Welcome to the Stampin Friends April Blog Hop!
We will be hopping on the third Thursday every month, with a different theme to inspire you each time :)
The theme for April is 'All Things Animal'.
If you just arrived from Kim's Blog, thank you for continuing with the hop!
You can continue on the blog hop from here in a loop by clicking on the Next button below.
This month we are excited to have awesome Guest Hoppers that you should definitely check out!
1. Kristal Bell
2. Melanie Harrison Coverston
3. Robyn Rasset
We will be hopping on the third Thursday every month, with a different theme to inspire you each time :)
The theme for April is 'All Things Animal'.
If you just arrived from Kim's Blog, thank you for continuing with the hop!
You can continue on the blog hop from here in a loop by clicking on the Next button below.
This month we are excited to have awesome Guest Hoppers that you should definitely check out!
1. Kristal Bell
2. Melanie Harrison Coverston
3. Robyn Rasset
It has been a bit of a crazy week.
I attended Stampin' Up! OnStage last week in Salt Lake City (AWESOME event by the way - we got the NEW CATALOG!!)
On Saturday a snow storm swept across the country leaving Denver Airport closed - phew we thought - as we were flying back to Houston via Dallas!
Then there was the rainstorm that swept across Texas - and that caused multiple delays in Dallas :(
After being bumped to another flight - and then that one being delayed, my Roomie and I finally arrived in Houston at 11.30pm having left our hotel at 9am.
But that wasn't the end.
We arrived in Katy to heavy rain - and areas of my back yard and patio were under water :(
When we awakened on Monday morning schools were closed, hubby's office was closed, and our street was under knee high water. The bayou at our back yard had breached - although thankfully it had not reached our yard. Alistair spent some time emptying the pool and cleaning drains to try to get better drainage - but it didn't make much difference. Monday was spent on tenderhooks just waiting on a break from the rain.
Tuesday the rain stopped, and the water receeded a fair bit by the afternoon - although the bayou is still at the highest I have seen....we had more rain Wednesday and as I write this, more forecast for Thursday.
We are lucky though - so many others in our area have been devastated by the flooding, and sadly lives have been lost. It makes the inconvenience we have experienced seem pretty small :(
Anyway - this has all meant I haven't had a chance, or the mojo, to create...but, one of my swaps for OnStage did have an animal on it - so I decided to amp that up and share that with you :)
Appropriately it has a toad on it - I say that because this is the noise at the back of my house which is on the bayou, after all the rain. I am sorry about the photo quality - I had to try to snap these as quickly as I could.
I attended Stampin' Up! OnStage last week in Salt Lake City (AWESOME event by the way - we got the NEW CATALOG!!)
On Saturday a snow storm swept across the country leaving Denver Airport closed - phew we thought - as we were flying back to Houston via Dallas!
Then there was the rainstorm that swept across Texas - and that caused multiple delays in Dallas :(
After being bumped to another flight - and then that one being delayed, my Roomie and I finally arrived in Houston at 11.30pm having left our hotel at 9am.
But that wasn't the end.
We arrived in Katy to heavy rain - and areas of my back yard and patio were under water :(
When we awakened on Monday morning schools were closed, hubby's office was closed, and our street was under knee high water. The bayou at our back yard had breached - although thankfully it had not reached our yard. Alistair spent some time emptying the pool and cleaning drains to try to get better drainage - but it didn't make much difference. Monday was spent on tenderhooks just waiting on a break from the rain.
Tuesday the rain stopped, and the water receeded a fair bit by the afternoon - although the bayou is still at the highest I have seen....we had more rain Wednesday and as I write this, more forecast for Thursday.
We are lucky though - so many others in our area have been devastated by the flooding, and sadly lives have been lost. It makes the inconvenience we have experienced seem pretty small :(
Anyway - this has all meant I haven't had a chance, or the mojo, to create...but, one of my swaps for OnStage did have an animal on it - so I decided to amp that up and share that with you :)
Appropriately it has a toad on it - I say that because this is the noise at the back of my house which is on the bayou, after all the rain. I am sorry about the photo quality - I had to try to snap these as quickly as I could.
The inside is a pop up-
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My 3d is a toadally cute little treat box using the Pyramid Pals thinlits set-
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| This month we are continuing with our Blog Hop Give-away: • One lucky person will win an awesome crafty present from every blogger! • You can enter by commenting once on every blog hop post - use the #SFAprHop in your comments • That means you have 15 chances to win 15 crafty prizes! • Deadline MN April 24th 2016 • To comment on my blog - scroll down. |  |
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