Paper Expressions

Cucumbers, Cucumbers and more Cucumbers!

It's a lovely day here (now)- after rain storm starting at 3:45 am I have not been back to sleep since laying there trying to sleep with the lightening, thunder and rain crashing down! lol

We weeded the last strawberry bed- its in a grow box and is covered with chicken wire to keep the nasty bad squirrels out!  I see some more blooms....  yippee!

I will be using cucumber sticks for the Three different dip tastings at my 4 meals in 4 minutes presentation tomorrow here at the house. We are also tasting Chicken Enchilada soup, cornbread and pecan muffins all using Homemade Gourmet mixes! the dips?  Garlic basil, tropical and mock spinach- are you coming over about 3?

Here is the bounty of the morning!  

  I am also going to make the remaining cucs into cuc chips using my honeys "special recipe". (equal amounts of water and vinegar, then some salt and pepper) and I like to add sliced onion too!

 We pick about this many every 2-3 days!  I have to admit that I have one of Katie's friends coming over every couple days to hunt squirrels (yes it is squirrel season here in Missouri) they are horrid at sabotaging the garden and for me its them or my food and well........ it's them!   I will be out taking some photos of the garden after posting this and I will load them to the garden photo album so be sure to check that and see what is new!

 

hmm battery in camera is dead- when I take kasey to work this evening I will stop and get a new battery so check back tomorrow for the garden photos in the gardening photo album.

 

Wisdom from Grampa

As a scrapbooker, I am constantly on the look out for sayings, quotes etc to add to my pages- here are a few that were emailed to me this week and I knew I just had to share them with you too!

 

 

Whether a man winds up with a nest egg, or a goose egg, depends a lot on the kind of chick he marries.

 

Trouble in marriage often starts when a man gets so busy earnin' his salt that he forgets his sugar.

 

Too many couples marry for better, or for worse, but not for good.

 

When a man marries a woman, they become one; but the trouble starts when they try to decide which one.

 

If a man has enough horse sense to treat his wife like a thoroughbred, she will never turn into an old nag.

 

On anniversaries, the wise husband always forgets the past - but never the present.

 

Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know 'why' I look this way. I've traveled a long way and some of the roads weren't paved.

 

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

 

You know you are getting old, when everything either

dries up or leaks.

 

Old age is when former classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald, they don't recognize you.

 

Have a GREAT day.......and keep Laughing!

Decor Elements

Email me your address and I will send you the New brochure! And be sure to check my stamp room photo album for photos added weekly of what I am doing with these amazing vinyl rub ons!

Launching "BRING A SMILE TO A CHILD" Campaign

We are launching the “Bring a Smile to a Child” campaign to support the children and their families who stay at the Ronald McDonald house of the Ozarks.

 

We are asking paper crafters everywhere to make and donate birthday cards and envelopes. They will be distributed to our local Ronald McDonald house in

Springfield

,

Missouri

.  Our goal is to ensure that each Ronald McDonald house of the Ozarks Child, or their family members, receive a card from RM staff on their birthday.

 

Please join us by sending birthday cards with envelopes to:

 

RM Card Campaign

C/o Gwen Mangelson

323 Autumn Circle

Rogersville

,

MO

65742

Feel Free to pas this post along to your other email friends.  Let's light up the lives of these children and their families!

Orange You Cute Jar Tutorial

Stamps

• One Smart Cookie
  (set of 12; 111506; $19.95)

Paper

• Bashful Blue card stock: 2-1/2" x 2-1/2"
• Whisper White card stock: 1-1/4" x 1/2"; 1" x 1"
• Summer Picnic Designer Series paper: 6" x 6" (may vary depending on jar size)
• Die-cut Blooms

Ink

• Pumpkin Pie Stampin’ Write marker
• Real Red Stampin’ Write marker

Accessories & Tools

• Bashful Blue narrow grosgrain ribbon
• Styled Silver Hodgepodge Hardware
• Stampin' Dimensionals
• Blender pens
• Coluzzle Cutting System
• 1-1/4" Circle punch
• Jar of jam
• Pencil
• Ruler

Instructions

1. Punch circle from Bashful Blue card stock using 1-1/4" Circle punch. Adhere to center of Old Olive Die-cut Bloom.
2. Ink "Orange" portion of saying stamp using Real Red Stampin’ Write marker, and stamp on Whisper White card stock (1-1/4" x 1/2"). Make sure to remove any traces of ink remaining on "Orange" portion of stamp.
3. Ink remaining portion of saying using Real Red Stampin’ Write marker, and stamp below "Orange" on Whisper White card stock.
4. Stamp orange image in Pumpkin Pie ink on Whisper White card stock next to saying.
5. Adhere Whisper White card stock to center of flower.
6. Attach Styled Silver label holder to flower, framing saying, with coordinating brads.
7. Stamp orange image in Pumpkin Pie ink on second piece of Whisper White card stock (1" x 1"). Blend ink from outline to fill in image using blender pen. Cut out orange, and adhere over original orange image using Stampin’ Dimensionals.
8. Adhere flower to jar using Stampin’ Dimensionals.
9. To create jar topper, set jar of jam on Designer Series paper with the design you want for your jar topper facing down. Trace jar.
10. Measure 1" out from traced circle and mark at intervals. Lay Coluzzle template over card stock, and find circle on template that most closely matches position of 1" marks. Cut circle from Designer Series paper using Coluzzle Cutting System.
11. Fold Designer Series paper circle around top of jar. Tie Bashful Blue narrow grosgrain ribbon around top of jar.