Happy New Year!

Hope you've had a great start of the year 2010! Mine has been slow. My husband's been working a lot and we've had freezing temperatures so I haven't been able to take my boys out much. The little one stayed 11 days in NICU before coming home with us. And a couple of weeks after he came home I took a few pictures of my boys for the Christmas cards.

We were lucky and got white Christmas!!!

Of course my little preemie doesn't look like a preemie at all now. He's 12 weeks old and is doing great, 12lbs4oz (born 5lbs.). Hopefully he's changing his sleeping schedule now though....I wouldn't mind sleeping more hours between feedings. For a while there I was getting about 75 minutes between feedings.

But now I'm hoping he'll take at least one 4-5 hour "nap" at night time, he's been doing that during the day sometimes. Big brother is trying really hard to be helpful...but mostly gets in the way unfortunately. But I try to let him help me out as much as possible. He does pretty good most of the time. Big brother got in a fight with the snowman he made, that's why his face looks the way it is. He was actually trying to climb on the snowman and managed to fall off on the frozen ground.

I haven't been able to make many cards but I'm trying to find time to do a little bit each week.

I made this card the other day. The stamp is from Inkadinkado I think. I had it already stamped and colored in my stash. I also used Nestabilities and Glimmer Mist for the green-ish background. the card stock and sentiment are from SU.

Well, I better go check some of my older posts and delete spam comments that have been added there lately...some people need to find themselves a better hobby than posting spam all over the place!

TFL

A baby in October!

Instead of November! Well, my baby had a mind of it's own and decided to enter the world a few weeks early (about 5 weeks). Early last Thursday morning (just before 3 am) I woke up as my water broke and we rushed to the hospital. I was supposed to have a planned c-section so we did not hang around and wait for my contractions to start. 3 hours later my baby boy was born. He's in NICU now, trying to gain weight and control his body temperature. I got out of the hospital on Sunday, could have gone home on Saturday, that's how great my recovery has been. I'm doing good as long as I take it slow. I spend about 4 hours a day at NICU with my son, even if he's just sleeping, I just want to be there, I just bring my knitting with me.

Enough of the chit chat, here are a couple of pics of my little prince, Theodor Jesse

This one was taken during the weekend, he had pulled his oxygen out and pulled his hat off.

This pic was taken on Monday. Had pulled his IV of the back of his hand and the nurse put it on his head instead. Here he's off the oxygen.

He's so tiny, he weighed 5 lbs. (2260 gr) at birth and was 19 inches long (48.5 cm).

We don't know when he gets to come home to us, it all depends on how good he eats and if he can keep himself warm.

I'll post a Christmas card here sometime in the next few days...if my brain allows me....today I started pumping for milk and forgot to attach a bottle to the pump! *lol*

TFL!

Christmas in October 1

Magnolia Christmas

This card is made with Basic Grey scraps I had in my stash and Stampin'Up card stock. The image is colored with my Stampin'Up ink and the dress is paper pieced.


Again I've used my SU ink to color in the image. The pattered paper is partly from Basic Grey and partly "unknown"....something from my stash.

Here I'm using patterned paper from My Mind's Eye.
The little girl's dress is so perfect for paper piecing. The stamp is from Magnolia and I think it's so cute.
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My pregnancy is going pretty good. I've got gestational diabetes so I get check-ups every week. The baby seems to be growing normally and I'm able to keep my blood sugar numbers pretty good so right now I don't need any medicin or insulin. Hopefully I can keep it that way until the baby's out. My biggest problem at the moment is finding pants that fit and are comfortable...I just feel like wearing my jammies all day ;)

Anyways...hope you're having a good week!

TFL

Happy World Card Making Day!

And of course I've got a couple of cards to show you today.

I'm still working on using up my scrap pile. The stamp is from Stampin'Up. I used my Nestabilities to cut the circle and the scallop circle. Pretty simple, no glitter....just a simple boy card.


And I actually made a Halloween card. I never make those. I think this is the only Halloween stamp I have actually. Not that I'm against Halloween, I just didn't grow up celebrating it. All the card stock is from Stampin'Up and I used my Stampin'Up markers to color in the image....and put glitter on it of course. I got out my Cuttlebug embossing folders instead of buying Halloween patterned paper.
I hope you're having a great day. We've got some sunshine here :)

TFL

Christmas in September 4

Elegant Christmas

I was trying to come up with some elegant Christmas cards. Most of my Christmas stamps would not fall in that category so I had to put on my thinking cap.
I got out my gold card stock from Stampin'Up and dry embossed it in my Cuttlebug. I then cut it into triangles to make Christmas trees. I remembered I had the designer paper with the gold swirls somewhere in my stash and dug it out. I used my Nestabilities scallop circle dies on my first card but pkept the next two cards even simpler.

This last card I actually made for a challenge over at Moxie Fab World the first week of September.

TFL

Christmas in September 3

Magnolia Christmas

I had the image (Magnolia) all ready from last Christmas. Just had to look for paper in my stash to match the image. I used old Christmas paper from BoBunny. I used a border punch from Martha Stewart and the green ribbon is from Stampin'Up.

TFL

Autumn Gretel

This card is made for the challenge over at "A Spoon Full of Sugar".

The challenge was to make fall inspired projects. I think the colors in this card make good fall colors. The designer paper is from My Mind's Eye and the stamp is Gretel from C.C. Designs. I paperpieced her clothes and loaded them with glitter.
I hope you're all having a good weekend!

TFL