Merry Tidings

Mornin' y'all!  How was your 4th of July?  The hubs and I drove out to Texas on July 1 and were reunited with our spawn:

We celebrated Mom's birthday on the 2d, and went to the annual 4th of July shindig at my brother's house where we traditionally celebrate my SIL's birthday (which is on the 5th) and shoot off fireworks (they're legal there).  Then we got up super early yesterday and drove back to Colorado.

Anyway, despite all the traveling, I do have cards to share today!  CAS on Friday wants to see Christmas in July so here it is:

I got out last year's North Pole Delivery Specialty DSP and a two-part greeting from the coordinating Jolly Delivery.  This was actually my second card, I wondered if the first one was CAS enough:

I started out with a scrap of the green postmark pattern and maybe it should have been a bit narrower to be more CAS, plus I used three of the punch-out elements from the paper and some Dear Dots so I think this might have passed out of CAS territory and into clean and layered.  Hence the second card.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Jolly Delivery
Ink:  Poppy Parade
Paper:  Petal Pink, North Pole Delivery Specialty DSP
Accessories:  Mini Dimensionals, Dear Dots

So every time we go to Texas, I always try to hit up as many Half-Price Books stores as I can manage; this time I dragged my reluctant parents to EIGHT and the used book gods were very kind:

I scored around 65 books for myself, plus 18 for Ryan (he's reading the Hank the Cowdog series and I found a bunch of those), and 8 CDs.  I only have three more matte Nancy Drews to track down and I made quite a dent in my list of Hardy Boys books to acquire : )  While out shopping with my mom, I also got two pairs of earrings (on clearance), a pair of capris (on sale), and NINE pairs of shoes (free, because my mom was clearing out her closet and we wear the same size).  The hubs acquired a brand new fancy RC car and Ryan is disgruntled that he doesn't get to play with it, but we've seen how he took care of *his* RC car.

I got a slow start this morning, I was so tired after we drove all day yesterday, but I'd better get moving because we need groceries and Ryan has horse camp this afternoon.  Cheers!