http://waterpixie.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:05:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Happy Friday! http://waterpixie.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2009/11/20/dc-part-squirrel/ Friday was our day to tour as much as possible while we were in D.C. Thanks to very helpful people from the event we attended Thursday night, we started the day by waking up early to make it to Ken Calvert's office (our state rep) to see about getting a ... http://waterpixie.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2009/11/18/dc-part-3/ With today being Veteran's Day, I wanted to share with you what was the most emotional part of our trip to D.C. for me. As we were walking to the Vietnam Memorial, Don was relating to me his experience when he walked the length of the wall for the first time ... http://waterpixie.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2009/11/11/dc-part-2/ On a walk down past the embassies, we spotting this awesome panda. I don't remember what building he was outside of but he was too pretty to not take a picture of. More D.C. pictures coming this week. http://waterpixie.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2009/11/08/dc/ This year I did a lot of sewing for the boys' costumes. And thanks to my procrastination they got to change who they wanted to be at the last minute. :lol: Meet Ash Ketchum: This costume was really fun to put together and I was thankful that Perrin picked somebody who only ... http://waterpixie.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2009/11/02/this-is-halloween-09/ [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iypUpv9xelg&feature=related[/youtube] Wishing you all a fun and safe Halloween! I still <3 Oingo Boingo. I can't have Halloween without listening to them!I have to hit the sewing machine and finish up some costumes.  http://waterpixie.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2009/10/31/happy-halloween-4/ Sorry about the rotten pictures. It was late, I had just finished making 54 of them and still had to pack for an early flight to spend a few days in D.C. (more on that later). :) This year, because of year-round school, I needed to get the Halloween treats for ... http://waterpixie.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2009/10/27/trick-or-treats-09/ on my last name. Because I've learned in my 12 years of being a Gunnell, that in some language it translates to "takes pictures of birds." At least I haven't gone completely over the edge. My sanity thrives on not actually knowing what bird this is. I leave that up to my ... http://waterpixie.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2009/10/19/i-blame-the-following-post/ Still working on my quilt! I'll have more pictures of that to share later. For now, I wanted to share with you this little guy that I created over the weekend: My brother's birthday was this past Sunday, and instead of making a card to hold his "universal gift card" I ... http://waterpixie.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2009/10/14/money-monster/ Last Saturday I started my two day Beginning Quilting class at a local fabric shop. It's fun! I learned a lot in that first class and I'm really looking forward to the second class this Saturday. So this week I am cutting, subcutting and piecing my stars together. Then we're going to ... http://waterpixie.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2009/10/08/piecing/