Keeping Busy! Musings on a child going away to University.

I've been in a bit of a funk and not able to create too much lately because my youngest (only girl) is leaving for University next Sunday and I think I'm going to miss her.  Well, I KNOW I am going to miss her and would like to thank her very much for reminding me how old I am!  I swear I was just leaving that campus myself.  I'm thrilled that she is attending my Alma mater, The University of Western Ontario in London and I know she will be just fine.  She is strong and independent and I told her that London is too far away for me to bail her out of jail, so she better 'keep her nose clean'.  I'm kidding of course.
I better go to sleep.
To all our little angels, no matter how big they are, I wish peace, health and love.

 

Mother and Child - Gustav Klimt

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Is anyone else addicted to colour chips???

Okay.  I have a confession to make.  I'm not particularly proud of it, but here it goes.
When my hubby goes to the local paint store or hardware store or big box home supplies store, I do not mind going with him. I usually prefer that he drops me off at the nearest Michaels location, but a trip into the 'other' store isn't so bad.
I realized a long time ago that I love colour.  Can't have enough of it.
I peruse the paint chips and select the textures and colours I like. I only go for the larger colour samples where it is easy to chop off the text.
These cards make wonderful bases for embellishments. I punch out flowers, hearts, leaves. Or I affix other embellishments to the colour chip.  It's an easy way to do a colour block design.
The Cricut handles the thicker constructed cards as easily as slicing through butter and I also run them through my Cuttlebug. 

Here's a few pics:

The green card with the 3 shades of green is wonderful behind a multi-framed card. 

Different colours, textures, sizes; the possibilities are endless:)

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