Sesame Street's 40th Anniversary!

Today marks the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street! I vividly remember watching this show everyday and when my kids were young they watched it too.

Big Bird, Bert & Ernie, Cookie Monster, Oscar the Grouch, Kermit the Frog and all the other Muppets taught me lots of things and kept me entertained for many years. My favourite character was (and still is) Elmo! Here are a few u-tube videos that I found......I still find them very entertaining.







Happy anniversary Sesame Street! I hope the generations to come have this show to enjoy for as long as I have.

Little Red Wagon Challenge Blog!

I am so excited to be a part of a brand new challenge blog! The Little Red Wagon is a fun place to challenge your creativity! Each Wednesday one of the seven Girlfriends will post a new challenge that we hope will inspire you to try something different with your scrapbooking supplies!

One day a group of girlfriends got together to play with their papers, stamps, markers, ribbons, buttons and the rest of their seemingly endless supply of other 'have-to-have' scrapbooking and card making goodies. It was so much fun to talk, share, laugh and create with each other that they decided to create a blog that would motivate, inspire and challenge them on a weekly basis. They also thought it would be fun to have all the other girlfriends out there join in and share their creations based on the weekly challenges. So, grab your wagon full of goodies (we know you have one!), get creative and have fun!

Today is the first challenge! Be sure to visit the Little Red Wagon blog and join in the fun. Regan challenged us to use some sort of packaging to create our project. The products are usually my focus, but this challenge showed me that the packaging can also be useful too. I think I will be starting a stash of packaging for my future creations!

I decided to use the packaging from Jenni Bowlin's bingo cards. I have always loved these cards. I noticed that the very back card had mini versions of all the cards in the package along with the barcode etc. You will have to excuse my photo.....I was so excited about the challenge I started to cut up the card before taking a photo of it.

I cut out the small images and created this card!

Cardstock - Coordinations, Cuttlebug folder - Swiss Dot, Bingo Card packaging - Jenni Bowlin, Celebrate stamp - Close To My Heart, Scalloped border stamp - Stamping Bella, Ribbon, buttons, floss and bling - miscellanous stuff from my stash!

I hope you take some time and join in this fun challenge. Link your creations in the comment section of the Little Red Wagon blog. See you next week with another great challenge.

Update on Ben Fanelli

Through the Kitchener Rangers website, it was announced at 4pm today that Ben Fanelli's condition has been upgraded to 'serious but stable'. I heard on the news this morning that at the Ranger game on Friday there will be large cards that fans can sign and they will be delivered to Ben and his family.

Halloween Photos

I thought I would share a few Halloween photos. Matt has always been the one in our family that really gets into dressing up. He has won multiple contests in years past. This year he wanted to be a Zombie! Gone are the days that he dresses up in something cute.

On Friday night he was invited to a Halloween party. Here he is with his buddy.

I insisted on going in and getting a group shot. They had a dry ice machine going so the photo is a bit foggy, but I think it adds to the atmosphere of the night.

Jay had a hockey game in Georgetown and Amanda was down with a flu bug, so I didn't get any photos of them. We had lots of candy leftover and Matt came home with more than his share. Fun was had by all.

I got together with Joanne last night so she could show me some of the techniques she learned at the certification course for Copics. She showed me a lot of really neat things that I can't wait to try.

Amanda has been a little under the weather with this flu bug that has been going around. She was sort of bummed that I was heading across the street and felt that I should be sitting on the couch with her. I assured her I wouldn't be too long. She texted me the entire time I was there, trying to make me feel guilty.

She succeeded, so I made her this card. I used one of the new Stamping Bella stamps that we have in the store along with my Copic markers. I recently picked up some eyelet trim so I added it too! I pierced the border around the card and of course.......it needed a couple of buttons.

She loved the card, and remarkably she is feeling a lot better today.

Hit on Kitchener Ranger, Ben Fanelli!

Here is a photo of the team praying.....on the ice.....while their teammate was being attended to by the medics. I have never seen anything like this before.


This is the video of the hit. It is a nasty one, so you might not want to view it.

Say a Prayer......

..........for Ben Fanelli! Tonight at the Ranger game this 16 year old player took a very hard hit from behind and was flown to Hamilton General Hospital.

I watched in shock as this young man was slammed into the boards and his helmut flew from his head as he crashed to the ice. He didn't move for what seemed like a very long time and a pool of blood formed around his head. When he did regain consciousness he was in obvious pain.

My thoughts are with Ben, his family and his teammates. Please keep them in your thoughts and pray that he will recover quickly.