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How Beautiful…

Hello my sweet friends! I hope that you all had a wonderful weekend! It has been a great day today. With the house sold, I was able to sit and create. Yay! Plus, I got to Skype with my Mom and Dad for a few hours this morning. We had much to talk about and it was wonderful to spend time together! I just love Skype!

Thank you for all your lovely comments on my blog! I hope you all are doing well. Thanks for stopping by!

I played in the Card Patterns and CR84FN47 Challenges today. I used lots of colors with this card and just love all the reds, pinks and blues. I made it fairly simple too with minimum daubing and no stitching. I used the Heartfelt Gratitude stamp set and new flowers to be released on February 11th! Can you tell I am excited??? You should see them! They are all nicely packaged and ready to go! Whoo Hoo!

Challenges:

STAMPS: HEARTFELT GRATITUDE

PAPER: MY MIND’S EYE ROSY PAPER

A TOUCH OF GLAM: RIBBON, FLOWERS, PEARLS

Where have I been??

Have you ever had your hubby look at you and say “I did something and I need to tell you.” Oh dear, as every thought imaginable was going through my head like…”what did he break?” “what did he buy?” and “what did he do?” My heart about sank to the floor and I was literally thinking, “haven’t I gone through enough????”

He looked at me and said…you might be mad at me BUT I went ahead and organized a weekend away without the kids!

O.k.?? And why would I be mad for??? He kindly said, “because you have so much going on that I don’t know if you would like to take a break right now?”

So on Friday morning we packed up and went away for the weekend to my favorite place, Airlie Beach. As I was totally unprepared for this, I have gone missing on my blog for a few days. Yes, it has been a bit hard, especially with the blog candy, the release day coming soon, selling the house, cleaning non-stop and all the packaging of gorgeous flowers. BUT what a wonderful weekend. I needed it. It grounded me once again and it relaxed me again.

I am so thankful for my hubby. I am truly grateful and blessed for everything, but most importantly that God gave me him.

Here are a few photos to share with you…

 

And one more thing….we sold the house today!

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And the winner is…

Susan Mac Donald

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Hugs, Joanna

Happy Birthday Birdie

Welcome friends! Oh how I love a peaceful house. Today, I have been home alone for the first time in months. It is so quiet and peaceful. I truly treasure these times alone. Plus, it has been raining. Oh how I would love to be curled up on the couch with a good book. But today, I have been working behind the scenes with creating some fabulous stamps and a forum. I can’t wait to announce it and to show you what’s coming up! It will be place where we can share, ask questions and post inspirations.

Stay tune for tomorrow. It is Australia Day which is very much like the 4th of July. It is also a public holiday. Yay!

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I have been designing spring stamps this week, Easter, flowers, Mother’s Day and just had to grab the Springtime Beauty Stamp Sets. I used bright pinks and greens that coordinated beautifully with some KaiserCraft Hey Birdie Paper. I then sewed around the edges with chocolate thread and then added some pink seam binding, button and hemp twine.

STAMP SETS: SPRINGTIME BEAUTY II

PAPER: KAISERCRAFT HEY BIRDIE PAPER PAD

AWESOME TOOLS: SPELLBINDERS

A TOUCH OF GLAM: SEAM BINDING RIBBON, BUTTONS, HEMP TWINE