A big red house

So as many of you know my husband and I bought our first home this year. What you probably don't know is that I had such a sweet realtor help us and she was so kind and dropped off a Christmas gift before the holidays. I put it under the tree and opened some smelly good stuff on Christmas morning. It was a little smelly good kit, you know those new stick things, it also had a candle and a car smelly good hanger. I just thought it was so sweet and above and beyond. She had already given us a cute little snuggly blanket when we purchased our house. I love to use it to snuggle up in front of the fire place.

Anyway I wanted to make a her a nice card to say thank you and I came up with this card

I was inspired by Debbie Olsen's card Love is in the Air her designs are always so fresh and fun.

I decided to keep the card pretty mono chromatic feeling.

Materials are all CTMH:
Cardstock - Colonial White, Tulip
Kit - That's Amore, That's Amore My Stickease
Ink - Tulip, Chocolate
Stamps: Neighborhood, Say it in Style, Made with Love

The pony couldn't keep up...

As many of you know we have been on the move. Well we have been having mail problems spaciffically we did not recieve mail for almost a whole month. Wait actually it was about a month. It all started when we moved for the first time this year from our rental. What happened is we thought we were going to buy one house and ended up living in it for about 3 months. It fell though...good thing...super cute but way to small for a family of 5. So we moved again but we couldn't close fast enough so we had to move into a motel. Yikes! The first one my hubby chose was such a dive and very scary. Scary scary and he works third shift eeek! After a week we moved into a regular hotel and it felt like a 5 star resort! haha We stayed there...all FIVE of us in one room with two beds. Yep good times...good times. We finally closed on our house and we could not be happier. The mail has not been so happy. One week...two weeks...finally I came home on Tuesday and had this big stack staring at me. My hubby said his pile was also this big! WOW

Can you beleive out of this whole stack I only had one good peice of mail and that was this cute card from my friend Patti. She is a big reason why I stamp. She brought me over to the dark side with her and it has been a ton of inky fun ever sense! Personally it makes me giggle to compare the stack of mail with the height of the card.

Here is a close up so you can see the cute bling at the top. My favorite part of the card though...what is written inside. It is so true that a card can really brighten someones day. This one sure did brighten mine.

Update - I forgot to tell you all the rest of the story! LOL The mail when it finally came had our original old address on it and some of it had the 3 month address. When I filled out the change of address slip the first time, and when my husband did it the second time. We only put our most recent move on there and I think it tripped up the system. Somehow I only ended up with two small past due bills. Not bad for such a big stack.

Moving again...

I know some of you are not suprised as it seems all I ever do is move. I just talled them up and I have moved 10 times in my adult life...not counting the 2 times I moved very briefly back home for a few months. Each and every time I move I say this is the last time...this is the last time...this is the last time. I sound like a broken record even to myself. This time I mean it! Number 11 is it....We are all set to go and will be closing on our new home in a matter of days. Finally I can say this is the last time and mean it. I am confident that this will be my home for a good long time.

The best part is, we looked at it on a whim one day when we were out looking at a few other houses. We figured we may as well look and we fell in love it has everything we are looking for in a house! Big kitchen, formal dinning, large livign room...TWO bathrooms (a must with four girls in the house) The yard is so beautiful and Mark loves yard work. It even has a little tiny pond in the back off the deck. There is a little park one house away for Maizie. Savannah has a big room, Danielle will have her own space downstairs. The garage is big, Mark even has a studio for his music. Oh and did I mention the fireplace? WOW

Anyway I have will more photos and more details in the future but I wanted to let all of you know I was not MIA for no reason.