What kind of tea are you?

You Are White Tea

You are quite delicate and very sensitive. You are easily overwhelmed. Peace and serenity are important to you. You shy away from intensity of any sort. You appreciate a simple quiet moment. You can relax easily without feeling bored. You take the time to enjoy life. Even when things are busy, you make the time.

What Kind of Tea Are You?

Back 2 School Tag & Pocket

These are for a swap. Part of the requirement was that there had to be 3 embellishments/alterations done to it. I wasn't sure if that meant 3 per item or 3 total so to play it safe, I did three per item. This is my first time swapping with this group and I didn't want to mess up and make others think I didn't do my fair share. But it's hard to stay generic enough that the item could be used for anyone. I chose green because that's my son's school colors but white seemed too plain so I used gold for the other because that is one of my school colors (red with green would look Christmas-y). I then realized that I just made the color combo for my husband's school. I mounted Yellow tag on Green tag cut with Cricut using Tags, Bags, and Boxes cartridge, and zigzag stitched (to make one) with metallic gold thread, Eyelet and fiber (would that count as only one or as two treatments? again, I erred on the side of doing more) and then wrote a common cheer that is chanted in school (so there's three for the tag). For the pocket, I added three brads (1), chalked the dk. green outer square (had to fill in so item #3 would show up), then used Doodlecharms to create the bus. I hope they like it and that it's embellished enough for the rules.

When we moved in 11 years ago, the bathroom walls were white and the shower walls had this paneling-type wall board (my parents used the same stuff for the entire bathroom but not in the tub). I think they did this to make a quick sale because when we removed the curling wall (water wasn't good for this stuff), we found out that someone did a cr@ppy job of tiling around the fixtures (I'd show you a picture but I can't get Adobe Photoshop Elements to cooperate and show you a photo and the file I keep on my desktop has been burned to a CD to clear memory on my computer harddrive so I can't access it the way I usually do - I just hope I printed them already and can find them so I can make a scrapbook page later).
Anyway, I painted the cheap flat white paint into a semi-glossy burgundy, kept the pink tile sine I didn't want to mess with that, and had installed a nice new tub surround. The window was a bit tricky but my old handy man that I hired to do this, came up with a nice way to deal with it I think.

Here are the photos of the completed bathroom - just please ignore the mess (dirt in the corners, caulking tubes, toilet paper out, etc) since I hadn't put everything away yet when I took the pictures.
Here you can see the painted wall, the new shower curtain and the new cabinet that was bought two or three years ago (bought it the same time as the one over the toilet but never put it up until I was able to get this project done because I didn't want paint on it and I didn't want it getting dinged up with the tub walls).
Here you can kind of see the new tub walls, the new bath mat (on the side of the tub so the cat doesn't pee on it) and more of the new painted walls. The mirror was also bought over 6 years ago but we've been using it. You can't see it but the light over the mirror has a bulb with a short in it that we'll still need to figure out what to do with it (can it be fixed? or does it have to be replaced?). I had to remove it off the wall (but we didn't "un-wire" it (or would it be "de-wire" - guess I'll have to ask my DH what the opposite of "wiring" would be) to paint around it and I had further proof that the wall used to be yellow before the cheap white paint job.

We're still trying to figure out how to have these faucets. The hot and cold handles both turn counter-clockwise while the middle handle turns clockwise to make the water flow from faucet to shower head. They look nice all pointing down, but the hot water handle is in the way of the middle shower handle when you are ready to move it. They are just a little too close and the handles hit each other. :(
I thought these colorful daisies were a nice addition to the tub. One other thing we still need to figure out, how to get the water to drain out faster. The tub didn't have a stopper and everything could go down if it could fit into the hole (and believe me, my boys have stuffed quite a few things down there during their baths/showers) so now that we have a cover over the hole, the water doesn't drain very quickly. I was standing in water up to my ankles during my shower this morning.

Now my next home improvement project is to decide what to paint the dining room & hallway and I'll be rid of that cheap white painted wall. Someday, I'd love to be able to push the wall out from the back of my house and enlarge my kitchen and dining area so not sure how far I'll go with redecorating if I paint it.

I'm finally getting back my internet speed!

I'll have to show you what I've been up to later but for now, here's a blog quiz. First one is mine, second one is my husband's.

You Would Make an Okay 1930's Wife

You have some of the attributes of an ideal 1930's wife... but you probably didn't intend it to be that way. You don't buy into retro gender roles, though you do embrace your femininity at times.

http://www.blogthings.com/wouldyouhavebeenagoodwifeinthe1930squiz/">Would You Have Been a Good Wife in the 1930s?

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You Would Make an Okay 1930's Husband

You have some of the attributes of an ideal 1930's husband. You're well mannered, kind, and even tempered. You have a few bad habits, but what man doesn't?

http://www.blogthings.com/wouldyouhavebeenagoodhusbandinthe1930squiz/">Would You Have Been a Good Husband in the 1930s?

Name Acrostic

I'm having internet difficulties so that's why I haven't been posting. Hopefully, soon I'll be back to "Normal"

What Cheri Means

C is for Classy H is for Healthy E is for Enthusiastic R is for Relaxed I is for Ideal

What Does Your Name Mean?

July First Sketch

Here's the sketch to try:
And here's what I came up with:

There's two of them going for a Fourth of July swap and the only thing differernt is the embossed circle with the Bird and Vines embossing. I used Matte Accents by Inkssentials on the bird (it's still drying when I took this scan - the edges are dry and it's fairly clear so when it's all dry it should be clear instead of milky). I used my new Cricut to cut the big circles. I had to fool it into thinking it had a bigger piece of paper than it actually did since it kept saying that it couldn't cut a 2-inch circle. It did, and it had left over paper too!

I'm going to a crop this weekend so I should have lots of pages done if I can get some time to plan what to take.

Happy Fourth of July!!!!

I'm sure I'll have some pictures after Friday night but for now, here's some quizzes I took to entertain you.
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http://www.livescience.com/php/trivia/index.php?quiz=independence-day
You answered 8 questions correctly out of 10. If you scored a perfect 10, you're ready for a political office. If you got 7 or better, you're ready to vote. Fewer than 7 right? Ask an immigrant to teach you about our nation's history.
(In my defense, I'd like to say that I missed the first question because i was trying to decided which was correct: Signing the Declaration or Adopting the Declaration but hey, 80% isn't bad after all.)
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What Your These Fireworks Say About You

You are focused, single minded, and intense. You don't let others see your intensity often, and when they do, they are quite surprised. You burn brightly, but you also burn steadily. You have the endurance to get the one thing you desire most.

The Fireworks Test

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You Are a Summer Person

You are energetic, outgoing, and active. You love to be out and about... hanging out with friends or getting things done. Summer is the perfect time for you to be as hyper as you want to be. In fact, during the rest of the year you feel half-asleep!

Are You a Winter Person or a Summer Person?

Yellow/Blue/White Kids cards

I had Kids Birthday cards to make for a swap and on a different card group, the challenge was to do Light blue, Yellow and White. So here's what I did. I combined them both to create these cards. The part of the white paper that got trimmed off was put inside as a border.