Laura's Creations

Crib pads and skirt

2012-01-22T20:15:00.002-05:00

I'm not sure if I'm a slower sewer because I'm old or because I was making it for a friend. But making crib pads and skirt kicked my butt! No pattern pieces, just measuring was a little nerve racking, too. But all turned out well and the momma loves it.

No onward to finish a wall hanging. I'll post when I get it done!

Pretty Ditty: Peek-a-boo lamp shade makeover/tutorial

2011-12-28T14:40:00.000-05:00

I have a messed up lampshade and found this. How cute!!

Pretty Ditty: Peek-a-boo lamp shade makeover/tutorial: The above lamp has had a tough life since I've adopted it. It's endured the birth of three babies and has been knocked over, dragged, pok...

World Card Making Day October 1, 2011

2011-10-02T18:26:00.007-04:00

I was told it was time to do another Shoebox Swap. Since I quit selling for Stampin' Up! I haven't made the time to do these any longer. Wendy McKenzie and I were talking about me setting one up and came up with 10/1/11 World Card Making Day.

I scheduled the church and posted on the Living Springs Stamping and Scrapbooking facebook page as well as sent an email out to all my 'scramping' friends. Then, Stacie Mandrell asked if we could make it a Scrappin' Creations event also.

It was good to get back together with old friends and make cards. We worked from 10am-3:30pm creating. The ladies did stop to have lunch - made by everyone (salads). The cards were made with Stampin' Up! stamps, Close to My Heart stamps, Cricut cartridges, Cuttlebug folders, Sizzix folders and so on. Please click the title to go to the facebook page with the cards.

Easter 2011

2011-04-25T21:14:00.005-04:00

We had a great Easter - very uneventful. The Easter service was long but nice. The Bells played the prelude ("Because He Lives") and we were perfect! I had to choke back the tears!!

After church service, we came home and made a quick ham, mac 'n cheese, green beans and rolls. Wendy and Meredith McKenzie came over for dinner and brought a great potato salad and dessert! After we ate, we went to see "Rio". A cute movie!

Audrey was beautiful and Evan was handsome for church. Hope you enjoy the pictures.

The Turnmire family (Audrey, Bob, Laura and Evan) after Easter Services.

Audrey and Evan Turnmire after dying the Easter eggs.

E2 Giveaway

2011-04-25T12:37:00.002-04:00

Everyday Cricut is giving away a new E2! You just need to go to their website and follow the instructions on what to do to enter. Someone has to win - give it a chance!!

Joy of Love - Day 3: How He Changed

2011-02-03T21:39:00.003-05:00

Evan's day! I was thinking about this picture today. Evan was born 3 weeks early and his birth mother smoked. The combination produced a small baby. He was right at 5 1/2 pounds. His legs were so small. I thought he would break! It didn't take long for him to grown - by leaps and bounds. My friend, Anita Dye, offered to make his baptismal outfit. He was baptized at 4 months old. She had to add a piece to the outfit so it would fit!

So, as you can see - Evan has changed a lot in 12 years!

Joy of Love - Day 2: What They Look Like

2011-02-03T21:30:00.002-05:00

After Day 1, Audrey and Evan both said 'Are you going to take our picture EVERY day?' So today, I got one shot and one shot only. Audrey is 14 and a freshman at Spring Valley High School. Evan is a 6th grader at Summit Middle School.

Joy of Love Day 1 - What They Do

2011-02-03T21:14:00.003-05:00

I joined this photography log to get back into using manual settings on my camera. So you will see some good pictures, not so good pictures, etc. Day 1 is 'What They Do'. I took pictures of my daughter, Audrey, doing homework. I think my favorite picture is of her hands.

Cricut Cartridge Storage

2011-01-05T23:20:00.011-05:00

I hate carrying those large boxes for the cricut cartridges to a CROP. I found the instructions on http://splatpat.blogspot.com. It took 1/2 hour to make and since I got the ribbon box on sale, it was $5.50 to make! Taking my cartridges to crops won't be such a hassle now! The top picture shows all the boxes that the storage replaces! Pretty great idea!

