Happy Valentines Day

So I woke up to this this morning: 

Yes that box of candy does say Princess and those ARE green M&M’s. And then he said bye and went to work. I cleaned house and did some CT assignments. Now I’m trying to decide whether or not I want to go take a nap.

Oh, I had breakthrough with my knee yesterday! After almost 5 weeks the swelling finally went down and my right knee is almost the same size as the left. I’m not sure if was the E-Stim/Ice from PT or just time but I’m happy. It still hurts but as long as I’m careful it’s pretty much fine. I am hoping by mid next week I’ll get my approval to get the MRI to find out if I need surgery.

It’s a long weekend for me but not the boys, Michael has to work and our town is making up a snow day so I’ve got the day to myself. I may just heat up my scrap room and head down there for the day now that I’m off the crutches.

And that’s it for me. Have a great weekend!

My Word

I saw this on the SSD Blog. I am pretty happy with my word:

Your Word is "Love"

You see life as possibility to form deep connections with a few people. Relationships are the center of your world, and you always take time to bond with those you love. You are caring and giving. You enjoy helping those you love. And when it comes to romantic love, you feel passionately ... even in a very long term relationship.

What's Your Word?

I’ve Had It!

Off to the doctors AGAIN. I was doing my exercised that the Physical Therapist gave me to do at home last night and I tweaked my knee so bad that I am back on crutches and in pain. I am so tired of this. I hope THIS will finally make them realize I need the MRI. I’m tired of going back to work and then taking days off because of something like this. I just need to find out what the heck is wrong and get it fixed already!

Yesterday was DH’s bday. Luckily we went out to dinner on Sunday night because last night’s spaghetti with stuffed meatball dinner and bday cake was cancelled since he had to go out to do an emergency job. We plan on doing it tonight but between my knee and his work schedule who knows. He does love the GPS I got him so there was one good outcome of yesterday!

Other than that, not much else new here. Hope everyone is well!

Birthday Memories

The SSD Blog asked us to blog about a memorable birthday. Mine will always be my 40th. There is nothing that I think will ever top it. 4 of my close girlfriends from all sides of the US (CA, FL, TX, NY) came to celebrate with me. We went to a scrapbooking crop on Cape Cod. It was definitely the best birthday I’ve ever had. We laughed and talked and ate and even scrapbooked a little. The weather was gorgeous for March on the Cape and I couldn’t have asked for more. Here is a photo of the 5 of us on the beach…

I’ll never be able to thank these girls enough for making it the best birthday ever!

WARNING – Whiny Post Ahead!

I am sick of being sitting around. The Worker’s Comp Insurance people denied my MRI so I have to go back to the doc to figure out an ‘alternative’ to that. Nice huh? Oh and they paid me 1/2 of my normal week’s pay. I did my taxes and we owe the IRS so much money I can’t even type the amount cause it makes me sick to think of it! Oh yeah, DH is real happy with our new windows and siding but taking money out of your 401K is NOT the way to pay for things! Let’s see, think that’s enough well me too because it’s depressing so I’m gonna stop now! And if you made it through this post after the title you are a true friend!

Resolutions

I got this quiz from the SSD Blog. I've never been one to keep a resolution which is why I've stopped making them so I am not surprised by my quiz results:

You Probably Won't Keep Your New Year's Resolution

Something isn't quite right with the resolution you've selected. Maybe it's time for a different one?

Will You Keep Your New Year's Resolution?

This is my life for awhile…

I will be looking at this view until at least February 3rd maybe longer. The doc took me out of work until they can get the MRI done and figure out what is up with my knee.

The third computer is my work laptop. Technically I can’t work from home but I am going to check email in case I need to respond to anything or ask anyone do follow up on anything for me. Plus I have to enter my time sheet of zero hours every day! LOL!

The orthopedic doc thinks it is a meniscus and that arthroscopic surgery will be in my near future. YAY.  not

I’m supposed to have my MRI today BUT the Workers' Comp Ins company called yesterday and told me that I need another approval since it is a Massachusetts related injury. Their rules are different, why am I not surprised. So I have to call someone at 9am hoping that my paperwork went through or I have to reschedule it.  Which on one hand would be ok since we are supposed to get another FOOT of snow today! Crutches + snow = bad things with me.

Can you say fun? I was really hoping 2009 would be better than 2008 and here it is only January!

