Mother's Day Card

#78 Mother's Day Card CS~Coredinations. PP& Sticker~Nikki Sivils Max & Mollie. Flourish~Doodlebug. Glitter~Studio G. Pearl~Prima.

Nikki Sivils Guest Designer card

I made this mothers day card for my grandma for the Nikki Sivils Guest Designer Challenge.

Nikki Sivils It's your day!

I used Nikki Sivils It's Your day line for this layout and cards.

#61 "Eleven" CS~CTMH, Stickles

#62 "Celebrate Card" CS~CTMH. Embossing Folder~Cuttlebug. Stickles~Lemon Ice, Glam Pink. Ribbon~Fiskars.

#63 "Make A Wish Card" CS~CTMH. Embossing Folder~Cuttlebug. Stickles~Lemon Ice, Glam Pink. Nestabilities~Scalloped Rectangles.

Nikki Sivils Challenge

I did this page for the Nikki Sivils Challenge on her blog. We were supposed to do a layout or card about something we feel lucky about, using Nikki's products and the sketch provided. I had to use the new and oh so cute Max and Mollie line to go with my daughters pink shirt.

You can find the challenge here:

http://nikkisdoghouse.blogspot.com/2011/03/march-challenge-are-you-feeling-lucky.html

#60 "Lucky You're My Dad" PP, Die cuts, and Sticker~Nikki Sivils Max and Mollie. CS~ Coredinations. Black and white pearls~Kaiserkraft.

4=50

I managed to do 4 layouts yesterday for a total of 50 so far this year. The past 2 years I had a goal to do 365 projects or an average of 1 per day. In 2009 I managed 211 with feeling like crud all summer and then spending September to December in and out of the hospital. In 2010 with the hospitalizations I still managed 282 (I counted cards, minis, etc not just layouts that year). Being hospitalized at the beginning of the year put me behind for this year, but now that I know my chemo will be outpatient over the next few months maybe I can catch up some.#47 "Monkey Love" (Sketch~Pencilines 231) CS~Joann's, PP~Daisy Bucket, Flowers~Prima & Kaiserkraft, Letters~Thickers and Making Memories, Bling~Michael's

#48 "My Dad is my Hero" (Sketch~My Sketch World) PP~and Title sticker~Bo Bunny Grease Monkey, Screw Brads~Michael's

#49 "Little Valentines" (Sketch~Liz Qualman) CS~Joann's, PP~Fancy Pants Splendid, Flowers~Heidi Grace, Letters~Doodlebug & Making memories, Journaling Sprout~Jillibean Soup

#50 "Fall 2000" (Sketch Page Maps Mini Maps Oct 08) CS~CTMH Garden Green, PP~NIkki Sivils Tree Love, Letters~Doodlebug

Recent Layouts

#252 From Meg's Girl Scout GNO. Used Pencilines sketch #8 Paper~Karen Foster, Purse Stamp~Nikki Sivils, Film Strip~Creative Imaginations, Letters~American Crafts Thickers and Making Memories, Flowers and Trim~Prima
#254 Sketch from Page maps Oct 2010 Paper, $1 bin Target, Teresa Collins and BoBunny Double Dot, Letters~American Crafts Thickers and My Little Shoebox, Ek Success Edge Punch
#258 Sketch from Page Maps Nov 2010 Paper and Letter Stickers~Crate paper
#259 Sketch from Page Maps Sept 2010 Paper~Hot off the Press, Letters~Doodlebug
#260 Sketch from Page Maps Aug 09 paper~Tim Holtz and K & Co

leukemia Update

I am finally out of the hospital(been out about a week) after being in there for 63 days. Could only get blogger to open a handful of times. My first round of chemo there didn't work. Had a second round that worked. Have a lot of other issues while there, including pneumonia. White cells just would not come up. They finally sprung me last week to make my bone marrow transplant consultation at the cancer center 2 1/2 hours away, after we had to reschedule it 3 times. Waiting to see if my brothers are a match. Won't have any more appointments up there until they find a match, and they dont expect to do the transplant until January. On a good note at my blood draw yesterday my white count was finally up to 3.1(was .9 the day before) and my anc was over 2500. Unfortunately my platelets are not doing anything on their own. I expect this am they will tell me I need a transfusion.

On the scrappy front, I have managed to do a 2 page layout for my Scrapbooking Goodies DT that I was supposed to do in August. Got some of the Nikki Sivils Tree Love to do one for this month. Also got my sons Halloween page done. Will get picture of that up later.

Also got happy mail from Nikki after I left a comment on her hat from her Mary Poppins hat. She sent me her hat AND the entire of line of My Friend Birdie AND the entire line of Tree Love. She is sooo awesomely sweet!