Saturday

Good morning! I'm testing out my blogger app. Have a great day!

Lulu

Happy Holidays!

See you in 2014!


Lulu

I don't know where to begin today.  I guess I would like to thank God for watching over my family this past weekend.  I live in Illinois and a number of towns near me were hit by tornadoes this past Sunday.  Our sirens went off and we headed into our basement but we were okay.  The tornadoes stayed south of us.  I feel terrible for the city of Washington.  They were hit so bad.  The news were saying they were hit by an F4 tornado but this morning there was talk that it might be upgraded to an F5.  The Washington High School football team are still in the playoffs for the state championship and are scheduled to play this weekend. But a number of kids on the team lost all of their equipment when there homes were demolished.  My son's team is in talks with their head coach to see what we can do to help their community.  There's rumors that we might be taking our equipment and uniforms down there so the team can play.  I think that is so wonderful.  I have tears just writing this.  I can't imagine losing everything.  Even losing something as crazy as football cleats.  It's those everyday little things you just don't think about.  We all think about the big things but not the simple everyday things.

Please keep Illinois and the city of Washington in your prayers.

Thank you!

Lulu

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

I just love Halloween but this year will be a disappointing one.  It is raining and it is not supposed to let up until overnight.  Which means very little trick or treaters.  Only the ones that are brave enough to endure being soaked...which means the teenagers.  And we are unable to display our usual cemetery scene because most of our cemetery runs on electricity and is not waterproof.  My headless bride will just have to hang out with me in the house. Along with our zombie Grammy rocking her zombie grandbaby. She's our newest addition.

Everyone please have a safe and happy Halloween!!!!


Lulu

I'm back to crafting this week.  I can't believe how much I've got done.  It felt so good to be creating again.  I made more Halloween goodie bags for my neighbors' kids.  They look just the same as the ones below for J's Halloween party but instead of the orange circle punch I used the Martha Stewart Drippy Goo punch that I ordered.  

In addition we had two parties to go to last weekend and I made cards for both of those parties.  One was a Promotion Party and the other one was a Surprise 50th birthday party.  For the 50th birthday I found a card in a magazine that I recreated.  The party was for a man so those cards I find particularly hard to make. Men don't find things as cute as we women do.  But here is a picture of the card...

I used pop dots to raise the 18250 and the way I took the picture you can see the shadow from it.  But I thought what a great idea for a man's card.  I used purple because he is one of my daughter's coaches and her team color is purple.  I also made him four glasses etched with their team name.  Let me tell you...big hit with the other coaches that happen to be at the party!  I guess I might be busy at Christmas time making more glasses..haha!

LuLu