Cats out of the Bag!

One day last June, I bet Daughter she couldn't get the cat in her purse, even though the purse was big enough. The cat, Spartacus, is 4 years old and weighs 22 pounds. He doesn't like to be held. But she managed to get the cat in the bag. And I had to pay for the purse!

Garage Sale and Future Projects

We finally had our garage sale on Saturday. Both Son and Daughter came home from college for the summer and piled all their belongings in the garage. Because there was already stacks of stuff, more things piled up and nothing was put away. It looked like the tide had come in and dropped all this flotsam and jetsam on the beach.
The first step was to clean the garage. Then we tagged and organized. Early Saturday morning we put it all out on the driveway. We placed "Garage Sale" signs on one of the cars parked out at the main cross road.
When we were finished, four hours later, we loaded all the leftovers in my Jeep and took it down to the Goodwill Donation Station.


This is all thats left, Son's Army gear and the contents of his apartment.

And of course this little beauty. Husband bought this table and five chairs, with one leaf, at a garage sale last month. The idea is to refinish it.

First it will have to be stripped. Then primed and painted. I'd like to paint it black. But I could also see it painted white and the little shell details colored with gold rub and buff.

Here's the pile of chairs. They would look nice painted white, with blue striped fabric. What do you think? Let me know.

I also have several dressers to redo as well.

Hope your Sunday was blessed. Husband and I were at Tuolumne Community Church where he spoke about his job as a Missionary and upcoming opportunities. It was great to be in a different church and meet new people.

Beautiful Beach Day

We finally went to the beach at Santa Cruz last Saturday. It was 105 degrees here in the valley and a wonderful 85 at the beach. We played in the surf, the kids built a sandcastle using only a gatorade bottle and we laid on the sand.

Later we walked up the Santa Cruz Boardwalk, smelling the pizza, corndogs, and candy. We pitched dimes and Daughter's BF pitched baseballs. We ate pizza at a sidewalk cafe then walked back to the car. It was a great day overall. I had been looking forward to going to the beach since April. I had to wait til everyone was home.

And now that Summer School is over I have two whole weeks of summer vacation until school starts up again.

Dreaming of a Beach Day

This week Daughter and I had a big disappointment. We were both in tears for a while.

Then I was visiting one of my favorite blogs, Cindy's My Romantic Home. She had just posted pics of a Seashell Wreath she had made. And posted the instructions from last year. So I closed the computer and we drove over to Dollar Tree and bought all the things we needed. Daughter and I sat down and each glued ribbon and shells onto foam wreath shapes. In a few hours we each had a beautiful personal wreath.

It took our minds off the disappointment for a few hours. But it's still there. Oh, well. Life will sort itself out soon.

Baseball Season is Here!

It's baseball season and Daughter's BF is a pitcher at his college. So I'm back to doing baseball pages. I have quite a few of Son in Little League. I hope my photography skills have improved. I had to get out my old Pentax K-1000 35mm camera!! It is the only camera we own with a great zoom lens. However the zoom lens must be dirty because all the pics came out with a black spot across one side. The pics below were taken with Daughter's Kodak Easy share camera, they were the best photos. I picked 3 that showed action through a pitch.
Thanks for looking, Hope you enjoy.



I love the "tink, tink" onf baseballs hitting the bats. It always reminds me of spring. We live across the street from the high school baseball diamond.

February DL Trip

Seems like there are always pictures of Disneyland on my desk. These are from February 20-21, 2009. This one of Daughter with Peter Pan was done using Hot off the Press Disney Papers. The background and the tag and word strips were all there. I just added cardstock matts and a short piece of ribbon. Peter Pan was funny. Daughter posed with him then he kept teasing her by moving around. She finally grabbed him to hold him down. Good thing she wasn't catching his shadow!

Daughter made BF wait in line at the Princess Royal Walk so I could get pics of him with the princesses. We had plenty of him with characters, but not a princess. Used the Hot off the Press papers again and added Prima flowers. Letters cut out with Cricut's Basecamp cartrige.

Used the Marakech line from Basic Grey. Background paper and rub-on for the journal block, I love this line. The ribbon is sheer between two solid satin strips.

Dear Husband has a hard time smiling and coming out as good looking as he is in person. I took a bunch of shots while Son got him relaxed and laughing. I painted corrugated cardboard, then printed the design on the kraft paper. He looks so relaxed. Away from all the cares of the world. We really hate going back to our real world.!

Experiment in Black and White

I walked into Michael's about a week after my birthday and the first thing I saw was this new paper line from http://www.kandcompany.com/shop/pc/viewCategories.asp?idCategory=769called Que Sera Sera. I fell in love and spent all my birthday money on brads, paper, journal blocks, and a die cut package that incuded paper and plastic overlays. Amazing stuff. So here's my first page. Needs a title but I didn't know what.

So of course kitty was helping me snap the photo!