Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Did you know
Ahoy Matey!
We've also got a blood sucking fiend apparantly...LOL
12 Days of Christmas...ARGGGGG
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Birthday Pages
Love Made Visible
Merkeley Designs
Mocha and Pistachio Kit (frame, ribbon wrap and alpha resized)
Purty Curls
ksharonk designs
notepapers3
font
Monotype Corsiva
Birthday Kisses
Merkeley Designs
Mocha and Pistachio Kit (brad resized)
Font
Monotype Corsiva
Sunday, December 09, 2007
Saturday, December 01, 2007
Big Kid
They're HUGE! there are like seventy five total in the set.
Oh honey! here's the start of my list, lol @ me!
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Feeling Lucky
Another Calendar topper
Template 6 from Amy Bleser's Just the Tops Calendar templates (SBB)
Ruffed Up Papers by Kaye Winiecki (Pickleberry Pop)
Irish Blessing paper by Kay Elfin from the St Patricks Day collect a kit (E-scape n Scrap)
Green Stained Wood Alpha by Misty Cato
Shamrock from Doris Castle's Bit o' Green (freebie)
Font-Monotype Corsiva
Autumn Harvest
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
New Header
Thanksgiving Table setting
New digi Layouts
Template by Jessica Gorny for HappyScrapz November template challenge
Fallen By Jessica Gorny (I flipped the Background around, and I recolored the stitches)
Dirty Tag ALpha By Jessica Gorny (from her Nov GrabBag at Oaks)
Fonts-Franciscan and CK Holiday Spirit
I'm working on chrsitmas gifts, going to try to get a least one calendar made. This will be for December.
Christmas Comes But Once A Year
Merry Wishmas by LaWanna DesJardin
Template 8 from Amy Bleser's Just the Tops Calendar Templates
Font- DSP Cybergram
Waiting for Santa
Lush Grids (Boyish) by Jessica Gorny
(The Great Frame) Wrap up By Jessica Gorny (from her Nov GrabBag at Oaks)
Dirty Tag ALpha By Jessica Gorny (from her Nov GrabBag at Oaks)
Santa Hat by Robyn Gough
Fonts- CK Holiday Spirit, CK Chunky Block
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Ready to get your gobble on?
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Aidan's Turkey Day Placecards
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Lil' Punkin
Look Who's TWO
Sunday, November 04, 2007
Paper scrapped gift
This is a gift I'm going to send to my cousin Sandy.
The background paper is paper salon. the frame is K&Co. the round stamps are Sandylion clear stamps. the larger journaling block is by Stampabilities. I used brilliance Ink in Cosmic Copper. and I used a Marvy scalloped circle punch. on the two little leaves are the month and year the photo was taken.
Top circle has out names, middle circle says where we are, and the bottom one says, Cousins, Friends, Family Historians.
The quote on the journaling block says "to forget one's ancestors is to be a brooke with no source, a tree with no root. ~Chinese Proverb"
This is relevent for us because we are the ONLY ones in the family with an interest in researching our family tree. It was quite an experience to stand there in that carriage trail, to see what was left of the tracks worn by years of use, and to imagine what it must have been like to live the way they did, to have to travel miles in a wagon on such rough terrain, to be so far from town.
Thursday, November 01, 2007
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Farmer Aidan
I got accepted to another CT
She's got some awesome stuff in her shops, I love her "A Big Alpha" which I used for the "1941" in the layout below.
The picture is my Great Grandfather. That's him behind the bar in his Saloon (one of many businesses that he had).
Credits
Blueberry Mountain (short stack) paper pack by Merkeley Designs
A Big Alpha by Merkeley Designs
Binder Clips Altered by Merkeley Designs
Purty Curls by Merkeley Designs
Sepia Stamps by Merkeley Designs
Spectrum Flowers by Merkeley Designs
Fonts MS Serif, Calligrapher, and Sylfaen
Credits
We only have a handful of pregnancy pictures, most were lost during my hard drive crash. This one is a scan of a really bad copy, but it's the only one from the end of the pregnancy, and a bad picture is better then no picture.
Blueberry Mountain (short stack) paper pack by Merkeley Designs
A Big Alpha by Merkeley Designs
Binder Clips Altered by Merkeley Designs
Purty Curls by Merkeley Designs
Sepia Stamps by Merkeley Designs
Spectrum Flowers by Merkeley Designs
Small Packages-Notepaper3 by ksharonk Designs
Font Arial
Friday, October 26, 2007
3.92
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Just another day in Paradise
So here's to many more days in paradise- maybe minus the flubbed noodles and the sniffles.
