Yay, I did it!

Check it out, I finally came up with something. :)

Figures, huh?

So it seems I can't get my creative juices flowing now that I cleaned up and reorginzied my room. This really stinks. LOL I've been looking at these group of pictures on my table since midnight last night and can't figure out what to do with them. Can't decide on what papers. Someone needs to come mess my room up a little. Maybe that will help.

;)

Yay! A Scrap Room

I'm slowly getting my den turned into a scrap room. All I need is an amoire and I should be good to go. I'd really like to have a new computer desk. Something smaller, less bulkier. But, I think I'll be ok with what I have. I'm trying to aim for a non-crafty looking room. Since this is the den and it's in plan sight through the house. The fireplace is in here too. BTW, which is really in the way...LOL

So here's what I did today. I tossed out the old dvd, vcr and stereo from the entertainment center. Then I cleaned it all up and then put all my supplies and albums on the shelves of my new scrap 'center'. LOL I cleaned up my desk, got rid of all the clutter. I have clutter spots all over...LOL So I'm clutter free.





That's not all my stuff though...lol Everything is still in my MM Rolling Tote.

First Cards...

Last weekend I made my first cards. This is one of them. I didn't get a picture of the other one, but my friend is going to take a picture of it for me. :) I was really happy with the way this one turned out. :)

Totally Love it!

These 2 I made while I waited for 2 o'clock to come around, for the Stampin' Up workshop. :) These 2 were my first LO's using my acrylic stamps.





These I made at my Stampin' Up Workshop yesterday evening. Mary, you know you'd be in that one too, but we're totally not together to take pics....LMAO ;) We could've rigged one up though, huh? ;)

Something New...

Here's a new one! My friend Nina came over and we cropped for a little while. I only managed to get one done....LOL

TGFC

Thank Goodness For Crops

LOL!!! Today I went to a friends house to crop. I got 4 great LO's made. I'll get pictures taken of them soon to share! I can't wait to show them off! :)

2 from Today

Here are two I did today.... They aren't finished yet. I still need to title them. The first one will be titled "Up to No Good". Chad thought of that as he was looking at it and I said, Yep that's what I'm going to title it. He probably thought I was weird...LOL Don't know about the pink one. Any idea's?

Been Scrappin'

Yay! I've done a few layouts in the last couple of weeks.....

So Here goes!

Sick!

That's got to be it, I must be sick or something. I can't believe it, I haven't scrapbooked in a month. ACK!!!! What's wrong with me. Boy howdy, I've shopped though....I've ordered pictures left and right. I have TOO many pictures now. My photo box is buldging...lmao!!! And I have pics from an event that still needs to be ordered. I better get the move on, cause summer vacation is coming around the corner. Literally, next weekend....LOL....it starts.

I have other pics I need to upload though. :)

Some newer stuff

Don't like the picture of this layout. :( But at least it looks good in person, right? :) It's of Ryan's 4th birhtday. It was a Finding Nemo party.

And this is Ryan's 3rd birthday. It was a Spongebob party.

This is my new fav!!! It's of Saira when she was like 1 or 2 weeks old. It was her first outing, we had gone to my grandpa's house for a visit/birthday party for my aunt. She was actually in my aunts lap, laying longways, instead of across the lap. I turned it into a b&w and texturized it.

Sunday Crop

So here are my layouts that I did today! :)





These next two are my favorites!!! Chad loves them too of course, he's most proud of them. :)

Fun Party!

Today was great! I had 6 great friends over today to join me for a 'Get Together' with Creative Memories. I had 2 girls that had never scraped before. They did great. They bought ALOT of stuff and they are going to become my new croppers with me. :) I'm real excited about that. We had a brunch before we started. So therefore I got up extra early to cook for my friends. We pigged out. YUMMM!! I managed to make 4 layouts in 4 hours. Yay me! :) I'll have pics to post later. :)

Thirteen Things I HAVE to have to scrapbook with

1. Photos!
2. beautiful paper
3. paper trimmer
4. sissors
5. adhesive
6. brads
7. photo trimmer
8. pretty pretty ribbons
9. embellishment stickers
10. stamps
11. distressing ink
12. letter stickers
13. album

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Update...

Hmmm, I've lost my scraping mood. I gotta go find it. I have so much to do. I think I've just been to tired to do any scraping or something. I dunno!?!

Keep a look out though. I'm gonna get a layout done real soon!! :) I hope before the 18th. That's my Creative Memories Get Together.

