Our Electrical Power Has Returned.....Yippee!!!

We are rather spoiled in my little town.  We have a municipal power company and we really never lose power for any length of time.  That changed with Hurricane Irene.....Power was just restored at 10:45 tonight after being out since early yesterday afternoon.......and what a delight it is to return to normal routines, especially when rumor had it that we would be out of power for over a week as we had a catastrophic failure of all transformers (whatever that means....sounds terrible to me!!!)

Anyhooooo.....I have a few to share with you today.....now that I also can use my computer and have internet access.......

This is the card I did for Tuesday's Tea Party Challenge on SCS.  Its destination is to a fellow Tea Partier who is recovering from surgery.  I used a set from Mark's Finest Papers to create the card.

This next project is for the Totally Stampalicious Monday Challenge.  Thsi week we were to make bookmarks.  Be sure to check out the Totally Stampalicious Blog to see the other fabulous bookmarks.

This last one was created for the lifeguard at the nearby town hall pool.  I swim there three mornings a week yearround.  She has a young family and is leaving us to stay at home with her children.  Many of the swimmers during this session are retirees, so I just had to use my swimsuit ladies.

I apologize that I forgot to take the picture of the inside before writing in it, but I wanted to show you the other beauty.  They just make me smile!!!  Jen will be missed, as she had been the guard since I started going after retiring 5 years ago.  However, I am excited for her to be able to spend this time with her family.

Well......I am going to really enjoy my day tomorrow.  Will be able to get gas in the car, get a newspaper, drink hot or cold coffee, use lots of light when I read, AND I will be able to see in the stamp cave to stamp.  What a wonderful world!!!!!