They got presents!
xoxo
ronee
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
A goodbye
Being a military family it is often a goodbye situation! In the past few years we have lost the Snyders, the Moores, the Fires, the Housers, the Renfros and now the Bolts. Each one has been getting harder and harder. The Bolts have been an awesome family to us. Today was their going away party. School ends tomorrow and they wanted to make sure before everyone breaks for the summer that they were able to get together. Here are some pictures of my girls from today
They got presents!
xoxo
ronee
They got presents!
xoxo
ronee
My Blogger RAK
Today I visited my mailbox today. Then I got this!!!
This is from Donna Baker. Her blog is www.stampamaniac.blogspot.com. Her blog is such a cutie!
Thanks Donna!!!
Monday, May 28, 2007
Things I love...
I got an email this morning from one of my friends and it was those type that you fill it out and then send them to the rest of your friends...you know those survey types. Anyway, I decided that this would be a better choice!
So...I love
1. That God is always listening to me. I may not always like the answers, but he does love me and his rewards are great!
2. Great days. Days when all the girls are in bed and I can sit down and say..that was a pretty great day. Be a day out with friends..or even when we headed to the beach. Just days that you can sit back and smile!
3. Moments that Traysea expresses her brilliance. Traysea is our girl that is Ryan's daughter. I love Tray though..as I love all my children, but Traysea is the one that is constantly craving knowledge. Funny story..yesterday we were talking about what was going on this summer. I mentioned that this summer there would be some homework involved. Tyra makes the oh great rolling eyes face..but Tray says..yupppie. Tyra is mildly irritated at her sister.
4. My children want to cuddle. They all love to climb into my lap and just have squeezes. I love those moments. I love to use my fingers to brush out their hair. Tyra hates that now..but she humors me some! At 11 almost 12 she loves to still be my baby girl!
5. Times that Tyra and I get to hang out. I hate to do anything alone, so often I "invite" Tyra out with me. Like..heh Tyra lets go to Walmart. She makes a face and then goes and gets ready..the bookstore is her favorite. She loves when her and I can go and sit and read..have some soup..a little starbucks. All of it!
6. The smell of tropical colada. It's scent that Bath and Body works carried last summer. This year they don't have it. Lucky I am crazy and bought as much as I thought I could hold. But it is slowly but surely dwindling down to nothing. I don't know what I am going to do.
7. Flowers in my ear. I don't know if it's my "island" girlness..or just I have always loved the flowers..but whatever the reasoning is I feel funny leaving my home without a flower in my ear.
8. Great accomplishments by my children. Now this could be getting A honor roll or just remembering how to spell their entire name. And trust me that can be a bit much for my children. It doens't matter how big or how small I love their moments!
9. My craft room. I love that I have my own space just to have everything out and everything there for me to love on! This is my first craft room. For years I have lived out rubbermaid totes. I would have to use my stuffs..and then put it all away after because I can't very well leave my dining room table like that. Now I have a craft room..that I can just close the door and not worry about my undo project on my table.
10. My family! I love my parents! I love my nieces! I love all my "herd". God has blessed with such an awesome base!
Okay so NOW you list ten things you love!!!
xoxo
ronee
So...I love
1. That God is always listening to me. I may not always like the answers, but he does love me and his rewards are great!
2. Great days. Days when all the girls are in bed and I can sit down and say..that was a pretty great day. Be a day out with friends..or even when we headed to the beach. Just days that you can sit back and smile!3. Moments that Traysea expresses her brilliance. Traysea is our girl that is Ryan's daughter. I love Tray though..as I love all my children, but Traysea is the one that is constantly craving knowledge. Funny story..yesterday we were talking about what was going on this summer. I mentioned that this summer there would be some homework involved. Tyra makes the oh great rolling eyes face..but Tray says..yupppie. Tyra is mildly irritated at her sister.
4. My children want to cuddle. They all love to climb into my lap and just have squeezes. I love those moments. I love to use my fingers to brush out their hair. Tyra hates that now..but she humors me some! At 11 almost 12 she loves to still be my baby girl!5. Times that Tyra and I get to hang out. I hate to do anything alone, so often I "invite" Tyra out with me. Like..heh Tyra lets go to Walmart. She makes a face and then goes and gets ready..the bookstore is her favorite. She loves when her and I can go and sit and read..have some soup..a little starbucks. All of it!
