A 12 Year old and Sunrise

Jake is 12 today. Next year is teenage years YIKES!! He had a great day today and yesterday. Had a friend spend the night, we stayed up till 1am watching the Red Sox and they won and then today we went bowling, had his requested Chicken Parm for dinner, and Peanut Butter Ice Cream cake for dessert! Gotta love that your kid requests something you make for his bday dinner vs. going out to a restaurant!

Remember that sunrise I mentioned in a previous post. Well here it is:
It was actually better IRL because it was foggy and the field and the foliage were covered in fog! Way cool!

Oh I got two more paper pages done last night while watching the new game. Oh and Mary, I also did all the Make and Takes and the Mini Album that we got on the bus tour!

OK, that's it for me, I'm ready for bed after only 5 hours of sleep last night! Have a great night!

My Baby is 9 Today!

This cutie pie (see Lynette how cute he is for Peyton?) is 9 today! I can't believe that it was 9 years ago that he was born! Man where does the time go! This is not his bday photo, that is still in the camera but it's pretty recent. I took some photos this morning of him in and out of his Halloween costume. He was very excited that it was his bday, the Scarecrow Jamboree and the Halloween Party at school all in one day. And tonight he picked a great place to go for dinner so it should be a good day for him overall! Then we do it all over again on Sunday for Jake! LOL!

I also took some beautiful sunrise photos finally! Every day the sunrise on my way to work is amazing and I keep wishing I had my camera. Well today since I had it out, I took it in the car with me and pulled over and took some photos at a good spot. There was a ton of fog and it seemed like perfect photo opportunities so hopefully when I download them they will look good!

So glad it's Friday even tho we have a busy weekend in store. Even with a day off Tuesday it seems like the week just drags by!

Oh and on the DD update, I didn't go back. I get coffee there a lot and I am too paranoid of what will happen to my Latte when they are brewing it to speak up! Yeah, I think about that every time I go to a restaurant too! LOL! So I'm all bark and no bite sometimes! But thanks to all of you for your support!

Happy Friday All!

Extreme Home Makeover in NH

actually in Manchester, NH which is the next town over from me. Well techinally Manchester is a City but you get the picture. So I took a vacation day from work to go over and volunteer on the home building. I got there bright and early this morning and got turned away. They told me to come back at noon. I got there at 11:30 and there was a big sign that no more volunteers were needed today. I tried right! I guess I don't get to see Ty IRL but I also don't have to get dirty! :)

Instead I ran some much needed errands, got my nails done and now I'm going to scrap! Might as well make good use of my wasted day off!

Oh and I got ripped of by the cashier at Dunkin Donuts! I paid for my latte and she only gave me coins back. I said "I gave you a 20" she said "no you gave me a 5" I said "I only had a 20 on me so that is not possible". She opens the register and shows me a 5 dollar bill. Like I'd recognize it? I decided that $15 wasn't worth fighting over really. I'm going to go back there on the way to pick up Josh from school and talk to a manager. Tell them if they are $15 over in the register at closing it's mine, and if they are not than the girl with the spiderwebs painted on her nails is stealing from people! At least if she is she'll now be watched I hope! Bad people suck!

So there's my day! Hope you all are enjoying yours!

I Paper Scrapped Again!

Twice in a week, that is a record for me! I went to Debbie's house on Friday night and cropped. There were a great bunch of ladies there! I got one layout and an altered project done. I can't share the altered project just yet but if you head on over to the Hawt Mama Team Blog later today it will be there! ;)

Here is the layout I did. I wasn't liking it when I was working on it but now I'm happy with it:

I also did some more scrapping yesterday. I made one more layout and some 12x12 frames. The frames are for my bedroom. The frames were white when I started. Here is the left one:

Here is the right side:
And here is how they look on the wall:

And here is the other layout I did. Using Junkitz papers. I started this one Friday night but ended up quitting because nothing was coming together. I am still not sure if I like it!

So thanks to Mary and Debbie for inviting me to crops the last couple of week, I've got my mojo back! I am happy to be getting my hands dirty again!

Have a great Monday!

Happy Friday!

WOOHOOO! The Sox won! They are still in the competition! I was so nervous last night that I couldn't watch the game! And the first thing I did after my shower was turn the news on and bite my fingernails! I did a happy dance when I saw they won let me tell you!

Tonight I go to Debbie's house to crop. I'm not sure how much I'll get done, I'll probably just be staring over Mary Russo's shoulder! I just love her creativity! Hmmm, maybe I should bring my camera so I can lift her! :) I made some yummy brownies to bring, printed out my stuff for my Digi Altered project and now when I get home I just need to pack up my supplies. I have some stuff already packed because I knew I was going and just left it that way last week after being at Melissa's house. Now if work would go fast I'd be extremely happy today!

I just had to turn down a CT gig. It was for anothe rAltered Digi Team and I was flattered to be asked but I just can't take anymore on right now. I barely have time to finish my 2 monthly assignments for the one Altered Team I'm on. It's a lot of work, trying to come up with something unique, then the printing of the papers and such and then getting into my scraproom for long enough to put it together, take photos as I go, write up instructions. There is just no way I can do more! I do love Altering stuff when I do it tho! And I'm proud of myself for finding a limit! LOL!

OK, I'm gonna stop rambling now. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! It's going to be warm here so I'm looking forward to it!

Happy Monday (yeah, I'm being Sarcastic)

I totally hate Mondays. Especially after a nice weekend.

