stuff...

the boys in blue...

so me and my sister are out shopping one night and the boys found these robes in JYSK and they each wanted one...they are really soft and warm...they didn't want a bag, they wanted to wear them :)

after all, the grocery stores are a little on the cool side...

(all photos are un-edited...too lazy tonight)

relaxing...

been creating mixed media like crazy this month...

started an art journal...love it!  Olivia has one too...she does fabulous work :)

I have several finished pieces now, here is one...

my newest (ooops, not true) second newest equipment piece to the creative room....

Fell in love with this piece at Home Depot, can't have it :(

Already have a useful table (x2)

Saw Loverboy, Pat Benatar and Journey in September....

fun night :)

went to the fair....that was a fast $100 bucks...

they had fun tho...

Joshua's Lego entry won first place (phew!)

He was pretty excited!

and Olivia met the queen...it was perfect timing as she had been asking frequently about the queen around that time...

That's it for September...I think...probably not but I'm not going into another folder to look for more photos!  LOL

Still have plenty on my phone too...

take care...

Happy National Card Making Day!!

Whatcha up to today?

Making any cards?

Need some ideas?

Then you need to check out the Boys Rule Blog Hop!!!

Here is the link to the Boys Rule Blog

my blog is the first in the hop...

enjoy..

I made three cards with the card kit..

Pretty Little Studio is the manu for these cards...

the kit also includes two Technique Tuesday stamps...

and 4 different kinds of ribbon :)

thanks for participating...

onto your next blog...

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fabulous

Dani!!!!!

oopsy...

busy times...no schedules in the summer time so I don't seem to get as much accomplished...

things are some what back to normal, school has started and vacation time is over (until March rolls around ;) )

The fall is like January to me...new starts for everyone here in our house, it's kind of refreshing.

It was a fun summer, very fast too, too fast....

spent lots of time at the trailer...

here is a pic of Olivia enjoying the bonfire one night...

here is a pic at Bingemans...notice the hair cut?   It's darling!!

I love it...I'm glad she talked me into it...LOL

here are all of them!

goofing around in the baby pool :)

 again, at Bingemans...the boys are getting older...they like big boy stuff now....

not sure I'm ready for this....

Josh wants me to fix up his "man cave"  he wants a tv mounted on the brick fireplace in "the cave"

so now I have the chore of trying to get rid of the old (and very large) tv so that "the cave" has a flat screen....

I still need to put quarter round or something on his Lego table too...all the Lego keeps falling off...

so much to do...

we won't get started on the other things that need to be done around here....

I have been wanting to get my nose pierced for quite some time...just a small diamond....I don't know what possessed me to ask Josh if it was ok, but I did.....to my surprise he said "NO WAY"  I think he was down right annoyed with me...LOL...."oh look...my teenager mother" ..LOL

I kind of expected conversations to be the other way around....lol

So he finally agreed that it was ok as long as I take it out when I am in public with him

so that he is not embarrassed....smirk....LOL

Good grief...tough crowd!

But at least I finally got his blessing...

Bought a new van :) stunning piece of machinery it is...

Toyota Sienna....unbelievable ride...and so much space...

perfect for bringing extra kids to the trailer...

we love it :)

Off to bed....

Creating...

So I had this really great idea to have a scrapbook garage sale...I'm sure I can gather up some stuff and stick it all on a table to sell it...I have enough stuff...my goodness, way too much stuff!

So I did just that, my friends Cathy and Carrie came over and helped me price all my kits, I gathered up so much stuff...unbelievable really....and to think I still have more...

I made hundreds of dollars on my stuff....I'm pretty happy about that.

I think I will do this again in the fall, that will give me enough time to gather some more :)

I've had one week of holidays so far, was so wonderful to be off...

looking forward to my next set of holidays at the end of July..

Been creating...in my messy room....but I have two tables and once the Boys Rule kits are gone each month I have even more room!

 Here are a few things I made..

See ya :)

Just a little card I made with the June Boys Rule kit :)

Gotta love bubble wrap!



a few pictures....

pickle face...

Josh on the dock

ditto...



Check out this super cute find!  Was at Home Sense today purchasing teacher gifts and found this little gem....a perfect place to hold my beverage so I won't have an accident on my scrapbook table :)

She this fabulous $20 canvas??  innocent little thing...has forced me to change the entire colour scheme of my scraproom!!!  My inspirational piece...

A few instagram photos of my weekend at the trailer...

New table...and a layout...

I gave myself 30 minutes to create a layout for Boys Rule, I don't like to rush those layouts but it's 11pm and I'm exhausted. 

Life is just so busy right now, I don't like it....

I think when things calm down at work (really??? will that ever happen??) there's that outside voice again...

it's just too busy, my panic attacks are back...ever had those?  I mean the REAL panic attacks...anyway,

 I need a bottle of Baileys or something....

Thankfully things don't stay at that speed for a long time.