Awesome Job!!!

2010-11-17T20:09:00.006-05:00

My friend, Sue Matthews, is a great scrapbooker. She sells for Creative Memories and does beautiful pages. She has a spread featured on http://www.allisonrdavis.blogspot.com/. Her layout is from her trip to Alaska.

Check out the blog. Alison has some great sketches on her blog. Enjoy!!!

Christmas Cards

2010-11-13T16:51:00.002-05:00

Check out this beautiful Christmas card Shelly Watson made! Mine will definitely pale in comparison!! Shelly's blog is www.paperandflowers.blogspot.com.

Another Day in Paradise

2010-11-09T11:24:00.002-05:00

Have you ever thought it would be great to stay at home and do absolutely nothing?! I have always dreamed of it. We'll I'm in day 9 of just that and........it's BORING!!! I thought I would've been able to sew, or scrapbook or stamp. It's just not working that way.

I have been showered with care by Bob, friends from church and friends from work. Bob's barely had to cook! We've had some delicious food including desserts. That's Evan's favorite part!

I want to be more productive tomorrow. I am going to plan to do SOMETHING! Even if it's just a little bit of stamping. I am in deseparate need of thank you cards.

Surgery

2010-11-08T12:53:00.002-05:00

Wow! It's been forever since I blogged! I had surgery last Monday (11/1/10). The first 4 days were horrible, but it's getting better now. I had my first full cast put on today. Next week, I'll get another cast as well as have my 13 staples taken out.

I truly thought I was going to be able to scrapbook, stamp and/or sew by last Thursday. WHAT A JOKE!! Maybe this week.

Here's my lovely foot:

Writing in the Blog

2010-05-16T20:13:00.002-04:00

Man! I really stink at this keeping my blog up! I'm in a creative slump right now, too. I have 2 swaps I need to get ready for so I need to get out of the slump.

Spring semester is done at Columbia College. WOOHOO! It was a rough semester - I took 3 classes. Between the 3 classes, working at BCBSSC, directing 2 Handbell Choirs at Living Springs Lutheran Church, Audrey's soccer games and Evan's baseball games. I was exhausted by the end of the semester.

I met my sisters Pam Deselem and Louella McElhaney, cousins Jo Donaldson and Dee Swager, my mom (Penny Harmer) and my Aunt June Perkins in Virginia a couple of weeks ago. It was a great time. We decided we needed to have an annual event of getting together. Did you know Blacksburg, Viriginia has a 'Fork and Cork Festival'? All the local vineyards were there - and each had around 6 wines to test. What a great time!! Wine and family - not whine and family like when my kids are involved.

We said good-bye to a special lady today, Alma Brantley. She died last Wednesday. It was a great - although long - service. It wouldn't have seemed so long if it wasn't so dang hot in the church. But she deserved a great send off and I think it was fitting.

I'll try to be better at updating my blog. Have a great week!

Donna Downey Giveaway

2010-03-21T11:40:00.002-04:00

Today's sponsor on Donna Downey's giveway is All U Need Scrapbooks. They are a (semi)local company from Florence SC. The company is fairly new, but doing great! Their work is awesome. Visit Donna's site http://donnadowney.typepad.com/simply_me/2010/03/sunday-giveaway.html#comment-6a00d83451929069e20120a95e6aab970b and All U Need Scrapbook's site http://www.allyouneedscrapbookkits.com.

Finally an update!

2010-02-22T22:02:00.028-05:00

It has been awhile since I've done a post! I am so busy. Between work, school and the handbell choir it seems I'm always doing something.

The scrapbook pages below are some of the ones I did at a weekend retreat. I had a great time, thanks to Sue Matthews. And I met and made some great new scrapbooking friends.

The cards are from a Saturday Wendy McKenzie and Kathy Brennan came over. We decided to get together to make some cards. We are going to do it again. It was fun. Bob made us dinner. Next time, Audrey's making us lasagna! I have a great husband and kids!!

