Yea! It's the first day of spring

This will be a short one today. Still feeling like yuck, but am going into work anyway. The old man is on my last nerve and I'd probablly kill him if I stayed home. Happy first day of spring! Now I need the grass to grow so he'll go back to work.

I wanted to make sure that everyone knows that I can and do read the blogs at work, I just can't leave comments on Blogger or if there is any extra anti robot measures (for lack of a word). I have been trying to get back to leave comments after I get home from work, but sometimes I miss it.

None of the photos that I took with the throwaway underwater cameras turned out. Don't know why. Fortunately my brother took his Nikon and braved the splashing to get some photos. My SIL turned to the dark side somewhat for a minute and did a photobook at Shutterfly. She enjoys her paper time too much to join us completely.

Ok, I'm gonna drag myself into work. Hope you all have a wonderful day.

Trying to get back on track

Let's see if I can get back into the swing of things here. Where to start? Ok, very little CT news here. I'm winding down my guest spots with Cherie Shields and Kiki Halbert. I have some layouts that I need to finish for Cherie before the end of the month. A few of the designers have personal things going on now, so I don't forsee anything new from them before the end of the month. This weekend coming up is SBB chat weekend. Sure to be some good challenges and giveaways there.

Had a wonderful weekend with the kids. It started off a little shaky with the hotel overbooking and messing up our reservation. We were supposed to have a 3 bedroom suite and ended up in a room with a loft and 2 queen beds. Not good for a family of snorers. I think the only one that slept good on Sat. night was Shannon and that's because he came back home to take care of the dogs. I mailed off a nasty complaint letter yesterday. Other than that, the water park was a blast. The girls loved it and Josh was in heaven, especially when he and uncle Shannon went on the big slides. It wasn't a Great Wolf Lodge, someone had asked about it, but similar. My brother had been to the Great Wolf ones and said that they were a bit nicer. On Sunday my cousin brought her 4 yr old out and she and Emily were just terrific together. I took photos with 2 disposable waterproof cameras, but haven't gotten them developed yet. Here's a few that I took with the digital, most of them were taken in the hotel suite.

She's crawling up a storm already and will most likely be walking within the month.
Some of my favorite pictures were Shannon with Addi. One needs to be photoshoped before I can do anything with it. I hope I can get my actions fixed on my program.
Here's one of Josh riding the lazy river. I did that too and it was fun. I didn't do any of the slides but I should have.

So I'm looking for a good kit to scrap the waterpark photos with. Any ideas? Really want to stay away from beach kits, so I'm having a harder time. I need to go recheck the thread I started at DST, but if you have any ideas, please share them here.

Addi was a little sick over the weekend and I think I picked it up from her. My throat is killing me and my nose is running like the lazy river. I'm not happy bout that. It could be the weather change too. Nothing I take seems to help.

Thanks for all the lovely thoughts left in the last 2 days. The first anniversary was a tough one. Mom and I went to the movies to get our minds off it. Not necessarily a good move for a woman who can't have children to see a movie like Juno on what may be the most emotional day of the year for her. I think I identified with the wrong character. No sympathy for the 16 yr old who found herself preggers. My heart broke for Jennifer Gardner's character. A decent movie, but not necessarily Oscar material, imo.

What did you think about Idol last night? The second round of the Beatles really didn't impress me. I think that the only one who did better than last week was David A. I love the song he chose this week. It's among my faves. I'd say that Kristy, Syesha & Rammile will be in the bottom 3 this week, with Kristy going home. Brooke has grown on me, even it she looked horrible dancing up there this week. I adore David Cook. I think he out Daughtreed Daughtry in the past 2 weeks.

Anyone watch Top Chef? A new season started last week. I finally got to see it last night. Love that show. Also love Deadliest Catch and need to see when it starts back up.

Ok, gotta drag my sick ass into the shower to go to work. Hope you all have a great day.

In loving memory

3/6/44 - 3/17/07

Missing you more than words can say.

Enjoy your weekend!

I've been the bad blogger this week. And today won't be any better, but just wanted to drop a short note. It's hard to believe that only a week ago we were getting 20 inches of snow. It's mostly all gone now, having been replaced by mud. My crocus' are blooming and looks like my daffs are only a few weeks away. Yeah Spring is almost here!

Mom and the kids are coming into town and were going to spend the night at this water park hotel near the house. A big suite with seperate rooms for everyone. (there a BIG snoring issue within the family, lol.) So I spent a lot of yesterday cleaning. Nothing like having your sister in law come to town to get the little things clean. Mom's staying til Tuesday morning. She had originally planned to go back on Monday, but I was a little concerned of her driving back by herself on that day. I'm glad she's saying another night.

So I gotta say I love the designers that I CT for. Hopefully you've gotten the CT appreciation week collab. I must say it was really nice that Cherie Shields lives in Australia and Tracy, her head CT lives in New Zealand. I had the links on the 15th, just in their time zone. All downloaded and some of it sorted. Heather got some bad news yesterday, Pato's father passed away. It's a hard time for her and my thoughts go out to her and the whole family. I don't think she's gotten the CT stuff out, but I know she's got tons of stuff on her mind.

Since I spent Thursday night cleaning and watching Survivor and LOST and yesterday cleaning, I've got nothing new to show you. I'm sure however that there will be tons of new stuff in the weeks to come. Enjoy your weekend!!

He's baaaack & some enabling

Let's do the enabling first. That's so much more fun than reading about my life. Kiki Halbert just released a new kit over at PDW called Fierce. If you've got a rebel or a rocker girl, this is the kit for you.

Check out all the tribal elements. And the papers are awesome!!!!

Combine the papers from Fierce with her Wasted Walls paper pack and you've got everything you need for those masculine pages or if you need papers rich with textures and dark backgrounds these are for you. Look at how I used them.

