Midas amplified.

This has been a really nice weekend. We had a good party yesterday and then today I took the boys to Chuck E. Cheese. It was a real quick trip that was fun, but fast. I got a little bit of crafting done this morning. I made this card for the Jinglebelles challenge. Its to use mostly all silver or gold. Now I have NO gold what so ever. I was very short on the silver even. This is what I came up with. The background silver I had to use white BG patterned paper and glued glitter all over it.























Another Christmas card made. Thats awesome. I will totally be ready this season.

I also went through my flickr favorite pictures from other flickr members and made a mosaic to put in Thurs fav group. The links to all the photos are below the mosaic. I love making these kind of like my own inspiration board.

Hope everyone had a good weekend and wasn't without electricity for too long. (those in hurricane areas)

1. Jeda Villa Painting, 2. cup, 3. Miniature Pharmacy Charles Wysocki Dollhouse Miniature, 4. Please Don't See Me, Please Don't See Me, 5. butterfly bowl, 6. Dollhouse Vicki, 7. Frida Kahlo's Studio., 8. James Gulliver Hancock, 9. pretties

Created with fd's Flickr Toys

48 hrs

After reading Julie Balzer's recent 48 hrs post of her daily life. I decided to do one of my own. Want to know what a typical 48 hour day is like in my life? I always seem to over extend myself on some days and have absolutely nothing on others. But this is what my days have looked like since school started.

Friday:
6:30 am- Leo wakes me up. No need to set an alarm. I have a 3 year old, thank you very much.

7:00 am- pack lunches, get Logan and Leo breakfast, get them to get dressed. I eat a Special K protein bar for breakfast

7:50 am- leave and take both boys to their separate schools

8:30ish am- gym























9:30ish- wash car at my fav car washing place

10:00- Walmart for food supplies for tomorrow's Shrimp boil/bbq

11:00- Home Depot for Turkey Fryer to do Shrimp boil in.

11:30- car line for Leo to be let out of school, got my book to read for a few minutes. Eating an apple on the way there.































12:30- make lunch for Leo and for me. I eat a Lean Cusine and a salad.

1:30- meet friend at park with her son. Leo plays with his friend and I get to chat with my friend.

3:00-car line for Logan to get out of school. Leo has fallen asleep in the car.

3:30- back home with both boys

4:00- warm up frozen lasagna from freezer for dinner. Hubby gets home soon and I try to relax and mess online for awhile.

7:00-Leo is in bed

7:30- Play around in Photoshop Elements and play with some digital stuff

8:00-I watch a documentary on Aileen Wuornos on Netflix.

9:30-give up and go to bed after cleaning a little around the house for the party tomorrow.

Saturday:
5:30 am- Yep this is messed up. I'm awake via Leo. All you mom's who wish you still had little tiny kids welcome to my world. I'm ready for teenagers who sleep in at this point!

7:00 am- I eat my trusty Kellogg's protein bar

8:00 am- clean everything like a maniac. People are coming to my house!! 12 of them! Why isn't my vacuum working right??

11:30-Run up to Walgreens for ice.

1:30- People start arriving. I am starving. I usually eat around noon. Eat way too much shrimp boil and a hamburger.














3:00- Who brought ice cream? Why? Why? yum.. cookies and cream. Dang I'm going to have to run tomorrow now. Kids play, adults talk. People eat. Fun by all.

5:00-Everyone's gone. House is trashed. I used paper plates though so not too many dishes. Sorry Environment.

7:00-Leo's in bed. He's exhausted.

7:15- I'm on the computer like a mad woman writing this post! Plan on watching Project Runway and maybe a John Doe on Hulu plus then going to bed. Its been a long day.

by 10:00- I'll be in bed. Hope you enjoyed my last two days. Figure its always interesting to have a day in the life of. Even if this someone is mommy bound housewife who has done very little art the last few days. :)

I'd rather be painting today

It Friday and honestly I'm kinda wishing it wasn't. We have a BBQ we're doing tomorrow and wow.. I really don't want to clean at all. I have to go to the gym today, then to the grocery to get food items for tomorrow. I don't wanna.

Been kinda concerned for those up in the New England area with this hurricane. I mean we're used to them down here. But all my New England buddies..well I don't think you see many up there have you? Stay safe and gather supplies. Most likely the worst will be being with out power for awhile. *fingers crossed*

I made another digital layout last night with the sketch from Sketchy Thursdays.



















Here's my layout. I love doing beach layouts. I'm kinda bummed that I probably won't be making it to the beach again before the warm weather is over.





























Hope everyone has a great weekend. Oh! and I'm newly obsessed with goodreads.com. If you are on there let me know!

My cat will not stop meowing to go outside.

This weekend we had a lovely time going down to Ft. Myers to see Thomas Edison's winter home down there. It took awhile to drive down there, but it was worth it. Really pretty and for being a late August day, it was not too hot.





























I made a digital layout for Sketchy Thursday's sketch this week. I realized I never made a layout for Leo's 3rd birthday. This last week I finally found a scrapbook album from K&Company to hold his birthday layouts. I buy one birthday looking scrapbook album to hold all the birthday 12x12 layouts from each boy. In Logan's I have from his 1st birthday to his 8th. Now I have to get Leo's all together.

Here's the sketch I used. Sketchy Thursdays













Here's my layout.





























Today is officially the last day of summer for us. Logan, Leo and I start school tomorrow. I have some gym, grocery, and running around to do. Tomorrow first day of school pics!

Thanks for stopping by.

I wish I had a personal assistant just to cut up onions for me.

For the last three days I have been consumed into genealogy so deep that I was worried I would never stopping looking through census's. I've got one of those obsessive personalities that once I think I'm going to do something I'll keep at it till I burn myself out. Well after doing my full genealogy on both parents side, then hubby's parent's also... I am done.

