HOLY BEJESUS crud!

I have been trying to get into my blog/leave comments for over a week now. ARGH!~! Thank goodness I think I'm in. Yeah! I have so much catching up to do. I don't even really have anything to post in this post.

Here's whats been happening in a quick recap:

1. Went to my parents house for Memorial day weekend. Had a great time
2. The pugs are doing well, but if you don't really watch one them he'll totally poop in the house
   
3. I spent way too much money on new clothes yesterday and hit all the Memorial day sales because hubby was so sweet to let me have a day to myself.
4. (as #3 says) went to Michaels and got some new scrapbooks to store my pages in yesterday for cheap!
5. I have an octopus painting sitting on my easel that has only one coat and its been begging me to finish
6. I'm going on a cruise in August with my best girl friend for 3 days!!! Woo hoo!
7. Logan's school is almost done (8 days left) and then I have no idea what I'm going to do w/ the boys all summer long.
8. I need to go check to see if I can find some of my carving blocks now online.

I love ya all and I will be reading and commenting soon! Back in bloggin'

More pugs are here!

Meet Biggy and Puggy. They are 2 year old foster pugs that I got the other day on a 911 emergency placement. I got a call at 10 pm and I had them by noon the next day. Crazy! But they are adorable and sweet. Very smart. They need to be fixed and have other medical treatments hopefully this week.





















I also got a great surprise from Lauren on Friday. She found me the most amazing vintage book with tigers in it! I love it. Also a gorgeous card to boot. Well I have to run the boy to school and then hit up the gym. I think I'm going to start training my butt for the triathlon in October again AND get a bike and do the thing. Wish me luck to be able to keep it going this summer to train. Its so hard to train over the summer.
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I'd like to get a really pretty ceramic teapot. Thinking of going to make one.

Juniper the crafty cat. She's on my art table, sleeping or just sitting there pretty often. Its right next to her cat furniture thing. I don't mind this. As long as she stays off my kitchen counters. That is just way too gross to me. There are certain things that cats do that, well... make me dislike cats. BUT Juniper luckily does not do any of these things, and many cats don't thank goodness.

1. Getting up on kitchen counters with their litter covered feet..eww

2. Scratching up furniture. I like my furniture to stay looking new. This is not easy with 2 boys, then add in a cat and I'm asking for trouble. Luckily my couches are dark chocolate colored.

3. Marking spots. (boy cats usually do this, but sometimes a strange female will too) I think this is mainly because they don't like their litter box for some reason(like its stinky dirty) or they have cat competition. Neither going on here. Thank goodness!

My only wish is that Juniper was up more during the day. She's definitely a night owl.

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Yesterday I got free moment to work on a card for the current jinglebelles competition. Its theme was jolly/lucky. Well I just kinda went with what I felt like. I used a cosmo cricket rub on I've had forever that is adorable.

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Been on a bit of a reading streak I have. I go through spurts of reading. My ulitmate goal is to read 12 books a year or more. Which roughly is a book a month. Which is fine on the months I'm really into reading and usually go through up to 4 books a month. There are those months where I go many months with out even picking up a book. Its been awhile since I read a book, probably about a month and half. I just finished this book:



















Its a Gothic mystery type book where the main character finds her mother upset when she gets a letter that was lost in the mail for over 40 years. She finds out her mother was evacuated to an old English castle during WWII and lived with a family. She won't say more than that and the main character goes on a sort of hunt about the past and its mystery. Its really good. Its all about secrets, literature, castles and war times. I loved it. I got mine off ebay for pretty cheap, its only in hard cover still.

Well I gotta go take the boys to school. Have a great Tuesday!

You can never have too many purses. Seriously!

The garage sale for the pugs was a rousing success. We made over 600 dollars for the pug rescue. I am thrilled. I made my goal. As you can see by the pics, it was huge! We have two puggies that need wheelchairs. Isn't that sad? :( I'm selling the big furniture that didn't sell in the garage sale on craigslist this week. Hope that I sell it all.












































I also have a vintage purse that I'm putting on Etsy that didn't sell. Its so cool. It has 6 covers to the purse that button on and are reversable and changeable. The wood handle has a little bit of wear, but its so neat! The wood handles kind of magnet together. Here's the listing if you are interested.

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This weekend I managed to get a couple crafty things done. I made this digital layout for Sketchy Thursdays. I meant to post it sooner, but blogger and its hiccup made me wait.











And here's the sketch I came up with. Scrapbooksplease is having a sale on their premium 12x12 prints so I'm going to be ordering some today!