Monday, October 22, 2007
I've been double tagged
Here's the deal:
7 Random Facts I must post.So read them, comment on them & then check to see if your name is in the 7 I tag. If it is, list 7 Random Facts about yourself & pass on the tag to 7 people.
1.I just ate pancakes and eggs for dinner (you asked for random, lol).
2.I love reading, I've got so many books I could use a couple more tall bookshelves. Ian is in the same boat. So is Aidan. We could so totally open the McBride private library, lol.
3.I've read all of my books, multiple times. And I usually finish a book the same day I start it.
4.I have the best in-laws in the world. I get along better with them then I do my own family. :)
5.My youngest brother in law turned 16 yesterday. he was 6 when I met him!!
6.My babay is going to be 5 in a couple of months..AHHH! where does the time go?
and last but not LEAST!
7. Ian just finished his last class TODAY!! As soon as the figure out the grades for that, I'll be the very PROUD wife of a college graduate! It's been a long 4 years. But I'm so proud of him, he's worked so hard.
now I'm supposed to tag 7 people, but I think most everyone I know has already been tagged, and I don't know 7 people to tag. But I'll tag the people I know anyway, and if they've been tagged more then once, as Lissa said, just considered yourself extra loved.
1.Abby
2.Tara
3.Laurie
4.Julie
5.Torreh
6.Jodi
Trick or Treat LO
Saturday, October 20, 2007
2 new digi layouts
So here's what you can do if you want to see them, click on one of my gallery links, and you can see them there, one is called "Magical" and one is called "Autumn Romp". I'll try to upload them here again later.
Autumn Romp
Monday, October 15, 2007
Blog Action Day
October 15th - Blog Action Day, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone's mind.
In its inaugural year, Blog Action Day will be co-ordinating bloggers to tackle the issue of the environment.
We all know we need to do what we can to help the environment right? I can't help but think that if we don't step up and try to undo some of the damage done that there won't be a healthy world for our children. What do you do to help the environment? Our neighborhood doesn't do recycling at the curbside, so that's not an option for us. But we do help out in other ways. We've switched to reusable bags for our groceries. They totally rock. I've got five "String Bags" from ResuableBags.com. We used to average 10 plastic bags or more a grocery shopping trip, and you several trips in and out of the house to unload the car. Now I use my 5 String bags (they can hold like 40 pounds a piece, which you know those plastic ones could never do) and I only make one trip into the house because they have these longer handles that I can swing over my shoulders. If I had tries to get in the house in one trip with the plastic ones my fingers would be numb and I'd need someone to open the door. So we save on plastic bags and a little on heating and cooling with the cut down on the numbers of times we have to open the door. We also cut back on the number of plastic bags and the amount of tin foil we use, but using Wrap-n-Mats for my hubby's lunches. We know it's not much, but it's something, right?
So tell, me what do you do?
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Baked
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Weird Al Concert
Played with paper
Credites for Witch on broom card;
orange and black pigment inks. the pumpkins are a wood-mounted stamp by Stampabilities.
Witch is a clear stamps from a set by Westrim. I was going to color the moon in, but I was too lazy.. :)
Have A Spooktacular Halloween is from the Stampendous clear Halloween set.
Scarecrow card:
Sunflowers, pumpkins, and scarecrow are all by Great Impressions (wood-mounted) stamps.
Give Thanks is from a Fiskars clear stamp set. and I used some Marvy pens to color everyone in.
Ribbon is from my stash, there's no telling where it came from, although I suspect that I got it from my Abby. :)
Eat Ham card
Turkey is a wood-mounted stamp by Inkadinkado. I just thought he was too cute. I tried my hand with water color pencils on him. and I used my new scalloped circle punch my Marvy Uchida (love those punches they totally rock!) The ribbon is from my stash I've got it in a couple of color combos and I think it came from Michael's.
Trick or treat bag is from the same clear set as the witch above. and that's the same pumpkins from the other card as well. I may ink the edges of this, it looks too plain right now....
I'll post the christmas cards I made a couple of weeks ago in another post soon.
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
I cooked!