I found out I am as German as they possibly can come. My family did not seem to marry or mate with anyone not German. My grandfather side must of sprung up out of the ground in the late 1600's.

I am back on the gym bandwagon. I'm hitting it hard and plan on running another race this November I think. There is a 8 mile through mud that WOULD BE AWESOME! Need to start running outside again this Sunday.

I made a card tonight real quick because when I saw this challenge well.. I could not help myself. What's my weakness? I can not stop buying Halloween themed paper products. If it has a cool skeleton, raven, spider or bat.. ITS MINE!!!! Especially stamps with those things on it, or ribbon, or heck.. whatever. Do I make alot of Halloween'd themed items you ask? Well no...but this does not stop me. So here's my card for Shopping our stash. My weakest link.





























Stripped ribbon-Ki Memories, skeleton ribbon-Michaels, black chipboard Boo letters Making memories, black skull rubon- BG, black pp-Remincense,, orange transparency square-pink paislee, white swirl rub on-BG.

Have a great almost weekend!

I truly am a yankee

Now I almost did not get this posted today. Why you ask? Well I've been sucked in by ancestory.com. I used to do geneology type stuff about 10 years ago. There wasn't as much on the web then and eventually I did all I could do on my own. Well fast forward to now after watching too many shows of "Who do you think you are" and I signed up for a month of ancestory.com.

ITS AWESOME...

For example... Want to check out a picture of my great great great grandfather and grandmother. (supposedly I mean how really can I verify this?) Still very cool. This was probably taken around 1860 something??



















Now this picture could or could not be hooey, but I did find out for sure what my great great grandfather's name was and that he fought in the Civil War Ohio Infantry 57th Co. C.

That I CAN verify!! I have the paperwork. All of it. Photocopies. Too cool..

Oh yes and this is my greatgreatgreatgreatgreat grandfather and grandmother's marriage certificate. Yeah thats 5x great. June 26th 1775 in New Jersey. How can you not think that is freaking cool?




















Anyways... why I posted..yes...

I made a card for this week's challenge at Jinglebelles card challenge. Glitter glam it up week. Here's mine.




















Thanks for coming by and checking it out. I made it to the gym today also. Score! Thats right I'm getting dang good at reading census's and getting toned up. Heck of a Monday to ya!

Its only 9 am and I'm tired. Never a good sign

Top things I would like to do today:

1. library (didn't go yesterday)
2. flea market
3. find orange folder for Logan for school
4. gym
5. do nothing

Yes.. I'm conflicted. I'm already tired. I need to eat better. I need to exercise much more again. I start school again on the 23rd. I'm excited, but not ready at the same time. I texted my friends from my paralegal classes yesterday. The ones that I had phone numbers for won't be in my classes this semester. Kinda a bummer.

I did do another digital layout last night with the weekly sketch from Sketchy Thursday.

I don't own one pair of red shoes. How is this possible?

I've realized its been forever since I've changed my blog around. I really should start working on that. Today the plan is to go to the gym and start hitting it up again hard. Then I shall possibly hit the library. I want another book to read. Lately I've been going through about one a week, which is not too shabby. I have felt better.

Last night I started watching John Doe on HuluPlus. Now Huluplus is one of those things I wasn't going to get. Hubby said that it was neat, but I was like.. "oh but I have Netflix". Well let me tell ya Netflix blows in comparison. John Doe is only one season, 21 episodes, but it has my boy in it from Prison Break, Dominic Purcell. Its a good show! I can't believe it didn't make it. I always fall in love with the shows that don't make it. *dang you Three Rivers and Men in Trees shakes fist*

Yesterday I finished an art journal page I've been half doing for months. Here it is.


















I drew the dog in ink then colored it with oil pastels and colored pencils. There's even a bit of white out on this art journal page.

I hope everyone's weekend is starting out good. Any book suggestions would be great as I am on the way to the library. Bye!

I'm addicted to cherry tomatoes!

Lookie Lookie...looks who's posting two days in a row. Yeah thats right..ME!

I made this card with an old stamp from CTMH that I had. The papers are BG and the cardstock is Bazzill.





























I made this for this week's challenge at Shopping our Stash. I bought a new printer today. Nothing fancy, just a new HP. I plan on doing some more digi stuff now that I have the means. My old printer was having its issues. It was over 10 years old so you can't complain too much.

If you read my blog and you are on twitter leave me a comment with your name. I'd love to follow you. I'm on there as tyggereye or Gina Cunningham.

Thanks for stopping by!

I'm obsessed with my instagram app anyone else?

I have been feeling so much better after getting home from my cruise this last weekend. I went on a cruise with my best friend. It was only 2 days and we went to the Bahamas. We had the best time. We went snorkeling in the Bahamas while it dumped water from the sky on us the whole time. Who cares?? We were already wet and there were NO KIDS there. HECK ya! Typically when her and I spend time together there are 6 other loud munchkins running around us. I can not tell you how nice it was to eat slowly and not have to cut up someone else's meat. We played darts while sipping on fruity drinks. I drank way too many fruity drinks ya'll. Usually I'm a Captain and diet coke kinda drinker and this does not get to me. Fruit juice screws ya up! I don't think I will ever drink another again. EVAR.

Yesterday I actually read everyone's blogs and am working on catching up. I commented to everyone. *waves* I am feeling into all of it again. Very nice.

I made this digital layout last night after the sketch from Sketchy Thursdays sketch.

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Today I'm taking Leo to daycare and Logan and I are going to lunch with a friend. I might do some art supplies shopping.

I found this site through Lauren's blog yesterday. I'm totally going to do a card for Shopping our Stash. What a great site!!

Thanks for stopping by! Hope everyone's day is less rainy than mine is looking this week. Its crazy raining here.