More Coverage of Wyatt's Basketball Shot - Along with a Surprise from Steph Curry

Our grandson with Down Syndrome has gone viral. 😊 He was on our local news, ABC national news, and then local news in San Francisco! I searched online and found several links. You can see the story HERE. Pretty amazing.

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Wyatt

Since I messed up yesterday and scheduled two posts, I will skip a card today and just share something fun and wonderful. Our youngest grandson, Wyatt, was featured on the NBC Nightly News on Monday evening. You can watch the story here. What an amazing kid he is - so smart and caring and funny and independent and thoughtful. And he is lucky to be so included. I think they did an awesome job with this story.

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Happy Easter

Happy Easter to my friends who celebrate. I hope you get to spend time with family and friends.

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Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate!! I hope you get to spend time with family and friends. Wishing you joy and happiness.

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Oops - More Christmas Pieces

Several years ago there used to be a theme - What's on Your Desk Wednesday. Well, here's what's on my desk on Friday! LOL! I think that I said a month ago that I had all the Christmas cards that I needed for this year. But, I happened across these dies again and just had to use them! So, here are more card parts for me to make into Christmas cards for next year. The square ones are made with dies. The holly ones are made with a punch. I used the corner punch to make a border. One piece is not for Christmas - the gold one in the upper right. It was done with a left-over foil piece on black toner paper. I cut out a black piece to put as a shadow. I'm not sure if this will get used or not. It's awfully dark and hard to see the floral image. Just thought I'd share what I've been working on.

Update on my hand. The surgery sites are basically all healed up now. At this point, I'd say that my hand is back to the way it was before the surgery - not better. I guess it probably WILL take the several months that I was told!

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Surgery Update

Thanks for all of your good wishes! The surgery went well. I ended up having three fingers done! No pain medication other than ibuprofen. My hand is just very uncomfortable this morning. It's SO swollen! I'm wondering if it's wrapped too tightly. I'm waiting for a call-back on that.

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Accumulating Card Parts

I am constantly setting things aside as I come across them. I was looking at an 8 1/2 by 11 inch matstack and pulled out some papers to put on card fronts. Here they are - ready for the (simple) finishing touches.

The first one here was done with a new stencil (for me) from Picket Fence. The second here was done with strips from the tops of patterned paper pages.

And these are some items that I stamped with stamps that I happened across and also left-overs from my calendar pages. Hopefully they will make it onto cards soon.

Just a little update. Today is my fingers surgeries. Thanks for the good wishes. Also, my calendars for 2025 are all finished. Yahoo! Now, as I get together with friends, I can deliver their calendars!

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More Card Parts to Use

When looking for some patterned paper to make a card, I came across some sheets from a patterned paper stack that I hadn't cut apart yet. So, of course I had to get that done. After separating out the pieces that I will give to a scrapbooking friend, I matted the ones that I wanted to keep. The flowers in the third column were not colored, so I used some Copic markers to color them. When looking for matting cardstock, I also found a frame that I will try to use on one of the cards. Always more parts! LOL!

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Birthday Cards

I forgot to open my birthday cards on my birthday!! I opened them all last night. Here is a photo of all the ones that I received. 

They are all very special and I appreciate them all! Here is another photo - this time of the handmade ones. Thanks to everyone.

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I'm (Sort of) Back

I still have many things to do around the house, especially sorting through my mom and dad's pictures, but I am back in the states, anyway. We went to England, Wales, Norway and Iceland. What a trip!!  Maybe I'll share more photos later, but this was taken while we were on narrow boats in the canals of England/Wales for a week. In total, we had four boats with 13 friends for that portion of the trip. From there we went to Norway - Oslo, Balestrand and Bergen - before going on a seven-day cruise up around the northernmost part of Norway. From there we went to Iceland for two days.

Also, I'm doing a huge card-making class through Scrapbook and Cards Today - Crop and Create Delivered. There are nearly 20 companies participating, so there is a LOT of product. And a lot of homework before the classes officially start on Thursday. So, I still won't be around to do any blogging or visiting blogs. Fun stuff, but keeping very busy. I am still golfing when I can, also, so that takes up more time.

