My poor neglected blog

I have so ignored my blog. So much has been happening and I just don't know where to start.
The church had their School Supply Giveaway. That was a success. Next year we plan on expanding it to all of Pocatello not just Chubbuck. I'll post some pictures later since those are all on my desktop. I did do a few layouts from that too.

To top it off we started school this last Tuesday. I'm returning to the Lapbooks, or Thematic approach again. Makes it easy to wing when you still have books in boxes. Tuesday we started with Science and the microscope. I tell you they wanted to do the whole 3 months in just 1 day. I had to stop them at 3:30. LOL! We flew through our reading assignments Wednesday so they could hit the microscope again. That was a big mistake. I knew it felt like a headache was starting, but I think the lights in my eye triggered a migraine. I was down for the count. I'm still dealing with it just on a lesser scale now. 4 days and counting.
Thursday it came down to the absolute have to fix the fish pond day. The pond was losing water to the point we had to fill it almost every 2 hours or the poor fishes had no water. So I had to go buy a fish net and some pond adhesive to fix the pond. We move the fishes to the top pond and let the bottom go till there was hardly any water left. OH WAIT! What's this? The pump that pumps the water to the top pond for the waterfall is set up just so... and the water siphons backwards and out of the pond! WTF! So all this time the pump has been literally pumping the water out of the pond! No wonder when we bought the house the guy said that they didn't run the pump because "it evaporated the water from the pond too fast." That made no sense to me, but NOW it did. You see he had just set the hose up between some rocks and let her go. Well it ran under the rocks into the pond and around the rocks out of the pond too. So we took the whole shabang apart and used the adhesive to seal the rocks together so not backwashing allowed there. (the adhesive was also for building waterfalls hooray! no extra expense needed there) Then we cut a longer hose so the water doesn't really hit the rocks, but goes into the pond. So it's dark about now and we have to clean out the bottom pond might as well since it's empty anyway. Fill it and run it over night. Yippee! No water loss! Fishy's are saved!
Friday was another busy day. We did the first co op classes for the PCHA. Very small not ready for anything like First Class but a forward step anyway. Then we went gleaning for fruit. I just wish I knew where all the fruit went to. Last year there was tons of fruit this year it was sad really sad.
Matter of fact now that I think about it last year there were tons of stickers and weeds around and this year there were none of those too.
Today is just work on the yard day and relax. We had thought to go to the fair but the fishy rescue took that money. So we have prepaid tickets for the Reel Theater and we're going to do the family movies tonight. Just which one first. "Evan Almighty" or "Pirates" hmmm.

WalMart and Disney are full of it!

My seven year old picked up one of those all access tickets from Wal Mart for the High School Musical thing at Disney.com. I have never been able to "connect to the server" to finish his registration so I could enter his ticket number. Now I have a very upset seven year old! My advice don't bother the next time they try to do a big promotion at Wal Mart. It was a totally bogus promotion. I doubt any of the "Kids" were able to register. I was never able to find an email to let them know I had a problem either. So beware the next time! I sure will!

The Reluctant Recluse

You have got to check out this blog. She has some awesome layouts posted there and to top it off with extra icing she is giving away a calendar template every month. That is so nice of her isn't it? So go check it out.

Check It Out!

We have a blog for the Amazing Digi Scrapping Race 2! I'm going to try to keep up my layout posts. So stop by and check out our latest layouts for the race.

Free, Free!

I meant to post this yesterday but took a nap instead. OPPS! The rental house is rented! The new renters moved in Saturday! Hooray!!!! So now all we have to do is wait for them to figure out how much we get back. Face it the only thing they had to do was clean the carpets cause they could get a better deal. I did the cleaning and the house is in waaaaay better shape than when we moved in last year. My only advice to the owner is to install a sprinkler system since that yard is so hard to water. Might be able to keep the grass alive that way. Off to church now. Have a Happy Sunday.

Out of the rental

Now we just need to get it rented. Yep since our lease isn't up yet we need to be the ones to find someone to replace us. So if you know anyone in Pocatello that is looking for a house to rent I know of one. The house is waaaayyyy cleaner than it was when we moved in, and the old rancid paint smell is now gone. It even has air conditioning. All for just $850 a month. Just email me and I can take you for a look see.

Little update on me here.