6. The smell of tropical colada. It's scent that Bath and Body works carried last summer. This year they don't have it. Lucky I am crazy and bought as much as I thought I could hold. But it is slowly but surely dwindling down to nothing. I don't know what I am going to do. 7. Flowers in my ear. I don't know if it's my "island" girlness..or just I have always loved the flowers..but whatever the reasoning is I feel funny leaving my home without a flower in my ear.
8. Great accomplishments by my children. Now this could be getting A honor roll or just remembering how to spell their entire name. And trust me that can be a bit much for my children. It doens't matter how big or how small I love their moments!
9. My craft room. I love that I have my own space just to have everything out and everything there for me to love on! This is my first craft room. For years I have lived out rubbermaid totes. I would have to use my stuffs..and then put it all away after because I can't very well leave my dining room table like that. Now I have a craft room..that I can just close the door and not worry about my undo project on my table. 
10. My family! I love my parents! I love my nieces! I love all my "herd". God has blessed with such an awesome base!Okay so NOW you list ten things you love!!!
xoxo
ronee
Happy Memorial Day and Trysha Emmaly's 4th Birthday invites
Heh there everyone. So I have been a good girl and kept creating. I finished Trysha's birthday party invites! Wanna see them???
I went with some super simple invites! Trysha loves purple..So I decided Almost Amethyst cardstock as my base. I then used Going Grey for the monogram "t". I love it. I didn't think that the going grey "t" was enough of a contrast, so I decided to sponge the "t" and make it darker. It came out pretty great. Wow I sound like JanTink. I used some American Craft ribbon that I scored in Columbia and used just the "Happy Birthday" portion. Then I broke out the primas. I thought that it needs just a little pop! I love this invite. I just gotta go and finish the insides!
Okay..so you can have an awesome card, but you can't just go and have a plain envelope! So here are one of my envies!
Michael is my friend Gail's grandson. I love how his name came out. It was funny how long envies too me! I have this mental image of what these should look like. I wasted a bunch of them! I used Ivory envies. Then used my Lavender sharpie and wrote his name. I then came back with a SU Basic Black marker and just outlined his name. Finally I used the Sakura Stardust pen and traced over his name to just make it pop.
Oh speaking of envies..I have the envies from the baby shower invites I just did. I used Kraft envies and black sharpie..and again with stardust sakura, but this time in blue.
I went with some super simple invites! Trysha loves purple..So I decided Almost Amethyst cardstock as my base. I then used Going Grey for the monogram "t". I love it. I didn't think that the going grey "t" was enough of a contrast, so I decided to sponge the "t" and make it darker. It came out pretty great. Wow I sound like JanTink. I used some American Craft ribbon that I scored in Columbia and used just the "Happy Birthday" portion. Then I broke out the primas. I thought that it needs just a little pop! I love this invite. I just gotta go and finish the insides!
Okay..so you can have an awesome card, but you can't just go and have a plain envelope! So here are one of my envies!
Michael is my friend Gail's grandson. I love how his name came out. It was funny how long envies too me! I have this mental image of what these should look like. I wasted a bunch of them! I used Ivory envies. Then used my Lavender sharpie and wrote his name. I then came back with a SU Basic Black marker and just outlined his name. Finally I used the Sakura Stardust pen and traced over his name to just make it pop.
Oh speaking of envies..I have the envies from the baby shower invites I just did. I used Kraft envies and black sharpie..and again with stardust sakura, but this time in blue.
*Rewards*
Since I stamped I decided that I could go to the flea market! Look at what I got!
It wasn't a superstar day, but of course I still found something! I can't wait to find a reason to use that Heidi Grace stuffs! Of course I just bought it because it all matched. Felicia scored the cute flowers that went with it..but I am sure I can swing myself over to AC Moore! I can't wait to go and make something!
It wasn't a superstar day, but of course I still found something! I can't wait to find a reason to use that Heidi Grace stuffs! Of course I just bought it because it all matched. Felicia scored the cute flowers that went with it..but I am sure I can swing myself over to AC Moore! I can't wait to go and make something!
Saturday, May 26, 2007
Seriously! Two projects down, two to go!