Friday night we had a great time at the bowling alley for our good friend's DD. So good in fact that the boys decided that is what they want to do for their bdays. They aren't having a big party like in past years because after Disney it's not in the budget but I told them they could pick two friends and we would have pizza and go bowling. They were good with that!

Saturday after the baseball games I headed up to Moultonboro, NH to Mary's sister Melissa's house for some scrapping. There was a nice bunch of ladies there, 8 of us in total and I got 6 pages done. Not too bad for being the last one there! I took a few photos but I don't have them off my computer yet. When I got home we went out to dinner and then I had to go and unpack and scan my pages! If you are so inclined to see them you can go here:

http://123-scrap.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=500&ppuser=12

the first 6 are the ones I did Saturday night.

I'm scrapping again Friday night at Debbie's house and can't wait! One because Debbie is fun and two she's the Junkitz DT Coordinator so can you say heaven for me? I'll probably spend more time oohing and ahhing over all of her fun Junkitz stuff than scrapping! Oh Deb, if you're reading this, I need some Extreme Boy papers and a paisley foam stamp! ;) Just kidding (but not really)!

OK, so that's all for me for now. Hope you all have a great Monday!

Think Pink!

Debbie turned her blog pink for Breast Cancer Awareness month and I thought what a great idea so I've Gone Pink too! Thanks Deb!

So I got my Mamo yesterday and let me tell you, the girl that did it last year must have went easy on me to make sure I came back this year because it hurt like a son of a gun! I remember saying last year, oh that wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, you know from all the friends who have already had one scaring the crap out of you! Well not the same outcome yesterday! Graned the girl was very sweet while she was mangling the heck out of my ta-ta's but dang they hurt for an hour after! LOL!

And you know how they say good things come in threes? Well the first was my collaborative sketch release with my pal Rachael, the second came on Tuesday when a layout I did was a Hot Digi Pick of the Day and the third was last night when Heather Roselli invited me to join her CT permanently! I was guest for her in August and I did such a good job she asked me to come back for good! How cool is that! I guess I better get to work! :)

So that's it for me today. Go make your blog pink or do something for BCA month and make it a great day!

Woohoo! Check this out!

See that "Special Guest Artist's" Name? Yep that's me! This is the news I was hinting too last week. My good pal Rachael asked me to do a collaborative sketch kit with her and of course I said yes! So for one day I'm a designer! Actually the kit will be up for more than one day but I think the glory will fade! ;)

So if you digi scrap and you like templates go on over and check them out here, it's $2 and you get a bunch of sketches!

I've been home sick for the last two days. I'm still working because I can work from home but still. :) I have some kind of ickiness going on and I think it's time to go to the doctor since I've been coughing for 3 1/2 weeks now! So now to get off my butt and make the appt. I hate going to the doctors!

Oh and tomorrow is squish my tata in a vice day. It's October so very appropriate! I have a very good friend going thru Breast Cancer right now and it really makes me sad but also very aware that I need to take care of myself. So here's my reminder to all of you ladies out there, get the TaTa's checked!

Over and Out!

I Shopped and Shopped and Shopped and...

shopped again!

Yesterday was the Scrapbook store bus tour. I left my house at 6am and got home at 9pm. 55 of us boarded a tour bus and headed to 5 stores in two states departing from the first one making it a day of shopping at 6 stores. I actually didn't buy anything at 2 of them. One because it was so new it shouldn't have even been on the tour, they had nothing but a few cute ideas! They did have a nice make and take tho so I'll give them some credit. The last store, the owner was so rude there was no way I was giving her one cent of my hard earned money! But don't worry, I did plenty of damage at the other 4 stores! Here's my stash:

The first store was the best of the bunch and I'm glad because it's only about 35 minutes from me so I can go back often! They are new too and doing a fantastic job already! They have a nice crop room and a Dunkin next door and it's a half way point for Mary and I to get together! FUN!

I have already used some of the Disney stuff I bought today, I did 2 2 page layouts! Woohoo! That should make a dent in my 1200 photos! NOT! LOL! But it was fun to scrap and use new goodies and I've got 5 pages done in my Disney Album!

Both boys won their games this weekend an Jake hit a ground rule double! And I got home to a clean house because Michael decided to surprise me! The only bad part of the day was the bus was lacking in the A/C department and it being almost 90 yesterday and having 55 women in one place made it very warm! The tour guide for us more than made up for it tho. She was a hoot! Her name was Sharon and she made the bus ride fun despite the heat! So all in all it was a great day yesterday.

So that's my Sunday post, I'm off to watch my DVR'd CSI! Have a great night!

The Lives of Boys.

So yesterday the boys had dentist appointments. I always threaten them that they are going to have cavities because they don't brush good enough and they hardly ever floss! I am always proved wrong tho! They need just one filling to teach them how important their teeth really are!

So they always have the same girls do their teeth, Jake has Jen and Josh has this angel named Laurie. Man she loves Josh and she has so much patience with him. That kid is a handful, he talks thru the whole cleaning, has to hold a mirror to watch her every move and plays with everything. I am always ready to kill him and Laurie takes it all in stride. Well the first thing the boys did when we get there is brush since I had picked them both up from school and we went right there. So you know what comes next, the blue stuff! You know the stuff to see where you missed. I couldn't wait! Damn, they actually did pretty good. Only right in the front was bad which I guess is very common. They both thought it was very cool to have blue teeth. So I say to Josh, you need to brush better all the time so you won't have that plaque and what does he say to me... "I've got more important things to worry about than teeth"! Well I thought Laurie was gonna laugh right out of her chair. What does he have to worry about at the ripe old age of 8? I asked but that was the time he decided to be quite in the chair! LOL! They left the dentist with good reports and we went on to baseball practice for Josh.