Alright now! Very funny! You can get up off the floor and sit back in your chairs now. I really did cook, honest! Yes, I can wait while you mark your calendar. I made Chicken Fettuccine in Alfredo sauce from scratch. Mhhmmm, I did and it was good too! Then I made dessert, which was chocolate cinnamon bread-pudding. Complete with home made whipped cream! The baby and I thought it was awesome. Ian isn't a big fan of bread pudding (even though he ate a big helping, lol). I've even got plans to cook again tomorrow. We'll see how I feel after work. I'm on for the next 6 days. So I'm thinking I'm going to be worn out.
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Lots going on
My last real post I was sick with a sinus infection, for the most part it is gone, but I've got a sneaking suspicion that it trying to come back.
With the coming fall weather my little guy's nose bleeds are a little more frequent again.
Our van died. it is no more. it's not resting. it's not pining for the fjords! this van is deceased! (that's a little Monty Python humor for my darling hubby) The repairs that it was going to need this time were just to much for us. So I had it towed away this morning. That leaves us with one vehicle. We've put a lot of thought it to and I've given my two weeks notice at work (although they've offered to let me be a casual employee- which I have to give some more thought to and talk it over with Ian). Between the cost of fuel, the amount I end up spending there (because lets face it I'm WEAK and I just love scrappy stuff) and the amount I actually bring home, we're going to be better off with me not working. Plus we'll be saving money on our insurance since we've gotten rid of the van.
This will leave more time for straightening things out here at home, making this house into an actual HOME -since we don't know when we'll be able to move. It's time to make the most of what we have.
I'm looking forward to being able to get to know my little boy better and hopefully work on some of his aggressive-ness. I want to start home schooling him now, haven't had time before (not that this means he's behind, because he would have missed the cut off for kindergarten this year anyway).
I'm hoping I'll be able to cook more, and bake more, and scrap more. I need to learn a bit more about what's going to make us all happier. I have a feeling a happier momma will make a happier daddy and Aidan too.
As much as I've loved this job, it's been super stressful too. Which I honestly didn't expect. I've been working more days then I wanted to though and haven't had the time that I thought going to part time was going to get me. SO big changes are on the horizon.
We're taking the little man to his first concert tonight. Weird Al is coming through again and we managed to get tickets. He's been bouncing about for days he's so excited! Sadly though this venue doesn't allow cameras. So I'll take a picture of the boys in their Weird Al shirts and do a page with that and the tickets.
More to come soon!
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Pole Dance?
I'm a little under the weather, so I thought I'd just post a little something so ya'll would know I was still here. My friend Ashley had this on her blog and I just had to share it. This just amuses me to no end.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Viewmaster Bench
Template-Pattie Knox (ADFreebie 020407) Papers and Prongs-LaWanna DesJardin’s Spring Fling Swirls and stitching -LaWanna DesJardin’s Retro Funk
JenniferMTrippetti_SweetiePea_Stamps(Date) Font Jester
Saturday, September 08, 2007
What Love Is
Twister Bench LO
I used Template 21 by Lindsay Jane Designs, made some minor changes to it to suit my page.
Friday, September 07, 2007
Adoption Day LO
This is a page done for the challenge posted here. Journaling around the page reads: Funny story about that day: Before the judge sat down, he told me "What a pretty dress you're wearing." I apparently told him his dress was pretty, too!
This page is what inspired me. I keep seeing these clean and simple styled pages, and think how stunning they are.
I used Bubba Boy Freebie by ksharonkdesigns.
The alpha for the title is by Laura Deacetis and is called "In My Backpack Alpha II".
The font used is Jester
Monday, September 03, 2007
Where oh Where did the rest of August go?
A day out with my boys
Saturday, August 18, 2007
Flowers
Flash Back
In honor of my 10 year reunion (which was last night-but I didn't go) and in honor of my b-day today here's a flash back. A picture of me from 10 yrs ago. This was taken before I left for Homecoming my senior year. Looking back I realize how stupid I was to think I was heavy then, what I wouldn't give to be that size NOW, lol.
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Monday, August 13, 2007
Scrap Happy
Saturday, August 11, 2007
Doing the Penguin
Grandpa and Aidan
I started out with a template from Misty Cato's Layered Templates-Set B. I used Ashley Bailey's Serenity Kit which is available at digitaldivasdesigns.com. I also used Misty Cato's Distressed White Alpha. The font used is Arial