Christmas greetings - Oh no, I wrecked it!

I have been trying to add a few more Christmas cards to my stash. While I like the overall design of this one, I was disappointed in my stamping of the verse. I stamped it out and smeared it, I turned the paper over and restamped it and as you can see, the word Christmas is sort of paler looking on the left hand side.

I did not have another piece of the matching paper so I stuck it on my card anyway. 

That was a hard thing for me to do and I justified it by telling myself that only a card maker would notice ...Note to self to mail this one to a non cardmaker!!! teehee

The whole last usable scrap dilemna  made me wonder what other card makers do when facing the same problem?

If you are down to your last scrap of matching paper and somehow manage to stamp your finishing details with  a wee error...do you

1. set it aside and eventually check all over to try to find the matching paper

2. switch out the original paper and use a different colour with  a perfect restamped text

3. throw caution to the wind and stick it on anyway?

Normally, I would chose option  #1 but in the interests of getting a few more Xmas cards completed before my surgery, I opted for option #3...but as you can tell, I am not yet comfortable with my choice!!!

Should be fun to see the answers!

I am entering my card in the following challenges:

1. Stamp and Create Challenge  http://stampandcreateblog.blogspot.ca/search/label/Challenge - Anything goes

2. Stampin' for the Weekend  http://stampinfortheweekend.blogspot.ca/ Starting Christmas Early

3. Cute card Thursday   http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.ca/  Christmas in September

4. Crimbo Crackers  http://crimbo-crackers.blogspot.ca/  challenge #24 Vintage 

5. Christmas Crafting    http://christmascrafting.blogspot.ca/  challenge #14 Traditional colours

6. Holly Jolly Christmas   http://hollyjollychristmaschallenge.blogspot.ca/ Sentiment only

It's the little things you say and do

Glamour girl gave us a fabulous gift for Christmas...tickets to the Arts Club Theatre. We had a choice of various performances at their 3 venues during the season. It was such a perfect gift...DH loves live theater!

Then our world changed in March and the tickets lay forgotten...and almost expired.

Luckily, Glamour Girl started to remind me that the season would soon be ending. I managed to book us tickets to the last evening show of The Buddy Holly Story at the Stanley. We have always enjoyed dancing to his music in the past and looked forward to our evening out. We got all dressed up...I even wore a new dress and shrug, and fancy shoes too...no small feat for a woman with back problems. DH looked smart in black dress pants and a crisp shirt and tie.

We  made reservations for supper at Monks. We sat and enjoyed our dinner and gorgeous water views of False Creek. It was fun to view the city from that angle. Glamour Girl lives beside the water...she can walk to South Granville area or Kits or Granville Island...that is just part of her everyday life. To us, the views are a treat!

These rowers were out on the water and it reminded me of when Glamour Girl rowed on a Dragon Boat Team in False Creek. Alas there were not any dragon boaters out that evening...sorry!

The aqua buses were busy transporting people back and forth from the city  across  False Creek. There is a stop right at Monks.

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Just as we were leaving, an aqua bus pulled up to the Monk's dock and this Bride and Groom got off!

I got a quick picture before we headed out to meet up with the valet. There was a bit of a delay in bringing back our car, so we rushed straight off to the theater.

DH managed to find a parking lot about a block from the theater. That is about my limit for walking without something to lean on at the moment, so that was so thoughtful of him. As we turned the corner to approach the Stanley, lo and behold, the photographer was doing PR pictures out front. They were nice enough to motion to me to feel free to take some pictures too.

DH was beaming from the ticket window as I fired off these shots.

The play was so fabulous. Zachary Stevenson was a great Buddy Holly. His voice is just superb. The resemblance to Buddy Holly's voice is uncanny. He has played Buddy for several years for various different theater groups across Canada. Not bad for a boy from Victoria!

In tribute to my DH, who has struggled so much with his health in 2012, I leave you with a snippet of a different sort...a snippet of my favourite Buddy Holly song...Rave On

Well, the little things you say and do, make me want to be with you
Rave on, it's a crazy feeling and I know it's got me reelin'
When you say, I love you
Rave On

WOYWW 171

It's time for a gander at all the crafty workdesks  around the world  Thse sneak peeks can be found at the lovely Julia Dunnitt's blog http://stamping-ground.blogspot.ca/  Stop in and leave her a comment and then go on to check out all the creative desks.

My desk is looking a little bare but don't let that fool you. I have been cleaning and reorganizing the set up of my room. I have been working on the redo for several weeks...but got slowed down with the tedious sorting that accompanies such tasks.

My back surgery is finally confirmed for Oct 1st. This is such great news as I am fed up with being slowed down. I am tired of being in pain all the time and look forward to this journey to regain my "old life".  I'll be in hospital 3 to 6 days and then 6-8 weeks of recovering.   I will be up and walking that first day!

So I am busy changing up my room as I won't be able to bend or lift for several weeks. I have placed 8 shoe boxes along the right side of my counter...the side I rarely show you as it is always piled high with stuff to be filed! Considering that this space is supposed to a spot for guests to work at, it seems fitting that I have finally cleared it off!

I have filed away all that,  and more...and I have filled 2 shoe boxes with the bits and bobs for the wedding album I have been working on. I plan to have the iris box with the card stock and patterned paper for the wedding pages sitting out over there as well.
2 more shoe boxes are full of Xmas bits and  bobs as I hope to churn out some Xmas cards.

The big brown woven  basket is full of cardstock and patterned paper Xmas themed. I even have a set of photos of last years  Xmas tree and Xmas decorating...so may be I can get a couple of Xmas  layouts polished off as well.

Lastly I leave you with my ribbon masterpiece. I used to roll my ribbon and store it in jars on my counter. You can still see a few jars full of rolled ribbon on the counter that I have not ironed yet...as I have run out of the tag holders:(

It isn't working out for me as I can't read  the words on printed ribbon, nor see the whole pattern on some printed ones. So I spent hours unrolling it, ironing each piece and then weaving it through ribbon tags.
I sorted by themes and the remainder by colour. For now, I have stored all the tags on shower curtain hooks as I had an unused set. I am going to hang them all on cup hooks installed just above eye level on the closet wall under the stairs. That closet is accessed from my scrapbook room and already is used for scrapbook storage. They will fit in there quite nicely. When I need some ribbon, I will just grab the colour ring that I need and bring it to my desk to fine tune selecting which particular ribbon to choose.

By next week I hope to have layouts of my garden in those frames up on the wall. Then I won't have to tape paper over the people in the photos every time I want to take a picture of my counter...lol
See you next week!