This is a LO I made of my daughter (second from the left in the large photo) getting ready for and performing at her very fist violin concert. I searched high and low for a nice violin sticker and couldn't find one that I liked. I wanted it large, but not overwhelming and I didn't want one too tiny.

I made this violin and bow on the cricut design studio using the George cart. It has two mats. They are labled with the colors I used. I offset the bottom black piece so that it would give the violin more depth. I added a little color and stickles to the top. The strings were drawn in with a ruler.

Here is the cut file http://www.mediafire.com/?uqmymozqxwy. My daughter liked it so much she wants to make one for her music teacher. If we make cards using it I will post a picture of them too. Thanks for looking.

I don't know why I like this layout. It's not really a fun happy memory for me, the pictures aren't really good and Brandon looks very sad, but I do like the layout. This happened two summer ago. My neighbors little boy broke his arm on the playground in my back yard trying to cross the monkey bars. It happened so quick, we had a houseful of kids and we were caught unprepared and began scrambling around like chickens without heads. It was very chaotic...to say the least. I'm sure I will remember it long after Brandon forgets all about it.

Sharing a card that I made for a message board friend who is going through some rough times. This was the first opportunity I had to use this new stamp set. It is made by Hero Arts and is called playful animals. It features quite a few animals, including this sweet owl and a handful of sentiments. Just because I could I ran the background through the cuttlebug and threw some stickles onto the owls belly.

My dh had to go to work on Easter Sunday night. He works very hard and isn't appreciated. A problem at a lot of companies these days. After the kids went to bed I did this page and I really like how it turned out. For that reason alone I decided to post it. How did you spend Easter Sunday night?

Me and the family at Easter, just before church.

Did you ever really miss talking to someone and out of the blue they call you up and you think "How did you know that I needed to talk to you?" That happened to me today when my dear friend Sam called. We haven't seen each other in five years. How can that be? We talk every couple of months, and we email more often than that, but nothing beats a phone call. The sound of someone's voice from miles away. Oh how I'd love to see her again. Our kids barely remember each other and they used to hang out together all the time, nearly every day. I've never met her youngest two and she hasn't met my baby and he's four already. How time flies. We are going to try to come up with a halfway point from my house and her house and meet up this summer sometime. I'd really like that. Nothing beats a long weekend with a dear friend. Call someone up today that you haven't talked to in a while. You'll be glad you did.