer-generated sentiment, heart from stash.
Happy Mother’s Day from wintery Rochester! Yesterday a cold
front blew through taking with it our power and pulling down limbs and branches
all over the city. We still didn’t have power this morning and the RG&E’s
estimate was maybe by midnight tonight. Last night we ate dinner Buffalo Wild Wings,
and then headed over to Barnes & Noble. We hung out there until 9:30 when
we finally came home. Thanks to our camping lanterns we could read
in bed until we got sleepy.
This morning we woke up to SNOW!!!! I have to admit it put
me in a pretty unhappy mood. I really hate being cold (the house was down to
58° before we left for brunch), and I still have a lot on my “to do” list before Sarah and Adam get
here---all of which requires electricity. Ah, well.
Here's the Mother's Day card I made for my mother-in-law:
Cardstock: Dark Chocolate PTI; patterned papers: Jillibean and October Afternoon; stamps: Just Rite and Papertrey Ink; ribbon: Pure Poppy PTI; Spellbinder's Oval Nestability & Standard Tags
With Tracy's sister, Jill, and her family, we took Ellie & Bill to brunch today. As we were leaving the street, an RG&E man told us it would be tomorrow before we'd be back online. Jill and Tom have a generator, however, and Tom was headed our way with it, when suddenly we had lights---and most importantly, heat! It was an unexpected and great Mother's Day gift. Hope your day has been filled with happiness and family.
It was a good week for friends. By the end of the week I will have eaten out with eight different friends (not eight times, however!) My photo is on the left, Nancy's on the right.
(Note my friends' dog who looks just like the flag on their porch!)
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