TGIF!

Create with Connie & Mary Challenge

 Thank heavens the week is closing up on us! I need the weekend... or even just a day for some me time... escape the reality of responsiblities and have some fun. This weekend doesn't look too promising but I will sneak in what I can -where I can. However I hear we have some "white winter mix" coming our way- so there is still hope! 

One of my 12 things to do in 2012, was to "Ink stamps that rarely have seen the light of day". So I have dusted off the Array of Sunshine for the Create with Connie & Mary Challenge. I love the new In colors of the challenge so I didn't think it would be too difficult to complete. I cut the flower apart and I used dimensionals, then I put a rhinestone in the center.

I used the Sweetly Said for the sentimient since I have a few people I want to send "thinking of you" cards without them being "thinking of you" card... if that makes sense.  So this is a good start!  Can I tell you that I really love Calypso Coral ?.. and Lucky Limeade... and the Peach Parfait ?? !!!

Now its your turn to head over and Create with Connie and Mary and the rest of the Team!

Thanks for stopping by!

Have a great day!

Hug the ones you love!

Strength

Yesterday school started, and for whatever reason, I had this illusion that the paperwork I would have to sign/ approve/complete would decrease once you hit a certain school level... WHO WAS I KIDDING ?? Myself, apparently! 

It was great to hear all the first day of school stories... like from my son whose in 10th grade... "Mom, if everything I needed to know, I learned in Kindergarten, why do you have to attend 12 grades afterwords?"...   Hes the literal one in the family.    ... I learned from my daughter, whose in 8th now, that there is a "spray zone" for the teacher that apparently spits when he talks, and he can cover two lab tables long and wide.. This is interesting stuff right? ... I love it! {wink wink}.

Just Add Ink



I made it through all the paperwork. I signed my name atleast 20 times, on documents that from what I glanced over, gives that school permission to do everything - well almost everything, including random drug testing..for each of the children. Do not forget about all the privacy acts that they have now... What a wake up call that was!!!... Reality at its best!  I do not recall such forms when I was in school, but hey, its just a good thing they are past the Room mother stage, because at the rate I was going, I may have signed up for something like 72 cupcakes every other month! {wink wink}.

In the meantime, I didn't get to enter my card into the Just Add Ink challenge, but I still love it {I just hate my lighting!}. I love the Strength and Hope stamp set and I paired it with Sweetly Said. Its clean and simple - exactly what I needed after all that paperwork!



I hope that the rest of the school year days are as entertaining as the first! I love the stories that teens have, and I know that within a flash - there will be no more... WOW! ...

Have a great day!

Hug the ones you love!

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