{Baby Logan's Shower Invites for Melissa...}

Mike and I have friends from the military, Joe and Melissa. We've known them for 17 years. They live in Washington, we live in So Cal. Does that stop the friendship? Nope! Joe and Melissa are the type of people that you can pick up the phone and talk to after 2 years and it's like you just talked yesterday! (Huh, Melissa!?! Hee, hee!) Melissa asked me if I would make baby shower invites for her cousin's 1st baby probably about 3-4 months ago...just planting the seed. Then we moved and now I have a craft room all set up for JUST this type of thing! So I busted out 21 invites this week, and mailed them all out on Thursday. I can't WAIT to get people's reactions to them! Like usual...pictures just don't do them justice, they are SOoOO much nicer in person when you can feel/touch them! The onsies are all cut out of patterned paper, the rectangles they are mounted on are embossed, that whole panel is up on pop-dots...nice twill ribbon (since it's a boy it makes it look more masculine and STILL lets me use ribbon!), the cute little chickie stamp set that Melissa picked out, and custom printed to match. Ahhhh....babies! They are the best! And when it's the first one, even BETTER! Welcome Baby Logan...I know everyone can't WAIT to meet you! :-)

{A Wee Bit Sweaty in Long Beach!}

Well...our AC worked when we moved in. Mike ran it 2 days and then it stopped working. We're having our retractable screen door put in today, so hopefully that'll help with the cross breeze. I think having the new front windows put in (they put in brand new, double paned vinyl windows EVERYWHERE, except the front 2...weird!) will be a better investment right now than worrying about fixing the AC. I'm pretty sure it'll have to be a whole new unit (we didn't expect them to fix the AC before we moved in anyway, so it's not really a "loss" persay!) and I don't want to spend that $$$ right now, you can get a better deal on that stuff during the winter when they are hurting for business.

So a little more sweating....hey, it's losing weight the easy way! Ha, ha, ha! At least we have the pool to cool off in...that makes it very nice! 7 more days of Summer School for Megs and her 1st semester class of HIGH SCHOOL will be done! WOW! Time flies, huh? Meghann is a FRESHMAN in HIGH SCHOOL!

Back to sweating now....at least the vacuuming got done early when it was cool!

{A Few Cards I've Made Lately...}

Ahhh...the new craft room! It's HEAVENLY! My husband adores me SO much that he allowed me to take over the 3rd bedroom for this purpose! It doubles as the office too...but come ON, it's mainly all about the crafting! I had a daughter promote from Middle School, a cousin graduate from High School, another cousin get married, and a baby shower for Meghann's bass teacher all in the span of June...so I needed to put the craft room to work! Here are the cards I made!

{Finished Them...Now to get them in the mail!!}

{Front & Back of "We've Moved" Postcard side by side}{Our Own Little "Neighborhood" of Houses!}{All the Houses from a Fun Angle!}{A Pile of Hard Work!}

PHEW! I had all the house images colored and cut and mounted BEFORE we moved. But then...the MOVE! It hampered my crafting a bit! :-D But now that I have a nice, new craft room all set up, I was able to finish these on Saturday! WooHoo! Now to get them in the mail! Be on the lookout for yours!