November 6, 2007

HERE'S THE NEXT TWO PAGES!!

Hi all! I FINALLY got to do some blog browsing today and boy, did it feel great to be able to enjoy all of your fabulous creations! I swear, I saw so many new ideas today that I have a list two pages long of thing I have to try once I get all my supplies delivered, unpacked, and organized. Speaking of, a lot of you have asked me about updates on my new house. Well, we are still living at the in-laws and although I love them very much, I really want to have my own home with my family. The house is STILL not done and that is very discouraging for us.....they are saying before Thanksgiving but if I were a bettin' woman, I would say it will be after Thanksgiving *sigh*. So, maybe I will get in by the end of the month and put my house together and get my decorations up for the holidays. Keep your fingers crossed gals! Okay, so let me get to it: here are the next two pages I want to share with you. I swear these were sooooo fun to make! I have to apologize for the quality of the photos though - I don't have my photo imaging software on the computer I am using so what I take is what you get. I figured they were better than nothing at all! These pages are made with old olive paper and creamy caramel is what I used to back my pics. The flowers are cut out of a piece of DP and popped on dimensionals. The journal tags are made using my small scallop punch with both creamy caramel and close to cocoa to give them some dimension. I pierced the scallops, added some ribbon, and I was done! The boys are mine, and my three nephews. Tyler is worshipped by his three younger cousins and I loved this pic of all of them together. The girls are Kayla (mine) and my niece who is four and follows Kayla around like a little shadow. Aren't they cute!!! I think so *wink* Thanks for stopping by!!

November 5, 2007

FINALLY - SOMETHING TO POST!!

Hi all! Well, I finally have something fun to share! I went to the 12 hour crop on Saturday and had a great and productive day (and night!) I got 20 pages done for a book I am making my MIL for Xmas. I thought I would share two pages over the next several days. The book depicts the pumpkin patch where we took the kids, the night we carved pumpkins, and actual halloween night where all the cousins got together for the first time ever and went trick or treating. I was really excited to have something fun to share with you all again, I hope you didn't give up on me *smile*! Here are my pages: showing the maze the kids went through which was the shape you see in the picture. All the kids were chomping at the bit to start the race but I did manage to get them for a quick group shot. Not much stamping on these two pages but I did use my large and small oval punches to make the corn and the corn stalks. I hope you all enjoy these pages and I promise I will be regularly posting again - yippee!!!

October 31, 2007

BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH


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I just wanted to remind everyone that with the start of October comes Breast Cancer Awareness Month. We all know someone who has been touched by this disease so show your support in any way you can! Yep, my blog is pink and shall stay that way until the end of the month!! So, if you want to THINK PINK, post the badge on your blog and go pink baby!!!!!!

October 26, 2007

I AM IN CALIFORNIA - FINALLY!!!

Hi all! Just wanted to make a quick post to let you all know that I have safely arrived in CA and am at my MILs house. Our house should be ready to move in the second week in November so right now I am buying my new appliances, picking out paint colors, and shipping for area rugs - this is the fun part!!! I am really really tired after traveling across country with the three dogs but we are all here now and it feels good to know that I don't have to leave this time. I am looking forward to having some time next week to do some creating as I signed up for a 18 hour scrapbook crop - I want to meet people and thought this may be a great time to do so. It will also give me a chance to do some stampin and scrappin since I have not gotten to do anything for quite some time. I will be browsing blogs again too and cannot wait to catch up on what everyone has been up to! Talk to you all soon!!!!!!

October 14, 2007

I AM ALIVE, I PROMISE!!!!!

Hello all! Well, my house is finally packed up and gone - except for me, three dogs, and air mattress and my car belongings!!! I have to say, this was the longest week I have had in a long time!! BUT, I do feel vindicated because they kept telling me I was over my shipping weight limit (Navy gives me 17,000 pounds) because they said I was at 19,000; however, when the driver went to weigh the truck, my weight came back at 13,000 and change - HAH!!! I knew it!! So, I will be here this week painting, and finishing last minute house projects and then I should be getting on the road sometime next week. I have nothing to post except my move updates - SORRY!! I will post sporadically since I no longer have a computer and have to count on the kindness of my friends (I am at Vicki's today) so don't give up on me - I will be back and have some cute holiday projects to post once this craziness is out of the way!! I cannot wait to have normalcy again - a house, bickering kids, laundry, grocery shopping - it all sounds great to me now!! Of course, ask me how I feel after a couple of months of it *wink* Anyhoo, thought I would let everyone know what was going on and that I am still alive and moving right along to get myself to CA!!! Talk to you all soon!!!

