This is a fun quick card! I love Chris’ Love My Coffee designs. I wanted to use it for a cute card!

I absolutely LOVE this coffee cup!!! I am a Starbucks junkie, so I know I will use this a lot. I made the “Thanks A Latte” title myself using Funtime Scrapbooking software.

Hope you enjoy it!

Chris is off an her well deserved vacation. I hope she has the best time!!!

I will post every day while she is gone and try to have a new project to share every day. (I guess I better get busy!!! LOL!!!) The weather here in New Jersey is yucky, rainy. It’s a stay inside and scrapbook kind of day!

I do have one project for today. I took this picture of my 2 kids and my niece a couple of years ago. Zach was 11 and Olivia was 4. My niece, Sophie, was just turning 1. I love this picture! Zach holding Sophie, who is as squirmy as a worm, while Olivia is not at all impressed with the whole thing. I got a few good shots, but this one was my favorite.

I used Chris’ Jumble of Flowers 1. I love how it turned out! I hope you enjoy it!

It is Monday! woohoo!! Today I pack and clean up a bunch of loose ends… so here we go..

Challenge files… those who completed the challenge received an additional two files of their choice from my section of the store. Those files are almost all sent out. I have a few more to go and hope to send them out this afternoon. Those who need to make requests because you completed the challenge. Please do so soon. I do not wish to overlap the duties of challenges. So once the next one is up. This one is closed. I already have a few files put together for the challenge. It should be fun an eclectic again and absolutely without any theme it seems.

Guest blogger… if some of you have been visiting the Creative Teams blog then you know that Dana Tuskey is my guest blogger. I love Dana’s work and I won’t say to much and hopefully she can fully update you on herself and her crafty skills. I may pop in and post here or there, but really I will be pretty much off the grid. So .. Thank you again to Dana for helping me out.

If you are a QMC member then you have a few new files over the last week uploaded. So make sure to check those out.

If you have an AOL address and I can’t get through to your email, my apologies, it seems there is a link blogspot issue with aol addresses. but this could be some of the issues and I am not intentionally trying to be slow in responding to you.

Faith.. from Paperthreads QMC…. I PMd you. If you get a chance send me an email. Thanks.

For all of those who have wished me well on my travels. Thank you! I am truly blessed to have such wonderful blog visitors and friends.

On to life..
My little one is soooo excited. He has a placemat for the table with a map of the US and has been talking about different states and who lives where. My husband probably thinks I am crazy with all my sneaky teaching tools. He needed a placemat and the one I found just happened to have a map on it. 96 cents at Wally World can’t beat that. He wants to know what all the stars are and well those are the capitals. We are having lots of conversation about it all. He is super excited and I am praying that his DVD player battery holds out for most of the trip on the plane. I am not a good flyer. Makes me nervous. My tummy hurt. And I just want off. so luckily we are only making one flight and then we are off the plane. no connects. Wooohoo!! So I am sure we will have lots of pictures to share when we get back.

I gotta run. Doc Appt today. I must have been insane or delusional when I scheduled one for the day before I leave town. ugh. If I get everythng done in time I will post some of my new South Dakota files and my grumpy & silly Bison/Buffalo pair. Have you seen them? i think they are cute.

have a wonderful afternoon!
Enjoy!
Chris

Hi everyone! I know I haven’t posted here yet, but I’ll be taking over for Chris on her blog while she is away on a much deserved vacation! I don’t want to post everything here!!! LOL!!!

Anyway, I wanted to share a story about this layout…

Well the Creative Teams blog is off to a running start. 4 posts going and have you seen the new pieces posted? They are awesome. The designer who will be guest blogging on my site hasn’t post yet I am sure she is saving her posts for the week here.

Where have I been? I have been preparing like a maniac for this trip. Why is it trips take a week to prepare for, a week to enjoy, and a week to recoup from. I have been doing laundry and going through things. Organizing, printing out maps, printing out plans and feeding tips for all our pets for the sitters. Planning for my “puppy” if she isnt super better.

I am headed to Minnesota and Wisconsin and a friend of my Mom’s was just here and brough me a bag of cheese curds. How nice and awesome is that… A week early! Woohoo!

My Mom came out to show of her grandson. It was super nice to see her so impressed with his riding abilities. He is riding his little pony now like a real pro and tomorrow we are going to a Gymkhana to see if he is interested in any of their events. It is like obstacle courses for horses. We have been to the one before that we are going to and it was filled with kids of all ages. There was even a little handicap boy riding his sisters horse as she ran on foot around the pattern. He giggled the whole way it was phenomenal! So we will see if our bumpkin likes any of them and is interested. if so we will come home nd set up the cones and the barrels so he can practice for a month and then go back.

The end of the month is coming and that means it is into June!! June is my birthday month so we shall celebrate. But the May Sales files will be gone. So if you are interested in those please check ’em out. HERE.

Well my little one is buried in the fridge. I know because it has an annoying beep. Which is important in our house or he will stand in front of it and cool the house entirely while he zones on food.

So I will try to keep in touch before I go. But it is a busy busy couple days ahead. Don’t forget to visit the creative teams blog!

Enjoy!
Chris