Busy weekend

Well the presents are wrapped, boxed and the plan is to UPS them tomorrow. I'm hoping that they will arrive while I'm in Florida at my parents. Then I can unload them and put them under the tree that I am going to help them put up after feasting on Turkey Day. Mom & Dad have chores for me to do while there. I can't wait. No internet, no cable TV, nothing but slow pace with my Mom & Dad. When my brother, SIL and niece and nephew come over that will change. And then again when my sister, BIL, and other niece come over too. Can't wait. They have dinner planned. My brother is picking me up at the airport, it's all planned. All I have to do is leave home at 3 am drive to the airport parking lot, get picked up, get checked in and get on plane. Then it's in the pilot's hands. He'd better be communicating with the man upstairs to get the plane there safely. There is a full load counting on it.

I also took pics of projects I did in OC with Celena which I promised to post. Those are here too. The pink one is an All Girl made with canvas as front and back covers with accordian tags in between. This is a Quick Quotes design. I finished my second School Book & Thankful Book (doing the backs of the books which I didn't do the first time) which were designed by my buddy Cheryl Mezzetti. So the two School Books are going to my nieces from Nebraska. The Thankful Books will be updated with pics (hopefully after my visit) and one will be MINE and the other will go back down with me for Christmas for Mom & Dad. Thought that would be great.

And not to let Jana and Rosemary outdo do me, I made another project (completely finished) but it must stay secret as it's a present for Christmas and I cannot post it or it won't be a secret! LOL!!! I'm also working on two autograph books for Disney for the two girls who are surprising their Grandparents and coming to Florida with their Mom & Dad for Christmas. But they don't know their piece of the secret and that is that they are going to Disney after Christmas Day. So Aunt Karen is making them two Disney books with 24 (yes count them) 24 tags to be autographed by their favorite characters to then be put into their books. The tags are done - now that's 24 for each of them so a total of 48 cut out, put on cardstock, cut, eyelets attached and put together with ribbon currently. Then I will give them many different ribbons to attach (Rosemary I think I may need another trip to the outlet!!!) and they will have their presents all done. The books won't be finished until I get back from Thanksgiving but the tags are done. Yippie. Only 24 pages apiece to do in their books now. Another what was I thinking -- well it's kind of like Ro, using up the supplies that I have overwhelming me in my room (or should I say overflowing into rooms!!!).

I have two other projects I want to do too but will have to see if I have the time. One is a DOG book for one of the girls at work. And the other is a BOOT book -- the theme - How to decorate my boot -- she had foot surgery and my mission is to decorate her boot for the Christmas Party on the 6th. I think I have some ribbon I can use. Hmm, not sure but think I may just be able to spare it. So with that in mind, I want to take a stocking, make it a boot and show the many ways you can decorate it with pics from the party in it. We'll see. I may be biting off more than I can chew as they say.

Well now on to the pictures. My internet shut down so I'm actually posting on Monday but all this was actually accomplished between Saturday and Sunday. I was very productive. Now I must PACK for my Florida Turkey Day venture. Can't wait!!!!!

HAPPY TURKEY DAY TO ALL!!!!!

CYA,

KTTTT

Going Green with the GS & Duff

Ok so last nite I went with two little 7 year olds to the Girl Scout's Going Green Celebration in Baltimore (and their moms too). Very cool event teaching the scouts to learn to live with the earth, save the earth, understand how things affect the earth, etc. Plus we got to eat lots of things while hanging out. Most of the stuff was made with GS cookies, like a lemon ginger dressing, a to die for chicken pot pie with trefoils as the "breading" (and boy was it delicious!!!), another pie that was sinfully delicious from Dangerously Delicious in Baltimore made with my lemon sandwich cookies too. And the piece DE Resistance, Duff Goldman & the Charm City Cake Designers Girl Scout Cookie Cakes. They had a Samoa Cookie, Tagalong, Lemon Sandwich, and plain cakes in Tagalong flavors for all to eat. They made chocolate cakes too. They were absolutely fantastic and looked just like the real thing just a lot larger. Duff was signing autographs but I never got up in the line so just stood over shoulders and took pics. Here are a couple of them for your viewing pleasure! Mmmmmmmm good. No calories either!!!

