Friday, April 16, 2010

My weekly post!

So I have decided that the best I can do is to write on my blog once a week. I would like to get to the point where I am posting at least 2 times a week, but for now I have to be happy with just once weekly till I can find some more time to post more. I feel that this week past by so quickly, it seems that the older I get the fast time flies!
I have been busy creating this week in between my sewing project. I decided to bead my daughter's prom dress this year. She has always wanted a really beaded dress and I think they cost too much money so I am doing the beading myself to save on the cost. Well it is not saving on the work! OMG! I did not realize how much time it takes to do the beading. I am only beading the top portion of the dress but am concerned that I will not get it done in time...I have 2 weeks left and I am not quite half finished! Yikes, gotta get my beading on and fast!!! I have also been juggling other projects like working on my daughter's senior album. I want it done by graduation so I have about 6 weeks left. Think I will put that down for the next 2 weeks so that the dress is priority. I have also been busy with birthdays, this month we have a million birthdays and I have been busy making cards for all my family and friends. It has been fun to make the cards, but has taken lots of time. Here are a few pictures to share of the cards and the scrapbook pages I made.
Used my cricut machine and the Celebrations cartridge to cut the candles and the scallop tag. The entire card is made using scraps. I am so proud of myself for digging through all my scraps and actually finding enough that matched to make the card!
I am using a collection of papers and embellishments for my daughter's album from Heidi Grace called "cheerful bee". I think it fits my daughter's bright and cheery personality so well. I have about 400 photos that I want to use for the album so I am going to make the pages a little simple so that I can get many photos on a page.

Hope you have a wonderful weekend! I am off work, but am doing hair for a wedding on Saturday, should be fun!

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Friday, April 9, 2010

Don't be shocked!

I can't believe it myself, I am writing another post in the same week. I think this is the first time that this has ever happened. I just am trying to make an effort to get better at blogging and the only way that will happen is if I actually post something! I wanted to share my the only page that I made when I went to Archivers to scrap with some friends. We had a great time chatting but I was no productive! This is the first page I made for my daughter's album. I am making an album as a graduation gift and just started it. Should have been working on it for this entire school year, but I just was not motivated. Now I have only about 6 weeks to get it down and about 400 photos! Yikes! Think it might be more than one album...maybe 2 or 3!


I just love the journaling I did on the page. Things I wish I knew more about when I was younger, of course I am not sure that would have made a difference. You know when you are that age you think you know everything! I don't think that all the pages for my daughter's album will have so much journaling, cause it takes a lot of time...but I am going to try to make it very meaningful.
Today is our last fun day of Spring break, so I am taking the little man to the Georgia Aquarium. So excited! We have never been. I think it has been open for several years and just never got around to going, so finally I decided to make the trip. Should be a fun day just the 2 of us. I am sure I will take tons of pictures, I always do. Hopefully I will be able to blog about the trip. I know that would be totally shocking if I actually blogged another day this week!
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Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Mid week check in

Don't be too shocked, I am actually blogging again before another week has passed! LOL! I am really trying to find the time to sit down and type a post. It is the hardest thing I have to do. I thought that I loved to write and tell stories, but I am learning through this blog that I am really bad at it. Actually I suck! So all those thoughts of loving high school English were wrong, I guess I just fantasized that I actually liked writing!
So we are mid way through spring break and are having a nice week. Except for the fact that we are heading to the doctor this morning to check on a rash that has popped up on my son's body. We tried benadryl for the last 2 days but it is not helping, so I made an appt. I am suppose to work today, but I have no appts and since we needed to see the dr. I just said to call me if someone wants in today. Hopefully work will be busier the rest of the week., I could really use the money, since I have been spending lots of it lately...sometimes I think it grows on trees and we can just get more!

In between entertaining my little man I have been working on some crafty projects, here is a few of them. The second photo is my daughters graduation invite. I have been working frantically to get it finished this week, I want to make sure to mail it out with 6 weeks to spare, so everyone can make their plans to attend. Next up will be the decorations for the party...gotta think about that for a while.

I do have some other things I have done this week, but will wait to post those another day...that way I can take advantage of posting more than once a week. Be back soon!


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Friday, April 2, 2010

Spring Break

Yippee! Spring Break has officially begun for my kids! Should be a fun week, my daughter is going to Florida with some friends and we are hanging out at home. I do have to work next week for 2 days, but the other ones are going to be filled with some fun activities with my son. So this week has proven to be just as busy for me as the last couple. I am gearing up for my daughter's big chorus program that we put on every year...it is a lot of work and lots of coordinating volunteers to help. I can remember just a year ago that I was doing so much more volunteer work and trying to keep up, so this year with less on my plate it should be easier, but it doesn't seem like it! Weird how that happens. I do know that I am a little burned out on all the volunteering, think I am going to take a little break from it, then maybe start up again in a year or so. I just need some me time, time to focus my energy on some other areas of my life. Maybe I might even have more time to devote to my crafts, that would be awesome! I always want to create so much more than I have time to do, I always feel pressure to get things done in a short amount of time, creating should not feel this way, it should be relaxed and fun! I think if I had more time I would feel this way.
Here is my card that I made for my last month's card swap group...see I am so behind in sharing that I am just getting around to sharing a card that was given away more than 2 weeks ago!!! I really gotta get better at this blogging thing.

