Yay! I made a card!

Well, tonight was my first night stamping in weeks - way too long!! Ughhh. Last weekend didn't go as planned, and I still wasn't feeling well, so I didn't get down there. Now my workshop is coming up quick and I'm under pressure to get things prepared again, seems I can never plan ahead. I'm such a procrastinator!!

I did get a card made tonight, and it was pretty much a total case, but I love how it turned out and it felt so good just to ink up some stamps after so long! It's too late to take pics of it now, but I will try to do that tomorrow, but am not sure I can post it yet, as it may be one of the workshop projects, but I'm not sure yet. I did play around a long time tonight with a new technique I want to demonstrate, but was not very successful, it was frustrating. Maybe tomorrow it will go better.

Anyway, just wanted to check in and let you know I'm still here and still struggling with this darn cough/cold and still struggling to get back into stamping mode and still struggling to learn how to use my camera better!

I'll be back soon with something to look at. Take care everyone.

Frustrated

Just wanted to make a note that as much as I love this blog site, it can be very frustrated at times, although it could just be that I don't know everything about using it. But I get my post all typed out and looking the way I want and then I publish it and the spacing gets all wierd.

There will be no blank lines where I put some, or there will be blank lines where I didn't put them, the pictures get moved around. Very frustrating.

So yeah, I know things look very run together and not well spaced, but I've tried and tried to edit and put spaces in but then when I hit publish again, it's back to being all messed up. Sorry!

Some stamping....finally!

Well....it's not as good as I'd like it to be. Speaking of my health and of my pictures I have to post tonight. But they are both an improvement at least!

I got worse Monday night after I posted and have barely touched my camera. I didn't go to work on Tuesday and still wasn't feeling good at all on Wednesday but had to go in anyway. And I had made plans for last night, took my coworkers out for pizza, which was great but I came home and was exhausted and didn't DO anything the rest of the evening. Thankfully I am feeling much better today, still coughing quite a bit, but not nearly as much as before.

My husband has played with the camera and read some of the manual and I just took it and put it on "auto" and snapped some pictures tonight of my cards. The light wasn't the best as it's dark and gloomy outside tonight, and I think I need to "practice" a lot more with the camera (and come up with a better system for a "backdrop", but at least I got some pics taken and downloaded so that I can share 3 of the 4 latest cards I made. The best of the 4 just didn't get photographed well, so I will re-do that one tomorrow or Saturday and post it later. For some reason, the best pics I could get tonight were if I held the card in my hand to shoot it. Not the best way to do it, I know, but it seemed to work better than anything else tonight.

I don't know, the pics seem a little "blurry" to me, just not really in focus, but I am so NOT good at photography - AT ALL, and I guess I just need some lessons or something to get any better with it. And as fairly inexpensive as the camera I bought was, it has alot of features and settings that I just am scared to even try!!!

But without further ado....I'll get to what you all come here to see (yes I do realize you don't come to hear all my babbling nonsense, even though knowing it doesn't keep me from babbling all the more!)....some cards!

The first two are made using the heart from the Always (SU) set. And I used some of my Afternoon Tea designer paper. Loved these colors (Certainly Celery, Groovy Guava & Chocolate Chip) together. I embossed the heart with copper embossing powder and then used a sponge dauber to rub Certainly Celery ink onto the white cardstock. I also stamped the heart onto the Guava card stock and then layered the embossed cut out heart on top of it, leaving the dotted outline to "frame" it. I used some 5/8" Chocolate Grosgrain ribbon, and used scalloped scissors to edge the Choc. card stock layer. The words are rub-ons from the SU SAB set.

The second card is basically the same except I used Groovy Guava ink to fill in the heart and I messed up the last letter of the sentiment, and tried to "fix" it by filling the "u" in with a Chocolate Chip marker. Didn't work so good! :-(

The third card is using the SU set One of a Kind. The background is a floral stamp from the set Boho Backgrounds. I used Soft Sky and Blue Bayou card stock. I stamped the Flower three times onto white cardstock, using fluid chalk ink (because it stamped a deeper color than the classic brown ink), and I stamped it two additional times onto scrap white cardstock. I colored the flowers in with ink and an aquapainter. I cut out and layered with foam tape on the middle flower. I stamped the three-flower image onto white cardstock with Blue Bayou ink and punched out the one flower with the Boho Blossoms triple flower punch. I put silver brads in the center of those and also attached them with foam tape in the center of the right and left flowers. In the top layer of the middle flower I placed a flower brad from the new Hodgepodge Styled Silver hardware set. The ribbon slide is also from that set. (thanks Kathy for sharing so generously with me!). The ribbon is the Chocolate Chip twill from the Occassions mini catalog.