So while Josh is out practicing Michael and I are watching and Jake is playing with our neighbor's son. Jake comes over and sits down and tells me that there is a dance on Friday night at school. His FIRST school dance! YIKES!!! I say very calmly, "are you going?" he says " I don't know, all my friends keep asking me but I've got more important things to do than a dance"! What is up with my boys, they have all this important stuff going on and I've had no input in it?Friday nights usually consist of the boys staying out late to play or us all going out to dinner. I never realized they had all this "stuff" going on! LOL!

Well it ends up that Jake decides he is going. It's from 7:30 - 9:30 and I so wish I could be a fly on the wall! I mean it is his first one after all! I'm not sure if I want there to be blog stories after it or not!

I guess we'll find out tomorrow night! Have a great Thursday!

Hurry Up Friday!

It's Wednesday, half way thru the work week. It's been a killer week already since I had to work Friday night until 11pm, Saturday until 10pm and Sunday until 11pm, with time off only for two baseball games on Saturday. Six hours at the ball fields working in the concession stands is not my idea of time off!

Lots of fun stuff to talk about...

I've added another blinkie to Creative Team list (for you paper girls that's a Digital Design Team)! I was a Guest CT for Melissa Bennett in September and when she invited me to stay on permanently I jumped at the chance. I just love her designs. I discovered her at Elemental Scraps when Cindy was there and she's also at The Digi Shoppe. Fun stuff for any of you digi gals! I figure if I can't get down to my scraproom, this digi thing keeps me out of trouble at least! And I never run out of anything either! Gotta love that!

I did a little collaborative digi release with a very talented lady and I'm looking foward to seeing my stuff in her store! Hopefully I can spill the beans this weekend if she gets the release up! No pressure to her tho! ;)

Saturday I'm going on a Scrapbook Bus tour with my good pal Mary. We start off at one store for Breakfast and a Make and Take at 6:30 am. The Coach Bus leaves at 7:30 to take us to 5 more stores where we will be fed snacks, lunch and dinner and do make and takes at each store. We also get a 20% discount at each store. Then we return to the host store for dessert at 7:30pm. Should be a blast to shop and of course Mary is always fun to be around so I'm looking forward to it.

So that's my fun stuff to talk about today. Hope you all have a Happy Hump Day!

October 1st

This year is flying by! I'm kinda glad, it's not been the best one. Thank you all for your wonderful comments for the family after losing our sweet Bear. Everyone is healing slowly. Michael the slowest of course. It will definitely take some time. I'm making collages for everyone's bedroom. Jake asked for one and then Michael and Josh saw his and wanted one too. I am making one for the neighbors who always took care of her too. Joe always called Bear his dog and spoiled her rotten so Michael thinks he will like it.

In other news, the boys are back to baseball full swing. We were at the fields from 12:30 till 6 Saturday. I worked my whole weekend away other than that time! All the way until 11:00 last night. Needless to say I'm very tired today! And my other news... I'm going paper croppin! Debbie from Junkitz has invited me to her house! It's been a while since I've hung out with girls and had a good time so I'm really looking forward to it. The last very simple paper page I did took me almost 2 hours so I can't imagine being with people how long it's gonna take me! But I don't care if I get one page done it will be fun.

And that's all I've got for you today so have a great Monday!

Friday Finally

And it's not been a good week. I've been sick with a terrible cold all week. There was a fire at my work while I was gone so thanks to that I've been able to work from home while I've been miserable instead of spreading it around!

I finally got all my Disney photos uploaded to shutterfly. It took 2 full days! Granted there are a lot of them but man why is uploading so dang slow?

And the worst part of all is that we've made the dreaded appointment for our beloved dog Bear. She's going in at 9:30 tomorrow to be put down. She's had a wonderful life, she'll be 16 in December, she's been the best dog I've ever know but she's declining so quickly. She's been throwing up for 2 days and hasn't eaten in 3. Not a good sign. So so sad.

So if you don't see me for a bit you'll know why. Hope you all have a better weekend than I do.

We're BACK!

Man what a vacation! We were on the go from 7am until 11pm each day! We went to Magic Kingdom and Epcot twice, MGM, Animal Kingdom and Sea World. It was amazing, it was HOT, it was so much fun! I'm sooo tired and COLD! We went from 95 degree weather to 60! It's definitley fall in New England! I've got so many photos to go through, over 1000 are still stuck on my card (little downloading issues I've got to get fixed!) and 600 that I've already downloaded from my mom's and my cameras and what Wendy took when she came to see us and we all went to Animal Kingdom!

I've got to clean my house, unpack, do laundry and catch up with everything that I missed so I'll make this short!

Have a great Sunday!

Leaving On a Jet Plane

Bye Bye!

We are off to Disney tomorrow morning! See you on the 15th! Have a great week! Don't miss my boring blog too much!

2nd Day of School

and I've got a sick kiddo! Josh started puking at 9pm last night, ended at 1am. Needless to say he's missing the 2nd day of school! We are not off to a good start attendance wise considering he's going to miss all next week! OOPS!

Both boys loved school, loved their teachers and Jake was anxious to leave today! Hooray! Hopefully it stays that way throughout the year!

And since I don't have first day photos to share with you I thought I'd share the flowers that Michael got me for our Anniversary. He's so cute, he designed them himself, picked out the vase special and all the flowers on his own!

