Card Swap Club

As an avid card maker and scrapbooker, it was not a difficult task for my friend, Marilee, to convince me to join a card swap group. It has been a while since I have been able to find the time to sit down and actually get creative on my cards so I thought this would be a good motivator to get me back in the game. I have had about 2 months to get a design created and 14 cards made in time for the 5/1 deadline for having them post marked. Do you think I could have been organized and done this sooner? Of course not! I waited until 8:00 PM last night to even clear off the craft table and check to see what paper I had that inspired me. Needless to say I finished my last card at about 11:30 PM last night and mailed them off this morning. It may not be my most creative card, but it is certainly very Cee Cee. I guess I should get started on the next set that is due in July but most likely, I will be figuring out what paper, ribbon and embellishments I have at 6 pm on June 30th.

Note: if you double click on the image, you can see an enlarged image of the outside and inside of the card.

Celebrating Munchkin Birthdays

Today I took Spidey, the Jock, Ranger and the Princess to Amazing Jakes. Each year I take them for an outing to celebrate their birthday and this year they wanted to go to Amazing Jake's so we did a combined day celebrating 2 late and 2 early birthdays. Thank goodness Kris agreed to go too, otherwise I would have been outnumbered. I like to make sure each kid has a hand to hold on to. After having lunch consisting of mac n' cheese and pizza while watching Shrek II in the movie room, we headed out for fun on the rides.

Spidey was mostly interested in playing skee ball so he could get lots of tickets. I must say he was a little disappointed when I told him all the tickets were being pooled together and they would split them equally. I will never understand why kids go crazy for the little junk toys they get from these places. He did enjoy being the master spinner on the teacups keeping the others laughing the entire time.

The Jock liked playing all the games, even the ones that did not give tickets. He was not so daring on the rides. He liked the train ride and the teacups was about as wild as he would get. From the smile on his face, something tells me he will be riding Harley's with his Uncle Shaun when he gets older.

The Princess was a wild woman, riding the roller coaster which went forwards and backwards and was surprisingly fast. She convinced both Kris and I to take her on this ride. She started off slow with the merry-go-round and quickly advanced to "look no hands" on the coaster.

The real daredevil of the group was Ranger. He tried everything from the merry-go-round to the teacups, to the frogger and roller coaster to laser tag and rock climbing. He was going to get in every possible thing he could.

At the end of the day we had ice cream cones, cashed in our tickets and everyone went home happy. As they were wishing they had a birthday every weekend, I was happy they only happen once a year.