Stampin' in the Prairies

Such exciting news!

During my last absense of blogging my baby sister, Amber, gave birth to a baby girl, her first.  She was born on October 25th.  Her name is Tristyn Serenity.

Here I am with her 3 days after she was born. (The dates on my camera were wrong)

My other sister, Nicole, was due December 7th so they were due five weeks apart.  I got the call at 3am this morning that my sis was in the hospital and getting the epidural.  Well with all my health problems and meds I am on I can't even drive.  So my mom drove me into the city and I was with my sister by 4am.  Well, she gave birth at 8:26am this morning to a baby girl.  So two nieces 5 weeks apart! :)

Her name is Skye Sophia Lynn.  She weighs 6 lbs 8 oz and was 19.5 inches long.  Just a little peanut!

Watching a baby enter the world and take their first breath never gets old.  It was an amazing experience! 

I am finally back home and in bed resting up for a big test in the morning. 

Of course I couldn't not post a picture or two of the beautiful little niece of mine! :)

 

 

 

    Here I am with the little beauty!  Can you tell I only had an hour of sleep and am on heavy meds?  I am so thankful for God to allow me to be well enough today to be there to witness one of the world's most miraculous wonders!

Anyways, I have a big test in regards to my current health state tomorrow morning and have to be at admitting in the hospital early for sedation.  So I will do a quick post in the morning of what I made for Skye's shower (just two days before) before I leave for the hospital.

Have a great night

Andria

P.S. All of you who have emailed me for the votive box pattern, I obviously wasn't expecting to go to the hospital today, so depending how I feel I will put it up tomorrow or Thursday.

I finally got my mojo back!

I have a hefty pile of very ugly, tacky cards behind me and I am finally back in action.  Man, after not stamping regularly for a long time, it was hard to get back into it.  Even choosing colors together was hard!  Almost like starting back at square 1!

So here is a card I think I like....the picture is bad as my sunlight lamp fell and the bulb is toast!  So this is beside my window and not a great pic.

Stamps:  Always

Paper: groovy guava, chocolate chip. whisper white, afternoon tea designer paper

Ink: close to cocoa, groovy guava, chocolate chip, chocolate chip marker

Accessories:  wild wasabi double stitched ribbon, misc. buttons, dollar store rhinestone brad

First I stamped the bird with guava and then colored in the design with chocolate marker.  I added the brad for the eye next and then did some faux stitching and sponging on the corners.  Then I matted on chocolate and afternoon tea.  The ribbon was added and then I matted on chocolate.  The buttons were added and then matted on guava card base.  I sponged the edges with guava ink and then added the sentiment with chocolate ink.  Last, I stamped the doodleydad stamps along the botton with guava.

I just had to share a few pics here also.  The first is my son in the mud yesterday.  It got quiet in the backyard and I looked out in the alley and there was my boy sitting in the flooded tire tracks in the alley.  We had had a storm that morning so it was mucky as all get out!  He was practically swimming in it by the end.  Even washed his hair in it.  I couldn't even give him trouble because he was too cute!

Lastly, we were under a tornado warning for 3 hours last night...two tornadoes touched down just by us and we heard on the radio that there was a funnel cloud just outside our town!  This is Canada, like what is going on??  So we were all in the basement, not able to go to sleep.  The scariest part was it was night time so how can you see one coming?  The water was up to our basement windows so the water came pouring in...ugh.  We had to go outside between the first and second storm and do an assembly line with buckets to get the water away!   Here is a really cool pic I took just before the tornado warning...weird.

I feel like I have played a bit of catch up now!  Have a great day and see you back here tomorrow. :)

Birthday girl

Yesterday I didn't have enough time to blog.  It was my oldest daughter's 9th birthday.  I can't believe I will have a teenager in 4 years. Time flies!

I made her a card using her favorite colors.  She LOVES green!

Supplies used:

Stamps: michaels dollar stamps

Paper: petals and paisley designer paper, old olive, regal rose, so saffron, whisper white

Ink:black stazon, markers- so saffron, old olive, tempting turqouise

Accessories: clear daubles, stickles, regal rose 5/8 inch grosgrain

I stamped the image in stazon and colored in and added stickles.  I matted on rose.  Then matted the designer paper on saffron.  I added the ribbon and matted on olive card base.  Then I added the main image layer.  Lastly I added the daubles.  Done like dinner!  Have a great day!

Andria

A bit bummed

I am still waiting on my camera to stop being so buggered...but I do have some pics to share in tomorrow morning's post of some stuff.  But for tonight, I am going to post about my late uncle Paul. 

It is going to be a year on July 3rd since my uncle was brutally murdered.  So far there has been no arrests.  That is so frustrating!!  My uncle was more like a dad than an uncle.  He was always there for me.  He absolutely ADORED my kids and spent genuine time with them when we visited.  Why would someone take someone as good as him away from his loved ones?  How selfish!  It is weird, almost a year later it is finally sinking in that he will never phone me like he did, just to say hi...he will never take us fishing in the boat up north again.  He will never tell a LAME joke to me again, and I will no longer have to fake laugh, pretending it is funny just to make him feel good!  He was very gifted in stone masonry.  He did such an awesome job.  One thing I joked to him about all the time is the fact that he never finished anything he started around the house though...here is a pic to prove it!  This fireplace was never finished by him in the yard, and sadly never will be! (sorry the pic is so bad...I took a quick pic as it was really hard at the time to even look at it)

I look at this blog as a stamping "therapy", so naturally tonight, I wanted to do a therapy post and dedicate at least a little piece of the WWW to Uncle Paul....I miss you!

This song is a total nail on the head to how I am feeling!  And definately this song, too!

Sorry for being so sappy...

Andria

My angels

These are my sleeping babies tonight.  Aren't they beautiful?  I love them more than life itself!  Don't let them fool you though, they aren't always this angelic looking!!

I am a granny!

Not a real granny, but to my daughter apparently I am! It is her birthday this weekend and she has been asking for the past 2 years for a Baby Alive doll.  My hubby and I broke down and gave it to her today.  Well, I was over the top excited to give it to her since I have been hearing literally every other day about this doll for over 100 weeks!!  So, here we are!  My, my baby girl and her baby girl!  My heart welled up so big looking at the look on her face.  She has some learning problems and has alot of frustrating hard days (this is also because of a bad sugar sensitivity that makes us but heads because of her hyperness).  When I saw how happy she was, it was all worth searching and searching for the doll.  It seemed that every time I went out to buy it, every other mom was buying one for her daughter.  I could just go on and on forever about my baby girl, Brooke.  She has come such a long way.  When she was born she was very sick and was touch and go at first.  She was on life support for 5 days and had a severe infection.  Look at her now.  Who would have thought??  Mommy loves you, my girl.

P.S.  Don't mind my not so hot look.  I have insomnia really bad so the sleep wears on my body really bad! :)

Shhhh....don't tell the easter bunny!

  I peeked downstairs tonight and he came!  **Wink**   I hope the easter bunny doesn't get mad at me, but  I had to take pics!  Have a great Easter Sunday tomorrow with family and friends, and you can't forget the yummy food!

Oh, and the kids and I went to Scott's Parables (christian store) and got these Veggie Tales shrink wraps for easter eggs.  Aren't they just the cutest??  I love Easter!