Aloha, all! I have two good friends who live in East Hawai'i who have decided to move back to the mainland. They both have everything in place. One will be moving while I'm away for the Stampin' Up! Convention and a family vacation next month. The other will not move until the end of the summer. I am so happy for both of them that they … [Read more...] about Happy :) and Sad :(
Loads of Love
All Those Thanksgiving Cards…
...are in the mail! Aloha, all! I'm finally finished with my Thanksgiving Cards and they're all safely in the mail. Some of them I've posted here since this year's Stampin' Up! Holiday Mini Catalog was published in September, whle some managed to slip through the blogging cracks. I thought I'd share a few of them here with you today … [Read more...] about All Those Thanksgiving Cards…
Divas on Wheels
Aloha, all! Don't you just hate it when you get an idea in your head and it just won't go away no matter how hard you try! This week's Divas Coffee Break Design Team challenge sketch did just that to me. When I first saw this challenge several weeks ago, one stamp set popped into my mind. I did NOT want to use this … [Read more...] about Divas on Wheels
It’s Easter Season – Part III: Back to Basics
Aloha, all! When I joined Stampin' Up! as a demonstrator, one of the sets that I was encouraged to feature is the one called, "Loads of Love." OK--I could relate to that, as I'd recently lived in rural New Mexico where pickup trucks were the norm. And I'd recently moved to rural Hawaii, where pickups are the norm. So why not? BUT I would rather have not, as I've … [Read more...] about It’s Easter Season – Part III: Back to Basics
Loads of Love!
Aloha, all! This morning I challenged myself to make a Valentine's Day card for my adult son. With all the frilly, flowery stuff out there, I figured it was going to be a hard thing to figure out. But then another kind of challenge came up--one of my online forum groups, SUDSOL, came up with a design challenge: Make a card with "Something old, something new, something … [Read more...] about Loads of Love!