Lake Conroe

We had a good weekend at Lake Conroe. Nice and peaceful. Except....When we go there and found out our "brand new room", Studio accommodations was more like an efficiency apartment. Really, more like a hotel room with a reallllllyyy dinky kitchen! And, no cable because of Ike. First thing we did was complain. They promised that they would check on Saturday morning to get us into something else but, they were booked!!! There wasn't a grill so all the food I brought to cook for dinner was out...so, let's eat breakfast! That'll work! WRONG! I started the oven to bake biscuits and started frying up bacon and guess what? The smoke alarm (IN THE KITCHEN NO LESS) went off. I flew to the phone and called again...this time had to leave a message! Billy managed to yank the beeping blanker off the wall and stop it. I was fit to be tied! Then, we settled down to eat our dinner and watch our DVD's that we got for free since there was no cable. Watched Larry & Something with Adam Sandler...you know, the one where they act like a gay couple? It was OK...Then was kept up off and on all night because the folks in the next room watched television until 3AM. It all ended well because we got the kind of room we expected and had a grill and didn't have to listen to the neighbors television and got to watch television and even got to watch all the Texas vs OU game!! Hook 'em!!!!

We found the DoodleBug Train in Montgomery Heritage Park!!! I never even knew she worked for the railroad! That dog was full of secret! And we rode the wagon with Mollie and Willie as the pullers!






Here are a few of the sights we saw along the way!

We went to a nursery that I wish was here!

Around the Block's Blog Paper Tagger Winner!

I'm soooo excited! I forgot about the contest on the blog for Around the Block products until just now. I looked and what did I see first? "Congratulations Kim" I won an Around the Block Paper Tagger! Now it's time to start thinking about how to use it!

San Diego

Well, I'm back from my quick trip to San Diego. I always enjoy going as it is a beautiful city and the weather is always perfect. But, it's so much better being home! I was able to meet up with a couple of people who have moved from Mabank to San Diego. On Thursday evening I had dinner with Sandra & Jean-Yves Rombeaux and their daughter Elodie.


I was able to see Helen Zhang and visit with her for a few minutes.



I took a few pictures while driving around. I was there and back so quick there wasn't much time for sight-seeing.
This picture was taken early in the morning and the fog was still on the harbor. This is a ship docked at the naval base, Rosecrans I think.

Here is a small portion of the SS Midway. The Midway is an aircraft carrier that is permanently docked in SD for tours. You really have to see it to get the true size of this vessel.

This is a little shop in an area on the harbor called SeaPort Village. There are several little shops specializing in different things. You can get caps, t-shirts, art, food....lots of different stuff!!


I took this picture while strolling through SeaPort Village

San Diego is a huge port for all sorts of sailing vessels. It is home to many cruise lines. There happened to be 3 cruise ships in the harbor while I was there. I took this picture from the window of my little rented Prius.


I had a good time and enjoyed seeing Sandra and Helen. But, I'm soooo much more glad to be home!

Day long Crop!

Well, it's the day after our September Crop and I'm still exhausted. The truck is still loaded down with all my supplies that have to be put back in the Scrapbooking room but, the day was worth it.

This is all that was left at 9pm - Ashley (pregnant), Penny, Me and Heather in the wild shirt!
I asked each of them to show me their favorite page they had made.


Penny made a page on their Florida trip about Snorkeling.











Ashley just got the 12" Cricut Expressions and a Juke box. All of us played with that! Her favorite page was of her daughter Savannah and Santa!











Heather has been working on a Scrapbook for one of the nurses that moved to another hospital. She has worked on it for two whole crop days. It's a good looking scrapbook! She's done a great job!











All in all, I think we had a great time! I'm looking forward to our next crop on November 15th!

Trying Something Out!

Sunday Bloody Sunday!

Blah! That's pretty much the mood this evening! I dread the work week that's ahead. Not for any special reason just the simple reason I'm sooooo ready to retire and just need a few more years. Heather and I had a lot of fun this weekend hunkering down to ride out the hurricane! Thankfully it was just a lot of wind and some rain and not the havoc expected due to the our over zealous media! We made jewelry! I especially love these earrings. It was fun to get together and work on something other than scrapbooking....but not too much! You know how I love scrapbooking!!!

There is a Hurricane a comin'

Thought I'd added this card before I lose power...I know, it's early but Billy woke me up checking the weather. I did this card last night using the "Solemn Stillness" stamp set and new SU In Colors Kiwi Kiss and Riding Hood Red. I also added a little Gold embossing powder and some non-SU hemp.

That bad weather isn't supposed to get here until about noon so maybe I'll have time to make some more cards today and post them too!
Ok...I'm back! We lost power from 10am to 11am for no particular reason....probably some dead tree fell on a line! There are a lot of dead trees out here in the country! I finished up another card during the outage! Not much light in the scrapbooking room but, I made due. This was made with the "Wishing you Cheer" and "Frosty" stamp sets, scallop punch, Kiwi Kiss and Very Vanilla cardstock and a piece of printed paper, deck the halls by create, Kate.