Happy New Year 2013!  It's hard to believe that another year has come and gone.  I have decided to take my Blog to a new and different level. Not only am I going to work on publishing my scrapbook pages, rubber stamped cards and needlework but I am now going to publish my book reviews on my Blog.  I also want to attach a more creative header to my Blog which incorporates all my interests. Why have a Blog if I am not going to put anything interesting on it.  Right?  Katie is going into her last semester at Wesleyan.  Hard to believe that she will be graduating in May...God willing.  I remember when we were helping her get her stuff together to leave for Wesleyan.  All the stuff we packed and sent via Fed Ex, then picking it all up and hauling it to her dormitory for the big move in day.  Fun!!!  Now she prepares for the last 7 weeks of swimming and the NESCACS event in February.  Should be an interesting 2013.          

It has been almost two years since I have posted on my Blog.  Sad to say.  In these last two years I have revisited an old hobby that I used to participate in since I was 5 years old and that is needlework.  I learned to embroider at a very young age and then from there, I went on to do counted cross stitch. I am also getting into baking fun stuff. Hum??? Should I rename my Blog??  Nah, I don't think so.  I am just going to add more topics and generalize it a bit more.  I have also discovered the world of Facebook, Good Reads, Twitter and Pinterest.  I can never find enough time visit all these cool sites.  Should I quit my job so I can visit all the Blogs and social media sites I subscribe to and participate in all my hobbies that I am addicted to including and not limited to rubber stamping, scrapbooking and card making, not to mention all the books I NEED to read?  Iguess I will slowly begin to incorporate it all into my Blog.   Anyway.......I am baaaaack!   

I have been so bad about Blogging. I have been working on all kinds of cards and need to figure out how to post them to my Blog. Also started cross stitching again. I met up with some friends from The Counted Thread which was a local needlework shop here in town many years ago. I had not seen some of these ladies in 11 years. So now I have been going to stitch-in and those are fun. I will also be going to Stitch Camp the middle of October and am totally looking forward to it. See you all soon!

Happy Father's Day

I am dropping by just to wish George a Happy Father's Day! I made a Father's Day Card and a holder for a gift card that we got him from Barnes and Noble. I will posting the card up soon.

It's been such a long time since I have written anything on my blog. I haven't even downloaded any of my recent stamp projects. I did get a Cricut Expression and a Gypsy so now I really have no excuse not to do some serious creating. Katie is home for the summer! Yay! I am proud to say she did well in her course work at Wesleyan. We took a trip up to Middlebury, Vermont to watch her swim at the NESCAC Championships. That was a fun, snow filled trip! Funny thing tho was it was not really that cold but boy did they have snow! Loved It! We went back in May to Wesleyan to help Katie pack and store her stuff for the summer. Then took a side trip to to NYC to see George's brother. It was a short but fun trip. Well I hope to post some pictures of my projects very soon! Thanks for stopping by!

I'm Back!

It's been awhile since I have posted on my Blog. We took off to Middletown, CT to take Katie to college. She is attending Wesleyan University and will be a freshman (woman) this year. Move-In Day was on Sept. 1 and boy did she have alot of stuff to move in. We shipped up 4 large boxes through Fed Ex, brought in 3 of those 3-drawer rubbermaid containers along with 3 huge suitcases that were jam packed to the brim with her clothing. George and I helped her set up her room which took several hours to accomplish. Parents had to be out of the dorm at 5 pm. We shed our tears and said our goodbyes and left the premisis. We flew home the following day. That was the longest flight I had ever taken 7 1/2 hours due to all the time changes but it seemed like an eternity since we were leaving our child behind. I happy to report that Katie is adjusting to life at college. Mom and dad are counting the days until we go up to Middletown to see her for Parents Weekend and possibly a swim meet. I still haven't been able to find my Mojo as far as my Rubber Stamping, Card Making and Scrapbooking is concerned. I guess it misses Katie. Altho I am doing a M(Monday) M(Morning) M(Mailer) to her but I had alot of the cards and items made up in advance. Hope to post pics soon!

28h Wedding Anniversary

On July 25th, George and I celebrated our 28th Wedding Anniversary. Hard to believe that we have been married that long. George, Katie and I spent the day going to Carlsbad Caverns and watching the bat flight at dusk. It was pretty cool to see the bats come out of the Caverns and take flight for the night. I had never seen this before and had been to Caverns on several occasions. The walk was a long one but well worth it It was over 1 1/2 miles down into the Caverns and then another 1 1/4 miles walking through the Great Room. We spent today shopping for Katie's new bedroom items that she will be taking up to her dorm room at Wesleyan. Hard to believe that she will be leaving us in 24 days. I am sooo sad! She will be missed :( I know she really wants to attend this school and see what it is like to live in the Northeast and experience the snow. She will also be swimming on their swim team which will be quite a different experience than swimming on the local high school team and for the El Paso Aqua Posse Swim Team which is a USA Club swim team. Katie recently cut about 6 1/2 inches off her hair and now has a really cute bob. I had been working out at the gym with the trainer until I hurt my knee. Not sure if it is my arthritis or if I pulled a muscle. Either way, the pain is unbearable right now. Guess I have to break down and go and see the Ortho Dr. I am going back to the gym tomorrow to see if there are other exercises I can do that won't strain the knee. I have lost 7 lbs towards my goal of 50 lbs. this year. Sooo I can't give up.