Okay so last night I stayed up and knocked out the baby shower invites that I needed to make for Leana's baby shower. I know what you are saying. If you have read my blog for a while you are saying..didn't you already make baby shower invites for Leana. The answer is yes...but no. Yes I made her baby shower invites..BUT they were for a baby shower that she had in her husband's hometown. But of course we will have to have one for her here! DUH! Anyway..I can't even start to express how hard it is for me to make the one card over and over. I mean seriously it is nearly impossible for me to CASE myself. Why...oh because I start to think oh this might look better like this..or it make look better in this color. So here are nine invites...NONE exactly the same
Okay all products are Stampin Up, except for the sparkles. I used the Bundle of Joy Stamp set. The sentiment, background swirls, and our giraffe friend is from this stamp set. I stamped the giraffe on Whisper White in Chocolate Chip and colored him in with more mustard and close to cocoa watercolor crayons. I came back with the blender pen to fill in the spots. I then used two way glue on his spots, tail and mane and used ultra fine orignal art glitter in crystal. I love the effect it adds. I love the frosting!! (Sorry that is for my friend Logan. He loves that How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days movie) I then mounted him on Cool Caribbean, I am going to miss you, and then summer sun. I used the spiral punch and mounted him again on close to cocoa. Just to bring out the punch. I used the round tab punch to apply the sentiment, which is stamped in more mustard. I then mounted all of those layers on the cool caribbean base. I used the Au Chocolate designer paper just as an accept to reveal the opening. I used the slit punch. I thought it was a better choice then the normal open and close type card! I was going to make something really WOW. Since it was only eight and I could pop out eight SUPERSTAR cards! But no..I went with a simple comfort! So on the inside I am going to just go to my computer and print off the inside stuffs on vanilla cardstock..maybe sponge those edges..who knows. Okay so on to the next project, Nanea's birthday invites! Wish me luck!
xoxo
ronee
Okay all products are Stampin Up, except for the sparkles. I used the Bundle of Joy Stamp set. The sentiment, background swirls, and our giraffe friend is from this stamp set. I stamped the giraffe on Whisper White in Chocolate Chip and colored him in with more mustard and close to cocoa watercolor crayons. I came back with the blender pen to fill in the spots. I then used two way glue on his spots, tail and mane and used ultra fine orignal art glitter in crystal. I love the effect it adds. I love the frosting!! (Sorry that is for my friend Logan. He loves that How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days movie) I then mounted him on Cool Caribbean, I am going to miss you, and then summer sun. I used the spiral punch and mounted him again on close to cocoa. Just to bring out the punch. I used the round tab punch to apply the sentiment, which is stamped in more mustard. I then mounted all of those layers on the cool caribbean base. I used the Au Chocolate designer paper just as an accept to reveal the opening. I used the slit punch. I thought it was a better choice then the normal open and close type card! I was going to make something really WOW. Since it was only eight and I could pop out eight SUPERSTAR cards! But no..I went with a simple comfort! So on the inside I am going to just go to my computer and print off the inside stuffs on vanilla cardstock..maybe sponge those edges..who knows. Okay so on to the next project, Nanea's birthday invites! Wish me luck!
xoxo
ronee
*Beach Days*
I feel like we have been so disconnected from the beach! I guess it is just the snobby girl from Hawaii in me, but I never really liked taking my kids to the beach..if it wasn't at home. Sigh...beautiful Hawaii Nei. I think it has something to do with the sand or whatever..but today..along with the Bolts and Placeks we headed north to the Isle of Palms. Now in the realm of Charleston, Isle of Palms is the "higher" end beach area..as Folly Beach would be where the "locals" head. Anyway..they were having this Sand building bit SO we decided to just spend the day at the beach! Totally an awesome idea. Tyra has been BEGGING for time with Laura and Arielle. So today was perfect!
Everyone had a great time! So now I am going to rethink the whole going to the beach thing. I think I just HATE to pay to park at the beach. I am SO use to driving up..and getting out! Anyway...have a great Memorial Day weekend!
Everyone had a great time! So now I am going to rethink the whole going to the beach thing. I think I just HATE to pay to park at the beach. I am SO use to driving up..and getting out! Anyway...have a great Memorial Day weekend!
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