Let's skate!

My girls used to love to skate. We'd buy them ice skates and take them out to the park in the middle of downtown after the water was frozen over and off they'd go. Their dad would skate with them and I'd be going around the perimeter of the rink holding my own, but very glad that I was away from the quick action. In my mind, though, I was gliding around on the ice like Peggy Fleming and Dorothy Hamel! Like I said, that was in my mind and about the time I'd fall would be the time I was supposed to be doing a double flip!

Tilda on Skates reminds me so much of those fun times with the girls. Tilda is from Magnolia stamps and is colored with copics. I used my nestibilities to cut out and emboss the ovals and the red printed background is paper from Bo Bunny. I used the new snow dots cuttlebug folder on the paper and the white background. The ribbon is from Offray and the snowflakes are from some Christmas garland I got from Joann's years ago. I sprayed the entire card with some Glimmer Mist in Cherub Pink

I hope I haven't jinxed us here in Maine by doing this winter card. Winter comes so early and stays so long that I've fought doing her. Give me a bit of fall before the first snow fall!

Grade Time!

This is the first time teachers are starting to grade for the year. I've been working with new teachers and getting classes all settled to make their job as easy for them as possible. It's not always the easiest thing to do, but you do the best you can.

When I saw this Tilda with Slate, she so remibnded me of all young girls first day at school. And when I saw her writing on her slate, she won me over. I colored her with my Prismacolor pencils and OMS and love the Scenic Route school paper and the Basic Grey circles. I picked up the ribbon at Joann's and the tab punch at Big Lots. The flowers are Prima flowers and the card stock is SU.

I hope you enjoy her and that she brings back some great memories of this time of the school year for us all!

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I've been Tagged!

I’ve been tagged by Suzanne and Christine and since I’m housesitting in a gorgous house and don’t have many stamping supplies with me, I thought I’d post it now. Just so you know, here are the rules for ya:

1. Link your tagger and list these rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
4. Let them know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

As sad or silly as they are, here I go:

1. I’m a middle child and if you follow the characteristics of the middle child syndrome, that’s me!
2. I’m a distant relative of Devil Anse Hatfield of the Hatfields and McCoys fued.
3. When I was stationed in Sigonella Sicily, I lived on the side of Mt. Etna, an active volcano..
4. My office at work use to be the bathroom of a wildly successful boat builder and has one of the best views on campus.
5. I want to write a ridiculously successful romance novel one day along the lines of Kathleed Woodiwiss or Judith McNaught.
6. I scalped tickets to get into a sold out Harry Potter event last summer because I couldn’t miss the excitement of the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
7. I can knit a pair of mittens in one evening.

So there you have it. It’s not pretty, but it’s me! So here are the 7 people I’d love to know more about:

1. Deb
2. Loreen
3. Ami
4. Denise
5. Kristina
6. Eulanda
7. Danni

Let’s go learn all about them and look at their exciting blogs and what they’re up to!

What We Teach Our Children

When God places little angels in our keeping, we as parents are responsible for what we teach them. Sometimes the lessons and hard, sometimes they're easy. Sometimes their coplicated, but sometimes they're extremely simple. For me the simplest thing and most natural thing to do is to pray. Pray for protection for my children, for good health. Pray that I can be as good a grandmother to Emma and Allie as My grandmother was to me and as my mother and sister are to their grandchildren. I've always been blessed with good Godly female role models and I've never had to look outside my own family. That's the one thing in life I hope I can achieve.

So Heavenly, Tilda, is a Magnolia that crawled right into my heart. I saw her and had to have her. When I look at her and see her sweet peaceful face, I see the same innocence that I see when I look at Allie and Emma. You always think of things you want to teach them, things you want to do with and for them. I look at her and can see my sweet great nieces, Paige and Madelyn and Ella and know that there is still good things happening in this world. Little girls are being born into good families and hope lives on. They renew us and give us our second wind.



I wanted to keep her simple and sweet. The card stock is from SU and the papers are from Debbie Mumm's paper stack for Girls and by DCWV. I colored Tilda with copics and used nestabilities for the circles. I sprayed the pink circle with Pearl Glimmer Mist and I love it! I used pearl drops from Kaiser on the corners and crystal stickles on Tilda's wings. The dove inside is also from the So Heavenly collection.

I hope you enjoy her and can find the sweet peacefullness in your life that she has in her sweet face and that we find in the hope of things to come for our children.