So at least I’ll be able to comment on everyone’s blogs (aren’t you thrilled) because I will be reading from the blog instead of a reader at work and I’ll be able to see pics! YAY!  So make sure you post lots so I don’t go batty here and if there are any of you that like to chat on the phone call me cause seriously I can’t do anything but play on the computer and watch tv as my scraproom is in the basement.  I guess I may have to start printing some of my digi pages or my albums will never get caught up!

And that’s my update! If you stayed with me you are a true friend! Have a great Wednesday!

Cupcakes

Over on the Sweet Shop Blog we were asked to blog about our favorite cupcake. Well I love all cupcakes but I really love these:

    Hostess Cupcakes with the yummy cream in the middle and lots of chocolate! YUMMO!

    How about you, what is your favorite cupcake?

I Scrapped!

My knee felt good enough to make it down the stairs today so I went down to my scrap room and did some paper pages. I used the PageMaps book and got 4 pages done, well 2 one pagers and a 2 pager. Unfortunately my scanner is dead so I had to take photos, and I stink at taking photos of layouts so two are very blurry! I could use some help for you girls that do it all the time! All of these are for the Disney Album…

I am hoping to do a lot more paper pages than I did last year which was a pitiful 24. I’ve got 7 done so far so I’m off to a good start don’t you think?

6 Photo Meme

Rach tagged me in this, and since I just burned all my photos to DVD I knew I’d find a very current photo!

First, the rules are simple. As follows:

1.Go to your Picture Folder on your computer or wherever you store your pictures.
2.Go to the 6th Folder, then pick the 6th picture in that folder.
3.Post that picture on your blog and the story that goes along with the picture.
4.Tag 6 other peoples that you know or don’t know to do the same thing and leave a comment on their blog or an e-mail letting them know you chose them.

Here is my picture and the story behind it:

This is our Christmas tree from this past Christmas. I always take a photo of it with the lights on and the lights off to get the twinkling lights effect. This one is with the on.

I’m tagging all my very talented photographer friends because I can’t wait so see their photos!

Rachael

Jheri

Kendra

Lynette

Janette

Debbie

I’d like to than the Academy…

My wonderful cyber sister Jodene gave me (well technically my blog) a Marie Antionette Award. I think this is my first one too! Thanks Jodene!

The rules are to give it to 7 others so I’m picking some of my very faithful updaters that keep me from being bored to tears some days at work!  And ladies, you can all keep your heads! :)

1) Debbie – for her wonderful sense of humor

2) Kristi – for so many reasons… :)

3) Donna – cause she’s a 5 pounder!

4) Dawn – for the amazing projects she always posts

5) Hallie – for her Prada tastes!

6) Rachael – cause she’s a great friend

7) Leslie – cause this lady has so much talent I drool on my puter every time I read her blog!

Seriously???

It’s –9 degrees here today! WTH? I have to actually leave the house to go see the Orthopedic specialist today. Well at least it’s not snowing! :) I also have mom taking me to the grocery store since I haven’t gone since last week and the fridge is looking bare!

So in other news, I’m backing up photos and my digi kits. I hadn’t burned photos to DVD since 2007! OOPS got them all done but I’ve been working on my digi kits since yesterday. I have burned 27 DVDs so far which is close to 120 gig of files and I’m not close to being done yet. ACK!

I hear that it’s even cold in TX so I think the Winter Warlock is messing with us! I hope everyone stays warm! Have a great weekend!

What? I’m so surprised! NOT!

You Are an Impulse Shopper

When you go shopping, you have no set strategy. You just browse until something catches your eye. You like sales, but you mostly like them because they're an excuse to shop. Of all the types, you are the most likely to be a shopaholic. You can't stop shopping! You're not the kind of person who makes a list or plans what to buy. So sometimes you end up with too much stuff.

What Kind of Shopper Are You?

LOOK! Blouse Give Away!

The Lunch Date Blouse GIVEAWAY!!!!
Click on the link! Go try to win!

OK so I don't really want anyone else to win this, not even Kendra who told me about it cause it's way too girly for her anyway! ; ) Sorry Kendra! But check this out! OMG I love it! This is the prettiest thing I’ve seen in forever and man I wish I could sew on something other than my scrapbook pages now!

