National Limerick Day

Re-posting from May 12 2011

This is the post that went missing from the 12th to the 17th while Blogger had an aneurysm!  The comments are still lost!  I have held onto it until now I was dealing with what happened during its absence...

I was trying to get in contact with my HS English teacher to thank her for my love of literature. (Notice I said literature and not English as a reader of my blog you know I find any type of structure confining.) I am sure some of you remember the Flash Gordon Paper.  OMGoodness, it made her laugh Hysterically;)  

In the process I learned that my Friend (the teachers daughter) had lost her 17 year old son.

Is it not amazing how God works and knits things like a Limerick day post back to my friend in her darkest hour.  As of yet I have to send a card or give her a call.  I am lucky, our girls were permitted more time in this world when her son was not.  I know how close we were I just can't imagine the crushing feeling of burying your child.  A child one week short of graduating HS. 

 A child full of vim and vigor just as his mother.  

So God Bless you my Friend and I am keeping you and your family in my prayers.

  Remember to tell the people you love that you love them EVERYDAY.  Because no one knows when your last day will be.

So here it is again if you missed it....

Celebrate National Limerick Day!

I love this holiday it is obvious if you know me or have the pleasure of living with me!  My kids laugh hysterically when I  am in a rhyming mood.  

Don't you ever let go and say what comes to mind?  Try it!  You will be amazed.

If you are submitting to PaperCrafts Magazine the have an open submission call for a Card a Day 2012.

I printed off a list of my favorite days I wanted to work with I have submitted some but others are just hanging around.  This is one of those creations...

I printed off the sentiment in Word because I am having issues with my computer!  I plan on getting some word art in photoshop up for grabs as soon as I get this figured out;)

Here is a quick one Jessica and I made up...

There is a girl named Jesse

Her room is very Messy

She did not pick up her shoes

now she suffers the one shoe blues

and her Momma is a bit testy.

My Minds Eye Stella and Rose collection dp and ribbon

Cuttlebug flower dies

PTI cardstock, buttons, felt and bling

Nestabilities lacy circle dies and the Big Shot

computer/printer

Scrap Fabric

embroidery floss

Okay, the MRI scan results are back on my right knee.  Not what the Dr. was expecting.  

What can I say it is ME!

In short my problems are being caused by degeneration, arthritis and my body sending too much fluid to heal the area.  This fluid is getting trapped in the back of the knee were the situation above has done damage and is collecting making movement of my knee difficult and painful.  There is a name for it but I am not going to look it up cause if I do I certainly will have earned a Doctorate Degree!  So I can deal with it or go get an injection directly into the knee cap.  I went and looked it up anyhow and the term is EFFUSION.  Now you can call me Dr. Sara Paschal!   I don't know what the worst of the two evils are at this point.  I know in the past I have different results with injections.  Have been told the more of them you get the less they work.

So no surgery is needed...that is a good thing. 

However to chalk up one more body part to degenerative disease does not make me one bit happy.

Happy Stamp Day.  God Bless.

Memorial Day Weekend

Below you see our kitchen table center piece the girls and I made for the Memorial Day Holiday Weekend.  We usually travel this time of year.  However, my knee and back are keeping us close to home this weekend.  Jessica is upset, she loves visiting the Zoo in Omaha.  Fact is she has her suitcase packed and ready for summer vacation.  

So to ease into the change we worked on this to remind the girls why this holiday has come to be.

The wall art is from a previous post {HERE}it is a German Meal Prayer

Come Lord Jesus be our Guest let these gifts to us be blessed.

I altered a frame for each photo, one will be going to each kiddo for their rooms.

To my knowledge we do not have a Military Member of our family that has died in battle.  However, there is a long list of enlisted members.

Below is one of my Favorite photos in our collection.  It is of my Grandfather Vernnie Smith.  I love everything about this pic!  From the fashion, the love on Grandpa's face and the tad mysterious glance of Grandma Alpha Skovly Smith.

Here is my Daddy Charles Tieszen.  He is a Korean War Veteran. 

Does not talk much about his time in the service.  The pics we have speak for him.  I love and cherish these photos also.  Dad is going to be 80 in January and acts as if he is 20!

Below is my Beloved DH Jesse Paschal.  Served in the Army late 80's early 90's.  He recently was granted coverage through the VA for his illness.  Such a blessing.  

So nice to sleep at night knowing my DH is covered.

May God Bless our Country and the World.  Happy Memorial Day Weekend.

Cupcake Pedestal Floral Frenzy

Floral Frenzy meets Beautiful Blooms.

**For cupcake pedestal directions please see previous post**

Exception being I used the P for PaperTrey for the cupcake stand.

I am going to go back and doll it up more I thought hanging flowers in the P cut out would be cute or beads?  

