HAPPY EVERYTHING

This card is for the Inspiration Challenge 247 at Splitcoaststampers. Enjoyed looking through the modcloth.com site especially the vintage section-bathing caps no less!

I took my colors from a cape I found on the site-it doesn't want to link to the site for some reason.


We have friends who celebrate their birthdays and anniversary all in the same week. This card will go to them. I tried to make it gender neutral and was happy with the outcome.

I stamped the 'happy' sentiment on GP white and matted it with a brown cs then put it on the Basic Grey sugared stripe panel. I took a small notecard and stamped 'everything' on it and will glue it to the inside of the card, then write my note on the inside of the notecard.

Thanks for looking and I appreciate the comments you leave!

ON THE ROAD AGAIN

Some friends came by Sunday evening to show us their new toy-a Can-Am Spyder.  And yes, they had their helmets on when they arrived and when they left. They have been having a good time touring the countryside!  Pretty snazzy machine, comfortable with lots of storage areas.

The Can-Am Spyder is a three-wheeled motor vehicle (two wheels in the front, one in the rear) similar in layout to a modern snowmobile. The Spyder uses an ATV-like chassis with a single rear drive wheel, and two wheels in front for steering. It is often referred to as a "roadster" (a term that BRP uses themselves) but in technical terms is more of what has been traditionally called a three wheeled trike.  It is built in Canada and sold in the USA.

Leon and I had to get our picture taken so I could send it to the girls telling them we had just spent their inheritance! 

MY LOVE AFFAIR

For my family and friends reading this, don't get excited and jump to the wrong conclusion.  Let me explain.





BING CHERRIES

Since DH and I are both diabetics we eat a lot of fruit for snacks and dessert.  I love most all fruits, can't really think of any I don't like. This summer I have really fallen in love with Bing Cherries. The ones I have been buying at Wal-Mart have been really tasty.  We have enjoyed strawberries, watermelon, cantaloupe, nectarines, peaches, grapes and I always keep bananas and apples on the countertop. Does that make you feel better about my love affair?

COUNTER CLUTTER

Counter clutter, but a good kind of clutter!  A friend sent me some squash and peppers.  I thought the long one was a crookneck, DH said a gourd,  but she said it was an Italian Zucchini which I had never seen.  The others are butternuts.  The Cherokee Purple tomatoes are some a friend raised.  He raises lots of different tomatoes and always gives us several.  Last week was Lemon Oxheart which we didn't really care for and some hybrid red ones I don't know the name of which were good.  To me the Arkansas Travelers that I raised have the best flavor of any I have tried this year.  Just wish the vines could hang on a little longer-they don't like it dry with the hot winds and I have watered very little.

I am going to make this squash casserole again with the squash.  My sister gave me the recipe and I really enjoyed it as did both daughters, DH not so much.

SQUASH CASSEROLE

2 pounds squash, sliced

1 small onion, sliced

1 tablespoon margarine

1 can cream of chicken soup

1 8 ounce carton sour cream

2 tablespoons chopped pimento

1/2 cup margarine

1 8 ounce package herb stuffing mix

Optional, but I added some diced, cooked chicken breast

Cook squash and onion with 1 tablespoon margarine until tender, add soup, sour cream, pimentos.  Add 1/2 cup margarine to stuffing mix and add to squash mixture.  Bake in a 2 quart oblong Pyrex dish at 375 degrees for 30 minutes or until brown and bubbly in the middle. 

Don't know what makes the long space between paragraphs-not a good thing.