Blogging Challenge 3/28 - Out Like a Lamb

Well I needed to finish what I started right? I am in charge of the challenge and today my GIS buddies are supposed to blog about the end of their month. Did it go out like a lamb? Or did it continue roaring through to the final days?

My month actually is ending more on a lamb note. I am just as busy in fact I have taken on a few more challenges personally, helping with Get It Scrapped's Birthday weekend events, writing a few articles for the website and getting back to writing a new class about title fonts. And besides that or tied into all of that is a new obsession with Copic markers. So I am busy, busy, BUT all of these are things that bring me great pleasure! There were no trips to the ER no one car in the shop weekends, and I even got to scrap with ladies last night at Archiver's. (I am knocking on wood frantically by the way) So things are good, rolling at a quick pace but good. Oh and did I mention the SUNSHINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes it returned to Des Moines and it just warms me too my soul!

So here are my latest creations displaying my Copic playing!

Blogging Challenge 3/24 - Tell me what you want what you really really want...

Yeah Tami is up and she has us all humming Spice Girls tunes. Gotta love Tami! So She wants to know what we really want. I wish I was creative as my friend Mary C. or at least that I had not read her entry first, her top 5 were so creative and wonderful! BUT here are my top 5 current wants...

1) Two days too myself yep I am getting a little greedy. I need one day to do the things I need to do, you know get the errands and the home necessities out of the way so that then I can have day two to really wiggle in it. No meals, (I'll be eating ice cream and drinking pepsi ohh might as well make it cherry pepsi if it is my day. ) I will be getting a pedicure, shopping at archivers and any other art/craft store i want to meander through then I will be surfing on my computer and writing my scrappy stuff I need to get writing on without interruption. I do not get the kid interuption stuff a lot just the day to day meal time, clean time, school /activity time stuff.

2)The big screen John and I both would really like to sit in the family room.

3) A whole set, yes all 300 plus colors, of my current obsesion, Copic markers. And of course the carrying case and air brush tools to go with!

4)A fence and the dog that comes with it for our back yard, without John having to spend a week on the project (me at his side) himself.

5)Family and friends across the street and filling my neighborhood. Yep I want them all right here. I am person that could live with them all in my pocket. Let's see I need both sets of parents all brothers, sisters and families, Tami, Gabby, Amy, Debbie, Mary, Linda, and oh just a few others from my GIS and scrappy crew!

So not unattainable right?! He He

Blogging Challenge 3/21 -Pearl of Wisdom

Well I am up again this week in the GIS Blogging challenge. At least these challenges keep me writing! This morning I was not sure what to challenge my fellow bloggers to writing about and then sitting in church my Pastor shared a lovely quote or what my Grandmother would have called a "pearl of wisdom". You know, that small bit of advise that in it's simplicity sums up life. So here is a pearl that Pastor Quinton discovered in his reading this past week;

First rule of holes: When you find yourself in one, stop digging!

Of course Pastor Quinton went on to explain how this fits into our Christian walk and relationship of resting in Christ. It was a wonderful message and as always he is an amazing speaker. The quote or pearl grabbed me this morning and I found myself scrambling for my pen. So simple and so true. When life keeps piling it on and you keep getting deeper and deeper into commitments and busyness the first thing you have to do is STOP DIGGING! Don't try to reorganize, and re-energize until you stop the continual pile up of commitments you keep accepting. This fits in with the business many of us face as Moms, wives and workers, where do we draw the line where do we say no, and if we do not we just keep getting deeper. It also fits in with the book I am reading "The Happiness Project". The concept of uncluttering your life so you can experience what you have to it's fullest before it passes you by.

Any hoo, it touched me. I liked the sentiment, the humor, the simplicity and the thought. So obvious, yet not so easily accomplished. So this week I will try to remember, every now and again I need to stop digging!

Happy Sunday!

Blogging Challenge 3/19 - Family

Well it is not all of us like Jane wanted BUT it is a pretty darn good photo of me and my two beautiful girls. The challenge was to get everyone in the shot. I could post Christmas but this one is too cute to resist. Sara, Lori and I headed for the Botanical garden on Friday since the weather turned gray and cold and our play date adventure went cupoot. We had a lovely time and plan on going back soon! we might even let Grandpa Ed go. I'll pair Sara with him and the two can chatter and read trough the whole garden, Sara can point out her favorites and Grandpa can photo for her.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Well here is my third layout using Scrap This Kit's beautiful March kit. I have once again linked the photo if you want to see more. Today at Get It Scrapped I am challenging my scrappy buddys to post a layout that has them going "green" however they may interpret that. If they post today they are entered for a chance to win a prize. Want to know what it is? Huh? Huh? Do ya?


Oh O.K. I give! If you post today and then link your blog post or layout to the forums here at GIS, you are entered in a drawing for a $20.00 gift card to Scrap This Kit. Nice!

So go green and tell me about it. I will be watching!

Happy St. Patrick's!

Blogging Challenge 3/16

Had to do this one today way to easy! Thanks Tami i needed to be able to cross on thing off my to do list!

Two questions:

1) What is (was) for dinner today?
early dinner to send off the in-laws, we went big! Pizza

2) What are your evening plans?
Get the kids to bed on time they are exhausted! Maybe a movie if John and I can stay awake.