And on the knee front, I’ve got a note to be out of work for the rest of the week since there is no way I can drive safely and I see the orthopedic specialist tomorrow since Mom has the day off and can drive me! Have a great Thursday!

Skype

If you don't have this on your computer and you have friends overseas you should! I got to talk to my good friend Jodene on the phone for an hour yesterday for free! How cool is that! A couple of years ago I called her from my home phone and we talked for like 10 minutes and it was $60. Plus she has a webcam so I could see her too. I still need to figure out how my webcam works so that next time she can see me. So fun! And nope I don't get anything for this plug I just had so much fun that I had to share!

I am still home from work and not getting paid because while my injury happened at work I don't think it's going under Worker's Compensation because I was just standing up and how is that work related? So that means leave without pay because I have no vacation time. Fun huh? I was hoping to go back tomorrow as that's what the doctors note says but at this point unless I can get a ride that isn't happening because there is NO way I can drive.

And other than that, nothing else going on here seeing as I'm pretty helpless! Have a great Wednesday!

Monday's Really do Stink!

Title edited as to not pick up any pervs because I really wanted to use another word there!

So I am having to cover for another girl that does the same job as me while she is out on medial leave this week. I went over to the building she is in at 6:30 this morning and had no luck with getting logged in to her computer so walked back to my desk. It's 20 degrees out, it's been snowing so the sidewalks are icy and slippery everywhere. I waited to get hold of IT people at 7:30 and got my computer issues fixed and went back thru the cold and ice. I am not in the other office 5 seconds when my favorite jasper beaded necklace breaks and beads go everywhere. I pick them all up put them in a baggie and go to plug in my laptop. I'm under a desk plug it and go to get up and something in my knee pops. I sit down and think it's just a twist or something so I rest it. Try to get up a few minutes later and I can't, cannot put an ounce of weight on it and forget walking. I had to call Michael and have him come get me. This is a feat because I work on an Air Force base and he can't get on base. Someone I work with has to get me off the base to meet him. They have to find me a wheelchair and load me in a car. Fun huh? Get to the ER, nothing is broken but I have to stay off of it for 3 days, be on crutches and go to an orthopedic doc next week if it's not better. So how's that for a Monday?

So I wake up this morning after a pretty uncomfortable night and the pain is pretty much gone! I am amazed, thinking wow how can that be to go from so much pain I'm crying to almost none overnight? Well Michael says you better be careful you could tweak it at anytime so yeah, I'm being careful but still happy. Well 1/2 hour after Jake is gone and I'm home alone I tweak it bending down to pick something up. OUCH! It freaking kills again! So if I blabber at any point to anyone in the next few days it will be the percocet talking!

Hope you all have a better week than the start of mine!

Snowy Sunday

It snowed another 8 inches today. Michael got a call at 5am and I've been up since then. I scrapped a few pages for some digi site challenges, made spaghetti sauce with stuffed meatballs for dinner, changed the beds and did some laundry so even though I  never got dressed it was a productive day!

Here are a few of the things I worked on:

A Kansas City Page:

A Christmas Page

A Kitty Page

And I fell in love with this kit so I had to scrap some of Josh's artwork:

You can click on each page to see the full credits.

OK now I have to cut this short to go play tech wizard because the PS3 Network isn't working! Have a great night!

And for the predicted storm...

Your Snow Test Says You're Independent

You feel like something good will happen to you in the next few months. You have an amazingly strong work ethic. You are likely to be very successful in life. You are an independent, individualistic person. You thrive when you're doing your own thing. Your biggest worry in your life is your own safety. You fear death and getting hurt. When it comes time to relax, you have no problem letting go. You are already pretty relaxed as is!

The Snow Test

What a Week!

I'm glad it's over. I had a busy week at work even with a snow day. I'm learning some new stuff to cover for another girl who will be out next week for some medical stuff so I have been running back and forth between two buildings to work. Thursday after Wed's storm I almost killed myself because I dress up for work and was wearing a suit with heels. I got to a point where I was almost skating/face planting and must have looked like a total idiot but I kept myself up and then proceeded over to the crunchy snow to walk the rest of the way. My feet were very cold and wet by the time I got to where I was going.  It's also interesting because I'll be working with all women for the first time in about 8 years. The last two jobs I've had all the people I worked closely with were men, just the nature of the 'engineering' world but this job the other Config. Managers are women. Let me tell you this is going to be a challenge. One woman who is at a lower level than me already resents me because I am doing the coverage instead of her.  She has a huge attitude with her 'lead' already and yesterday I was very uncomfortable with the bickering that was going on with the woman I'm covering for and the lead. Granted the woman is going in for surgery and was under a lot of stress but I am so not used to the crap that goes on between women at work! LOL! I can tell I'll be listening to my Ipod a lot!

