Mother's Day :)

 This is a card I made and gave to my Mom for Mother's Day from Jim and me.:) She LOVES yellow! I made the paper flower and leaves, then  used my Cuttlebug to do the embossing on the yellow card stock paper on the front and the corner cutouts.The gems and the ribbon are from Michael's craft store.

 This is the inside of the card. I wrote this poem for her. There is a closeup of it below, so you can read it if you would like.I used a corner punch and some gems to accent it.

 Mama prays for our families every morning. That the Lord will bless us and our ministries. She has done this for YEARS!

 This is Mother's day and just a few members of our family. We actually had eighteen altogether. We had it at our house,in our backyard. Jim and Jimmy mowed the yard ..Jim trimmed hedges and got our pond in the front yard going again.All before they got here. He bought some more pine chips and gravel to spruce the area back up. It looks Fantastic! I will need to take a pic and show you next time I am here.:)

 This is just a layout of the food area.:) Destiny ,youngest Grand Daughter is inspecting it.:) That's Jim hiding behind the grill. We had BBQ chicken,potato salad,macaroni salad,cole slaw,baked beans, corn on the cob which Jim and Robby grilled first...before the chicken. Crescent rolls and dessert.Sodas and Tea. Coffee after dinner.We ALL loved it and probably ate too much.:)

 This is the swing set in our backyard. If you remember..Jim built it for the kids a few years ago. That is Zander on the far left, My sister helping her Grandson onto a swing,in the middle and  then Lexi, Our middle Grand Daughter...on the far right. Jim hiding in the front bottom right corner.LOL Just kidding. He didn't make it in this picture.:)

This is Destiny again. She was having a ball trying to touch the tree trunk with her feet.She never made it..but gave it a great try.:) Jim hiding in the corner again.LOL

 I had a FANTASTIC Mother's Day and couldn't have asked for a better gift than to have some of those I LOVE around me.:)

 Thanks for stopping in to take a peek. :)

Hugs,
Valinda

Better late than never.:)

I finally got around to filling some brag book pages yesterday!! :) These are of Destiny's (my middle grand daughter's) 11th Birthday.:) She had an AWESOME time and was thrilled with her gifts. (Not all of them are shown here.)

I used Just So Scrappy's "Happy Day" brag book pages. I LOVE her designs and she is SOOO generous. Her kits are AWESOME and she sells them for almost less than you can buy a cola in the cooler in most stores.:) She also gives away brag books..so be sure you don't miss going to her blog. The link is in my sidebar!!

Have a WONDERFUL day!!

Hugs,
Valinda

I Look to You

Vacation Trip to Florida. A few pics for now.:)

I guess I need to brush up on the Blogger photo posting and titles etc. I can't seem to get them to let me write anything under each photo the way I use to do it. So..I will just tell you a little about the photos in the order they are posted.:) April 6th... The first photo is of our son Robby and hubby Jim..as they approach the beach. The second photo is of something that either washed up on the beach or someone took moss and painted it different colors.:) The third photo is of Robby and his wife Liz against the sunset. It was Liz's first time EVER to go to the beach and see the ocean and sunset.She LOVED it! The fourth photo is of me taking a pic of Christy taking a pic of the sunset.:) The fifth photo is of the BEAUTIFUL sunset.:) The sixth photo is of the Nuclear Power Plant. It was the only thing that took away from the BEAUTIFUL ocean scenery. KWIM? :) Thanks so much for stopping in.

Birthday's and Cards.:)

 This is my middle Granddaughter, Lexi. She turned 3/13 this year. She is our leap year girl. I cannot believe she is already 13.WOW! :) We celebrated her birthday at El Nopal Mexican Restaurant. Did you guess that already?LOL I don't recall the paper I used for the back ground but I used some glitter (Studio G) for around the edges of the hearts. The flowers are from the Dollar Tree. I LOVE the decorative numbers I got as freebies from "Crazy 4 Monograms" blog. (Link is in my side bar)

This next card is for my Nephew,Jeremy. He turned 28 this year. We celebrated his birthday at Applebee's Restaurant. Jim said that would be his last trip there cause he really doesn't care for Applebee's. This was Jeremy's choice of restaurant. Oh well..hope he chooses a different one next time.:)

  I loved the idea of the way the card folded out.  I had to find a way though to keep the card from opening up on it's own. It seemed no matter how much I creased the folds..it would open up. I found an arrow paper clip that worked just fine.:) The paper is from The Paper Studio. Thought the black background would be COOL for a "man's" card.I wasn't sure how the card would be accepted..but they all said it was pretty.:) Guess that is a good thing.LOL I got the Happy Birthday from one of the files in a kit that I ..at the moment..can't remember.:)  I made a money pocket on the left side and slipped a folded bill into it.  I am SOO out of practice. It seemed to take me FOREVER to complete this one,but that may be because I waited until "THE DAY" to start it.;)

 I really need to start ANOTHER card before Monday...which is our oldest Granddaughter's "18th " birthday. I am feeling a lot older this month for some reason.LOL

 Thank you so much for stopping in and I sure hope you stay long enough to let me know you were here. :)

Hugs,
Valinda

Home repairs update.:)

                     Here's the finished look to the new tiles for our bathroom I LOVE IT!!!

           This is only a very small area that I took a pic of..just to show you the design in the tiles.:)

We are almost done with the whole room. Jim needs to remove the toilet,tile the floor under it and finish the edges of that side of the room. Just a very small area.:) I am VERY happy with the results so far and can hardly wait to see the whole room completed.YAY!!

Thanks for stopping in and commenting so I know you did.:)

Hugs,
Valinda