Memories ~ NBUS #122

Hello Everyone!

My post today is gimongous, so pull up a chair.That's meant for those of you on your phones. Your feet will get tired if you don't wait until you're somewhere comfy.

Let's start with a card since I know some of you are only here for card talk and that's dandy. For you, I have two cards.

Coloring with water continues to be the rage throughout Blogland and I couldn't be happier. On Monday, Nicole posted the Papertrey Ink (PTI) Make It Monday video and challenge which is "Watercolor Splats."

Her cards are so fun! I didn't have a rounded brush handy, so my dots aren't as artistic, but I had fun making them anyway.

Here is the card I am entering:

The paper and the NBUS "Memories" die cut sediment are by PTI. The stitched circle is by Lil' Inkers. I loved the way my splatted water drops looked like clouds and that reminded me of the current challenge code word at Addicted to CAS, which is "Far Away."

My card can either evoke memories of someone who has passed away or of someone who has moved away. Or the design might represent looking out the window of a plane on the way home from a place where new memories were created.

Random Useless Information. Have you noticed that because they have moved all the rows around in planes to provide "more leg room" (for more money) in part of coach, none of the rows are lined up with the windows any more? You have to peek under the arm of the person in front of you or crack your neck like a chicken looking under your own arm out the window over your shoulder. 

I used snippets of white and turkoice for my die cut, so I'm taking my cloud card over to show my friends at Pixie's Snippets Playground. I even have some chocolate to share, but more on that later.

Since I did not use a stamped or digi image on my card, I am also playing in Simply Create Too.

I hope you can join in these wonderful challenges! Just click on the links for all the details on rules, sponsors, and prizes!

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For my second water-colored and water-splatted card, you'll have to check the next post. After I finished this opus, I realized it was just too much tome for one post, so I split them up. It was Ami Cable.

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Easter Memories

We had a beautiful Easter Sunday with friends and family. I've made a collage of the traditional Easter egg hunt enjoyed by the twins while mom and dad provided hints and encouragement from the speculators area. Duke managed to photobomb a couple of shots.

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Friends and Chocolate Research

On Monday, I had a fun-filled few hours with Kim and Harriet at a local outlet mall.  I had just been telling them about an article in our local newspaper about a scientific study which made a coral lation between low blood sugar (specifically lack of chocolate) and grabbiness in woman. I mean crabbiness in woman. And about how the article had been cut out, circled, and pointed out to me by the Mister. He was just sayin'. Carefully.

See, the thing is, we both went on diets the middle of January and cut out sweets, which, for me, meant chocolate. After which the entire chocolate industry experienced a huge drop in profits the first quarter of this year. And after which the Mister noticed a huge increase in, erm, witchiness on and about my person. Well, for one thing, who wouldn't be a tad ticked if they cut out all that chocolate and only lost two pounds in three months while a certain Mister lost 18 pounds!! It's so not fair.

So, anywaffle, blah, blah, there we were at the mall talking about chocolate and suddenly right in front of us was a Ghiradelli Chocolate store!! An hour later we had finished shopping, I was beaming from rear-to-rear, and the nice cashier lady, her pockets bulging from the commission, took our photo:

Harriet, Darnell, Kim

Three little stampers went for chocolate.

One little stamper had some.

One little stamper had none.

And one little stamper went wee, wee, wee all the way home!

Kim is so funny. She had me hold her bag so she wouldn't look like the greedy pig! Just kidding. That's all mine and don't even think about touching it!

Here's the Mister's reaction upon seeing the huge bag on the table:

I'm happy to report that immediately afterwards, he looked up with a huge grin on his face as it dawned on him that before long peace and harmony would once again prevail in the Land of Matrimony!

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I have new friends for you to meet, but I'll do that in the next post as well. You're so supportive making it to the end of the post and I appreciate it!!

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