The confused magician...

So Brenden has started acting like a magician. I assume one of his morning cartoon shows had a magic episode on recently. He'll grab some object -sometimes Micaila - throw a blanket over it, and start waving his hands while chanting. The funny part is his chant...
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not Abracadabra...
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not Hocus-Pocus...
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His chant is, "Hickory-Dickory-Dock! Show me the [insert item]!"
ROFL I end up in stitches everytime!

I just finished this page, and I'm off to work!


Credits:
Papers & elements from the Happy Birthday kit by Pamela of Digitreats available at her Ebay store.
Fonts: Girls Are Wierd

Eeerrrrggggg!

How is it that doctors have the ability to make you feel about 3 inches tall with very few words??? Anyone who has ever met Brenden would agree he is a very happy, healthy little boy, and very few of them would disagree that he is very intelligent. And yet, the doctor is concerned because he doesn't "know" his colors! He knows the words... some of them in Spanish even (thanks to Dora and the moose, Zee & Henrietta on Nick Jr.), but he can very rarely tell you that you are wearing an orange (or blue or pink) shirt and get the right color.

What the doctor didn't hear, was him telling me that a Pteradactyl looks like a bird 5 minutes earlier... What 3-yr-old knows that!!! (And, by the way, he can also pronounce Pteradactyl perfectly.) I had asked Micaila if she could tell me what one looked like as we were discussing dinosaurs on the room's border, and she said no... so Brenden told me without even looking at the wall! I very honestly believe he just hasn't cared to learn which color is which. He is extremely stubborn, and when he's ready and interested will probably get it down in 30 minutes or less...

Micaila had to get a booster for Hepatitus A, and was very upset that the nurse forgot to bring them back stickers... It was the first thing I heard when I got home after work. LOL If only all of life's issues could be fixed with a sticker... As for my doctor visit- well it was actually a nurse visit ( much better- no copay!) and my arm is sore (as usual), but should be fine by tomorrow! :)

The boss is out of the office again today. He's part of a 4-person team competing in a paddling race in Old Forge this weekend. The race starts at 8am this morning. So work should be fairly relaxing today. :) Of course, the last time he was ooto we managed to have one of our busiest days yet... don't these people know we're supposed to be able to relax when the boss is gone?!?! LOL

I finished another LO/QP for Karla's CT last night, as well as a LO for Pamela's new kit Amelia which will be available starting Monday at the new SAS Store! I'm off to work on another page with Amelia, and maybe I'll create a QP or two for this kit. I'm also itching to start my first hybrid project - a boardbook album using digital pages and "regular" embellishments! :D


Credits:
Papers & elements from the Fruits of the Spirit Kit by Karla Kellum of Lifesong Kreations.
Fonts: Dymaxion Script; DSP Grandmom's Hand


Credits:
Papers & elements from the Amelia kit by Pamela of Digitreats available at Stone Accents Studios.
Fonts: Girls Are Weird

Another LO of my newest niece, and this time with her mommy!


And, last, but not least, I finished this page this morning before work:

Credits:
Papers & elements from the Amelia kit by Pamela of Digitreats available at Stone Accents Studios.

Jaylin again!

Doctor visits...

You know those mornings you'd just rather stay in bed? Well, how about ones where both you & your kids have doctor appointments? Do they qualify? I have toget my birth control shot this morning - which shoudn't take too long, and then take the kids to a well-child visit booster shot appointment. All before going to work mind you! Guess it's a good thing I couldn't get back to sleep when Mike's alarm went off at 4am...

Grampy's here and we have to get out the door so this is going to be super short, but here's a LO I finished this morning to be used as a QP for Karla's CT:


Credits:
Paper & elements from the Fruits of the Spirit kit by Karla Kellum of Lifesong Kreations available soon at Digitals.
Fonts: Elegant

The kids visited a petting farm/zoo on Long Island while visiting Nana Jo in June, and these are the pictures that came back. :)

Out witting a 4.5-year-old...