Happy Easter!
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Friday, March 26, 2010

This week in review

Well it looks like I am only going to manage to blog about once a week, so I should just settle myself to being a lousy blogger and move on! I just keep the hope alive that one day I will be able to sit down at my computer and type what is on my mind freely. Now I sit down and stare at the screen for what seems like hours...in reality it is only minutes. I always thought that I liked to write, I kept a journal when I was younger, but after I got married and had kids it seemed like I had too much else going on to keep up with a person journal. So I started this blog last year thinking that it would be like my personal journal and of course my crafty connection. I don't think it's working out so well, think I am just getting by. Oh well, there is alway a better tomorrow!!!

So I have been busy this week. I managed to make 2 scrap pages, which is impressive for me since I have not scrapped in weeks. The first one is a sketch from Liz Qualman. I just love her sketches, when I look at them they make me want to get creative. I haven't always worked with sketches, but I am finding on days when I don't have much mojo they really help get the thought process going. So I am taking a big step out of my box my doing sketches and it still makes me happy and I still feel creative. I think that was my biggest fear is if I did sketches I would feel like I was copying and not putting my own flair, but what I find is that it makes the process easier and I add my flair with the papers and embellishments. Who knew!!!!



Got off to a late start this morning and the kids are late for school...I just can't seem to get it together...I am looking forward to the summer break already. This mommy was not made for school and I find it so hard to keep my kids motivated and willing to go! I know it is a necessity, but man oh man, could they start a little later!!!
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Monday, March 15, 2010

Where has the month of March gone?

I can't believe that is has been 2 weeks since I have last blogged. Actually I can believe that...time just seems to slip away from me. I do have some very good excuses and that is my son has been sick, so sick that he was in the hospital for a week and before that home for 6 days, so my life was pretty much centered around him and getting him better. I did manage a few crafting projects, nothing really big. A page or 2 for my scrapbook.


In other news I went out for a Guest Designer with a well know sketch artist in the scrapbooking world, Liz Qualman. I made her team of talented people that will be bringing you examples of her work throughout the year on Sundays. If you don't already visit her blog, go and see her work. The sketches are amazing and really jump start my creativity. http://lizqualman.blogspot.com/

I will be back later in the week to share more, I am working on my monthly card swap for my group and will hopefully have some time to post the final card. I have tried several different ideas and finally found something I like.


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Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Is it already Tuesday?

My days just seem to blur together lately. I feel like my time off from work is busy than when I am at work!!! How crazy is that! I am sure it is because I have had to deal with so much going on at home with my sick kiddo. I have not mentioned this before but I my little guy has been undergoing some medical testing. Last year he started getting sick to his stomach often, it progressed, they did some testing and it came back that he had H. pylori. Well it started again this fall and has progressively gotten worse and worse. We are seeing a new GI dr. and he is doing all kinds of testing and so far nothing has been found. Last week was the worst, he was sick all week and out of school. He is complaining that his side hurts and his throat. We took him to the dr, then to the ER and they found nothing. Gave him all these different meds to take and none of them seem to be working. It is so frustrating to not know what is going on with him and not be able to make him better. We have another appointment this week and I am making jokes that I am going to chain myself to the chair in the dr. office till they figure something out! I am not really sure that I am joking! Haha!
I am still behind with my crafting time, I have not actually crafted in about 2 weeks, sad but true. I did however want to share with you my card that I made for my monthly card swap group last month.

I had so much fun doing this card. I cut the leaves using my cricut and my Mother's day cartridge, then inked them with Tim Holtz distress inks, let dry, heat imbossed the butterfly, then inked it with the distress inks, printed my sentiment on cardstock and popdotted to the card after I inked it. I did cuttlebug the background with the mesh embossing folder, love this folder but find that I hardly use it. This card is really not my style but I really loved trying the different inking techniques. When I did the leaves I inked the craft mat then sprayed with water and swooshed my leaves all around the craft mat. It gave the leaves a mottled look to them. The colors I used were broken china, tattered rose, shabby shutters, and a mixture of old paper and tea dye.

I am hoping that tomorrow I will have news about my son! If so I will be so happy!!! Until then...lets just hope today he is on the mend, cause this momma can't handle another day of playing nurse!
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