OMG what was I thinking?????

I got my glasses. Ha, ha!!! The sun glasses are GREAT! You don't even know you are wearing anything. They are titanium, pinky-purple cool thin frames with polarized gray lenses. And the lenses WOW they really can make coke bottles lighter and less visible now. How cool is that!!!!! For some of us, really, really great!!!!! Now everybody can't tell how bad our eyeballs really are.

My regular day time glasses are FUNKY or as the lady told me "FUN". Yeah they are fun alright. They are plastic, a little heavier than the titanium ones but very krazy, off the wall Karen. Funky, groovy, Lucy in the Skies, type funny 60s type secretary glasses. I can't tell if they remind me of an old timey secretary/school marm scolding the men she works for because they didn't use proper grammar (and yes I WAS a secretary!!!) or more like Lucy on one of her normal nutty days with Ethel. I LIKE them but they take a little getting used to, not only because of the new frames, the shape and color but the prescription where I can actually SEE things and READ things. They seem very strong but not really because that's the way I should have been seeing all this time. Who knew!!!! So now I must take pics of me with my new looks so you can critique or laugh or just do BOTH which is what I do each time I put them on!!!! Ha, ha!!! Funny but very cool.


Tonight I am going with friends and their daughters to a "Green Event for the Girl Scouts" in Baltimore. Why you say?? Because one of the guests of honor is none other than the "ACE OF CAKES HIMSELF", yes the owner of Charm City Cakes in Baltimore, the famous DUFF!!!! I expect to get my picture taken with him (and the Girl Scouts too of course) while there. I will post once I have something to upload. It will be a long, wet drive home unfortunately as it's really nasty out there now.

Stay tuned for more in the life of Karen. She's just full of surprises!!!! And lots of other stuff too..........


Cya,
KTTTT

The WHO in Concert

Monday, November 3rd at Verizon Center in DC. I left work to drive acorss town to the Shady Grove Metro Station only to turn around and go downtown for the anticipated concert. Along with the Redskin fans also taking the train to FedEx Field for a Monday Nite Game. Yippie!!! But I ventured out to go see Roger Daltrey and Peter Townshend and the rest of the gang play DC. It started out with a band from Canada who said "What the fxxx man, we are opening for THE WHO!""" The center applauded but really just wanted to get them off the stage and bring on THE WHO. So around 9 PM, Roger, Pete, and the others came out on stage and started their concert. They actually played until 11 so we got quite the show. Who are you..... Behind Blue Eyes......Pinball Wizard....My Generation....The Seeker.....Amazing Journey.....See Me-Feel Me.....Sister Disco..... and many more. I kept thinking "Boy they look old". Then I realized they ARE old but they still put on one hell of a show!!!! Ringo's son played the drums. No one missed a beat. The bands coordination was excellent. Roger swung his microphone over his head during almost the entire concert, catching it as always!!! So for nearly 2 hours we ALL enjoyed ROCKIN with THE WHO. And I do mean ROCKIN!!!!! Young and Old alike, there was something for everyone. And without the smoke & smells from old days. They came out to do the encore to the light of cell phones -- no more lighters today. Even though I was in the nose-bleed section, it was totally worth every penny!!! Ro you HAVE to go with me next time!!!!!

Ok so I admit

that I haven't posted lately and really haven't done much scrappin since OC. Well not much of anything actually but have been reading others blogs, working, running errands, etc. I am taking a class at my LSS this coming Saturday with a CI person so it should be fun. Something to look forward to this Saturday.


I still have to take pics of the three projects that I actually finished at the OC Scrap and still have to post. Will try and do that later this week. We'll see.....


Got to run but wanted to post something in November!!! LOL!!!

16 days til I fly to FLA for Turkey Day!!!! Yeah!!!!


Cya,
KTTTT