What my mum taught me

I found this on 'Sprinke on the fun' Blog today - really tickled my funnybone! And i hear myself saying most of these things most days!! One day in 20 years my girls will be telling their own kids the same things!!!


What my MUM taught me:
1. My mother taught me to appreciate a job well done.
"If you're going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning."

2. My mother taught me religion.
"You better pray that will come out of the carpet."

3. My mother taught me about time travel.
"If you don't straighten up,
I'm going to knock you into the middle of next week!"

4. My mother taught me logic.
"Because I said so, that's why."

5. My mother taught me more logic.
"If you fall out of that swing and break your neck,
& nbsp; You are not going to the store with me."

6. My mother taught me foresight.
"Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you're in an accident."

7. My mother taught me irony,
"Keep crying and I will give you something to cry about."

8. My mother taught me about the science of osmosis.
"Shut your mouth and eat your dinner."

9. My mother taught me how to be a contortionist.
"Will you look at that dirt on the back of your neck!"

10. My mother taught me about stamina.
"You'll sit there until all that spinach is gone."

11. My mother taught me about hypocrisy.
"If I told you once, I've told you a million times. Don't exaggerate!"

12. My mother taught me about anticipation.
"Just wait until we get home."

13. My mother taught me humor.
"When that lawn mower cuts off your toes, don't come running to me."

14. My mother taught me about my roots.
"Shut that door behind you. Do you think you were born in a barn?"

15. And my favorite:

My mother taught me about justice.
"One day you'll have kids, and I hope they turn out just like you."

Pop's 90th

A friend asked me to make the cover for a guest book at her Pop's 90th birthday coming up. She wanted to be able to hand out pieces of A4 paper to guest to write a note to their Pop on and then slip them back in the book. All the books she could find were already bound. So this is what we came up with. I was severely distressed when they said - No ribbon, No rhinestones. What else is there!!!! No ribbon - not even manly colours!!! So I have used rub ons and fabric badges that Kaiser craft have brought out to match their pattern papers.

Create

Well this is the letter 'c' from the word 'create' . Only 2 letters to go to finish the word to display at church on our craft table. It will sit on the table where we display what we are making at craft group the next month and where people can sign up to come along.

Create

I have been working on more letters for my 'Create' word to display at church for our craft group of the same name!

Another Letter done!

Sorry I haven't been blogging regularly, been so busy with life! If you have seen my previous post - i am making letters for the word 'create'. For our craft group at church that we have called create. I am actually on my third letter but have only just uploaded the photos of my second - the letter E. Hope you like it!

Charlottes card

My 5 year old girl charlotte has created a card today - full of bling!!! She thought that our ladies at craft group would like to make one of her cards and wanted to put it on my blog and the display table at church!! It is really VERY pretty!

Create

I am involved in our church craft group. We have called it 'create'. I am currently working on decorating the letters for the word 'create' and i will be putting it on the display table at church each week. I am planning on doing one letter per week. Here is the first letter i have worked on - the R - and the next one you can see that i have painted ready to work on is the letter E

Some extra pics from the cards below

Two flower cards

I have made 2 new flower cards - same design - different papers!

Hope you like them!

Some recent creations

Well i haven't blogged in so long purely cos my computer wouldn't even let me into the blogger site. It would just chuck me out! But for some reason now it does let me!

I have a few recent creations that i think are 'fab' and i wanted to share them with you.

Inkspiration Challenge

I needed to make a card for my daughters teacher so I thought i would use this sketch as my basis. I have stamped the bird onto blue cardstock and then paper pieced several parts of the bird using different patterned paper. Then i used UTE on the wings and tail of the bird to make them stand out. I also used UTE on some circles of matching cardstock and then stamped a flower into them. I hope you enjoy, Check out the other entrants into the challenge here

New Stamps

I just had to show the new stamps i got the other day!! They are kinda cool. I am going to enjoy making things with them!

My Brothers Birthday was a Hoot!

My brother Jeff's birthday was on Saturday and I am always telling him how old he is (he is only 3 years older than me!) I wrote on the inside of the card that because he is getting SOOO old that soon he will be as wise as an owl!

I got a new stamp set on Friday - it is a Kelly Panacci Clear Stamps set of Owls and it is so gorgeous! My only mistake I think I made with the card was stamping the bottom layer of the owl and branch in black! Ah well! I'm still learning. I will endeavour to take a photo of the whole set and maybe of the other stamps I purchased on Friday too! I am really looking forward to make some cool cards with them!

Hope you enjoy your day!

Mothers Day Card

Well I got busy last night to make a card for Mum today! When I left NZ Amy put into a bag some papers that I had been looking at to make a card over there - but ran out of time - so I thought I would put them to good use and make a card for Mum. I also played with the UTEE that Sandy and Amy showed me how to use and made an extra little flower to go in the centre of the large flower. It was fun to play with some new stuff and gorgeous papers.

Happy Mothers Day Mum!!