Hello again! It's been awhile.....

The end of the school year is always so, so busy and crafting has to take a backseat sometimes. Other things have been keeping me busy, too such as politics (ick!) and my son trying out for the Cheesedays Prince and preparing for his interviews, and cleaning up my classroom, and grading umpteen thousand exams. Anyway, all of that has passed by and I have a few days break before i teach summer school for a little while. School has ended, so I thought I'd have more time to craft and believe me I have tried. Felt like I was in a crafty funk for awhile. Thanks to some challenges, some ideas from friends in the unity chat this morning, and the realization that I craft better late at night when everyone else is in bed and the neighborhood is quiet, I did make a couple of cards today. The first one is for my dad for father's day. he loves hot air balloons so I had to add it to his card. Very fitting since this weekend is our balloon rally and we will probably see several of them in the sky this weekend. This card is my entry for the Unity June Kit of the Month sketch challenge, and the {ippity} challenge(to use red, too. Here is the sketch my card is based from. You still have 16 days to participate in the sketch challenge and 4 days to participate in the {ippity} challenge.



The next card has a funny story to it. (Although it was not funny at the time.) Both my husband and I have cell phones as many people do. My husband and son were gone for the weekend to a band competition and my son was going to be alone for some of the time that my husband was competing. He would be nearby, watching, and is very responsible, but my husband would not be right there with him. Because of this, he had my cell phone to use in case the two got separated or he needed to call someone. This left me without a cell phone and with a home phone that was not working correctly. As I am looking around the house for another phone to plug in because our digital cordless phone was once again being a pain in the butt, I decide that I will have to wait until the morning to go buy a new phone. I did not know my husband was trying to get a hold of me, and I did not know that my phone was busy, and then dead to him. He was imagining the worst. So, it is late at night, I'm in my pajamas and the doorbell rings. Friend of the family are at my door checking to see if I am ok and handing me their cell phone to call my husband and parents to tell them all I am fine. I talk to my husband finally explain to everyone that the phone is not working and all is well (especially since the police that my husband called to check on me were called back and told that I was fine ~ so they did not show up on my doorstep, too.) These great friends of the family left their cell phone with me so that I could be reached until I bought a new phone. I now have a new cordless phone, but also have a regular "old school" phone so that I will always have a phone plugged in and functioning. This is a thank you card I made to send to our family friends for checking on me that night and for letting me borrow their phone overnight. :) If you read this far, thanks. Happy Friday everyone. We are off to Legofest in Milwaukee. Have a great FWF hop and a GREAT weekend ~ you can see great creations here. You can participate, too. Link up your Unity creations!!