Challenge #24

Challenge #24 at scrapgalaxy is to blog about one of our graduations from school. So here goes.It was 8th grade graduation. It was the year of the Gulf war. We didn't wear caps and gowns. Just really pretty dresses. About 15 kids from 8th grade joined the Choir. I was one of them, along with my best friend. As far as I can remember, we only sang one song. It was dedicated to the men and women who were in the war, as well as our parents and teachers. We sang "Wind Beneath My Wings". I don't believe there was a dry eye in the house. And now every single time I hear that song, I always remember my 8th grade graduation, and us singing our hearts out. We did a beautiful job.

Awww, her 1st!

On Tuesday, a friend of mine came over to scrapbook with me. Saira likes to watch me when I scrap. Well, she kept asking for a piece of paper. And my friend started giving her all kinds of paper. Little 8x8's, little scraps and a couple of sheets of 12x12. I gave her a glue stick that I've never used. Can't stand glue sticks. And I gave her 2 wallet size pictures of Ryan, that I had already scrapbooked. And so later in the evening she showed me this. I helped her 'journal'. I held her hand to help her write out the date and Ryan's name. I bet she'll grow into the next Ali Edwards. So here's a picture of her layout. She did gooooooood, didn't she?!?! ;)

Tonights Creations

Here are my creations that I made tonight. I'm really proud of them. I especially love the pictures of me and Chad. :)

Today's Work

Today I made my first layouts for the year...LOL I did 7. :) Yay me!! And here's some pic's to look at. Some I'm proud of, some I'm not. But it's all good!

Thursday's Work...

Here's what I did this evening. I love these papers. It reminds me of a quilt. Which reminds me of my grandma, who is in these pics. She would've loved this layout!!! I need to make a copy of the photo that I have from when I was a toddler that is 4 Generations and scrapbook it. :)

Something for Tuesday

I was only able to get one layout done today. Kim was real late getting to the house. And didn't stay long.... And again, I'm waiting on my white pen. :)

Today's Layouts...

Here is my first for the day...

And my second...

My third one...
I didn't journal on this one yet. I'm waiting on my white pen to come in.

My fourth...

And my firth and sixth...

Closer Up...

Today's layout

This is what I made this afternoon. I think it's my new favorite for now. :)

First B&W

I did this one last night. I journaled on it after I took the picture though. :) This is one of him when he was 2 1/2 years old...asleep in the car.

Layouts I did after Bunco Night

I had my papers already done. Just needed to get the pictures on there, along with everything else. I'm going to journal where the empty spots are on the candycorn paper.


I'm sorry this next one is so crappy, but I didn't feel like pulling the protective sleeve off of it...LOL It's of Saira's first trick or treat. I plan putting 'First' and 'Halloween' around that bottom picture with the spiderwebs on it.


And this was the last one I got done. It was around 5am...LOL And I was laughing so hard I had no idea if it was going to turn out or not. For some reason, the photo on the top looks weird. But it's really not. It's just the camera. And I totally didn't journal on any of them yet. I don't think I could've with all the laughing we did. LOL

Sleep over layout

Here's a layout I did a few weeks ago. From when Saira and I went to a sleep over with a friend of mine. :)

Today's creations

Today Kim and I cropped at my house. She was able to get 7 pages and me only 5. So here you go...


I love this one. I did my first distressing to my page. I did it on the cardstock mats of my pictures. And on the edge on the cut papers.


This was Ryan's Pre-K gradution invitation he made at school and his teacher mailed it to the parent. So I scanned it. :) She also sent that picture with the invitation. On the top right black square, I'll be journaling on that when I get a white pen. :)


And here is Ryan's halloween page from this year. :)

Love this one!

I made this 2 page layout at Kim's house on 11/3/06. The papers and embellishments aren't anything special. Just a Halloween scrap pack with 600+ stuff in it that I got from Wal-Mart.

My First Page...

This is the first page I created. It's so plan and simple. Actually, I've added ribbon around the top right vellum square.

I started scrappin'...

I started scrapbooking June 8th, 2006. I looked into it for a couple of years and watched shows on tv. So when I was out shopping that day I called my best friend and asked her what supplies I needed to get it going. I don't know why it took me so long to finally start scrapbooking before then.

Now after several months, I found a friend to scrapbook with. She's a Creative Memories consultant and a PartyLite consultant. Her and I went to the PartyLite conference together this year, in July. We get together a couple of times a month.

And yes, I'm addicted to it.

Catch Up Time!

Wow, it's been a week and 4 days since I blogged. So here goes... LOL....

Where did I leave off?

