BEST Day Ever and a Road Trip!

Good Evening Internet Friends!

Today was another fabulous day!  I always try to see life in a positive way but today was just perfect all on it's own.

I had a great sleep and had no alarm clock to wake up.  I am currently on a ten day summer vacation.  I did however wake up at 0800 hours somehow.

My son and I were invited by my dear friend and neighbor to have dinner with her and her husband and I had promised to bring cheese cake.  So, at 0800 hours I started the process of baking a cheesecake:

Fresh from the oven....too hot to eat but smells so yummy! ☺

All dressed for the party with the last can of Cherry Pie Filling with Splenda I have in my cupboards.  Thankfully less than two weeks til I go cross border shopping ☺

It was DELICIOUS of course and went well with the awesome dinner. The roast beef was AMAZING (as I was promised it would be).

My son slept til almost 1100 hours (I think the fireworks and bike ride yesterday wore him out).  

Once kid was ambulatory we headed over and picked up my neighbor friend.  We went to two local quilt shops to pick up their Row by Row kits.  We were able to get one kit but the second store had run out of kits (seriously) and were not going to cut any more... oh well (the animal/species on their row was very abstract and did not make sense anyways).  

Then we decided since the afternoon was young to head out to The Quilt Rack for their sale (it is always a really good sale).  I picked up a few neat things that I plan to work on out at the camper trailer for the next few days!

After the wonderful dinner and visit we came home and I made a pillow case out of the newest fabric I purchased:  

TAH DAH!!!

Now it's off to bed and sleep in tomorrow morning.

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Pie Plate from the Past

I'm beginning to think that old age is catching up with me (even though my Wii Fit age is 27) this year.  Everything seems to take longer to accomplish, and sometimes, I am just too lazy to do the simplest things, like today's project.

Last August the day before we left for our last of summer vacation and what we call our "Shopping Cross the Border" (click on the link and listen to the lyrics - they're awesome) trip, my son and I went to Brenda's Paint Pot, and I started this:

It's a pie dish of which I decided should be in a gingham print.  It took forever to do this part, and my son finished his painting and started to "help" me.  Now, I know the stripes are crooked, and the painting uneven, and maybe this is where I am starting to show my age, I decided that I would not always have an 8 year old helper, so I let him help me finish the stripes.

By the time these were dry it was time to bicycle home and leave for Montana.

In November we returned to Brenda's Paint Pot to finish painting this pie dish:

Yes, the graphics are all mine (not too bad for someone who cannot draw- I think).

So fast forward to today, my son and I finally stopped by and picked up the finished piece.  Why has it taken me so long to pick it up?????  I don't know!

But there it is, now I should probably make pie, but...........

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Surprise!

This project is a total surprise for two reasons:

1)  ALL of the product used in the creation of this project is Stampin Up!!  Can you believe that I did not stray from their entire product line??  I know: SURPRISE.

The paper is the white packing paper that came in a shipment a while back, and so I ironed it and put it away, as it looks so much better than the usual brown paper.  The paper is sponged (an actual SU sponge - not dollar store) in garden green and the Cherry stamp is from the Mouthwatering stamp set.  The cherries are inked in Real Red and Garden Green.  The ribbon of course is SU.

2) On my pre-Christmas x-border shopping trip my friend Karina asked me to bring back for a stocking stuffer Cherry Coke Zero as we do not have it in Canada (at least not last time I looked).  So, while we were in Whitefish skiing, we went into Kalispell, MT and found the Wal-Mart and brought home a case as a surprise for Karina.  Now, I cannot give it plain to the Stampin Up Lady, so, hence, here is my artistic presentation.

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Cut Once, Stamp Twice

Today I decided I should play with my new Mouthwatering Stamp Set.

I cut Early Espresso for the back ground, Very Vanilla for the accent, and used the First Edition Designer Series Paper for the card on the left.  I cut out the squares with my 1" square punch.  The cherries are colored using my Stampin' Write markers to get 2 colors.  I cut out the cherry on the left and used Stampin Dimensionals for this.  I did use my new edgelets die as well on the Espresso edge and then the Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder.

The greeting on the left is from the Swirls and Curls Verses stamp set for hostesses. 

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

National Cherry Month

Happy National Cherry Month.  It's actually an American holiday, but I could not find a Canadian version and the British one was not until July and I needed something to rationalize this table runner.  Now, if you follow my blog you know that fat quarters at quilt shops are like puppies at the shelter, but you may not know that charm squares are like kittens at the shelter (also needing homes, but come in smaller packages).  Such was the case with these.  I found these little cuties at My Sewing Room on one of my trips back to Calgary and immediately had to give them a home.  Now, there was only 32 of these little guys in a package, what to do?  Hmmm, let me think, oh yah, make a table runner, which is what I did, and then I found at Quilt Essential Co. in St. Albert the blue cherry print that I used for the back, and the white cherry print that I used for the binding.  Looks very summery and festive for the month (until it gets milk spilled on it) on my table.  Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy