Good Morning

Well I have some exciting news....The awesome Kami and Mel over at Scrap Orchard got the links reactivated for me and they were able to reset every order I had placed!!!! To say that I am ecstatic would be an understatement.

Any ways I saw this on another blog...here to be exact http://suddenlyartistic.blogspot.com/ and I thought that it would be nice for me to try so I could get back on track about blogging regularly. Hope she don't mind.

FOR TODAY...

outside my window... chilly, rainy and windy

i am thankful for... My family, I love each and every one of you

i am wearing... my jammies...pink tank top with plaid flannel jammy pants

noticing that... the kids are going back to school full days and I don't know what to do now...so used to having at least 1 of them with me during the day

i am still reading... Dracula by Bram Stoker

on my mind... all the pictures I can scrap now that I got all my scrap kits back

pondering these words...All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
-Walt Disney

around the house...the kids are all laughing and having a great time together...cleaning rooms?! I don't get that,LMBO.

from the kitchen... hahaa, banging and clanging and kitchen sink parts strewn about the floor...dh is installing a new kitchen sink

one of my favorite things... laying in my bed listening to my mp3 player til I fall asleep

i'm creating... nothing at the moment...but I'm pondering...seriously pondering

a few plans for the rest of the week... laundry, reading my book, run errands (pay bills), shopping with the girls and who knows what else

from my lens...

The 1st photo is 2 of my daughters, my step son and my nephew playing a racing game at the family reunion last month.

The 2nd and 3rd photos are of my youngest son William playing a fishing game at the reunion and the prize he won for 'catching' the most bottle tops.

The final photo is our boxer Raja napping in the recliner with my momma's coker spaniel Bianca.

Thanks for looking and reading, I'll be back soon with some new lo's.

Just sharing some photos.

Me and my dh, Shaun in January 2010.

Me and my baby girl Alexandra, 2007

Me and my baby boy, William again in 2007

Me and my princess, my oldest dd, Nicole in 2007.

I know the last 3 are a couple years old but it's because they are all I have on my laptop at the moment. My momma had them on her pc and she sent them to me so I could have something to scrap with until I get my new pics put on the laptop,LOL. So I figured I'd share with you and that way I could see them up here and figure out which ones help get my creative juices flowing.

Layouts from July 2010

this is lil 'ol me on Christmas of 1980...wasn't I a lil cutie?!?!

My sister Jaimi, on her 28th birthday last March.

I learned a few new tricks to try with the photo masks and blending, this is my sister Heidi and her husband Josh on their wedding day a couple months ago.

My sister Heidi again, this time with her children Jhett and Jade, how adorable are these pics?!

Wow, here's what digi scrapping is all about...well part of it. No journaling but this is a photo of my father when he was a newborn and the guy holding him is his older brother.


Well there you go, I said I'd post my lo's from July and here they are...hopefully I'll have some new pages to post soon, I'm still waiting on my links from S.O.

Alrighty then, it's raining...again....and it's getting chilly and I've typed more than I should have so I'm gonna finish up for the night.

Hurting and depressed...

Man I have been so depressed about my computer crashing and I want to scrap so bad but I lost everything on that desktop, I was able to get back some of the kits I had purchased from Mscraps and some from Oscraps, only 1 kit from Digital-crea and still waiting on my past purchased links from Scrap Orchard to be reset/reactivated.
I had to pay $10.00 for that to happen so hopefully it gets done soon because those are the ones I am REALLY waiting for, I mean I am crazy addicted to the whole digi scrap idea and I love all my kits but Scrap Orchard is my all time fave. shop and that's where my favorite designers are, so hoping that it gets taken care of for me soon.
I paid on the 1st of September and they said 24-48 hours they'd get back to me, so with today being the 3rd, hopefully it gets done today/tonight or at least tomorrow morning.

I know I know, patience is a virtue.....guess I just don't have it.....never have,LOL.

Hey I did get A LOT of extra cleaning done, I mean not just the regular dishes/laundry/sweeping and mopping/dusting etc. but I mean I packed some old stuff up that's going in next years yard sale, cleaned the basement and turned it into a family/play room for the kids and us, even did some yard work and cleaned and organized the garage,LOL...stuff I never did before!!

The weather here in West Michigan has been rainy and windy for the past 2-3 days, we even have a wind advisory today through tonight and it's making me hurt so much.

I have arthritis so for some reason when it gets cold, windy and/or rainy, my joints start aching and they hurt. I wonder why...maybe I'll do some research and see what I can find.....lol, anything to keep me busy since I can't scrap at the moment.

I have been reading a lot since the computer crashed in July. I re-read the Twilight saga, so I've read all those books twice now, including the new Bree book, well it's not quite new anymore...which wasn't hard to do because Stephenie Meyer is one of my favorite authors. I've also read the Host by her; anyways, I've also read 3 more books by my other fave. author Nicholas Sparks, and I've also found another author that I really like...James Patterson, big fan of the movies that were made based on his books so I had to read the books and now he is a favorite of mine as well. I also read a couple other books; Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, and I'm still working on Dracula by Bram Stoker.

I have watched a lot of movies with the family too, including Eclipse, The Last Song, the Expendables, Death at a Funeral, and some oldies but goodies Grease, The Outsiders and some Disney/Pixar movies too.

See I have been keeping very busy!!

We also did a lot of picnics and swimming and walking and going to library and parks with the kids, we also got new bikes for all 6 of the kids so we can go bike riding as a family...teaching our youngest 2 boys how to ride 2 wheelers was fun.

Well I gotta get the kids ready to go to my nephews birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese, unfortunately there won't be pictures from me because I'm not going and my oldest daughter who also a photographer will be too busy helping with all the lil kidlets to take pictures, but maybe I can get Trish to take some..maybe,LOL.

Talk to you later and I'll also be back in a bit after the kids leave to post the last few scrap layouts I finished before the computer crashed.

Been gone WAY too long!!

Hey there, I'm back after a long not wanted vacation,LOL. Seriously it's not funny though, my computer crashed back in July and I was just only able to get a new laptop and get back to my blogging. Now I am trying to get some photo's and kits put on the new laptop so I can get back to my scrapping because I miss it SO much. I mean digi scrapping is a stress reliever for me, my way to vent and be by myself and just have that much needed 'me' time that every woman, er man too, needs every now and then.

So hopefully I'll have some new pages to share with you all soon.

For now here is a sneak peek at Suzy's new kit that's coming this week to the Scrap Orchard market that I just can not WAIT to see in it's entirety and purchase!!

SQS July blog party speed scrap LOs

From July 9ths SS5. Theme was "Firsts".

From July 8ths SS4. Theme was "Love".

July Template Challenges

The first template challenge is from SuzyQ Scraps blog and this is my layout that I put together using Suzy's kit "Rainbow of Flavor" and the vellum word tag is from the element pack "Life lines 1" also by SuzyQ Scraps.

and the font used for the date is Pea Shelley Belley.

This is the 2nd template challenge I participated in today and it is a template by Jendavey from LCC by Amy Stoffel's blog.


The products used for this LO are "Curious" by LCC by Amy Stoffel with MLE Card's "In Stitches Alpha" and again the font used is Pea Shelley Belley.

Thanks for looking every one and see you soon with some more layouts!!