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I have been MIA for almost a week - sorry everyone!
It's been a crazy week - Tim's parents are on vacation (they got an AMAZING deal and are in Hawaii for 2 weeks) so Tim and I both have had to be in constant contact to make sure one of us can pick up the kids on time from daycare and whatnot (between the two of us we work over 100 hours a week - that's why it is wonderful that his parents can pick the girls up for us when we're working late or when something happens etc).
On top of that both girls have been sick off an on for the past week and a half, and although I tried fighting it I came down with a monster cold and spent all of yesterday on the couch. I still feel pretty rotten but I've got too much to do!!
A lot of you have asked for updates on my mom - she's doing really good. Her toes have healed from where she had the pins (the pins were taken out the week before Christmas) and her biggest issue is not being able to bend them (she's going to work on that to see if down the road she'll be able to but as of right now she can't bend them at all).
She obviously also can't wear anything with heels - which if you know my mom is a big deal. She prolly owns more than twice as many shoes as I do (heck prolly more than 3 or 4 times!!) and the majority of them are heels (she's on the shorter side (compared to me anyway! I am 4 or 5" taller than her and my sister) so she always wore heels). She doesn't know if she'll ever be able to wear heels again (and if I wore the same size of shoes as her I'd get a sick sense of satisfaction out of it b/c then *I* could wear them BUT she's got way smaller feet than me!) so she's resorted to anything that's flat and COMFORTABLE.
But anywho she is doing good :o)
My brothers are doing good too - my older brother (the one that got laid off right before Christmas) found a good job at one of the potash mines outside the city. There is a chance it could turn into a better job down the road as he has a lot of experience and the person above him might retire soon. And my younger brother and his family got moved into a new apartment and things are settled down and as of right now no more drama!!
OH and yes I had my dentist appointment last Monday for that wonderful root canal and it went fine. My dentist really is fabulous as I didn't feel a thing - it was just uncomfortable as it was in the very back tooth on the top. Then of course I was frozen for several hours after that and had to go to a few places to get supplies/groceries etc etc and I looked like I had had a stroke with one side of my face all frozen.....I got a few funny looks from people but oh well!
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I've made a few cards over the past week and a half and finally finished them, took the pics and whatnot and I'll share these ones with y'all today:
I had stamped out some of the images from Diane's Valentine Critters set ages ago and had colored them while I was at work. I just love all the "critters" in this set - I think they're all so CUTE!!
When I got them home I decided to add red Stickles to all the hearts, then after that had dried I cut them all out (you can check out this post I did on detail cutting (it includes a video) HERE <----click!)
All of these cards are little 3x3" notecards - I don't have envelopes for them but if I need to I will just make some later on.
I used some patterned paper from the haul I got not too long ago and of course had to use some of the new ribbon too!
(here's a direct link to this exact ribbon I used - Pink with Thin White Stripe)
The yellow paper is just one of the opposite sides of one of the patterns - I really love how this AC collection has this pop of yellow. It's unexpected yet it just works...
I don't have the list of Copics I used on the bunny image but I do have the ones I used on the bear and the elephant.
COPICS USED:
Bear:
E33, E35, E37, R83, R85, R27, R29.
Elephant:
C3, C5, C7, 0, R83, R85, R27, R29.
I used my circle and scalloped circle nestabilities to "frame" each of the critters, and attached each of them to the circles with dimensionals.
The little pink braddy things are Bella Dots - when I was digging through all my embellishments I came across them and they were the perfect color so I glued three of them to the bottom right corner of each card :o)
I didn't bother taking pictures of the insides this time - all I did was line the insides with one of the pale pink solid sides of the AC patterned papers and that was it!
