U B Stampin

Since I have been somewhat incommunicado over the past few months, I have a backlog of projects that I have made but not shown. So let’s begin the show:

These are swaps I did at CardMaker Magazine

Where Have All The Flowers Gone.

Teia	Jane	Christina Wilson
Diane White	Georgette	Jane
Teia	Judy Gill	Julie
Teia	Ana Garcia	Teia
Golda	Marlene	Lora Brinkman

That’s it for today.  I’ll have more for you tomorrow.

The weekend before the Christmas weekend my husband and I drove to my parents so my husband could help my mom make tamales.  I helped on the last batch.  They all turned out really good!  So here’s a little slide show of all the fun…..

 So here is my mom and Kevin with my dad in the back.  My dad was making refried beans for us to eat with some red chili and rice before all the tamale making gets on it’s way.  By the way, my dad makes the best refried beans ever!

Here’s a picture of all the good fixin’s…spanish rice, green chili and red chili. hmmm… where’s my dad’s great refried beans?

Here’s Kevin showing the mixer mixing up the masa. OMG!

My mom and Kevin making the tamales. And my dad supervising. hehehe

1st batch cooking. yum..yum!!

Kevin’s putting the chili and folding the tamales.

He’s putting his tamales in the pot so he can get them cooking.

Here’s the Proud Tamale Maker all done with his tamales. Waiting for them to finish cooking so we can test them.

Good job Mom and Kevin. They were all real GOOD!

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! I know we did. My husband and I spent Christmas Eve with my family and Christmas day with his family.  We had tamales and all the fixin’s Christmas eve. And a nice ham dinner and all the fixin’s Christmas day. It was all soooo good. Yum…Yum!

Well, I’ve been away for awhile. I can’t believe how time flies. This week I have some catching up to do. I’ll be posting what I was working on and get ready for the new year. I’ll be updating my project and tutorial pages. I’ve found a lot of cool stuff on the web that i’ve been using and casing that I want to share.

And…..my blog is getting a facelift. I’m working on a new look for my blog and I will be revieling my new look shortly. How exciting!

Until next time……Have a wonderful day!

Saturday Challenges

• 2 Sisters – #55  Friends
• 365 Cards – day 187 – Past Present Future (see challenge for full details)
• A Gem of a  Challenge – 2W – 1stW – #29 Colour*
• Allsorts -  1E – #119 Green & Blue
• BasicGrey – 2W, SIR -  1stW – #52 Celebrations
• Card Patterns -  1E – SKETCH* #130 not yet posted
• Catch The Bug – 3E, SIO -  September Anythings  Goes
• Challenge Up Your  Life – 2W, 1E – 2ndW #51 Something for a Man
• More ->

Friday Challenges. Inspiration, Sketches and Colours

• 365 Cards – Create pattern with your embellies
• A Day for  Daisies – 2W, SIR (freebie provided) – Holidays
• Alphabet  Challenge – 1E, JFF – P is for Pretty Pastels
• Annabelle Stamps  Challenge – C8, SIO – colors*
• Bah  Humbug – must be Christmas – Christmas sentiment/text
• Bloggers Challenge – JFF -  monochromatic blues
• Cardmadfairy’s Digi Days Challenge – 2W, 1E, SIO, must use a digi -add flowers and DT call
• Card Makin’  Mamas – 2W, 2E, cards only – Go digi
• CAS-ual Fridays -  C4, must be CAS – black, white, red plus inspired by a book
• More ->

Cookie of the Day:   Chocolate Chunk Cookies