Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Abandoned blog alert
Just wanted to pop in and let my friends know that I'm having a hard time keeping up with this blog. I'm going to take some time off from it, well, more time off lol! With the summer here and being outside alot I just don't have the time to dedicate to it. I'm still here and everything is A OK! My number one responsibility is my kids and since I've started an evening job I have even less time for my things. But you gotta do what you gotta do to survive right? Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Lots of pictures!
First of all we had an awesome 4th. All of our celebrations were great and fun filled. Most importantly, injury free! Here are those pictures...
Daddy's so great, he made a water slide!
Monday night we went to Brainard to visit Grammie's house one last time before it's new life. The kids have all gone and got what they wanted from her stash and now it's time for the grand kids. Keith had been avoiding it, for obvious reasons. It was hard for him since it was the first time he'd been in her house with her gone. He wasn't sure there would be anything he wanted but we managed to load the back of the Trailblazer anyway. I was totally amazed at how much handywork the woman did in her lifetime. I told Keith of all the "things" she has those should be the most sentimental pieces. Just thinking of all the resources she put into creating them makes them valuable to me. I swear that woman made a million potholders in her lifetime :) So that's mostly what we took. I made piles of boy color pieces to save for Jace and pink pieces for Rayna. I found a couple things that had "P" embroidered on them and gave those to Jace. Keith wants to do some sort of memory box. He took her fish cleaning knife, a deck of cars, some beer bottle openers, doilies, crochet hooks and some other pieces that reminded him of her. Also grabbed a fishing pole and net to hang in our basement. I also took some of her left over supplies since I am "into" vintage supplies. We found some garden art too. Here are those pictures. These chickens were made by Sue some years ago, I thought they were so kitschy now, I love them! Funny how they come back into vogue eventually :)
This week we getting ready for Rayna's 4th birthday party. Tonight we are going to BW3's for Barb's 60th birthday celebration. Tuesday, Earl May delivered and planted Vegas' memorial tree. She is now at peace in the backyard under a corkscrew willow tree. A very appropriate place since she always layed in the shade in the backyard. Although, the tree needs another season or two to make much shade.
Well, that about covers it, I have 2 screaming kids that I'm getting ready to take out in public of for a birthday party...yikes!
Saturday, June 7, 2008
Got some scrapping done!
With her Happy Endings kit
Her Stealing Beauty kit

And By the Moonlight These are all brand new kits in her store at Snap and Scrap, go check them out!
This one is a bit out of my comfort zone... something new I tried. I've been seeing these boxes all over the galleries and wanted to try one out and I got the chance at Scrapdish. Caroline B has some great sets out! I used a bunch of other stuff too, credits in my gallery.
That's about it for tonight, I'm tired and ready for bed :)
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
As promised!





And... I am the proud winner of Karla's drawing for swap prizes! I won one of the clutches! Yippee! The pictures totally don't do it justice, it's goregous. I can't wait to use it! And... of course they didn't send it empty! It had a pair of opera gloves and some blingy pearls inside SCORE! How thoughtful! My almost 4 year old daughter thinks she needs the pearls, we'll have to discuss that later lol!
Monday, June 2, 2008
Great mail day!
photo taken right from the Teresa's store, mine wouldn't be so pretty! She was so generous, she sent me a second one free! So my mom got a gift and so did I! Can't beat that!
Then I was snooping along the time machine, yes it does work, and I found a mermaid ATC for my dd! I've mentioned before what a big mermaid fan she is. So I snatched it up out of Wendy's store, to add to her ATC collection.
So that's my little shopping spree!
I've also been gifted an award by my friend Carolyn from across the big pond! How nice of her to think of me, especially since I haven't been around much lately!


Again, so thoughtful of her! Of course she rightfully deserves a kind blogger award, as well as an Excellent blogger award, she just hit her 250th post! You go girl! LOL! And last but not least....drumroll please! Today the mail brought me my swap package from Beth and Karla's birds and bonnets swap! Yippee! My project is awesome! I am now off to take pictures of my swap and figure out who in blogland will be the next winners of the awards :) And of course get ready for work and clean my bathroom....boo!
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Not that long since my last post!
And I did a couple scrapbook pages for my creative teams. This first one is for Bonnie. Full credits in my gallery.
This one is for Scrapdish. See credits here.
I did some shopping on Etsy today too but I bought mymom's birthday gift so I can't share yet what I bought! After June 3rd lol! That's about it for now :0)
Monday, May 12, 2008
MIA again!

And I've finished my project for Beth and Karla's Birds and Bonnet swap! I don't know why I procrastinated so bad on it, once I got going I whipped them out lickity split! The Vintage Workshop images were so inspiring, it was easy peasy! My dd even had a go at it lol! I'll have to wait until the 6 oz of glue dry before I post her project :) I did one side of the panel digitally and one side "paper". Here are the paper sides
and here are the digital sides...


I'm having a garage sale this weekend so I know I won't be back before then! Hopefully it won't be another month, but thanks for stopping by! I have to get ready for work now :)
Monday, April 21, 2008
I made something!

It's not much but I decided to jump into Karla's call for cards. I made this birthday card! I love making cards so why not help make a 100th birthday special!
I'm also joining in Beth and Karla's Birds & Bonnets Vintage Workshop Swap. I haven't done a swap for awhile and I really like the inspiration they bring. Sometimes I really need a "reason" to make stuff. Plus this really a mixed media project as it combines digital images and paper! I really enjoy my digital scrapping but sometimes miss the hands on of paper. Some of the buzz words for this type of project are tradigi, hybrid, it's quite the rage right now! I love using the computer to enhance my projects because I have no talent in the painting, drawing, and handwriting areas!
Anyway, I will be posting as I go on this project! In the mean time, here is a digital page I did for my daughter. I really like how this one turned out. I've been wanting to make a black page but didn't want it to look graphical, or like an advertisement...
I did this for my Scrapdish CT duties and you can see my credits here.
Until next time...
Monday, April 7, 2008
Hi again!


Monday, March 24, 2008
Hello!



I used her new kits Lazy Hazy Days and Mixed Bunch. You can see full credits in my gallery...
So in other news...I have a bad case of spring fever! We've been teased with some nice weather and it's driving me crazy because it keeps turning cold again! I have some crocus flowers blooming and that means spring is almost here yay! I want to snap some pictures of those today. My son has strep throat right now so the past few days have been spent holding him. I'm having some tummy troubles today so it will be a lazy day for us :) My daughter's preschool is on spring break so our schedule is all messed up this week. I'm such a creature of habit that I get off my scheduled and then can't get back into things. Maybe I can get caught up on housework haha! My job is going well. I'm very excited to find out that I am eligible for health insurance as a partime employee! Even for my family! That is such a big deal for us. Up until the first of the year my dh and I were both self employed and we have an individual policy and it's quite pricey and we have a $3000 deductible! So now we will have a better plan with vision and dental and I can afford it with my part time hours! who hoo! Such a relief! My husband can get insurance for himself from work but adding us makes it completely unaffordable so it will be a blessing to have us all on the same plan! It's just one of those thing in life that makes you think it's all meant to be, ya know.
That's about all that's new here, we've been spending the nice days in the backyard and the not so nice ones working :) Thanks for sticking around!
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Still around!
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
2-birthday
My son just had his 2nd birthday!
Credits- Island Hut Mini, Framerifics 3, Splots, Ribbon Expressions Misc, Glitzy Scribbles all from Victoria Feemser. Font- CK Rugged, PSCS2