I hope you enjoy my post!

Pictures from Christmas decorating, the house, the Christmas ducks and Christmas morning.

Pictures taken at church on Christmas Eve.

More Christmas Eve pictures. It's a photo shoot

after the service every year!

The pictures below are the pictures we received in cards. I love getting them and started scrapbooking them years ago. This year, it took 4 pages!

Bob, Audrey, my mom (Penny Harmer) and I went to the Franklin County Conservatory for the butterfly exhibit. I love this exhibit (and my page!!).

Miscellaneous pictures.

Used the Teardrop Cricut Cartridge for the font on this page.

An annual event!

Columbia United Football Club Rec Team - the Mustangs.

SC State Fair pictures.

Rodney Atkins concert at the state fair.

Girls weekend at Lake Summit, NC - thanks, Sally McMaster Nash!! ;o)

Don't look too hard at the cards - one may be coming to you!

I love butterflies and flowers! Can you tell!?!?

Oh, yeah! And martinis!! YUMMY!!

Blog Candy

2010-01-07T18:35:00.002-05:00

Hey! Kathy @ http://thedailymarker.blogspot.com/ is giving away some blog candy. All the items in the picture below are being given away!

More ducklings

2009-12-26T20:12:00.003-05:00

We're up to 3 ducklings - Merry, Christmas and Noel. They are all so cute. I'm so glad Noel hatched because Christmas was by itself, all lonely. The last 2 are just being fed by humans, not a lot of contact. Hopefully this science fair project will win a regional (or dare we hope) state award!!

Baby duck

2009-12-24T04:44:00.002-05:00

We have our first duckling that hatched. It's name is Merry and came out of the egg around 4am on Christmas Eve. So sweet!!!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!!

2009-12-05T15:26:00.002-05:00

Evan and I are decorating the Christmas tree. Oh, how I love the holiday season!!

Spent 2 1/2 hours this morning at Scrappin' Creations with Stacie. I did the December scrapbook layout. No it wasn't that hard - - I sat around and chatted!

I'll post pictures later!

Christmas is Around the Corner

2009-11-01T16:52:00.002-05:00

Can you believe Christmas is only 54 days away? Has anyone started Christmas shopping? I'm trying to find things to make for friends and family. What to do, what to do!!

The budget at BCBSSC is almost over. I almost have my life back. I can't wait until Tuesday - hopefully the Sellers meeting will go well.

Lutheran Youth Encounter

2009-10-23T23:57:00.002-04:00

We have 2 people from the Lutheran Youth Encounter staying with us. They came in on Thursday night and are leaving Saturday morning. Matt Plank and Heaven Harper are both awesome young adults serving God. The Turnmires wish them Godspeed.

Baylor Deselem

2009-07-26T19:50:00.002-04:00

Congratulations to Baylor Deselem, my nephew! His heifer won 1st place at the Clark County Fair today. The funny part is then it went wild and stomped on Baylor's foot! OUCH!

Below is a picture of the cutie-putootie Baylor!

Purple Martins

2009-07-25T12:11:00.002-04:00

We went to see the purple martins come to Bombing Range Island last night. Is was AMAZING to see that many birds at one time. They estimate that there are 700,000 birds that come to the island at night. We had purple martinis to go with the purple martin tour, too! That was good, too!

Ohio Trip

2009-07-21T21:56:00.005-04:00

We got back from Ohio today. We were there for my nephew, Ethan's, graduation and to meet our new great niece and twin great nephews. It was awesome to hold so many new babies in one day! They are (from left to right) Fin, Alyssa and Graham.

Ethan not only graduated from high school, but he made it to State Track meet finals and played football in Hawaii for a couple of weeks. He's going to Wooster College on a partial football scholarship. We are very proud of him! Not only is he talented, but handsome, too! One of the pictures on the hometown paper website is below. I swear he paid the photographer to follow him at the track meets!

Magnolia Monogramming

2009-07-05T10:06:00.004-04:00

Here are travel drink glasses I sell for $15 - which includes a monogram of 1 or 3 initials.