I am so pooped. This house had better rent quick with as much moving that we have done and the weather seems to like hitting 100F. Matter of fact the radio said today was over 100F! The guys are moving boxes and 2 other homeschool moms came to help with the cleaning. We finished sometime after midnight. I sooooo want this to be over. Tomorrow and this part of the nightmare will be over. Then I have to get my dishwasher and microwave installed in the new house. Yipee! Get the kitchen in order and I'm taking a break and scrapping for a week straight! That's my grief therapy. I have a ton of photos my MIL has emailed me that I'll be making a scrapbook for her and SIL. Any who I've got to be up early and at the rental house by 9am. ICK!

Little update on me here.

I am so pooped. This house had better rent quick with as much moving that we have done and the weather seems to like hitting 100F. Matter of fact the radio said today was over 100F! The guys are moving boxes and 2 other homeschool moms came to help with the cleaning. We finished sometime after midnight. I sooooo want this to be over. Tomorrow and this part of the nightmare will be over. Then I have to get my dishwasher and microwave installed in the new house. Yipee! Get the kitchen in order and I'm taking a break and scrapping for a week straight! That's my grief therapy. I have a ton of photos my MIL has emailed me that I'll be making a scrapbook for her and SIL. Any who I've got to be up early and at the rental house by 9am. ICK!

This has not been a fun day

It's been a day full of mixed emotions. I will write this up when I have a chance and post it for you. Right now the brains are kind of foggy for us.
I wrote down our Tuesday for those that are still wondering what happened.

This morning I was doing the hit the snooze button thing with my alarm clock when the phone rang. When I answered I heard this gasping sound. Turns out it was my mother in law. She just kept repeating my name, in this gasping way. The hazard lights turned on in my brain and I KNEW something was wrong. At first I thought it was Phil’s step dad Herb, but then she started repeating Chris, Chris. Chris is dead. What!? Dead!? No bad joke! Not funny as far as I was concerned. So I asked what happened. Did he have and accident?
“No” she said “he died in his sleep.”
Right then I told her I had to hang up and call Phil. “Your going to call Phil?” she asked me like she didn’t understand what I said.
“Yes, I’m calling Phil”
So we hung up and I called Phil’s cell phone. Left a message, then a pager number with 911 on it, and started the ring the phone hang up ring again till he answered. It was not the type of news anyone wants to give their spouse. Phil called his mom then his work sent him home. Talk about a loooooong day. Bryce still had a baseball game to play so we went and watched that. In the mean time Phil called the mortgage company and asked to have our escrow signing moved up. Good thing too. Turns out the funeral arraignments were made for Thursday morning. This meant that we had to leave for Portland ASAP. We took the van in for an oil change, went to the escrow signing, and purchased drinks and food for the drive to Portland. We got the dishes washed so no icky dishes when we get back, and washed clothes to pack. By the time everything was ready it was 3am, and off to Portland we went. More on that adventure later.

Friday will never get here!

After Friday we can breath easy about the house purchase. But until then I'm terrified I'll be stuck renting this stinky old place for another year. So everybody! Pray! Pray real hard that all goes well!

Yep still up

I'm still up and wondering how the day went for Francis and Phil. Talk about getting a bad nights sleep. I couldn't sleep last night because I was so worried the boys wouldn't wake up to meet the rest of the den to go up to the camp grounds. Never fear here comes Francis at 5am, a good 15 minutes before Phil's alarm went off. Never the less I still didn't go to sleep till after they left at 10 to 6. Then I had to get up at 7 am to get Bryce up fed, and ready for his baseball game. Never fear here comes Bryce right at 7am to make sure I got up. Where would we be with out these wonderful little guys. LOL! So if your wondering technically we don't keep a win loss score, but Bryce's team lost again. These little guys and gals are all new to Tiger Ball league so the scales have been just a little uneven for them. Their having a great time playing ball though which is all that matters.
Today Bryce and I cashed in my points at Subway for a foot long sandwich, and then I took him for a shaved ice.(yeah that's right here in Chubbuck we have REAL! Hawaiian Shaved Ice! Not that fake stuff) It was a cheap date with mom paying. Heehee: The rest of today was spent just lazing around Bryce played on his computer, and I have so far washed too many dishes and still have a ton more to go. Then we grilled up some hotdogs for Bryce and me for dinner. Along with that I grilled up some eggplant , and zucchini for me. While I had the items out I threw together a Caponata yummy. Then Bryce wanted cookies so I made some of my famous Malted Chocolate Chip Cookies for him. The little booger changed his mind then and wanted soft pretzels. Now I'm pooped out and have another busy day tomorrow. I will sleep in though this time.
Oh, and so long as nothing blows up on us this next week we will be closing on our house next Friday Yaaa! We are so broke right now with all our money into this and paying bills. At least after this the payments will be for our own house not someone elses. sheeesh! Well I'm going to go crash maybe if I can stop worrying about Francis and Phil.