Micaila, are you going to go put some shorts or pants on?
-Nope!
Why not?
-I'm waiting for Grampa.
Really??
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-Mommy, can you go get me a sandwich NOW?
Nope!
-Why not?
I'm waiting for Grampa.
- [feet pounding up the stairs]
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-Now can you? (Asks a fully dressed Micaila!) LOL

Had to share the story from yesterday morning. Haven't got much else to post, so I'll leave you with the LO I just finished 10 minutes ago...


Credits:
Papers &elements from the Little Star kit by Amy Teets available at at ACOT and Oscraps.
Shadowbox is Shadowbox 1 by Amy Teets available at at ACOT and Oscraps.
Fonts: Vintage Typewriter

A photo journal of Brenden for 2007. (...So far!)

Hmmm...

Not sure what happened... the $45 estimate was based on my niece's count of what money had come in, but when I counted out the money this morning there is only an additional $31.15?! Oh well, in any case definitely NOT a rousing success of a yard sale. We found last night when we went to take down our signs that someone else had taken it upon themselves to remove the ones we'd placed down the two roads leading to our corner. That may explain why we only had 3 customers - 1 of which was a repeat (She came back for 2 more items.) - yesterday.

I finished 2 other LOs yesterday before bed. The 2nd is all freebies from blogs, but the word art had no TOU document so if it is yours please let me know! :)


Credits:
Papers & elements from the Let's Hear It For The Boy kit by Tracy Blankenship available on her blog.
Template from the Templates with Altitude #1 set by Tracy Blankenship available at her store.
Fonts: Angelina; Bell Bottom.Laser


Credits:
Paper, frame, and flower from Endless Summer sampler mini kit by Misty Cato.
Ribbon tie by Newlife Dreams.
Word art quote by unknown. (Came from a blog, but there is no TOU included.)

Off to do the Monday morning stuff on Tuesday... Have a great day! :)

Yeah!

I got a Rockin' Girl Blogger award from Sondra! TY! :D Now, to pay it forward I nominate:

1. http://florescentjellybeans.blogspot.com
Tracy King for her super awesome freebies!
2. http://nbk-nicnic.blogspot.com/
NBK Designs for posting no matter what mood she's in almost daily, and including large freebies of outstanding quality!
3. http://designsbyselena.blogspot.com/
Selena for gathering long lists of blogs with terrific freebies in between all the other busy duties in her life atm. [hug]


On to other items... we've only managed to make about $45 so far this weekend with the yard sale, and still have more than half of the stuff we've put out to sell... guess I'll have to do this another weekend or two before winter. I'm so not in the mood for it today. I woke up with one of those nagging not-quite-a-headache-yet issues. We have possible thunder showers on the way for this afternoon, and I'd really like 1 day OFF before going back to work tomorrow... (Ok, enough of the whining.)

I finished this 2-page LO for Julie's CT & Monday Mixer Challenge this morning:



Credits:
Papers from the Summer Garden Paper Pack by Julie Kelley Designs.
Stamps from the Summer Stamps Set by Julie Kelley Designs.
Fonts: 1942 (date); Hootie!

Micaila and Brenden playing with a hula hoop at the family gathering after Uncle Richard's funeral.

What can I say about Sundays?

It is my 1 day off a week... And, it never seems long enough! I always have a laundry list of things to accomplish on Sundays - which never seems to get fully completed. I do get Monday off this week due to Labor Day, but we're having a yard sale this weekend so I have to keep checking on the yard/kids/niece while trying to finish things. This tends to detract me from my goals which slows down the whole process. It's odd - I can multitask with the best of them at work. I may get a little fuzzy-brained if it continues non-stop for more than an hour, but I can do it. At home -well let's just say not so much.

It's good to hear the kids laughing and playing with Krys- outside. (They're a little too loud for comfort inside! LOL) Brenden had a pretty good sunburn when he came in last night, but it is gone today... Just look at those cheeks!


