May box

I finished my little trinket box for May. I love doing these little digi layouts. I hope to do one every month and print them out next April. I obviously started later in the year. We had a good time on our cruise. I came home with a cold. I feel so sick. I can't go to the gym tonight. This totally bums me out. I ate too many desserts on the ship. I was unhappy to see that they didn't have any grits or decent biscuits and gravy for breakfast. It was probably better for my waist anyways.

I wish I had got some of those kleenex with the lotion in the tissues. My nose hurts. eh..
I hope to be well enough to go to the gym tomorrow. I also want to get my snorkeling pics developed. Next time I want to get this camera to take with. One guy had one on the excursion. HOW cool is it?? He had a cool orange one. I swam with sea turtles! It was so cool. My fav part.

Well I'm off to Nyquil myself up and go to bed. Thanks for stopping by!

I finished a Paper Adventure art journal page the other night. 8 left to go!!! The theme was "Secret".
It was like therapy. Its about how Leo was on my last nerve. That boy can be so sweet, but jeez.. I wish he'd grow out of the I want to kick my brother's a@@ stage. He's 18 mths and always trying to kick, hit, or throw toys at Logan. Drives me bonkers. He hurts Logan. Logan will be sitting watching tv and minding his own business. Then hurricane Leo comes up ticked off that he's not being paid attention to and WHAM. Poor Logan. It makes for long days let me tell ya. I'm scared of how this summer will go with them home together all day. eh...

I won't be around for awhile. We're going on vacation soon! yeah!! A cruise. Very excited. I hope to swim, swim, snorkel and swim some more.

I have 8 lbs left till I hit my goal weight. I don't want to gain any weight on the ship. I hope I can stay strong! I plan on working out in the gym on board with my dad daily. I need to seriously start hitting up my stomach muscles. They have not snapped back as I would like to see. Csections do that I guess, but still! I want some abs o' steel. I'll take hard plastic if need be. Something a little more chiseled.

I'm off to mess on the computer for awhile. I don't plan on bringing it on the ship. I don't believe in trying to stay connected while on vacation. I have nothing that important I can't take 7 days off from. Hubby will have his if I really need something. I think he might get the shakes with out his laptop. I am bringing all my prismacolor colored pencils, scissors, glue stick, pencils, and my moleskin art journal. Maybe I'll have time to sketch out some new stamps to carve or something?? Hope so!

Have a great Memorial weekend!

Productive!

I was on a roll last night. I finished this digital layout that was a template from After Five challenge. I also finished TWO cards for the June 20th Caardvark challenge I'm GDT for. Yeah! They tuned out so cute. My goal is to get two good pictures of them this weekend. I hope to make some sort of crafty type item to go with them if possible or one more card with a new hand carved stamp.

Today we're having a small bbq with friends and I should totally be vaccuuming and moping instead of on here!

Dakota, one of our huskies is blowing a coat for the last week and there is more hair than usual EVERYWHERE. Its so hard to keep up with. Had some mini van issues the other day, they are now all fixed up. Life is good. Looking forward to a great weekend. Thanks for stopping by!

Mothers day new phone

I had a great Mothers day. We went shopping without kidlets. Nice.. I tried clothes on in the store. That is not the norm. Usually I estimate, take it home try it on and return if need be. I also got a new phone! I'm loving my new LG shine phone. I don't do what many people do with their phones. I have no need for web access. I like having a cute ringtone and I've recently seen the need to be able to text. Other than that though... eh.. I barely use 200 mins on my phone a month. I like having my phone be cute more than anything.

I was pressured into buying a ugly hard metal case to "carry" my phone. Hello?? Who other than men wear those hard plastic batman belt looking carriers the phone companies have? I don't have a utility belt. I don't want to carry that hard plastic ugly thing in my purse either. SO...

I quickly threw together this last night to cradle my precious. :) It is just felt (the cheap stuff), embroidery floss, and bits and pieces of apple print flannel with a ribbon around it. I love it. It could be done a little neater. It could have some buttons added to the front, but all and all it works great! And its a HUGE improvement to what I could have dropped money on. It was also made with things I already had. So it was essentially free. (or using things I already paid for!)
Eventually I plan on making a slightly more stylish clean looking one, but till I can safely drag out my sewing machine and not have a toddler trying to break it or hurt himself it can wait.
Thanks for stopping by!

Caardvark quote challenge card

I finished the card for the quote Caardvarks challenge. I love how it turned out. I was jazzed to be able to use some of my decorative tape too. That wave border is deco tape! Cool right? This card is so me. I already have another quote idea in my head too. I'm feelin' a card addiction coming on for awhile. I've been doing digi layouts for awhile now, maybe its time to be doing cards again. I am really feeling the hybrid cards too.

Today I went to my son's class for the mother's day party. It was great. They made us wear big paper hats and drink tea with fake pearl necklaces on. There were even small little cakes to eat. (I had to steer clear of those!) I'm sad kindergarten is almost over, but I really am ready for him to move on to 1st grade. I think next year he's going to grow so much and learn so much its going to be amazing. I can't believe at this point how well he reads and prints. He prints better than my husband. Seriously.