4th of July

2009-07-05T00:34:00.003-04:00

What a 4th of July! We hung out at the pool most of the day. Then went to 5:05 church service. Afterwards, we went to the park to here Coastal Breeze play. We had a great group of friends from Living Springs Lutheran Church join us: Retha Murray, Kathy and Ed Brennan, Anthony and Krista Gutteriz, Wendy McKenzie and then the kids, Audrey, Evan, Marisa, Mitchell, and Meredith! Great time!!

We came home and put off fireworks. Evan was CRAZY!! But it was fun.

Weekend

2009-06-28T21:15:00.002-04:00

Audrey made it home from camp! She had a great time, enjoyed old friends and made new friends. I'm glad she's home. Surprisingly, so is Evan!!

Went to a scrapbook crop from 9am until 11pm Saturday. It was excellent. I got 14 pages completed! WOOHOO! Thanks to Stacie Mandrell (owner of Scrappin' Creations) for hosting it. Unfortunately, I could only attend the one day out of three. Imagine what I could've gotten done if I was there the whole time!!

I'm very sad it is Sunday and I have to go to work on Monday; but the good news is we're off on Friday.

Have a great week!!

What a week!!

2009-06-25T23:08:00.002-04:00

What a week! First of all Governor Mark Sanford is missing, then admits he is having an affair. Then Ed McMahon dies, then Farrah Fawcett and lastly Michael Jackson. Icons from my teenage and adulthood. Although Michael became kind of a whacked out guy, he was awesome when I was in high school and college. He sang (and wrote) some of the best music to dance to. My Zeta sisters and I dancing at the Dixie Electric Company is one of my favorite college memories!

Speaking of Zeta Tau Alpha (ZTA), the Eta Pi Chapter is once again having a reunion. This time in Cincinnati, hopefully in October. It's been over 20 years since I've seen these women I love and cannot wait to see them again!

Audrey will be home in 2 days from camp. YEAH!! I miss her very much. But I will be at a scrapbook crop when she comes home. I'll have to take a break and come home to see her!

Have a great Friday!!

It is AFRICA hot!!!

2009-06-20T16:22:00.016-04:00

Bob and I are trying to get the yard ready for a church get together. But it's so hot, we floated in the pool! I threw Oscar, Meredith McKenzie's and Wendy McKenzie's dog, in the pool!! He won't get near me yet - and it's been over an hour ago!

Audrey's leaving for confirmation camp tomorrow. She'll be gone for a week. Evan is excited - I'm losing my buddy that keeps me company when Evan has all-star baseball practice and games! I'll miss her a lot, but it's good for her to be gone. She loves it!

Pictures from today include dh, Bob, throwing Audrey in the pool and pictures of a tag album I'm going to sneak into Audrey's suitcase tomorrow. It's from K and Company. I love the way it turned out. I put 3 bible verses in it: Galations 3:26-27, John 3:5 and Matthew 5:14.

Flower Soft

2009-06-15T22:11:00.003-04:00

Kathy Brennan came over tonight. We played with a cricut cutting machine and flower soft. The flower soft is really cool! We added it to a wheelbarrow for the flowers then made flowers on pieces of cover wire. I'm not sure which one is more fun!!

Both Audrey and Evan has sports camp this week. Audrey is in an 8am-5pm basketball camp and Evan has a 1/2 day baseball camp. Audrey CRASHED on the sofa around 7pm! Unfortunately, she woke up and is watching MY vampire movie - The Lost Boys.

Have a great week!

Carolina Girls Shoebox Swap

2009-06-15T00:38:00.020-04:00

Saturday was the 7th Carolina Girl's Shoebox Swap. We had a great time! The cards and other items we made are below!