And, that reminds me... here are his "leopard" spots:





I completed this LO for Pamela's CT last night:

Credits:
Papers and bow from the Expecting You Kit by Pamela of Digitreats available in her Ebay store.
Mud template from the Boys Templates Collection by Pamela of Digitreats available in her Ebay store.
Fonts: 1942


And, this one this morning:

Credits:
Papers and elements from the Expecting You Kit by Pamela of Digitreats available in her Ebay store.
Template #3 by Pamela of Digitreats available on her blog.
Fonts: 215000EURO; 321Impact

This is me 2 days before Micaila was born.

I'm off to try to complete more of my to do list! :)

It's September?!?!? Really?!?!

Yikes! Where, oh where, is the year going? Every time someone asks me the date at work I cringe! That ends up being several (dozen) times a day with proof album pickups and senior portrait orders/sittings...

This means we only have about 12 weeks left 'til Xmas... Have YOU started your shopping??? I've picked up a couple of small items for the kids, but other than that I haven't. I can remember when I used to have all of my shopping done by Thanksgiving Day. I started shopping in July for Xmas then. I also used to have all of my Xmas cards ready to mail by the day after Thanksgiving - not so now! LOL

So, what are your plans for Labor Day weekend? We're having a yard sale. The one that we've been putting stuff aside for for a year... I'm a little worried that having it on a holiday weekend will mean lower sales, but I haven't been able to get it arranged any earlier this year. Most everything is $1 or less, and I've posted it on Craig's List for our area so all I can do now is cross my fingers. We really need to get rid of this stuff. Most of it is clothes the kids have outgrown... since BIRTH!!! I actually still have several totes of more clothes at the shed in my parent's backyard that I didn't manage to get out & washed so we'll have to do this again next year as well.

This post is super early 'cause my niece is staying with us this weekend as well, and had her cell phone set to go off at 4:30am... Can anyone explain to me WHY a 12-year-old girl needs a wakeup at 4:30am during the summer?!?!? Of course, she didn't get the wakeup anyway since the phone was downstairs instead of upstairs with her...

It did allow me to finish this LO for SDD's Digi Bytes:

Credits:
Papers, cardboard flowers, and stitched alpha from Little Star kit by Amy Teets available at at ACOT and Oscraps.
Half-template by Amy Teets available at at ACOT and Oscraps.
Fonts: Jungle Juice (with paper overlay)

I'd better go start hauling stuff into the yard for our sale!

Phew!

I spent over an hour yesterday trying to find 1 picture online... just 1 picture! You wouldn't think it would be that hard to find Tommy Lee in his leather thong since he wore it so much during the '89-'92 period... LOL

I ended up not having time to post yesterday becase of my search which ended in me settling for a newer pic of him in leather short-shorts... Hope it was worth the effort!

Censored:


Credits:
Papers & elements from the Rock Me kit by MzCora.
Photo from http://www.starpulse.com/.
Fonts: MA Fishy
Journaling reads:
I spent an hour this morning trying to find theright photo of Tommy Lee, and finally settled for this one...

For my 14th birthday Dad got me several magazines I'd asked for including Metal Edge and Hit Parader. There were several posters of Motley Crue in each magazine as they were on tour.
It was probably two months later that I was looking at the posters on my friend's wall, and wondering why it looked odd to me... It wasn't until I got home, and took a closer look at my posters that I realized Dad had taken a black marker to Tommy's legs!

In every picture he had been wearing a black leather thong - sometimes with spikes and sometimes plain - and in every picture he now had black "pants"!

scrapped 8.30.07


I also finished these on Wednesday night while making QPs for Karla's CT:


Credits:
Papers & elements from the Fruits of the Spirit Kit by Karla Kellum of Lifesong Kreations.
Fonts: Jane Austen

My brother & SIL on their wedding day with their bestman and maid of honor.



Credits:
Papers & elements from the Fruits of the Spirit Kit by Karla Kellum of Lifesong Kreations.
Fonts: MS Brownie tOO

My SIL with her niece on her wedding day.

YAAAWWWWWNNNNNN...

