Showing posts with label misc. Show all posts
Showing posts with label misc. Show all posts

Thursday, February 13, 2014

Winter Wonderland!

And the snow just keeps coming! Some area's have 16 inches already, I think we have between 14-16 inches. It has lighten up for a while, but will curve back around and dump another 6 inches or so on us. It is very pretty out and I'm not going any where today, so let it snow! lol Just wanted to share some of this beautiful snow with you all. I don't mind the snow as long as I don't have to be out in it, but I am so ready for spring to get here. I think I have had my fill of the snow! And what is so funny is today is mine and hubby's anniversary. The day we got married it snowed and we had to make our own tracks in the snow to the magistrates office as the road weren't even plowed yet! Very fitting to have snow today. Hubby told me that day 21 years ago that it was good luck if it snowed on your wedding day. It must have been because we have had a blessed 21 years together and I'm looking forward to 21+ years more! I hope where ever you are you are warm. If you are shoveling snow please be careful and don't over do it!! If you have an older home, check those roofs, they are having roofs collapsing from the weight of the snow and power outages are happening as well. So just beware and if you hear any funny cracking sounds, get out of the way and if you lose power I hope you have a generator or can so to a center to keep warm!! Better safe than sorry. Enjoy the pics everyone and come back tomorrow as I will have two posts for you tomorrow! Crafty hugs, Brenda


Back of our house looking out to the pool and fields


 Looking over into our neighbor's back yard.

Our neighbor's house. The '96 blizzard the snow drifts were up to his windows.

Looking out front down our road and yes there is a road in there.

Across the road from us at my BIL's house. 

Looking up towards the farm on the side of our driveway side of our house.

Thursday, February 6, 2014

Wrapped in Snow and Ice, oh my!

Hello my crafty friends, I hope you all are staying warm this cold wintery night. We like many parts of the country are getting hit with snow and ice. Monday schools were closed due to the snow storm. It was a wet and heavy snow, but the kind the snow plowing people like because it is easy to plow. Last night we had freezing rain and it wrapped the snow covered trees in ice. Well you know what happens when there is ice! Yes, people lost electric, trees limbs were breaking and falling on the electric wires and once again school was cancelled for yet another day. My son is right, he won't get to graduate until June at this rate. They have had a lot of missed days because of the weather. But usually our school graduations are held in June anyway, but this year was the first class that was supposed to graduate in May. Don't think that will happen now, so we will see. Anyway I wanted to share some snowy and icy pics with you all because even though it's a PITA is sure is pretty!

On our way to chemo on Monday, going out our road. It had only been snowing for about 2 hours or so. TIP-You can click on the pics to enlarge them. 



This is what the main roads looked like, nope no plows were out yet. 


Our snowy view out the chemo room window. So beautiful!

The roads were good coming home from chemo, until we reached our road. Wasn't long though that the snow plow can through and opened our road too. Hubby used to open our road as it used to be days before they got to the secondary roads in the past.


Now fast forward to today. We had to go back to the chemo center to get hubby's pump taken off. But the roads were totally clear by the time we left. Our driveway was another problem. lol This is out the back door and even though it was nasty, the iced covered trees were so beautiful.

 Our poor pine tree. It doesn't look it but they were large limbs that had broken from the weight of the ice.



DS's card wrapped in ice.

On the way to the cancer center.


 At our house after the sun came out in the afternoon and was shinning off the ice covered trees was like glittering diamonds! Isn't it so beautiful?!


I hope you enjoyed looking at our snowy iced wrapped world. Now we are waiting the "big" one for the weekend. A Nor'easter that is supposed to dump 30 inches of snow on us. We will see what we actually get. lol Crafty hugs, Brenda







Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Thank You for Your Prayers!!

Hello my crafty friends, I just wanted to pop on here and thank you all for the prayers you sent my way.  We weathered Sandy out and came out unscathed so your prayers did the job!!  But....not everyone else was a blessed as we were.  As of now there are 7.8 million people on the East Coast who are without power, we didn't lose our power. There are 1.3 million of people in PA without power, 29 are dead across 8 states and including Cuba and Jamaica, Sandy killed over 50 people because of her. All my children that live in PA were safe and sound thank God.  My other children kept in touch the whole time checking to see how we were fairing.  Life is now clean up for many, many people.  Our church picnic woods took a hit, but it is low and always takes a hit from any flooding.  This time though a tree blow over uprooting and fell on an out building.  So damage, but minor compared to what it could have been.  Here are a few pics.  The picnic woods is just down the road from us about 2-2 1/2 miles.

Stop sign at my local Food Lion

The uprooted tree




This pic is of the road that my husband works on which is right next to the picnic grounds. The road is the white spot at the right back of the pic by the tree line.  The Conwago creek is right on the picnic grounds and everytime we have flooding this is what it looks like.  Last fall the church had refridgerators float down into the corn field across the road.  They went under the bridge and kept going.