So pretty and some of my favorites in there! Love that vase with the daisies on it too! I think I'll keep him another 20 years or so!

And now I've got to go see how Josh is doing! Have a great day!

First Day of School! 4 Days till Disney!

Yep, today is the first day of school! And yep, I forgot to take photos! UGH! I'm not a good scrapping mom at all! The boys were both so excited to go and I also gave them both haircuts today so it was a bit chaotic. My camera was not out in the open either so that helped me forget! Oh well, we'll try again tomorrow! LOL!

And only 4 work days till Disney! Woohoo! I can't believe it's finally here! We leave Saturday morning for Disneyworld! We are going to AAA to get our passes for Disney and SeaWorld tonight, I got a great deal on a set of new suitcases on Sunday and we went and bought Michael a ton of new clothes for the trip at Kohls so we are good to go except for the packing and rain ponchos. So Exciting!

And that's it for my post today. Have an awesome Tuesday!

For Donna

Thank you all or the anniversary wishes! I've never had so many comments on my blog before! :)

And since Donna asked, here is a photo of us during our First Dance as Husband and Wife. Boy was I thin and young! :)

Happy Labor Day!

20 Years!

Man where does the time go? I've been married to this man for 20 years today! We met in High School thanks to my now SIL who introduced us. She apologizes constantly! LOL! ;) And we broke up for a bit and dated others but we ended up back together for good when I graduated. We've had our good times and our bad times but as Shania Twain says "Looks Like We Made It"!

We aren't doing anything special tonight, we leave for Disney on Sept 8th. That is our present to each other and the boys! :)

And before I get told I blog too much again by Kristi, I'll stop here! Happy Hump Day!

Warning! Don't Take Sensitive Children to a Wild Animal Park!

Since we spent the weekend in Maine at my In-laws house we decided to break up the 3 hour trip home with a stop at the Maine Wildlife Park in Gray, ME. We thought it was a good idea at the time, both boys wanted to and the weather was nice.

Foward Scene to when we start walking around the park after they have just taken my last $20 in cash (they don't take credit cards and I never have cash!) and we get to the bobcat cage. The bobcats are pacing as most wild animals do when caged, the stench is horrendous and Jake doesn't like it much. Next cage, another animal I think it was an albino porcupine cool huh), and it's pacing. And the next cage, at this point I can't remember the animal, it's pacing too! And at this point, Jake has a breakdown, is bawling and wants to leave. We try to explain to him that these animals are better off here because they were hurt, orphaned, or being held illegally as pets and can't live on their own in the wild. What does my boy say, "they would be better off dead than unhappy and pacing in a smelly cage". I have to admit I kind of agree with him. I also don't think he will ever go on another elephant ride again. And as for taking him to a real zoo, that's not happening!

Oh the joys of having a sensitive kid! Now you've had fair warning,if you too have one! ;)

IKEA!!! OH MY!

I went to Ikea last night with a couple of friends. The store closest to me is an hour and a half away and let me tell you it was sooooo worth the trip! What an awesome place! It took us 2 hours to get through the whole place! I had a list a mile long when I left of ideas and wants! So stinkin cool!!! I am not so sure Michael thinks it's cool because now I've found more ways to spend money I don't have but he'll get over it! He always does! :) Seriously, if you have one near you, you have to go! It's so much better than the website!

And in other news, Jake and I are a total mess. I was thinking allergies because it's itchy eyes, soar throat, runny nose and coughing but the weird thing is that there is nothing in the allergy index even on the moderate side right now. I also have a huge cold sore on my lip (totally looks like I got smacked in the mouth) so I figured I could be getting sick because that's about the only time I get these damn things. Who knows! All I know is that it's miserable!

And that's all I've got! Have a wonderful Thursday!

My Boy Made the Paper!

Josh went to "Old Home Days" last weekend with my Mom. He had his whole face painted like a lizard and had a great time. Well this weekend, my Mom was reading our small town weekly newspaper and look what she found...Yep, the boy with the green face is my Josh! LOL! He was so excited to see himself in the paper! Granted my Mom had no idea who the person was taking his photo and she let him anyway! I told her not to do that again! At least his name isn't in the article without permission!

A New PAPER page!

Yep, I scrapped! It was fun. We spent the day at the Lake with Chris yesterday and then last night she came over to hang in my scraproom. I got one page done in 2 hours! I hate to say it but it's really hard for me to paper scrap lately! I think I've been doing way too much digi! LOL!

I got my August Heidi Swapp kit in on Thursday so I was dying to use all that pink and brown loveliness since it is my favorite color combo. I had to find a girl photo and the only other girl in the house is my sweet pup Bear. This photo was taken in 1997 when she was about 4 years old. She's now 15 years old and much greyer! ;)

Credits can be seen here. The tag flipped during scanning, the other side is painted with a bronze krylon pen and there is a white "B" in the center.

So we are off to a friends for an annual Luau today and tomorrow we are having company. I may not post again till Monday! Have a great weekend!

A Little Digi Freebie

It's been awhile since I gave anything away here so I've got something today. These are some cardboard photo corners I made. The four you see are it so don't get all excited that it's some amazing freebie because you'll be sorely disappointed. But heck it's a digi freebie so ENJOY!

Here is the Download link.

3 weeks 4 days till Disney

I got my Birnbaums Official Guide and also the "Unofficial Guide" books in the mail yesterday! Jake started reading the Official Guide before bed! I have put together a spreadsheet of Park Hours and Schedules for the week and now we need to decide which "Special" to do, whether it be a Character Breakfast, Dine with Shamu, Luau, etc. I am voting for Shamu but we'll have to see how everyone else in the family sees it!

