Christmas ornaments and an “Oh No” week!
Last year I made some similar Christmas ornaments as gifts for my neighbors. This year the new neighbors will receive these and so will some close family and friends!
These are very easy. I use the same E600 transparencies from 3M as I use to make the butterfly pins.
The acetate circles where cut using my cuzzle round circle and swivel blade, the circles measure in at 2 1/4″. They are stamped with staz on and colored on the opposite side with copic markers. I bet you didn’t know you could use copics on these, but they work great (as you can see!)
I have seen so many beautiful ornaments on line I just had the ‘need’ to make some more for myself this Christmas!
I spent most of the day stamping with a dear friend. It was so much fun! I was able to complete twelve of these ornaments and still have time to clean off my craft desk and table.
In a few hours I’ll be heading to the airport to pick up my sweet hubby. He has been gone eight days now, and if it could go wrong around here it has!
Oh No! Not again…. First off the week started with him having to leave town on fairly short notice and all that goes with getting him out the door, the laundry, the house work well — right before he left the dishwasher was acting up.
After my feble attemps of diagnosing the problem I finally broke down and called sears service, who came out the next afternoon! The guy was the same one who fixed its electrical problem a few months ago, and he found a pumpkin seed so lodged in the drain he had to pull the dishwasher out to get to it.
Lets just say I’m serioulsy considering an extended warranty for my kitchen appliances!
Then yesterday it was nice and quiet in the house. I had finished up the laundry (again) and had decided to wash sheets. While the bed linens where washing I ran upstairs to vacuum the main level of our home. When I turned it on it sounded funny. I’m thinking, ok, one of the kids has run over a piece of paper and it is not vacumming properly. I sat there with the vacuum unpluged and dug the equivalent of 3 cups of junk from the brush attachment, checked the hoses, and cleaned the filters.
While I had it pulled apart the door bell rings. It is the local Kirby guy (vacuum is sitting behind the couch looking ill) I’m thinking ,man you are not gonna believe this one. Anyhoo, I sent him along his way.
Woke up this morning. Bound and determined to get the darn task done. I put the filters back in, make sure everything is ok, and plug her in. Still doesn’t seem to be sucking up the dirt how I would prefer. About 3 feet of vacuuming later, the vacuum turned itself off. Now I am pulling my hair out!
I called Sears and sure enough it is under warrenty. I took it in but it won’t be home until November 29. I will be borrowing my neighbors as needed until mine comes home. Thank God it is under warrenty!
So, I’m sitting here with my friend Chad walks in the door to say hello. First off the kid had no brains, he came down stairs in shorts and a tee shirt. I’m like dude go change clothes, we had snow yesterday, you need long pants.
I happen to look up at him. That’s odd. I took a closer look, he has pink eye. Arrgh! I called the school to let them know and called the neighborhood moms as well. As you guys know pink eye is very contagious, if one kid has it chances are alot will have it soon! He has an appointment on Friday. I’ll call the clinic in the morning and see if they can get me in tomorrow instead. I am using the OTC visine AC drops for now, but feel the kids eye will be crusted over in the morning. Click here to learn more about pink eye, how to prevent it or know you have the condition.
With all the weird stuff that has gone on this week, at least I was able to squeeze in a little stamping!
Stamp Happy!
