Thursday!

Good Morning!

Sorry I've been MIA for a bit. I became sick last Friday eve and was not able to go to the "Crop for a Cure" in Duluth. I felt so badly, as I wanted to go and help out some friends with a GREAT cause! I was also very bummed, as I have been missing these Pals for some time now! Seems like after moving up north, I don't get down to the cities like I use to. Oh well, we will make contact and hopefully before the rush of the holidays!!

Yesterday I tried to finish some projects I had going for a Craft Botique that will be starting next week already. YIKES! OMG where oh where does all the time go?

Here's a tin I put together for the Botique.

Have a WONDERFUL day!
Hugs,
MaGooooo/maria

IT'S FRIDAY!!!

The day most of us look forward to, right?! It's raining up north and I guess that means that I get to stay in and just play today!

I made a few of these card yesterday to send "get well" wishes off to a few friends. I have a group that are not feeling up to par and thought they may enjoy receiving this cheerful card in the mail.

We are meeting up with some friends tonight and then tomorrow I am heading to Duluth to help two friends (Heather/Pine Feather & Lisa/Shabby Chick" who are doing demos at the Crop for a Cure. A wonderful fund raising event for "Young Survival Coalition". So you won't hear from me for a few days, but I will be doing good!

Have a GREAT weekend!
Hugs,
MaGoooooo/maria

Thrilling Thursday!!!

I'm not sure where this week has went, but it's almost gone. YIKES!!

Today I'm taking things easy, had a late night and will need to play catch up and take a nap. I think that will happen in just a bit.

Today's share is of some cute bandaid tins. See the weather changing pattern is affecting my crafting too.

ENJOY your Thrilling Thursday!
Hugs,
MaGoooooo/maria

Another Wild Wednesday

Yep it is. Before it gets really - really cold out there, I must finish spreading the straw on my strawberry plants. I certainly wouldn't want to find out next spring, that they didn't make it through the cold Minnesota winter. I started this little project yesterday and I am hoping to finish it up today. The sun is still shinning and bringing a bit of warmth here.

ENJOY the fall gift I've put together here. It is from a retired SU stamp set, Give Thanks.

Hugs,
MaGooooo/maria

The week is going!

Yep another Monday - Monday up north here. The sun is trying to peak out, but the weather man says we are in for some rain this week. Along with that the temps will be taking a jump down under. Guess this past weekend which was BEAUTIFUL, was the last of Indian Summer.

So to get a jump, you can tell my projects are turning towards the next season.

Have a WONDERFUL Monday!
Hugs,
MaGoooooo/maria

Happy Sunday!

Just home from church and want to get on here and post. Then to start my day of putzing on some crafty things. I HOPE!

It should be a low key day and we will just be hanging around the house and working our way through some more boxes.

I hope you all have a WONDERFUL Sunday!
Hugs,
MaGoooooo/maria

Saturday's HERE!

And a it's a GORGEOUS one at that! The sun is shinning and you can just feel the warmth it is giving to us!

Aren't these little buckets just ADORABLE?! I found them at the dollar spot in Target and have had FUN decorating them for my booth at Sweet Peas. I only wish that I had picked up a few more of them. Didn't want to look like I was never going to see a bucket again, so now I'm in the "I wish" mode. I know I will find some more or else something different to fix up.

Have a wonderful Saturday! Make sure you go outside and ENJOY some fresh air today.

Hugs,
MaGoooooo/maria

IT'S FRIDAY!!!

It's DH last Friday off from summer hours. He now has to start working a five day work week. Awwwww. So that means that we will be running down to Duluth, so that we can grab some things he wants to set up "his" garage. Me I'm tagging along and making a few stops at "my" stores.

Today's card is another from my "image swap". I am really happy with how it turned out! Now I really WANT, oh I mean NEED - this stamp!

Have a GREAT day!
Hugs,
MaGoooooo/maria

This is why we moved up NORTH!

This picture says it all. Look at what comes to visit right outside my stampin' room almost every day. Especially now as we are getting late into fall. Mamma comes with her baby, whose not so little any more.

The card is another from my image swap. I'm having sooo much FUN coloring! Not sure I will get much time to have any stampin' or coloring fun, as we have MEA in Minnesota. That is two days off school.

Hope the sun is shinning and you are having FUN where you are!

Hugs,
MaGoooooo/maria

1/2 way to Friday!!

OMW I'm in for a long - long week if that's the way I'm looking at it. When Monday starts off with lots of rain and no sunshine, it's hard to find the good things!!

