OMGosh...I am FREEZING!

Holy cow! I just got off work, and I am FREEZING! My van never really warmed up on the ten minute ride home from the hosital. The snot was freezing inside of my nose and I had to keep blinking because it felt like my eyeballs were freezing!

I can't wait to curl up in bed and sleep! I may set the alarm so that I have a few hours of stamping time before I have to go get the boys from the sitters! LOL!

I don't think I mentioned it, but I decided to go back to work part time! YAY! I am an RN and work at the local hospital on the step down unit and also fill in for the nursing supervisors when they need time off. I have stayed PRN since the twins were born to keep my "foot in the door", but have missed my job! I am only working two nights a week (I LOVE night shift) so the boys will only go to the sitter one or two days a week. I think it will be good for them and definitely good for me! Being a SAHM is the HARDEST dang job I have ever done in my life! Love my boys to death, but I feel like I have lost a little bit of ME, and by working I will get some of that back. I also am going to work hard to lose the 30 pounds I gained after I had the twins. Yeah, I know...I said AFTER! I am a big stress eater and piled on the pounds AFTER giving birth to them! Only I could manage that!

Okay, haven't done a recipe in a few weeks so here is a quick and easy chicken casserole that everyone seems to like. Enjoy the day and stay warm!

1 can of cream of chicken soup

1 can of cream of celery soup

1 box of stove top stuffing mix

2-3 cups of shredded cheddar cheese

3-4 chicken breasts

Boil chicken breasts. I like to use boneless. Shred the chicken up or cut into small chunks. Mix soup, stuffing mix, chicken, 1 cup of the cheese and 1 cup of the broth from boiling the chicken in a large bowl.

Put this mixture into a greased 9 x 13 pan and bake at 350 for 25 minutes. After 25 minutes sprinkle the remaining 2 cups of cheese on the top and cook for 5 more minutes. This is super yummy and great for cold winter days when it is so cold that your snot freezes inside of your nose!

Great Fathers...scrapbook page

This is a page I made of my dad and Max. Max's middle name is my dad's, so they have a special bond. All of the grandchildren call my dad, Boo-boo! It is a long story, but it started with my oldest. Dad used to talk to him in a Yogi bear voice and say, "There's my little boo-boo!" So....my oldest son just associated the name with my dad and started calling him Boo-boo. Now that he is older, he just calls him Boo!

All paper used is from Crate Paper's Zoom collection. I paper pierced along the bottom and added a row of buttons. (I am a bit button obsessed lately!) I distressed the edges of all of the paper and printed the quote onto DP with my printer.

Have a happy stamping day!

Emily

Beautiful Box

Don't you just love this box? It was the technique challenge today on SCS. You can find it HERE. I think it is absolutely a wonderful way to present a gift to someone. Also great to store little things in and put it on a shelf. Give it a whirl! Once you figure out all of the folds, it comes together nicely!

Stamp: Unity Stamp Company

Paper: DP is We R Memory Keepers, Old Olive

Accesories: rhinestones, ribbon, prima, top note die cut

I sponged so saffron and tangerine tango behind the sentiment!

Have a happy stamping day!

Emily

One Lovely Blog Award

My blog bud, Lisa, gave me the One Lovely Blog Award! Thank you so much Lisa! You can go check out her lovely blog HERE. I am to pass this award on to 7 more people.

CINDY

TESSA

JACQUIE

TENIA

LOUISE

SUSAN

ABI

Go check out these lovely ladies blogs!

Have a wonderful day!

Emily

Ten Years of Marital Bliss...and a card!

Today is hubby and I's ten year anniversary! Above is a photo of us dancing at our wedding to the song you are listening to right now on my blog!

This is a photo of us at Thanksgiving this year. Three houses(no, we don't own three...just lived in three) and three boys later...still smiling and in love!!!

I made the card below for the limited supply challenge on SCS. Here were the rules for the challenge:

*Stamps: Any (bonus points for using a heart image!)*Paper: any + red...any shade of red*if you use a punch or die it must be heart shaped*if you use embossing folders...they must have a heart*if you use an accessory it MUST be heart shaped or red*if you use designer paper...yup you guessed it, red or hearts!