This is our first time to Disney with the boys and Michael and I haven't been there since our 5 year anniversary in 1992 so I can't wait! There are a few things I'm not looking foward to like who will go with the boys on the 'hell' rides and some stuff I won't mention on my blog for fear of who reads it that I don't know about! ;) But all in all it should be a blast!

If anyone has any 'must see' things or something special you want to mention if you've been there please do!

And for the next three weeks and 4 days you may see a lot of counting down!

Happy Tuesday!

MEME for today

This was over at the Sweet Shoppe Blog. I have no idea what a meme is because I'm too lazy to google it but it reminds me of a tag that I didn't get tagged on.

Five in a Row
1. Name one thing you do everyday. I sleep every day! :)
2. Name two things you wish you could learn. To play the piano and scrap like my favorite scrappers!
3. Name three things that remind you of your childhood. Big Hair, Cabbage Patch Dolls, 10 Pin Bowling Alley
4. Name four things you love to eat but rarely do. Lobster, Prime Rib, Scallops, Donuts
5. Name five things that make you feel good. My boys laughing, a favorite song, a warm sunny day, my friends, a brownie sundae!

Now since this is not a tag you don't have to do it on your blog but you can if you want! Happy Friday :)

Cool Contest

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http://www.5minutesformom.com/2032/insignia-37inch-flat-panel-lcd-hdtv-contest/

Check it out!

Tagged!

My sweet friend Jolene tagged me. This is a pretty fun tag actually! The tag goes like this:
Write 8 of your blog friends names in a unique way and post them. Then come back over and let me know. You must write the blogger's name that tagged you, then add 7 others. Be creative! I used this to do the names.


Jolene loves the bling! You should see her cool cell phone! And it's pink my favorite color! She is also a total sweetheart so that's why I picked the bling heart! And dang the girl can cook! Love ya Jolene!


Kendra reminds me of a smooth cup of my favorite cappuccino. She's got more talent in her pinky finger than I could even handle and such a cool person.


Kristi is another girl I'm so glad I met online. She is so nice and so stinkin funny! Oh and the guitar is because she's always got something rockin on her blog and I have no clue how to do that!


This reminded me sooo much of Tammy I couldn't resist! She's got pups that look just like this!


This is for my California girl Chris! She's one of my very best friends and lives way too far away!


Donna is a way talented graphic artist. I couldn't find a cool graphic photo for her but I know she loves animals so this one is for her!


And for my east coast beach girlfriend Andrea who also lives way too far away down in the Sunshine state!


For my coffee loving friend who has been trying to cut down her coffee intake!

And for the girl who is never home!

For Jolene

We went to Maine this weekend. The boys stayed with my In-laws all last week and we picked them up there. During that time we went over to my SIL's house and when I shot this photo I thought of my online friend Jolene. She loves barns. So Jolene, this is for you...

The boys had a great time, there were a few issues about sunblock and showers but I'm over it. Sort of! ;)

Happy Birthday Kristi Smith!

This girl makes me laugh almost every day!

Sooo...

Have a great day and thanks for being such a great blogging bud! I wish I could come spend your bday with you! :) HUGS!!!

What Do I Do with Myself?

My boys are gone to Maine to spend the week with my in-laws on the lake and my good buds Rachael and Cindy are on vacation all week. What am I gonna do with myself without them to chat on the phone with and my boys to keep me occupied? Does anyone want to come and visit so my house isn't so quiet? LOL! It was so strange after Michael left this morning. I had no one to tell, "brush your teeth, wash your face, put some sunblock on", no lunches to make, and the house was eerie! You'd think I'd be doing the happy dance but I'm not! LOL!

Maybe I'll get some scrapping in! I've got to get to Staples for more in though because my printer ran out of Photo Magenta and Black yesterday. I had black but no PM! Dang I hate that! I'm gonna buy one of every color so I have them on hand! The one thing I am going to look forward to is if I need to stop and do any shopping this week I can and won't have to worry about being late for daycare pickup! Oh and I was folding laundry this morning because I was ready with 45 minutes to spare! So that's a plus! But I can't wait till Friday when we'll be heading up to Maine to see the boys.

Oh and I just talked to them both and they are having a blast already! It seems that my oldest Jake and his cousin Joey (there are 4 boys up there) were playing Tether Ball and that Jake may have given Joey a black eye already! So the excitement has already started! They are off to go tubing very soon (something I don't want to think about) becae it's a gorgeous day already up there. Funny it's pouring here!

Anyway, that's all I've got for now. Have a great Monday!

Need a favor please!

This guy is in a battle of the bands and is the best friend of my son's awesome guitar teacher. I'm trying to help him get to first place. He's in 2nd right now. If you wouldn't mind can you go here:

www.haverhillrocks.com

Click on the "Vote" part of the image in the middle of the screen.

Scroll down until you see Tim Cannon and vote pretty please!

Thanks in advance! You all rock!

Have a great Wednesday!

I Paper Scrapped!

