Good Morning!!!

It is a beautiful day here in New England and, hopefully, our first day without thunder and lightening! We have had some pretty bad storms and they knocked out my internet connection for a couple of days! It is pretty interesting around here when we have a storm...Bogie, the Beagle, sleeps through them but I swear he snores louder (maybe to drown out the noise), Bonnie, the Jack, hides in the computer cabinet and trembles, Lily runs from window to window chasing the lightening and Lola, ever the aristo'cat', just seems bored by the whole show!

I will be ending the April/May/June memberships today since I have posted links for NEW memberships in the Membership Information page. Yep, it is that time! 6 month memberships are being offered again (and will not be offered again until the end of December) and of course, the 3 month membership. Please make sure you read thoroughly and follow the steps I have outlined to make my life and your life easier! I hope you have all enjoyed your memberships and will consider resubscribing!

The WEDDING CONTEST winner is Carole N. for her son's wedding! The colors are pink/blue/lavender which should be very pretty. I have started the kit and hope to have many of the elements in gray tone also so that you can re-color to suit your needs! So hold on to those wedding pics for awhile longer...hopefully, I will have the kit ready in a couple of weeks and then we will set up for the quickpage exchange! Congrats, Carole! I will be in touch!

Things here are going pretty well. Much happier and optimistic (although still cautious). Did get some bad news the other day for my friend that has been having that horrendous run of bad luck with her sons...her Dad had a heart attack and is not doing very well. He is 84 and has a bad heart to begin with. So, once again, I am asking for prayers to be sent her way. This poor gal...she just can't seem to catch a break. Although her son is now in a rehab in Florida and does seem to be doing very well. She had sent her hubby down there for Father's Day to spend some time with him and although he cannot find a job, he is still clean and seems to have his head on straight. He would like to stay down there which, although I know she will miss him, might be good to get him away from his "friends" up here.

Shame on me! Lisa had sent in 2 QP's that I did upload but then forgot to post the previews for you. She used Celebrate Life and are in 8.5x11 format. The link for the QP's is in the margin over there to the right! Thank you, Lisa! (forgot to activate them...all fixed!)

Let's see....what else???? For some of you newer readers but Members and non-Members, there is a link in the side bar for a kit called Snickery-Doo. This was a celebration kit the I did when I hit 500,000 hits to my blog and it is huge and it is FREE! Older readers will already have it but if you don't, it is well worth downloading! There is over 500 pieces in this kit!

Still am in the middle of painting. Haven't really made any progress!!! LOL! That ADHD is rearing it's annoying head again! I have to patch a couple of holes where we took out some heating pipes from the old radiators and not quite sure how to do it so I keep putting it off. Plus, it has been so nice during the day that it seems the gardens keep calling me outside to "putz". Unfortunately, the rain makes the grass grow too fast but it has been good for the flowers! Except for the peonies! Why is it that as soon as they bloom, we get hit with rain and wind so that it beats the blooms to bits? Seems like it happens every year. Such a shame since, IMHO they are the most beautiful flower! Everything though seems loaded with bloom this year and it is so pretty!

Guess that is about it....oh, wait! Would you like a kit? Let me twist your arm a bit and see if you answer yes....LOL! Here is Midnight Rose ( now that I look at it there might be someone out there that might be able to use this one for a wedding that they have coming up....Pam...are you listening?)

Member's Kit

And, of course, some quickpages...

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And, the sampler...

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