Cherries and Buttons

it was a gorgeous day.  perfect if you ask me and i am NOT looking forward to the heat wave that's coming.  sure i like it cool, but NATURAL cool, not this canned air crap.  but that's just me.

puppy went to the groomers.  holy moly!  she looks AND smells fabulous!  they bathe her, clipped her nails, cleaned her ears and trimmed her hair... not that she's long haired... she's not, but just a slight buzz cut of the ends.  no.  i didn't take a picture.  you wouldn't see it on film.  we didn't go to the park but she did get to play with sydney alot.  sheryl was mowing her lawn and i was watching the dogs.  i actually had the 2 of them INSIDE my house... together.  sydney has NEVER been IN my house.  she sniffed around and then wanted back out.  so again they played.

after sydney went home, i headed for my room.  hey!  i need my R&R too... tho it was only for a little while.

boy those hexagons (or honeycomb) sure are popular and i absolutely

love the look.  soooooooooooo, i decided to give it a go.

got out my HONEYCOMB (sizzix) emboss folder

grabbed a stamp from my FRUIT list (one that would 

fit inside the honeycomb, cut it out and there ya go.

i really like it.

ok.  i'll admit.... i cased this one.  no clue who 

did the original as i found it on PINTEREST and

did not make note (i apologize) but  i loved the idea

and decided to try it.  knew i had the jar stamp and who doesn't

have tons of buttons?????

i just treated myself to some chevron paper and reached

for that too.  

i absolutely love how this turned out!

grrrrrrrrr.  ok.  you're wondering why the grrrrrrrrrr.  is it only me or do you have trouble with blogger's autocorrect?  holy moly!  it's a good thing i'm a good proof-reader!!!!!  blogger keeps changing words on me.... ie headed to needed.  really?  really blogger?  if i wanted to say NEEDED i would have typed needed!!!!  ok.  i'm done.

another gorgeous day today and maybe a little house cleaning.  i've got dog hair all over the place with her new trim.  ugh!  then, life as usual!

happy hump day and i sooooooooooooo enjoy your visits!

TODAY'S WORDS OF WISDOM......

A little old man  shuffled slowly into an ice cream parlor and pulled himself slowly, painfully, up onto a stool.. After catching his breath, he ordered a banana split. The waitress asked kindly, 'Crushed nuts?' 'No,' he replied, 'Arthritis.' 

oy vey!

hugs and sparkles,

3D

o is it ever gorgeous this morning.  sunny, cool and breezy.  i opened up the house.  what a difference from yesterday at 89F, hot and humid.  they're predicting today and tomorrow cool and then more heat.  oh well, guess that's why i live in a state of 4 seasons.

i did take puppy to the park in the late afternoon.  she was very happy because we were indoors the whole day.  i played she slept.  speaking of playing, here's what i did....

holy crap!  was this ever hard.  i mean H-A-R-D, hard.

took me over 2 hours to do.  of course, the fact that

i had absolutely NO CLUE on how to go about this.....

but i sooooooooo wanted to try it.  i LOVE this look.

so, here's what i did....

after much trial and error (measuring, placing and cutting)

i decided to use my rectangle dies.  made it a lot easier....

who knew?  yeah, yeah, i know... you ALL knew!

me?  i go by looks.  

so i stamped the image 3 times,

then placed my rectangle dies over each piece and cut

once they were aligned (without adhering to the base)

i colored them; then put it all together.

anyway, this is the result and i LOVE it tho i'm sure

it'll be a looooooooooooong time before i try this again!!!!

taking puppy to the groomers today.  she smells of sydney spit and dog.  so she's getting a bath, her nails and hair clipped (tho she is NOT long-haired), her ears checked and she'll be smelling like a rose - well, maybe NOT a rose, but definitely NOT smelling like sydney spittle!  ewwwwwwwwww.

hope your day is full of fun and thanks so much for all your wonderful comments.  you always make me smile.

TODAY'S WORDS OF WISDOM.....

Frustration is
trying to find your glasses without your glasses.

 

~~~~~

 

Blessed are those
who can give without remembering

and take without
forgetting. 

 

~~~~~

 

God made man before
woman so as to give him time

to think of an
answer for her first question.