Now as for crap between women, I've got my own thing going on at home with my MIL but I am so not getting into that! Let me just say that I've decided to distance myself from the situation and leave it at that. :)

And in other news, we are in for another whopper of a storm tonight! 5-10 inches is on the way. At least this time it's a weekend and the boys won't have another snow day to makeup. At this point they will be in school until July! Oh and it's also freezing!

Have a fantastic weekend all!

 

Scrap Time

Michael was away this weekend visiting his parents and picking up Jake from his week long visit with the inlaws. It was just Josh and I at home. I decided I was going to get off my behind and head down to my scraproom. I got three pages done and let me tell you the more digi pages I do the harder it is to do a paper page! I was irritated because I couldn't find all the letters I needed in one chipboard patter. I of course had to mix which was fine but if it were digi I'd just duplicate my layer and be done!  But anyway, here are the pages I did:

Two more digi pages:

And this one is from 2003, Josh was so small!

I have to get scrapping more traditionally again I miss it!

BTW, I'm writing this post via Window Live Writer. Thanks to my friend Jheri for telling me about it! It really makes blogging even easier! I don't have to drag the pics to where I want them anymore!!!

Have a great night all!

Resolutions?

Did you make them? I did not, I have decided why set myself up to fail as I never have completed a resolution EVER! So with that being said I figured why should I just upset myself even more?  I thought I might do the 365 project but I'm not even going to commit to that. If I take a photo a day great, if not, well I definitely won't be surprised! LOL! So how about you?

It's Dang Cold

It's freezing here today! Hence the new blog look! Josh wants to go out to the pet store and I'm thinking it's a pj kinda day! It is currently 30 but feels like 18. It's windy too. I want to just go play in my scraproom but I'm thinking I gotta get this boy out from in front of the TV! He is loving the new big screen!

I think if I give in on the video games he may just want to stay home in pj's too! That doesn't make me a bad mom does it?

Happy New Year!

It's snowing again here in the Northeast. And this is what it looks like outside my front porch...

Michael is going to miss our celebration with the neighbors because he is plowing. I'm glad we don't have to drive anywhere because it was terrible driving home from work. There will just be a small gathering at a neighbor's house for appetizers, Chinese food, and margarita's. It's always a good time so I'm looking forward to it but I'll miss my guy.

I hope you all have a very Happy and Safe New Year!

This is what happens

when you buy me a vacuum for Christmas:

Seriously, Michael had a little scuffle with a big box with a 40lb machine in it and ended up in the ER on Christmas Eve getting stitches. I think the box won, what about you? Hey at least he let me take his pic for once! :)

Christmas Eve was fantastic as always starting off with the big fish feast at my Godmother's house and ending at my bff's mom's house. Traditions since I can't remember when! Then we came home where the boys opened up their Christmas PJs. Unfortunately Jake doesn't stop growing so he had to resorts to last year's pants but Josh looked adorable in his!We had a great day yesterday, lots of awesome food, company and presents. Can ask for more than that. We all got just what we asked for and more and spending the day with my two uncles and my cousin was awesome!

I made Espresso and Waffles for Breakfast today with my new coffee maker and waffle iron. Yummo! The boys are now playing with their new Wii game and Michael is doing maintenance on my car, guy can never sit still! I plan on cleaning the house at some point today but it can wait a bit!

I hope Santa was good to everyone! Have a great weekend!

Merry Christmas!!!

Happy Holidays to you and yours! May all your Christmas wishes come true!

What Part of Done

did Mother Nature not understand?