Last week, we hosted Jenifer Luceno from Watermark Denmark Youth Encounter group. It's amazing! We have hosted 4 years now and we have been so lucky and blessed to have 4 terrific people! But what makes Jen so special is she's the first lady we hosted. Audrey was thrilled! Jen's first 2 hours at the house were spent braiding Audrey's hair. A week later, and the braids are still in! Below is a picture of Audrey, Evan and Jen. Evan is such a goofball! He just finished baseball practice when this picture was taken. He normally isn't that sweaty!! OK - he normally is, but we'll pretend he isn't!

I also want to say congratulations to my nephew, Ethan, who was mentioned in one of last year's posts. He made it to State Finals in Track and had never been on the track team before! He is getting ready to go to Hawaii to play football for two weeks, too. What a way to end your senior year in high school!

I'm back!

2008-11-12T21:40:00.001-05:00

It's been a long while since I posted on the blog. It was when the corporate budget got hot and heavy at BCBSSC. It's finally over and I'm getting my life back.

And what a life - - arguing with Evan about homework, forcing Audrey to study....

But I'm glad we're through with the budget!

SLACKER!!!

2008-09-24T21:51:00.002-04:00

WOW! What a slacker! I haven't blogged since August. That's about the same time the budget at Blue Cross began. Imagine.....my life came to a halt when that started.

Evan is now playing football, Audrey's with Dent's Volleyball team and recreation soccer has begun. Oh, how we love the fall.

It has finally started cooling off here in the south. It was only in the 70s today. Definite football weather.

Well, since the name of my blog is 'Laura'a Creations', I guess I need to get creating. Hopefully this weekend.

To all my friends who live in the Houston area, I'm glad you all are OK with minimal damage. Good luck!!

New School Year

2008-08-20T21:47:00.004-04:00

Well, Richland 2 starts tomorrow. My kids are depressed because they have to go back to school. Evan is now going to Lonnie B. Nelson and Audrey is still at Dent Middle in the TWO Academy. I start back at Columbia College next Wednesday. I'm taking Biology - scary!!

Evan broke his hand on Saturday. It's his first broken bone. He's never had a stitch. The cast is bright orange and lime green (see picture).

My nephew, Ethan Deselem, was featured in an article in my hometown newspaper. He's quite the handsome one! I'm very proud of all my nieces and nephews, but it's very exciting when one is written about in the newspaper!! Here's the link: http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/s/content/oh/story/sports/high-schools/2008/08/21/sns082108tabnortheastern.html.

I hope everyone is well!

Evan turns 10!

2008-07-19T23:08:00.002-04:00

My baby boy turned 10 yesterday! He's such a sweet boy, but can be mean as a snake. He had 6 boys spend the night (YIKES!). I, of course, left at 9pm and went to the movies. When I came home at midnight, they were all still awake.

We got up early and took the boys, Audrey and her friend Meredith to play paintball. In the matter of 2 1/2 hours, the 10 of them went through 6000 paintballs!

Tonight, we had a group from church over for horse races. We raised money for one of our members who had brain cancer. Not a lot money, but anything is better than none!

Dentsville American All-stars and Evan!

2008-06-28T23:06:00.002-04:00

Win # 2 for the Dentsville American All-stars. Tonight's score was 14-6. We were up 4-0 then the Blythewood team tied it up. It made all us Mom's very nervous!

Again - Congratulations to the Chapin National All-stars and Tripp! They won again tonight, too. A bittersweet night for Tripp's dad, Steve and me! We now have at least 2 more games in the tournament, if not more.

Congratulations, Dentsville Americans!

2008-06-27T23:34:00.003-04:00

Evan's all-star team (the Dentsville Americans) won their first tournament game tonight - 13-1! How awesome is that? Evan did a good job fielding, but the only time he got to bat, he struck out. There are interesting batting rules; very strange!

Also, congratulations to the Chapin Nationals and Tripp! They won 24 to 1.

Evan says......

2008-06-27T23:33:00.002-04:00

'and the winner of the blog candy is.....Gidget!' Congratulations Gidget!! I'll get it to you as soon as possible!