Elements from Jofia Designs, Natali Designs & Birgit Kerr.
This photo is one Shannon took while at Panama City. The journaling is from a Bob Dylan song. The glitter is by Flergs.

Cherie Shields has some great new items over at Gotta Pixel. I'm getting ready to pick them up today, so hopefully I'll have something to show you a little later on. I just love Cherie's frames.

And the pages I've seen her other CT members do with her new Beautiful Soul are gorgeous!!! Love the greens, and so right for the upcoming spring season.

Ok, something really weird is going on at work. I can now read blogs at work, but I can't leave any comments. So if you're a regular here and a regular at the DST blog train, then I want to assure you that I've been stopping by, I just haven't necessarily gotten back on the computer after work to leave a comment. I know the comments are the important part. Now that Shannon's back, he's a bit more demanding of my time and really doesn't "get it". I'm hoping that now I have some pictures from him to scrap, he'll leave me alone some, but I'm not holding my breath. He should be back to work in about a month, which will help. Don't get me wrong, I love him, but he's a total pita sometimes.

Well, gotta jump in the shower and head into work. I had a customer go off on my yesterday cuz the old lady wasn't doing her job right, so it could be a battle royale today. If not, I'm reading The Other Boylen Girl, which is pretty good. Doubt I'll rush out to see the movie though. Anyway, have an awesome day. It's one day closer to the weekend and the kids coming down. yeah!!!!!

Vacations over

Did you hear that scream? It was me. I don't understand family dynamics very well, especially when it's not my family. But I think my sister in law said it best, "relatives, like fish, stink after a few days". Let's just say that my "vacation" is ending sooner than expected. And my blood pressure is up so scrapping just isn't in the cards.

Blogger is acting up too. I think I was able to leave comments on everyone's blog yesterday. I know I stopped by all the usual suspects, but was having major issues with the comments and gave up. So I do know what is going on in your lives, just couldn't leave a cute little note about it. I really need to get my other blog set up. It's up, just not pretty.

So here are a few more of the pages I finished this past weekend.
My nephew, yesterday was his birthday. He's a teenager now and it shows. I get more answers out of a brick wall. But he's basically a good kid, so he gets the pass. The papers are by Kiki Halbert - Wasted Walls and Varsity Blues. Awesome papers if you have boys to scrap.

This is also by Kiki, her Breath of Spring available at Scrapbook Elements.

My Dad's been on my mind a lot lately. There was 10 days between his 63rd birthday and his passing. I miss him very much.

The girls just did spring photos so I had lots of fun with them. Flergs grab bag items. Love the butterflies.

And my favorite for last. This is from a new collection by Heather Manning, Quite Day and is just fab. Did you get the idea that I finally figured out blending? Well, at least I'm working on it.

I'm sure that there is a lot that I'm supposed to be telling you about from the scrapping world. But for the life of me, can't think of right now. Thanks for listening to another rant. Next time it'll be an enabling post, I promise!

A record is broken

Well, I survived the blizzard of 2008. Here in Columbus, it was a record breaker; record 1 day snowfall of 15.5 inches and 2 day total of 20.5 inches. You know it's big when all the churches cancel their Sunday services. The majority of the schools are closed today too. Allowing for more time for clean up. A report 2200 accidents over the weekend. My question is why on Earth were 2200 people out in the storm? Sheesh. I'm still a little peeved that I don't have a camera. It was a really pretty snow until the clean up started. The dogs love playing in it. Jazi just kept eating it. I had to yell at her at least once not to eat the yellow snow. lol. Fortunately my neighbor snowblowed out my car for me. I shoveled the rest of the walk. I'm sure that it'll be a busy day at the office. Hope those of you caught in the Ohio Valley fared well too. I know that Barb has some gorgeous photos on her website that she took over the weekend. Stop by and see them.

The good thing about being snowed in alone is that I had plenty of time to scrap. I ended up with too much time and scrappers block yesterday evening. I decided that I'd had enough. I figure that I won't get any time to scrap next weekend with Shannon coming home on Friday and the kids & my mom coming in for the weekend. Blogger's being a pain and won't let me download more than 1 at a time. I figure that's good for you, cuz I think there were 14 done. I showed 3 on Sat. Here's a few more.

Done for the SBB template challenge. Template by Amy Bleser, Kit is Gwen by Lauraskathi.

Everything but word art is from the SBB collab kit Pushing Daisies. Word Art by Faith True from Sweet Hannahlee.

Papers from Kiki Halbert's new kit, Fierce. I just love her papers!

Another one using Amy Bleser's template. I found this picture of my parents and had to use it. I did a few pages of Dad this weekend, since he's been on my mind. Papers by Kiki Halbert from Wasted Walls & Varsity Blues; Butterflies by Flergs.

Sogni Dolci by Cherie Shields. It's a stock photo from my computer, but looked very inviting with all the cold white death here in Ohio.

That's only a few that I did. I'll share more with you tomorrow. I wanted to thank Amanda also. Last week on her blog she was asking for posts regarding a hybrid project she's working on. I read her blog on a pretty regular basis so I posted that while I've never paper or hybrid scrapped I wished her luck. And also thought that maybe she could use any photos she had of the happy couple. Well, I was her random drawing winner for at GC to the store of my choice. Since I've been shopping so much lately, this was a big WOO HOO. Now I'm waiting for either the right new kit or a big sale, or both! Thank you so much Amanda! Hope that you've not floated away. (flooding issues)

I'm sure that there was some big news that I've forgotten about. The time change is messing me up. I'm afraid to go back to sleep as then I may wake up late. So for now, I'm gonna go snuggle with the dogs. Have a great day!