And it felt good! Of course it wasn't even a page for me! Chris needed someone else to scrap her photo for a challenge she is in and since she was visiting and had her camera with photos of her son on it we figured it was the pefect time to do a page! So then I got the bug of course but I just did that one page and then we took the boys to the lake for a swim. When I got home I went for a walk with Josh and then it was dinner time and after dinner I was too tired to do anything so that one page is it for me I guess! So here is the page I did for Chris:

Chris and I had a nice but too short visit. I picked her up on Sat about 1ish and we went to AC Moore (paper was 40% off) and got some cool stuff, then she took me out to lunch and then we stopped at Wally World so she could stock up on some adhesive she can't get at home and then we went back to my house for Pomegranet Martini's! YUM. I think I've converted Chris from a wine drinker! ;) So although I got to spend 24 hours with her I'm glad she's coming back next month too! CA is just too far for one of your best friends to live!

And now it's Monday morning and time for work so have a great day all!

It's Friday!

Woohoo! I was a bit under the weather yesterday but I am feeling a bit better today and I'm so glad the weekend is almost here. Just a few hours at work and two glorious days off! I am hoping to make it to my scrapbook room maybe at some point, other than to clean it before Chris comes! LOL! I really am cranking out the digi pages but its' just not the same! I need to get my hands dirty! :)

In the digi news, I did do three girly pages this week though! I love doing girly pages! I signed up for 3 photo swaps just so I could do them! And I totally hate doing swaps! I always stress doing someone elses photos! But at least with digi if the photo owner doesn't like the page they just delete it. It's hard to throw away all that awesome paper stuff if you don't like the page! ;)

Anyway, I swapped photos with girls from Shawna's CT and Traci's CT. I ended up with two on Traci's team because we had an uneven swap amount, and guess what, I was good with that, more girl photos for me! LOL! Here are the three pages I did:

First is Laura McGee's niece Hailey, she's a cute little blond! I used Traci Reed's Vibrant kit for this one:

Other credits can be seen here: http://123-scrap.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=12618&cat=500&ppuser=12

Second was a photo of Meghan (flirtatousbrat)'s gorgeous daughter. And I barely even used pink on this one! I know I shocked myself too! LOL! I lifted this design from my good friend Cindy!

Credits Here: http://123-scrap.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=12651&cat=500&ppuser=12

And lastly I got to do Maria LaFrance's adorable daughter Piper! So cute!

Credits: http://123-scrap.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=12652&cat=500&ppuser=12

I actually finished 9 pages this week since Saturday! Not bad! I can't finish 9 pages at a weekend long crop when I do paper pages! LOL!

So that's it for me, I'll be back on Sunday or Monday! Have a great weekend all!

My Gotcha Page

The Digi Chick had a great weekend full of challanges and awesome prizes this weekend. I ended up winning two gift certificates from it. One for Natalie Braxton's store and one to The Digi Chick store so that was even better! Anyway, one of the challenges was to download a stock photo and make up a story about it. I knew exactly what photos I wanted to search for on Stock.xchng and had a lot of fun with my page. Here it is:

I also did a bunch of other things from the challenges they had, it was a very productive weekend digi wize. Granted my paper scrapping has really been slacking! I need to get down to my room and soon before I forget how! Plus there will be so much dust down there from lack of use I'll actually have to clean it! ;)

I get to see my good friend Chris this weekend so I'm very excited about that. Unfortunately it's not for a happy occasion that she is coming all the way from California, her Gram died and the funeral is back here. I am sorry about her Gram but she did live a very long life of 99 years and I'm very happy that she's coming to spend a day and night with me on Saturday! Can't wait! Not sure what we are gonna do but it will be great no matter what!

So that's it with me so far this week. I hope everyone has an awesome Tuesday!

Digi Deal!

I know I'm a hardcore paper scrapper but I haven't been able to get into my scraproom for awhile (other than some hybrid projects) so yes, I'm talking more digi here!

If you haven't already, you need to go and sign up for Traci Reed's newsletter.

Go here: http://www.tracireed.com/lists/?p=subscribe

You get this kit for FREE and a different free kit every month just for signing up! How cool is that?

And you should also run over and check out the big sale Shawna is having! She's retiring a bunch of stuff and pretty much her whole store is on sale right now!

So not much else new here, did a couple of challenge pages for The Hawt Mama's Blog Challenge. An AAM page which I'm so not good at and also my Hybrid project is over there too. And that's about it.

So happy Hump Day! Have a great one!

It's Saturday!

Man I hate short weeks, especially with a day off in the middle, they seem so darn long! I didn't think Saturday would ever get here! I woke up bright and early this morning and while everyone was still asleep I had my coffee and did a couple of digi pages. Credits can be seen here: http://123-scrap.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=12590&limit=recent

Credits Here: http://123-scrap.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=12589&limit=recent

And once everyone wakes up I'm going to clean the house and then go out and do some yardwork if the rain stays away. Tomorrow it's supposed to be in the 90's so I want to get it all done today.

And that's it for now. Hope you all have a great weekend!

Back Bloggin!

Hello all you out there in blogland! First off all can I just send out each one of you that has commented and kept me in your thoughts a HUGE hug! Thank you all so so much! It has meant a tremendous amount to me to have such awesome friends!

I'm still working out a lot of stuff but the last month has definitely seen some changes. First with the 6" I cut off of my hair! I have had the same hairstyle for 25 years and decided it was time for a change.

Now to lose this weight I've put on and work through some of my other issues.

I was accepted to two new Creative Teams, two of my dream teams as a matter of fact!
Shawna Clingerman most likely got sick of me and just let me in I've applied every time she's had a call and was even guest for her at the end of last year. I've been a huge fan of her work since I discovered Digi Scrapping.