Fresh Cut = Quick Cards

2008-06-23T23:46:00.005-04:00

Have I told you about the Fresh Cut special Stampin' Up! is offering now? It's a beautiful stamp set and comes with 15 4"x4" laser cut square cards and envelopes. You can view the stamp set and the laser cut cards at

The cost is:

*Buy just the stamp set for $21.95
*Buy just the Fresh Cut Notes for $8.95
*Buy the Fresh Cut stamp set and purchase the Fresh Cut Notes for $5.00

I love the set and with the the note cards, you can make cards in 3-5 minutes! It's an quick and easy set to use. The card you see here uses the Fresh Cut Notes and a small insert. The insert and stamp pad are Rose Red. A 'watermark' was put on the insert before attaching to the inside of the card.

Retirement List

2008-06-23T22:06:00.002-04:00

The retirement list came out on June 15th. You can view it at this URL:

http://www.stampinup.com/us/documents/Retired_Lists_0608_US_A.pdf

If you would like to order any retired sets, please give me a call. I am offering free shipping on all retired sets ordered.

Hope to hear from you soon!

Blog Candy

2008-06-18T23:01:00.003-04:00

Good Evening! I'm offering my first blog candy. For those of you who do not know what blog candy is, it's FREE stuff!

How do you win this blog candy? Here you go - - On Saturday, June 21st, I will post my first stamped item. Everyone who posts a comment on the stamped item from Saturday through Monday will have their name put it the drawing. How will I notify the winner? You have to keep checking my blog!

The blog candy is the Stampin' Up! stamp set 'From the Garden'. It is found on page 21 of the Spring/Summer 2008 catalog. If you don't own a catalog, you can see it at: http://catalogs.shoplocal.com/stampinup/index.aspx?pagename=shopmain&fsid=b9ce5f0b-5c2b-4cd4-99e8-79d1c068e5e8&storeid=1038724&circularid=12339.

I hope you play the game!

Thanks!

A new kid at home

2008-06-15T23:08:00.003-04:00

Hey! Our church (Living Springs Lutheran Church) has a group from Youth Encounter come in each year. This year, we have Capative Free East (http://www.youthencounter.org/Default.aspx?tabid=165)
at the church. James Mehring is staying with us this week. He's very talented; he sings, plays the guitar and plays the piano. He writes music, too. If you would like to hear him sing some of his songs, go to http://www.myspace.com/therealjamesmehring.

This will be a very busy week. With an extra person from Sunday-Friday to get ready and get to the church every day at 8:15. Then I have to pick up by 4:30pm. But this week of camp at the church is so enjoyable for Audrey and Evan! Then on Friday afternoon, Audrey will leave around 3pm for a weekend in Philadelphia. Lucky stiff! Poor Evan is upset, but we try to do special things with him while she's gone. We'll let him have a friend over on Saturday night.

I hope everyone has a great week!

New blog banner

2008-06-15T00:59:00.002-04:00

Thanks to Beth Silaika at Freckled Fun Designs (http://www.freckledfundesigns.blogspot.com/) for designing my blog banner! I love it!! Thank you for working on it for me!!

Stampin' Up!'s Retirement List

2008-06-14T17:22:00.001-04:00

Tomorrow (June 15th), the retirement list for the Spring/Summer Catalog comes out. I can't wait to see it. I need to set up some stamp camps for this summer! Hopefully, our scrapbook group will get together on Friday. I get more done when we're all together. I love being with friends, working and laughing!

Harry Grohman's funeral was today. His oldest son, Robert, gave a wonderful eulogy. It was tough, but he got through it. It was very eloquent and sounds like he's on his way to be a Lutheran Pastor. He would be great with the teenagers and could relate to them.

Tomorrow is Father's Day. Are you ready? Evan wants to go to WalMart and get some fishing lures for his day. The like to fish on vacation - whenever that will happen this year! Evan's on all-stars and could play baseball through July. YIKES! The beach is calling me!!!

Goodbye to a Dear Friend

2008-06-11T20:12:00.003-04:00

This morning, I got a call from our friend, Trish. She was calling to let me know that a good friend, Harry Grohman, passed away on Tuesday night. Bob and I have known Harry and his wife, Brenda for many years. We have watched his children grow up and grandchildren come into the picture. We have spent many holidays with the Grohman's including July 4th, Memorial Day as well as numerous Super Bowl parties!