Yesterday I was able to get some coloring done FINALLY of the image swaps that I have been collecting through the years. A really GREAT group of friends of mine, do "Image Swaps". This is where you sign up and then stamp an image forever (number determined by how many Stampers sign up) and you swap them out. This is really a GREAT way to get images that you LOVE and you don't have to buy every single stamp. So I have been participating in these swaps and letting them pile up in my little storage box. Like what am I saving them for? I have been busy coloring and making them into cards. Today's post is one of the many that I colored and turned into cards yesterday.

Have a GREAT Wednesday!

Monday!

It was a busy, busy weekend. Lots of running and that included road trips. I look forward to being able to spend some time at home this week! DH has today off, being it's Columbus Day. So I am grabbing him to help me get the pictures up on the walls and that will mean more EMPTY BOXES!! I'm a bit tired of looking at blank walls, when I know that I have pictures in boxes every where!

This cute little "Caramel Apple" bucket I CASED from a blog, but I'm sorry I don't remember whose it was! I changed it a bit and I have to say it's been a hit in my booth at Sweet Peas!!

Looking for some sunshine!

Saturday

It's the weekend and it will be a busy, busy one again. I promised my DD that I would do a "Mom & Me" trip to Duluth to have a FUN day of just her and me. Gotta do that, cause before I know it, I won't be wanted to hang with. We did have a GREAT time and I got some errands crossed off my list too. This is a good thing!

Today I'm getting ready to ship my Halloween gifts off to the nieces and nephews, so you get to see my stampin' tags. My friend Piney hooked me onto tags a few years ago. I hope you enjoy them, as much as I did making them!

Don't forget the Ghost & Gobblin's in your life!

Hugs,
MaGoooooo/maria

It's late day!

Yep that's what we call Wednesdays at our house. The school here starts an hour late every Wednesday. Amazing what an hour does for your schedule and your kids sleep!

The sun is shinning again and we are looking forward to some really nice fall days ahead now! YAHOO!!!!

This is cute little Holiday Planner is one project that I worked on over this past weekend at the retreater. It is an empty metal CD case that I decorated and turned into a place to keep all those notes to keep us organized during the busy time which is coming upon us very fast! I found the cases at: http://www.eclecticpaperie.com. It's my most FAVORITE place to shop on-line!!! Joy & Daisy are two of the Sweetest people you will ever find!

ENJOY your sunshine!
Hugs,
MaGoooooo/maria

No sunshine?

Yep it's a rainy Tuesday day. The sun isn't shinning, so I guess that means that I will just concentrate on organizing my space again. Some day I will complete this task. Today's share is just a tin to put a smile on my face, as I know before long we will be building them snowmen! Oh how I just LOVE snowman!!!

Have a wonderful day and hope the sun is shinning where you are!
Hugs,
MaGoooooo/maria

A perfect weekend!

So today's pictures are from my wonderful weekend retreater! The weather was perfect and the "crop-a-lot cabin" http://cropalotcabin.com/was the perfect place to hold our retreater!!!! Already reserved our spot for our return in May! Everyone is so excited to return and making the plans of what we will do then. I will share pictures during the week of what I managed to work on and accomplish! I have way too much FUN chatting and catching up with these girls! I don't think I have laughed so hard, since the Shistah Retreater! But laughing is good not only for our soul, but also the new "laughing diet". That is for real, I saw it on the view!

Hugs,
MaGoooooo/maria

Thankful Thursday!

Hi!

today's post is a card I made to give my second DS when we see him next week. I can't believe that it's already been three months since he left for his AIT training at Fort Jackson. He is a Minnesota Reservist and went through basic training summer of '07 at Fort Jackson, then he returned home to finish his second year of school and after he graduated this past May, he returned to Fort Jackson in NC to finish his AIT training. I will be so happy to see him!! The sad news is that he received his ship notice when he was going through AIT. He will be shipped between January & February of 2009 to Iraq. So please keep him and our other Military in yours thoughts and prayers. They believe in what they are doing for the Iraq people.

I'm off to finish up a project that I started yesterday and then I have to finish up the grocery shopping list for the retreater that I am putting on for my Big Lake Stampers. I am so EXCITED to see them again and have a FUN weekend with all of them! We will be heading to WI and just spending the weekend relaxing and enjoying each other's company. I will post pictures when I return.

Have a GREAT weekend!
Hugs,
MaGoooooo/maria