Please let me know if you have any questions about my cards or how I did something. Also please share any photography tips with me that you might have! I need all the help I can get!!!

One or two of you may be surprised to see one of these cards in your mailbox sometime soon. I just couldn't wait any longer to post them after being so long since my last stamping post, so I couldnt' wait till they were sent out and received. Sorry.

I'm hoping to get A LOT of stamping done this weekend and work out some projects for my upcoming workshop. I will be back soon, I promise! Thanks for reading today!

On My Way Back....

Hello everyone....

I hope I haven't lost the few followers I had. I am very sorry for the long absence from blogging. I knew it had been a while but it's actually even longer than I had thought. Several things have kept me away. First of all my camera died, right after I made some really great cards that I've been dying to share. I tried to use my scanner but couldn't get that to work properly either.

Then I had a week of meetings and obligations with no time for computering or stamping. And then I got sick. It started out the weekend before last. Just a sore throat. Then the sniffles. Then stuffy, clogged head. And aches all over. Then the worst happened. A cough started. At that point I knew I was in trouble. Because when I get a cough, it takes me *forever* to get rid of it. And I get it BAD. Ughhh. I missed a day and a half of work last week, and had to miss an important meeting. I managed to stay all day on Friday but it was tough and I don't think I really accomplished all that much.

Saturday I was still feeling pretty yucky but able to get out of the house and do a few things. Saturday night I hardly slept and woke up with a throbbing head from coughing all night. Had to go to church because we were signed up to do something, had a couple rough spots there with the coughing. Felt a bit better yesterday afternoon but then started coughing again in the evening and was so tired and my head hurt so bad I didn't think I'd sleep again, but I ended up sleeping pretty good. Made it to work this morning but as soon as I got there I started feeling worse again. Like it was starting all over. Runny nose, stuffy head (which had gotten alot better). Then I got a call from my Dr.'s office and found out I had strep. They had done a culture when I was there on Friday morning and it was negative but they still wanted it tested at the lab. And that test came back positive today. So now I'm on antibiotics. And now my throat hurts again. Go figure. It hadn't hurt since Tuesday...till I heard I had strep. Everyone at work is now giving me a hard time about contaminating the place. Ughhhh.

I just get so wore out from coughing so hard and so much. I've had NO interest in stamping for a couple weeks now. And I'm not liking that. I sure hope I get back to normal soon so I can get my stamping "mojo" back!!! But I do have some good news....when I went to pick up my antibiotics at Walmart tonight, I was able to get my new camera. I had picked one out on Saturday but they were out of stock, so while I was there tonight I checked and they had one so I got it. I got a Canon Power Shot A590IS. It's supposedly a newer model and it seemed to fit my needs. And just to let you know how out-dated my old camera was....this new one is 8.0 Megapixels....7.0 seemed to be average in the amateur level cameras....and my old one was....2.0!!!!! LOL I had no idea it was that bad. I just never paid any attention because I knew I couldn't afford a new one, until I didn't have any, then of course I figured out a way to get one. LOL So I'm sure I will notice a BIG difference in the pictures this one takes. IF I can ever figure out how to use the thing. It looks way more complicated than the old one. Or at least has more features.

But after the coughing spell I had on the way home from the store (almost caused an accident), my head is KILLING me and I'm going to lay down, maybe even go to bed. So tomorrow after work, I will have charged batteries, and hopefully a better head, so I will try out my new camera on those cards I made a couple weeks ago and hopefully be able to post pics of them tomorrow night. If I still have any readers to see them. I really am sorry I've neglected this blog. And Kathy if you are reading this, I KNOW I am way overdue with an email to you and it will be coming SOON, I promise. I'm probably behind on other emails and stuff too. I'm so behind on EVERYTHING! I never did get my basement stamping room rearranged and organized and now I have a workshop coming up soon to prepare for. I'm getting stressed out just thinking about it all. I'm off to take my drugs and go to bed and try not to think about it till I can do something about it all!!!