 

AMEN!

hugs and sparklies,

In the Pink

ok.  summer has arrived.  it was almost 90F and humid.  i just had the A/C serviced and it's working beautifully, they did tell me i have a leak and it needed 2 lbs of freeon - ugh. (they haven't figured out that DEPENDS is way cheaper LOL)  i'm hoping next year it won't be even more costly.  time to start saving up for a new A/C (shoot me now).  today is supposed to be another hot and humid day, and then we bottom out for maybe the next 3 days.  oh well,  take it as it gets here.

the morning was spent at sunday service.  my pastor did such a wonderful sermon on farther's.  i can listen to him speak forever.  he does it so well.  did not go to the park with puppy at all... just too hot and humid.  she did get to play with sydney for a bit and i mean for a bit.  they ran around the yard ONCE then headed for under the deck.  ok.  time to come in.  no sense panting outside in that heat when you can be comfy in the cool house.  she went to sleep, i went to play.

ok.  i'll admit it.... i'm having fun doing a bit more than CAS.

but.....  i really have to be in the mood for it.

anyway,  had fun with this.  i was in a PINK mood.

everything is from my stash.  the shiny paper

is by ACMoore; i punched the stars out in some

gorgeous glitter paper that a friend of mine in the UK sent

me ages ago (thank you gina)

i love it!  you know me and pink!!!! 

keeping with the pink mode, i switched to CAS.

grabbed a swirly stamp (dollar bin) and stamped

all over; the center flower is from an old SU set and i

set it down on a scallop circle (SU punch) and added

the bling.  a little busy for me but i like it.

won't be doing much of anything today as it's another hot and humid day.  if i'm starting to miss the park walk, i'm sure puppy is really missing it.  maybe it'll cool down later and we can go for a short walk!!!

hope your week is starting off full of sun and fun!

TODAY'S WORDS OF WISDOM.....

Now that I'm older here's what I've  discovered:
 1.    I started out with nothing, and I still have most of  it.

2.    My wild oats are mostly enjoyed with prunes and all-bran.
  
3.    I  finally got my head together, and now my body is falling apart.
 4.    Funny, I don't remember being absent-minded.
 5.    Funny, I don't remember being absent-minded.
 6.    If all is not lost, then where the heck is it ?
 7.    It was a whole lot easier to get older, than to get wiser.

8.    Some days, you're the top dog, some days you're the hydrant.
 9.    I wish the buck really did stop here, I sure could use a few of them.
 10.  Kids in the back seat cause accidents.
 11.  Accidents in the back seat cause kids.

and now you know

hugs and sparkles,

The Miracle Drug

ok.  the weather made a liar out of me.  it rained - sprinkled really - just for a little bit in the morning and then turned very summer-like - which translates to hot and humid!!!  my leg ached terribly so i took 2 advil (the miracle drug in my opinion) and took it easy.  worked like a charm.  i got to play AND later in the day took puppy to the park.  turned out to be a great day.

playing is my room is definitely my rest and relaxation.  i didn't, for a few hours, even think about my leg and i  DID get creative... more than my norm.  you tell me...

o boy!

this was NOT easy.  it actually took me well over an hour to do

and that's not me.  i definitely needed patience for this... which, if you ask me,

was the advil - LOL

anyway, i used white and ALWAYS ARTICHOKE (SU)

the background embossing is LOVE IS IN THE AIR (cuttlebug)

the window frame die is MY FAVORITE THINGS

the window emboss is BIRDS & SWIRLS (cuttlebug) and

then i took my E50 copic (egg shell) and colored

around the embossing.

the leaves were punched with my EKSUCCESS punch

and the flowers are actually a corner punch and then

i cut off the flowers (yep.. that's where the patience came in)

then i used a bookplate die (SPELLBINDERS) for the tap.

i hand drew the stitching, added the sentiment and some

white liquid pearls on the flowers.

i LOVE it!

supposed to be in the high 80s today and i'm sure it'll be on the steamy side.  i'm off to church and then another day of just doing what i want.  life is good!

TODAY'S WORDS OF WISDOM....

Morris returns from the doctor and tells his wife that the  doctor has told him that he has only 24 hours to live. 

Given the prognosis, Morris asks his wife for sex.

Naturally, she agrees, so they make love.

About 6 hours later, the husband goes to his wife and says, 'Honey, you know I now have only 18 hours to live.  Could we please do it one more time?'

Of course, the wife agrees, and they do it again.  
Later, as the man gets into bed, he looks at his watch
and realizes that he now has only 8 hours left.

He touches his wife's shoulder and asks, 'Honey, please... just one more time before I die.'

She says, 'Of course, Dear,' and they make love for the third time.

After this session, the wife rolls over and falls asleep.

Morris, however, worried about his impending death, tosses and turns, until he's down to 4 more hours.

He taps his wife, who rouses.
'Honey, I have only 4 more hours.   Do you think we could...' 

 

At this point the wife sits up and says, 'Listen Morris, enough is enough I have to get up in the morning... you don't.'

a lady after my own heart - LOL.

hugs and sparkles,