I've been tagged!!!

I have been tagged by a couple of people in the last little while - Janet and MichelleO - thanks girls!!!

The rules are:

1. Link your tagger and list the rules on the blog

2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random some weird.

3. Tag 7 people at the end of the post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.

4. Let them know they have been tagged by leaving them a comment on their blog..

So here it is 7 facts about me:

1. I am allergic to carrots, celery, nectarines, pistachios, cherries, apples, walnuts, and almonds.

2. I HATE the texture of rice pudding

3. I crave salty foods more often than chocolate (I know...GASP!)

4. My favourite meal EVER is ham and scalloped potatoes

5. I collect elephants

6. I love Tomato Soup with Grilled Cheese Sandwiches

7. I got married in a black wedding dress

I am going to tag the following people:

Tracy

Donelda

Heidi

Kelly L

Marcia

Susan

Char

Can't wait to learn more about you girls!! Thanks for playing along!!!

HOLY SNAPPIN'!!!!!

We are WELL over 10,000!!! What a great feeling!! THANKS again to everyone who looks, reads, lurks, leaves comments, suffers my incessant nattering & endless photos of Brick in his lawn chair (LOL). I went to random.org and the winner is.................................... (drum roll please).................................

HOLLY!!!! Congratulations Holly!!!You get a very FULL envelope of goodies!!!! Please email me your address & I will get it right out to you!!!!!

Thank you everyone for reading and visiting and commenting!!!

I STILL have one more VERY full envelope for my BLOGAVERSARY gift in 65 days! I will be posting about how to win that one VERY soon!!!!! Keep your eyes peeled and your bananas open!!! LOL (sorry, reallyyyy bad joke of my Uncles!)

Have a great weekend!!!!

Cutest Blog Candy I've ever seen!!!

You MUST check out MichelleO's blog - she is giving away THE cutest bunch of Donkey stamps from Alota Rubberstamps! OMG - TOO DANG cute to describe, GO CHECK THEM OUT!!! Seriously, GO!!! I MUST HAVE THEM!!!! And check out the rest of her work too, it is simply AMAZING!!!!!!

WOW - 9957 visitors!!!

I would have never thought that in less than a year, I would have 10,000 people visit my little blog!! I am thoroughly impressed and appreciative to all of you who have visited and left comments! You have no idea how wonderful that makes a girl feel!!! THANK YOU!!!!

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.......I still have my blog candy envelope ready to give away after my counter hits 10,000...should be ANY day now!!!! Make sure you get your name on THIS POST (click link) to enter your name. Comments on this post or any others will not count - that would take me WAY too long to generate a winner!!! So get on over there, check it out, leave a comment, post about my blog candy on your blog to pass the word!!! People without blogs can still enter, just leave your name and email address so I can get ahold of you if you are the winner!!!! I will post the winner as soon as we get over that HUMP!!!! Thanks again everyone, for reading, looking and leaving comments!!! Love you all!!! ;-)

Donelda's crap...I mean SCRAP challenge! #2

Ok, I forgot AGAIN!!! I was going to take a picture of what "crap" she sent me....whoops!! It was that blue/green water coloured piece in the back, a piece of burgundy mulberry paper, and a piece of glossy CS with alcohol inks on it. The blue/green piece automatically made me think of water, so I pulled out all my "summer" stamps, and chose this one. I paper pieced her swimsuit with the alcohol inked piece, and the tube with mulberry paper (that was HARD to cut!). I added a strip of the mulberry paper, then a piece of the alcohol inked paper and then my favourite summer sentiment. The card base is Bravo Burgundy. I coloured the rest of Tilda with my SU markers!! I hope ya like it!!! I have mailed set #3 of crap - I was nicer to you this time, although you did a FAB job on the last crap! tee hee!!!! Anyone else want to play??? Check out Donelda's blog!

Boy Birthdays...ugh

Why are boy birthday cards soooo hard to do?? I guess cuz you can't pretty them up with flowers or ribbon.....lol..... Here are 2 cards I made, one is for my nephew who is turning one, Paper: Pacific Point cardstock & Designer Series paper; Ink: Pacific Point; Stamps: Magnolia, Gina K (sentiment); ribbon from my stash; stickles
and for my cousin who is turning 5! Paper: Real Red; DP from my scrap bin; Ink: Paletter Noir; su reinkers (watercoloured dog and wall); copic markers (Edwin); black brads; pop dots; stickles; Stamps: Magnolia (Edwin, Rufus, Grafitti, wall)

Our Camping Journal

Tim came up with the idea that I should make a journal to keep in our trailer so we can write down things that happen, thoughts, etc. on our camping trips. This is what I came up with. I used a TAC set that I hadn't even inked up yet (shame on me!) called The Great Outdoors. The paper I used is SU - can't remember which series it is! I used Really Rust paper to go with it, and typed the title on the computer. I coloured the bears with my SU markers. I stamped "camping", "hiking", & "fishing" all over the front and back cover because that is what we do!!