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My Workspace

Nothing to worry about, but I won't be around for a while. Possibly a little bit here and there, but with the cooler, less rainy weather, I've been spending more time outdoors, especially golfing. Getting together with friends and family also occupies a lot of our time. We will be taking our grandson camping soon. And planning a vacation in the near future. So much to do - so little time!! Oh, and I still have to deal with my mom and dad's photographs and the contents of my cedar chest which is filled with "memorabilia." 

There used to be a thing out in blogland called "What's on Your Desk Wednesday." Everyone was just supposed to take a photo and share. So, I just thought I'd share a photo of my workspace and a taste of what will be coming up when I get a chance. I think this is the last set for me to use of the items I got from a friend in March. It's a bunch of little critters and other things and nearly everything has a coordinating die. I stamped them all and cut out the ones with dies. I did get a chance to start coloring them one day, and sort of making arrangements of the pieces. Also, on the top left is a very small stack of future cards using the last of a 12 x 12 sheet of patterned paper.

I hope everyone is doing well, and I'll be back when I get a chance.

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Happy Belated Birthday to Me!

I finally got around to taking a picture of my birthday cards. We had company and then cleaning up, etc. At any rate, nearly a week late, here they are! I have posted the handmade ones first. I do know that I have two more cards coming.

And then, here are the equally-special store-bought ones. I thank you all so much!! I think you can tell how old I just turned. LOL!

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Merry Christmas!

I almost forgot to wish you all a Merry Christmas with a picture of our tree. I hope all who celebrate have a wonderful Christmas. Safe travels to those who are traveling, and enjoy your family and friends.

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In Support of Ukraine

In support of Ukraine, Gina K has produced this digital image and sentiments. They are available here. The full $3.99 price will be donated to the Global Empowerment Mission. The colors of Ukraine's flag are blue and yellow. Their national flower is the sunflower.

I printed mine on a laser printer and used a specialty gold foil on it. I colored with light Copic markers and matted with black. The sentiment is mounted on foam squares. The background was done with a cover plate die.

I used the "negative" piece of the foil with a toner sheet to produce this shiny gold piece. I know it's very hard to see the black-lined image, but it's there. I matted this one with black, also, and again popped up the sentiment. I hope you all will consider getting your own image, or helping, even just a little bit, in some way.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to all of my blog readers who celebrate! I hope this finds you all healthy and happy.

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Happy Easter

Happy Easter to those who celebrate. What a joyous day!

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Prayer Shawl Cards

I didn't even realize that our church made prayer shawls, but I found out we do. :) I was asked to make some cards to go with the prayers shawls that are given out. I was very happy to do so! The previous cards had this sentiment on them. It had been stamped. The person in charge of the cards wanted to continue using it. So, I printed out the sentiments on my computer. I used many different elements - and almost everything was in my card parts!! A win-win! I used up backgrounds that I had gotten years ago from someone else. I used up backgrounds that I had just made with my gel press. I embossed some backgrounds with embossing folders. I stamped silhouette flowers. I added flowers and leaves that I had stamped and added to my card parts. I used up a LOT of butterflies that were also in my card parts. All-in-all, I made 38 cards. It was fun and they are going to a good cause. I honestly don't know how quickly they will go, but I will happily make more when these are depleted.

Edited to add for my anonymous commenter: Here is a link to the file I created to print the sentiment. I tried the link and it definitely looks different than my original file, but it should help. 

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My Birthday Cards

Per tradition, I am posting pictures of the cards that I received for my birthday, which was the 28th. I am sharing a photo of all the cards, and also individually showing you the hand-made cards that I got.

Edited to add: I received three more birthday cards today - January 4. I am adding the two hand-made ones here, at the top of the list. Thanks, Bea and Gloria!

Bea

Gloria

Amelia

Annie

Annie

Bonnie

Cheryl

Darnell

Donna

Georgia

Harriet

Joyce

Kris

Leslie

Sheri

Vicki

And here is a picture of all the cards that I got. So wonderful to have a birthday and get so many cards! :) Thanks to all.

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Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas to all my friends and blog readers who celebrate this day. I hope this Christmas finds you all well. Here is our tree - the same as (almost!) always. :)

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Happy Fourth!

Wishing you a safe and happy Fourth of July!

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