Looking For A Place To Sleep?

I'm not sure if you can see the bear. We aren't exactly sure how to "zoom" on our camera.

Well, anyway, Ray and I pulled into the driveway the other day after work and as we were getting out of cars he glanced across the street and said "Go get the camera!" I looked over and saw the back end of the bear going behind one of our neighbor's outside storage buildings.

Ray tried to get as close as he could without getting into any trouble with Mr. Bear!

I guess the bear decided he was finished at the neighbors so he strolled across the road and went through the bottom part of our yard and headed back to the pine trees. I'm thinking he's looking for a place to sleep! When do they hibernate? Soon I hope! We have gone through MANY bird feeders and have picked up our garbage that was spread throughout the yard the last couple of months.

I know, I know, why keep buying bird feeders! I love to wake up in the morning and hear the birds singing and I love to wash my dishes and look out the kitchen window and watch them enjoying their birdseeds. It's a "no win" situation I guess - the beauty of living in the country!

Where O Where?

Oh my goodness! Where oh where is the time going? I can't believe it's the end of October already. My month flew by and I have no idea where it went, what I did, why it flew by so fast! I do apologize for any of my faithful readers that I have neglected this site.

TGIF

WOW! TGIF!!!!! What a week - it was great but I'm not sure where it went! Two clubs, back to back nights and then I had some other things going on this week so it just flew by. When my alarm went off this morning I was so happy it was Friday.

I will post pictures of the card candy we all swapped this past week. Planning on getting to that sometime tomorrow. Ray's working a half day in the morning and I'm hoping to get up and at 'em bright and early. I have some chores to do around the house (I've neglected some of my chores lately) and then do some blog prep work.

Penn State vs. Michigan tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. and we are invited to a Penn State party. I'm making my famous seafood chowder and looking forward to getting together with some friends we haven't been with in awhile.

Check back and hopefully I'll have some additions.

October Stamp Clubs & Swaps

Tomorrow, October 14 is our October Stamp Club for Lake Hauto. It will be our first Stamp Club swap in addition to our regular projects. I'm so excited! I can't wait to see what everyone made to share. Our swap for this month is Card Candy - a few people in all three clubs had some problems with the concept of "card candy" but I think they all understand now.

Wednesday, October 15 is Weatherly Stamp Club. There are only two members from Weatherly plus myself - that makes three - that are participating in a swap. Cecelia from Pocono Club is being added to the Weatherly Swap to make it a 4-person swap. They will exchange their swaps in addition to working on club projects on Wednesday night.

I will post pictures of the swaps and I will also post pictures of our club projects AFTER all three clubs have met. Pocono Club is not meeting until October 29 so you will have to be patient and wait for the club projects until the end of the month.

Sesame Street Card

Louise needed a card for a one-year old's birthday. This is what I came up with -- gathered everything she would need to make it and packed it all up in my SU blue tote and when I got to work on Thursday I gave her all the supplies and during lunch she made the same card I took in as a sample. Sharing it with you .....

Jen's Afghan

A quick picture or two of Jen's afghan. Isn't it beautiful? The colors are great! Rumor had it she was going to finish it last night - all she had left to do was finish the border.

Did you get it done Jen?

Girl's Day

We had a GREAT day Girl's Day out yesterday! The weather was beautiful, the company was wonderful and I think our shopping was successful. 8:00 a.m. we left Weatherly and met Joyce and Jen at Strawberry Sampler in Chadd's Ford. We visited, laughed, shopped, laughed, enjoyed Strawberry. Stopped at a little shopping village between Strawberry and Limerick to check out some quilting supplies at a quilting store. Fabric Jean and Jen know what they are doing when it comes to quilting - we were just hanging out! Went to Champs at King of Prussia for lunch. Drank iced tea, laughed, some of us changed our minds a few times before the waitress came back for our order, laughed some more, had a fabulous lunch! Headed to Limerick to the Just Cross Stitch store.

We spent a long time at Just Cross Stitch since we all had some serious projects to take care. We left some framing there for the girls to do. Purchased more projects and actually kept them open for about an extra hour. Normally, the store closes at 4:00 p.m. but we were still in the back room and buying linen and cloth and having it surged at 5:15 p.m.

Headed up the road to AC Moore and made some purchases and said goodbye to Joyce and Jen. Jeanne, Danielle and I headed right next door to Target and did a quick trip in and out to make some purchases.

We called it a day and got ourselves into the "Snack Buggy" (Jeanne's SUV) and turned MiMi (the GPS) on and headed North to the Turnpike!

I Promised

I promised I would post the pics of my unfinished stitching projects that I was taking to get framed tomorrow --- here they are!!!!! Hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed stitching them!

I Promised

Isn't this the truth? Where did the summer go?

My Stitching Before Framing

My Stitching Projects

I have my stitching projects all ready to pack up and take to Limerick tomorrow to have them framed. I added all the buttons, beads, embellishments and hooplifiers last night to finish them all up. I want to take some pictures of them while they are unframed and post them on here to share with you but I ran of Thursday yesterday! I am hoping things are a little calmer today when I get home from work and I am planning on getting out the camera and snapping some photos. Look for them! Maybe I'll do the "before and after" -----before framed and after framed.

Come on back later and look at my stitching!

CRAZY CRAZY WEEK!

If you are wondering where I have been since Tuesday - it's been a very crazy, crazy week for this Desrosiers couple. It just seemed like there was a big black cloud hanging over us all week and I'm so grateful that today is Friday and the week is going to be over in a few hours.

