They're Coming to Take me Away.....

ho ho, he he, ha ha to the Funny Farm, where life is beautiful all the time!
Whoops, not that funny farm! This Funny Farm, a cute new set from Gina K Designs.

My samples use 2 of the animals and sentiments from the Funny Farm set. The piggy may have been playing in the mud a little bit before posing for his portrait. :)

Supplies:
Stamps: Gina K Designs Funny Farm
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Versafine Onyx Black
Paper: Gina K Pure Luxury Red Hot, Green Grass, Ocean Mist, Onyx Black, White
Other: Nestabilities Circle and Scallop Circle dies, Piercing ruler, GK Silver eyelets, GK Black/White Gingham check, GK Button, Corner rounder, EK Border punch, Black wax thread, Dimensional foam, Copic Markers

For more samples with tonight's new stamp sets, please visit these participating designer's blog links:

Gina
Theresa
Tami
Jessica
Melanie
Nina
Carolyn
Cathy
Lee
Lynn
Asela
Bev
Colleen
Sankari
Suzanne
Tera - Center Stage Spotlight Designer

The entire team would like to cordially invite each of you to our release party this Thursday night, September 30. We'll have contest questions, challenges, chatter, and lots of samples with the new stamp sets to share during the party. Please make plans to join us from 7-10 central on Stamp TV!

V.~

GK Fanciful Fall & So Groovy Blog Hop~

Autumn is one of my favorite times of year - cool crisp mornings, warm but not blistering hot days days, lots of warm colors abound - today's weather is the exception, it is blazing hot (topped out at 117 at one point out on our patio!)

Supplies:

Stamps: Gina K Designs Fanciful Fall Stamp Set
Memento Rich Cocoa, Potter's Clay and Desert Sand
Paper: Gina K Designs Pure Luxury Ivory and Pumpkin Spice
Patterned Paper: Basic Grey Pyrus
Other: Gina K button, thread, Nestabilities Circle and Petite Scallop Circle dies, Oval punch, 5/8" Ivory Grosgrain, Dauber, Distressing tool, Dimensional foam
Copics: YG91, 95, 97 E07, 13, 15,97,99 and YR24

Finished card is a non-standard size of 3-3/4" x 5-1/2". It just felt better than a standard A2 size.

For more samples with tonight's new stamp sets, please visit these participating designer's blog links:

Gina
Theresa - Illustrator of Fanciful Fall
Tami - Illustrator of So Groovy
Jessica
Melanie
Carolyn
Cathy
Lee
Lynn
Asela
Suzanne
Tera - Center Stage Spotlight Designer

The entire team would like to cordially invite each of you to our release party this Thursday night, September 30. We'll have contest questions, challenges, chatter, and lots of samples with the new stamp sets to share during the party. Please make plans to join us from 7-10 central on Stamp TV!

V.~

Over 6000 pictures...........

Have been perused (all of us made copies of our pics and exchanged with each other, we took about 2000 of our own), many edited, and my Snapfish album for our fantastic trip was submitted yesterday - a mere 86 pages short!

That's what I've been doing the last few weeks, along with end of summer activities, soccer and school starting.

A few family pics representing our stay:

Sunday - a rafting trip up the Na Pali Coast, totally breathtaking!

Monday - Waimea Canyon drive and hike, spectacular!
Top picture is all of us, lower picture is with my parents and my 2 younger brothers. My sister and her family were not able to make the trip with us.

Tuesday - Irrigation Ditch Tubing and pond swimming! Fun times!

Wednesday - Snorkeling with sea turtles, dolphins, and reef fish! The turtles are so cool!


Thursday morning - Tunnels Beach, more snorkeling. I can't get enough, it's so calming for me to don a mask and snorkel in the beautiful underwater world.

Thursday afternoon - Kalalau Trail hike
Words can't describe this afternoon, not just in its beauty; the determination my mom showed in completing this hike (4 hours or so) was so inspiring for all of us, my brother's and myself and the grandkids (a few opted to stay at the beach with Jay and Grandpa) - You rock, Grandma!

Friday - Ziplining over Kipu Ranch - thrilling!!! I'd do this over and over and over!

Saturday - checking out of our beachfront vacation rental. Great homebase for our stay!
We were left with 1000's of pictures and priceless memories to last a lifetime.

Now that this ginormous project is done, I am hopeful my mojo will return!

V.~