A Royal Wedding

I got up early this morning to watch the wedding but ended up falling asleep, thank goodness for DVR...lol Wish Diana would have been able to see her son wed, she would have been so proud of him and how he has turned out. The dress Kate picked is so beautiful, it was elegant and timeless. She made a beautiful bride. Anyway so I was looking at photos and ran across this one and I was cracking up I had to share it. Its the big moment were we see the kiss and this little girl does not look happy. I am sure she was covering her ears but the way she looks she looks like she is mad. I wonder if she is thinking how dare she take my prince away....lol

Ps by the way sorry for no post have been working on mothers day and birthday cards. Will be posting very soon.

Well Easter did not go as planned...

Well we went to east Texas for Easter but thing did not go as planned. I woke up late so that put us off picking my mom up. So my brother went to pick her up. After we got there about 2pm my brother calls and he said he was not going to be able to get mom. The nurses at the nursing home said she had been sleeping all day and could not stay awake. So they said they did not recommend we take her. I was disappointed but what can you do, felt bad she did not get to get out for Easter. Had not seen her since Christmas. And since we went down for Easter and mothers day is in two weeks this was going to be the only trip we could make. But the one good thing was my brother Richard showed up I had not seen him in 6 months so that was nice to visit with him. He was his old self it was great he had us falling over laughing. We was all sitting at the diner table talking about old time as kids growing up and stupid stuff we all did as we are laughing our heads off. I remember looking around the table thinking how much it felt like the old days. I loved it, i miss those days. After a few hours we all started to get ready to leave to make the drive home. And we had to make a stop to drop DH deer head off. Yes deer head he is getting it mounted...lol I will have to look at the poor deer on our wall come Oct. But least it is out of my freezer! hated looking at the horns every time I went out there. So as we leave to make the drive home we get a call we have bad storms coming and they are hitting our town right now.We call neighbor and she said yes its here and next thing you know she says gotta go my fence just went. What! The sirens were going off and the winds was worse than the last storm. So we are two hours from the house and our pets are by them selves and one hates storms she will shake so bad. And about hour and half into our trip we run across the storm. It was pretty ruff, the rain was heavy heavy and the winds was making it hard to drive. A lot of lighting and I hate lighting. So we get home and we see the front everything is fine then we go to the back and other than a ladder that blew near the back door everything was fine. Fence still up shed still there, so everything was all good. But next door her back fence went down. So anyway that was our Easter day. And to top that off my mom called as we getting ready to go home asking where we was and if we was coming to take her out. Really! I am so upset at the nurses for talking my brother into leaving her. Anyway hope everyone elses Easter went better...lol

Happy Easter!

As I am waiting for my cake to cool just wanted to say Happy Easter, hope everyone has a wonderful day. We will be making a 2 1/2 hour trip down to my family's hate the drive, but all my family is down there now.  I am the only city folk in my family now...lol Anyway if all goes well we will be making the trip, Dh not feeling all that great today and if he is still not feeling good Easter morning we will not go and we will have lots of cake for us. Hate to miss out on seeing my mom since she is in a nursing home she dont get out much. I made her a little goody bag with a few of her fav candy. So fingers crossed we are able to go. Well here is the goody bag and after I took the photo I realized I did not clip that ribbon so it has been clipped, its late..lol Happy Easter! And thanks for looking

Earth day and lowes tree give aways

Our Garden

                                          

Well today is earth day, I am sure some people will say what is earth day...lol Its a day you try to do something good for our planet. For me every year on earth day I try to plant, since my garden is already planted and my flowers already planted not much there to do. But I looked at the ad from Lowe's, on Saturday April 23 they will have free trees to give away while supplies last. I may try to get one and plant. They also have tomato's and pepper plants 2/1.00 that is a great deal for those wanting to start a garden.

Tomato plants  from lowes 2/1.00

Check home depot as well for earth day deals and give aways. So anyway here are the little ways I try to be earth friendly every day. Maybe this day you can take one idea and use it even a simple thing like using a reusable bag will help. Or plant a free tree from Lowe's.

