Cards

So last weekend...I had two sets of cards to make.  One set of Thank You cards and one set of Birthday cards.  it was really nice to make cards again...it had been awhile.  Got to use some new tools...include that MS screw punch i received for my bday from Huongie.  Here are some pics...enjoy!

 

here's the set of 8 thank you cards.  the recipient requested a green/orange theme

Here are some of my favs from the birthday card set i made...

 

  

  

  

  

Here's a card that I made for my niece's 100th day celebration:

and remember this from P365 Day 36...with my birthday money and coupons in hand, i purchased this MS circle cutter, MS butterfly punch and a stamp set from Inkadinkado...and then made a card right when i got home with my new goodies:

I ought send that last one to myself...seeing as how i'm home sick today :(  okay, i'm going to take another nap now.

P365: Day 22-41

hello friends!  my it's been a while since i last posted anything hasn't it!  well...it's been a busy past couple of weeks to say the least.  a quick recap of what's been going on:

my mom suffered a "mini-stroke" and was in the hospital for 5 days :(  doctor's ran all sorts of tests and fortunately all tests came back with good results.  seems that stress was the biggest factor in triggering the attack.  it broke my heart to see my mom in that condition. i'm so thankful to live close enough so that i could get to her side as quickly as possible.  anyhoo - she's do much better now and although her energy is still low, she's feeling 100 times better than that Friday.
the day my mom was discharged was also the day we had new guests arrive from opposite sides of the country to attend a house church seminar that was being held out Seoul Baptist Church / New Life Fellowship.  We had a young lady from southern California and another young lady from New Jersey.  both wonderful to meet and get to know over a period of about 5 days.

during that weekend, DH and I also managed to go see The Blind Side movie with Sandra Bullock.  LOVED.IT.  Seriously...I had to control myself b/c I just wanted to cry out loud so much.  Maybe I'd just had a very emotional past week or so...but this movie was SO GOOD.  if you haven't watched it.  GO NOW.

i also didn't get to work out for that entire last week of the month...but that's better than not working out the entire month, right?

last weekend we celebrated my niece's 100th day of life.  it's a Korean tradition known as "paegil" believe.  something about it being a signifucant milestone for Korean babies to make it to the 100th day of life.  her parentals held a lunch at Todai and we got to hang out with family and friends.

also, this past weekend was Nancy's bridal shower hosted by her friend Lola - who is an extremely sweet and kind friend of the bride to be.  it was a Sex and the City themed shower complete with Cosmopolitans, yummy food, and of couse all the girls looked fabulousl  one of the best things about the shower was being able to spend time with out of town girlfriends...Jane, Kai, and Diana - was soooo good to see them all!

i made two sets of cards this past weekend as well.  a set of thank you cards..and then a set of kid's birthday cards.  it was so nice to get back into my card making. it felt like it had been forever since i last scrapped.  i even had to pick up a few new tools and goodies to get me back into the swing of things.
my mom suffered a "mini-stroke" and was in the hospital for 5 days :(  doctor's ran all sorts of tests and fortunately all tests came back with good results.  seems that stress was the biggest factor in triggering the attack.  it broke my heart to see my mom in that condition. i'm so thankful to live close enough so that i could get to her side as quickly as possible.  anyhoo - she's do much better now and although her energy is still low, she's feeling 100 times better than that Friday.

P365: Day 22-Day 41

 

Day 22 = trip to costco during lunch

  

Day 23 - dinner with my niece and her parents :)  love her in the cute little Puma track suit we got her for Christmas

 

Day 24

 

Day 25 - fruit bowl in preparation of arrival our of house guests

 

Day 26 - the only pic captured of my mom's hospital stay..my parking stubs from visiting my momma

 

Day 27 - appetizers (water crackers topped with cream cheese, cucumbers, and smoked salmon) we made for a special dinner with our two guests and our house church members

 

Day 28 - arrived to find this on my desk at work :)  thanks, Chris!

 

Day 29 - the formally bare wall at our church that got a beautiful makeover with some specialized wallpaper...design courtesy of Chan Do :)

 

Day 30 - last day of the House Church Seminar.  This is a group shot of the attendees along with their hosting shepherds (i'm in the pink scarf, DH behind me and our two guests are to my right)

 

Day 31 - wow.  this first month of the year went by FAST

 

Day 32

 

Day 33 - my running shoes need to look a bit more worn in.  clearly i work out indoors.

 

Day 34 - a rice cooker.  no Asian home is complete without one.

