Big news

   On Jan 3rd I become  a Stampin Up Demonstrator !!!!!     
 My Up Line is Karen Titu of MN - makes it a little hard to
 keep in touch,  But she is wonderful and Her and her Hubby
 Tim Titus visited us on their way back form Fla to The 30th
 Anniversary of Stampin up. what a great visit to get to meet
 her and Tim .

    So on  Jan 19th I heard that the NC demos were having a
 Quarterly meeting in Charlotte - say what well I signed up to
  go . I met so many wonderful People whom  took me under
  their wing. Patricia hooked me up with Toni Mari Campana,
 whom has helped me so much even helped me get my blog
  here  back up as well as the one on the Stampin Up website,
                  It is http://countrycatstamper.stampinup.net
    I had a wonderful time when Patricia took me to a meeting
  at Toni's house great info was shared and we had so much fun
  making cards posted below:

  And for my birthday I received so many Birthday cards for
my birthday - it was truly overwhelming  I put them all up on
the wall in the hall like we do the cards at Christmas .

                      Here's some of the cards cause more keep coming in
                                                        These are by:
                                                     Phyllis Davidson
                                                      Rene DeSchane

                                                           Deanna

                                                           
                                                        These are from:
                                                        Melissa Marler
                                                           Jen Kallas
                                                             Cindy ??
                                                         Sandy Scott
                                                        Cathy Murphy

    All of these are from my long time best friend
  Marie Krueger who lives in Neb. we try to
 visit them when we can and Marie and I have
 such a great time making cards
 It's a very relaxing getaway for us . And we have
some of the best down home country meals.
Top card is a groundhog day card it is so cute
and so unexpected . Next one down is a Valentines
one and the Lavender one is a Birthday Card
The Bottom one is a  thank you card - that I love

                                                       These are From:
                                                     ?? no name or post it note
                                                      Jen Helding
                                                      Kelly Jones

                                                        Here I have cards from:
                                                       Georgia Allen
                                                       Norma P.
                                                      Jacque  P.
                                                               

                                                     These cards are from:
                                                      Kathy Turner
                                                     Ann Bredemeier
                                                     Terri Fingerholz
                                                      Linda Morris

                                                           
                                                    Linda MacArthur

                                                     
                                                   And this 2 from hubby

                                                           
                                                   Homemade card from:
                                                         Debbie Bacon

                                       
                                         From the bottom of my heart I want
                                      to thank you all for sending all this cards
                                        they sure made my Birthday very
                                                   special for me!


   I made a few cards  this week and Mailed them all out -
keeping me busy keeping up with all of them . Here's a few
pictures of cards I have made  lately :

                                               
                                                   

2019 Really

Hello everyone It's been such a long time since 
I posted on here -soooo much has happened since
I last posted. Lets see if I can up date this a little . 
In 2011 Hubby  decided to Transfer to North Carolina 
to the new CAT plant they were building there.
Moving oh my! Caterpillar paid to have our stuff 
packed and moved us we had may trips here to try 
and find  a home but we did it is so nice and I have
a big Craft Room.

So Hubby and I have been loving living down here we
have taken many trips to the ocean and trips to the
Mountains. Not a fan of the allergies that we got when
we moved here, so many flowers and flowering trees,
so much pollen surely all the bees must live here!

   This is what our home looks like at night every night.
 I love the candles in the window it's so welcoming and
 I love the look and you can walk thru the whole house
without turning on a light at night !!


 Here's a recent photo of us that was taken at our church
ummm last year I believe 

  We Have lost all the wonderful Kitties that I have posted
before - Matty and Jonah died here in North Carolina and 
the others back in Indiana. Gosh that sure hurt we sure miss 
all our boys . So we decided that we should adopted some 
new babies from the shelter.so a little over 2 years ago we 
adopted  Mindy Sue and her sister Molly Lou. Mindy is the
one with the white she has 4 little white mittens and such 
a sweet little girl. Molly is a sweet kitty but very different 
for Mindy .

So as you can see they have grown up a bunch and now are

 about 2 1/2 years old .

 Hubby and I decided that maybe we could give 2 more 

babies a home so we went back to a different shelter this time 

and we got to more little girls to add to our family. 

So we have Minnie Pearl and Daisy Mae .

 They are so very full or energy and all the kitties are so great together.
we so love our little girls and they are very spoiled .  And so darn cute.

  So I have a couple other pictures to share Bucket list items that we checked off !

   
 So while in Myrtle Beach we got to hold and feed Tigers! Whoo Hoo!!
I almost peed myself - it was so exciting we really love it. So the kitty
Duane is holding is 3 months and mine is 6 months.

  While in Gatlinburg Tenn last year for our 17th wedding Anniversary
we went up to Clingmans Dome and on the way back down we saw
this wonderful bear - I got out of the car and took lots of pictures of
him/her.
It was quite close at first it was just sitting on side of road eating brush -
We didn't have any food in the car but the guy in the truck must of had
food cause our little bear became very interested in him. That truck
didn't stay to long that guy was very afraid LOL. So wonderful to see
an animal in the wild and not in a cage. We love going to Zoo's and
learning about animals. We watch lots of shows on Nat Geo Wild
and Animal Planet on TV.
But to get to hold Tigers and see a bear Awesome.
And the Mountains are surely some of God's best handiwork!!

 We have had some Heartaches since we moved here. Duane's Dad was
very sick with Parkinson's passed away Oct 2, 2012. Just minutes after
his 83 birthday. He was in the Hospital in the Harris Hospice unit.
They have big rooms and I promised that I would stay with Dad till the
end. And I did. I sang to him and I had my computer on Christian
Music. I read from the bible to him and even through he wasn't awake,
I would get a hand squeeze every now and then. In that hospital chimes
would play when a baby was born.
The night Dad died as he took his last breath, a baby took it's first and
the chimes sounded .
   

I would so like to thank the Sonrise ABF class for giving me the honor of doing this for ALL of you, so we could show the Gray's how much we love and will miss them so. This is the 1st ever scrapbook- probably the last!! I didn't do it alone- Jeannie Williams

bless her heart with all she has going on was there to help trim and stick many days. Pat Henaday came one day for a hour or so and helped put some flowers together and we did another page as well. So much love and thought went into each page - you all wrote the heartwarming letters I just gave them a pretty place to lay - so you see we all made this book.

(I have one letter waiting to be put in it and hope there will be a couple more. want to really fill those 4/5 pages that are made but need a note yet.) Enjoy