And it was a GORGEOUS day out here today, finally. The weekend was pretty nice too but today was awesome. It was so hot in our office building, I think the air system was still on winter mode. I so wanted to go for a walk tonight but just didn't get a chance to or feel up to it. Maybe tomorrow. I can hope to feel well enough for that at least!

Thanks for not giving up on me! (I'm assuming that if you've come back to read this you haven't given up on my totally!) ;-)

Stay tuned for some stamping posts real soon! Take care everyone!

Name Frame & Matching Card

Hi everyone. Ughhh, what a week! I haven't had time for anything. Work has been crazy, and every night this week I've had something to go to or do. And I've been extremely tired this week for some reason, I seem to be getting enough sleep but still feel tired all the time.

And I still have no working camera. I have some new cards that I'm dying to post but can't. I think I've found some money out of my budget to buy a camera, but now I just need to figure out which one to buy. I want to get the most for what money I have to spend. But anyway....

This is something I made a couple weeks ago but didn't want to post until it was received. This was part of a gift for our god-daughter Hannah. I thought it turned out very sweet, and almost hated to part with it. I can't help but acknowledge that the name is stamped very crookedly though. It shows up even more in the picture than in person. Other than that, isn't it just precious though? I was tickled with it!

I used the (retired) SU Letterpress Alphabet and the SU set Unfrogetable

I colored in the snail and the frog with ink and an aquapainter - then punched them out with the 1 3/8" circle punch and then layered onto Regal Rose card stock punched out with the Scallop Circle Punch. I glued "google eyes" on both critters. I also used the new SU Boho Blossoms punch for my flower accents. Then on two of the flowers I used some crystal flowers from my stash and on four other flowers I used Making Memories brads (round and flower shaped) that I coated with glue and pink Fun Flock, to make flocked brads. I got the idea from this post on Taylor's blog.

The background paper was from an assortment I got on clearance from a local store but I can't remember the manufacturer's name. And the ribbon is celery dotted grosgrain that I bought a while back at Michaels. The frame is from Walmart and I love using this size to do my name frames.

And I made the card to match. I had actually made a card like this before, in fact we did it at one of the workshops I gave last summer so some of you will recognize it. The only thing I changed was that I used the Boho Blossom Punch flowers instead of the circles I originally used for the background of the card. I just punched out flowers with Regal Rose, Pretty in Pink, Old Olive, Certainly Celery and Whisper White and glued them onto the card base.

The little "matchbook" opens up to read "hoppy birthday" inside.

I hope I explained everything well enough, if not I apologize. It was board meeting night for me and I didn't get home till after 9:00, had some dinner and was going to go to bed but wanted to come and post something "fun" here before I lose you all for good. Hopefully I will get a camera SOON. Wish me luck and please share any advice you might have regarding a good but inexpensive camera to purchase.

Tomorrow is TGIF!! And I will be very glad to end this week!! Hope you all have a wonderful Friday and a great weekend!

Sunday Stuff

Hello everyone...I hope you are all having a wonderful weekend. Mine has been pretty good overall, I just wish it could be longer! ;-)

I'll get to the "Sunday stuff" in a moment, but first I have a bit of bad news to share. My camera died. I had trouble with it last weekend, but thought it just needed new batteries. We have some rechargable ones that are well-used and need to be replaced. But I bought some regular batteries and they aren't working in the camera either. We've tried everything. I guess it's done for. Grrrrrrrrr. It was getting old anyway, but I just really can't afford to buy a new one right now. And yet, I'm going crazy without one. Because I stamped a bunch of cards (okay, 3)this weekend and can't take photos of them to share!! Oh no!!

I have to buy camera - have to! But there are so many out there and I know nothing about what to look for really. I mean a lot of them will not be possibilities just due to cost. I dont' take a lot of pictures, other than of my stamping projects, so I can't see investing too much in a camera. Yet I don't want junk either. Ughhh. I don't know where to start, and I know I'm not going to be patient about waiting either. So please wish me well with this latest "challenge"! And until I decide what to do, I will not be able to post any stamped stuff, unless I scan it. Grrrrrrr. *pout* ~whine~ LOL

But anyway, it's Sunday and I'd like to share a couple excerpts from my "The Word for You Today" devotional. My intention was to share these on Sundays but I haven't been very consistent on that. Sorry. And I looked back over the last week's readings and can't seem to pick just one, so I will be sharing two this week. I also am adding a "song of the week" feature. I absolutely love Contemporary Christian Music and would like to share some of my most favorite songs with you. If you've not heard this genre of music you will be surprised at how much it sounds like other popular types of music - but with an awesome spirit and message. At this point my plan is to leave one song that I'd like to "feature" for the week on my playlist (which you will find and can control at the bottom below all the posts on this page) and change it every week. But I may decide later to just post several on the playlist and then add or delete from time to time. We'll see. Please let me you know what you think - and if you just don't want the music to play at all, you can stop it down below. Hope you enjoy!

