Banner Banter and more

Hello friends!


A little birdie, or shall I say mermaid, posted about a new weekly Show and Tell Challenge that is going on at http://craftingmisfit.blogspot.com/. Because I am so dawg gone proud of my banner I thought I would go ahead and enter this challenge. You should check out the blog, it sounds like it will be a lot of fun!


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Please forgive me as I have sinned, it's been once week since my last post. But before I'm condemned to blogger hell let me say this past week was crazy, just as I thought it would be in my last post. I do want to thank everyone that wished us a happy anniversary! That was very thoughtful of you. Now let's banner banter, shall we? So my dear friend Lu and her hubby are becoming parents for the first time. This is something they have wanted for a long time and to see how happy and excited they are just makes me so happy for them. Without going into a lot of detail, for their privacy of course, all I will say is that they will have two beautiful children very soon. They are going to be great parents, no doubt about it. On Saturday we had a shower for Lu and her husband. After all, every soon to be parent should have a shower no matter what the circumstances are. For her shower I created my first ever banner using some favorite colors of the mom to be. I think it came out pretty good considering I didn't even start working on it until Friday night and had it done by 2 pm Saturday. (Remember, I move like a turtle). I measured and cut the triangles using cardboard, applied the beautiful teal colored paper from TPC Studio, then cut and embossed the plain yellow and metallic colored paper to use on top. I then used brown ink to outline the edges and cut the letters from the Storybook cartridge. I then used a very thick foam from the Martha Stuart line to pop up the letters but I hated the way you could see the white foam under the letters so I took a black sharpie and ran around the edges of the foam so it wouldn't be so noticeable. It did make a huge difference! After attaching the letter I then added the embellishments and used a thick twine to hold it all together. Wanna see? Ok, ok, simmer down now....here it is! (Drum roll please........................)

I should have asked for a new camera for my anniversary. These pictures just don't do it justice. But you know what? Lu loved it and that's what matters. I'm also going to show you a little clipboard I made that was passed around at the shower. Being that it was a casual event the need for a sign in book would have been a little too formal so I decided this would be a good idea. I asked people to put down their favorite "parent remark" then sign their name to it. This way they could get some solid advise, (he he he) and also remember who attended.

This actually went over really big at the shower. After the gifts were opened Lu read all the comments and everyone had a good laugh. Some of the remarks were: "Don't make me stop this car"..... "Were you born in a barn?".....and the one my husband wrote was "Too much will make you go blind". (I'm sure he heard that one a lot.....lolololol).

So I hope you will all forgive me for committing my blogger sin of late.

Susan