What a day!

Hi, gals!

Have you ever had one of those days where you should probably just have stayed in bed under the covers? It's been awhile since I have, but today was one of them.  Since my birthday is Saturday, my driver's license had to be renewed this year so I got up & washed my hair in anticipation of the "mug" shot I knew they would take.  I had thought about doing it on line, but my last photo was SO horrible all I could think of was this was my chance to get a better one.  As I dried my hair,  thinking about the day ahead, I thought I would go check my blog while the curling iron heated to be sure that my first post for QKR Stampede had posted as I had scheduled it to.  I pulled it up and NOTHING!  My heart was in my throat & I couldn't believe it! I had done everything I thought I was supposed to so that it would publish at 5 am on FRIDAY the 7th. (You are getting ahead of me aren't you? ha ha)   I pulled my blog up, checked it again & it all appeared ok.  I tried getting it to publish to no avail & was by then just frantic!  I emailed friends to see if they had any idea what had gone wrong & how I could fix it.  Thank God, Karal replied with "are you talking about tomorrow's blog?"........DUH!  I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.  In all the days since I have been retired, although they all "feel" like a Saturday to me, I've never gotten the actual day of the week (or the date) screwed up. Until today!  I won't make THAT mistake again!

Oh, and the mug shot I got later in the morning?   Yup!  Worse even than the last one I was so desperate to replace!  And it took her 3 tries to get one where my eyes weren't closed or my head tilted!  I could have done it on line & kept the old picture.....

Enough about my day.  If you are still with me, I do have a couple of cards today.  I got this beautiful embossing folder around Christmas that has a beautiful embossed heart for the main folder & came with 2 narrow additional folders, this being one of them.  I fell in love with it & played with it last night to see what I could come up with.

 This was the first version. I used the oval center from Spellbinders Radiant Rectangles and an EK Success corner punch I've had since I first began making cards. It has a flower motif similar to the one on the Sizzix embossing folder.

This was my second version.  I embossed the background this time for a little texture. I've got a dozen other versions going round in my head to try this afternoon.

Have a wonderful FRIDAY tomorrow!  I'm hoping if you visit tomorrow you will see my first submission for QKR posted as scheduled.  ha ha

Sherri