I WON SOMETHING!

I just started reading Stephanie Howell’s blog because of post my friend Kendra had on her blog and quickly added her to my google reader. I enjoy reading her stories and love her pages! Imagine my surprise when I entered a contest she had recently and won this:

Not only did I get the awesome bracelet made by Stacey Curry of Star Hitched Wagon I got a signed copy of the June 2009 issue of Bead Trends magazine that it’s published in which I thought was so fun! This bracelet is even prettier in person and I highly recommend you checking out both links I’ve shared today! Thank you again Stephanie and Stacey!

Happy Halloween!

I have been wanting to make a banner for awhile now and since I got the opportunity to work with Basic Grey’s new Eerie collection for a product review over at ScrapFriends I decided that is exactly what I would do. I had fun making it and think I just may make one for Christmas too!

 

Now I’ve got to go iron my clothes for the week, fold some laundry and see about dinner. It’s going to be a busy week for me with my boys turning 11 and 14, a mid-term and Halloween! Have a good one!

Columbus Day Weekend

We went up to Maine to visit my Sister-in-Law for the holiday weekend and had a great time. It’s been awhile since I’ve been up there and it was nice to spend some time with her. Julie and I met in High School 27 years ago and believe it or not she is the one to blame for introducing me to my husband all those years ago and I’m still friends with her! Anyway,  I taught her how to make some jewelry and did some scrapping, took some photos, cooked and best of all relaxed. Here are a few of my favorite photos from the weekend…

Josh collecting eggs:

Julie making her first necklace:

My newphew Cole

Sadie and her new BFF Daisy playing Tug-o-war

Josh near the brook

Julie’s front yard

 

The Mill

Jake being ‘Bad’

 

It really is pretty up there! And it although it was cold it was a very nice peaceful weekend!

Cards for Soldiers 2010 Schedule

I sorted 725 cards to send out to the soldiers this week! It’s been another great year for sending cards. Only one more shipment this year and then its on to the 2010 mailings! This will be our 4th year!

I’ve posted the 2010 Mailing schedule on the Card for Soldiers blog. I hope some of my scrapping friends who make cards will have some time in the new year to send some cards!

Thanks to everyone who has helped out with our project we are hoping for another successful year.

Apple Picking

We went on our annual apple/pumpkin/corn maze trip on Sunday and it was an experience to say the least! The corn maze was a bust! After almost 2 hours we had to give up and take an emergency exit out because it was getting late and I needed to get dinner started because it was a school night. To say the least the boys were not pleased with me because I was a quitter! LOL! Well I also got stung by a yellow jacket earlier at the apple orchard and my finger was swollen up like a balloon and hurt like a son of a bee so I was done to say the least. Plus it was hot! I had no idea it would turn out that warm and I had my fur lined crocs on! LOL! It was fun and then some but enough was enough! Anyway, here are some photos from the fun…

 

OK we are off to Maine for the long weekend! Have a great weekend!

Scary Stuff

So Jake spent the night at a friends house Friday night and they went to his sister’s soccer game here in town. The field is set back behind some houses and there are woods and a stream around it. Jake and his friend decided to kill some time walking around the woods near the stream and come upon this:

Jake thinks' it’s a toy so goes to pick it up and realizes it’s a bit too heavy to be a toy so puts it right back where he finds it! They head back out to his friends mom, who immediately takes them to the police station to make a report. It turns out its a loaded handgun! Seriously, in my little tiny hick town! What scares me the most is that this could have turned out so differently. I’m very proud of my son and thankful that nothing bad happened with such a dangerous weapon so close at hand to a place where many children are every weekend.  I have to say that I am still sick to my stomach thinking about how things could have been!

This Makes Me Smile

I couldn’t even move like this in my 20’s and this lady is 62!!!

 

We are off to Gaucho’s with some friends for dinner tonight and then I plan on a rainy day full of sorting cards for soldiers so have a fabulous rest of the weekend!

My New Curtain

Chris reminded me that I hadn’t posted a photo of my new curtain in the scraproom! I can’t believe I forgot since it’s the cutest addition to my newly renovated room! Chris made this out of the fabric I covered the chairs in. She is so talented! Oh how I wish I could sew on something other than paper! Look how cute…

Thank you Chris!!!

Tim Holtz!

I had the pleasure of taking my second class with Tim yesterday at my LSS and of course it was as awesome as I knew it would be. This one was called Idea-ology Intrigue and we made 5 pieces of jewelry.

