Happy Birthday!!!!

I hate to admit it but it's so nice that the kids are back in school. I was able to play in my craft room today. This weekend we are celebrating my hubby's birthday. I made the following cards for him. (It's so hard to design a card for a guy but this was my best attempt). I also made him a little surprise it's a cupcake that holds a gift card. I was surfing the Internet and came across it on Tresa Black's blog. I think it turned out good.

I'm Back

I'm back!! We had such a great time on our Disney Vacation. I must have gained at least two pounds which wasn't really needed from all the great food at Disney. We celebrated a couple mile stones when we were there. Erin rode her very first roller coaster! She picked Thunder Mountain in the Magic Kingdom to be her first. We also celebrated our anniversary out there. (Yup twenty-one years with my best friend). I hated to leave Disney it was so much fun, but we plan on returning again just not in August!


OFF TO EXPO


We came home from Disney on Friday night so that I could attend the Scrap Book Expo in St. Charles, Illinois. I got in late Friday because our plane was delayed. By the time we got home and all settled in it was 3:00 a.m. in the morning. (Yikes) I got up really early and flew out the door headed to the Expo for some classes, shopping and cropping. What a great day it was! (I just wish I had gotten more sleep).




This was the free gifts that I received for attending the Expo and the Crop. The first is a pack of black and white elegant paper and the second pack is from Cosmo Cricket. Which had some cute back to school papers in it.






I took three classes that day and the picture above was the left over papers from the SEI class I took. They were so generous with their supplies, plus they gave us a 40% discount coupon to shop at the exhibit.






My second class was also held by SEI and the picture above is the left over supplies I had. I could make another six pages with the left overs. (as I mentioned they were very generous with their supplies) They also had a lot of prizes they handed out and a few give aways. I was amazed on how much product they handed out to us for free.








The above picture is a sheet of stickers they gave out at the SEI class. I was just so amazed I'm definitely attending their classes next year.






In the this picture above is a stamp set from Cosmo Cricket it was one of the door prizes hand out at the crop along with that pack of paper I showed earlier.



Here are a few of the pages I made in class and at the crop.


















Wow, now that I have time to sit here and think back I had one busy, hectic, fun filled summers this year. Now it is time to get the kids ready to go back to school. I welcome a schedule again but I'm not to thrilled about making lunches again. Hopefully once we all get back on a schedule I will have more time to devote to crafting. I have a few projects that I've been thinking about doing. Until next time thanks for stopping by!

Where is time going?????

Where did the time go. I can't believe my DS son is in his last year of H.S. Lately, we've been doing a few road trips touring state universities. Geez this has been one busy summer and the end isn't even close. We still have a few more colleges to visit, our family vacation to go on, not to mention it's time to think about getting the kids ready for school and then there is CHA and Scrap Expo coming to town to. What is a girl to do? With all of the above mentioned activities going on it's no wonder why I couldn't find my way to my craft room. I can't wait until things settle down around here, I have so many pictures I have to scrap and there is so many projects that I want to try. Not to mention I have a lot of new stamps that I haven't even opened. I don't want you to think I'm complaining because I love to stay busy but this has been a world wind ride I have been on and I just needed to reflect back on it.

Inked Inspirations Blog Candy

Today I would like to wish when of my favorite blogger's a Happy Birthday! You must stop what you are doing right now and head over to her blog (just click on my the title and you will be linked to her blog), because this girl really knows how to celebrate. She is giving away a lot of great prizes. Until next time thanks for the visit.

Havin some Summer Fun

Just thought I would share some more things that I've been up to. Doesn't this look like a bunch of fun, dd is having a great summer so far and I'm gather or should I say piling up memories to scrap.

Blog Make Over

Wow this summer has been truly busy my friends. I haven't had much time to spend in my craft room lately but I am slowly but surely making over my blog this week. At least that way I feel like I'm doing something creative. I hope you all are enjoying your summer as much as my family is. Back soon with some more changes.

Happy Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day to all the wonderful Fathers out there today. At the O'Connor household we have decided to make it a weekend celebration. Last night my daughter and I took my husband to the drive inn movies. What a great summer night for a movie, of course my daughter was the one who picked the movie we went to see and she picked Toy Story 3 and Karate Kid. Today, we plan to do a cook out for him today. My dd just got done taking a cooking camp last week and she plans on making her daddy some home made lemonade. I hope the weather holds out for us like it did yesterday, but I can already see the clouds rolling in.









Here is some of the cards I made for my DH for Father's day. Both of the digi stamps were purchase at Di'sDigiDownloads. There is so many cute stamps there for Father's day. I also used some Bazzil card stock and misc. pattern paper, copic markers, Hero Art stamp sets. The pattern paper was something I picked up at a closed out sale at one of my local scrap stores.