Florida Vacation 2010 - Naples Country Club!

No vacation would be complete without stopping for a cold one at my folks favorite spot, the Naples Country Club. Its not located on a gold course or anything and I really don't know why its called the Country Club but what I do know is that they have nice cold Coors Light. When you are on vacation, it just is something that you HAVE to do!!

All kidding aside, this page shows Justin getting ready to play the Lobster Tank to see if he can catch a real live lobster. And he did! The Country Club will then cook it for you and serve it up with fries, cole slaw and drawn butter. It was really pretty good.

The bottom picture is a group shot, well kinda, notice no picture of me! What else is new, since I am the one always taking the pictures you don't get to see many of me. But thats the way it goes. I have more pages to make and I will share them with you as soon as I can.

As always, take care!

Florida Vacation 2010 - Babcock Ranch

We took a tour of a real working ranch, the Babcock Ranch. It was a great day to enjoy the eco-tour and see how Florida looks besides just beaches and cement! We saw so many native animals, it was quite a learning experience.

They do a great job of explaining everything, they even supply a young alligator so that you can see one up close. Notice how Justin thought it was okay to look but not touch!!

The swamps were really quite full so we didn't see alot of alligators but it was a beautiful day to enjoy nature in southern Florida.

The next page that I have to share with you is what you would call a "r & r" page; come back and visit me again so that you can see what I mean. As always, take care.

Florida Vacation 2010

Its back to scrapbooking!

Not that I mind, but I am under a deadline to finish the kids scrapbook before the big day! The days to the wedding on June 19, are going by entirely too fast! On the bright side, I am almost done with the "pre-wedding" photos and the book is almost full!

I found out this past weekend, that the "kids" want to show case the scrapbook at the wedding reception for everyone to see! I was so honored, I stamp cards and scrapbook pages because its something for me to do and I enjoy it. To have it on display is really quite an honor for me!

In March, Justin, Kristi and myself flew to Naples, Florida to visit my mom and dad who were vacationing there. There is nothing as pretty as a Florida sunset. Naples is located on the gulf and the house is only a few blocks away. We spent some time on the beach looking for shells and enjoying the beautiful sunset.

I hope that you enjoyed my scrapbook pages, I have some more page that I will post in the next few days. Take care!!

My Spring Flowers

I finally took my camera outside with me and took some pictures of my flowers that are blooming. The first picture is my peony bush, it is one of the early ones!

The yard is looking pretty good, which is good thing as Jim and I decided to host the rehersal dinner here at the house for Justin and Kristy. They loved the idea, now its just a matter of getting everything all spruced up for about 35 people!!

My Bleeding Heart bush, its about 4 years old and this year it had the most flowers! I just love it!

We started cleaning the garage this past Saturday, the last time it was really cleaned was seven years ago for Justin's graduation. So far we got two garbage cans full of "things Jim couldn't part with" and we are only half done!

Some Violas that re-seeded themselves from last year. They really did very well. Maybe it was our mild winter that helped.

I have my menu all picked out and am gathering my recipes so that I can start watching "sales" to get alittle better bargain!

Here is my thought for today:

Life is short, Break the rules, Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly, Love truly, Laugh uncontrollably, And never regret anything that made you smile..

As always, thanks for stopping by!

Lolipop Flowers

Here is another card that I just couldn't resist casing; I found it on a blog that I subscribe to, Flowerbug's Inkspot. She makes the cutest cards, and does alot of punch art. This is where you take your punches and create some really cute cards.

All of the ingredients are Stampin' Up! and here they are:

Stamps: Well Scripted

Cardstock: Melon Mambo, Ruby Red, Pink Passion, Pixie Pink

Tempting Turquoise, Taken with Teal, Bashful Blue, Bermuda Bay

YoYo Yellow, Summer Sun, Barely Banana, So Saffron. Green Galore, Garden Green

Ink: Soft Suede

Extras: Dot Embossing Folder, buttons

Punches: 1 3/4", 1 3/8" 1 1/4" and 3/4" Round, 5 Petal Flower

This card was quite the challenge, finding enough scraps to make the lolliops; but the extra effort was all worth it!

I did find the time to make a Rhubarb Crunch desert this past weekend and used the little bit of Rhubarb up that I had. We just put the bed in last year so our Rhubarb is fairly young, but with the warm spring that we have had it didn't take long for it to go to seed. I had to found a new recipe that didn't take alot of Rhubarb and I did from a cookbook that I have used time and time again. It is a neighborhood cookbook and alot of the authors of the recipes are no longer with us; and I so glad that I have that cookbook it has so many great recipes and memories of the people that supplied them.

As always, thanks for stopping in and take care.

Party Hearty Fishy!

When I seen this card, I just couldn't resist making one for myself! The original design belongs to Kay Kalthoff. Her blog is stampingtoshare.blogspot.com. I thank her for her talent and this very cute card.

All of the ingredients are from Stampin' Up! and here they are:

Stamp Set: Party Hearty, Whimical Wheel

Cardstock: Bermuda Bay, Rich Razzelberry, Crushed Curry, Whisper White

Extras: Black Brad

Punches: Scallop Square, Ornament, 3/4" Circle, Modern Label and Scallop Edge

We had a lovely weather wise weekend in Wisconsin and I will have to admit, I spent most of it outdoors. No house cleaning for me this weekend, I will have to do it sometime this week to make up for it. But it was so nice not to have to be inside. I mowed some lawn, planted some flowers (that I will probably have to cover if the weatherman is right this week) and helped Jim plant a row of potatoes. Today was alot cooler and its suppose to go downhill from Tuesday. So lets just hope that this week's weather will not turn out the way the weatherman predicts!

As always, thanks for stopping and take care!

Sincere Sympathy Card

I got my Sympathy cards done tonight, I used the Embossing Resist technique. I have used this technique before but never on Kraft cardstock. All of the ingredients are Stampin' Up! and here they are:

Stamps: Lovely as a Tree,SincereSalutations

Cardstock: Really Rust, Very Vanilla, Kraft, Brocade Blue

Ink: Bordering Blue, Only Orange, Summer Sun, Night of Navy, Really Rust, Soft Suede

Extras: Bashful Blue Grosgrain Ribbon, Top Note Die, Scallop Oval & Small Oval

Looks like we are in for some rain, which is very good as we continue to be quite dry. Everything looks good but the roads are very dusty and we have had so much wind lately that when we do get a little rain it just drys out very fast. So we will see what happens.

Thanks for looking at my cards, and as always, take care.