Flight Case

Well we ventured out into the cold on Saturday night to the Richmond Tavern to check out my friend Mike's new band Flight Case.

They were awesome. I was quite surprised..cause..well I am a country bumpkin and I listen to country music, but these guys were awesome. Don (lead singer) his vocals were wicked and their cover of Come Together by the Beatles was AMAZING. I was also surprised cause I thought they would be doing covers of tunes, but other than the Beatles song, it was all original which was nice for a change!

Frankie Whyte, a band from Toronto played before Flight Case and they were very good as well. It was cool to see a female lead singer, guitar player for a change!

So needless to say, I didn't get too much stampin done this weekend...I did get some done, just haven't got around to getting it ready to post yet! Hopefully tomorrow!

Happy Monday, I hope yours is good..

Chow for now

Jacqui

Athletic Calendar

I'm very excited that I am still getting orders for my little CD case calendars! I got an order yesterday for an athletic one for a female teacher. She wanted a small one which can be a bit more of a challenge because many of the images I have are too big for the small calendars. I used the Baseball Hanna image and she just fits on the paper. I think it looks okay...I wasn't sure if the sports balls were too big compared to the image of Hanna but I think it looks okay. Hopefully she will like it.

I think we are finally into winter. We have had a very cold and windy couple of days. I'm not sure I am ready for my winter commuting....but I will keep my fingers crossed we have a mild and short winter this year!

Chow for now.

Jacqui

Happy Birthday Jeff!

Today is my brother-in-law Jeff's birthday. He is a great guy and I wish that we lived closer to he and my sister so we could hang out more often. I remember a March Break when I was still in high school, I went to Arizona to visit. One of the highlights of the visit was going down to the park and playing Frisbee golf! I was not very good, but it was fun! He also took me to a Blue Jays baseball game and drove up this mountain so we could look down on the lights of Arizona. I hope to get there again soon to see their new house. I miss them all very much.

Hope your day is great Jeff!

I had a great mail day yesterday! I got another card in the mail. This one was for an "anything goes" challenge. This card was made by Ida Krause. I love it! It is so much fun!

Chow for now,

Jacqui

Holiday Challenge Card

Yesterday I had a nice treat when I came home from work. A card in the mail. I love to get cards in the mail. It is so nice to get something that is not a bill.

I participated in a challenge on one of the lists that I am a part of. The challenge was to make a holiday card. It could be any holiday we wanted. I received this beautiful card from Charlotte Brown.



We got a bit of snow today. I figured we would because the mechanic got the wrong part for the car so I didn't get my windshield washer reservoir that got damaged by the raccoon fixed on Friday like it was supposed to be....I had to wait until today. I said to my hubby......"it's gonna snow or be crappy enough that I will need windshield washer....since the car does not have any". He assured me that it was not supposed to snow......yeah well...we live in Canada and it's December. Sure enough..it snowed a bit. Not a lot.....just enough to make the highway and city streets wet enough that when a car was in front of you or when you met a transport on the highway......it sprayed dirty crap all over the windshield.....if I didn't have bad luck...I wouldn't have any luck at all!
We did get it back to the shop and they had received the part it needed, so hopefully it's good to go for a while.

I caught a little clip of these guys on tv the other night. I can't find the one that I saw on tv, but it's still comical.


Chow for now,

Jacqui

Dennis the Menace

I watched the movie Dennis the Menace while I was stamping yesterday. What a hoot. The little guy that plays Dennis in the movie is just like Dennis in real life. Check out his audition for the movie!!





As I said yesterday, I have another calendar to post for you all to see. This is another one for my boss. He asked me to make one for his girlfriend who likes dance etc.

This is the one I came up with. Hopefully it is not too plain.

This just in....I just gave my boss the two calendars I made for him....this dance one and the cheerleading one....he loved them!!! Whew!! I still have a job!!!!!!

Chow for now

Jacqui

Go Team!

I took a bunch of my calendars into work to sell and I got an order for some specific ones. My boss asked me to make one for his daughter who was into cheerleading. I looked through a bunch of my stamp sets and I didn't have any cheerleading stamps or anything I could tweak to make into a cheerleader. Thankfully my downline Laurie had a cheerleading set! So I whipped up this calendar for my boss's daughter. I struggled with the pom pom's until I went digging into my cupboard and found some white pom pom's. I put a few drops of Tempting Turquoise re-inker into a dish and then dropped in the white pom pom's and changed their colour!

Then I used Crystal Effects to attach them to the image.

I'm happy with the way it turned out. Hopefully my boss will like it too.

Check back tomorrow to see the other one I made for my boss!

Chow for now,

Jacqui

Straight No Chaser....

Nope...I wasn't drinking while I was stampin'!!!! I was watching PBS again. Man they have some good shows on there! Have you heard of the group Straight No Chaser? Well they are awesome! No instruments other than their voices. Check this out....

They had a holiday special on PBS last night. It was awesome..and comical too.
I'd love to see them in concert sometime.
So another calendar.....are you getting sick of seeing these yet? Well I couldn't forget our Goth friends when I was making calendars!!


Chow for now,
Jacqui