Mornin' all! Well I was a slouch last night, and didn't do any scrapping. I was too busy posting over at Scrapper's Daily Dose...

I'm the newest member of their Digi Bytes CT!!! Starting in September I will be working with them to help promote the monthly digital sponsors! This should be awesome! It's my first site CT so I'm pretty excited! There is a very friendly bunch of paper and digital scrappers so use the link at the right to hop over and say hi!

Brenden decided he was a rainbow leopard last night, and used the markers to show us all... Of course, this is one week after me getting home to what looked like a smurf for a son. He'd taken a blue marker (we didn't know he had) and colored about 60% of his body while Daddy was destracted... and the wall...and the window... and a cake pan... I'll try to post a picture tomorrow of his leopard work.

Micaila's very busy drawing family portraits with crayons this morning, and numbering us all. She's very good with 1-4. (Which is the number of people in our family anyway.) 5 ends up looking more like 2, and 6 is backwards... (5 & 6 are in orange)




(The crayon bled through the scans a little as she drew these on the front and back of the same paper...)

On Friday the kids will be heading to Malone with Grampy to visit Great Aunt Dorothy & Great Aunt Pheobe for the day. They'll be meeting the newest addition to the family - Dorothy's new granddaughter. Hopefully I'll get lots of pics from Dad to scrap!

Mom, Nora, Mark & the kids should be getting home any minute now from visiting Blayne, Marcy, and Jaylin in VA for a week so hopefully I'll have a new crop of photos from that visit as well!

Here's the 1 LO I got done before work yesterday for Cyndi's CT:


Credits:
Paper & elements from the Be Kind kit by Cyndi Wetmiller of Wetfish Designs.
Alpha created by me using paper from the Be Kind kit by Cyndi Wetmiller of Wetfish Designs and Jungle Juice font.
Fonts: Jacki's Hand

I'm getting published!

OMG, OMG, OMG! I'm so excited! I got a PM last night from Stacey Kluczny, one of the 3S Senior Partners, asking to use my Adore LO in their Sept ezine to illustrate the use of doodles! Whoo-hoo! I have never been "published" anywhere before! It's not paper so I can't hold it in my hands, but I plan to get an electronic copy to save to CD! For those who don't know Adore isthe LO on the right in my blog header. For a better look you can click on any of my gallery links to the right! :D

With all the excitement of that request, and the work of resizing and trying to GET the LO to Stacey I only managed to get 1 LO done last night. I'm on dial-up, and 4 email attempts to send the file all failed due to the smtp server. I finally had to upload it to my 4shared account, and email her the link just to get it through. We're talking about a 1.74 Mb file here btw -not huge... I really need to get broadband. So, anyway, 1 LO last night - which I know most people would be very happy about getting 1 LO done, but the truth is I all ready had plans for a 2nd and possibly a 3rd LO last night so 1 doesn't cut it for me! LOL

On that note I am going to cut this short this morning so I can go try to get at least the 1 LO done before work! :)

For Karla's CT:

Credits:
Papers & elements from the Jeweled Vintage kit by Karla Kellum of Lifesong Kreations.
Fonts: Willing Race

YIKES!!!

I'm at the point in my life where showers are things either snuck in before kids wake, or only done when another adult is in the house to watch the kids... More often than not I try to sneak them in while the kids are still sleeping in the morning since I'm (normally) awake at least a half hour before them.

So, I took my shower this morning, and left the bathroom door cracked slightly open so I'd be able to hear the kids if they woke up. As I am standing in the bathroom trying to dry off the door suddenly flies open, and there is Brenden! Scared the living daylights out of me as he'd not made one single sound... But, wait! It gets better... After acknowledging him I turned back to drying off, and as I reach for my robe I hear, "Mommy, you need panties!" ROFL Good grief, but this kid cracks me up sometimes! (Of course, that's not when he's decided to tear the ENTIRE screen out of his sister's window... which he did last night.)

Not much else to say this morning, but I'll leave you with the 3 LOs I completed yesterday.

