Television Interview of Jacob & His Friends.

In my last post, I told you about Jacob and his friends plans to have a bike-a-thon to raise funds and awareness to Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a disease their friend MacKenzie Crawford suffers from.  Duchenne is a rare deteriorating muscle disease.  Chattanooga TV station WRBC, an NBC affiliate, interviewed the boys at school Tuesday.  I think you can appreciate how proud Donna and I are of these guys.  Here is the link to their interview that aired tonight.  

Video 

If anyone would like to donate, you can do so online here.  All the donations aren't listed here.  Total donations so far are $2100.  Hopefully, there will be more donations at the bike-a-thon, this Saturday @ 11:00am.  Your prayers will be appreciated.  

God Bless You All!!!!  Peggy

One Proud Grandmother

My heart swells with gratitude to our Heavenly Father for the love & tender hearts of my grandson, Jacob, and his buddies from the neighborhood.  One of their friends, McKenzie Crawford, has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.  Duchenne effects boys, usually before the age of 5, and they usually don’t live beyond their 20’s.  McKenzie is 13. 

One day he was at Jacob’s house playing in their family room which is upstairs.  When he got ready to go home, his legs collapsed and he fell down the stairs.  He burst his lip and fractured his arm.  He has been falling more lately.  After McKenzie got home and Jacob had settled down (needless to say this upset the whole family) he told his Mom he wanted to do something to help them find a cure for McKenzie’s illness.  He was ready to go right then and sit out in front of Wal-Mart and ask for donations.  Donna is a great organizer of events so they put their heads together and came up with a bike-a-thon.  It will take place in their neighborhood around McKenzie’s house on October 19th.  All of Jacob’s and McKenzie’s buddies loved the idea.  They’re all busy trying to make everyone aware.  I don’t know what all they have planned but I’m sure McKenzie will see how much he is loved.

Donna contacted CureDuchenne and they sent the boys hats & tee shirts to wear for the ride.  They have set up a website for McKenzie so people can donate to CureDuchenne.  The boys can look at it & see who has donated.  If you can donate, the link is http://support.cureduchenne.org/site/TR?pg=fund&fr_id=1040&pxfid=1750 .  This link will introduce you to McKenzie.  It is for a worthy cause.

I just want to say again how proud I am of these boys for showing that kids these days still show concern for someone other than themselves.  They want so much to bring awareness to this crippling & debilitating disease.  

Here is a picture of (from left to right) Jacob, Ian, McKenzie & Truman.

 

Thank you for allowing me to tell you about this great group of kids.  If you can donate, you will be helping a worthy cause.  God Bless You!!!  Peggy

7th Grade Language Arts Project - Cricut Expression, My World, George, Zooballoo, Artbooking, Stand And Salute

Hi Everyone - Has anyone out there had to help with a 7th Grade Language Arts project lately??  Well, let me be the first to say - my son and I could not be more happy that we have a Cricut Expression in the house!!

Jacob's assignment was to read the book, "The Wave!"  Then he had to cover a cereal box and tell the story of the book on the box.  The front had to have a scene with the title of the book, author, and person making the report.  The back of the box had to have a summary of the book and another picture of something in the book.  

This is where the Cricut Expression comes into play.  For the front of the box, we kinda re-created the front of the book:

Sunburst - Artbooking
The Wave Circle - George
Soldiers - Stand and Salute

Jacob also had to place six items inside the box that tell the story of the book. 

The back of the box tells the summary of the book:

School - My World
Grass - Zooballoo

Jacob hasn't received his grade yet but hopefully he'll make an A.  Thanks to Cricut!!

Thanks so much for stopping by today - we appreciate your visits and your comments.  Until another day, God Bless You!  Donna

Flower And Butterfly Card

I've been busy getting ready to make another trip to SC.  My brother who lives in Texas is coming through Anderson and my siblings & I are getting together.  We always have a good time.  I think Max knows we're going somewhere.  He gets excited when I get the suitcase out.  He's such a good traveling companion.  He didn't like the bath I gave him this afternoon though.  LOL

My project today is a design by Daniela Angelova from the Silhouette Online Store.  Here is a link to it. 

