Still Learning! PPA141

It's Back to School time around here!   My school days are over but I am still learning!  My daughter just finished taking baby classes and now we await that little one!  In the meantime she is sharing her new found knowledge with me so I am prepared for babysitting.  Cribs are different nowadays - the sides no longer go up and down.  (Crib in the attic taken to the dump.)  No more playpens - there are pack 'n plays to use.  (Another trip to the dump.) Bumpers are dangerous in a crib.  (Off to Buy Buy Baby to return the bumpers.)  No baby powder on the bottom during diaper changes.  (So my husband and I will be smelling like newborns for the next few months using up that stash of baby powder!)  But I am drawing the line in the sand on those straight jacket swaddlers - there will be none of those at Grandma's house!  (I'll let you know later how that goes.)

                                       Join the fun at PPA with Margaret's sketch this week!

Here's to You! PPA140

This sweet little tricycle is pedaling its way to Arizona where my upline Mary Fish lives.  Mary had a fabulous week at Stampin' Up's Convention in Salt Lake City!  She won several awards and was one of only 6 SU demos named to Stampin' Up's Advisory Board.  The tricycle is from the set Moving Forward - perfect for Mary!  She is a forward thinker, successful businesswoman and all around great gal besides!  So here's to you Mary - congrats on all of your accomplishments!




                                  Hope you join in at PPA's Color Challenge this week!


                                                       

P is for Party...........

P is for Party - Pity Party that is!  I am a member of Mary Fish's downline group  - the Pals.  We have a great time staying connected on Facebook and our Convention Going Pals kept us informed with updates on FB last week.  Since so many of us were green with envy that we weren't at Convention, Margaret Moody suggested our own Pity Party.  We created a green card and posted it to our FB site where the convention goers could see what we were doing at home :)  It was silly but such fun to see the "green with envy" cards.  

I missed convention this year due to lots of baby stuff going on around here.  Some pictures from our baby brunch:

mmmmm........desserts.......

If you look carefully you will see that I labeled all of the food using the sweet little jar from Perfectly Preserved.  I am not a good cook and rely on my friends to supply me with simple - but fabulous - recipes so I wanted to give them credit!

And finally a shot of my baby girl as she awaits her baby girl - 5 more weeks!  She is with her cousin Sarah - can you tell that Sarah's mom and Erin's dad (my husband) are twins?

Simply Wonderful.....PPA139

I've taken a bit of a blogging break getting ready for a baby shower for my daughter this weekend.  I am finishing cards to send to friends and family who are helping me out with the brunch.  Margaret's sketch at PPA this week is terrific and I decided make a vintage thank you..........hmmmm.......funny how my vintage always looks clean and simple no matter how much stamping, spritizing and distressing I do.......or think I do!