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I didn't get alot of sleep last night again, so I think I'm going to be laying low today. No gym. (though I should totally go) I think I'm just going to hang out at the house till speech class for Leo comes around this afternoon. Maybe I'll wake up enough to get some craftin' done or at least some planning. :) I really think I want to start having more products in my Etsy available. I have some vague ideas, but nothing really planned out yet. Gotta get thinkin!

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I need someone to make me stop thinking about garage sale details!

I had the longest most drawn out day the other day, but I got our cat! Juniper is here and is so great. She isn't bothered by the big hairy beast dogs at all and is so sweet with all of us. She hangs out mainly in her big cat furniture thing I got her. I haven't seen her tear at my couches yet which was one of my biggest concerns. I do not want my couches torn up, but I also don't believe in declawing. She needs those claws around here and I just couldn't stand to do it. She meow's some, but only when wanting attention. I've never had a cat as cool as she is. I'm really glad I found her.





























I haven't had the chance to do anything arty all week. I've been so busy with swim for Leo starting up, the garage sale madness, Juniper, and all other random things that have seemed to fall on this week.

I did do this flickr favorite photos mosaic that I liked. It has all the credits links below it for the pictures. Gotta go!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/longears/5673062499/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/danitaart/5689483686/in/faves-tyggereye/#/photos/danitaart/5689483686/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/squishtaru/5688346588/in/faves-tyggereye/#/photos/squishtaru/5688346588/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bugsandfishes/5534390480/in/faves-tyggereye/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zouzanie/4495174434/in/faves-tyggereye/#/photos/zouzanie/4495174434/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thekathrynwheel/5651064426/in/faves-tyggereye/#/photos/thekathrynwheel/5651064426/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vonvonz/5689979334/in/faves-tyggereye/#/photos/vonvonz/5689979334/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/planetelsita/5690428929/in/faves-tyggereye/#/photos/planetelsita/5690428929/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/afaw/17731094/in/faves-tyggereye/#/photos/afaw/17731094/

Is it lunch time yet?

Today is the start of the busy week. I will have to make sure to keep up on posting this week, because I know this week will fly by with out me even thinking twice about posting if I'm not with it.

This weekend mostly consisted of me organizing and pricing garage sale stuff. You would think I would have wanted to go to the zoo and have a nice Mother's day on Sunday, but I was beat. I had no want or need to trek up to the zoo. I wanted a little extra sleep, then I went grocery shopping alone. That was nice. I love shopping by myself. It gives me time to read coupons to see what exactly I need to buy to use them and how many. Isn't that the worst when you walk up to the cashier with one item and you were supposed to buy two of them to use the coupon. Even worse is you have two boxes of cereal, but they aren't the fruity new flavored type that the coupon says you need to get. Lately I've been couponing a bit more. I hate wasting money on food when I'm already wasting a ton on high priced gas!

It took us from 10 to 3:30 to drag out, organize and price all the stuff in my garage. This garage sale will be huge. I'm excited and stressed at the same time. Still need to organize the clothes and linens into linens, mans, womens, and children sections.

I made a quick card today for the new jinglebelles challenge of old. Here it is. I used a vintage Christmas illustration, old BG christmas papers, old stickers, rubons, etc.. I had in my stash.



















I also bought a couple new digital kits this weekend from NSD sales. God gotta love National Scrapbook day. These all are from catscrap designs.

My flowers from Easter are dying and look sad. I don't want to get rid of them!

If you have read me for any length of time you know I've been looking at dogs since last September. Not sure what I want, I waffle. I go back and forth because honestly what I want is a chihuahua. That is my type of dog. I can't have a chihuahua though because of Leo. He's just too rough still. That hasn't stopped me from going to the pound often since January and searching online for dogs. I am also a pug foster.

Well yesterday I was at the pound. I was going to look at a white cat, I had seen the week before. It was no longer there. I ended up in a room w/ two female cats with Leo. They were there, Leo wanted to see them..

I fell totally in love with one of them. She's a grey female cat. She is so sweet. I thought about it for 24 hours and went back this morning. I'm getting her! I'm so glad too. She is so sweet, loves Leo and is a purrer. Constantly. Even when Leo has her ears pressed to her head and trying to pick her up she's purring. So sweet.

Here's a video of her. Her name is Juniper. We'll call her June for short. You have to go to my flickr to see it. Click here She purrs constantly even when Leo grabbed her leg.

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I also did a new art journal page and busted out my oil pastels. That was fun. I haven't messed with them in quite awhile.





















One of my online friends also introduced me to an Iphone app called Brushes. Its so cool. I made this with a photo of Dakota real quick this morning.





























Today I will be organizing and pricing for the garage sale all day. Next weekend!! Eek!! So much to do. I should probably get dressed and off the internet. Have a great weekend!