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Rejection-proofed

"Our Father loves us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are. - 1 John 3:1 NLT

Ever wonder how anybody could find you lovable? For many of us the question becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. The fear of rejection is so intense that we protect ourselves by:

• Vowing never to let anybody get close enough to hurt us again. Sounds good in theory, but by closing others out we close ourselves in, and all our relationships suffer.
• Putting on our best "game face". I'm tough! Who needs other people anyway? As a result nobody meets our needs.
• Pushing others away. When we feel rejected we imagine we're being attacked even when we're not. So we put on our boxing gloves and come out swinging.
• Trying to buy rejection-protection by doing favors for people. Or by putting up with abusive relationships because we think it's what we deserve and it may be our last chance to love.
• Practicing perfectionism. Give it up! God already loves you unconditionally, and human standards vary so much that you'll never make everybody happy however hard you try.

As long as you keep trading with a diminishing sense of worth, you'll keep attracting the wrong people. So listen up. "Our Father loves us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are" And "that's only the beginning...when Christ is...revealed, we'll...become like him" (1 Jn 3:2 TM). If your self-worth comes from any opinion other than God's, you'll always be vulnerable. Your critics will diminish you; trying and failing will keep you from rising again. Worst of all, you'll never discover or be discovered for the unique and wonderful person God made you to be.

Overcoming procrastination!

"Find out and do whatever the Lord wants you to." - Ephesians 5:17 TLB

To overcome procrastination you must:

• Take responsibility for your life. No matter how hard you wish, the tooth fairy isn't going to come while you're sleeping and replace failure with success. Great souls have wills, feeble souls have wishes. You need to do something!
• Examine your excuses. An excuse puts the blame on something other than you, which means the solution is beyond your reach. Excuses are like exit signs on the road of progress; they take us off track. It's easier to move from failure to success, than from excuses to success. So examine your excuses and eliminate them.
• Focus on the benefits of completing a task. To get you over the hump, focus on what you'll "get out of it" when you do get it done. Will it bring you benefit? Clear the way for something else you'd like to do? Be a milestone in your personal development or the completion of something bigger? Will it help to clear the decks for you emotionally? Admiral Willam Halsey said "Problems become smaller if you confront them. Touch a thistle timidly and it pricks you, grasp it boldly and its spines crumble."
• Ask for help. Columbus didn't discover the New World on his own, he needed a crew. Speaking of the church, Paul writes, "Each part...helps the other parts grow" (Eph 4:16 NLT). There's no way to value the assistance others can give you when it comes to breaking old habits and beginning new ones. Yes, it means taking a risk because you will be vulnerable in sharing your hopes and fears. But the risk is worth taking.

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These are both lessons that I need to keep learning. And probably always will. I think I waited so long to let Jesus into my heart and to start following his example for my life because I didn't feel "worthy". But because of the price he paid for our salvation we don't need to be worthy. We can't be worthy. And our Father's love for us is unconditional - if we come to Him through Jesus. That is such an awesome thing. Because we all fall short of His glory. I am trying to do better with the life I've been given, but I'm more of the "feeble soul who has wishes" than the "great soul who has will". My intentions are always great, but my follow-through stinks! But as long as I keep trying, and praying (with thanksgiving and praise) for help from our Lord, I know I will improve. And any amount of improvement is better than none.

I'll try to post this week and share some older stamping projects, until I can get a camera to take pics of my lastest creations. Please don't go away and not come back! I promise I'll get something figured out as soon as I can!! As long as I can keep my procrastination at bay. ;-)

Have a good week everyone!

