spring buds

I am loving spring -- although it has been a rather cool spring. I love the flower buds on the trees before the leaves come. My hubby and I have been going for more and walks lately. This week we went three times. Our goal is 4 times a week so we are slowly getting there. It is much easier to go for a walk when it is nice out. We live in a climate that gets a lot of rain but as long as I have a hood and an umbrella then I am fine. We rarely get snow and I have to say == I love that!!. That is me under one of the trees on our walk.

Here are a couple more pictures that I took during one of out latest walks.

I am hoping to take a few pictures of the magnolia trees as those ones are my favorite.

The past week I have been busy making cards. I made this one for my neice who is turning 8 and I liked it so much I decided to make one for my etsy shop as well. I added a touch of glitter and it really finished the card off. You can't really tell by the picture (the glitter) but it shows up in real life.

I also have been creating mini little gift cards. I will be posting them in my shop soon. I think I am going to sell them in groups of 10. They are all different == 5 will be plain and 5 will have either "hello" or "thinking of you" stamped on them. I think they make great little cards to add to gift bags -- especially if one is recycling the bag and the little taggy has been used or is no longer attatched.

Tonite we are going to a comedy improv. I think it will be fun -- at least I hope it will be. It is based sorta on that television show that used to be on "whose line is it anyways?". I love to laugh and I am anticipating a good time.

Blessings ~ Shelley

mama mia

Well hubby and I went to see the musical mama mia and it was great. He surprised me on valentines day with the tickets as he knew that I had always wanted to go to it. What a sweet guy!!!! He took the day off of work so we made an evening out of it and drove to Langley for an early dinner at the olive garden (very yummmmmy!!!) and then proceeded to vancouver for the show. We even were able to find parking only abouty 6 blocks away so that was a good thing too. If you have never seen mama mia and ever get the opportunity to go then I highly recommend it. The story line was great -- the dancing was great -- the music and singing was awesome. My hubby even loved it and we both laughed through-out. At the end the whole audience was on its feet swaying and dancing and singing to the music. I was telling my dad about what we thought about it (he and my mom saw it last year) and how when I was a kid my best friend and I used to pretend we were abba and would dress up and sing --- he responded by saying , "you mean they go that far back" -- lol -- I don't think he even realized what he said.

I am half way through a book that I started reading the other day. It is called Crystal Lies By Melody Carlson. So far it is really good. It is about a mom dealing with her sons addiction and really how addiction effects the whole family -- including the one who is the addict. I will most likely be done it tomorrow or the next day.

I have been doing quite a bit of crochet lately -- basically making face scrubbies. I have a hard time just sitting and watching television so I usually end up working on a crochet project. I have been using these scrubbies for a while now and really enjoy them. They are soft enough that they don't iritate my skin yet still clean the make-up off. A friend of mine had me make her some to use when she is bathing her new baby. I listed a couple of sets on etsy the other day and have another set that I will be listing soon. These lime green and white ones are my current favorite as I love the colors. I have always been a green girl -- maybe because my eyes are green.

I guess I should get and start dinner -- on tonites menu is baked spagehetti and garlic toast with a salad. Something relatively easy -- my kind of cooking! I still haven't gotten around to baking a new cookie recipe that I recently found -- peanut butter with chunks of chocolate -- but hope to get to that soon --- if they turn out I may even post the recipe.

Blessings ~ Shell