Alice in Wonderland Queen of Hearts

Well I finally finished this project. I wanted to use it as a backing for my July ATC swap. The theme was Alice in Wonderland. Needless to say the backing never made it to the ATCs but I really wanted to finish it. I learned a lot of new techniques and it was so much fun to do; so it was well worth it. Hope you enjoy it.

2010 Heirloom paper arts expo

Another great show. Well the 2010 Heirloom productions expo was a little over a week ago. It was great and had so much fun. Met my sister in law and Terrie in Springfield, Ma.

This year I got to take a couple of classes, both of which I truly enjoyed. One was with Kate from invoke arts (one of my favorite vendors) and the other was from Stamp Zia. Both classes were wonderful. I also found some great stamps at Rubber Neck Stamp Company. I am posting a card that I made from one of their Sophisticated Lady stamps using copic markers.

Snow, Snow and More Snow

Well vacation is over and back to work tomorrow. It has been snowing on and off for the past couple of days; it sure is pretty when you don't have to drive in it. It is really hard to believe that it is 2010. I can remember being a little girl and thinking how far away the year 2000 was. In 2010 I will be celebrating my 39th wedding anniversary, 12 years at Liberty, 22 years in our current home, Max will be 13 years old, the kids are all grown and have families of their own.

Christmas 2009

Well it has been a while since I have posted anything. Life has been a little crazy, but seems to be settling down. I have had a really bad cold for the last couple of weeks which hasn't helped much, but it seems to finally be getting better. Christmas was great. We had Christmas Eve at my house and Christmas day at Cyndi's house. Boy it was so much fun watching the kids play with all of their new toys. I did miss not seeing my oldest grandson though. Hopefully, I will be getting some pictures soon.

Nov. 8, 2009

Well a lot has happened since I last updated my blog, which was only a couple of weeks ago. My daughter gave birth to a lovely little girl, Vivienne. She is such a doll baby. I am working on a digital design of her first day in the world and hope to have it done by next weekend. I was in Boston most of last week and I can't even believe how much it has changed. I stayed at a hotel on the waterfront. I thought getting around the city would have been really easy given that I went to school and worked in the city. Was I in for a surprise. I did get to eat one of my favorite restaurant's Pier 4 and was so excited when the waitress came to the table with a hot popover. It brought back the memories of going there as a child with my parents.
I have uploaded a digital scrapbook page that I did of Slater and Sophia, enjoy.

Family Recipes

Wow can't believe that Oct. is almost over and Halloween is just around the corner. I was hoping that I would have been able to meet my new grandchild this weekend but she just isn't ready to join us yet. I hope that everyone has a "Happy Halloween".

Halloween greetings

With Halloween just around the corner I have been diligently working on my greeting cards. I was hoping I would have been done this weekend, but that didn't happen. I must say though that I sure had fun working on them and going through all of the trinkets and ephemera that I have collect throughout the year. I also have been working on a Halloween themed altered book and as soon as it is done I will post some pictures of it. You would never know that I was never really into Halloween, but for the last couple of years I have really enjoyed working on Halloween related projects. I even decided to dedicate a page in my Italian alphabet journal to Halloween.