Diamond Backs Proved Me Wrong!

Well last night I told Melly that Francis' team the Diamond Backs would lose their game since they won the night before. "It never fails. They always lose the second game when they play 2 in a row." So now I'm eating my words. They almost gave the game away at one point when they were behind by 6 points in the 4th inning at 4 to 10. Then they pulled themselves up by their well you know, and held the other team back and managed to pull of a win by 1 POINT Yep 11 to 10! So I didn't jinx them Melly. LOL!
In the morning Francis leaves super early for scout camp and lucky Phil gets to go. I get to stay home and take Bryce to his baseball game. Lets hope I crawl out of bed early enough on my own. ACK! I guess we will see. Night all long day tomorrow.

2007 ALS DoubleDay Bike Ride

The ALS Association:: "2007 ALS DoubleDay Bike Ride"

My cousin Shari will be riding in this years Double Day Bike Ride. So I'm giving her some free ad time here on my blog. Go by her site and read all about ALS and maybe even sponser her. Thanks!

Which do you like better?

Sometimes I just can't decide if I like something I did.
There's the first one.


And then there's the second one.


Which one do you prefer?

New Scrap Collection

As I said in the previous post I'm a guest CT for Michelle Godin this month. woohoo! Any waaaays. She has a new collection out called "Reel Inspiration" Totally awesome papers and alphas. I figured I give it a little push here before I head to bed. I can't wait to do some Pirate Party layouts with the Savvy Papers. I'll post those when I get them done.

Yard Sale Bonanza!

You'll be proud of me to know that I resisted very well. We did pick up some catcher stuff for Bryce. $4 instead of who knows how much. I also picked up a whole set of Childcraft books for just 2 bucks! Yep that was my goal look for books we can use for homeschool. We spent more on Shave Ice later. heehee. It was a nice day for us just enjoying the nice weather and being together. God has been good to us since we've moved here, and we are enjoying it.
No layouts tonight I may do one later on since Michelle Godin has a new one in the works, but I won't be able to post it till she says ok. Talk about designers things are getting slow since all my designers are taking off this week. That's fine with me I need to start working on cleaning and packing this place up for moving. I just don't know when the move is going to happen. Just have to leave that in Gods hands for now. And as I leave you I recommend stop by Christy's blog and read up on her vacation so far. That's the Motherhood Unscripted link.

Re-Decorated!

Well the rest of the day went by pretty good. It rained most of the day but stopped in enough time that Francis got to go to practice. I went to Wal-Mart and got some necessities and some splurges. Most of all I sure hope the lime away works on all the hard water marks around the sinks. If not it's off to Don Aslets. Now it's time to get the house cleaned up for moving. I have to remember to stop by the liquor store and ask for boxes. You know those are perfect for moving. Now the only question is will the sellers be ready to move out at the end of the month or will they be renting the house back from us for another month or two. It has to be either the end of the month since Phil has that week off or else they can stay till August. Phil won't have another week off till the last week in August so we would be moving until then anyway. Just pray that every thing goes smoothly.

Another failed chat

I must be the loser of the century. No one ever shows up for my chats. I don't even know why I bothered to wait to go to the store. I should have just gone. I just spent an hour alone in the chat room. I guess I should spend some time making custom actions so I can bribe people to the chat with a freebie. Though that doesn't even seem to work. I'm feeling like just giving this chat business up. I know next month it's not happening because it sounds like I'll be in the middle of a move and might not have internet connection. I doubt if anyone will miss it. So much for the pity party, I'm going to WalMart!
Well on the bright side things are going along pretty good for then house. I just hope this one gets rented out right away so we won't have to pay the rent on this and a house payment at the same time.

Two More Layouts

and I'm rather pleased with how they turned out.
The paper is from the set Nature Papers, Doodles from the kit Chansey all by Shandy Vogt at Elemental Scraps. Title done with Black Rubon Alphas by Christy Sturm at Butternug Squash.