From Nichole...Flowers

May is the month when many flowers finally go into full bloom after a long winter's sleep.  For the blog 

hop this month we want to see your favorite take on flowers.  You can stamp backgrounds, create 

custom floral embellishments, showcase unique flower center additions (buttons, rhinestones, beads, 

etc...), flowers die-cut from different materials (like fabric, felt, vellum, etc...) or anything else you can 

dream up!  We are looking forward to seeing all of your amazing creations!

If you visit here often you know I can do flowers.  They are my most favorite crafty project to work on.  For today's challenge I broke out PTI's Beautiful Blooms DP and Floral Frenzy Stamp set.

All products used are PTI except Cricut Cindy Loo Cartridge and Plantin Schoolbook cartridge.  This is how I created the cupcake wrapper and pedestal.

Happy Stamp Day.  God Bless.

I Can't STAND It!

Really I can't stand it this is so darn cute and a different way to show off your cupcakes. Let them stand out, raise them up, show them off.   Put upon a pedestal.   You see the cupcake wrappers and Pics all over the place these days.  However, I have only seen one version of a paper cupcake pedestal and that one does not serve its purpose well.  I Wanted to make it frilly and sturdy at the same time so this is the final version...

Here is how I did this version using My Cricut Expression, the Storybook Cartridge, Design Studio,  Pure Poppy Cardstock and dp from Doodlebug Designs Berry Blue...
The J in Plantin School Book works well also.  I think if you look through your cartridges you will find many images that will work.

Pick your image

Draw it out to the size you want this makes it easy to change heights on some

Next copy and paste the image check weld and flip

move the image over so it welds nice with the first piece

MAKE SURE YOU CLICK WELD ON BOTH IMAGES AND FLIP ONE OF THEM

Use a scissors to cut up the center half way to the top

Use a scissors to cut down the center half way to the bottom

**You will need to cut twice on heavy weight cardstock**
two layers of heavy weight cardstock like PTI is all I found to work WELL and will hold the weight of a cupcake with out toppling over.
You will need to cut once for Dp
Use a good adhesive to layer your two cardstock pieces
Place your DP cuts on both sides of your layered cardstock
Connect at the cuts
Glue on your top
For mine I used a Doily and a Marvy Scallop Circle
Place your cupcake

Bonus:
Plate idea from my Sister Julie
Cut circle in matching DP
Sandwich between two clear plastic plates
Use glue dots to adhere the plates.
Save them, take apart and use them again switching out the dp to match your table setting.


Click here to download the following template...
This is where I started this version does not work well for what I was looking for.  Possibly for MINI muffins or MINI cupcakes then I still would not do it for a child's party.

Happy Stamp Day.  God Bless.

Cooking Mama

Liz has a favorite game for her DS it is Cooking Mama and she has her eyes on Crafting Mama.  

Girl after my  heart for sure;)  

This summer we are turning her fun and games into REALITY.  She will be creating our favorite foods and scrapping them for the future.  When my Mother Died I really missed her in the kitchen.  I was married and a new Mom and I needed to know her secrets.  My Dad and his wife Jan must have gotten tired of my phone calls Mom's recipe for this and that and how she did this etc.  Then for Christmas Jan gave  us kids a cookbook with my Mom's recipes the most wonderful gift ever. 

Here is Elizabeth's Chinese Chicken Plated.  Looks YUMMY!

Here is the Scrapbook Recipe page for the Chinese Chicken.  Hey, I found a use for Cricut Pagoda.  YES!  Love the bowl and chopsticks just as YUMMY as the dish;)

We are using a template in Works for the recipe that we we can print more off as needed.  Click on the pic to enlarge for your copy.

Happy Stamp Day.  God Bless.

Mini Tissue Paper Bloom

I DID IT!  Not as difficult as I had made it out to be.  I did decrease the layers to 4, I think if you were working with more you could possibly start pulling your hair out.

I opened up the center and placed some bling from SU pretties kit.

You can make a bloom also check out this weeks featured video;)  

Use 4 to 5 squares of tissue about 5 by 5 inches.

Nesties ovals

SU oval punch, tt ink and pretties Kit

PTI cardstock, sentiment and ribbon

BasicGrey DP

Bling Recollections

Floss and dimensional foam dots

Happy Stamp Day.  May God Bless America.

Tissue Paper Bloomers

The featured video this past week was on

Tissue Paper Flowers

(I am going to leave it for a few more days, if you have not watched it yet I recommend checking it out.)

I want to try small, tiny tiny card sized ones.  

For that I have to find were I placed my patience before giving them a go.

This white bloom is my favorite...

So very pretty....

Here is a vase full, Jessica and Elizabeth made most of these;)

Tissue paper, sticks, floral tape, wire.

Happy Stamp Day.  May God Bless.