The one thing I'm looking forward to is tomorrow! Saturday we are doing our Girl's Day Out and our annual/bi-annual stitching extravaganza to the Philadelphia area. Not exactly sure who is going as of this morning but I know three of us for sure - Jeanne, Danielle and me. We will meet up with Joyce and Jen and head to Strawberry Sampler in Chadd's Ford and then Joyce always finds awesome places for us to have lunch. After lunch we will head over to Limerick to another great stitching store. Our finale will end at AC Moore so we can gather up whatever odds and ends we need to do our projects. Rumor has it "Fabric Jean" would like to stop at the quilt store in Chadd's Ford. Danielle and I are a little excited about that.........even though we don't quilt (it's another addiction) we are very interested in looking at the supplies, materials, samples, etc. Who knows - maybe someday!!!!!

Priceless Anniversary

Just a quick post to share an anniversary card with you. I used Priceless stamp set and some gray cardstock. I stamped the heart on shimmery cardstock - it looks much prettier in real life. Using a flat back pearl from the Pretties Kit on the heart gave it some WOW. Love the taffeta ribbon -- it is so easy to work with.

Summer Fun Scrapbook Page

What do you get when you take some great SU stamp sets, some SU products and some great summer pictures? A Summer Fun scrapbook page! I used the Big Deal Alphabet set and stamped some of the letters on the cardstock "Summer" and then stamped letters and cut them out individually and mounted them on the page. Stamped and cut out starfishes and clams from Crab & Co. and mounted them onto the page. Some of them I mounted with mono-adhesive and others I added some Stampin' Up! dimensionals to give them a raised effect. Other accessories that I used were some buttons, linen thread, mini glue dots to mount the buttons, the photo corner punch, the new scallop edge punch. The colors of the cardstock I chose complimented the colors in the photos. If you would do a scrapbook page similar to this you would take your pictures and try to use colors to compliment your photos.

Pocket Silhouettes

Here is a card we made at a workshop last week. I used Pocket Silhouettes out of the new Fall-Winter catalog. I love this set!!!! The main cardstock color is Creamy Caramel layered with Night of Navy, Sage Shadow and Naturals White. I used two different stamps from the Pocket Silhouettes stamp set - stamped the first one with Sage Shadow and then stamped over top with a different stamp set from the same set with Chocolate Chip. Tied a chocolate ribbon. Very simple card to make yet it looks like you spent some time making it. It would make anyone you shared it with feel very special.

If You Ever Considered.....

If you have ever considered becoming a Stampin' Up! demonstrator NOW is the time to really consider it. The deadline for the Demo Special Offer is effective until October 11 - that's only a few days away! You can choose from three different Starter Kits with three different focuses - depending on your interest - and each one is only $99.

The three Starter Kits to choose from are: Stamp Focused Starter Kit, Scrapbook Focused Starter Kit, Home Decor Focused Starter Kit.

There has never been a better time to join the Stampin' Up! family. If you would like additional information please contact me at your convenience.

Some Dates to Remember

The current Specials and Promotions being offered by Stampin' Up! are as follows:

October 4-11 World Card Making Day - 20% off of our colorful Simply Sent Card Elements and easy-to-use Simply Sent card kits. (See pages 176-177 of the Fall-Winter catalog).

October 1-31 Stampin' Up! is celebrating their 20th birthday and have decided to throw a party. If you spend $20 on regular items you can enjoy 20% off of a select group of Birthday stamp sets. The stamp sets included in this special are:

Page 62 Big Bold Birthday
Page 63 Party Hearty
Page 64 Bitty Birthday
Page 64 Crazy for Cupcakes
Page 65 Simple Birthday Thanks
Page 65 Time to Party
Page 68 Crab & Company

Craft Fair

This Saturday, April 4, there will be a Craft Fair at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Weatherly (formerly St. Nicholas). April Walters, a SU demonstrator, will have a boothe at the event. If you get a chance - stop by and see what she has to offer. I did check with her and she told me she was going to have post it holders, notebooks, snowman kisses, pumpkin poop, snowman poop, reindeer food, halloween candy tubes, tile coasters and trivets. She mentioned she would have other small items also that would make some great little gifts.

Danielle and I are planning on making a little trip into town to see what the craft fair is like. Hope to see you there!

Cute & Scary

I'm sharing a little bit of both with you today - Cute & Scary! The cute card is made on Kraft cardstock just by stamping leaves from Autumn Harvest in a circle on the front in chocolate chip. Stamp BOO from Big Deal Alphabet onto Kraft cardstock and cut out each letter individually. Stamp the pumpkin on Pumpkin Pie in Basic Black ink and cut the pumpkin out and sponge all around it with chocolate chip ink. Stamp leaves on Summer Sun, Ruby Red and Old Olive in Basic Black and cut out and sponge also. Attach the leaves with Stampin' Up! dimensionals to give them a little raised effect.

The scary card is simply done on Only Orange cardstock and using the Arachnaphobia wheel you will wheel the spiders in black all over the front of the card. Using the both size oval punches you can punch out the eyes in black and white layering them on the front of the card.

We Are a Team

We make such a good team because we support each other's interests. Ray is such a train fanatic that he can understand my passion for stamping, stitching, etc. He really doesn't get much time to work on the layout in the summer. Too many other things to do - yard and garden work, swimming, hillclimb, picnics --- so the time spent in the basement is limited mostly to rainy days.

The layout is 200 square feet. Ray makes everything from the rocks and trees to the building and the cars. He even uses some of my stamping supplies! He was working on a building and decided to put shades and/or curtains inside the windows so he used some of my cardstock and the tearing edge to give it a torn look. It actually turned out great!