Kit is Sweltering Summer by Michelle Godin at Scrapbook Graphics. Mask is Photo FX by Shandy Vogt at Elemental Scraps. Title is from Ten Very Random Titles by Jen Wilson

OK I know I'm tired

Bryce had his first baseball meeting and practice today then Francis had his game tonight. The last time we played this team the pulverized us but this time the boys held there own. Then they WON! WOOHOOO!
The boys did a great job tonight. Tomorrow or should I say today Bryce has his first game at 9am I know don't say it. Then Francis has another game tonight too. Busy busy busy! I just hope I have time to get a layout done. In the mean time I was organizing my layouts when I found one I had done for a scraplift. Call me dense, call me a dork but I forgot which site this challenge was at and who's gallery. Totally DUH! But I'll post it any way.
Kit is Paramount, with Swass Masks all by Shandy Vogt.

It's a Rendezvous!

Today we took the kids to the mountain man Rendezvous. It was hot and DUSTY! First we went up to Kathy and Denny's house where they gave the kids a review about Mountain Men and what a Rendezvous was all about. Then we headed out to the rendezvous. We got there just as they were starting the kids games. So the boys got to get candy from the Candy Cannon. Yep Candy Cannon, sort of like a pinata just they blow the candy out of a cannon. Then Francis and Bryce did the Three Legged Race. They won bead necklaces from that. Pin The Tail on the Buffalo was a blast too. Then they got rock candy and taffy, with a sugar high on the side. LOL! By then my knees were hurting and it was really hot, and dusty with cotton wood fluff floating around like snow.
We went back to Kathy and Denny's for lunch and spent some time looking at all the things they've been doing to the place. Kathy's garden is starting to really get growing, and Denny is putting in a huge workshop. I just love going up there and looking down over the valley below. And while we were there the humming birds kept showing up at the feeders. They are so cool to watch and their wings make this humming/buzzing sound. Then we headed back home to maybe meet with the realestate agent. We'll do that tomorrow after church. I'll keep you updated on the house sale in the mean time. That's it for tonight.

Elemental Scraps Newest Designer! Shandy Vogt!

Elemental Scraps has some new designers and Shandy it one of them. She has some new stuff just for the opening of her store. You won't find it at her other store so stop by and check it out.

finetune

finetune
I found a new video player. It works much better than and it fits without playing with the code! So much for VideoCure, I give up with that one. Finetune lets you have a max of 3 songs per ARTIST! Up to 45 Songs!!! I'm all for it! Oh and the cherry on top it shuffles the music everytime you start it up. Check it out!

Guest CT Gig This Month

Credits:Kit is Popsicle Punch, Quirky Word Tags from Quirktionary 1 Shakesperean by Michelle Godin at Scrapbook Graphics. Vintage frame is by Nancy Comelab. Quirky Month Tab by Poppy Andrews. String on tag from Grace Bennette. Dropshadow from Traci Murphy.

My first layout for my guest spot on Michelle Godin's Creative Team. I never thought that I would use those fairy wings on a layout. Then I saw this photo of Madeline goofing off on a swing. Tell me doesn't it look like she's flying? Her sweater and the wings match so perfect too. I did the whole layout with Michelle's new kit Popsicle Punch, and her Quirktionary 2 kit. So how'd I do with a girly layout.

AHHHHH! I Made It For A Second Time!

Natural Designs in Scrapbooking has one of my layouts on it's main homepage for this week. Each week they choose 5 layouts of the week and this is the second time I've had a layout make it. I see all these awesome layouts out there and just can't see any of mine being even close to them, and yet they actually thought this layout good enough to put on the main page. This is one of the pages I've made for Mike and Becca's wedding book. I'm so jazzed that now I know I'll get this book done. It's taken me awhile but it'll be done. I love you Mike and Becca!

Here is the layout!

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Strawberry Meth

Just a little warning, well maybe a big warning!
Urban Legends Reference Pages: Strawberry Meth

I haven't announced it yet but...