Everything I used for this card was in my stash of "OLD" things. Both SU sets have sinced retired (sweet talk and alphabet soup). The ribbon and large heart brads were bought years ago, but never used. I plan on giving this one to hubby when he gets home from work tonight!



Have a Fabulous Friday!

Emily

Another Birthday Card!

I made another birthday card! This one is also suitable for a boy or man! This is for the WT200 challenge of on SCS. We were to make a card with stars as one of the elements.

The red DP is from My Mind's Eye that I have had forever. I believe it is called kaleidescope. The paper's are the colors that I used in this card. Very bright and cheerful. I used white as my card base and SU kiwi kiss and taken with teal. The teal felt ribbon was a bargain find at Walmart last year! I paper pierced all four corners and tied some hemp twine around the middle band. I used punches from SU to punch the star and circles.

I may save this for my dad's birthday coming up in March. He love's red, and I thought of him when it was finished!

Happy Stamping!

Emily

Birthday Bird-SC210

Hello! I made this card for the sketch challenge over at SCS found HERE. I had a hard time thinking of what to do with those thin, little panels. I decided to get out my A Little Birdie Told me... set. Love it and hadn't used it in awhile. I also used some Jersey Shore DSP, for the background and to paper piece the bird and party hat. I used my CB to emboss the blue panel in the middle. I used some scraps of wild wasabi stitched ribbon and pumpkin pie striped ribbon to tie behind my sentiment. The base of my card is 4.5 x 4.5.

I hope to participate in some challenges tomorrow for Unity's hip-hop over at SCS.

Have a great evening!

Emily

Sons and heroes....

It seems I have been making a ton of pages of my oldest son lately. I am trying to get caught up on his scrapbooks! I figure he is the oldest so I would work hardest on his. I will have to do some pages of the twins soon!

I ADORE the Cogsmo paper pack from Cosmo Cricket! LOVE IT! It is perfect for boys and the colors are awesome! I pretty much used all paper from this collection. No stamping on this page! I used hemp twine in the upper left hand corner and sewed three cross stitches. I used a black archival pen to make the faux stitching around the cloud, photo frame and stars. The stars were puched with SU's star punch. Added some vintage buttons that I scored at an antique mall and some wild wasabi stitched ribbon and page DONE!

This photo was taken at my parent's cottage in Michigan this past summer. He is getting ready to jump off of a big rock!

Have a happy stamping day!

Emily

Pocket full of Posies...SBSC171

Being the mom of three boys, I jump at the chance to scrap photo's of my niece. She is my only niece for the moment! I like to pull out the frilly girly stuff once in awhile. Thank Heaven for little girls, right?



This is for Sally's SBSC171 found HERE. You can see a photo fo the layout below. I think I sorta went a little overboard on this. It is crazy busy, but oh well! I love the new raspberry fizz DP from PTI, because it is so similiar to purely pomegranate. I also had to bust out another of my retired favs-wild wasabi. LOVE that color combo!




Stamps: Fanciful dots and fanciful border by UNITY




Paper: Wild Wasabi, Purely Pomegranate(SU), Raspberry Fizz DP(PTI)




Accessories: decorative brad, satin ribbon, nesties, chipboard accents(UNKNOWN) and circle and word window punch (SU), prima flower.




Happy Stamping!

Emily

Jazzy Inspiration Challenge 2!

Hello! I was surfing my favorite blogs and Tenia always has great sketch and inspiration challenges posted. Now that the holidays are over I have vowed that I am going to participate more in those challenges! This card is for the Jazzy Inspirations challenge 2 found HERE. We were to use the Sam Rivers album cover shown above as our inspiration.

I used the houndstooth BG stamp from Unity stamped on Tangerine Tango. My card base is white. I added some black satin ribbon around the center. The flower is from Unity's Best friends set. I stamped the flower image and BG stamp in staz-on black. I used a build-a-brad(SU) for the center of my flower and stamped "friend" on tangerine tango. The friend sentiment is from PTI's mixed message set.

I like the way this turned out! Have a Fantastic Friday!

Happy stamping,

Emily