Staying Home

Is really getting to be tiresome.  Seriously, we do stay home alot but spur of the moment happingings aren't happening!  Jim doesn't want to go out at all.  Just grocery stores and maybe a drug store.  And then it's in and out quickly.  

So we're following the stay in place order, washing our hands and wearing a face mask when out and about in public.  Sonsearae sent me two amusing face masks!  Frogs and Flamingoes

Oh and doctor visits.  After a year (of forgetting) Jim finally saw an oncologist for his lung cancer.  Apparently all is well but he's had an mri so they'll have a record and today a lung test.  My appointments keep being rescheduled.  At least the folks who do the scheduling have a job...I wonder if they can work from home?

Yesterday Jim was on the roof.  We bought some squirell bait and he put it in the air condintioning units.  Hopefully this will deter them from entering and chewing on the wires.  He also was pressure washing, still needs to finish that.  I can't seem to get him to part with money to have someone else do this for us.  The whole rig needs cleaning and waxing.

Tomorrow more work will be done on the truck.  We'll be going local and using our stimulus check.  Hopefully your money has arrived and you're spending it wisely if need be.  We have plenty of food and it would seem our stores are able to restock the items that panic buyers thought they needed a years worth of.  While I can't really stockpile much I do usually keep us supplied.  Our only lack was our preferred coffee creamers, but we made do.  And we now have several options in the fridge!

My goal again this year is to make 500 cards.  

21 April 2020...84 cards

Handmade Cards Because:

No one displays an email on the mantle

Or shows off a tweet on the fridge

Or saves a Facebook post in a box of treasure

This set of cards is from Jessica Taylor. It's a OSW (one sheet wonder) for the month of April.  You take a 12 x 12 sheet of double sided DSP (designer series paper), cut per the directions and get all these cards!  More if you break up the triangle pieces.  The colors are Melon Mambo ink,olive ink, black and white cardstock.  Silver thread, sequins and bling to decorate.  All supplies are Stampin' Up!

The square card is roughly 4 x 4 using both sides of the paper.  The birthday card also uses both sides of the paper.  The stamp is from a year ago, a Paper Pumpkin kit

I like how this card turned out.  Using two of the same side triangles and leaving a blank space between

Upper left I dry embossed a small piece of white cardstock to break up the exspanse of the card front. More silver thread and sequins.  On the upper right I used a die to make the honeycomb pattern and used two smaller pieces of paper.  Butterlies and bling! Another 4x4 card on the bottom

This is a pocket card!  The DSP is folded then adhered to another piece of cardstock.  The thinking of you is the insert with enough space to write a note

From five years ago. We were still in south Florida with Chris and Sonsearae 

Where were you?  We don't travel as much anymore and I do miss it.  Just don't miss the packing up and setting up it entails.  I'm pretty sure we'd like to do more traveling but I'd need a smaller rig for that!

I hope your area is a safe one.  We're pretty isolated here and our county has few cases.  The San Antonio area has it's fair share.  I wonder how long this Covid-19 will be around?  Some major areas around the country are really struggling with it.  Not to mention other countries.

All is right in our world