Long time no posts

Yeah sorry about that, life gets a little crazy this time of year for me.  Coming into the last stretch of a crazy budget year is a little more stressful then just a regular budget year.  So yeah if I start busting into random numbers and equations attempting to find the percentage increase or decrease of an item don't worry its totally normal.  Now if by chance I then give a predication as to what I think the cost will be next year at this time based on an average of years past be afraid be very afraid!  Yes, this means that I am not only doing math but I am doing serious math.  Who knew that my job as a librarian would require me to do so much math, thank you UW-LaX for making me take Statistics most appreciated.

Ok, onto other stuff.  Mom and dad made it home safe and  healthy from Mexico the day before Mother's Day, whoo hoo!  Yes very excited about that.  Haven't heard much about the trip will need to get some details and hopefully some pictures soon.  They did come home to some craziness however.  While they were out there was a forest fire behind the house, yes a forest fire!!  The fire department thinks an arc caused it, the power lines go through there.  Luckily it went north and not south and no one was hurt.  My sister luckily caught a glimpse of it and called the fire department.  I guess three fire departments responded due to the size of the blaze, yikes!  Again waiting on pictures.  But like I said no one was hurt and the houses are fine.

Scrappy wise I am gearing up to go to a benefit crop the end of June.  The crop is to benefit the Harvest Hope Food Bank so its for a good cause.  I will most likely will not be able to get there until after 4 the day it starts but its all good, three days of scrappy goodness is going to be needed!  It will be a great little de-stressor before the final fiscal push!  LOL that sounds so funny now that I typed it, anyway.  I have been scrapping away, I have 2 of 3 Father's Day cards done, 1 of 5 June Birthday cards done, and still need to work on one Anniversary card and 2 July Birthdays.  Ok, now I feel a little overwhelmed, lol, this looks like a job for Cricut!!  Love my bug, I am going to put a plug in for a couple of cartridges that I think are must haves, especially if you have difficulty with cards--Wild Card and Lyrical Letter!  Seriously, with these two carts you will never have to worry about another card again.  

I will leave you with a Birthday card I made for our 

nephew who will be 7 in June.  I used only the Cricut Wild Card Cartridge for this and cardstock (Colorbox)

This little monster is so perfect I think for a little boy.  Wild Card cut the card, candle, and cake slice so I

didn't have to change a cart once.  The card is cut at 5" as is the candle, the cake is cut at 2.5" i believe.  

The cake is covered with Fun Flock to make it more cake like, and the icing is done with Stickles, this was so fun to do and it looks so cool in person.  The Candle was covered in Diamond Glaze to give it the waxy appearance and then the flame was colored using my Smooch--whose got the Smooch, baby!  Love this stuff, my fav new product.  The inside reads: "Add another Candle! It's your Birthday!"

Oh, and the envelope for this card is too dang cute.

Next Outta This Funk Blog Hop is coming June 6th!  That's it from the Bunny Hole, peace!

Odds & Ends

Hi all, oh and I do believe the parents are home from Mexico, not sick and home.  

I didn't do much this weekend, Saturday I cleaned and ran my errands so I wouldn't have to leave the house on Sunday which was awesome.  Sunday was Mother's Day--happy Mother's Day!--so I decided it would be a PJ day as well as a scrap day.  So, I scrapped.  I found a great sketch challenge over at October Afternoon -- love their paper!-- so I had to play along, here it is:

Materials all Scraps

Bazzill

DCWV

October Afternoon--Detours

Colorbox Fluid Chalk

LePlume Pen

Hand Journaling

I also created a couple of cute pages this weekend, all done somewhat on the fly--no plan, which is very tough for me, but I will share those at a later date.   I want to keep all y'all in suspense so you will stop by and visit me again.

Not much new here, looking forward to a visit from the in-laws this coming weekend.  That means that hopefully, fingers crossed, that we will be going out for some Sushi!  I am in desperate need of a Dragon Roll!  Well, I guess that's it for now, peace out from the Bunny Hole!

Happy National Scrapbook Day!!

It's a scrappy holiday, whooo hooo!  Can you believe it, it is true there really is a National Scrapbook Day, and today is it!  If you have to ask you don't know me to well, yes I am scrapping!  Last night was the first every cyber crop over at OOTF and I am working on the challenges.  I did run into the scrappy store (stamping bella addiction) and mikes--had to return that trimmer.  I am so looking forward to a fun day of scrapping and probably some chatting with the girls.  

I wanted to share a card I made for my Nephew, he turns 8 next week, so here it is.

Materials:

Scraps of course--all Bazzill

Cricut Life's a Beach

Stamps by The Cat's Pajamas

Ink by Colorbox

Inside the card reads: "Shiver Me Timbers, It Be Yer Birthday!"

I almost forgot, the winner of my blog hop rak was Shellie!!  Girl I will get a little something out to you this week.  Thank you to everyone who left a comment, first time ever I have seen that many comments, so thank you again.  The hop was a lot of fun and I look forward to the next one.

Oh, still no word on the parents, but the wedding is today I believe so hopefully they will be home soon.  Sheesh.

Catch all y'all on the flip side, peace out from the Bunny Hole!