Temps in Westerly, RI, have been just above 30 degrees. Thank heaven for fleece! In our house it doesn't matter how cold it is, we've got birthday fever! Last Friday the kids had no school, it was one of those district professional days and Hope had a birthday party to attend. We put together a cute toy in a butterfly sack I stamped and then I made a name frame for the birthday girl out of my alphabet stamps, designer paper, and a new steel die for my Sizzix in the shape of butterflies. I mostly stamped and adhered the different papers and textures inside the acrylic clear frame, but I also hot glued the prettiest card-stock butterfly onto the outside.
There's only one week left in the biggest sale of the year from Stampin' Up! so if you need anything, call me or pop over to my business website here and click on the "shop now" button at the top. For every $50 you spend you get a free selection from the sale-a-bration catalog and if you order online you get a free Idea Book too!
The last days of that sale have me very busy with orders coming in and stamp house parties to prepare for and I love it! Then, yesterday was my wonderful husband's birthday. Happy 39th, darling! I made a silly card for him that said I was stuck on him (not stuck with him, or he stuck with me!). My stamp club had worked with bleaching paper and that's why the flowers look that cool distressed white in the chocolate paper here:
I have to go stamp Quinn's birthday invitations now for the family lunch. His 9th birthday is Sunday, just six days after his dad's. I told you it was birthday fever here!
Some other quick updates, I had strep throat last week {FUN}, which is why I haven't posted in a bit. I get strep several times a year and I've been told to have my tonsils removed but I can't seem to elect when to electively do that. After the antibiotics kicked in, I roasted a mini-thanksgiving birthday dinner for Kev, but I have at last count had THREE attempts at making his favorite lemon roll cake completely fail. I didn't have cake flour, so I tried to doctor the flour myself by adding baking powder and salt to regular flour, but no luck--the cake just flopped and flopped and flopped--so last night we picked up cake flour and I will give it a fourth try. {Not that the kids minded the box of Funfetti I made in order to have something to stick a candle in!} I'll let you know if I go through another dozen eggs before I finally redeem my limited baking skills with a hit.
Shivering in fleece and dusted in flour, Nancy