I think this little bird house pin is my favorite and this photo of it does it much more justice (it’s is from the slide in class):

And of course I had to get a photo of Tim and Mario but Tim wouldn’t let me unless I was in it too so here were are:

This is a close up of the charm necklace which was so fun to make:

All the projects were awesome and I learned a lot. I am loving all the idea-ology line of Tim’s and can’t wait to play with all the stuff I bought!

Cards for Soldiers

As you know some of us girls over at 123-Scrap.com started a "Cards For Soldiers" Project several years ago. We were even written about in Creating Keepsakes Magazine. Well the Chaplain and our good friend Carol's husband that went over to Iraq and gave Chris the idea to start this program has come and gone on 2 tours over there and is home safe for good and since I started working on an Air Force Base about the same time he was coming home I started making some contacts for new places to send some cards.

It took awhile to get things ironed out but now I've got two different places to send cards to and now I need lots of cards again and quick! So if you like to make cards head on over to the Cards for Soldiers Blog and check out the specs and the schedule in the right hand column! Oh and if you have any good sources that are willing to donate A2 envelopes I need those too! I am buying them myself as well as paying for the postage to mail these cards and envelopes so it gets pricey!

Thank you for your support!

More Catch Up Posting

So from one exciting thing to the next! Over Labor Day weekend we went to visit our good friends and old neighbors Kathy and Steve in Florida. They have a house on a Lake in Central Florida. I wasn’t too keen on the whole Lake thing knowing alligators live in fresh water but everyone had a blast. It was wonderful to see them and spend time with them as we miss them and haven’t seen them in about 2 years now. I can’t share photos because Michael decided he wanted to spend some more time down there fishing and kept the camera with him but I’ll share them soon! We stayed at the lake house from Friday until Sunday and then drove back to the coast to spend a couple of nights at the beach. Steve got us a gorgeous suite on Delray Beach with an Ocean view. It was beautiful! I can’t wait to get the sunrise photos off the camera! The boys and I flew home yesterday. Our plane got in around 3:30, we came home, unpacked, I did some laundry, got caught up on my emails and then drove down to UMass Lowell where I started back to school! Yep you heard me right, I am working on a degree in Information Technology! I have no idea if what the heck I’m thinking but I do know computers are always going to be around so I may as well know them inside and out! The first class went well, hopefully the rest will too!

It was back to work today but hey, it’s a short week! Have a good one!

Long Time No Blog!

Sorry it’s been awhile! After finishing up my scrap room makeover, I had plans to have my friends over for a scrap night and at the last minute we got invited to a Red Sox game so thankfully my good friends understood and off to the Sox game we went! It was fantastic. We had seats under the awning so while it rained a steady rain all night and there was even a rain delay I was dry and toasty the whole game. Here are a few shots from the game which we won!

YOUK!!!

My favorite catcher!

A Happy Beckett

This was something to see that you don’t see on TV!

 

Lynne, Johnnie and Michael

And JV again

 

I did not think this guy was going to get up. It was scary!

We would have had a great photo of Big Papi sliding into third but it came out blurry. Oh well they can’t all be perfect right?

And then during the rain delay it was tied 5-5 in the bottom of the 8th with tail end of a hurricane coming in and it was late so we decided to leave, while we were sitting in traffic, they restarted the game and the Sox won! I will never leave a game early again! LOL! It was still a blast.  Thanks John and Lynne (and Lynne’s boss for the tickets!)

Yearbook Yourself

Here I am in 1984 from http://www.yearbookyourself.com/

Nice hair eh? It’s actually pretty accurate minus the bow! LOL!

My New Scrap Room

I’m a bit later than I said I’d be but here are the photos of my newly renovated room

I got the desk at Pottery Barn Teen, the chairs were from an old dining room set and I picked out some Michael Miller fabric and then choose four of the colors from the fabric to repaint the chairs. My sweet hubby painted them for me and then recovered the seats.

The chandelier also came from Pottery Barn Teen

The word art is from http://www.onceuponadesign.net/ and I got the idea from Jodene, it is not a great photo but it says do something creative everyday. I found the big scissors on Ebay and the word scrap has been on my wall forever I just added more ribbons to match the new colors.

The shelf is from Ikea and the baskets and boxes are also from Pottery Barn Teen

 

I absolutely LOVE it and plan on spending tons of time down here.