Traci Reed also invited me to be part of her 'Altered' CT. I have also been a huge fan of Traci's since I discovered her stuff. AND I get to digi and paper scrapping at the same time! I made my first altered project this past weekend for the Team Blog go and check it out, instructions are included and you paper scrappers can just use your scrapping stuff! ;)

So that's what's up with me since my last post. I just want to say thanks again for sticking it out with me!

Have a great 4th of July!

Thank You Blog Buds!

I just wanted to pop in here and say thank you all for the wonderful comments I've been receiving via email thru your blog comments. Your friendship and caring means the world to me at this time and always. I don't want you to think that I haven't responded out of ignorance, it's because I don't have all of your emails and when the comments come thru they have a no-reply address. So I'm receiving them all and I appreciate each and every one! I'm still here and still working out my 'stuff'! Thanks for thinking of me! Hugs!

Back in a Bit

To my few faithful blog readers...

I'm thankful for you I really am, you are the one stable thing in my life right now but I've got to take a break from everything for a bit. There's some not so nice things going on in my life that I'm really not capable of going into but just know that once I can figure them all out, I'll be back to my random musings. Thanks so much for coming here and checking in on me, I really do appreciate each and every 6 of you! ;)

Hugs!

Play Kaboodle Bingo at Elemental Scraps

Go check it out here:

http://www.elementalscraps.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6007&highlight=Kaboodle

Weekend Recap

We had a nice visit with my MIL and FIL on Friday and Sat. but I ate way too much! Then Sunday and Monday we kind of just hung around and I got some paper scrapping and a little beading in. I think this bracelet reminds me of the beach, I wished I'd had some kind of beachy charm to add to it but I think it turned out OK:

I did 3 paper pages, no new photos because my printer was out of ink but at least they are done. This one is based off a sketch I created for 123-Scrap and I loved the papers but I think the black flourish is throwing it off. I may need to change it. I thought with the rub-ons it would be OK but I think because it's not flat it sticks out too much, KWIM?

And this one is of course in my favorite color combo since I can never resist the chance to use it! It's based off a digi sketch template by my friend Rachael

And this is a digi page I did last night. I found these old photos over the weekend when I was looking for some other photos on CD for Michael. I couldn't resist scrapping these since they make me smile so much! Sketch Template by Jen Caputo, Kit is Little Bug by Peppermint Creative, Stitching and Frames are by Gina Miller:

And that's all I've got for now. Hope you all have a great Wednesday!

Happy Memorial Day Weekend and A Freebie for my Digi Friends!

It's an extra long weekend here at the Bumbaca household. My MIL and FIL came to visit yesterday and they just left a few minutes ago. We had a very nice visit. They brought the newest member of the family to visit with them. I was a bit leary of that but that's another story and it turned out to be OK anyway. My newest BIL, Mickey is 10 weeks old and very cute! Here is one photo of many I took of him over the last two days:

I am wiped out! I cleaned house until 9pm Thursday night, got up and ran errands Friday am before my inlaws got here, cooked a big spaghetti and meatball dinner salad and strawberry shortcake (thanks to Kendra for the craving) for dinner last night, then today made sausage biscuits with gravy, eggs and fruit salad for breakfast, we went for a nice walk this afternoon and then I made marinated steak tips and some yummy potatoes for lunch and some cookies before they left this afternoon! And of course in between took lots of photos and played with the puppy! ;) Oh and did I mention Jake had a baseball game in there too! LOL! I plan on doing nothing tomorrow! Well except maybe head down to my scraproom for a bit! I'll need to go to Staples for some ink first since I am out of yellow and I know I'll just have to scrap some new photos from this weekend even tho I've got a million older photos needed to be done! ;)

I got a fun kit from Kendra left over from one of the classes she taught in the mail today and since I can't take any of her classes that's the next best thing! She is incredibly talented and I am thrilled to have the kit to at least make something she designed!

OK, I've done enough chatting. On to the freebie. I made these silk flowers during the same time I made the shades of blue kit. I've not been back to the whole designing thing again but I've got a few things stored up to share every now and then. I'm going to have to do a lot more learning to be any good at it that's for sure but hopefully for my digi friends you can get some use out of these. Here is the preview:

And here is the download link:
http://www.4shared.com/file/16708984/e654da18/pretty_petals.html

Enjoy and have a great rest of the weekend!

I Paper Scrapped!

For the first time in a month! I only got one page done but boy it felt good! I tried to start on an altered project too but I started to feel yucky in my tummy and had to quit. I'm headed down there for a couple of hours before I have to get ready for a double header baseball game and then a wake after this post to see how far I can get again today. Karen maybe I'll finish your bday present! :)

So here is my page. I used Teresa Collin's of Junkitz Extreme Boy Line. Love it!!! I've been waiting for a special photo to use these papers, I think I found it!

It's been raining here all weekend which is why they are trying to get a double header in today but from the looks of the rain today not to sure that is going to happen either. Well maybe more scraptime for me then! ;)

Hope you all have a fabulous day! See ya tomorrow hopefully if I have anything to post about!

Nose for Sale!

I want a new one! One that doesn't run! Man allergies are the pits! I'll sell these itchy eyes while I'm at it too. LOL! I got some eye drops from the doc, they are supposed to be really strong, the co-pay was $45 (which means they are tier 1) and they worked for all of 5 minutes. You can use them twice a day. I won't be refilling those! I also got Allegra. Not high on my recommendation list either. Another one that you take 2x a day. It works all of about a nano-second.