I really have been wanting to get another tattoo recently.

I drew and watercolor painted this in my moleskine journal yesterday. I've been working a little bit more in my art journal which makes me feel so much better. You wouldn't think making little art pieces in that size in a bound journal would be so enjoyable. I love seeing my books getting filled and bigger. I know as the years go by I'll enjoy look in through them and seeing them stacked in a row on my bookcase.

I drew this picture after seeing this photo on flickr. I was practicing drawing with ink only again.

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My throat has a weird icky feeling to it the last 3 days. I'm assuming it is allergies. Usually I only get bad around when the orange blossoms bloom. I wonder what is setting me off now. I think that is the only thing that would be enjoyable about living up north. Having many winter months with no allergies. Sure colds go around more when its cold it seems, but still. I hate feeling icky for no reason and just having it last. I think I might need to drink some hot tea with honey.

Today I'm going to go eat lunch with hubby and pick up more garage sale stuff. *fingers crossed it all fits in the SUV*

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The dogs are acting old after being boarded. Poor babies. They are getting old.

Run, Run, Run. That is my day today..I have so much I need to get done and do this week. Garage sale stuff, playdates, lunchdates, and the gym. Lets not talk about me trying to wash my car this morning and get the love bugs off. Ugh. They would NOT come off. I have little bug guts still all over my car. I used a pressure washer for goodness sake! They are horrible!

I did get another digital layout done for Sketchy Thursday's sketch this week. Here's their sketch.



















And here's the layout I made. I wanted to write down what Leo and Logan said for posterity.





























Well I have to shower and keep going. Thanks for stopping by!

I really need to back up my computer files.

I did a new card for the current card challenge over at jinglebelles. This week is to do a card with no patterned paper, only cardstock. I love this challenge. Here's what I came up with.






























The stamp is Tim Holtz with some shading done on the trees with a moss green copic marker. I spritz'd it with some maya ink spray and added some sewing and ribbon strip. Lovely eh? I'm going to have all my cards ready by November this year to be shipped out. That is nuts! I can't wait.

Last night I took my first melatonin to help me go to sleep. Usually I take a sleeping pill if I'm not tired and honestly I've gotten kinda hooked on them. I take them all the time. I've gotten used to waking up a little groggy, but overall its so nice to sleep through the whole night. If I don't take anything I wake up..alot. I have always slept horribly. I'm a very light sleeper on my own and I have bad dreams/anxiety when I wake up. The melatonin seemed to work pretty well. I'm going to keep up with it. Hopefully I can just switch to it.

I also realized (I don't know why I'm such a moron), but I am going to buy some decaf coffee to drink. HELLO!! They do make that stuff. Why should I give up coffee all together? I love coffee. Even if previously I would have never even considered buying the un-jazzed type. lol. Decaf always just sounded silly to me before. Not now. Crazy how things change.

Well I wanted to share another flickr fav photos of people on flickr mosaic that I made. All the links are below the mosaic. I only need to make 6 more before I can make myself another book.





























1. Wolf Face, 2. "elle decor" august '07, 3. Luna Moth, 4. Gir-FO, 5. Iguana Journal - Sketch Book - Handmade - Left and Right Handed Reversible, 100 Percent Post Consumer Recycled Paper, 6. Sportsgirl Window, 7. owl*baby, 8. My Frida Kahlo Dollhouse, 9. Lolo's gator scarf

Created with fd's Flickr Toys


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I'm really into Bengal Spice tea right now.

We had a great weekend in Orlando celebrating Logan's 8th birthday. It was such a relaxing weekend I didn't want to come home. Universal was fun. The boys were being a bit silly and chicken and not wanting to ride all the rides they could, but it was a lovely day and not too crowded. I got to see how they did up Hogwarts and drink some pumpkin juice. It was great!






























We stayed in the Disney Port Orleans French Quarter hotel. It was so nice. It really looked alot like New Orleans. It is shown in the bottom two pictures above. The pool was fantastic. Logan even went down the water slide. I was so proud of him. He usually won't do things like that. The hotel was great other than their itty bitty pillows. They were generous with them, but they resembled tater tots. Not cool. I'm a pillow needing snob, 3 to 4 weird shaped pillows kinda made my neck hurt. The beignets for breakfast at the hotel though made this a distant memory. Yum!

I did get one new art journal paged done. The pug on the page is drawn and painted by me. He might be featured in a new pug digital art kit when I finally get it done. Its a work in progress.





















Today is back to the busy week of school, speech, running errands and preparing for the garage sale. Hope everyone had a nice a weekend as we did. Thanks for stopping by!