Our oldest niece, Amanda, turned 16 on January 5. Oh my goodness, where has the time gone? It seems like just yesterday she was a tiny baby. In fact, when she was about 2 weeks old, she contracted RSV and spent a few weeks in the hospital with tubes in her nose and head. Poor baby. The nurses called her Peanut.
She had her family birthday party on Saturday. Here's the card I made for her...
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Happy Sweet 16, Amanda.
We saw La Cage Aux Folles at The Fox Theater on Saturday. Here's a video clip...
George Hamilton played Georges and Christopher Sieber played Albin. Georges has a son from a previous "relationship" and he and Albin raise him. The son is now engaged to the daughter of a very conservative political candidate who wants to close down the nightclubs in Saint-Tropez, one of which Georges and Albin own. Anyway, the show is hilarious. I still have one of the songs running through my head...We are what we are and what we are is an illusion.
We ate dinner at Morgan Street after the show. We hadn't eaten there in quite some time so it was the perfect opportunity and yum, it was good. :)
The next show in the Broadway Series is West Side Story (which we've seen several times at the Muny) but we traded it for Rock of Ages which is next month. It features rock songs from the 80's from Journey, Styx, Pat Benetar, Bon Jovi, etc. We're looking forward to it.
Later...
Oops, I thought that I set this to post on Christmas but apparently I didn't. Anyway, here's the last of the 2011 Christmas cards. This is the one I made for Bill...
I created the large tag with my Cricut and I used the Papertrey Ink alphabet die to spell "Merry."
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I hope you all had a great Christmas. We sure did. It's always great spending time with family.
Next up in my 2011 Christmas card series is the card that I made for everyone on our Christmas list...
I punched out the berries with a circle punch and then added crystal effects and chunky glitter. This was a fairly simple card but I really like the end result.
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I hope you all have a nice Christmas Eve. Be sure to check back tomorrow for the last card in the series.
Since I gave it to her in person, I didn't have to worry about it being too lumpy to mail. Good thing because this card certainly is lumpy...hee hee hee.
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Be sure to check back tomorrow for the second to last card in the series.
Next up in my 2011 Christmas card series is the card that I made for my mom and dad, and Lisa and Randy...
As soon as I saw the felt accessories in the @Stampin' Up catalog, I knew that I had to order them. How adorable are those little mittens? And what is even more adorable? The picture of our sweet baby Greta!
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I'm still not finished posting all of the cards for this year. Check back tomorrow to see yet another card. :)
Next up in my 2011 Christmas card series is the card that I made for Josh...
I just love this stamp set from Papertrey. It's hard to see in the picture but I added Crystal Effects to each of the Christmas bulbs so that they are shiny. I think this card is perfect for a teenage boy, no frills, ribbon, glitter, etc...hee hee hee.
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Check back tomorrow to see another card. Until then...
Next up in my 2011 Christmas card series is the card that I made for Amanda...
The bird and mittens were actually from a card I received last year. It was adhered to the card with dimensionals so I removed it and kept it for future use. Since Amanda loves birds (and has two; Belle and Peeps), I thought that this was just perfect.
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Be sure to check back tomorrow for another card.
Today is the first post in my 2011 Christmas card series. First up is the card I made for Sarah...
I love the stocking punch from Stampin' Up. I also have the coordinating stamp set but for this card, I just punched the stockings out of patterned and red sparkly paper. The card base looks white in the picture but it's actually ivory. Also, the heel of the first stocking, the toe of the second stocking and the top of the third stocking are all gold but it doesn't show up very well in this picture.
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I started baking cookies this weekend. I made 5 kinds so far and I have at least one more to make this week. Yummy!