Tomorrow's forecast:

Winter storm warning in effect from 6 am to 10 pm est Sunday.
The NWS in taunton has issued a winter storm warning for heavy snow, which is in effect from 6 am to 10 pm est sunday. The winter storm watch is no longer in effect.
This warning covers western and central Massachusetts and southwest new hampshire.
Snow will develop across the area early Sunday morning, becoming heavy toward midday. Snow accumulations of 6 to 12 inches are expected. The heaviest amounts should occur across the high terrain of western massachusetts and southern New Hampshire. Snow will taper to flurries sunday evening.
Anyone with plans to be traveling Sunday should be prepared for rapidly changing road conditions and probable delays, especially along interstates 84, 90, 91, 93 and 95 as well as route 2. A winter storm warning is issued when an average of 6 or more inches of snow is expected in a 12 hour period, or for 8 or more inches in a 24 hour period. Travel will be slow at best on well treated surfaces, and quite difficult on any unplowed or untreated surfaces.

FYI for those of you that don't know, I live in Southern NH!

Snowy Saturday

After the ice storm last Thursday (see story below) and then another storm Wednesday I'm pretty much done with winter and it hasn't even started yet! This is what it looks like outside right now:

We have about 8" and it's still coming down pretty good. Poor Michael left for work at 6:15 am yesterday, got called out to plow before he even got to come home and he just got home at 6 am this morning. He's still outside cleaning up our driveway and it's 9am. He's going to fall into bed when he finally stops!

I have a ton to do today, clean the house, make chicken parm and fudge for Xmas day, go get Jake a knee xray, and buy a few more presents! But I have made a dent, everything I have bought is wrapped and under the tree, which we decorated last night! I am so behind this year! But my tree is a beauty, Michael picked it out all by himself! Normally we all go out and cut one down but between the storms, rain on weekends and whatnot we just ran out of time. Here is a pic of my tree and the attempt at twinkling lights:

And now I must get off here and do some stuff before I run out of time completely! Have a great weekend!

What Font R U?

You Are Impact

You are very unique and quite striking. You are forceful and aggressive. You never go unnoticed, and people recognize your power instantly. While you make your presence known, your message is a bit fuzzy. You are not the easiest person to understand, and you're not one for details.

What Font Are You?

The Things We Take for Granted

We had an ice storm of all ice storms Thursday night. Our power went out at 10pm that night and we got it back Monday morning. Friday morning it was very cold in the house to say the least. There was no school and no daycare as there were over 1 million people without power in New England, 400,000 of them in New Hampshire. Our neighbor who works for Public Service of NH told us at least a week. YAY. Well I took the boys to the mall to get warm and told Michael we were going to a hotel. He called me late Friday afternoon while we were still at the mall to say he got a generator. WOOHOO! That generator gave us heat and limited electricity. We were able to shower and have an outlet to use so I could even blowdry! Saturday night we had 14 of us bbq-ing and drinking margaritas! Several neighbors came over to get warm, eat and to shower. It was actually a great time. We don't have that much fun with the power on LOL! Sunday we did the same. It really wasn't that bad but I tell you it made me think how lucky we are.

The boys are supposed to go back to school tomorrow BUT there is another storm headed this way with 2-5 inches of snow and a layer of ice as the cherry on top! We shall see. There are still something like 100,000 people without power in New England, I'm so glad I'm not one of them!

I now have to get a tree, finish my shopping, wrap, make fudge and chicken parm for Christmas!

Hope all my blogging friends are doing well!

Some 3D Pages

It was a cold and snowy day today so since I wasn't going anywhere I went down and made a mess today with the real glue and scissors. I got 4 pages done in about 3 hours and it felt great! Here's what I got done:

Josh's 3rd Grade Photo:

The photo they take of you when we rode the Tower of Terror in Sept 2007:

Jake's 2006 Baseball Photo

This photo was taken on Michael's parents boat when Bear was about a year old so probably summer of 1994 or 1995:

Michael and Jake went Snowboarding today, they both have brand new boards and were dying to try them. Jake has been taking lessons for 2 years, Michael has never snowboarded and hasn't been on ski's in 20 years. We got an inch of snow and Michael was chomping at the bit so off they went, he just called to let me know there were no broken bones but that he's going to be mighty sore tomorrow! I'm just happy he is able to walk!

Hope you all had a fabulous Sunday!

More Scrapping

I did some digi pages yesterday while I was waiting for the turkey to be done. Yep I made a turkey just so we could have turkey and stuffing sandwiches tonight for dinner! They were so yummy. I kept busy at my laptop since I needed to base and boil potatoes and bake sweet potatoes and this is what I came up with:

Josh's new glasses:


Our trip to the corn maze:


This is me in Hawaii in 1977:


Jake turned 13:


And just a random one:


And I just did this one tonight:


Man I wish paper scrapping was as fast as this!

