Sunday's Amusements

These are the two cards I was telling you that we made on Friday at stamping club. The first one is made using a folding technique - I really don't know how to describe it. Little notches are cut into two sided paper and then you fold each of these little "v's" down and under the flap left from the "v"...clear as mud, right? Then we were to use lace and a little butterfly on our card. I kind of thought mine looked like a flower sitting on a window sill. I don't know if I'll make any more of these or not...they are pretty intense for my shaky hands!

The second card was stamped with a stamp from Magenta Stamps on a greenish-yellow card stock. After you stamp the image, you emboss it in gold embossing powder. I still have to color in the butterfly and I think I'll get some little, bitty velcro dots and hold the flap down with one of those instead of the ribbon. The way I shake, I'll never get the bow tied correctly! I really like this card. If I find one of my stamps that will work in place of the Magenta stamp, I'll do this card again.

Today was a bad day. My back was really causing me fits today. So after church, we came home, fixed dinner, and then I took a pain pill and went upstairs to lay down. I wanted to watch the NASCAR race at Indianapolis, but it was a boring race, so I didn't watch it. It was a bad day for the Hendrick crew! They didn't any of them finish in the top 10.

After I got up from resting I called Ann about a home for sale in their mobile home park in Clearwater. It's really a nice one. We may do some more checking on it. It's 3 streets away from Bob & Ann, but the park isn't very big so it still shouldn't be far away. We'd like a 2 bedroom/2 bath unit but this one is only 1.5 baths but it's still nice. We are really intrigued.

After supper we went to Graham's to get an ice cream cone. Dave told me the flavor of the week was lemon, so I told him I wanted a twist cone, meaning lemon and vanilla twist. He came back with two chocolate and vanilla twists. He just told them at the window that he wanted 2 twist cones...not 2 lemon twist cones! Oh well, the chocolate was good too! Tonight we've been doing laundry and cleaning out the hummingbird feeder. Dave saw a hummer today on the flowers, so maybe he'll come back! More later...