I WON!

After a long day at the salt mines, I came home, started checking out some of my favorite scrappin' message boards and was I plesantly surprised!! Over at Life Preservers they randomly passed out Pink Tickets in the November kit and I was one of the lucky ones. But to actually have MY number drawn was FABULOUS!! Here is my prize and I just can't wait to receive it. =)

> December Featured Mega & December exclusive stamps <

Can you see me doing the Happy Dance?!?

CupCards {to go}

Oh my goodness! This is a new kit club just for cards and it is WONDERFUL!! CupCards {to go} has created the most adorable kits for the cardmaker in all of us. The December kit is only the second month and I like it even better than the first. Do yourself a favor and check 'em out. I think the New Year will be bringing me a new kit!

Quick gift

Thought I'd share a quick gift idea with you. This is something I found at Sheetload the other day. Very inexpensive and quick to assemble. I'm sure someone on your Christmas list would love to receive this!

A great sunny morning to you!

YES!! We have sunshine for two whole days in a row! Excited doesn't even start to describe how I feel! I think Maggie deserves a walk in the fresh air today. =)

Yesterday, I felt I was doing a scrappin' marathon and managed to get lots done. Christmas cards, a couple for Thanksgiving, and then polished off the pics from the pumpkin patch. Well, almost, I have one set left, but haven't quite figured out how I want it look just yet. So, here's what I did get assembled:




And aren't these just the cutest?! Makayla wanted to do a "project" this past week and we made these placecards for our Thanksgiving dinner table. She helped glue the bases together and since I decorated the front, she did the backs. Love that look on her face! =)



Thanks for allowing me to share tidbits of my life with you. Godspeed.

Stories At Hand

Before I forget, I'm take this class by Jessica Sprague and is it ever fabulous! It was free and free is a wonderful price in today's economy, so I figured, why not. It has tons of prompts to get you journaling about you and your family members. She has it neatly formatted in pdf files for you to download and print off to make this darling notebook for yourself to refer back when journaling on layouts, or just because. I thought I would use my Bind It All, but can't seem to locate the 2" coils, so I guess I'm off to find me some jumprings. Where there's a will, there's a way!


Once I get it all done, I'll post again, just in case you feel you need one!

Finally, we see the sun again!

We have had some of the nastiest rains and winds the past few days and I'm so excited to see the sun peering in my window beside me! Normally I don't mind the fall and winter months here, but come on already! I think we deserve a bit of relief now and again.

I'm day number five into a horrible cold. My nose hurts, my head hurts, I'm so sleepy, but I still keep plugging along. I usually get one pretty good one and safe for the rest of the winter. Let's just hope thats the case again for this year. It wouldn't get to me as much, but this is my VACATION and I'm sick!!!!! Okay, I'm done with the tantrum......

I have felt better today, so I'm catching up on my photos and getting some layouts and cards done. When do we stop taking oodles and oodles of photos of the grandbabies? I can't believe how many cute ones we have of Makayla at the pumpkin patch! And of course, her obcessive Granny has to scrap the majority of them! And it didn't help that we were there for FIVE hours! Oh, well, the family appreciates them and thats what counts, right?! So, here are a few more layouts I've created. Enjoy!





Thanks for taking a peek! Godspeed.

Election Day 2008

I feel so overwhelmed by all the talk from the media over this election and although I should care, I just want normalcy back into our lives. I'm tired of the candidates bashing each other on the national, as well as the local levels. These people are adults for crying out loud, they need to act like adults! I honestly feel whoever wins, its gonna be a mess for some time and I just wish them luck in undoing the damage that has been done to us here in the United States and how people abroad feel about us. Okay, I'm off my soapbox.........

So in order to keep my sanity, I've scrapped!! Here is a layout from the pumpkin patch at BiZi Farms. They have a pumpkin launch that is just a hoot. I only wish I would have thought to get close ups of their faces!


Hope everyone is having a pleasant evening. Godspeed.

November 1st

My goodness, where has the year gone? It's so very true that the older you get, the faster the years go by. Oh, when I hear someone say I wish it was.... or I wish it were...I just cringe at the notion they are wishing their life away. If only I could get back just five years of my life, it would be amazing the things I would get done! Ya know, all that 'stuff' you've been putting off for tomorrow......well, my tomorrow has came and went and I'm still putting it off! =)

Yep, its a cool rainy November day here in the Pacific NW and the leaves are changing colors and falling from the trees. The other day Makayla asked why the leaves do that. We explained to her that its time for them to take a nap so they can get their energy built back up. And in the springtime when the blossoms come, it means they are waking back up to grow more leaves. Her reply, "I'm glad I don't grow leaves. That's a long time to take a nap!" Out of the mouths of babes. =)

Tonight we move our clocks back an hour and gain that hour of sleep. I, for one, could use that extra hour!! Have a good day all. Godspeed.