Love My New Cupcake!

I just got my Stampin' Up! order in just in time for my stamp club on Wednesday. I didn't know if I would get it in time, so had settled on using my Loads of Love stamp set, but it arrived this morning! The new cupcake punch makes this card really easy and fun to do. I got it finished while Kale was napping and now all I have to do is get everything cut for Stamp Club. Everyone is anxious to meet because it has been since November that we have gotten together. Now I'm starting to feel crummy again! I can't wait to get over this hurdle!

It's supposed to snow here tonight. Ava is super excited! We poured concrete for our first floor walls on Thursday, so Dave is taking off a few days before he takes down the supports. So we took a short trip to Columbia, MO on Saturday and did a "little" shopping and ate at one of our favorite pizza places, Shakespeare's Pizza. Then we were home in time to go out to eat with some friends. Sunday was church, lunch, and then naps for Kale and me! The weekend is about to come to an end for us as I head back to work tomorrow! Hope all of you have a good week!

JUGS #66 - My Final Challenge!

So this is my final JUGS challenge as I'm saying good-bye to some special ladies on the JUGS team. I've been creating with them for over a year now! I've had to make a tough decision to step down and focus on things that I have going on in my life. As most of you that read my blog know, we lost our 4 1/2 year old son in June of 2009 to cancer. Since then I have went back to work part-time, had another baby, in the process of building a house (my husband is!), another baby on the way, and planning a rodeo in memory of our son, Ethan, to raise money for neuroblastoma research. I have a ton on my plate and I needed to lighten my load a little! I also have a "huge" goal of getting caught up on my scrapbooking before the new baby gets here in August so I definitely won't be bored (just in case you were worried!).

Pam hosted the challenge this week and GINA K was more than generous to sponsor us this week. I used one of Theresa Momber's sets called Farm Life. I love her designs and this one is no exception. Anymore I try to not make a card to just be making a card, so this one is for a friend of ours that just passed his professional engineering license. I took this myself and know how hard and how much time goes into studying for this. This set works great for masculine cards and I always struggle with making them. All you have to do is make a card, but you need to make a lined envelope to go with it. I usually don't do this, but it is really easy and makes the envelope look so much more "professional".

Hope all of you will still keep in touch via my blog. I'm definitely not stepping away from stamping.....hopefully I'm going to be doing more scrapbooking and stamping. Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!

JUGS #65 Sketch Challenge

This week Kathryn has a simple little sketch to kick off the new year! It really is simple so if you have some time this weekend try it out. I whipped this up, literally, Friday morning for my Grandma. It is her 83rd birthday! She has always teased that she was born the day before she got married. Her anniversary was January 1st.

We are going out to eat for her birthday with the family. Then we are supposed to head out for a New Years Eve party at a friend's house. Hope all of you have a Safe and Happy New Year!

Holiday Decorating and JUGS 64 Color Challenge

Andrea has a great color challenge for us over at JUGS. Be sure to stop by to see all the gals creations. I have a couple homemade gifts to create yet this year and I had made these calendars thanks to Paper Smiles Blog When you go her link you can print off the calendar. There are all the directions on her blog. Here is my creation using the colors for today. I thought they went perfectly for my winter page! I just noticed my "I" is hanging on, so I fixed it, but didn't get a picture!Here is the Spring side! Summer and Fall are in the works. This was all I could manage with both kids this morning!The kiddos and I, very early in the morning, before I left to go shopping in St. Louis a couple weeks ago! Ava and Kale sporting their Christmas jammies! Kale even has Ethan's old reindeer slippers to match!

Daddy and the kiddos before we set up the Christmas tree! Here's Ava putting on the tree topper!
Mission accomplished!

Here is our tree all decorated! It's all just pretty decorations. We haven't put up personalized ornaments since Ethan died, maybe one of these years, but for now this is what we do! Kale so far as been pretty good at not taking down the tree!

Here is me and my girl! Ava is such a sweetheart. She loves to be by my side doing whatever it is I am doing and she LOVES to do all sorts of crafts, wonder where she gets that from?!?

Hope everyone has a great weekend. We have the 1st of 3 Christmas's on Sunday.

Jugs Sketch Challenge!

It's time for me to share a sketch with you from JUGS!! I'm in love with pennants and I'm really enjoying using them in my scrapbooks too. I just finished this page for Kale's 1 year picture.....see I really am trying to stay on top of my scrapbooks. I started Kale's out going backwards and I'm finished from birth through 3 months and then back to October, so I don't have much left to do with his pictures, at least in comparison to Ava's and Ethan's books. my sister-in-law and I are making good progress though and I'm off the week after Christmas so I'm planning on getting a lot accomplished then!< This is the sketch that I created for you today. Hope you can play along. Be sure to see the JUGS site for all the other girls creations too. Here is Kale's One Year Old page. I did this separate from his birthday party. The other page (which isn't finished yet) will have his "BIG BRO" and "BIG SIS" on it. I really like how it turned out!

Here is a closeup of my journaling. I love my new dies from Papertrey. I haven't bought a lot of stamping stuff lately just because I've been a little busy, but I absolutely love my purchases from them last month! The pennants are a die too. TOO CUTE!

I love how the pennant of his name turned out. I printed out his name on the computer and then punched it out and dobbed around it and added it on with a dimensional. Notice the tops of the penants too. They are another die from Papertrey Ink. I purchased the patterned papger from Hobby Lobby and just layered it with some Baja Breeze paper from SU! I added a little twine bow on the ends to complete my page!

Hope everyone has a great weekend. I'm off to shop on Saturday for Christmas in St. Louis. Hopefully I get some of my list checked off! Then Sunday I get to meet up with a college friend that I haven't seen since 2005 when I did RAGBRAI (a bicycle ride across Iowa). She just had a little girl named Marin so I can't wait to meet her!

JUGS #61 Holiday 3D Embellishment Challenge

Little late, but it's still Saturday. I've had some rather BIG computer problems at my house. My main computer is infected with a virus so it is in the shop for the next 10 days or so. Ethan has a laptop so I finally got that up and all hooked up so I could do some things on the computer. I'm very limited to editing programs so I actually edited my picture in "Paint". Here is my take on Kristin's 3D Holiday Embellishment Challenge for JUGS!

I added an ornament to a card for one of Ava's teachers as their Christmas gift. One card down, one more to make!

I've updated my house website too so you can see pictures of the progress. http://www.weimanhomesweethome.blogspot.com/

Hope everyone has a great Holiday weekend!

Start Each Day With WHEE!

I just love this stamp that my Mom got me, Start Each Day with Whee from Pure Innocence for My Favorite Things. Just makes you think of having fun as a little kid. This is a birthday card for a blogging friend of mine, Lynn. Hope she likes it!

I had another long evening last night doing some scrapbooking with my sister-in-law. I was organizing pictures and she was working on layouts for me. It's SOOO nice to have help! My goal is to do a little each day, even if it is only sorting through pictures or working on one layout.

Hope everyone has a wonderful "short" week! Happy Thanksgiving!