Putting Things into Perspective

So I've been having a case of the "blues" lately. Not really depressed or anything, just a little bummed out. Tired of winter. Stressing about bills and how the cost of everything keeps going up and up and UP. Feeling like we don't have the money to go anywhere or do anything. Stuck in a rut. A big ol' deep rut. Feeling like I have nothing to look forward to. If I ever get to take a few days off work, it will only be to stay home and do some much overdue spring cleaning. Feeling like a failure at some things that I feel are very important to me, but I'm not acting like they are important to me at all. I have wonderful intentions all the time, but never seem to do anything about them. Feeling responsiblity for some things that I don't mind being responsible for but not feeling like I'm up to the challenge. Knowing I need to change my eating and excercise habits (once again) or I am going to have some serious health issues down the road. Knowing that and knowing that I don't do anything about it which makes me really mad at myself, but evidently not mad enough to spur me into action. There are more things I could list too, but I'll stop here.

But....anyway....BIG DEAL! Poor me, right? Yeah I'm so pitiful. I have it so rough. Everyone should feel sorry for me....me feeling sorry for myself isn't enough. My life stinks.

NOT!!!!!!

But I was feeling like that for a few days. Nothing like a good slap in the face to put things into perspective. And I firmly beleive that God is always behind those "slaps in the face". This time he used my compulsive blog hopping to slap me. Which, by the way, I am beginning to think that reading all the blogs was feeding my "woe is me" attitude. Sometimes it seems like *everyone* has so much more than me, more "stuff", a happier life, awesome vacations, more opportunities, more time to create, nicer weather, etc. etc. etc. I need to quit thinking about what I don't have and focus more on what I DO have. I have A LOT!!! And I'm not talking about just material things either!

Anyway, back to my "slap in the face". I was hopping from blog to blog, and 99% of the blogs I go to are stamping themed - but even those also have other things on them sometimes. I was on Jami Sibley's blog and saw this post and it just stopped me in my tracks. I had to get to work so I couldn't read too far into the blog but I did read quite a bit down and the little synopsis that he provides for anyone new to get caught up on their story. Wow. Talk about perspective. Talk about making my cares and woes seem SO insignificant. Wow. Reading his story about his wife and premie baby just totally broke my heart. I can't imaging having to face all of that day after day, week after week, month after month. And stay so hopeful and positive. It's sad and inspiring all at the same time. Please check out Nate's blog.

It makes me want to help them. But what can I do? I will make a small donation to his fundraising effort, but that's all I can do financially. I want to do more. There's those "good intentions" popping up again. But what can I do? I have no clue. Wish I knew. I know I will for sure keep them in my prayers. And hope that some of you browsing my blog will feel inclined to do the same.

And yes I know there are thousands of people out there going through the same thing, and thousands going through much worse things, but this family's faith and love for each other and strength for each other is just so touching, at least to me. Just really got to me today. I think I will not be so inclined to "whine" about my life, at least not while this is fresh in my mind.
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Well, I wrote the above before I went to work this morning, and now it is 11:00 p.m. at night. I never got a chance to finish it. I just went back to Nate's blog and there are a lot more posts since this morning, so you might have to read down a ways to get to the heart of their story. And I received another "slap in the face" since this morning. I found out late this afternoon that my good friend's father suffered a heart attack on Thursday and had surgery to have a stint put in. He's doing ok but he and his family have a long road ahead of them and many changes to make. I feel so helpless and wish there was something I could do for my friend, she and her family have been through a lot in the last couple days. Again, all I can really offer are my prayers.

Hearing about that was a "slap in the face" for me because of my health issues that I've been ignoring for months. Her father has diabetes and wasn't taking good care of himself. I know the risks for me and I have a lot of fear about what could happen to me, and yet I still don't change my habits. I don't exercise. I eat all the wrong foods and way too much of them. I'm so scared I will have major health problems, and at an early age, if I don't change my ways. But do I? I do good for several months and then I fall off the wagon and go back to old habits. I just hate exercise and love food too much. But do I hate/love them more than I love life? I don't think I do, but that's how I've been acting. What is wrong with me??? :-(

Oh, and there's more still. I got a third "slap in the face" this afternoon too. Right before I found out about my friend's dad. Got a call from my Dr.'s office. I had some lab work done the other day and my blood sugar A1C level was way up (they didn't tell me what it was) and they said I need to go get a prescription to increase one of my medications again. The one that gave me lots of stomach problems. Yay. It's my own fault though. I have to increase it for two weeks then go back for more labs and go see my doctor. I'm hoping I can do better with diet and exercise and get back off it, that medication really did not like me.