I'm on a second Creative Team!! That's right the lady with a full plate just made it fuller. LOL! I'm not only creating layouts for Christy at Butternug Squash Designs but now am creating layouts for Shandy Vogt! You can find her store at shandyvogtdesigns.com. Isn't that awesome?!?!?!

chills blog

I found the most amaaaaazing blog today. She has some really awesome layouts I'm just going to have to lift!
chills blog

You know Bryce is sick when

he doesn't run off to his computer to play games. Doesn't eat his favorite breakfast, lunch or dinner. He woke up Tuesday not feeling well and with a raging fever. Thursday he woke up and said his neck hurt and had no voice. Hooray for something. LOL! So off to the doctors we went. Turns out they say it's the virus that causes croup in infants. Since he's older he has a larger air passage and there for is just plain old miserable. Francis has been sick too and not getting better either. Same virus it seems. Hopefully by Monday it will have run it's course and they'll be back to normal and Francis will be off to baseball practice. I'll be able to go to the gym again, and life will be back to it's abnormal self.

What's your Hobbit name?

Mine is Orangeblossom Bramble of Willowbottom. Check it out and see what yours is.

What Vicky Mean

What Vicky Means

V is for Vivid I is for Intelligent C is for Charming K is for Kind Y is for Young

What Does Your Name Mean?

Adonai

I had a friend send me a link for a dance they did for Passover. She said I could post this on my blog and share. Enjoy the video.

Facing the Giants

Another really good movie. One that I highly recommend for the whole family. Yeah, yeah I know it's a football movie, but how the coach goes about creating an all star team is what it's about. How do you take a team that is down in the dumps to the heights of glory? Especially when your own life feels like it's down in the dumps too. By faith, total and complete blind faith. Starting with your own life, living it, breathing it, believing it, with all your heart, all your mind, and all your soul. Then you take this and apply it to your team teach them by showing them in you life. Show them that by faith they can do anything, go any where, if that is what God wants for you. With this plan in place he watches his team grow in all way in their lives, coming to Christ each in his own time and way, at the same time growing in his faith too. The effects of this team plan is far reaching and you can see it in the school faculty and students. The Parents see the changes in their kids, and the effects on the family. The movie is more than a football sport movie. It's about how faith can make us all winners in our lives, whether we win or lose. So again if you haven't seen this movie you must see it. I've tried to give you enough, without giving you everything. Since I was so tired of hearing just you have to see this. But now....
YOU HAVE GOT TO SEE THIS MOVIE! LOL!

One Night With the King

Basically the book of Esther. A wonderful biblical story about a Jewish slave girl that becomes a queen. With her position as queen she is able to save the Jewish people. Well written and acted the pages of the bible come to life. The sets and costumes are rich, colorful. The actors are amazing in their parts, bringing the lives and people of the bible to life. This movie is a must see. If you haven't seen it yet make sure you get this I know this is on my list of movies to buy, because I want to see it again.

Casino Royale

I had heard mixed reviews on this movie. Don't be fooled! It was actuallyreally good. Basically how James Bond gets his "007" code. Lots of modernization with our times etc. but very good. Now I know where "Shaken not Stirred" came from. LOL! And the ending REALLY GOOD! Not the typical tryst in the end makes for a really good end. I recommend that if you get a chance to get this one.

Happy Easter

Yeah I know it was yesterday. I still want to say He is Risen!

Any way we were woken up by the boys at 6am! NOT! We sent them back to bed. LOL! Then when we did wake up they went on the traditional egg hunt and got all the eggs. No rotten eggs this year. Blah! We then had breakfast and headed to church. As usual it was a great day at church. Josh was back so it was really nice to see him. He looked great you wouldn't know that they removed 8inches(I believe it was) of his small intestine unless you were told. We then came home and stuck the ham in the oven for dinner. Phil got the barbecue going and made some buffalo burgers going. Those were sooooo good! We'll be having those again. Followed by a nice long nap. heehee.

Dinner was good, really good! After dinner we watched the movie everyone has been raving about "Facing the Giants". Totally awesome movie. I'll do some movie reviews here in a little bit. Right now I have to grab Bryce and do our daily reading lesson.

Mailbox Surprise!

Today Phil walked in the door rattling a box from the mailbox. What? I haven't ordered anything from Amazon really! Then I saw that it was from Lesley! Lesley is on the same Creative Team as me at Butternug Squash. It was toys for the boys and of all things!

Some green tea powder I have been looking all over for! My supply that I had bought in Portland before the move was gone and she went out and found it for me! I am so jazzed! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! You are so totally awesome! In Japanese URESHI!

Busy, Busy, Busy!

