Nice day

I think I mentioned a week or so ago, that my SIL asked me to make her some wedding cards. I love doing that for someone, and didn't want to charge her anything, but she insisted that she pay for them. She said she didn't just like them...she loved them! Hopefully she at least liked them. I made four for her, but one photo turned out blurry, and I'd already given them to her...so sad. She beach themed one is because they are flying to Florida tomorrow for a beach wedding. Janell had this card to make at HC, and I just took the top part and put it on a larger card. The Adore one, is a scraplift from an exchange card I got several years ago and always really liked. The other one is mine...I've had that vellum for quite awhile and thought it would make a classy card. The other one had pretty ribbon and a card holder...kind of a pastel pink/creme color combo. It was fun!

We had a great drive. We were going to drive up to Challis, over to Stanley, down through Sun Valley, and home, but decided we had some work to do so we'd better cut it short. So, we decided to go to Copper Basin because Jeff is thinking he and his father might do their week long horse back trip there this summer. But, after breakfast at the Wayside, we took off and got side tracked at Fish Creek Resivoir. I hadn't been there forever, and Jeff said he had never been there. So that was a long drive on dirt roads, eventually turning to mud. We finally turned around. Then on to Crater's of the Moon and Arco for lunch. Home through Blackfoot, Pocatello, and Jackson...Jackson...how did we end up there? Jeff was showing me where he lived on his dad's ranch...years ago after his divorce from Patty. There are some beautiful, huge homes out along the river.

Fun day. Now I'm trying to get food ready for the BBQ tomorrow night. Hopefully we have good weather. It rained again today, so Jeff decided not to mow the lawn tonight.

I promise

I promise that this is the last of my "animal" cards. You know while I was making them, I kept thinking these are stupid...but now that it's been awhile, and I'm loading them a few at a time, I'm thinking...they aren't so bad. I actually like most of them. I think I just get focused on using things up, and tired of them...then I think they all look alike and they look stupid. But I guess they go to different people and no one will know that there were a bunch of them that all looked alike. A least that's what I'm telling myself...just a little lie.

Today Jeff and I are going for a drive. Hopefully I can get a few photos with my camera, and keep practicing what I've been learning. I haven't even had it out of the case since we got back from Oregon. Too busy. I have been wanting to get the photos from our vacation loaded and then I want to save them to a disc we can put in the photo frame I got Jeff. We haven't used it for awhile, and I think it would be fun. But, we've had too much yard work to do and I just haven't taken time. I'm still using my old Olympus to take photos of the cards and things I've been doing, so I just keep it in my craft room.

Tomorrow we're going to hold a little BBQ since Tricia and Mark will be here around noon. We're excited to see them. Last year they didn't come since Tricia had an ACL replacement done. Should be fun. We've invited all the kids and both sets of parents.

We're almost through with the animal cards

Guess what. This post and one more of animal cards and I'll be done. I'm sure you're all sick of looking at them. But...oh well. Like I said, I'm loving using things up. My trouble is, I never get sick of buying new stuff. I can never resist when I go in the scrapbook store and they tell me..."we got all this new paper and flowers and ribbon...in." Do you want to look through it before we even put it out? Pretty scary that they know they can count on me to purchase a bunch.

Tonight I went with my mother to a Mother/daughter thing at the church. They served dinner and were making crafts, but we didn't stay for that. Ashley (my niece) and Margene (my sister) were doing the crafts. They made necklaces out of twine with a big washer on it. They stamped a name, or a word, or whatever the kid wanted on the washer and then marked it with a sharpie so it showed up. The one I really did want to try was a flower out of fabric. They had six scalloped circles that they made a flower out of and then put it on a clippie or a pin. They were cute, but they had a lot of kids and mother's wanting to make those.

I finished my online class for photography. I didn't really think I got my money's worth out of it, but...that's the chance you take I guess. My class at CSI was so much more worthwhile. Loved that one.

More cards

I am loving using up things. I've still got soooo far to go though. Worked in the yard again tonight, and finally got finished with the flower beds. Now I just need a good day to spray roundup and maybe it won't be so bad for the rest of the summer. Jeff mowed the lawn again, but I think he really enjoys it with this new lawn mower. It only takes him about an hour instead of the 1-1/2 it was taking. And it looks so nice. This mower has a blower or motor or something that actually sucks up the grass and blows it into the catcher. It doesn't seem to get plugged up which is really nice.

The horses were running around tonight. Chief was chasing Boots and when he would stop, Chief would starting biting him. I'm not sure what all that was about, but Chief was actually in a sweat he had been running so much. Stupid thing!

Here we go with another batch of animal cards

I can't believe it, but all 36+ cards were made with scraps. What I did, was to go through some scraps, and if they were big enough to make a card front, I cut them to 5-1/2x4-1/4. If I had matching smaller pieces, I laid them on top of that. When I get ready to make cards, I try to pick from that stack. I then know what pieces I have that match, and I can stamp something that will work with those pieces. For layering, etc. It has actually worked out fairly well for me. I think it saves time when I make cards because I don't have to start digging through the scraps, looking for something.

More of those animal cards

Here's the next batch of animal cards I made. I know...getting boring already, isn't it? Oh well. I'm proud that I've used up something! Right now, I can't even get in the closet to get the next folder out...I stacked up some things trying to sort, and it's a mess.

Worked in the yard again. Maybe one more night and I might make it around the house. Then I've got to get some round up and spray the grasses that are coming up inside my concrete. What a mess.

Using my leftovers

Lately I've been on a kick to use some of my leftovers up. Maybe it's Danelle posting all those cards she has made using up scraps and leftover stickers, ribbons, and anything else she can find. I have way too much stuff and need to cut back until I use it up! So, in the spirit of doing that, I had a file folder marked "animals". I got it out and decided I would use the stuff in that folder up. I made almost forty cards. Scary huh? That I could get that many cards out of the leftovers in one file...and I have how many???

This is the smallest batch that I took photos of. There are six batches altogether, so I'll post another one tomorrow. I gave about half of these to my mom to use for grandkids. I don't know if she really wanted them, but I have way too many!
Tonight I worked out in the flower beds. Now I can barely move. To much bending over. I also got the laundry done...again...and swept off the patio. Guess I'll head to bed now. (After I fold the last batch of clothes.)