Two Halloween Cards

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My camera isn't co-operating with me today but here are two cards I made for Halloween. What with all my canning and gallivanting I only found time to do two cards.
These are stamps I found at Joannes Fabrics and Crafts in Colorado when we were visiting family. Thanks Curt for telling me about the dollar bin and Halloween stamps at Joannes. The cobweb on both cards is from The Dollar Store and the spiders and things are from there too. The tree is from Penny Duncan Creations and I used Amy Chomos pens to draw it with silver glitter pens instead of an svg. The envelope is just folded from Halloween paper that my step daughter gave me. The edging of birds is from Blue Hills Studio, Tweet Tweet. The darker orange on the last card is closer to the proper color and both cards have envelopes.
That's it for me.
Have a Blessed day.
Myrna

Inspiration

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This was the sky from my front porch that inspired me to start my canning adventure. I thought with such a wonderful start to the day that all would go well. LOL Actually all the fruit looks lovely. I ended up with 13 quarts of plums, 1 qauart of apples, 5 quarts of pickled beets and 3 crabapple jelly/syrup.
I know I haven't posted a card in a long while but I do have two made and just waiting for the sun to do its thing so I can get a picture of them. I think it is going to be a bit difficult to see the detail but I shall try.
That's it for me.
Have a Blessed day.
Myrna

Don't they look pretty - but

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Here is a picture of the container all those crabapples came in. Yes it was washed out. lol Beside the pail are the three (3) jars of jelly they made. My aren't they pretty? Yep it would have been lovely but they didn't jell. So we now have crabapple syrup.
Some more plums!!! OK so I went out and bought a canner just so I could can the rest of those plums. Here is the result.
Now I am going attempt one more canner of plums and I think I will even get brave and throw in one jar of apples just to see what happens.
This is the result of not canning in 30 years !! One gets out of practice.
This post really is for Gail and Curt who I know will appreciate the humour in it. Eventually I will too. Perhaps the next post should be a card???
Have a Blessed day.
Myrna

Second post today -Lacey's birthday card

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I decided to try one more time to find the last card I had done and forgot to take a picture of. While we were visiting Joy I got the photo and tonight I actually got it off the camera. Hooray!
It is an iris folded butterfly. A little more tricky to do than my usual ones because you have to do each side alone and there is very little room to attach the paper under the body. The flower is one I love doing and have shown many times on my blog.
Well that's it for me.
Have a Blessed day.
Myrna

This is what I have been doing instead of cards

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Well after 3 weeks with his family in Colorado, one week with my brother in British Columbia and 1 week with our family in Alberta I am trying to get back in the swing of things. Not an easy task. lol
While we were in B.C. my sister-in-law and I picked at least 40 pounds of blue plums. I didn't know that 40 pounds of plums could be so much fruit. I brought back 120 pounds of apples. I also raided her garden for beets, carrots, pumpkin, potatoes, corn and onions. Once that was done we cleaned up the garden for the winter.
This is only a small portion of the canning I did in the 3 days before we went to my daughters. There are beet pickles, pumpkin for freezing and beets for freezing. Also froze 8 freezer bags of plums. Didn't even make a dent in the boxes. On top of that I made 6 pie crusts, one pumpkin pie and one apple pie for an early Thanksgiving and early birthday celebration for Joy. Because she works those days, we celebrated early.
I also took a picture of the birthday card I made for Lacey and forgot to post before the holidays. Now it is on the camera but I am having a problem taking photos off of the camera.
Ok that's it me for this time. More on my adventures with canning in the next post (if I can get the pics off the camera).
Have a Blessed day.
Myrna

Holidays may be over- perhaps just one more

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Just a quick note to all my blogging friends who may or may not have been wondering where I am.
I have been holidaying. Three weeks spent getting to know my step children, step grandchildren and step great grandchildren. One week spent with my brother and his wife.
Now it is back to business. I have tons of veggies to freeze, can or pickle so I may be a little lax on my card making. I have at least 3 to do for October so better get with it.
When I think of it, there may be one more holiday in the offing. Thanksgiving and my daughters birthday are so close together that we will celebrate them as one and so that is one more short trip. lol
Thanks to those of you who tried to reach me via email. Makes a girl feel special to know she was missed.
Have a Blessed day.
Myrna