Ah, yes, the kids Spring Break. So I took them to my moms on Wednesday afternoon. We got to her house and we loaded up and went to McDonald's for lunch(Saira's request). Then we went to Palais Royal and got their Easter clothes and shoes. Then went next door to Old Navy. She got me one of those striped skirts and the shirt to go with it. Love it, it's so comfy! She got the kids some more clothes and then we went to Marble Slab for ice cream. Then off to the grocery store. We all got coffee at Starbucks inside the store and then headed back to her house. They started a movie and I headed back home. I didn't get here until 7pm...LOL It was fun hanging out with them for the day. Then the next day the packed up and went over to my great aunts house. She took them to see Doogal. Ryan enjoyed it, Saira fell asleep. LOL They went and played at the park in her neighborhood a couple of times. And on Friday I went and picked them up at her house. But on Thursday I had a candle show. Also had to do the shopping. So I didn't get to enjoy the day without the kids.

Ryan lost his 7th tooth the other day. And the tooth fairy came for a visit. :)

Saira said something really cute the other night. Chad was telling her stories. It had something to do about her. The stories always do...LOL He had said, "There was this little girl and her name was Saira." And she'll say, "Oooohhh, MYYYYY name is Saira tooooo!" And he said, "And she had a fish named Nemo." She said, "Oooohhh, meeee too!!! But him's died". And he said, "Awwww, yeah, he went to fishie heaven" And she says, "Noooo, he went to the trashcan!"

haaaaaaaaaaa! It still cracks me up!!!

Well, I know it wasn't much of an update, but that's about all I've got. I've just been doing LOTS of shopping with my friend. Oh, and watching lots of TV. I've been taking a computer break...kinda sorta...hmm, not really...LOL But I've managed to watch more tv. I've been watching lots of movies on tv. :)

Oh, and Ryan got his Harry Potter movie. We all liked it alot. If only Saira would've been more quiet...LOL

Listening to:
today: Trent Tomlinson - Drunker Than Me
yesterday: Dierks Bentley - Come A Little Closer

A good weekend

Chad did alot with the kids this weekend. He promised to take Ryan up to the baseball field both days and to take the kids fishing. So Saturday we got up and come evening we finally all went up to the baseball field and did some practicing. Ryan can already hit the balls being pitched to him. To hell with t-ball and pitching machine, my boy is just gonna move right on up to regular pitching and then to Pro. hehe! ;) We didn't make it to the fishing hole. But we did lots of fun family stuff at home.

Sunday I got up, got dressed and went to Super Wal-Mart with my coffee drinking buddy. We spent the afternoon at that place. Chad took the kids up to the baseball field and Chad said he did awesome ago. He's working on him at 1st base. His coach can't decide if he wants Ryan at the pitchers mound or 1st base. The pitcher doesn't pitch in t-ball though. They just run people out basicly. (for those that don't know much about t-ball). Then they finally went fishing. Saira hasn't been fishing since last spring. So Chad had to show her. They were fishing with artifical bait. The kids fish with minnows though. Chad said Saira was casting her pole perfectly. I'm so proud of her!! So the kids had a great time. Next weekend we're all going to go. And this time we'll have minnows. :)

Two more days til my kids go on their 'vacation'. LOL They are so excited about it. All they have talked about is staying the night with MeMe and Bettie Anne.

Oh and thank you JC for the comment on my new pic. :)

Listening to:
today: Dierks Bentley - Come A Little Closer
yesterday: Everlast - What It's Like

Officially Spring Break

As of yesterday at 12pm Spring Break began. My mom has asked for the kids to come stay the night with her sometime next week and then with my aunt. The kids are soooooo excited. I think I shouldn't have told them about it until Tuesday or so...LOL They'll go to the movies, to the park and to Starbucks. LOL My kids are so spoiled already. Everytime I go to Starbucks, I will get them a frappuccino. I told Saira she'll be going to stay with MeMe next week and she said, "And get Starbucks toooooooo?" LOL Ryan wants to see 'Doogal' at the movies. That looks like a cute one. And if he is good during Spring Break I'll buy him the 4th Harry Potter movie. It comes out on Tuesday.

Ryan started T-Ball practice. His team is called the Braves. I know my brother will be so excited to hear that, since his all time favorite team is the Braves. :)

Well, you all have a great weekend. :)

Listening to:
today: Everlast - What It's Like
yesterday: Santana - Maria, Maria

Awww! She's HERE!

Yay!! JavaMama called me at 9:55am CST (just now). Isabella arrived this morning at 7:56am EST time She is 8lbs 1oz. Her score is a perfect 10. Awwww! I can't wait to see pics of her! I'm sooo excited!

Listening to:
today: Santana - Maria, Maria
yesterday: Missy Elliott - Get Ur Freak On