I'm sure you have seen pics at what Sandy did to NYC and Alantic City NJ, as you know Sandy was the perfect storm and was fueled by other weather systems.  We have never experienced anything like this where I live.  My family and I rode out Hurricane Charlie years ago at my cousins house in Mrytle Beach and that was enough for me. lol  So this is my second hurricane with the only diffence being we never lost electric and got no damage at our house or on our road.  So thank you, thank you for thinking of us and praying for us!  You are all awesome!!!  Oh and this was after the water receeded some!  Crafty hugs to you all-Brenda




Friday, October 26, 2012

The Blessed Family

Hi crafty friends, I have a card for you that I really, really struggled with and I'm not happy with it at all, but what is done is done.  First off you know that I am trying to learn how to color with my Spectrum Noir markers.  Yea, the key work is trying!!  This is going to take a while to teach an old dog a new trick. lol  Then instead of cutting my image out with a circle like I wanted to, I cut the entire thing out with the Nestie that wanted as the background like a dummy.  Now that I've thought about it I could have still cut it out with a circle Nestie, but who said I could think?!  I tried to "fix" it by putting on Antique Line distress ink on the background while in the Nestie and should have stopped there, but then decided to put some Iced Spruce too, but that didn't go so well for me either. Sigh So now I'm not happy with the coloring, sponging, or the way I have cut it out.  Next I searched every piece of paper I own for the "right" paper to go with this image.  Now let me tell you I don't have a ton of paper but have my fair share of stacks and lose paper.  Not finding any Christmas (I don't have much Christmas paper) paper that looked good with the image I finally settled on what is on my card.  I love the paper and it went the best with the image.  Not exactly what I call Christmas, but....it the only thing I liked.  So I guess I will let you see my pitiful card now and of course it has been very cloudy and overcast here for two days and Sandy is come to boot, so my pics aren't even very good. lol  My card certainly leaves a LOT to be desired.  Anyway I am entering it in "Rudolph Day" over at Stamping for Pleasure.  Why you might ask after looking at it?   Just for the heck of it and as my teen tell me, because I can.  lol




Now I hope I haven't made you tear your eyes out and if you did, my apologies!!  Back to your regularly scheduled blogs that have something worth while in looking at. 


Sunday, February 12, 2012

Cards for Emily Day 2 Blog Hop!

Scrappin' For Kenzie Blog Hop


Welcome to the Cards for Emily Blog Hop Day 2!!!

This is a 2 day hop so be sure to go back to Day 1 to hop through yesterday's posts for some more inspiration! :)
If you came from Beckie - http://justbcreativecrazy.blogspot.com/ then you are at the right place! If you just happened across my blog and are interested in participating then start back at the beginning at Michelle's blog at Scrappin' For Kenzie!

Emily is a sweet little 6 year old girl that has battled Leukemia since before Chrstmas 2011. She has had to endure more pain in a few short months than most adults in their entire life. She has gone from Leukemia to Rotavirus, to pancreatitis, to kidney stones, then to shingles, not to mention over 300 pokes in her tiny little body! From chemo to blood draws to feeding tube. Her bone marrow is finally at 0.00% so she is now in remission and back at home! She is still going through 7 different chemotherapy treatments but is finally doing better! To read her full story and updates please visit the original Cards for Emily info post HERE

For this hop all we ask is that you hop through the list, then when you are done, link up your card for Emily back at Michelle's blog at Scrappin' For Kenzie. The link up tool is in the left hand side bar under "Cards for Emily". You will see her picture right above it.

REMEMBER: There is no requirement to leave comments or even hop through all of the blogs if you don't have time. There will be no personal candy at any of the stops along the way. That way you can get maximum inspiration to make your own card and have enough time to link it up and send it away!

There WILL be however a giveaway to one lucky winner that links up their card by February 29th 2012. You can link up as many cards/projects that you would like. The more you link up and send the more greater your chance is of winning a.....

$20 gift certificate to

 Their etsy store has over 100 stamps to choose from!

Now on to my card for Emily!

My card base came from Birthday Bash and my wagon and sentiment came from Just Because Cart  I inked my sentiment with Tim Holtz distress ink, Vinage Photo. I used white stickles on "pulling" and "you" on the sentiment and the highlight on the wagon. I think I will add a bow on it yet, it just looks like something is missing. lol  I think that will finish it off then.




Thank you sooooo much for joining us in this great cause for Cards For Emily!! We REALLY REALLY hope you will participate and link up your card to put a smile on this very beautiful, very deserving little girl that Michelle is honored to call her niece. :)
Your next hop in the line up for day 2 is Lisa - http://indymermaid.blogspot.com/

Happy Scrapping! Hope to see your card soon!

Here is the line-up for Day 2 in case you get lost along the way!

Michelle - http://scrappinforkenzie.blogspot.com
Faith Abigail - http://www.faithabigaildesigns.com/
Amanda - http://amandascraftsandmore.blogspot.com/
Lisa - http://lisascreativeniche.blogspot.com/
Elizabeth - http://visionsofpaper.blogspot.com/
Marie -  http://ethansimprints.blogspot.com/
Suzanne - http://cricutcraftingrammy.blogspot.com/
Tina - http://www.teenabugg.blogspot.com/
Beckie - http://justbcreativecrazy.blogspot.com/
Brenda - http://friendscraftinwithfriends.blogspot.com/
Lisa - http://indymermaid.blogspot.com/
Jessie - http://edoggsugarlipsandprincessbuttercup.blogspot.com/

Visit Michelle when you are all the way through or jump here now to link up your card!
Michelle - http://scrappinforkenzie.blogspot.com