It is such a roller coaster of emotions here lately. Mattie was admitted back into the hospital last night. It has been very hard on Laura as one day he is acting like a typical puppy and the next day he is very ill. I know a lot of you have been emailing us privately to wish us the best with him, and Laura appreciates all of your good thoughts.

Mattie is finally home from the hospital! He is sleeping a great deal, but he looks better. Poor thing has had a real fight for his life these first few weeks! Laura is very happy to have him home. She has to be with him for a while as he has to be monitored and has to be feed every 4 hours, but here are some photos she took of the little sweetie!

We have been very quiet this month as Laura's new puppy has been very ill and Laura has had to be home with it for a lot of the month. This week everything has gone badly. He was hospitalized earlier this week, and then went back to his vet. Last night he had to be hospitalized again and he was very ill. Mattie did make it through the night, but his condition this morning is very grave. We are hoping for a postivie outcome, but each day brings poor Mattie a new challenge. He is such a sweetie and has been fighting to get well.

This is my very first Layout. I finally gave in and went to a scrapbook class at one of our local scrapbook stores. Scrapbooking is a lot of work! LOL I really think it is easier to make a beautiful stamped card! But that is MHO. This one was fun as it was made with all die cuts and all of the pointsettiers are 3 D. Some of the holly leaves were embossed, so I got to play with lots of "tools".

This is Mandy. Although she is 8 years old, she is Bob's puppy! She loves Christmas as much as any little kid and loves to open all of her own presents. Hope you enjoy my layout!~

Mattie is just so cute I had to share this all with you. This is a picture of him Laura took tonight. He is playing with a toy that Paula Best bought Laura's cat last week! Looks like someone is starting to feel right at home!

Laura takes wonderful photos! We have decided to add a series to our line of rubber stamps from her photographs. The first of these is finally in our line and what a great image it has turned out to be! So now we will be offering a new section of stamps Laura's Photography Stamps. This is already proving to be a wonderful addition to our stamp company. The first photo is from a field of Sunflowers taken in MA. This is the photo and the two different size stamps it is available in. The Photo is available from Laura at http://www.photoimagesbylaura.com/ and the stamps are available from us at Lasting Impressions with Panache at www.lasimppan.com

Meet the newest member of the family! Laura and Vicki bought this lil guy on Sunday. Isn't he a cutie! His name is Mattie!

These are pcitures of the day as it progressed. Laura carrying one of the fence post, Vicki and Laura trying to get the fence into the new post, Laura digging one of the holes, and the fence finally up.

Most of you only see Laura at the demo table. On Sat she helped her dad replace a worn out fence. So this is a different side of Laura. Bob bought the fence while we were away at the York, Pa convention. We did not know that each section weighed 100 pounds until it was delivered. The delivery men enlightened us to this wonderful detail. It turned out to be a much bigger project then any of us every thought. Bob, Laura and Vicki worked from 10 AM until 6 PM and got up 7 sections. There are 4 more to do this Fall. Then we have at least 18 to do on the back property line in the Spring. I think everyone has decided that we will be hiring a crew to do that area.

We have been thinking about adding a blog to our website for some time now. Finding the time to get started has been the challenge. We seem to always have a full plate, so now maybe we can share some of the things that we are up to. Since this is our first undertaking of this, bare with us as we get our footings. You can travel with us on our adventures, hear what is new, and learn tid bits about our goings ons.