Eventful Week

I meant to make time to write a post almost every day this week, but was thwarted every day by some new disaster. So now it is Friday evening and I'm getting in my post for the week. This week was crazy busy! Monday morning, my husband asked me to make some kind of photo gift for my father-in-law for Father's Day. I ended up spending most of the day on it, using MDS (pics to come...), which was not on the schedule! (At least I only had to design one photo book, and then have three copies printed--I figured one for my father-in-law, one for my dad, and one for my husband) I had my monthly Philly Inkers' meeting on Monday night out in the suburbs; Tuesday, I taught a class in Newark, Delaware; Wednesday, I hosted my book club at my house; Thursday, my husband went to Washington DC all day for a reception for Justice Kennedy; and today, I spent the entire morning at my midwives' office for a three-hour-long blood test. I did manage to bake cookies for the class, and had enough left over to serve the book club the next night, but the baking was wedged in between crises on Tuesday afternoon.

Just to keep things interesting, on Tuesday afternoon, H stuck two small rubber tires from one of his little cars up each nostril, necessitating an ER trip, a return visit the next day to an ENT, lots of crying and traumatic procedures to get it out, interrupted sleep because of nightmares due to said trauma, missed naps, etc. but at least the wheels are out! Thursday, I took the boys grocery shopping at Wegman's in Cherry Hill, and while I was doing the self-check out, somehow a bottle of Soft Scrub opened up all over my cart, my toddler, and half the groceries in the cart. It has been sort of nuts around here.

I entered both of today's cards into the monthly art contest that Stampin' Up! holds for its demonstrators. The contest was to showcase products from the Summer Mini, and I love this set! I'm always interested in new masculine sets, and this one fit the bill. I also like nautical stuff, so this is a great set for me. I didn't win anything this time, but perhaps I'll try again in a few months.

The first one uses heat embossing to create wave crests, and I have to say, I redid this card two or three times (including all the brayering and embossing) before I got a version I liked. I had seen a painting I wanted to recreate, and it proved quite a bit more difficult than I had thought (plus I made a bunch of dumb mistakes on the first go-round). I'm reasonably happy with this version. The second card is one I've been teaching at my brayer classes (contact me if you live in southern Jersey and want to make this and another card in July). I love how it came out. I know it is sort of similar to the first card, but isn't it amazing how a change of color scheme can change the whole feel of a card? I'm a bit too tired to type up a supply list, so if you want particulars, just send me an e-mail.