I cut it from a printed sheet of cardstock.  Then cut and layered the flower and the butterfly.  I cut the corner off of a square doily, added it to the solid side of the card and tied a ribbon the color of the flower around it.  I placed a flower directly behind this one to decorate the inside.  I really like the way this card turned out.

Thank you for your continued support.  I hope you'll come back again soon.  God Bless You!!!!! Peggy

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BIG BROTHER BRIAN!! Silhouette Cameo

Hi Everyone - well you guessed it!!  It's my brother's birthday this week!  He's my older brother by three years.  Now my brother is a very smart guy - he's a computer systems analyst otherwise known as a "computer geek!"  Brian has a great sense of humor but when he's in computer mode, you can be talking to him and he'll nod and say yea, uh huh, but he hasn't heard a word you've said.  One time my computer had a virus, so I called him and asked what I needed to do.  He starts telling me what to do in all these big words that I didn't understand.  So after he was finished, I told him, "now say that again in lingo that I can understand!"  

So since he's a computer guru, I thought I'd make him a card shaped like what??  You guessed it if you said, a COMPUTER!!!  I downloaded this file from the Silhouette Library (now I know this is an older type computer but it's all I could find).  Anyway, I put the paper on the mat and pressed cut!  Again, voila - a la card!!!

I hope Brian will like my card as much as I do.  Thank so much for stopping by today.  We appreciate your visits and comments!!  Until another day, God Bless You!!  Donna

100 Days of Tombow

I am so excited to have the opportunity to participate in the "100 Days of Tombow" program.  For Tombow's centennial year, they are spearheading new avenues of creative growth.  They have been creating innovative products for the past 100 years that help us, the everyday artists, do our best work.  

For each participant, Tombow will donate $100 of  product to the Council for Arts Education, a national nonprofit dedicated to promoting and supporting art education and quality art programs nationwide.  Their goal is raise $10,000 worth of product for this dynamic cause that shapes the future crafters and artists of America.  Contact Barbara Pritchett (barbara@eosmarketing.com) for your products to be a participant.  

I will show you the products they sent me later but first I want to show you my project I created.

These are the products Tombow sent me.

Volume 8 - Very Pale Tone - Irojiten Color Pencils
A Set of Water Based Markers
A Tombow Stamp Runner - I will be buying more of this adhesive runner.  It is the best I have used.

Card Recipe - 
Card Base, Label & Scroll are from Cricut Cartridge Creative Cards cut at 5.5 in.  This cartridge makes it easy to make a card.  I did not use all the elements with this card, only part of them.
Image is from Scrapbook Society.com.
I colored the image with the colored pencils and used some of the markers to highlight the leaves & hair.  I love how it looked when complete.
I inked the edges of all the elements with Anna Griffin Blue Ink.

Here is a close up of the image.

Please contact Barbara and tell her you want to participate in their "100 Days of Tombow" program.  They are so nice over there.  I hope you will join us again soon for some more inspiration.  God Bless You!!!!  Peggy

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CHRISTOPHER!! - Silhouette Cameo

Hi Everyone - have you ever heard the expression - "Great minds work on the same channel?"  Well, my mom's brain and my brain must be working on the same channel.  You'll see what I'm talking about when you see the card that I made for my nephew, Christopher, for his birthday.  

Mom and I didn't talk about how we were going to make our cards, so the fact that the cards came out so similar is kinda funny!!   For my card, I used a Silhouette Cameo card kit.  I chose a Silhouette background file that contained guitars and sized it to fit the front of my card.  The sentiment was generated with Word.  

Here's the card:

If you will look at Mom's post from yesterday, you will see just how similar the cards are - oohhhh so funny!!!  Thank you so much for stopping by today - we appreciate your visits and your comments!!  Until another day, God Bless You!! Donna