Ta Da!

Blogging Challenge 3/12 - Scent

OK so I have missed so many of these! Over the next couple months though I am going to do them all. All the challenges have been so great so I will just spread them out and do them as i have time!

Jane challenged us this past Friday to let our noses share a favorite memory scent. you know the kind that not only triggers your taste buds but your memories. OK so not all scents trigger your taste buds!!! Work with me people!

I can think of a few memories that bubble up with scent triggers. Not many to be honest but I think that is because my sniffer is not always that sensitive. So most scents that I smell are strong ones, often from the kitchen but a few outside the home.

One scent that is a trigger for me is skunk. Yes not pleasant but true. I have never been at the receiving end but I do know the song and so does my family (from childhood) and my family now. Do you know it? There's a dead skunk in the middle of the road, a dead skunk in the middle of the road, dead skunk in the middle of the road, stinkin to high heaven!... There is of course more as many of you are now singing on but if now trust me there is more. We sang that so many times...way too many I am sure, out of tune and as loud as we could make it. Boy did we love singing in the car. It reminds me of that. And now my girls sing it, just adding to the memories.

Today there is a wonderful scent in my home! Chocolate Chip Cookies!

Happy Monday!

Funny Funny

Yes the girls, with Dad's help, have discovered pants on the ground and it is a current favorite at our house. Enjoy!

St. Patricks Day is coming!

Well at GIS I am in charge of the challenge for March 17th so really it was a no brainer! We must scrap green!

Here are the rules;
1) Scrap a layout that either goes recycle green by reusing a product or packaging, or pick up some awesome green colored scrappy stuff and use it.
2) Post your layout ON March 17th no earlier, no later! Then let me know back at GIS that you got it up.

Prize!
Yep I am getting one of you a great prize for this one! No telling though, you just have to play to find out what it is, but I give good prizes, just ask anyone!

Now since I am not playing I am posting two of my layouts early. I have one more that just needs to be hooked together that I will post on the 17th. All three of these layouts come from my awesome friend's kit club Scrap This Kit. Hit one of the layouts to see her site!

Now I will admit I added to this one here. The fairy is my work, the patterned paper and the "smile" are from the kit. Oh the buttons too!


On this layout I only added the twine and the small heart tag. The rest is all from this month's kit at Scrap This Kit


I will have one more layout from this beautiful kit on the 17th and still more to play with! Besides that, Tami is doing a major giveaway right now so hurry! go! check it out now!

Happy St. Patrick's a little early all!

March 7th - Blogging Challenge

OK so yes I am skipping around big time but the challenges are wonderful and I know I will come back to many if not all of them eventually.

Today's Challenge is actually from me! Mine is "In like a Lion". I am challenging all my friends at GIS and anyone else who is so inspired to write a short note about how their month has come in like a lion.

March has roared in like a lion in this household. And although we have had a wicked winter with blizzards, 50-60 mile an hour winds, snow drifts over 6 feet tall and temperatures hanging in the negatives for days on end, it is not the weather that is roaring over us now. Life in general seems to have swept us up in a wild roller coaster ride. Between the Jeep needing repairs, a trip to the emergency room for a split open chin, parent teacher conferences, sick kiddos and Mom, and of course all the normal comings of our busy family life I feel a little whipped! None of it is traumatic, although the chin was on the verge, but most just added up to a lot of extra comings and goings and inconveniences, just enough to feel like I have been picked up by a small tornado and taken for a wild ride. So in like a lion, yes that has been the start of my March. I am hoping that the lamb is soon to follow!

Hate to leave you without a joke too so here is your kindergarten joke for today...

What did the Pacific Ocean say to the Atlantic Ocean?

Nothing it just waved!

Happy Sunday all!

Blogging Challenge Day 3

So today's challenge was to include a bit of current news in our post. I find this article incredibly intriguing.

Chili's Earthquake

No it is not about the incredible devastation the earthquake caused but the OTHER effects the quake has had and will have on the entire Earth over the next years. I studied Geology in college and actually found this quite interesting. And amazing!

And if you are wondering I did not forget day number 2 challenge I just skipped it. I am hoping I will catch up either today or at a later date.

Kindergarten joke

How can you tell that a snail is strong? (Lori thinks it is snake but the rest of us think it is probably snail)

He carries his house on his back. (Either way it is funny)

Happy day all!

March 1st - Blogging Challenge

Well the Teachers at GIS are at it again, including me, with a month long blog challenge. I am not sure if I will complete them all but I will do as many as I can. Monday the first Amy challenged us to a March Makeover. The challenge is to make over a photo and post it. so here is my photo. I am sorry I did not do anything spectacular to the first only did an auto adjust because I like the photo as is. But I will play with it a little more and add again later. For the inquiring minds these are my Valentines gift from my wonderful sweet boy John!



Here is a very small adjustmant to the photo but very pretty. I used an artistic filter , pallet knife to be specific.


Here is what the same photo looks like with a texture filter. Stained Glass.





And here is a new kindergarten joke! Can't forget those!

What do you get when you cross a centipede and a parrot?

A Walkie Talkie!

happy day all!