October 9, 2007

NO PICS, NO CARDS, NO NOTHIN...OKAY, MAYBE A LITTLE RANTING

Well, today was the first day of my four-day packout. Yep, four days. It has NEVER taken four days before and I was wondering why the difference. Well, if you count the five 15 minute breaks, the 1.25 hour for lunch, and the leaving at 3pm, that would be why!! Sheesh!! I worked harder than they did today!! Now, I have moved my whole life - my dad was career military and I have moved 13 times myself in the last 24 years so I consider myself pretty seasoned at the moving thing. I always have water on hand, and usually have sandwich fixins and chips for lunchtime. It seems like the nice thing to do since they USUALLY are working so hard packing my stuff and you want them to do a good job....anyway, I digress! So, they show up at 0830 in the morning and I am drinking my coffee. The first thing the lead guy says to me is "I hope you plan on making another pot, because I need a cup". Hmmmmm....not sure what to do so I make a pot of coffee and he says, "Oh, I don't take it black, I need cream and sugar." Hmmmmmm.....again. I only use hazlenut coffee creamer which he proceeds to drain and drink my entire pot of coffee!!! ( I had to run to the store and get some more for MY coffee in the morning, maybe I should hide it??!!) You would think this would make them work faster, but nope, not at all. Then, the other two inform me that they don't feel they should have to take things off the walls (spoke to the moving company about that one, and yes, they have to take it down!). Then, the lead guy asks me if they can take a break at 1230 and watch my TV while eating lunch because they want to watch the Young and the Restless - YIKES!! So, I politely say that I am not a big soap opera fan and leave it at that, and they take the hint and eat outside listening to their soap on the am radio. Then, at 3pm they announce they are leaving for the day and will be back at 9 in the morning. I feel like I am in the twilight zone. They have left little things lying around unpacked in each room but have managed to pack the one thing I specifically set aside and asked them not to - the book I am reading!!!! *sigh* - it is going to be a looooooonnnnnnggggg week!!! At least I can still browse blogs to keep me sane - at least until Thursday when my computer goes away *sniff, sniff* I guess I should get ready for bed - not sure what I will do since I don't have my book to read which is my nightly ritual.....

October 7, 2007

DID I MENTION I HATE MOVING????!!!

Hi all! I thought I would give you a quick update on the move progress. I have found every muscle in my body - and they hurt!! I have made seven count them SEVEN trips to Goodwill, trying to purge what we don't need in our new home. I also cleaned out all the closets and got rid of clothes and shoes that none of wear anymore, is just plain old, or does not fit (I seem to have a lot in the last category :-( Both attics have now been emptied and everything gone through, sorted, and put away in plastic bins for storage on the other side since most of it is seasonal stuff. Today I had the dubious pleasure of cleaning out the shed outside - yippee!! This entailed all of the lawn equipment having the gas AND oil siphoned out, each machine washed and dried, and then stored neatly in the garage for pickup. Ugghhhh!!! I was saying unkind thinks about my DH, I tell ya!! My deep freezer has been cleaned out and is defrosting as we um speak! So, you all are thinking about now - wow! you are done! Hah!! Don't I wish!! I still have to figure out what is going in the car with me and set that aside to include enough dishes and cookware to see us through the next 3 or 4 weeks. I have to finish sorting my SU! supplies into indestructible bins that I purchased so nothing gets damaged. I have to take down the trampoline out back, get the car weighed both empty and full, AND go to the post office - whew!! THEN, I will be done - LOL! Anyway, enough ranting. I did want to share some pics from the dinner theater the other night. My good friend Vicki and I went to see Steel Magnolias which has always been a favorite movie of mine. Well, let me tell you, we both laughed all the way through the play - it was sooooo awesome!!! They did a wonderful job depicting the movie very accurately and yes, we had wet eyes at the end since it does have its sad parts. It was a great show and we wanted to go before I left. It was last Wednesday but this is the first time I have had the time to post about it. Here are some of the pics of our night out! This is where we went to see the show. It has a fantastic buffet that is included in the price of your ticket and the food is actually pretty good and there is lots of variety. Here is Vicki and I standing outside the big red doors leading to the box office where you pick up your tickets. It was a beautiful evening, nothing like the four days of rain we have had since! Once inside, it is decorated in the theme of whatever show is playing at the time so Vicki and I had our picture taken at the pretty setup they had at the entrance to the theater itself. Isn't it pretty?! The last picture is of us sitting at the table inside the theater. You can't get a great shot of the theater itself because of the funny low lighting they have in there, but here we are! We really really enjoyed ourselves and I cannot wait to have some time to scrap our night out! Well, I have to get back to work now or I will never get it all done before they show up on Tuesday to take all my stuff away! I have to call tomorrow and have the cable shut off so I will be without my computer come Friday - sniff, sniff!! No blog browsing, no posting, no nothing!!!