Oh and my good friend Chris is making me a curtain out of the same fabric that is on the chairs so I’ll be sure to take another photo when that is here too!

A Wonderful Thing to Wake Up To

I actually slept late yesterday (7am) and it felt great and then when I went to let Sadie out this is what I saw:

I love rainbows, they always make me smile and to see this one was just the right thing to get off to a great day.

Michael and I went to Ikea to get a second Expedit, a black one for the den so I have somewhere to display my albums instead of in the basement in my scraproom where no one ever looks at them. We are going set it up and move all the albums off my new desk today so stay tuned for scraproom photos!!!

I’m excited to break in my room on Friday when Debbie, Deb and Dawn come over to scrap. It’s been too long since I’ve seen them and I can’t wait to scrapbook.

After IKEA we went out to lunch and then did some shopping at the mall. It was a fabulous afternoon and then when we got home we went over to our neighbors for a swim and bbq. More fun! I love weekends like this!

OK well that’s about it for me for now. I’ll be back later or tomorrow more!

Have a fabulous day!

My First Photo Shoot

Well since I didn’t get paid for it and it technically wasn’t my first since I’ve done the ‘christmas card photo shoot’ about 13 times now maybe I should say my first magazine shoot. Cause that’s really what it was! A good friend of DH’s 1965 Buick Riveria is going to be in a Buick magazine and he asked me to shoot the photos to send to the magazine! I won’t share the ones that actually made it to print but here are a few from the 150 I took:

And since they were official photos I figured it was time to make myself a watermark. I’m still playing but what do you think?

OK, I have to get off here and get ready to go to the neurologist to get some migraine help. Hope you all have a fabulous day!

Happy Birthday Kristi!

It' s a wonderful and beautiful lady's birthday tomorrow. Kristi and I met thorough the Junkitz site when we both used to stalk the DT's blogs. Well she was actually friends with Kendra IRL so I was the only stalker but that's another story. I had the pleasure of meeting Kristi IRL last October during our girls weekend in Kansas City which I have blogged about in previous posts. I even got to room with her and she is so much fun.
So Happy Birthday Kristi, may you have many many more and a fabulous day today! I am a slacker so I didn't make a fun little album or post unflattering photos like Sue did!

New Wheels!

I got me some new wheels today! We decided that it was a good time to trade in the H3 since the mileage wasn’t too high and it was still in great condition. Plus I was worried they won’t be making these anymore after 2009 so I just had to convince Michael. Well when we got a letter in the mail saying they were desperate for 2006 H3 trades and were willing to give me 120% of Market Value plus 0% financing we headed right down to the Hummer Dealership to make a deal. And a deal we got! My payment will not increase and now I’m driving around in this:

 

Oh and I scrapped a bit this morning as well:

It was a fabulous weekend! Hope you all had one just as great!

Happy Friday!

I'm so glad there is only one more day of work! It's been a long week! I'm looking forward to a very quite weekend of scrapping! It's supposed to rain tomorrow so I'm going to hide in my scraproom. Both boys are gone, Jake is spending another week in Maine and Josh is going to his Nana's house so it's just Michael and I. Michael has lots of projects he is working on so I'm gonna let him! LOL!

I got some fun stuff in from 2 Peas yesterday that I can't wait to use! Although I should know better than to order things online because you really can't tell and if you don't read descriptions you may not know that these are actually huge!

And on top of that I accidently ordered 2 sets! It's been awhile since I ordered anything online so I guess I wasn't paying attention to the final checkout page! It's OK, I've got plenty of scrappy friends to send one too!

Anyway, I'm sure I'll be back this weekend with more layouts to share! Have a great weekend!

I scrapped and scrapped

So hubster and the boys went to Maine for the weekend to drop Jake off for 2 weeks ack! And what did I do? I holed myself up in my scraproom the whole time! Here’s what I made:

The recipe box & matching cards are for the Taking a Chance on Life Raffle a fellow blog friend is doing that I mentioned a couple of weeks ago. She’s got some amazing prizes donated.

Go check out the prize list here: http://wonderfulworldofweiners.blogspot.com/2009/06/list-of-raffle-prizes-ever-growing.html

and then make a donation while you are there!

I also did lots of laundry, did some weeding, planted some flowers, and took the dog on a few walks. It was such a quite and relaxing weekend. I loved it!