Cards, Twilight, Shower, Cards, Shower, Cards, Shower, Crash.....

What is this mysterious pattern that is my post title you ask? Why it just happens to be my last few days.  I was asked to make some cards for our ward craft day and by the end of sign ups I had people signed up for about 180 cards. It the past month I had gotten quite a bit done for them but thursday night began that panic mode where you realize how much you have left to do.  Here are my last couple days....

Thursday Night work on cards all night until the wee hours. Wake up Friday meander around home, laundry, eat and then go out with the gang and catch the 1 o'clock showing of Twilight(loved Edward, liked movie, Rosalie is gross). Then go with Melissa to pick up lots of baby things for baby shower. Friday p.m attend the ward baby shower for Angie Tingey a fellow MHA mormon wife. Leave shower and work, work, work on cards until the very very wee hours. In a.m. take a real shower. Go to ward craft day at 8 o'clock until 2 and teach all the ladies how to make their cards, then feel the sweet relief of not having to work on cards anymore. Hurry home and head to 2nd baby shower for Angie, this one was the MHA shower and it was gorgeous. I won a pretty vase of fresh flowers. Come home, eat chocolate chip cookie that husband made (so good!) and call mother to tell her about craft day and tell her oh how much blood sweat and tears I put into it because I know she will tell me she is proud and make me feel very good (success)! Then sit at computer and blog about the past three days of cut, cut, cutting things for cards, baby showers, and a vampire movie squeezed right in the middle.  Husband is gone making apple pies with the boy scouts (he is quite the little baker) so I should probably crash and lie down to watch pride and prejudice. I earned it!

Surprise parties and homemade cards.

On saturday we hosted a little surprise birthday party for out friend Ben. The boys were having fun playing mario kart on the wii. It was fun to all get together. Happy Birthday Ben!

I was also asked to make a couple cards for our ward craft day and here is what I came up with. I decided to do a thank you card and 2 Christmas cards since it is right around the corner.  This was pretty much my first real attempt at making cards and I am happy with them. Hopefully people in the ward will like them enough to want to make them! :)

Can't wait to try this!

For those of you that don't know, I work at Archivers which is basically the best Scrapbook store ever. We are currently awaiting our first shipment of this little beauty. It is called the slice and it is made by making memories.  It is an electronic cutter.  For those of you who love to scrapbook as I do, go here to see it in action. It is pretty cool.

Blog Update: We got our store demo in this morning and so I got to play around with it. It is very similar to a Cricut cutter but it is a lot smaller, portable and its not connected to a cord. It is a pretty fun little tool! I showed a lot of people how to use it today and everyone seems really excited about it. Too bad it's 150 big ones!

My Project

Our lovely apartment here in Minnesota has lovely white walls. Since our new t.v. is a flat screen on a low stand there was a ton of white empty space above it. Wall art can get pretty pricey so I decided to make some of my own. About 30 bucks and half an hour later here is what I came up with. I really like it. I have never been an orange person, but love I these patterns.