Yippee for Fiskateers!

On line crop is going on today at the Fisk-a-teers website.  If you aren't a Fiskateer - sign up - it's free and tons of fun!

first page of the two page layout

My Pink Stamper challenge

I am at a Cricut Swarm this weekend with Mary and this morning we saw Robyn at Mypinkstamper posting of a challenge. Here are two pages I did using the colors that I added baby pictures of my DD. I used the EK success border punch and had a heck of a time trying to do the corners. I looked at two craft stores to see if a border punch existed - it doesn't. I used two different cricut carts for the layout. Mini monograms for the scalloped square background cut at fit to page (12x12 paper) and the It's a girl and butterfly are both from the New Arrivals cart. The green scalloped circle is from mini monograms. Paper used was Core'dinations with some green scraps I have had for years. Now head on over to Mary's blog to see what she created for the challenge!

Easter Bouquet

I made an Easter bouquet for my SIL as a hostess gift becuase she is hosting the Easter gathering this year. I saw a video of lead Fiskateer Rebecca where she made these adorable eatable bunnies with marshmallows and white chocolate so I had to make one for each of the nieces and nephew to put in the Easter bouquet. It sure turned out cute!

Sisters!

I started my week in a great way - with a visit with my sister! I live in MN, my sister and family live out East in MA. April had to travel for work to the West coast and had a layover in MN so I met her at the airport for a chat and we had a lovely few hours. All the more precious because we only see each other once a year but this was a bonus because we know we will see each other in June for my daughter's HS graduation! Now I am hoping for more travel for my sister and I am sure her family is thinking the opposite because they miss her. I guess I can't be selfish and I do try to think what is best for them but What A Treat! Cheers to family.

Fiskateers

I have been having a blast as a Fiskateer (and plan to continue enjoying the fun!). Recently I participated in an online challenge not realizing that there was a chance to win a prize. It was fun to stretch my creativity and try new things and then a couple weeks later I find out that some random participants won prizes! Here is a picture of the Fiskars goodness I received yesterday and of course I started in right away using the goodies and finished a small book about a day in my life. That was another challenge I discovered on this blog (through Fiskateers!)

Library writings

Here is an article I found interesting about school libraries and some statistics about MN funding schools.