gooks...

One of the first few words Emma learned was "book". Well, actually she says "gook", which is some much cuter anyway :) So now, she will come over to my shelf where I have all my albums, point and say "gook! gook!" Then she will sit and look at all the pages, saying all the names of people she knows. Or saying "bath" if they are taking a bath :) hee :) I love it that she like to look at them. Its so cute. of course, with two older brothers, 3 of the other things she says are toot, butt and batman...but what can you do right?

Just another simple quickie card today. More playing. I wanted to use my new heart stamps with matching punches. I stitched over the line of hearts once with my machine. In hindsight, I think maybe stitching back and forth a few times would have been better...:)

Anyway, thanks a BUNCH for popping in :) After this awful heat this summer, we finally made it to the park twice this week since it cooled off some. So nice for the boys to get out some of their extra engergy :) Now we are all tired so hopefully everyone will go to bed early :) maybe...

LOTS of pictures...

I finally got some of our pictures from our *FUN* anniversary trip to Izu off the camera ( I know, I'm really bad about that. seems to take me forever...) so I thought I would share some :)

They had an amusement park  on the way that we stopped in. It was HOT, but fun :) Because it was so hot, they actually had this huge hill of manmade snow for everyone to play in :)

The most popular thing to do was to either throw it at each other or put it down their backs...

It really did cool us off though, which I thought would be impossible. After that, Tomio rode rollcoasters with the big two, while I took Emma and Levi on some kiddy- rides.

I wasn't really able to get pictures of the biggies on their rides. They loved it though. Leah LOVES roller coasters, and Rhys was happy that he was big enough to ride more this now.

Here is the view of the sunrise from our hotel window:

It was so beautiful. We stayed in a different hotel this time. It was nice, we had an oceanview room. And there was a pool there too. Emma was a little scared of the ocean, but she loved playing in the pool.

This last one is of Miss Emma on the mountain on our way back home.

I realize there are no ocean or pool pictures. Well, that is because I took those on our small camera since I didn't take my nice one near the water. But, I haven't put those on the computer yet... so maybe next time :)

We all had a great time :) Everyone was a good kind of tired when we got home :)

Thanks for stopping by!!! Hope you have a fun weekend.

too little for coke...

It was really nice to wake up and not feel like I couldn't move this morning :) Definitely appreciating just feeling normal....:)

So, should I be more than a little concerned that one of the 20 or so words in my 1 year old's vocabulary is "coke"?...When I first heard her say it, I thought it must just be her trying to say something else. But no, she definitely means coke. ( I guess its better than "Mama's juice", which is what Leah used to call coke when she was that age..:) ) and no Miss Emma hasn't gotten any coke for herself yet, in case you were worried--heehee :)

One of my goals is to get more of my layouts on my blog. I just seem to have alot harder time actually taking the photos and uploading them. But I really do hope to!! Since it is still a goal though, that I haven't reached yet, I have a  very simple card to share. Just one of those when I wanted to play with some new stuff :)

Since I absolutely loved how my pattern papers  made turned out with my distress inks, I  wanted to see if I liked how they turened out just as well with other inks and no blending tool. I do like it, but I do think it is easier with the ink blending tool. I used my new Papertrey Mat Stack 1 die--I LOVE its shape. I also added some glossy accents to the flower centers just for fun:)

Anyway, I 'm so glad you stopped by :) Miss Emma had another rough night last night, so hopefully we can have a restful afternoon.

really quick post...

Miss Emma and I have both been VERY under the weather the past couple of days. I think she is finally feeling a little better. But we are still taking it easy for another day or so. I thought I would check in really quick and share a card for now :)

I really like all the stamps I used on this card. The wood grain background is from Papertrey, well actually all of them are :) I especially like how the wood grain looks on the kraft cardstock. I used copics to color in the images just a little. I also sponged on some light blue ink too just add a little more depth. Lastly I added some hand stitching around each circle. I like how "finished" the stitching makes it look.

Anyway, thanks a BUNCH for stopping by! I'm still not myself, so I'm off to bed. Luckily Tomio came home early to help out:) Hope you're week is going well!!

Hello :)

Well, I had actually intended to post one more time before we went on our trip, but it just didn't work out. We did have LOTS of fun though. Our weekend was full of roller coaster rides, beaches, pools, shoppping, playing and eating :) That's about all of it, except for the sunburn... The kids are all fine, just nice and tan. Me, I ended up with sun burn just about everywhere but my face. I DID coat myself with sunscreen. REALLY. More than once. I guess I just needed to coat my whole body at least 5 times like I did my face... But we still did have tons of fun :) Definitely glad we went.

Here is a card for today. In person, I  LOVE this card. Really simple and pretty. I don't think it is the kind that really shows up as well in a photo though. :( I think you can still get the idea though :)  I stamped the leaf image in versamark inkd and embossed with clear embossing powder. I stamped the text on some more grey cardstock with black ink before punching out the butterflies. I punched some more butterflies in the Hawaiian Shores and layered them just to have a bit peek out from behind the grey ones. I finished them off with some pearls.

I liked the grey with just a splash of color :) All these stamps and cardstock are from Papertrey Ink.

Thanks for stopping by!! I hope you had as fun a weekend as I did! (just with maybe a little less sun....)

happy anniversary~

to me and my hubby :) Today, (well here in Japan), Aug. 31st is our wedding anniversary :) 11 years today. I raelly can't believe how quickly time has gone by. Tomio always tries to take off for our anniversary. But this year he has a presentation/evaluation at work TODAY, so he couldn't. He is coming home early though, and we will be going out to dinner--fun!  He also got reservations at a beachside hotel for 2 nights this weekend. I think that totally makes up for not getting to take off the whole day, don't you? :)

Here is the card I made him:

Considering for some reason I really choke and make my not-so-great cards for him , I love how this one came out. I stamped the sentiment on transparency like I did in my previous sympathy card.  There are a couple of reasons I did it this way instead of directly on the card. One is for added interest. The other is that I finished the rest of the card first and I didn't want to risk messing it all up. The pattern paper is from K& Co.

Thanks so much for stopping by!! :)Hope your week is starting off fun :)

cousins and sympathy

We had the cousins over to play today. They only live about 15 minutes from us, but we don't seem to get together nearly enough for their liking. The first thing the kids say as soon as they've left is "when are they coming again?" :) But having 8 kids running wild together for the whole day can be very....well wild :) Me, my sister Eryn and my mom all try to get some scrapping done together while they are here. I never seem to make much progress, but its alot of fun :) SO, I don't have something I made today to share :) But I'm pretty sure that I haven't shared this card before ( so sorry if I have!!)

This is a very simple sympathy card I made. Its simple, but honestly it took me awhile to get it how I liked it. The first thing I did was stamp the sweet pea outline image on the grey cardstock. I love the subtle elegance of it. I knew I wanted to use some green and some white text on clear, but getting those where I liked them is what took along time. I stamped the text with white Stazon on a clear transparency. Since it is thin, I could just fold it over the edges to adere it. Other stiffer acrylics just don't fold smoothly enough. All the stamps and cardstock on this are from Papertrey Ink. I wasn't sure I would love the Sweet Pea image after I ordered it, but I have LOVED it. Great for outlines like this but really fun to color as well.

Thanks so much for stopping by! I think we are off to visit the inlaws this weekend...Hope you are getting crafty :)