1. I recycle everything I can, we fill our huge bin with wheels each week to the top. Even put my scrap paper pieces in. I only have about 1 bag of trash each week to put out since I recycle so much.

2. I have reusable bags that I need to remember to take more often. Plastic bags take 100 years to dissolve.

3. Any time I am waiting for the hot water I have a pitcher by the sink so I can use that cold water for plants and cat bowls.

3. I only run the dish washer when its full.

4. When cleaning I have old rags instead of using paper towels.

5. Try to make sure each load of laundry is a full load. And I use cold water unless its sheets and towels.

6. I hang the laundry out to dry any chance I can, what I loved about our house had clothes lines in place already. Took 30 mins to dry one day, faster than the dryer. Yes wont lie its a pain but it saved money makes me happy.

7. We bought a programmable thermostat and in one month it paid for it self. That is one thing I think everyone should have.

8. On days its nice and cool I turn the ac off and open windows, good to let fresh air in anyway.

9. Donate or give away anything that can be used by someone else. Best buy recycles electronics for free.

10. My finale earth friendly thing is start a garden. It takes work but when you can walk out and pick that tomato you want with diner it feels so good to know you grew it. It saves money but most of all its so fresh and fresh is yummy. If you don't have a place for a garden the topsy turvy work pretty good for growing things like bell pepper and tomato's. They have the kind that hang up or one like ours that is on a pole you can grow herbs in that one along with the veggies. The key is use good potting soil. Will post a photo of the topsy turvy soon.

See the littl bell growing on the right side middle

Well that is the small things I do everyday to help conserve. And by the way I am not a hippie lol  far from it...lol I don't compost, I do by non organic foods. Just if I can do one thing to help take up less space in the land fills or use less water I want to try to do that. And if its saves us money that is a added plus. Thanks for looking.

My pink Stamper is having a give away

I wanted to pass this on to anyone reading my blog. Most of you are on My Pink Stamper blog but just in case there are some that are not. Robyn is having a huge give away, you have a chance to win a ........

Yep that my friend is the new cricut expression 2! It goes on sale this Monday on hsn but here is your chance to win one. Know I would love to win one...lol Look for the my pink stamper blinkie on the right side of my blog and that will take you to her blog. Watch hsn Monday night for the cricut launch, my pink stamper will have a live show Monday night as well, Robyn's live shows are so fun. Good luck!

Crafting Mistfit blog hop

Crafting Misfit blog had a blog hop and the challenge was to try something new. So after I read the post I thought would like to try this. So Lately I have got where I love stamps, thought I have never tried masking with stamps. So this is my first attempt at masking. Was going to make it all masked but wanted the vase and flowers to stand out so I popped up the paper and added ribbon. I liked doing this technique and would like to try it more in the future. Oh and I made a portirt card first time for that as well. Its not perfect I messed up on a few of the stamp images but I have let the need for it to be prefect go...lol Thanks for looking, supplies listed below.

Kraft paper
pop a dot boarder -Stampology Celebrate
Flower and vase- hero arts month of may ( the 1.69 stamps I found)
Flowers for background- Stampendous stamp set May Flowers
Hero arts ploy clear- everyday sayings
White gel pen
Martha Stewart ribbon -putty
Versa mark ink pad
Brown ink pad
Stickles

Micheals and sales 4/17-4/23

Forgot to post and this will be a a little late but for those that has a Micheals near you they have a 50% off one reg priced item plus a 20% off total pursuce. Those I beleive are today only sunday 4/17. Anyway here are all other sales.
Micheals
40 % off
Iris storage
Jetmax storage
Recollections paper trimmers and punches
Recollection 180 paper packs sale 11.99

Hobby lobby

Joannes

Cricut expresstion 229.99

DCWV paper packs 9.99

They will have a pre easter sale so mark your calender for the 21-23 here is what they will have

Cricut V.1 AKA baby bug 79.99

Cricut carts 39.99

Print and card stock papers 12 x 12 5/.95 Great time to load up...lol

Scrap cart organizer 34.99