I've finally redecorated. How do you like it? it's Christy's newest kit Tropical Sorbet. I have some Hawaii pictures that need to be scanned and scrapped, and this kit will be perfect along with the Conservatory Series. Butternug Squash has a bunch of stuff getting ready to go. New challenges and a few tutorials. I tried out one and did this great layout of Bryce with it.
So how do you like it? I'm hooked now I can't wait to try a few more.
Now Melany can't say I'm neglecting my blog. I'll be sure to write more later.

For The Sake of Bread

Or at least something to do while I can't breath enough to get more than two hours sleep at a time. I found the NY Times website's video on the "No Knead Bread" It has a rise time of 12 hours or more, but other than that it is really simple. I guess if I want to try it I better go look for that cast iron dutch oven that is still packed in a box in the basement.

Stress Relief

Well with all the stress I did this layout as a little stress relief. Hope you all like it.

I've been told!

That I'm neglecting my blog. Yes Melany your right! Things as always have been busy. In the last 2 weeks we have been to so many doctor appointments we need a week to rest now. Phil has been having some lower abdominal pains so he finally! got to the doctors for some testing. Turns out he has Type 2 Diabetes. It was out of control, but had nothing to do with his pain. So it was another doctor, and another test, and more blood, and another test. So far it looks like there's no cancer which is a good thing. They did find something in his intestines and removed it. He's feeling better now so we're not sure if that was causing the pain or just having some time off work gave him a rest. I have to say though going back to work on Monday will be more of a rest for him than all the doctors and tests in the last 2 weeks. His blood sugar is in control now which is good, and all we have to do is wait on one more result on a blood test.
Saturday Bryce participated in the AWANA Games, Spark-O-Rama. His team got Second Place! I'm working on a layout right now for that. I'm sure out of 200 pictures I should find some good ones to do layouts with. Don't you think?

New Photography Challenge

I've posted a new challenge at the Butternug Squash site. Stop by check it out. Post a few pictures and get my Skintone action.

Well What are We Doing?

Let's see it's been awhile but a lot has happened too. Last Friday was the Boyscout Pack Pinewood Derby. We had a blast. Talk about a quiet group though. At first it was so quiet! Then it turns out that lane one had a problem so we had to start all over. That's when the parents started to warm up and yell and cheer! On top of it all can you believe it was a 4 way TIE! So we had to run another 4 heats. GUESS! Who won?! Francis! So we're going to District to race next! On top of that! Think the racing is over? NOT! Saturday we had the AWANA Grand Prix. Francis raced with a different car since he had to use AWANA axels and wheels. So he didn't win that one. But Bryce Got 1st place in the open division for Design. Way To Go Bryce. Do these boys rock or what?! After AWANAS we went and got our taxes done! Are we doing good or what? Sunday was just a oh hum day. I woke up with a sore throat and after church it got worse. Not good! So I stayed home and Phil took the boys to CARE Group. Since then it's been homeschool as usual. Maybe it's me but sometimes I just want to give in and send them to public school. Of course I think they might last a day maybe two before begging to be homeschooled again. I dunno...Maybe I just expect too much from them. I want to homeschool but I keep finding myself slipping into the school at home mode and that just stresses me out waaaay too much. I need to step back and get a grip sometimes. I do miss the First Class Co-0p for sure! Heidi, Kelsy, Lori, Carrie! I miss you guys! Ok pity party is over now. I got some stuff to post but I'm going to do it later. Gots to go look up an ear diagram for class. Till later.

I did a test layout

for Grace Bennett at Digitals. It was for some paper tear templates. I really like them. Here's the layout I did.

The papers are from Atomic Cupcake's kit "It's a Guy Thing"
The paper tear is from Grace Bennett at Digitals.
The font used is Mayfield.

More Layouts

I promised more layouts from The Amazing Digiscrapping Race. Blogger was giving me a small problem with posting them but I guess it's feeling more friendly now.
Did you notice? I changed my blog. I used the kit Snowy by My all time favorite designer Christy Sturm at Butternug Squash Designs.
For the first layout here we had to use consecutive photos and tell what was happening. So I did a little instructional layout. Oh and a twist in the whole thing no 2 items could be from the same designer. Talk about a headache.

Bird Seed Pinecones

This is for the second challenge in week one of the Amazing Digiscraping Race.
Background paper is dana zarling northwoods brownpinebg from Jerri Ingalls Northwoods kit.
Matte papers are from:
Thankful kit by Heather Ann Designs (DST Member kit Nov.)
Fall Velvet by Holly McCaig (DST Member kit Oct.)
Whip Stitching by Lara Payton at Gotta Pixel/Digital Freebies
Metal Acorns by Christy Sturm at Butternug Squash DesignsThe next layout is called Sign of the Times. I think it's pretty self explanatory.

