Happy 60th Birthday to Me

Special people in my life are trying to make my milestone birthday a good one with cards, flowers delived to my door, phone calls, Facebook posts on my wall and a dozen donuts!  Thanks y'all.

accordion card by Rachel

Had lunch with a few of my card making ladies who each made me a card. . . lucky me!

from Lynn

 from Sally

 from Judy

 from Ellen

Happy National Scrapbooking Day 2011

I completed these scrapbook pages over a month ago at Scrapfest but waited to post them for today's National Scrapbooking Day. I used pictures from my Gulf Shores family vacations in 2008 and 2009.





Now just recently I made this fleur de lis page using a new "metal" technique I learned from Lori, a scrapbooking buddy of mine. She learned the technique in a class at Scrapfest given by an employee of Treasured Memories, a scrapbook store in Lafayette, Louisiana.

It is hard to tell but the photo shows my funny Illinois relatives, Pat and Judy, holding crystal Fleur de Lis ornaments up to their ears like earrings. The ornaments were a souvenir from their trip to New Orleans in 2009.

Here is a scrapbook page I made at Treasured Memories. They taught me how to make 3-D flowers using paper, ribbon and fabric. Very cool.

Orchid is Blooming

The orchid is blooming like crazy and has plenty more blooms to go.

Wild and not so Wild Flowers

Spring in South Louisiana is here! The rose bushes are not in bloom yet and the azalea buds are just starting to open. My yard is full of wild flowers and not so wild ones too.













This week the weather was so mild that I did a lot of raking and clipping dead branches. I know I touched a lot of poison ivy and, even though I used garden gloves, I already have a couple of rash spots on my hands. I cleared away vines from the house, around the swing and the path to the pond.

Here are a few flower cards I've made recently.