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I love making these little mini cards. First of all, they're cute. Second, they are so easy to make since there isn't a lot of space to fill up. Both of these cards are 3x3 and are perfect for attaching to a gift bag or small gift box.
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I can't believe the weekend is over! Back to the daily grind.
I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving. We certainly did. My mom, dad, sister, brother-in-law and the kids came over. We ate turkey and everything that goes with it and just enjoyed a nice, relaxing time.
The weather was nice yesterday (well, nice for the end of November in St. Louis...sunny and about 55 degrees) so Bill risked his life to hang the Christmas lights. While he was on the roof, a little girl and her mom were walking by. The little girl was probably 4 years old or so and she looked at our house and said, "Christmas lights." She then noticed that Bill was on the roof and she said, "Oh, he is on the house." Her mom and I both laughed.
I put the garland, bows and lights on our front porch railing today and I'm planning to do the inside decorations tomorrow. The jury is still out with regard to a Christmas tree. A certain wild kitty, who shall remain nameless, has tried to eat and climb the tree in years past.
We ate dinner at The Tap Room tonight...yummy beer pretzels and cheese dip and the crab cake sandwich. One of the few beers that Schlafly doesn't bottle is the Porter. Luckily it was on tap tonight so we enjoyed a few with dinner and then took a growler home to enjoy tomorrow.
It's actually snowing as I type. It isn't sticking on the streets but there's a dusting on the grass and bushes. The weatherman is predicting a mild winter and I'm sure hope he's right! I hate winter, snow, cold and everything that goes with it.
Have a great Sunday!
We went to Stoney River with our neighbors, Charlie and Susan, on Friday night. We had never been there before and although they are known for their steaks, I ordered the horseradish encrusted grouper with roasted onion mashed potatoes. It was extremely yummy.
Sitting one table away was none other than former Cardinal, Ozzie Smith. About 10 minutes after we noticed him, Bill noticed another former Cardinal about 4 tables away. It was Andy Benes, although Charlie didn't believe it. We knew that it was Andy Benes but in order to avoid a political discussion, and in spite of the fact that Charlie made several snide remarks about the "first dude", we refrained from telling him that we last saw Andy at the Sarah Palin rally here in St. Louis. Anyway, a few minutes later, Ozzie stood up and walked over to Andy's table and they shook hands and talked for a few minutes. Charlie was finally convinced.
We didn't really discuss politics until after dinner when we were at Charlie and Susan's house. Susan is a life-long Republican who, for some unknown reason, decided to not only support Obama but work for his campaign as well. Her one sister was a Hillary supporter who ended up not voting at all and her other sister had said that she'd vote for Obama but changed her mind at the last minute and voted for McCain (yeah Margaret). I think Susan was shocked in both cases. Anyway, we learned that it is the government's responsibility to help everyone pay their mortgage so that people aren't living in the streets like they do in Bangladesh. Um, ok.
I don't know under which catagory I should file this post. I discussed food, baseball and politics. OK, let's file it under politics.
EDITED 1/27 - I can now file posts under multiple catagories so this post is under dining, politics and St. Louis Cardinals.
Even though I gave Missouri to McCain the day after the election, it wasn't actually official until yesterday. Woohoo, I'm so glad I live in a red state. It was definitely close; McCain won by only 3,900 votes. I don't care how close it was, I'm just glad he won.
I'm now looking forward to Palin/Romney 2012. You heard it here first!
Well, it's official. InBev bought Anheuser Busch for $52 billion today. As I've said before, I'm not really a fan of AB, but I just hate the thought that it's now owned by a foreign company. The good thing is, the North American headquarters will be here in St. Louis. Unfortunately, they are estimating that approximately 1,000 jobs will be eliminated. I guess time will tell.
The new company, which will be called Anheuser-Busch InBev, already has a new logo. There is an eagle in it but it's not "the" eagle. It's actually a pretty sissy looking eagle. It looks more like a chicken if you ask me. You be the judge.
The "powers that be" at AB InBev have decided not to change the logo here in St. Louis, so the eagle will still fly on Pestalozzi Street. They said that it would cost too much money to change the logo and they also don't want to make the people of St. Louis mad. Seriously, there is a love/hate relationship with AB and, although they've gotten better in recent years, they have always been considered somewhat of a bully but they're our bully! It's kind of like siblings fighting with each other but when you throw an outsider into the mix, the siblings stand united.
By the way, Schlafly is now the largest St. Louis based brewery. I bet that wasn't ever in Tom Schlafly's wildest dreams.
Cheers!
We saw Sweeney Todd at the Fox Theater today. This show is not part of the Broadway Series for which we have season tickets. We actually traded in our tickets for Chorus Line since we've seen it several times at the Muny. Anyway, let's just say that Sweeney Todd is a little bizarre. I enjoyed it, but killing people and grinding them up for meat pies is pretty creepy!
We ate at Vito's again since we enjoyed it so much after the Fox three weeks ago. There are still so many things on the menu that I have to try. Tonight we had the arancini for an appetizer and then I had the chicken spedini (yummo) and Bill had the calamari.
It was cold today and there were actually snow flurries floating around when we were walking to Vito's. Brrrrr...how many days until Spring?
Here's another new stamp set I ordered. It's called Pocket Silhouettes and the images are adorable. I used one of the images on a full size card here, however, the images are also the perfect size to use on mini cards. For the background, I used the Sanded background stamp which is one of my current favorites.
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It's been cold and rainy all day today! At least it wasn't snow!
I made quite a few cards over the weekend. It was very therapeutic. I received my latest @Stampin' Up order on Friday so naturally I had to use some of my new goodies.
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Stay tuned for more creations!
Even though the election didn't turn out as I had hoped, I'm glad it's over. The political commercials were really starting to get on my nerves (I won't even mention that 30 minute diatribe by Barrack Hussein Obama or Barry Soetoro or whatever his name is this week). Life goes on...
OK, so it's back to stamping. Here's a card that I made a few weeks ago. Chocolate Chip is one of my absolute favorite colors. I had some scraps of Baja Breeze and Sweet Blush sitting on my stamping table and I decided to pair them with Chocolate Chip. The result was this card...
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I hope you're all having a great weekend!
