Rain, rain to away come back another day

Sorry no ideas or posts this past week. Our sump pump went out last Saturday right in the middle of the storm and we had over an inch of water in the entire basement. If you have been to my house you know that our entire basement was finished. The furniture for the most part is ok. We just removed the last of the carpeting Thursday night except under our pool table. That will have to coordinated the move of the pool table when new carpeting goes in. Some of our tile area was damaged and also had to be removed. What a mess! Doug, Scott and I spent over 4 hours Saturday night just trying to get the water out. We took the shop vac and every towel we had in our house to suck up the water. I have been drying towels and putting them back on the carpeting to absorb the moisture for the past 4 days. Saturday night all I did was take sopping wet towels and run them through the rinse cycle to get the water out and then took them back down to he basement to soak up more water. It was not fun. The only area that stayed dry was around the pool table and most of my craft room, thank goodness. We are running fans, dehumidifier and air conditioning to get the moisture out. DO not want to go through this again. We changed the sump pump and added tubing to all our down spouts to push the rain further away from the house. I am listening to the sump pump running at this moment. (Hard rain again last night) You can bet that I'll be checking the sump pump every time it rains from this point on. We have a lot to do to get our house back in order. We had to wait until yesterday to start removing everything until we had the ok from our insurance company. Grateful that this was covered by our insurance. Technique class will be held upstairs Tuesday. Not a problem, there is plenty of room. Hope all is well with everyone and that none of you had to deal with water coming into your home. See those of you attending the class on Tuesday. I am really looking forward to it. I think you will really enjoy the techniques.

Pat

Technique's Class - June 17th, 2008

I thought I would give you a sneak peek at one of the cards you will make at the technique's class on June 17th. The technique is called the "Chalkboard Technique". We will being doing 2 versions of this technique along with another technique.

Class information:

Date: Tuesday, June 17th at 6:30 p.m.

Cost: $10. or order a minimum of $30. from the current catalogs on the day of class

Location: My home, if you need directions to my home please call me at 414-422-1117 or email me at plwalecki@yahoo.com

RSVP by: Friday, June 6th

A Tree for All Seasons

I have been on a cleaning and organizing frenzy in my craft room. So I am finishing cards that were partially started at one time or another. I started this card using Kraft card stock with a background stamp (Linen, now retired). So I used the stamp set "A Tree for All Seasons" to create a fall birthday card.

Stamp Sets: A Tree for All Seasons, Linen, Sincere Salutations

Card Stock: Kraft, Chocolate chip, Pumpkin Pie and Whisper White

Ink: Basic Black and Chocolate Chip

Accessories: Brads, Chocolate Chip Poly-Twill Ribbon

A Beautiful Thing - Get Well Card

When someone is sick, injured or just caught a cold there is nothing nicer than to send a get well card to let that person know you are thinking of them and wish them well. This card was made with the stamp set "A Beautiful Thing" . I like it because it is simple but elegant.

Card stock: Real Red, Whisper White and River Rock

Ink: Real Red

Accessories: Ribbon

Thanks for looking.

Book mark ideas

I know many of you are avid readers. Some of us read to be entertained, others for relaxation or just for information. I don't know about you but I alway seem to use a scrap piece of paper to mark my place in the book. So being the stamper I am I decided to create a more elegant bookmark and toss the scrap piece of paper. Once again, I just can't say enough about the Pretties Kit. Here are 3 samples of the ones I made this week. Enjoy! Now it's your turn to go use up some of your scrap cardstock to make yourself a new book mark. Have a great weekend.

Birthday/Mother's Day card for my Daugher

Big whoops on the information of this card. I made the
same card for my daughter for Mother's Day. I duplicated
it for a birthday card and I scanned the birthday card
instead of the Mother's Day card. So I am sharing both at one time.

I really like the Pretties Kit. You can dye the white flowers to match your color scheme.

Hope you like it.

Mother's Day

Mother's Day is just around the corner. I thought I would share the card I made for my Mother this year. It's a simple but elegant card. Happy Mother's Day to all.