Yesterday was exciting. We had tornado watches start up at about 2:30. Right when my son gets home from school and an hour before I leave from work. I'm 40 minutes away from home. Jake calls and says "Mom, when are you coming home? It's raining like crazy and there are tornado watches!" I say "Can you go next door?" He says "Nope, they aren't home." Great! So I say, "Watch the news, if the tv starts that buzzing noise you call me right away and I'll tell you what to do." What else can I do? In the end we just had some serious downpours, thunder, lightening and no baseball! :) But that means a makeup game tomorrow night. Bummer!

The CK Convention is in town this weekend and I was hoping to sneak over there. Oh well, I guess I'll save a few pennies. Who am I kidding I'll save mega bucks! :)

I am really hoping to get down to my scraproom this weekend . Granted I have to figured out when I'll actually have time to do that but maybe just maybe. I've got so much stuff to work on pending down there and some major dust bunnies building up from no movement in that room! LOL!

OK, well I've got not much else going on so I guess I'll leave you. Have a happy day!

Check This Out!

My good friend Rachael isn't just designing templates anymore! She's joined the element and paper world too! She was invited to join the 2nd Digital Tag team! The kit is fabulous! And for 8.99 it's a steal! It's jam packed with stuff! Here is a little sneak peak.


In other news we had a fabulous day in Boston on Mother's Day. We went out for some great eats to a restaurant we learned about when Jen and Adam came to town last summer. My DH actually wants to go back for Father's day. Jen want to come with us? ;) And we took the boys to the top of the Prudential Center and they just loved that! I got some fun photos of a Red Sox game going on at Fenway Park!

and here's another of the City:



It was just a perfect day.

Last night Jake had a baseball game. They won, 17-6. Jake had 4 terrific hits to the back of the field, I thought he was going to hit one over the fence for sure! I think this is his year for his first home run! It was a great game! They played the Red Sox of all teams to beat! ;) Funny Josh's team got crushed by the Red Sox on Saturday! ;) Tonight it's Soccer practice and tomorrow night it's two more games at the same time different fields, I wish I could clone myself so I could be at them both! I hate having to say no to one! :(

OK gotta work! Have a great day!

Busy Saturday!

We are off for a full day! First Jake has Baseball pictures at 8:10 and then Jake has a baseball game at 9am and Josh has a soccer game at the same time. So I'll be running back and forth trying to take photos of them both! Then I have to run Josh to the car to change for after his game gets over at 10 for his baseball photos at 10:30! Thank goodness this is all at the same place! Only because it's not raining today! If it were yesterday we'd be running clear across town! Then we get to go home to take a breather and eat some lunch and it's back to another part of town for Josh's baseball game! This is my life until the end of June or maybe the beginning of July! At least I'm driving today so I can do it myself instead of being a 14 yo again and having my mommy take me! LOL!

OK I'm outta here! All you Mom's have a very happy Mother's Day tomorrow! Hugs!

Not Much New Here

I'm still working from home and going to PT twice a week. I go back to driving on Monday. Mother's Day is Sunday and because I'm not driving I have not bought cards or gifts yet! Of course Michael calls me today and says, will you order yourself that lens that you want? It's never a surprise for me! LOL! I'm getting this:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00009XVCU/ref=ord_cart_shr/002-3265576-0568058?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance

And a wireless remote, some lens hoods I need and of course the UV Filter for it. Sometimes it's not bad shopping for yourself! :)

I am not getting much scrapping done, I'm spending only work time on the computer and my neck can't handle paper scrapping at all even if I had the time. We have baseball games/practices, soccer games/practices almost every night and most of the day on Sat! I think we may have one night off this week. My mom's been a trooper driving us all over the place but man I feel like I'm 14 again! LOL!

So that's all I've got. Hope you all have a Happy Hump Day!

Happy NSD!

To all my scrapping pals! I hope you all got some great scrap time or scrappy shop time in! Today I had 2 soccer games and one baseball game so needless to say I did no scrappying what-so-ever. I did manage to spend some money in the digi world tho! Can't miss out on those sales! ;)

Speaking of sales check out the May Mega Kit at Digi Scrap Shak :

Aren't those colors awesome! And the size, yep it's Mega alright! Hurry over to the shak and scoop it up!

And be sure to leave a comment and tell me all the fun stuff you did to celebrate NSD! Hope it was great! Have a terrific night!

Temporarily Suspended

from driving that is! For 2 weeks! ACK! I have had some neck pain for about 2 weeks now. I finally couldn't stand it anymore and went to the ER on Sat. Fun 3 hours wasted and meds that don't work out of that! So I call my doc yesterday and of course they can't fit me in until today. They say since I was already seen at the ER I need to wait 3 days! UGH! So today I am told I need to go to Physical Therapy and no driving for 2 weeks! Granted driving kills my neck but that's a long time! The meds they gave me are stronger and I guess you shouldn't drive and when my doc heard I worked a 40 minute drive away she said uh-uh! So I should be a bit nuts working from home and having no one to talk to all day for that long! I'm a very outgoing person I need to gab! ;)

It's also the start of baseball and soccer season and we have games/practices 3 nights a week and on Saturday! How's that going to happen when I can't drive and my husband works all over kingdom come? Oh Mom... Thank GOD for my mom and that she lives close! Dang, sometimes she drives me nuts but she's a lifesaver! I have to get her something good for Mother's Day! Any ideas anyone?

Oh, we are having a cyber crop at 123-Scrap this weekend in honor of National Scrapbook Day so if you want some scrapping fun, stop on by!

And that's my news. Hope you all have a terrific Tuesday!