Another KC Page

Hello Friends! I hope those that celebrate had a wonderful holiday. We had a fantastic time at my Godmother's house as always. I am going to cook a small turkey and stuffing tomorrow so we can have sammi's though, I miss having leftovers!

I had to work yesterday but I did manage to get some shopping done online. Love shopping from my desk! No lines, no crowds, no pushy rude people. I did try to get a GPS for $97 from Walmart for DH but while it was in my cart and I was still shopping it sold out. :( Oh well, he wasn't asking for one so it's not like I will disappoint. :)

I did manage to do a couple of pages since the last post. One of more pics from my Kansas City trip and one of things that make me happy (it was for a challenge so it couldn't be family, friends or pets) which is why they are all material things! ;)

Today I am going to put up my Xmas decor. Well all but the tree, we will go and cut that down next week. I am so tempted to change over to a fake tree so I can put it up earlier and take it down later but I just love the whole tradition of cutting it down and the smell of the tree and all that I can't do it. And that's about it for me. I hope you all have a fabulous weekend!

PHEW!!!

What a busy few days I have had. Friday after work I went to my BFF's house to spend some time with her. We only see each other like twice a year due to the fact that we live almost an hour from each other and with each others kiddos schedules we have no 'common' downtime. Well I decided to change that. We went out to dinner, then had to make a few kiddo stops for her DD but it was cool, see she's a Pop Warner Cheerleader from the #1 team and they were practicing for a competition. I got to watch. It was awesome except that my heart was in my throat the whole time as Stephanie (friend's DD) is a flyer. For those of you that have no clue what I'm talking about, she's the one that gets thrown up in the air and has to rely on the other girls to catch her. Damn they were good! Then we went out for a martini and dessert and back to her house where we stayed up till 1:30 chatting. I of course was up at 5! I was like now way, forced myself back down to 6:30 which is darn good for me!

Went home early Sat am to grocery shop and clean the house as some of my scrappy friends were coming over Sat night to play. Dawn and Deb F (we missed you Debbie) came and as always we had a great time. I made some Basic Grey ornaments that I've had since last year and did 2 BG card packs! One of them was also from last year that I won from Dawn believe it or not (totally legally) so now I've got my cards done for my friends that really don't care about my kiddo photos! YAY! Now to get the kiddo pic so I can get my other cards made and printed! They left about midnight so two very late nights for me. Those of you that know me well know I never stay up past 9pm!

Sunday I slept in a bit, till 9:30! Well that is because I woke up with a headache, sore throat and a fever! ICK! I just got over the crud and now I have it again? WTH? Yeah, so I spent the day on the couch and then took a 3 hour nap in the afternoon. Because I can't take another day off of work!

Yeah, well guess what, I wake up this morning feeling like crap, I think well I'll just call the doc later and leave work early to get checked out. I think I have strep throat and I need an antibiotic but my body had other plans. I started getting these really sharp pains. I was thinking they were chest pains but the more I pinpointed them they were not but they HURT. So off to the ER I went. They checked my heart, fine, bp, fine, so next was an ultrasound to check for gallstones. Which was also fine. HUH? Bloodwork not so fine, liver enzymes are elevated. Probably viral but need to follow up in a week to make sure. YAY. Oh and he gave me an antacid to treat for ulcer or gastritis. How embarrassing. That's all it was? Well I'm home now after 4 hours in the ER. I feel like crap. The rapid strep came back negative but they were sending the culture out for the 'real' growing test. If I don't have strep I'll be amazed cause I can't swallow a thing.

So that's all the exciting stuff from me. Now I'm headed to bed cause I didn't sleep a wink last night!

Thanks!

Thank you for your comments on my tree book and about my previous post. I'm an idiot, I read more into something than I should have and all is well. I just must be PMSing or something! LOL!

A Day Off

Happy Veteran's Day to all our present and past servicemen and women! Thank you for your service.

Now that I have a Goverment job I have the day off. The boys also have no school but they are still asleep so I'm drinking my coffee, enjoying the quite and thought I'd blog again. This is a record for me!

