Our Story

Our Story in point form

• We met on an online dating service
• Our 1st date was supposed to be the end of October 2006, but he stood me up! (he lived 4 hours away and they had a freak crazy snow storm that wiped out power & snowed him in, of course I thought he was bullshitting me, until I checked out the weather in the Niagara region...)
• After our 2nd date, I felt maybe he was "too nice" and was going end things but my girlfriend told me where too go, and suggested (yelled at me) to give him a shot...FINE!
• I played hard to get...he would drive 4 hours to see me (and spend the weekend down here with friends)  and after our friday night date I would tell him I had other plans for the weekend...(my plans included drinking coffee and playing Animal Crossing at my friends house....don't ask)
• I finally gave in, and fell hard!
• He worked out in the bush in Manitoba 3-4wks out 1-2 wks home
• In March 2007 he sold his house and moved in with me
• In July 2007 he proposed 
• In November 2007 we bought our house
• In December 2007 I became pregnant for Noah
• In March 2008 he started a new job an hour away, which meant for the most part, he was home every night...
• The end of August 2008 I was stressing because I was an emotional, hormonal, large pregnant lady ready to pop....and my husband was working out in the bush for the month available mostly by satellite phone 
• September 13 2008 Noah arrived after over 26hrs of labour and 2 Epidurals & a top up along with a spinal then an emergency C-Section (and yes Clay was there!)
• August 2009 I became pregnant again.....
• August 2009 I travelled with a 11 month old & Clay out into the bush (no cell/internet service...Crazy!!!!) with our trailer...so we could spend time together while he was fixing helicopters (what was I thinking???) no seriously, other than the mosquitos, black flies, deer flies, bear outside our trailer one night we had fun!
• September 4 2009 - We got married at City Hall and then had a backyard BBQ reception the next day! 
• October 2009 We went on our honeymoon! We rented a log house in Tennessee, and brought our parents, and my brothers!
• April 20 2010 - we welcomed Liam to the world with another C-Section

Fast Forward to today......we have lived a crazy life these past several years, but let me tell you......I wouldn't change a thing!  I love Clay with all my heart & soul.....We have had our ups & downs....we are both stubborn & independent & strong willed.....but that's why it works! He  loves me, everything about me,  he is generous, kind hearted, a loving father, he is a good provider, and passionate about everything that he does.  I could not imagine a life without him......I love him with all my heart!  

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY 

CLAY!

Love - Card

When I saw this stamp - Heres My Heart by Sherri Baldy,

 I knew I had to have it!

 I started with a standard blank card, 

and sprayed it with Mister Hueys Ink in Cameo. 

 Then I printed my image on American Crafts White Cardstock. 

 I outlined the card also with Mister Hueys Ink. 

 I coloured the image in with my watercolor pencils

  I used my Martha Stewart Glitter to fill in the heart.

                                Thanks for taking a look! Have a wonderful day!

Easy Valentine Project

This is the Valentine Banner I  made one night while watching a movie! 

(excuse the mess on the table :)  )

This was a super easy project.  I used

K&Comapany's KaZoo Die Cuts

and used my Cropidile to punch holes so I could hang

the animalswith ribbon. 

I then used smaller pieces of ribbon and made little

bows.  This was so the animals didn't slide around

on the ribbon they were hanging from

I then wrote little sentiments about my boys on each animal.

This was just a quick little project I made to dress up my 6' wide mirror

in my dining room.  Noah thought it was cool when he woke

up the next morning!

Thanks for looking!





 

Valentine Book

Here is one of my latest projects I made using Kaiser Crafts Heart Album and Bo Bunny's Crazy Love paper collection.

This is the cover.  I used Autumn Leaves ~ Free Style alphabet stamps for the title. Marvy Uchida Le Plume #9 Pink was used to colour in the letters.  I also used K & Co. Ka-Zoo Chipboard pieces to decorate the rings.



This is a picture of my husband and I at his work christmas party.

 K & Co. photo frames were used on the photo to

add some detail.The flowers were made from layering scrap

flower pieces and attaching them together with a

button and some floss.  I used

 October Afternoon's Farm Fresh journal labels on the opposite page.

Here is a picture of my son Noah xoxo.

And here is my son Liam xoxo.







Here is a close up of the cover.

Some of the other product I used were:

Momento Ink Dew Drop ~ Rose Bud & Lilac Posie

Winsor & Newton Magenta Paint

Staedtler Triplus Fineliner 0.3mm

Sakura Pen ~ Stardust

Sakura Pen ~ Glaze

Sakura Pen ~ Gelly Roll White

Sakura Quickie Glue Pen

K & Company Decorative Pins

Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue

Ribbon ~ Misc

Please leave a comment and let me know what you think!