Always Thankful!

Grateful!  This is the time of year for reflecting upon all the people we are grateful for touching and enriching our lives.  It's also a wonderful time of year as the seasons are changing and we are able to use more richer color tones than we do all year. 

Saturday I had my Harvest 10-10.  The next several cards that I show over the next week or so (more like so) will be cards from the Harvest 10-10.  It was a fun afternoon of stamping! This image and sentiment is from the Always Thankful stamp set in the Holiday Mini.  I used three colors:  Old Olive, Cajun Craze and Rich Razzleberry.  The colors on my monitor don't do this card justice so I hope it looks much better on yours!  LOL!!!  I used the Lace Ribbon Punch for the center strip in Cajun Craze.  Look at the pretty frame around Grateful!  That is from the Sizzlit Tags set in the Idea Book & Catalogue.  I stamped Grateful on Ivory and then used the Extra Wide Oval Punch to punch it out and it fits perfectly into the tag.  I'm lovin' it!  I used the Stampin' Write Markers to color in the wheelbarrow.  Oh!  The background is Versamark using the Confetti stamp set little leaf pattern.   FTL!

TJ is over his first quarter at the High School and he did really well.  He achieved High Honors with his all A's!  We are so proud of him!  He loves math and thinks he wants to be a math teacher.  Which totally amazes me.  If I don't have a calculator I'm stumped!  Hi Dad is good in math when it comes to figuring out concrete, how much insulation is needed for the ceiling and that sort of stuff.  I guess we compliment each other! 

Isabella has been quite the naughty kitty lately.  I'm not sure what has gotten into her.  Someone gave TJ a little wooden cross on purple yarn - like a necklace.  I hung it over his picture in the living room.  I also have little snapshots that we get in the mail from family stuck in the frame against the glass.  Well, Saturday I was vacuuming for the Harvest10-10 and I found the cross on the floor.  I didn't think much of it and hung it back up.  Well, Saturday night Issy got up on the stand and stood up on her hind legs and pawed her way up the wall stretching as far as she could and started batting at the cross.  Well, we got her down and end of story.  End of story until Sunday night.  We were watching our Sunday night show and she starts in again.  Well we got her to quit and then it was bed time.  We just crawl into bed and get all hunkered down and it started.  I could hear the little cross bumping the wall and the frame.  Jim gets up and puts in the drawer of the stand and crawls back into bed.  Then I heard this "shflip - shflip" sound and that sound was those little pictures being pawed at.  So this time I get up and put the little pictures in the stand.  She finally got bored and went to sleep!  Ugh!  But, she is so cute!  Cute as a button!

Well shower time and soon to call it a night!

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