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Showing posts with label Liz and Alan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Liz and Alan. Show all posts

March 2, 2017

Babies and Friends

Greetings, Stamplings!

I see you have all cleaned up the fallen dominoes of February and the march of March has begun! Whoosh! At this rate, I'm buying myself a neck brace!

I can't remember the last time I needed a new baby card. I suspect that's because in my age group all of our eggs have fossilized. Of course, there are grandchildren in the picture for some, but a lot of my friends have children who have not yet married, let alone had children. It's a new time. 

So when a very young friend of mine had her second child recently (a boy), I had to pry open the rusty hinges on my baby-making stamps and dies. Wait. What? My stamps and dies don't make babies, silly, that's not what I meant. 

I was not surprised to find a few NBUS goodies in the lot, some of which I had forgotten I even had. Cough. Hammy and I had lots of fun playing with them.

Onefer
Recipe

NBUS circle die from MFT: "Stitched Circle Frames."
NBUS baby elephant die from Poppstamps: "Small Elephant."
NBUS "welcome" "boy" and "baby" (from fun foam) from PTI: "Wonderful Words: Baby."
Tiny safety pin from my stash.

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Twofer

As long as I had my baby schtuff out, I decided to make another baby card for a girl baby who has yet to come along.
No need for a long supply list for this simple design. I used a banner of melon mambo ribbon from SU and a sediment from "Love You to Bits" (ancient). The NBUS "Baby Carriage" in matching melon mambo is from Memory Box and the NBUS teeny-tiny baby head is from PTI's "Polka Dot Parade No. 4." 

Is that not the cutest little baby head?! The set comes with its own little carriage, but I wanted to use this MB carriage die. As a result, the baby looks like a preemie, but just look at how strong her neck is!

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Visiting Friends

Yesterday my long-time British bloggie friend Liz (of Crafty Sunflower) and her husband Alan came to visit the Playhouse! I had the pleasure of meeting Liz last July on my trip to the UK and I was delighted to see her again when they included a stop in San Francisco on their way back home from New Zealand. 

Here we are in front of the Playhouse door.
Bonus: when I was cropping the photo I noticed the Mister had captured himself in the window reflection!
And here are Alan (on the left) and the Mister (Kevin).
Both Liz and I were taking photos with our own cameras. Isn't it interesting how each of the husbands is looking at the other man's wife? No they weren't! Stop that. 😊

Thank you for stopping, Liz and Alan. We enjoyed lunch and wish you safe travels home ~ and hi back to Di and Ruth!

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