So, yeah it was quite the roller coaster ride of a day today. I put in a half hour on the treadmill tonight. I didn't want to do it, but had motivation tonight plus when I felt like quitting I thought about Tricia (from the blog link above) and all she's going through and that made me feel lucky to be able to walk on a treadmill at all. It's a start. I need to keep at it. Sigh.

I did some stamping tonight also, but nothing I can share with you yet. The plan is to do something tomorrow that I can post. Not promising, but am going to try. No plans tomorrow other than getting on the treadmill again, paying some bills, and hopefully going out to dinner and maybe doing something fun with my husband afterwards. No kids this weekend and we need to spend some time together. I'd *like* to start a rearranging and reorganizing project in my stamp room, but not sure this weekend is the best time to start that.

I'm sorry for the long, rambling post with no projects to look at. I know most of it was nothing anyone really wanted to read, but I do feel better for writing it, and I do hope you will try to check out the blogs I linked to - I guarantee it will make you appreciate your life more. And inspire you. At least it did me.

Wishing you all a happy weekend full of blessings. I'll be back soon to share something stamping related, I promise. Take care.

P.S. I don't know why the spacing is all messed up on this post. The first part is like double spaced and then the second part I added tonight doesn't even have spaces between paragraphs. I've added blank lines but they disappear when I publish. I don't know what's wrong but I'm too tired tonight to play around with it any longer. Sorry.

Flower Fusion - Inspired by Kathy

Hello there. I hope you all are having a better day than I am. Yesterday was definitely a *Monday*, but then today felt even more like one!! Ughhh. Rude people annoy me. I take a lot of complaint calls as part of my job, and I realize that most of the people that call do have legitimate complaints (even though there is usually an explanation that they don't want to hear), and the majority of people are courteous and polite but then there are those that are not, and today was a day full of those. It's just so draining. And that was on top of other problems at work and the other source of stress in my life right now....the "brother issues"....so it was not a good day at all. There's no time to stamp tonight and I'm not really in the mood, but if I could it would probably cheer me up some. But instead I will probably watch American Idol and then go to bed. Tomorrow has got to be better. I hope!

Anyway, I have a card to share that I made over the weekend. I've had the Flower Fusion felt flowers from Stampin' Up for several weeks now and have been wanting to use them, but just didn't know for what. I love the colors that they come in (Rose Red, Pumpkin Pie and Old Olive), but they aren't colors that I use a lot. They are just so gorgeous that I'm almost afraid to use them up too quick, but there are quite a few of each shape and size, so I went ahead and used a bunch on this card.

I ended up copying a layout of a card my sister made and sent to my mom last summer. I've had it sitting on my shelf and have been wanting to use the layout and it worked great for this card. I had to take a pic of her card so you can see how I used the layout but yet changed it up a bit. And once again, I used no stamps on this card. The sentiment "just because" is from the SAB rub-ons. I used Rose Red, Old Olive and Basic Black card stock and a piece of the Summer Picnic designer paper from the Occassions mini. (that my sister generously shared with me) For the flower centers, I used a pink and orange rhinestone brad from the SU Fire Circle collection and the clear one I had on hand from Making Memories I think. The rose and pumpkin flowers are just attached to the card with the brads and the olive flower is popped up on a foam square. I do have one complaint about the felt flowers - they were really hard to adhere. I tried just glueing them to the card stock (I was planning to put self-stick rhinestones in the centers) but I could not get any glue or tape to hold them to the paper, so I guess they really are meant to be attached with a brad or eyelet. The foam tape square is holding the olive one pretty well though. The ribbon was given to me by my sister, and is the same kind that she used on the card that inspired this one. (Thanks, Kathy!) I do like these colors together, I will have to try to use them with some stamps and use some more of the flowers on another card soon. I hope I get to stamp again soon, but the weeknights are always so hard. Sigh.

Well, take care everyone and have a great night/day. It's time for AI, and admit to being a fan, a latecomer fan though as I've only really gotten into it in the last couple of years. It's just fun to watch and I love music. I even enjoy going to some local karaoke contests sometimes. (Only as a spectator of course!!) Yeah, that probably makes me a geek but I'm ok with that. LOL This week is Dolly Parton week and I'm having a hard time imagining some of them singing her songs, so it should be interesting! If you watch, let me know who your favorites are. Mine keep changing!

Talk to you again soon.