Long weekend!

Hey there cyber friends. I have an extended weekend this week. We are off school today for MLK Jr. birthday, we have OFF for the inauguration tomorrow, and I am off Wednesday for doctor appointment. So I will work Thursday and Friday, and have another weekend off. What a rough week! :)
My teacher friends came over yesterday to scrapbook. I got 2 whole cards made between 4 pm and 12:30 Am. We made cupcakes too! Here's what I made. The layout and design is the hardest thing to figure out! I play with design, colors, accessories a lot before I tack anything down. (I learned my lesson!)
The purple kitty card was for my friend's birthday. I made that one a couple weeks ago.
Happy MLK Jr. Day, enjoy the historical inauguration of President Obama tomorrow, and have a great week!

Ok, here's the pictures to go with the previous blog. My camera was charged already, but have had some bad things happen in the past couple days to keep me from getting these on here. Nothing serious, but just stress causing circumstances. A sick kitty, my husband loosing his job, financial issues. I'm already ready for 09 to be done.

Time for more cards!

I've not posted in a while! I've been getting my classroom ready, and started back to work a week and a half ago. It's draining with 3 year olds! I came home and ate dinner, and crashed for the night for the first week! I have some good kiddos though, so I'm looking forward to see how far we go!

Anyways...I have some new photos to post of cards I've made. I haven't used my new room as much as I would like. I have tons of ideas, but like I said, I've been way tired at night. The top 2 are Martha Stewart glitter stickers from Wal-Mart. I thought they were pretty, and liked the colors. The cherish one is for my mother-in-law to give to her friends for their anniversary. The single bird one was a thank you for my mom for watching our critters while we were on vacation. The aloha one is for a family friend who is retiring and having a surprise party later this afternoon. On the inside I wrote, aloha (goodbye) work, aloha (HELLO) retirement!
I thought it turned out cute for a quickie! I made another one too, but I can't post it. I'm doing a secret sister thing on SplitCoast Stampers. She would know it was me if I showed it here and she saw it, and it'd ruin the surprise.

For kicks and giggles, I'll put one more picture up. This is my friend Erin and I outside a winery on the Great River Road near Alton, IL. We tasted wine, and both bought a bottle, so we're acting like we're boozing it up on the sidewalk outside. I thought it was pretty funny.

More Cards

Here's a closer look at the card I made for my FIL birthday (being guarded by the fierce kitty in the previous post). I worked forever to get a layout I liked, and finally decided to glue everything down. The clown card was a splitcoaststampers.com ways to use your scraps challenge. The balloons I had punched out a while ago, and I cut the clown using my cricut and scrap pieces of already been cut on papers.