Tomorrow I'm dragging the fam to the mall. I know crazy. But I have a shirt that I must exchange sizes for and I want to try on this dress that is on sale till Sunday on. *fingers crossed they'll have my size* I can't stop thinking about that dress! I really see myself wearing tons of cute cotton summer dresses this summer. I am in almost perfect shape (10ish lbs left to go) and I feel so airy and nice in cotton pretty dresses.

Tonight I plan on playing on the computer for awhile and then hitting the sack early. Nothing to grand. Oops I forgot I have to go finish the front door project too. (see prior entry 2 back)

Have a great Mother's day weekend everyone!

Sneak peak into my progress

Well I was featured in Caardvarks readers gallery this weekend. I was very honored. They showed one of my cards I did awhile back with my hand carved rooster stamp. I was choosen to be a guest designer for the June 20th challenge! Yeah! Very exciting. Can't wait to get started.

But there is of course the current challenge!! We can't forget about that! Its to use a quote on a card. Well... I've been pretty big into hybrid cards lately so I couldn't resist but to do another. This is the start of it I made on the computer tonight. I plan on printing it out and spicing it up!





























I'm thrilled with it so far. Its exactly how I envisioned it in my head. Don't you love when that happens? I also plan on printing it out onto a magnet via scrapbookplease.com. You can get your digi creations printed out onto 4x4 magnets. LOVE that. I plan on doing that for some cool homemade Christmas gifts this year.

I have a meet up with a friend tomorrow I haven't seen in ages. I am very excited. We're going to the haughty taughty mall near here that has all the "designer" stores. You know the ones. They have all the drool worthy stores like Prada and Gucci. I wonder if they have an Oilily store. hmm.. I'm sure they'll eyeball me like "how dare you bring a child in a stroller here!". lol
I'll be keeping Leo in that stroller and away from clothes racks let me just tell ya. He LOVES to try to pull down everything he can get his little mitts on. We'll proabably eat at California Pizza kitchen there. I am so excited!

I probably won't get much else done. Bought more Xyron stuff for the door, but unfortuately grabbed the repositionable cartiridge. grrr.. Need to take that back to get the permanent.
Well off to watch a little tv before bed to wind down the creative juices. I also went to the gym tonight and have not calmed down yet. Ciao!

Supplies:air font-cinnamon designs scratchy font, pp-by the sea by Catherine Designs, sunshine-Jbullock sunshine and rainbow kit, love swirl green element-biontine - catherine designs, glass font-leah bodoh, fonts addict, bosshole, and ck wellington, scratches blue-nyj

Sunday slow day

Two things I did today. I started this project of paper punching out squares of my double sided scrap papers to cover up this window on our front door. I put a black out film on it that is supposed to make it so people can't see through it. BUT they still can. Solitictors come knocking on our door and look threw the window at us sitting on our couch trying to ignore them. Its so annoying when they look through my house. I have a NO SOLITICTING sign up too. urgh!

Well no more.. I used my Xyron to make the squares sticky. Best part is they are sticking to my black out film not the actual window so I won't have my glass getting all gooed up if I want to take it down. I ran out of Xyron sticky paper so I need to get more tomorrow. I plan on doing a few other artsy things to this once its done. Almost to make it look like a piece of art hanging on the door framed. hah!

Take that solitictors! (biggest annoyance if you ring my bell and you want ANYTHING from me, you are soliticing. Why don't they get that??? If you aren't my neighbor, pizza guy or mail person don't ring my bell ya know?)


At After Five Designs, I'm participating in their NSD festivities. I made this hybrid card with one of their kits called Playtime. The fruit background paper is Basic Grey. The text Alpha is Blk Glossy alphabet soup. (Shabby Pickle) I LOVE this card. Its for Logan's teacher at the end of the school year. I always give Logan's teacher a gift card at Christmas and the end of the year. This week is also Teacher appreciation week, but I'm going in with the other mom's on a big gift.

Logan is running a low grade fever. I'm hoping he's not getting sick. Three schools in our county are shutting down this week because of the Swine Flu. I'm sure if Logan is sick, he's getting the roto virus bug Leo's had all week. STINKS!!! But I am glad to know what sickness he is most likely getting. I have to go to the grocery tomorrow, but other than that I'll probably be watching way too much tv with both boys probably and doing laundry. Exciting! Hope everyone had a good weekend!

Happy NSD day!

Not much to show. Been busy buying up all the good digital deals out there. Spending eons...downloading....downloading.. Its what I'm doing now. Going to participate in After 5's NSD challenges. Hope to win some stuff. That'd be cool. I think I need a loan and a new hard drive after this holiday!

Fav things bought so far. Plus a billion dollar items at Shabby Pickle designs. Don't get me started on the greatness at catscrap. Gotta go.. More downloading then...Creating!