 

Day 35 - a sweet surprise that DH brought home for me.  Cupcakes from Crave.

 

Day 36 - the new goodies i got to get me back into my card-making :)

 

Day 37 - cosmos from Nance's bridal shower

 

Day 38 - congrats to the Saints on their Superbowl XLIV...and this is what happens to Colt's fans in my workplace.

 

Day 39 - meeting A for the first time!  such a cutie!

 

Day 40 - flowers at my mom's house

 

Day 41 - hanging out with my mom and her friends for an early Lunar New Year celebration dinner.

Okay, i think i'm pretty up to date now...i'll post more pics from that past weekends event later!  TTFN!

P365 - Day 21

21/365 = cozy delight

this is a hand knit scarf that my brother's wife made and sent to me all the way from New Hampshire.  i called them to thank her for the scarf and my brother said she's made like 3 for everyone in their family. and that it only takes her a day to make one.  makes me want to pick up my knitting again.  i attempted knitting about 5 years ago and ended up making a 4"x4" square. lol

today was a really lovely day in houston.  temperatures in the 70's, sunny, and just gorgeous.  what a shame to have to be inside an office for most of the day.  except during lunch when one of my sweet co-workers took me out for a belated lunch :)

i did manage to make one card tonight.  i purchased a new black ink pad which really impressed me with it's non-smearingingness (yeah - i just made that word up).  it's made by Ranger and i hope it lasts awhile b/c it's a rather large ink pad:

this picture makes me want to invest in a good desk lamp.  my pics are just dark. (and i'm just not a big fan of using a flash when taking pics)

and here's the card i made using the stamps i got yesterday...and then i colored in the cupcake images with regular felt tip markers but i really am curious to try out the Copic markers.

okay - that's all for now...i'm super sleepy. what a surprise. not.  maybe it's the weather?  i dunno.  i  hope i get my energy back soon.

P365 - Day 15 - 20

looks like i've got a bit of catching up to do with my P365 pics.  i've been pretty good about getting them up on my shuttercal calendar....just haven't had much to blog about i suppose.  anyhoo...here are days 15-20

15/365 = Vanessa's beautiful baby belly

Vanessa and i have worked together for the past 3 years...have traveled to Napa together, spent the night at the Sacramento airport with our hubbies together, enjoyed many lunch/shopping outings together.  needless to say, i do heart her :)  and i'm going love that little baby that she's expecting in April.  she has refused to take any baby bump pics...but was gracious enough to let me take this picture for my P365 :)

16/365 = scraproom reading

i mainly took this picture b/c i kept forgetting to take any other pics all day on saturday!  so this is a pic of some books i have in my scraproom :)  finding a pic of something to take every is apparently harder than i thought!

17/365 = a nice reminder

this placard thing i received as a thank you gift from Inspire Women for being an ambassador for the Inspire Luncheon/Conference this past November.  i have it on my desk and it's a lovely reminder to read often.  on another day, i'll have to take a pic of the other side. :)

18/365 = old and new

yes, that's my pink Motorola Razr that i purchased for myself on 2/14/06...and i still use it to this day.  next to that oldie but goodie is my pretty red blackberry that is actually my work phone.  it's really starting to become cumbersome to carry both of those phones around (even with the very cute pick pouch that i received as a gift from one of our pastor's wives).  so that being said...i think we'll be retiring my pretty pink phone soon.  :(

19/365 = late night craving

DH has dropped subtle hints about brownies lately....so late on tuesday night, i finally made him a batch.  yes, he is a lucky guy ;o)

20/365 = new stamping goodies

yep!  i picked up two new stamps sets tonight.  cute, huh?  can't wait to make some new cards with these!

but that won't be tonight.  i'm actually pretty pooped. and i was really pooped last night too.  i thought working out was supposed to give me more energy.  but alas, i'm just more tired! :(

you may be pleasantly surprised to know that i did get my 3 workouts in last week and each workout lasted for about 45 mins.  yay me!  so far this week, i've gotten two of them done...just need to squeeze in one more!

our weekend was short but full...saturday DH and i headed out in the morning to IKEA to help John and Grace bring home their new Expedit.  our friends are lucky that we have a large truck :)  afterwards, we all went to Kim Son in Bellaire for some YUMMY dim sum.

after lunch said bye to our friends and then headed to the Chevy dealer that was sort of on the way home.  after we got of our car, a sales guy approached us, introduced himself and we then inquired about the 2010 Equinox to which he responded "we are sold out of them....actually all of Texas is sold out.  i'm just trying to help you save time and gas from driving all around town"  to which DH said thanks and then we got back in our car and headed to another dealership that we had passed that morning.   where there were about 5 on the lot.  :oP  do sales people take us for utter FOOLS?  whatevs.

