Bugs and Flowers!

I have promised and promised and promised to soon put pics here, well here are the ones you really want to see. Not my child with his twin at McD's. hee hee hee....yes, I just called Matthew a monkey LOL. This idea is not my own, and none of them usually are anyway. We have a coach that has once told us there are only two original ideas and the rest are cased. So my thought! Work smarter, not harder.......case away....but always add in your own touch and make it yours :P And I will when I put this card together myself later. But I love the idea and it is so simple. When you use just a few colors, it makes everything come together so perfect. We know how overwhelming all of our color choices can be, so pick one or two you want to use, and then boom.....a few circles, a few stamps, a few eyelets, and a wonderful card. If you want to recreate this let me know and I will get you the list of what you need. When create these ideas yourself, let me see what you are doing, and if you want them posted here or on the website let me know. The more ideas we have to go off of, more sparking we have for our own creativity. Yes.......what I am saying is I want to case your ideas too LOL :P~ Have a great day!

Views of the Week

Hi guys! I will truly be glad when this month is over!!!!!!!!! For those of you I haven't had a chance to talk to. It has been a lousy couple of weeks. The AC quit....had a freon leak..........which dog decided to drink. I don't think I need to explain that dogs should not drink freon. The same day I realized I had to pay $250 to fix our AC unit, she died. This ofcourse had to happen two days before Matthews b-day, then I had to tell him just hours before. Then the begining of this week spent the first two days in court to help defend the kids I babysit for. It has been rough! That's the crazy of my last two weeks.



On a good note! Not that I don't think the above was of God somehow, it's just hard to find the good in that ya know! We do get to keep the kids. The court found favor with their Dad who I work for, I have two more kid-os that I will be keeping for a total of 4 come the end of August, so today so I could car pool them from school....Zach took me to buy a van...it's done. I am the official soccer mom now LOL. We got a Dodge Grand Caravan Sport. Which also means Zach got a new car too. He gets my Camry since we traded his in hee hee hee. It's win win for all of us.



I am going to go to bed, but tomorrow I will post a really cool sample of a card I found today. Just didn't seem right with this post. Talk to you all soon.

A Crazy Last Week!!!!!

Will you ever forgive me......it was a crazy and exhausting week last week, and before that.....well just crazy.

Matthew had his 8th birthday yesterday, and what a wonderful day it was for him. He had two different parties (lucky little turkey) and we had a great time visiting with friends and family. Here is the cutest little picture of him at his McDonalds party LOL!

Lazy Turns Crazy!

I thought summers were supposed to be lazy LOL! Well mine sure has been crazy, but I guess that is a very good thing or I'd be complaining about being bored........please define that if anyone knows.

SU has been extra busy and I am so excited about that. Jenny and I are going to Creedmoor here in a little while to do a party and I am excited! This is her first with people she doesn't know so I will be there to catch her if she falls :) What are frineds (and uplines) for????

Have a class scheduled for Tuesday, but only two people are coming :( I guess because it is summer it's just a little busy for everyone. This was supposed to be my challenge class....I'm taking on scrap booking.....not very good at it, but I took it on for that very reason! So I've come up with some cute ideas, now we'll see how they turn out!!!!

Steph, I promise this week I will put the picture program on the new computer, and start posting pics as well. I know how devistating it can be to have to read with out pictures LOL! Whatever would our kiddies do?

Okay, just wanted to check in. I am really going to hide away in Rita's luggage. My Rita demonstrator is going to Denver for convention. I want to go :( I will be there next year! I'm sure she will be bringing back some great new ideas for us to case too :P Can't wait!

A Day in the Life!!!!

Today, I got to spend some time with two really cool friends (who are also SU demonstrators). I have to say, it really is uplifting to talk about what we do and lean on one another for support and ideas. It helps refresh the soul when you are out of ideas or even low on encouragement. Today I was taught, and in return got to teach. That is what growing is I guess. I am so excited about where I am going with my business. Everyday I am watching it grow, and that makes me proud.

I spent the afternoon at the pool with the little ones, and besides Matthew being a natural born fish, Zachary has learned to have NO Fear jumping off the side. Scares me to death. Praise God for baby life suits. Now he floats LOL!

In the next few days I will try to start posting some pics. I have been working on some new samples with the new sets and am having fun figuring out what works and what doesn't. I am really really loving the in color. I need to start pulling away from them some so I don't neglect the other color families :-) It's becoming very easy. LOL By the way, notice the side bar colors - looks alot like wild wasabi and blue bayou ;-P

Open House Day!

Today I have my first open house with the new catalog and as I am very excited. I haven't started posting pictures yet.......but I will. The make and take I put together last night I cased from another website, then added a few of my own ideas. I was told once there are only 2 original ideas and everything else is copied. That makes sense. You can't reinvent the wheel! But the card came out really cool. I really really really love the new incolor this year. I feel sorry for the other four sets of colors......because I am having to make myself use them. They could very easily be neglected this year LOL! Well, if you read this and you didn't plan on coming out today, reconsider!

My Very First Blog!

Tonight I had a wonderful group of ladies here for a home party and realized that the entire world blogs and everyone is on myspace. How funny! I really am getting old! So...as soon as I figure out all the ins and outs of this, I'll start posting cards and stamps and lots of fun stuff :-) You guys are always welcome to check out my website too at http://caroladoyle.stampinup.net