Prayers please!

Monday's Monet Moment

Have a great week, everyone!

I have a longggg list of things to get to around the house. Blah - housework is BORING!!! And I have new stamps upstairs calling my name! I think I will hustle around this morning, and come noon I'll have lunch and head upstairs to the Stamping Studio. I figure the dust and dirt has waited this long.....right??

Happy Mother's Day!

I hope all of you Mothers out in Blogland had a wonderful Mother's Day! I did!!!

My morning started out with yummies from the local bakery, including this DELICIOUS cake:

Which I did share with Thomas & Bella!

Then it was time for presents:

Bella made me this candle!

And this iris flower in her Host Nation class:

She also made me this love note:

And this banner:

And this card!

I love it!!!

Since I wasn't feeling well on Saturday, we had to run our errands today, including the PX & commissary - ugh! I had to laugh when I saw THESE on the shelf!!!  LOL! They finally made it to Germany! I did also snatch up the dark chocolate mint m&ms too!!! LOVE dark chocolate!!

Yesterday Bella & I had a "jammie day". Here is Thomas and Bella "pretend" sleeping!

Bella just being her usual, goofy self!!

Inspiration from the weirdest places...

A while ago, a friend posted an image on Facebook of a pillow she had purchased for her patio furniture. She loved it, but wanted to get more and her store was out of them. So she asked for help among her friends to see if they could check the stores in their areas. Obviously I wasn't going to be of any help in that area over here in Germany, but I thought I could make her a card that looked like it!!!

The pillow:

And I knew just the set I was going to use too!! So naturally, I went to my huge stamp binder to find it. But it wasn't there! I looked, and looked, and looked. It's hard not to get distracted when looking for one specific set, because I see so many others and think, OH! I could use that for...wait...what was I looking for?? But it still wasn't there. And I didn't know the name of it either. Ugh! I was pretty sure it had retired, so I looked in older catalogs. Found it! But still, don't you hate it when you "know" you have something, and it turns out you don't??? Very frustrating!

So off to eBay I went. And I found it. And it wasn't cheap! But still, now I would have it and not just think I had it, lol! It arrived last week and as it was only available in wood mounted, I had to convert it to clear mount. No biggie, but it just took that much longer to be able to use it. And today I did!

The card:

 Recipe:

Stamps: Flower Fancy, Teeny Tiny Wishes

Paper: Garden Green, Wild Wasabi, Whisper White

Ink: Garden Green, Wild Wasabi, Poppy Parade, Calypso Coral, Strawberry Slush, Blushing Bride

Accessories: Raspberry Ripple marker, Wild Wasabi 1 1/4" striped ribbon, metal brad, word window punch, modern label punch, dimensionals, score board

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Yesterday Thomas brought home a package (yay!!) from There She Goes Stamps. I was totally in love with their new pirate sets and the demo cards they shared!!

Shiver Me Timbers

Ship Happens

Beach Bum

Flava Sava

(Can't wait to use this one too!!)

Off to create something new...

What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday #205

Time again for that world-wide nosy into other crafter's rooms and workdesks, hosted by the ever lovely and entertaining Miss Julia of Stamping Ground! You will definitely want to visit them all, starting with our charming Hostess!!!

I'm going to go ahead and admit two things: 1) This is my desk yesterday morning, not today! Today's I'm working on something that can't be shown because the recipient reads my blog and I want it to be a surprise. 2) Although I know we are supposed to keep this 'short & sweet', this is, as usual, going to be a very photo-heavy blog post. I think just being asked to keep it short makes it wind up even longer. I'm very, very contrary, lol!!! So right....

My desk yesterday morning:

Gorgeous and fabby starter kit from IndigoBlu!

I fell in love with gilding flakes when I stumbled upon a video about them on YouTube. Wow, wow, wow!!! It was like MAGIC, and I couldn't wait to try it out myself!

I bought some from Amazon, and they arrived around Christmastime. I had been told that to use them, all I would need is a glue pad (like ink, only glue). WRONG!!! So when I finally got around to use them about a week ago, it wouldn't work with the glue pad. And nothing I else I had on hand would work either. Frustrated!!!! So I searched and searched, and finally re-discovered IndigoBlu. I paid for my kit and a couple of new pots of flakes, grumbled about the exchange rate, and waited. But not for long! They arrived in record time, and yesterday I got to make these...

YES!!!!!!

(Cue cherubs singing!)

Although I wouldn't recommend using a large background stamp for your first go at this, it worked out beautifully!!! This is a new stamp from Stampin Up's upcoming catalog, called Wildlife Meadows. It also has a matching embossing folder! I've also used SU's Naturals Ivory cardstock to stamp on for the first time. It's an amazing card stock, thicker than Whisper White and very "vintage" looking!

IndigoBlu's Lancashire Rose gilding flakes, matted with brushed gold card stock and Melon Mambo.

Lancashire Rose again, but paired with brushed gold card stock and Rich Razzleberry.

Artocoe's Sunshine gilding flakes matted with Barely Banana and Peach Parfait card stock. This one is also embossed using the matching folder.

IndigoBlu's Morris Dance gilding flakes (my favorite!!) matted with brushed gold and Taken With Teal card stock.

LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So there you have my desk for the week!! Thanks so much for the visit and I hope you'll leave a comment before you go!