Sign of the Times

This is Challenge 1 in week 2 of The Amazing Digiscrapping Race.
Journaling reads:
A definite sign of the time. There you
are talking on your cell phone and
playing on your computer at the same
time. In my day there was no such thing
as a cell phone much less my own phone.
Computers were massive beasts not
the little laptop that you have today.
Yes it is a definite sign of the times.
Kit used is Wild Child Paisley by Melany Violet at Simply Clean Digiscraps.
Template is template 24 from the kit Simple Sketches 6 by Christy Sturm at Butternug Squash Designs. The note paper is from the kit Where's my List also by Christy Sturm at Butternug Squash Designs.
Fonts used are Letter Gothic Std, and Mayfield.

And then the last one for this week is the ATC showing something about myself. Heehee there I go climbing on my soap box about homeschooling.

Homeschool ATC

Digital ATC done for the second challenge week 2 of the Amazing Digiscrapping Race. I used the kit Elementary by Christy Sturm at Butternug Squash Designs, the heart came from her homeschool quote set. The quote on the chalk board is my own words. Font used is Mistral.

Well I hope you like what I've done so far. I'll post more later.

Amazing Digiscrap Race

Well Melany and I have partnered for the NDIS Amazing Digiscrapping Race. We're Scrappers Without Borders. Being that she is in Canada and I am in the United States. Here's my week one first challenge for the race.

It's a 2 pager and a goal I have for 2007. What do you think? Did it turn out OK? I'll post the next one for week 1 when I get it done. Hopefully I'll get that done by Saturday.

Happy New Year!!!

Last night we spent the evening at our friends the Turners. We had a great time playing games. I've seen advertisements for them but never played them before. So we got home around 1am there abouts any way. I hope everyone out there had a great New Years Eve and a Great Day Today!

Checkout My Friends Freebie!

My friend Melany aka Mellykat made this absolutely yummy freebie. For her first kit it sure could fool you. It looks like she's been making kits for ages. You can grab it at Butternug Squash Designs.

Guess What I got?

Yep my mom finally sent some of the old pictures I wanted from her. Not a lot but a start. Anyone in my family recognize this picture? I know there are some that are no longer with us, but it does bring back memories.

I found another one. How about a piece of history? I think this next one was taken around 1979.

Like all the smog? Yep if I recall it seemed cloudy the whole time we were there. Turns out it was smog!

It's Snowing!

It snowed sometime last night! It was only supposed to be about 4 inches but I think it was more like 6 inches and it's STILL! Snowing! Looks like it will be a White Christmas.


Grandma Dotty sorry your box hasn't made it yet. Maybe tomorrow. If not I'm sure it will be Tuesday.

More Templates!

I made a couple more templates for the Dollar Store cups. Hope you like them. Just click here for the link.

NEVER AGAIN!

That's right I will never use Winkflash again! Everyone sorry the Christmas cards were late getting out but it took them forever! To print my order then ship them out. On top of that they shipped the wrong size card it's not what I ordered! Then the chopped off a good portion of the card. Word of advise if it's cheap expect cheap service. Of course it wasn't so cheap for me they ACCIDENTALLY double charged me. I finally a week after faxing them all the documentation they wanted they send me an email saying that they will credit me back in another 5 to 10 DAYS! If I'm correct that makes it like NEXT YEAR! A bit late for doing some Christmas shopping. And really late to pick up stocking stuffers! This leaves me feeling so burned. I'll try another online company next time. Meanwhile I'll be praying for a Costco to open here.

HA! I Think I Got IT!

I found the place to deactivate that password protect thing. I have no idea what the password was, but it's gone now.

Let's Try AGAIN!

The Link to the tumbler shouldn't be password guarded. But I fiddled with it again see if it works this time. Tumbler Template

I did it again

Sorry I fell off the map again. For those that I promised the template for the Dollar Store Tumblers you can get it here.
If you like them leave me a note, and let me know how they work.

Just as Promised

I had the stomach flu early this week and have been doing the catch up game all week. But I haven't forgotten the Scrapapalooza layouts. It is a mixture of paper scraps and digiscraps. So let me know what you think.








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