It has been a while, hasn't it? The last few months have been crazy hectic and I found little time to be in my stamp room. It started at the beginning of November when my 25-year-old son went into the hospital for brain surgery. Yes, that's right brain surgery. It seemed like science fiction. He developed epilepsy about 5 years ago and since the millions of medications he had been on never seemed to work, surgery was the next step. He was in the hospital in Denver for about 10 days where they did a temporal lobectomy. It was rough going for him right after the surgery, but things managed to turn out okay for him. He has made a speedy recovery and has been seizure free since. He is back to to swimming, with supervision of course. He always loved swimming along with scuba diving, but had to give it up about 5 years ago when his seizures started. He also had to give up driving at the ripe old age of 20, but has been reassured by his doctors that if he remains seizure free for 6 months after the surgery, he will again be able to drive. He said this morning that he is reminded often of the time before he started driving when he was sixteen, and he is once again counting down the days, weeks, months, until he could drive.
My mother was also here for about 6 weeks during my son's recovery to help out with him and other things once I went back to work. Then there was Thanksgiving and Christmas and New Year and back to work after the holiday break. I am gradually getting back to normal where I can spend a little time each week in my stamp room. I know I have been neglectful of my blog along with many other things. One of my new year resolutions is to be a little more consistent with my stamping and posting.
Soon it will be Valentine's Day, or as some would say, "Single's Awareness Day". :) I wanted some special cards for the special people in my life and the debut of the new Spring Catalog gave me some of the inspiration. You can get most of the supplies I used on this card in that catalog. I had fun making it as I thought of the love of my life while I made this. Hope you like it too.
Here's what I used.
From the Spring Catalog:
(I love the fact that Stampin' Up! is now bundleing their stamp sets with their Framelits Dies. It makes so much sense to buy this way because it is sooooo much less expensive.)
From the Annual Catalog:
- First Edition Specialty Designers Series Paper (121878/$12.95)
- Pool Party C/S (122924/$6.95)
- Real Red C/S (102482/$6.95)
- Delicate Designes Folders (127023/$8.95)
- Linnen Thread (104199/$4.50)
- Pool Party Ribbon from Sale-A-Bration (Free w/ $50.00 order!)
Until next week...
Happy Stamping!
Josie
Yes, I know, I was supposed to post this on Saturday, but since I was out-of-town for the weekend, that didn't happen. We spent the weekend with friends of ours who just completed their mountain home. It was fun to be out of the main stream even for 24 hours. We enjoyed a lot of good food and wine and movies on the DVD player. It is nice to get away even for a little while
