Monday, February 22, 2010

Arizona Photo's......

More photo's from our stay in Arizona.....hope your enjoying them.
Most of us have heard of stores called Build A Bear well in Glendale we found a store to build cars. Since our grandsons love the Sion car we build one for each of them as shown in these photo's. The last photo is the finish product of one of the cars.

The next photo's were taken at Boyce Thompson Arboretum. Here we hiked for several hours and enjoyed the scenery with my cousin and her husband.








Sunday, February 14, 2010

The New Rawhide....

When we lived in Arizona we often took our guest to Rawhide for a day of experiencing the OLD WEST. Since our last visit there they have moved and expanded what they have to offer for entertainment. They have gun fights on the street, shows, donkey rides and one can get a steak dinner and view an old western movie as one eats, plus the many gift shops of western wear. They now have a small museum on the premises which I posted one picture of a coin operated machine that plays a violin. I thought this was so unique for I never saw one before. The day we went the AGRA met at Rawhide, no opinion on this. The other photo's, are of me that my husband took as we toured the grounds.




Happy Valentine's Day to all. Sorry no cards to show you lately hopefully I'll find time this week to make some.

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Howdy!




The above photo's are from a dinner show extravaganza that we attended called the Howdy Show! My husband got picked to be on stage with the actors, which caused major hysteria.








All the above pictures are from our trip up to Superstition mountain and the Lost Dutchman Museum and Ghost Town.

Saturday, February 6, 2010

What A Fun Filled Week....




Below each picture will be a synopsis of the picture....
My cousin and her husband arrived at the resort with their 5th wheel. They will be staying with us for a month at the resort.
The resort had a party and since it was a baby sitting day we took our granddaughter to the party, breaking her in early....
Here I am dressed to party :)
Papa and Addison taking a walk around the grounds.
Here we took a tour of an Air Force Museum and we had a chance to climb up into a B17 aircraft. Naturally I had to climb up and get my cousin to follow suit. The quarters in the craft were very tight but we got a good feel what our soldiers were exposed to when they flew these planes.

Here we are playing Boccie Ball and teaching the game to my cousin and her husband.
Here Linda and I are posing on a trip to Schnepf Farms for the Peach Blossom Festival this week. The owner of the farm gave us a tour of the whole operation and the history of the farm which has been in the family for generations.
Hubby and I pose in front of one of the trees.

These two pictures are of another adventure we went on this week. Garmin steered us wrong and we followed its directions only to land in a barren field and be told that " you have arrived at your destination". Well our destination was the Queen Creek Olive Mill that was holding a festival. Do you see a festival in those pictures?
We finally did find the place and had a tour of the mill and enjoyed samples of olives and the oils they made.
Here we are at the Olive Mill sampling some wine.

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Instructions For An Easel Card








Recipe:
Cut one 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" piece out of white card stock
Cut one 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" piece out of patterned paper
Cut one 4 1/4" x 11" piece out of white card stock
Cut out 2" x 3 3/4" piece of orange paper and out of white paper a slightly small piece 1 3/4 x 3 1/2 approximately
3D dots
Ribbon to match

Instructions:
Glue printed paper to 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 white card stock
Tie ribbon around the bottom edge of card
Fold remaining white card stock in half to make a 4 1/2 X 5 1/2 card.
Fold the front of the card back to 2 3/4" from the top
Glue printed/white card stock to folded back part of the white card stock
Stamp greeting onto white cream card stock
Glue the white card stock to the orange card stock
Using pop dots /mounting tape, center and adhere layered orange card stock 1 inch from bottom of card inside.
The greeting area will hold up the front of the card to form an easel.

Thanks to Lesi Spafford (Love Note Class) for these instructions.

Friday, January 15, 2010

Use of Small Stamps


Stamps: Whipper Snapper and Impression Obsession

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

A Day of Riding....


Today we rode to Superstition Mountain
Pictures are of places we stopped to see along the way
Ghost Town and Superstition Mountain Museum








Pictures below Arizona sky...