May Day Basket Winners

Thanks to all who posted to my blog this week and especially to those who posted to the May Day Basket give-away. Drum roll please......................and the winners are kbooms and primitive seasons. I will mail your baskets this week. Hope you enjoy them and again thanks for visiting my blog.

And speaking of spring, ok I was in a round about way. Did you notice I changed my blog header picture? Yes, the snow is gone--hopefully, but we do live in Michigan. LOL Now you all can see the yard work that needs to be done and after visiting primitive seasons blog I think she should come and help me. Pretty please! Check out her blog here. Her yard is gorgeous. Wish mine could look like that, but I'm not seeing that happening anytime in the near future. LOL

A little "Mom" bragging

The Laker Fine Arts Show was on Tuesday night and these were two of Brooke's entries. As you can see her clay piece won honorable mention at the art exhibit at the Heidleburg Gallery in Sebewaing back in March. I think her bowl looks so much better than the ashtray I made back in grade school. Not sure why I made an ashtray since no one in our family smokes. LOL
Yes, the other one is a real keyboard and no you cannot use it now. That seems to be the questions everyone asks. *grin*

I've always called her my "little artist". See children do become what we tell them they are. Wish more parents would think about that when they tell their children things, maybe we'd have more productive citizens. Ok, sorry I didn't mean to turn this into a preaching post. LOL

Mommy and Daddy (yes, she still calls us that even at this age--17) are so proud of you and the fine young lady you are. Great job!

May Day Giveaway!

It's May Day and in honor I will be giving away these two baskets. Just leave a comment on this post by Saturday, May 3. I will draw the names on Sunday, May 4 and mail the baskets next week. Good luck!

What's better than a new purse?

The answer: Another new purse. Yes, I am a purse/bag junkie. One can just never get enough or at least we can't in our household and hmmmmm my sister Chele's house either. *grin* I found this purse on line through the chatter of other demos and the company selling them were giving a deal to demos. They know that to spread the word like wildfire, you need to tell a SU demo. LOL I like this bag so much that I'm thinking about selling for them. If you'd like more info please feel free to contact me by phone or email. These bags are of a wonderful quality and a great way to show your style. This is the first insert I've made for it, but I'm feeling more coming on. That way you feel like you have a different purse more often. Frank will be happy about that I'm sure. LOL Well, have a wonderful day!

Renee

This post has been edited to clarify--I guess I used the wrong wording in this. I am not starting another business when I mention selling. What I meant is that I would see about getting bags and doing classes to make inserts. Sometimes the written word and what is in our heads doesn't come out the same way. Again if you are interested please contact me and I will see what the interest is for me holding a class. If you are not my customer or are not interested in a class and would like the info to just order direct then please visit http://www.dailywindow.com/ I'm not sure if buying them in bulk would give us a discount or not. I'm sorry for any misunderstanding.

Weekend Creations

Good Morning! I thought since I had told you I had cakes to make on the weekend I would show you a couple of them. Denny & Leann Smith just celebrated their 25th Wedding anniversary and their daughter Michelle ordered the cake for their surprise party. I can remember Denny and Leann going together in high school---and they said it wouldn't last. LOL If anyone would have told me that I'd be making their 25th anniversary cake back then..........hard to believe--not that they are married this long, but that I'm making cakes. Here's to another 25 together Denny and Leann. I ended up taking the top part off since Michelle had a piece to go on top, but I'm glad I got the picture with this one. To me the top on the cake is the finishing touch.

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This cake was for one of my customers Jessica Zarnke. She is expecting her first baby and as you can see, it's a girl. Best wishes to her and her husband.

Just a simple Thank Ewe!

I've got cakes to bake today. Ugh! I guess after almost 20 yrs. of them I just don't get that excited. Maybe I should post them here and I'd get more excited? No, I doubt it! LOL So since I don't have time to stamp I thought I'd share with you a card a made and sent a couple weeks ago. I think I sent it to my sister as a thanks for my b-day gift. This card isn't anything real fancy ( you didn't think I was going to waste my embellishments on her, now did you?) The colors didn't scan very well and I must have been too lazy that day to set it up for a pic. The colors are Soft Sky, Night of Navy, Real Red, and Old Olive. It really did look better in person. Honest! Ok, I'm stalling. I need to go bake those cakes.

Renee

Big Flowers

I subscribe to fellow Canadian demo Julie Buhler's blog and I am always in awe of her work. Well today I just had to CASE the card she had posted yesterday. I used the Big Flowers set and Soft Sky for the color, but the layout is the same. First time I've stamped on the "Pretties" flowers. Way cool! I'm seeing a bunch of these in my future. The center of the flower is a pewter Build a Brad and the piece inside was punched from Soft Sky DSP using a 1/2" circle punch. The flower background was stamped in versamark and embossed with clear embossing powder. I'm telling you this is a WOW card! Hope you enjoy.

Renee