So honored...

to be asked by Jen U to make Quick pages using her designs!! I can't tell you how flattered I am!!! The very first digi kit I ever bought was from Jen U -- her Wild Longstems flowers, which I still use all the time!! To think that she likes my LOs enough to ask me to do this is unbelievable to me!! It is so easy for me to create LOs using her stuff -- it is sooo my style!


Here are the two latest I have created, a pair for Mother's & Father's Day, which are available in Jen's store JenU-Designs:




These LOs were very emotinal for me. My Dad died when I was only 5 years old, so I have only the briefest of memories of hi. I small mamory of sitting on his lap as he watched an army movie, hearing him whistle "Strangers in the Night" as he came in the building after work, being in a cabin in Monticello on a cold morning as he warmed my clohtes in the oven for me. Little things like that.
And I lost my Mom at just 26 years of age (she was buried on my 26th birthday). I can;t believe it's been over 20 years... I still miss her every day...

This week I am the featured CT member at The Loft: The Tangie Baxter CT Blog, where there was a short Q&A about me. Make sure you visit Tangie's store too -- she and Vintage Flair , the talented Sherrie Drummond, have done an amazing collab kit called Studio Remnants, which is actually nine kits each based on artists paint colors. Buy the complete kit, though, for a fabulous deal -- and get a free bonus pack too!



Speaking of the Tangie CT -- I got the sweetest gift from Katrine, one of the other CT members.
She awarded me this:

Read more about it on her blog Skrapedilla. Thank you sooo much Katrine!! You don't know how thrilled I was to get this from such a talented scraper as you!!!! I am so happy I have inspired you, as you have me! Now I have to think about who I can pass it on to!

Meet my new Grandchild

My daughter Pam is pregnant!! Yayy!!

She and her husband Mike had been trying to get pregnant for about 8 months and had just strted to get discourgaed, when lo and behold, she's expecting!

She had a sonogram done (it is the one they do in place of all the other prenatal testing) and she sent me these great photos:



She was only 12 weeks so she won;t know the sex of the baby until she has another one at around 5 months. Personally, I'd rather be surprised, but they really want to know what they're having.
Tayler is sooo excited to be a big sister! She is nine years old so she will be a big help too.


Pam was eight years old when I finally had another baby. She couldn't wait to have a baby sister. She was a bit diassapointed that it was a boy, but no big deal. She was a great big sister to Shane.
Then two years later I was pregnant again, This time she was sure she'd get that baby sister. But nope, another boy, But KC was sooo cute with those bright blue eyes, that she was happy anyway.
Then two years later I was again, expecting. She was adamant that she HAD to have a sister this time. When Gage, another boy, was born, she was so disappointed that she refused to pay any attention to him. Really! She wanted no part of him. It was sad. (She tortured him for years, telling him that I was not his real mother, that I had found him and other mean things like that.)When I FINALLY had a girl, Lynnea, a year and a half later, it was too late. By then, after already having three little brothers in her stuff, she decided she was better off as an only child!!