so i got to test drive the Equinox and it was sooo nice.  really nice.  felt very sturdy and obviously heavier than the CR-V.  had lots of bells and whistles...that were standard on the model we were looking at.  they just didn't have the exact one we were looking for...so the search is still on.  we're still interested in the CR-V too.  i guess it'll just be a matter of time for either Chevy or Honda to get in a model with our exact specs. in the meantime, my 10 year old Honda Accord and i will cherish the time we have together :)

okay - this was a longer "brief" post than i had expected....my eyelids are like half closed now. sorry for any grammatical errors. ;o)

TTFN!

P365 - Day 14: Barganza!

14/365 = a BCBG dress I found at Marshall's today during lunch...

or maybe it's a long top - but in any case, i got it for only $10!!!  Barganza, I say!  here's a closer look at the cute bow on the top and the cuter $10 price tag :)

i LOVE a great deal.  so i'm thinking for winter (Houston winter anyways) - i'll pair this with some black leggings and a black cardigan....and for the summer with just a pair of cute sandals....yay!

okay - i didn't go work out today b/c 1) DH ordered sushi for dinner (yum!  and one can't leave sushi sitting out waiting while one tries to work out!) and 2) Grey's Anatomy season premiere was tonight and finally 3) I ended doing housework for about 2 1/2 hours instead for my work out.  cleaned all the floors, did 2 loads of laundry, cleaned the kitchen, cleaned the garage enough so that i could put my car back in it, dusted everything, and switched out over a dozen hangers in my closet.  i happened to have also grabbed a package of skinny hangers like these (except mine are pink) for about $13. love them...may have to go back for more.

oh and i also caught bits and pieces of the new season of Project Runway in the midst of my cleaning madness.  hopefully this season will inspire me to finally open and use the sewing machine my mom got me for Christmas ;oP

and finally I did happen to quickly make two little cards whilst i was synchronizing my iPod (i downloaded that Genius tool on iTunes yesterday so I wanted to get that feature working on my li'l Classic)....and here are the cards that i made and used the stamps I purchased earlier this week.

 

simple and sweet.

Happy Friday folks!

P365 - Day 13

13/365 - where we had picked dinner up from tonight...one of my fav places:

i just realized i've taken a lot of pics at the end of the day for my P365.  i should try some day shots huh?  and today's picture was taking with me holding my camera while driving away - through my closed car door window. my skills amaze me - lol.

and believe it or not...i did make it to the gym again today.  so much for that 45 min work out...i think it got negated by my chicken burrito bowl. :P

also, today i made it to the office at 9:04AM.  i would've been on time or even a bit early if i didn't stop and fill up gas...but you gotta do what you gotta do.  in this case - avoid running out of gas.

which brings to mind the fact that DH and I are on the search for a new car for me.  since my dear Honda's transmission went kaput during Christmas week and my husband's recent realization of how much driving i do everyday...we decided it's probably a good time for us to get a new car.  so we've narrowed it down to two cars, i think.  the 2010 Honda CR-V or the 2010 Chevy Equinox. 

 

i actually test drove the CR-V a couple of weeks ago and quite rather liked all the new features.  well, new to me anyways.  i was flipping the back seats all over the place, pushing every button i could find, looking in every nook and cranny.  and enjoying that new car scent.  it was so fun :) 

we were supposed to go and test drive an Equinox last weekend, but never really got around to it.  i did find out today though, who at the office had just gotten a new Equinox (i had spotted it in our parking lot just after the new year).  anyhoo - the gal at the office that owns the Equinox shared with me just how much she loved her new vehicle - even offered to let me drive hers to try it out. (sweet girl).  we peeked into her car after lunch today and it really is quite nice inside.  so now i'm even more excited about going to test drive it :) 

we're really not in any rush to get a new car just yet...since my '99 Honda Accord has just had the transmission fixed and i'm able to get from home to work and back...so we will likely be taking out time on this year's major purchase for the Parks.  that's okay by me.  i haven't had a car note in 4 years...so i'm not in any hurry to get a new one now.

i really like the Honda...mainly b/c i've owned a Honda for the last 10 years.  but then i really like that you get more bang for your buck with the Chevy.  and i drove a Chevy for 5 years before i got my Accord so I like Chevy too.  plus it's the "heartbeat of America" :) 

what are you thoughts between these two car choices?