Autumn Mouse

This is one of the cards we will be making at the workshop next week. The layout is one of Verve Visual's MOJO Monday's...can't remember which one!!! The card base is Tangerine Tango, and I rolled on an acorn wheel in the same ink. The scallop circle is Chocolate Chip, and the stripes are Soft Sky & Chocolate Chip. The sentiment is from High Hopes. The stamp is a House Mouse one I've had for a very long time, but he is still one of my faves! The brads are from Michael's.

Sock Monkey Mania!!

I got my new Stampin Up! stamp sets awhile ago, but with the start of the school year, my crafting has been in a bit of a lull. I am planning my first workshop of the season for next Friday & I really wanted to use the new sets Sock Monkey & Sock Monkey Accessories. SOOO Cute!! And for any of you who had Sock Monkeys growing up, you can relate to the "odd cuteness" about the monkeys!!! I made a few, trying to decide which to use at the workshop, and these were my choices. I won't tell you which one I chose - cuz it's a surprise!! This first one is a TOTAL case from someone on SCS - Thanks Patti Lee!!! The base is Riding Hood Red, then Barely Banana (I stamped the banana accessory all over in Barely Banana ink); I layered the circles with Riding Hood Red and white, then cut out the monkey's head and attached him to the white circle. I stamped the grey with Linen Background, then stamped the monkey's head to give him that "sock" texture. I paper pieced his mouth, attached the birthday hat and a pom pom. The sentiment is from Celebrate everything (SU).
The card base is Going Gray, then Riding Hood Red, then Bella Rose DP. This one I did the same with the monkey, stamped the grey with Linen Background, then stamped the monkey. I paper pieced the grey part of his body & glued it on. I also paper pieced his mouth. The sentiment is from the Sock Monkey set.
This card is a very basic layout - as I thought it would give the girls some freedom to put whatever they wanted in the monkey's hand & choose an appropriate sentiment. Same colours were used & I did the same thing with his body as the card above.

Thanks for checking out my monkeys!!!! (LOL)

Our WICKED camping trip!!!

We went camping again last weekend & had so much fun!! We went to a place called Bleriot Ferry Provincial Recreation Area. It is NW of Drumheller right on the Red Deer River. It was GORGEOUS out there!!! It POURED Friday night but Sat. and Sun. were the perfect Autumn days!!!! Bleriot Ferry is a small ferry that takes cars across the Red Deer River - about 42 feet, along a highway that goes behind Drumheller. It was fun!!! Drumheller is famous for it's Royal Tyrrell Dinosaur Museum, as many fossils and dinosaur bones have been found in the Drumheller Badlands. The hills you see in these pictures are world famous badlands!! Here are some pics of our trip!
Here is a pic of our site & our little trailer!! We were far away from everyone else, and were surrounded by trees so Brick could play & run off his leash for the most part!!! We always look for the best place for him.....what a spoiled dog eh??? The campsite had about 28 sites, and there were probably 7 or 8 sites with people in them. I could see it getting really full in the summer though!!!

The gorgeous sunset.

Me hanging by the fire! Tim was playing around with the colours on the camera (Black & White and Sepia)


Here is us waiting to get on the ferry - total trip across was about 4 minutes!!! LOL The ferry was on guidewires. The FerryMan has the BEST job!! He had 2 dogs & they were loving every second of their day!!!! Tim wants his job!!! LOL

Brick swimming in the Red Deer River.
The hills...aren't they cool??

Brick and my awesome fire!!!


My sleepy boy - he was SOME tired Sat. night!!!
The path to the river which was about 20 feet from our campsite!!

The Red Deer River

Tim & I at Horse Thief Canyon. So named because apparently back in the 20s, many horses would go missing from this canyon, and would be found later with a different brand.

The poser!!! He RAN all the way to the bottom of the canyon and then up again - he was a bit pooped after that!!! It was a LONG way down!!!

Tim & Brick exploring a little cave. In the summer, these hills are FULL of Rattlesnakes....yuck!!!!

Thanks for sticking around and checking out our adventures!!!! Hope you enjoyed them!