Cards, layout and misc stuff

Itty Bitty Scrap Shack Shack had some cool card inspiration projects and I decided to play along and make some cards. The first 4 are square cards. I felt good to use some scraps :)




This is my favorite! Someone will get it in mail next month :)

After the Fiskars training I was left with few scraps that I used to demo the texture plates. I couldn't just put them in the garbage, they reminded me the ice cream cones. I pull out my CTMH ice cream stamps and started to play. The pictures are from out visit to Israel. The girls were enjoying the ice cream on a hot summer day at our friends backyard. Good memories!

This is for mom. Miss E loves to build things from the magnet blocks. She built this huge E, brought it carefully to my desk and took a picture of it. :) I am so proud of her!

On the other note, I am in the middle of organizing the basement. In one of the boxes I found the project that I started 6 (yes, six) years ago. 2008 will be a year of finished projects!

Catch up

We had a great visit to CA! My dear friends did whatever they could to entertain us - it was so good to spend some time with them, to see the kids, to talk about the old stories! I wish we could meet more! Just few more pictures from the trip. I still need to organize them.

Farmers market - a lot of oranges!

The next two are from Standford University

The girls had a blast playing dress up with the friends. Isn't she adorable?

We came back to a snowy WI and the next weekend I went to a crop with Outlaws. It was great to spend almost 2 days just scrapbooking. I am a slow scrapper but I did a several layouts and worked on my upcoming Fiskars demonstrators training, so I was happy :)

Here is some of what I made:

At the crop we did a charm swap. I made 2 charms. They are cute, but beading is not my field LOL I got some very cute charms from other outlaws including a charm with the outlaws logo!

Last Saturday was my first Fiskateers training. I had 8 ladies. I think it went well. I have few things I want to change for the next training but I am happy that my first training is done. 12 people more to go! Those are the cards I made as a samples for the training.

I am trying to make something everyday, here is my lo from yesterday. Becky Fleck sketch, HG pp and chipboard, HS snowflakes and letters, Jenni Bowlin stamp, Maya Road journaling card

I was freezing all day today for some reason. Maybe I should scrap summer pictures! LOL

Pictures from sunny California

Few observations first:
1. there is no snow in California
2. the trees (well, most of them, don't shed their leaves in winter)
3. you can still see flowers!

Now the pictures!

We started the day with the Golden Gate Bridge


From there we continued to Pier 39, had a yummy clam chowder and enjoyed the strolling through the crowds.
Adorable see lions at Pier 39
The girls had a blast choosing their own oyster with a pearl inside. They both got a beautiful blue peal that was set in a pendant. More pictures later.



Great day. the best part was doing all this with friends! Love you guys!

For the desert, few pictures from the ice skating exhibition in Kenosha last w/e where Lila skated! Enjoy!

The suitcases are packed

we are ready to leave for sunny California. The gifts are all wrapped.

Happy New Year to everybody!

Love , Maya

Latest work

We had a busy week, I still want to blog about the competition and our trip to Minneapolis but for now just few photos of my recent craftiness.

I made those cute bags using a template from Target. I made 5 of them and put inside a gift card for the teachers.

Those tiny gift card holders re made from the scraps of the precious project. This will go to our G-men :)
And finally a layout I wanted to make for a while. I used the December sketch from Fiskars, gorgeous KI lace cardstock mounted on vellum, Cloud9 paper and rain dots, Heidi Swapp chipboard letters and tulle ribbon. The bottom picture has a hidden journaling that tells the story. I think this is my new favorite layout!

Sparkle

Was doing this today - trying to decorate glass ornament bulbs with glitter. Pretty!


Tomorrow we are off to Minneapolis for the ice skating competition. Great weekend everybody and shabat shalom!

Our 4 legged friends

While in Israel the girls enjoyed spending time with all dogs and cats in the grandparents backyard. They fell in love with the animals and had such a great time. I made this cute mini-album to keep all the great memories. I still want to add more pages but it will do for now. Most of the pictures were taken by Miss E. The cat that is lying on the carpet is my sister's cat Nooma. It was tough to get a good picture of her because she is not from the human-loving kind, but eventually she gave up.

Baby ABC album, snow and Hanukkah

Wanted to share cute little project I finished yesterday for my friend. I used the sketch from Album Shortcuts to make this baby ABC album. She will have just to find 26 pictures and add them to the pages. I tried to keep it simple.









The weather is gorgeous lately - everything is covered with snow and so pretty. But cold - brrrrr..... I didn't have time to take good pictures yesterday - here is our kitchen window.

And finally Tuesday was last day of Hanukkah. Sadly I will be packing the menorahs till the next year. My boxes were a blast - Miss E was so excited to find a new note every day and go for a little treasure hunt. After few days Miss L also joined the fun and got her share of gifts. All is good now.

Old projects I

cI got a request to post the photos of my old projects, so I will be posting them from time to time.

The first one is an iris folding card I made for a co-worker who was changing jobs. I love this technique!










This was a card for a co-worker that had a new baby.












Mini-album I did for my mom. It is an album for her purse with pictures of her kids and grandkids. The picture is lousy but you can get and idea

And finally a lo I did about a year ago.

I finished today a cute project - an album for my friend who is leaving WI and moving close to her family. I will post some pictures tomorrow.

Latkes and other stuff

Yesterday I finally finished my Christmas cards. Just need to buy stamps and mail them out. My Hanukkah cards were mailed some time ago already. Hopefully everybody will get them during the Hanukkah, not after.

The round Christmas cards are done using Cloud 9 paper, fiskars circle border punch and some cute reindeers from Michaels. I did the tree cards using the Jo-Ann kit that I picked up last year. I added Cloud 9 raindots and fiskars star punch. Oh, and I also played with the glimmer mist trying to spice up the background. The Hanukkah cards are just made from the strips of patterned paper by Heidi Grace.

Now latkes - we made some few days ago using the recipe in the book. they were good but not as good as my dad's latkes. So I had to call him and ask for the recipe. Here it is - the super-duper secret recipe:

1. Grate about 10 potatoes - very thin. I did it by hand.

2. If the potatoes give a lot of liquid add 3-4 tablespoons of flour. I added 3

3. Add salt. I added about one tablespoon.

4. Heat a lot of oil in the heavy skillet. wait till oil is hot.

5. Fry latkes from both sides till golden.

6. Add sour cream and enjoy.

What can I say - it was delicious! Just the way I remember them!

Don't you like this menorah with tall white candles? It's from Crate and Barrel. I need to stock on those candles - just love them!