At home is just as busy, don't know why...I get home at 5:30

make dinner

clean up

make lunches

English homework with Josh (been slacking lately)

laundry

run a kit club

try to create

clean the house

and socialize...

you know the drill...not enough hours in a day...so it makes for late nights...

so here is the 30 minute layout....

I managed on scoring some fabulous tables for my scraproom!  They rock!!

They have two shelves underneath the work surface....is that not the best???

I have all the kit stuff stacked up waiting for the bags to be assembled....

I will take a better photo after I clean up my room...

I'm really embarrassed, it's really messy...it's because I'm making other changes..

long story...I will take pics later and show you...

when I find those 4 hours to actually clean the room that is...LOL

thankfully vacation time is coming up :)

Good night bloggers :)

pretty neat...

Went for dinner with my mom and dad to celebrate Fathers Day...it was nice, not a typical dinner...that works for me though..we went to Hutches on the beach....they make the best fish and chips.   The place was lined up outside the door....it's one of those places that you don't know about unless you live in Hamilton (or surrounding area) a well kept secret :)

We had a nice time together :)

New Blog decor...

Kristine Davidson...

love her...

she has a book out....

have you seen it?

here is a link to her blog...

photo is not related...didn't want to have a naked post...LOL

Tim Holtz rosette :)



Phew!

Crazy weekend...need a day off to recover....

back to work tomorrow...so busy there too...

such as life :)

October Afternoon

It's good to have a stash...then you can pull out yummy kits like this October Afternoon stuff from a year or so ago :)  Love OA...scraps itself...

I love my dymo...

Donna Downy's class....

Was awesome!!!

Learned sooo much from her!  Wow she knows what's going on in product!

I think I better start making notes because I don't think I will be able to remember all that.

She is funny too, she shared a few things with us...still makes me giggle :)

I loved it, and look forward to another...

We made art journals :)

She gave us all one to work in...they are neat...

The part I thought was the coolest....I was holding her art journal that is working on right now...the one on her blog, that was my "ah...ha" moment for some reason....to see the "real life"

that was cool

Now to finish it...LOL



just a busy day....

I should smash that...I did take a few photos of everything that happened today...

Rich had surgery, it went well...he spent the night and I picked him up in between Josh's dental appointment and Olivia's fracture clinic appointment.....just a busy day...that's ok, happy to do it all...

Here is a pic of the smart a$$ before surgery, didn't quite look like that after LOL

I see a lot of pink layouts in my future....

Take care!!

whoa! what a weekend!

hope the weather was just as good where you were :)

we socialized all weekend, it was wonderful!

I created three layouts today with my friend Carrie, here are two of them.

I was following the Scrapping Bug challenges for these layouts :)

Josh went to a birthday party on Sunday, they played paint ball in Brantford, he is on the injured list now.

Not looking very good is it...

what's with my kids and their limbs??!!

Back to work tomorrow...not too excited about that but what can you do...

It will be a short week, with some time off in between....I have a loaded week, should be interesting :)

Saturday is looking super good :)  I will be in Cambridge in the Donna Downy class :)

Take care!

  

CKC and a broken wrist...

 Here we are...Carrie and I at CKC Buffalo.  We took 3 classes and we both won prizes in our classes.

I picked up some neat stuff, some Faber Castel Gelatos, an album kit from the Button Farm and a pair of Tim Holtz scissors.  Some good deals on staple supplies (cats eye ink, glue dots, ATG refils etc) at one particular booth, stocked up on some stuff, $5.95 for two rolls of Scotch ATG acid free refils!!

I really wanted a few of Christy's stamps but I didn't see any there.

OHHHH!!  Love my tapes was there!   I bought some washi tape...wow addicting stuff.  I already had a few rolls and started using it last week....I used it on my card in the post below....love it, it's fun stuff!

Then we went here for dinner....

 It was very good :)

Dinner was too....LOL

So here is Olivia at the hospital while the doctor is starting a partial cast for her broken arm.

Poor little thing, she tripped over a bike in the neighbours back yard, she has a buckle fracture in her left wrist.   We will get her a fibre glass cast on Thursday so she will be able to swim in the pool.

It's the long weekend!  We are going to some friends tonight for some fun, Rich is going to open the pool tomorrow and Monday I am going to scrap!

Have a wonderful weekend :)

I made something....

a card...actually two :)

the thank you card is for my co-workers, they gave me a parting gift on Monday :)

I'm not actually leaving my job, just the physical location, so I won't be able to harass these girls on a daily basis any more...poor things, they will miss me...LOL

don't forget, there are always two sides to a story...LOL

anyway, I will miss them terribly and it won't be the same, but when I'm feeling department sick (vs home sick) I will go back to that office :) and visit :)

I don't know what this one is for....I used washi tape...neat stuff I must say.

I made the flower too.

It was a challenge over at the Scrapping Bug :)