It has been a very busy and chaotic week around here this week. I am actually looking forward to Wednesday now cause WOYWW is my anchor to what day it is....not to mention how much fun it is to snoop around everyone desks!
Stamping Ground is J. Dunnits blog and where you need to go to check it out!
My work desk is a disaster this week. I have all sorts of stuff left out that I have been using this week and haven't got it all put back where it belongs! I don't think anyone else here does that...or do they? I wouldn't tell...as you can see I staged this and cropped that part out of the picture!!
I wanted to share some things I received this week. I won some blog candy this past week from Charlene! It was some fun ribbon, two stamp sets, some brads, and other stuff. As I was putting the ribbons away in my ribbon bag I thought that I would show off the bag I bought to hold the bits and pieces. It has holes all around the clear walls and you just punch it through and viola! I don't know how they don't get tangled but they don't!
Secondly, I was talking with my daughter about wanting to do a art journal she gave me a big pot of Gesso, a Strathmore Sketch book, and some itty bitty watercolor canvases! Yay! I am off and running now!
I have been fairly productive this week, made 10 cards for a friend to use at church. Made several tags one of which is my first
steampunk tag(maybe to cute for a real SP tag), made another tag for the
Grungy Monday challenge, another tag for a friend that passed and I put a
tribute on my blog, and did some more organizing of stash in my craft room. Still have a lot of organizing I need to today. I sounded like a sailor that had been at sea a year when I opened a cabinet and everything jumped out at me.
On non-paper craft stuff I did a little work out in the yard. I planted the planter around the patio with petunias, sage, begonias, and other stuff. I also planted some tomatoes, peppers, and onions in the garden. Tomorrow I am going to plant some peas, beans, and maybe some corn. I will wait a couple more weeks to plant the okra cause it doesn't like too cold of feet and the 100+degree weather is what it likes best! Payday I will buy more flowers to go in the flower pots and maybe get the swimming pool open so I can get so less stressful water exercise in.
Okay thats it for me I am going to start my tour around the blogs. Take care and have a good week.
Vickie
It has been a very busy and chaotic week around here this week. I am actually looking forward to Wednesday now cause WOYWW is my anchor to what day it is....not to mention how much fun it is to snoop around everyone desks! Stamping Ground is J. Dunnits blog and where you need to go to check it out!
I met Leslie and Fred about 3 years ago when Leslie opened up her scrapbook store Whole Lotta Scrap on Main Street in Norman, Oklahoma. They are a really awesome couple and you can tell that they genuinely love and care about one another. We have spent birthdays, holidays, and other events with them and they have become part of our family. Leslie has taken to calling me Momma and she is my other daughter by another mother! The beginning of March Fred went to the doctor thinking he had some kind of stomach problems and was given some bad news. Fred had Stage 4 Liver Cancer that had spread throughout his body. It was so sudden it was a shock since Fred hadn't been ill and there hadn't been any other warning signs that it was growing. 
Fred loved to go to sports events and NHRA races in Ft. Worth. Fred actually took a couple pictures of my husband Chuck at a race in TX before they even met each other last year. He loved going to his land with Leslie's Dad, Claude, and four wheeling and cooking out. Fred loved a good gossip and would come to the store when we had crops and would sit and joke and kid around with the women there about this and that and he got so comfortable just hanging with us we dubbed him and honorary scrapbooker! He liked nothing better then play pranks on some of the women and would enlist Leslie's aide to help him pull it off. Fred would come in and cook hot dogs and hamburgers for us when we had the OU/OSU football bedlam each year, one year smoking out the store. Everyone that knew Fred knew what a hard worker and how sincere a person he was. If you had a problem he had a solution! Freddie was always willing to help carry stuff and would make multiple trips to the cars packing out the too much stuff we packed in and when the women told him they needed lockers to store their stuff in he built them! He was priceless!
It is a lot different then anything I have done before but then when I first started grunge I wasn't so for sure I was going to like it. love, Love, LOVE it now!
I am attempting my first 'steampunk' style tag and I am not exactly sure what I am doing so keep tuned to see how it turns out.
