Another great gift from my secret pal

Look what came in the mail today. I love it all!!!! I'm super excited about my lattebella. I've wanted her since she came out:) I can't wait to use it all. I've been making a flip book for my son's teacher for mothers day. It's the many faces of mom book. I'm using my bellas of course so she'll be a great addition.
The stamp set from My favorite things is very cool. I can't wait to play with it all.

Oh, she also ordered a picture for me from the tigers website, from the game I went to with my husband. Isn't that just the sweetest thing!

my husbands birthday

Last night was Ricky's 30th birthday. He doesn't like being the center of attention, meaning he really didn't want a party. So I got the 2 of us tickets to last nights Tigers game. We went to dinner downtown at Pizza Papalis, blew $6.00 on nickel slots at the casino, then went to the game. It was a ton of fun. I had restraint and only told 2 people it was his birthday. His face would get a little red and remind me how much he hates that. The picture of the stadium is before the game. It was a full house. I got lucky and got the last 2 seats that were side by side in the whole park. They were good seats to, on the main deck right down the 3rd baseline.
You can go to www.tigers.com/fanfoto and see us at the game. We're gallery 30. I was going to order a picture but it's $10.00 for 1 5x7.

my new scrap cases

I sold some of my ctmh stuff to buy these 2 cases. I love them!( I would love them even more if they were pink, but that wasn't a color option) They are by ArtBin. The first case comes apart for easy lifting and moving, it is on wheels.The bottom of the case is large enough to fit a sewing machine. The top case came with the clear plastic container. That's what i have my waiting to embellish pages in. ( which was about 30) There is 2 zipper pockets inside along with a spot for markers. Right now in the top case I have 2 layout ctmh books, the clear case and about 35 paper packs/ paper bundles. My cutter , embellishment case and some random things It still has plenty of room for more. LOVE IT!!! ( sorry the picture is sideways, that's my bad:)

In the bottom I have a few punches and the box that holds all my stamp sets. It also has some room left.



























This is a mega tote, it came with all 6 clear cases. 3 are divided and 3 are just open space. It has 4 pockets on the side and 1 on the front and 1 in the back. It holds a TON of stuff. I'm so happy with them both.

6x6 page

Here's a 6x6 page I made for someone. My printer isn't working:( So I had to write out the verse. That wasn't my intention, but not much I could do about it. It needs to get in the mail today. I love the friendship blessing stamp set from CTMH, that's what i used to random stamp and for the flowers I cut out.

Card for the day

Here's a card I made today. I've had this stamp set for a while and haven't used it. It has 3 butterflies that go with the flowers. So I set out to make something today using the butterflies and did the flowers instead. It's a stampin up stamp set, ctmh cardstock and b&T paper.

my dirty little secret....

My dirty little secret is.... I hate to embellish.Not because I don't like how embellishing looks, just because It takes so much time to embellish. Just lazy I guess. So I had about 30 layouts that needed embellishing. I'm down to about 15 now. So here's what I've done all morning. I don't know why some of them downloaded sideways. It took so long for them to download, I'm just going to keep them that way.

Recipe for the week #2

Chicken Nacho Bake

prep:10 total 40min

4 small boneless skinless chicken breast halves
1/2 cup salsa
1/4 sour cream
1/2 crushed tortilla chips
1/2 cup Mexican style shredded four cheese

Preheat oven to 400f. Place chicken on foil-covered baking sheet. slice 3 cuts on top of each chicken breast with sharp knife.

Top each chicken breast evenly with salsa, sour cream and tortilla chips.

Bake 20 min, Remove from oven: sprinkle with cheese. Bake an additional 10 min. or until chicken is cook through.

Makes 4 servings

Kraft foods,winter "08" pg 41

What I did: I only made 2 breasts, so if you make all 4 I would add more toppings.