God be with you Harry as well as Brenda, Robert, Christian, Jonathon, Julie and the grandkids!

Our Ohio Trip

2008-06-10T22:47:00.007-04:00

We're back from Ohio. It was a quick trip, but I saw my Mom, 3 sisters, nieces, nephews, brother-in-law and his wife. We got into Ohio on Thursday, my nephew Baylor's birthday. We went out for Mexican that night. When we were leaving my Mom's house, she said 'Is there any reason I need to take my purse?' Being the good child, I didn't say anything, but though 'NO! Just to pay for your dinner.' Of course, Bob and I paid. She thinks we're loaded. HA! Far from it!!

Friday, I went through one of my Mom's closet. I found 2 pairs of palooza pants from the 70s. My niece, Kelly, LOVED the turquoise, pink and green ones. She usually dresses all in black - goth. She decided to wear these to her graduation party. It was too funny! She looked great! You can tell she was having a good time at her party. Her friends really care about her, too. A lot of them came to the party. They played duck, duck, goose (yes, high school students) and cornhole (midwestern game). Bob and I cooked about 30

pounds of barbeque pork for the party, potato salad, macaroni salad, pasta salad. I hope everyone who came enjoyed it.

Evan helped clean the barn with Baylor and Ethan (my nephews). He also helped bale hay. He found out how hard it was to work on a farm. He smelled so badly the night he came home after cleaning the barn! YUCK! When we went to Richard and Karen's (Bob's brother and sister-in-law), he rode a 4 wheeler. All in all, Evan had a great time!

On the way home Monday, we stopped at the Longaberger factory in Dresden, Ohio. The factory is open and one can watch the baskets being made. The workers work FAST! We found out it's because they get paid by basket, not by the hour. Audrey and Evan each made a basket. Not many 12 and 9 year olds can say they made a Longaberger basket!

As much as we like seeing our family, we're very happy we're back home. I could've used a day off to catch up on my sleep, but went to work today. I'm exhausted!

Hopefully, I will start posting some crafts this week and not just blogging!

Traveling to Mom's

2008-06-05T01:05:00.002-04:00

We're on our way to Ohio for my niece's graduation. I'm writing in a hotel room outside of Bluefield, WV. It took 3 hotels to find one with a room! On a Wednesday night!!

My sisters and I haven't been all together for 5 years. We'll be together Saturday! I'm excited but think about all the work I could do in SC during these days off.

Audrey and Evan are very excited to see their cousins. My sister, Pam, has a 4-wheeler, a gator and a dirt bike. Plus steers, ducks, etc. Evan is looking forward to going to their house. I'm planning on going to Archiver's when I'm in Columbus tomorrow. I'm excited about that. And I hope to ride by the Longaberger factory to see the basket building.

Look for my new blog banner coming soon! I'm getting excited about making this a great blog!

Starting a New Blog

2008-05-26T20:55:00.000-04:00

I decided to start a new blog with an address that's easier to remember. I'm hoping this will make it easy for my friends and family to keep up with what's going on in our lives. Plus I can share my crafting creations with everyone through this, too.

We've had a great, but uneventful Memorial Day. Bob and I worked on the yard and pool while the kids played. Audrey had a lot of studying to do, also. She has 3 finals tomorrow: Latin, Language Arts and PE. Wednesday she has Social Studies and Science and Thursday, she'll have Math. It's hard to believe she's almost done with 6th grade! She has loved being in the TWO Academy (single gender program) and has matured A LOT!

Evan has had a rough year. He's loved his teacher, but didn't have a child he 'clicked' with in his class. He hasn't wanted to work nor has he wanted to go to school. He loved taking golf lessons in the after-school program! And, of course, he loves playing baseball.

I need to get working on a couple of stamping swaps I'm in. As soon as I get them done, I'll put them on my post!

Have a great week!