I thought I'd share a little project I was inspired to do by my very talented friend Kendra. Her work has always amazed me since I discovered her on the Junkitz team and now her work with another company that has been a long time favorite of mine Chatterbox. Her talent is never ending, I finally got to meet her in Kansas City AND I got a piece of her amazing work thanks to my good bud Debbie, but that story is for another blog post! So anyway to make a long story longer, here is the tree album that I was inspired to do when I got a look at Kendra's:

I hand stitched the fabric on the front and added some padding under it to make it puffy. Kendra actually sewed her buttons on too to make it look much more quilted but I got to the point where I wanted it DONE! That thing was a lot of work. All the pages are greens and browns and I'm going to fill it with apple picking photos. I also made the little owl myself out of felt and papers. So Thank you Kendra for the inspiration once again!

Another little thing I threw together was this tissue box cover I had bought for my bedroom. I needed a new one once we changed the color scheme. It sort of matches the mini lamp as I did but it's not hybrid this time.

It felt good to get into my scraproom again and I am planning on getting down there more often so I can make some Xmas gifts (if I can think of some)!

OK well that's enough from me for today I think! Have a great Tuesday all!

Ever Think...

you know someone and then find out you really don't? I'm sad today because I've come to the realiziation that someone I thought was one of my very best friends has decided to jeopardize that friendship because of a choice I made. I don't think it was such a big deal that justified that act but maybe I'm wrong and it was. But if that person won't talk to me about it what else can I think? I am not sure that this post is going to make me feel any better but I needed to do something because it's hurt me terribly and I had to try something. Thanks for listening.

It's November? Where is the time going?

So it's 40 something more day until Christmas and just a few more than that till 2009! I have no idea where this year has gone. I think being laid off for almost 5 months may have had something to do with that. So yeah, I had a pretty busy year and some good and some bad times but I am looking forward to seeing what all the changes this year will bring. Yeah the election has something to do with that. I won't get into who I voted for cause I didn't. I was home sick with the Flu and just didn't want to get out of bed to go and vote! I know that's a bad thing but one vote really doesn't matter. Yeah, if everyone said that it would matter but I normally do vote, heck I voted in the Primary but sometimes things get in the way.

October was a busy month for me, I went to an LSS and scrapbooked with Mary and Sharon (who is always great for a laugh) for the first time in 6 months. I went to Kansas City and met 9 wonderful women who I've known online for some time now. We laughed, we ate, we laughed, we shopped, we laughed and did I mention we laughed? I have done a couple of layouts about the weekend, one I like, one not so much. They were both done for Creative Team assignments.

This one has a self portrait in the front and yeah I am in there, just in the back and since I'm short you can't see me. LOL! And some other photos from the weekend. We went to a Cider Farm and did a corn maze and poor Candice who is pregnant I thought was going to hurl. The smell of manure and fermenting cider just is not a pleasant smell! Heck I'm not pregnant and I thought I would hurl. We also never found but one of the 6 checkpoints in the maze before heading out a side exit. LOL! We went to an Archivers which was so cool and I of course spent too much money for someone who hasn't scrapped in 6 months! We also ate at Cheesecake Factory, YUM!

This photo is in front of the restaurant where Donna's wonderful husband Jeff treated us to some fabulous bbq too.THANK YOU FARMER JEFF! Isn't that a group of beautiful ladies! I'm so happy I met each of them.

My only regret that weekend was that I didn't get to Donna's farm and see all the kitties, baby cows and everything else that a few of the other girls got to experience.

I also got to meet one of my digi scrapping friends, Sara while I was there. I spent an evening with her and her family which was an added bonus to my trip.

There was one bad part to my trip, I got sick on the plane the last leg back. I have never ever been sick on a plane and let me tell you it is NOT fun. Those darn bathrooms are so flipping small! I thought I would not make the flight I tell you!

So what else, we had the boys birthday's in October, Jake turned 13 and Josh turned 10. Another place I ask where the time has gone! I have a teenager? ACK! And my baby is in double digits! Double ACK! Then there was Halloween and it was the first year Jake didn't trick or treat with us. He went out to a friends house and they did their own thing. So many changes.

Speaking of changes... I left all of my digital creative teams but two. I am also guesting for someone whose team I started out on when she first started designing but I cut them way back considering I was on 10! I miss them all and so does my paypal but I just couldn't give them the time they deserved. Plus I felt like all I did was scrap for assignments and not for me.

OK well I've put off cleaning the house long enough. I just thought I'd give you all an update on me. Have a great weekend!