sketch challenge layout...

I was struggling on this layout till I saw the sketch on
design by diana

with a change of pink pp...my layout came together...

thanks Diana!

joined the organizing challenge on 2 peas..

the first challenge was very good, to create a layout and take notes along the way...about what is good and what is bad about your present system.

Good: I like the way my pp's and cardstock and embellies are organized...I can find what I need.

Bad: all the stuff on the floor (see pics) make it hard to get to my counters and shelving where all my goodies are kept.

no elbow room on my work surface, could not even use my cutter.

and just don't like the fact that my flowers were in 3 different places.

I did get a couple of layouts done today.

including this one of Santorini, Greece...now days, I'm just so into all things shiny, glittery, shimmery...esp the Smooch inks!!





a while ago, I bought some pre-cut kits from a CTMH rep, today I pulled one out to make a layout for ds's book. Of course I did not do the same layout she had laid out...but then..just did not work for the pics I had. BUT, 2 more layouts and that book is done!!


wELL, THE CAPS KEY IS STUCK AGAIN!! OH WELL, TIME FOR BED, BUSY DAY AT WORK AHEAD!!

a li'l fun yesterday morning.

yeah, had a little issue with the tractor being parked in the middle of the gravel in front of the driveway...if you look closely you can see the letters from the tire on my bumper. Michael says that even as he left for work, he did think "I should move that, Karen may hit it"...uh huh...

well, it makes a different pic for my P365 layout!

I'm home from work today...next 4 days are going to be busy as I prep for closing May and then leave for Tx on June 3...but today is pretty blank, so I took it off.

Work is scary slow...but we've just got to trust in God. Make adjustments where we can and hope for the best, right?

Learn to enjoy the simple things...scrap from my stash...eat out less...all the things one has to do.

It will be so GOOD to see DD and DSIL! Its been since Dec!! 6 months is too long for me, I'm having withdrawals!

Crop Yesterday...

Did the pics from the kids' D-land trip last fall.all I can say, GREAT way to spend a day.






REALLY tried to stop myself from my standby layouts of PP, photos matted in cardstock and a little embellishing. (Of course I found myself going back to it)
But made the conscience effort. Though caught myself just trimming the pp, to put it on the cardstock,,,teehee. (see pics of the kids next to the castle)(the pp is SEI's Bridgeport...yummy...)





I got stuck on this one, I picked out the pp...so I texted Cierra, "Pick a color other than green"...her response, red, so I used a brick red on the layout. It was fun to go with something kinda random instead of colors I might have been leaning toward. (for me it was orange, but I had just done a green/orange layout.)





Then with Nyki, it was 'pick a color other than yellow'...her first response 'clear'..ummm, no I need a color...'silver'...did not have any cardstock (if I was home I could have done them)...so, no, a color...finally 'green'...aye yi yi...those blondes from Indiana.

I used a lot of older stash, these are from Colorbok, a boys package bought at Target,

and this one is Rob and Bob (still go to this pack for fun, colorful pp's)



I got thru d-land pics, then did one from C's last Theater Awards Banquet...I love how the girls will do those 'awkward' bathroom mirror pics. (don't you love the Fancy Pants pp?)

And started dd's graduation mini album. this one is 'easier' cuz it is all in pink and black and I am using a lot of Heidi Swap's Runway. But, that is where I had to end...cuz I ran out of glue sticks.!!

6th folder challenge..

1. Go to your 6th folder...


2. Go to your 6th picture...


3. Blog about it...


4. Tag your friends...


This is New Years 2007, Both of my kids were home...which doesn't happen very much lately...and we invited the "boys" who grew up with ds, and were like dd's big brothers ...and their families/girlfriends over for dinner. This picture is of Madison and my dd, I just love the way Madison is looking at dd.

adventurous morning...

internet is still off and on...oh well,
so I decided since I can't surf the net, I'd get some stuff done.

Yesterday morning, I collected the Encyclopedias for the bookshelves and organized some of the boxes in the garage. It ended abruptly, when I found a nest of vermin in one of the boxes. You know, just glancing to see the content of the box...and in the corner of my eye, saw something moving. yeah! a nest of squirmy little pink bodies. I ran out of the garage screaming. Luckily, dh hadn't left for work yet, so he moved the box out of the garage for me. And mom was laughing like a hyena. "I knew you'd find something like that"

I thought about it, but could not force myself to 'put on my big girl panties" and take a picture of those things to scrap.

This morning, I stuck to emptying boxes that are stored in the house. Putting books into the bookshelves. Also cleaned my desk (not the scrap desk). getting tired of seeing all these piles....wahhhhh

well, I just yelled at my mom. While I was typing this, she walked by the portacrib and yelled at the cat sleeping there. Now, mom did this Friday afternoon and when Cassandra jumped out..she broke a glass candleholder that was on the hearth. Today, she knocked over the glass from these metal candleholders I had placed there. I yelled at mom and told her to stop yelling at the cat. That the reason I put the fabric on the crib was so the cat could sleep there without leaving fur on the babie's mattress...and I can't keep replacing these candleholders. I feel so bad. I apologized for yelling, but still feel like poop.

If you get a chance, see the movie "Unknown" with Greg Kinnear...very interesting twists and turns..

having internet problems..

it is really intermittant today,
well, guess that means I'll get some stuff around the house done!

seems to be a few changes...Bad Girls kits got changed. Instead of doing the standard kit club, she is doing limited edition teaching kits. It was a quandry, do I sign up...or do I let my sub lapse..and save the money. Had to go with lapsing..dh has been getting on my about my spending. But I do love Wendy's style, and she said the new kits would be filled with even more found items from Paris.

Today is Betsy's last day at work. Man, I am going to miss her. She is going on maternity leave and says she is coming back. For me, I hope she does. For her and her baby...I think staying home is the best. But I won't be there, today is one of those minimum weeks at work.

Work is scary, we can all see that sales are down...@25% down. Think it is going to bring another round of layoffs. I hate that. I fight like the devil for
'my girls' and I think they are safe...but if another round comes up...accounting will not be unscathed. As it is, they are having me split my time into another dept.

found a CUTE website on 2 Peas NSBR board, look for the Ruckus Room.

okay, better sign off, see if internet holds up for me...