Birthday Invitations :)

Here are the invitations I was working on yesterday for Jamie's 6th birthday. The party hat and sentiment are from The Cat's Pajamas, and patterned paper is from SEI's Doodley Doo Boy line - isn't it great?

Nattie is sleeping over at a friend's tonight, so it'll just be Iain, Jamie and me (and the pets, of course!). We're letting Jamie choose what movie we'll watch, so I'm wondering what he'll pick..."Over the Hedge", "Shrek 3", "Open Season", "Ice Age", "The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie"...who knows??

Have a fantastic weekend, whatever you're up to!! I'll be back over the weekend with another card :)

Par-Tay!

I'm working on invitations for Jamie's birthday party next month. I decided to pull out some of the older stamps from The Cat's Pajamas, so I'm going to use Party Hat as the main image. And I found some patterned paper from SEI that will be perfect for little boy invitations :) I'm hoping to get them colored and finished by tomorrow, so I'll post them when they're done! Enjoy your Thursday evening :)

Thursday Hello!

Here's another card made with the "Greetings Blocks" set from Queen Kat Designs. I decided to use this patterned paper from Making Memories' "Cheeky" collection with it :) In other QKD news, the super-talented Ana Wohlfahrt is the Guest Designer for March! Check out Ana's creations for QKD right here.

How is everyone's week going? The weather has been positively balmy here - we went over 50 degrees yesterday! I think the last time it was that warm here was...oh...last fall! LOL! We've been living in Colorado for over a year now and one of my favorite things has been experiencing 4 seasons for the first time in many years!

Yesterday the home healthcare company dropped off a little device that I had to wear last night to measure my oxygen levels while I was sleeping. It was part of the sleep study last week, but since that was done in Denver and we're about 3000+ feet higher up here in Conifer, the doctor wanted these figures too...I woke up a couple of times during the night and the oxygen was in the mid-80s, so still not good. Grrr......

My plans for today are pretty simple: stamping! I was going to work on my part of our team paper for school, but the link in our syllabus isn't working, so we can't move forward with it until the instructor sorts it out for us. Bummer, huh? I'm thinking I'll go up and stamp a bunch of images, then sit and catch up on the last couple of episodes of "Big Brother" while I color them in :) Have a great day!

Just Ducky!

I made these last week when I was on a roll with my stitching! The duck is part of a set by A Muse.

Pink and Green ATC Swap

Hi! I hope your week is going well. Here's an ATC I made for an upcoming swap on Splitcoast Stampers. For the background I used the "Balls" stamp from The Cat's Pajamas: I stamped it in pink, then heat embossed it. The main image is also from TCP and is called "Hatching Sprinkle" :)

Have a happy Wednesday!

Tuesday update :)

Well, my sleep study went relatively smoothly. I think I looked like Medusa with all those probes sticking out of my head! I did get some sleep and was woken up around 6.30am. It turns out that throughout the night my oxygen frequently dipped down to 85-86%, which isn't too good, considering that they usually want it to be around 95%. I was also snoring loudly, according to the technician. He also said that I probably lost 3-4 hours of quality sleep time. That's the scary thing about sleep apnea: even though we think we're getting "quality" sleep, we're not really, because of all the times when we're stopping breathing, and our body is readjusting, trying to get back to sleep.

Next is the CT scan which is being scheduled next week, and then my doctor and I can chat and see what will happen next. Thank you everyone for all your good wishes - I'll keep you posted! I guess "the tank" and I will be friends for a little while longer...

New stamps from Queen Kat Designs :)

This set is called "Greetings Blocks" and will be available from Queen Kat Designs. It's an extremely versatile set!

Off to catch some zzzz's....

I hope everyone had an awesome weekend! I'm heading out this evening to have another sleep study done; the doctor wants to see how I'm doing. The funny thing is, they call it a sleep study, but sleeping with 2 dozen probes attached is virtually impossible....

This photo of Jamie was taken last weekend when we got another few inches of snow. Not much on the ground right now though! In fact, when we got up this morning it was already 42 degrees!

I'll be back tomorrow with a card :) See ya!

Greetings Blocks Friend Card

Hi all! I hope you're enjoying your weekend :) I've been playing with a new set of stamps from Queen Kat Designs this week. The set is called Greetings Blocks and will be available very soon! This is a very simple card. I did lots of stitching around the edges of the sentiment and the card itself to add some texture...I'm thinking this technique would look good on a "guy" card! The striped patterned paper is from the "Elegance" line by Kaiser Scrapbook.

I've posted another card using this set over on the Queen Kat Designs blog, right here. Come and check it out!

It's time for me to head off and get busy reading...I have a paper due on Monday...

Thursday ramblings :)

Here's another card made with that adorable octopus from A Muse :) He's so sweet! I really like the color combo on here - nice and bright!

Nattie made it to the 4th round out of 6 in the Mountain Area Spelling Bee yesterday. There were kids there from all the local elementary schools as well as 6th, 7th and 8th graders from the middle school hosting the Bee! The words were tough right from the start and we were very proud of Nattie and her classmates :) In fact, the boy who won the Bee at Nattie's school won yesterday's Bee too - he beat out all those "big kids"! All of us supporters were thrilled!

My visit to the pulmonologist went pretty well; I still have "the tank" at home and he wants me to continue to use the oxygen at night until he can get a little machine up here to Conifer and get my night oxygen levels (while on room air) measured properly. If all goes well then we can get rid of "the tank" at that point. He's also still a little concerned about my sleep apnea and allergies that might be decreasing my oxygen intake, so he wants me to have a CT scan of my sinus area and do another sleep study. Geez! Will it ever end??? Better to have this stuff checked out though, right?

I'm back in online classes this week for the first time since before the holidays. My brain is not adjusting too well to having to do all this studying again! LOL! My class is "Cultural Diversity in Criminal Justice", so I think it will turn out to be quite interesting. I've promised myself that if I make a start on the research for a paper that's due on Monday then I can go upstairs and stamp for the rest of the day - that's a good deal, right? :) So have a great Thursday, everyone - and as always, thanks for stopping by!