Free Peas Fonts

This is a fun spot to get cool handwritten type fonts for scrapbooking and cardmaking. It's one of my new fav spots!

Running the fonts can be tricky on your wordprocessing or graphics programs but the site gives step-by-step directions. Be sure to check it out and have fun.

Did you know you can Google free fonts for lots more sites that have interesting fonts? The directions at kevinandamanda.com should work for these too.

Etsy.Com Listings

I added a slideshow above so you can see all the detail on this sweet layout.

Mermaid digital stamp © CCDesigns.

This is a sampling of what you'll find when you visit my Etsy.com store...enjoy and please be sure to visit soon. It's a great place for all sorts of nifty handcrafted gifts and supplies.

I hope to soon begin listing a few pieces of jewelry I've handmade recently. Here's a sneak peak...

2009 St. Anthony's Italian Festival

Wilmington, DE June 14, 2009 - What a terrific day for the annual procession of the saints through the streets of Little Italy in Wilmington! The sun was shining and the temperature was perfect...the best weather in recent memory.

This is the first St. Anthony's Italian Festival since our beloved senator turned U.S. Vice President so few expected to see him making the annual walk along in the procession. Those of us in the Archangelo family were no expection when up pulled 2 unusual SUVs with strobe lights and numerous atypical folks wandering the sidewalks glancing to and fro...surely a Secret Service detail. All of us at the corner of 6th & Scotts Streets realized quickly we were probably in for a surprise when Senator Tom Carper walked up to me hand outstretched and announced, "Joe Biden's back there". I enjoyed a good chuckle and said I didn't believe him but he assured me it was true. What a real surprise and treat when Vice President Biden and his darling granddaughter, Natalie made their way up the street to our corner!

My beaming mother-in-law hopped out to shake hands with Biden when he put arms around her and gave her a kiss! I was standing there in shock with my camera thrown over my shoulder enjoying the moment when I hollered for him to wait so I could take a photo. Mom also told him he owed her a photo. He obliged giving us his wonderful smile then hugged & kissed me and moved on to the next-door neighbors too.

I'm not sure he heard us when we mentioned his son, Beau accidentally turned my camera off rather than shooting a photo several years back but this was all the sweeter and worth the wait. The photo above isn't the best because I was shooting into the sun and didn't have time to readjust my camera but it will be treasured!

ROSES ON PAPER CHALLENGE

I happened across Roses On Papers Challenge blog this morning and was just in time to enter my card in the AQUA, BUTTER, and PEACH color challenge and have a perfect entry to submit.

I'm keeping fingers crossed it wins!

Check out the challenge at http://ropchallenge.blogspot.com/2009/04/challenge-10-yummy-color-challenge.html#comments

Cardmaking Magic

Goodness papercrafting friends...have I ever found a terrific spot for you to visit! This blog is beautiful! I should be so talented. Anyway, you'll want to see Irina's blog and sign in for your stake at a chance to win this week's blog candy. Its a grab bag full of terrific goodies and a Tilda stamp...aren't you like me, dying for a Tilda stamp? Please be sure to visit and with any luck my blog will improve and I "pinch" ideas from Irina. Be sure to cut & paste into your browser if the link doesn't work here http://everythingpapercrafts.blogspot.com/.

What a beautiful day!! Who would guess it could be sunny and 70 degrees here on the East Coast just before Halloween?!

My beautiful daughter, Carrie, and boyfriend Matt are working at the World Series in Philadelphia until (or IF) it heads back to Tampa next week. They are broke and sold off season tickets on eBay for $1500! Yay!

Matt is the only guy I know who has such luck to reluctantly sell off the prized tickets then fall into an opportunity to work for Major League Baseball at the games now so he gets to go to all 3 games in Philly! Today, they are filming something for TV with an unknown TV star and this mom is dying to find who the star might be. Only Carrie would forget! Here's a sweet photo of the cutie taken with Matt's IPhone...

Carrie has quite an interesting list of life experiences for a single gal who's 26! She's an alumni Katrina volunteer who worked in St. Bernard Parish in New Orleans with her university and Habit for Humanity dismantling the insides of houses. Hopefully, she'll finish college on time in the 10 year plan we've chuckled about! Her youngest cousin, Gabrielle, has just gone off to college so I'm just wondering who'll finish first???

Scrap-A-Latte Design Cafe & Alaska

Whew! The newly revamped selling group I belong to have finally finished all the changes though I am still madly making logos when time permits! It was difficult to complete thanks to a lax graphic designer for hire who only finished part of the work and no longer answers email nor completed logo 2. The one here is one I made and actually taught myself the html and figured out to add movement which you see on the steaming acronym "SALDC."

More than 3 months have passed since my last post! I am so sorry for anyone stopping by since our vacation to AK. What a hoot to come home to the big news from AK...I can't bring myself to repeat it here...I know you all know too!

It was a tremendous cruise. The temps. were fairly normal for AK running in the high 40s & 50s with few sunny days but completely enjoyable. Fran & I opted for a 2 week cruise up the Inside Passage and back and were thrilled that everyone we met on the 2nd legged said they wished they had done the same. Getting into Denali was difficult and tedious and not worth the 6 hr. drive in a school bus per the other folks so we felt pretty good considering our dear friends, George & Gina had done just that and both more or less agreed.

I highly recommend Holland America for AK and especially our little ship the Zaandam. Food and service were wonderful though I can't believe I was tired of eating by the end of the cruise!

College Fjord & Glacier Bay were awesome. Ketchikan was our favorite port with the quaint shops on Creek Street and the incredible Aleutian Ballad fishing boat we were set for both stops. The Aleutian Ballad is the fishing boat made famous on the Discovery Channel's "Deadliest Catch". The crew took us to see seals, eagles, octopus, starfish, etc. George & Gina were right, it was the best part of our journey. We loved it so much we bought our son, Justin, a beautiful jacket for his birthday and hopefully one day he'll get to ride it too since he has just returned from his first cruise this weekend!

Please be sure to check out the links for great paper crafts on eBay and visit the new blog for Scrap-A-Latte Design Cafe (SALDC).

More soon, promise!!

Time to Think Pink (click here for more info.)

The Pink Charm exchange has come to a close and I got them in just under deadline! Watch for a photo soon. I literally finished them the day I got back from Vancouver & Alaska. It gave me ample time to ponder the completion of the design and I was happy with the results because I wanted something cheerie and with our hostess, Amber's input in mind...I tried to give them some bling.

Here's a fun little summer layout.

Its hard to believe the time has arrived for our departure for Vancouver, BC tomorrow. I did get airfare, finally, and great rates too. Our good friends from CA, George & Gina, will meet us tomorrow night with embarkation on the Zaandaam on Sunday 7/20. It should be a blast!

The extended weather forecasts say we will have rain and weather in the 40s - 50s the entire trip. That's a bummer and caused me to unpack and regroup. Hopefully, we will be blessed with a couple nice days somewhere. Thankfully, the ship has a retractable roof over the pool so we can have some fun no matter the weather. The wonderful spa overlooks the ocean and I'm planning to be found there as often as possible.

Bonnie...if you look in on this keep checking back. Now that I know someone interested in papercrafts will be looking in...I'll be sure to post some patterns and photos related to scrapbooking and altered arts real soon.

!!!**Happy Fourth of July**!!!

Happy Fourth of July everyone! DH & I just returned from a fun day with two of our kids and one pretty special grandgal. It was lots of fun.

Sunday, July 6th kicks off "Christmas in July" with the PBSTR Design Team so be sure to click the link to the right to check out all the cool stuff! This will be my last few days of listing before a little summer hiatus so be sure to return to see what's up early in August.