All Dressed Up Finale!

Here's the gals... all dressed up in their best stamping attire...

Saturday morning...

Jean (also ready for Mardi Gras!)

Kathy... queen of the Irish... 

in her Irish crown, t-shirt and matching shamrock socks!

Ronnie

Barbara

Susan... pearls and all...

Then, the afternoon gals came in...

Pippa (I'm sure she's related to the Queen)

Joined by Rindy

Rindy also was wearing a treasured hairpiece...

created specially for her by her boys!!!

Rhoda with some bling

And Robin too!

Sunday afternoon came

Cheryl

Sarah... also wearing pearls

Amy

(she loaned her crown to the guy on her t-shirt)

And Pat, wearing an authentic

Princess Di crown... ok maybe not....

but at least she won a prize for it!

And look at the gorgeous flowers Cheryl brought me...

So we were all winners!

Thanks gals for being such great sports and coming in style!

Last but not Least Card

Here's the last surprise card I had the girls make last weekend...   ya know I love to do the unusual... so look what we did here...

Using the All Dressed Up stamp.. just stamp the lower portion of the dress only.. and turn it into a tulip!! Now tell me that isn't creative and different...

I even enhanced the inside.. can you peek and see...

Think this would make a great Mother's Day or Easter Spring card too...

ya think?

Something That We Do

Today Jerry and I celebrate our 42nd Wedding Anniversary!!!

How that happened I'm not sure... but I do know we have had an amazing life together and through the good times and bad, I'm grateful to be still standing together...  so much more in love today than ever.

A few weeks ago we went to a Clint Black concert... you know I'm not a big country music fan (but Jerry is).... so I wasn't familiar with his songs.... however one he sang touched me very strongly and I felt it really expressed our thoughts on our life.... here's the lyrics to Something That We Do:

I remember well the day we wed
I can see that picture in my head
I still believe the words we said
Forever will ring true

Love is certain, love is kind
Love is yours and love is mine
But it isn't something that we find
It's something that we do

It's holding tight, lettin' go
It's flying high and laying low
Let your strongest feelings show
And your weakness, too

It's a little and a lot to ask
An endless and a welcome task
Love isn't something that we have
It's something that we do

We help to make each other all that we can be
Though we can find our strength and inspiration independently
The way we work together is what sets our love apart
So closely that you can't tell where I end and where you start

It gives me heart remembering how
We started with a simple vow
There's so much to look back on now
Still it feels brand-new

We're on a road that has no end
And each day we begin again
Love's not just something that we're in
It's something that we do

We help to make each other all that we can be
Though we can find our strength and inspiration independently
The way we work together is what sets our love apart
So closely that you can't tell where I end and where you start

Love is wide, love is long
Love is deep and love is strong
Love is why I love this song
And I hope you love it too

I remember well the day we wed
I can see that picture in my head
Love isn't just those words we said
It's something that we do

There's no request too big or small
We give ourselves, we give our all
Love isn't someplace that we fall
It's something that we do

I love you hon, with all my heart!

xoxoxoxo

Keep Calm and ..... what????

This is one of my all time favorite cards... just love the dress style here.. .creating a little "sweater" jacket... just adorable! This is another one of the cards we made at the All Dressed Up Party.....

Do you know the phrase.. Keep Calm and ... what?????

The perfect saying inside!!!

We can definitely do that... shop on!

Girly Girls!

What a fun weekend... filled with All Dressed Up girls... and All Dressed Up cards!!! Here's the two we made using Tea For Two Designer Series Paper:

I previously showed you the first original card made also using the Tea for Two paper 

matching it with the Primrose Petals cardstock:

 I made a set using the Polk-a-Dot DSP amd Embossing Folder....

Here's the "Daffodil Delight" versions....

First card has the DSP on the outside with solid cardstock inside:

Second version I used the solid cardstock on the outside with a hint of black 

and put the DSP on the inside:

Here's the two side by side:

Come back tomorrow and will show you another darling card!!!

March Madmess!

No, it's not a typo.... it really is March Mad-mess around here... but it's soo much fun! My house is a mess full of this and that ready for the All Dressed Up parties this weekend!

So between all the hoopla... look what I found outside on our driveway this past weekend... at first when I walked past it, thought it was a piece of Designer Series Paper waded up or something (thinking how in the heck did that get outside on my driveway???)... then got closer to look ... it was this beautiful monarch butterfly.. or so I thought .. then couldn't tell if he was dead so scooped him up on a newspaper to bring him in to show Jerry... and get some pictures... hard to see but his antenna was just incredible.. like feathers!!  Can you see????

Even tried putting him on color paper to see contrast better....

Since I found him on the driveway under our big street light, I wondered if he wasn't a moth... so since Google is my friend, I looked up to see what I could find.

    How can you tell the difference between a butterfly and a moth?

    

    One of the easiest ways to tell the difference between a butterfly and a moth is to look at the antennae. A butterfly’s antennae are club-shaped with a long shaft and a bulb at the end. A moth’s antennae are feathery or saw-edged.

 Ah Ha!! So it is a moth... check out this picture of a cecropia moth!!!

I was like a kid and wanted to keep him in a jar or something or figure out what to feed him.. barely alive as he was... but Jerry just picked him up and flicked him back outside... the naturalist he is... back to the wild...

So when I did google him to find the picture.... and read about the Cecropia moth.. guess what??
Library of Congress tells me he's an unusual moth ... and we threw him out!!!


The Castnioidea moths, found in the neotropics, Indonesia, and Australia exhibit many of the characteristics of butterflies such as brightly colored wings, clubbed antenna and day flying.


http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/butterflymoth.html

Adding this to our list of creatures found at the Reed Ranch....

Now that's March Mad-ness!!!