For Karla's CT:

Credits:
Papers & elements (including word art) from the Jeweled Vintage kit by Karla Kellum of Lifesong Kreations.
Fonts: Kristen ITC

Micaila at 3 months, 1 week old.- I needed to play with my freebies!

Credits:
Paper from torn paper tutorial freebie by Kim B Designs.
Bow and charm from Bitty Bow Collection by FernLili.
Ripped paper tag by FernLili.
Stapled bead by Traci King aka Florescent Jellybean.
Frame overlay by Lindsay Jane Designs.
Ribbon wrappie from Ribbon Wrappies Continued II by Laura18K.
Irregular sticker alpha by Kylie Clark Designs.
Fonts: Vintage Typewriter

A Summer LO with lots of pics for my friends at GS:

Credits:
Papers & elements from the Summer Shabby kit by Traci Sims.
Alpha created by me using paper from the Summer Shabby kit by Traci Sims and Grease Monkey font.
Fonts: Vintage Typewriter

This is Micaila & Brenden having fun with their "cousin" at our family reunion. There was a challenge to scrap something from this summer on GS, and one of the paper scrappers was noting that she very rarely sees a digi-page with more than one photo on it so I did this one! :D

Yeah! Another of my creations...

is being offered as a freebie by Pamela! I created a September Desktop QP for your pc using her School Kit - Parts 1, 2, & 3 also currently available as freebies on her blog - and she's putting it up today! All papers by Pamela and calendar by me using Candara font. Stop by to snag it, and leave some love: http://princesspamela.typepad.com/ This is actually the 2nd version 'cause I had a brain fart on the 1st version, and used another designer's calendar. DOH! But, I like this version better anyway! :D

I learned something new this morning! I've learned how to create alphas to match any kit I'm using in PS! It was a great tutorial over at Everyday Digital Scrapbooking. I tried to adapt it to PSP, but didn't have much luck. :( I'll have to keep trying in PSP, and post a tutorial when I figure it out! ;)

I only finished 1 other LO last night. I need to go work on my to do list for the day. Only having 1 day off work a week is a killer sometimes...

For Sondra's CT:

Credits:
Papers, ribbon, brad & overlay from Pressed Flowers kit by Sondra Teer of sondra-scraps.com.
Fonts: Bilbo-hand-Bold; BatikDayakFont
Journaling reads:
luna moths actually have very short life spans as they have no mouths to eat with. in june 2006 we had several of them show up within a 2 weeks period.

Another shiny morning!

We had thunderstorms on and off all night which makes for restless sleeping, but the sun is coming out now. Maybe it will decide to stay for awhile... I'm past sick of the constant dreary, cloudy thing we've had going on for the last couple of weeks.

I just watched the cat catch & eat a spider. I swear she is such a dumbbutt. She won't touch a mouse, but put an insect in her line of sight...

I'm hoping to get or two LOs done before I leave for work this morning. I'd like to cap off 1 or 2 kits for my CTs as I have a large new one coming from KT! It's supposed to be country-themed and huge so I should have some fun playing with it! I may even create some QPs for her as the ones I made for Pamela were such big hits!

Not much else to say right now so I'll leave you with the 3 LOs I completed last night. :)

For a multi-photo sketch challenge on SDD:

Credits:
Papers from the Vintage Dreams kit by Little Dreamer Designs.
Petit Flower by Laura18K.
Ribbon wrap from Ribbon Wrappies Continued II by Laura18K.
Fiber wrap & leaf by Gina Marie Spaghetti.
Fonts: Trash; SA Cinta

For JulieK's CT - Yet another LO of my newest niece! :

Credits:
Papers, tag, & ribbon from the Romance kit by Julie Kelley Designs.
Fonts: MA Sexy

For Cyndi's CT & a font challenge at SDD:

Credits:
Papers & elements from Hank's Kit by Cyndi Wetmiller of Wetfish Designs.
Fonts: MA Sexy; Calvin and Hobbes; Canker Sore; Candara

Please leave me comments! I'd love to hear from you!