Update on my life

There has been some changes in my life. Some great and some to get over, but over all I'm in a better place now and is slowing getting better. For awhile the situation that I was in had put a halt to my crafting. The last project that I was working on was a diaper bag. I was only able to get the exterior of the bag finished. However now that V is 14 months and I don't need to carry so much with me, not sure if I want to finish it and just hang on to it, sell it or give it away as a gift. hmm...

I'm thinking I will change this blog from a crafting type blog to a more family/craft/general blog. Once I have things to blog about I will restart to blog again until then... this will go on hiatus. Until then see ya.

Father's day gift and card

Well I finally finished the word book for fathers day for my husband, (on behalf of my son). It took about 3 weeks to do it since I only did it on days I felt crafty. Here it is:


The card stock that i used was from Prima Marketing : Nursery tales, and everything else was old scraps from my scrap pile. here are a couple of my fav. pages. oh and I also used my cricut and scal for some of the images




On Sunday DH, Vince and I will be spending our time at the zoo for fathers day. We hardly have time to do anything as a family now. Dh works over 10 hours a day, and some times works on Saturday. So, our family time is usually at the dinner table or just before we go to bed. Most nights we'll lay in bed while I'm breastfeeding Vince and just talk about what we're doing the next day. However, it usually ends with me forgetting to do what we talked about till its too late to do it. lol oops. Anyhow, I'm excited about our little trip to the local zoo, I'm so glad its still one of the few free zoos.

So I've made a few cards since I've gotten the Circut and DL SCAL. And tomorrow is a wedding of one of the girl's from church. So decided to use 50's Sweethearts digital stamp from The Greeting Fram. I just love their stamps!! What's sad is I haven't done any coloring since my last art class which was eek...umm 8 years ago beside my coloring with crayon wiht my neices and nephew lol. but I tink it turned out ok.

What's been going on.

Well it sure has been awhile since I last posted. I've been meaning to post sooner but I have been so busy! My little sister is on a short term missionary to Thailand for three weeks. At the moment now she is visiting Vietnam. Apparently she is having too much fun to call home, but has all the time in the world to text home. She is too funny. Couple of days before she left I asked her how long she will be gone for and when she said 3 wks, I was shocked. For the longest time I though it was just a week long STM. I'm such a dork lol.

Vincent, my son has been trying to stand alone now. His new Favorite thing to do is walk. If he is fussy, hold his arm and walk with him, he just loves it. Goodness he is growing up way to fast! For a baby who is almost 8 months he is already in 18 months clothes! man he is a big baby!

So, ever since I got SCAL, Cricut and downloaded inkscape I have been looking up different types of font as well as dingbats and dl-ing them. I had a bunch! last weekend DH decided to reformat my laptop since it was proccessing everything so slow. In doing so I saved all my desktop files along with pictures and pretty much everything! However, in the middle of it being formated I realized I didnt write down all the new fonts I dl. "grrr". So of course after it all I spent the next day looking at dafont.com and dl-ing all the fonts that I recall having, along with some new ones too ;D

CUTE blog i just came upon!

Hello, well doing my nightly searches, I know, I should really finish my scrapbook. Have set that aside for a while now bad me. Some of the pages that I have yet to start are from April and May along with the holidays. My excuse is lack of supplies. I've been telling DH that I need more supplies, and lately he has been giving me more money to spend on my scrap booking supplies, and yet ... nothing lol.

While browsing around I found this cute blog! A place to be me... she also has some cute things that she has made. Its a def. go take a look, oh and also this cool blog candy as well!

check out this Blog Candy!

Well this is my first time posting this early most of the time its in the late evening or very early in the morning. (11pm-3am) hehe. anyhow check out this blog that i just came across and look at the blog candy ! not only that but there are tons of great info and just about everything!

Check out Adams Acres Scrapin

While looking around in my Yahoo groups I came upon this cool site: Adams Acres Scrapin. With in minutes of snooping around I just had to sign up to receive updates! What made it even better was their blog candy. Yes, I know we all love blog candies but you have to check out theirs.
Awesome huh!? You should read the list of what is in the giveaway! I just couldn't believe it! Better sign up now because the entry ends on the 31st of MAY. Yes, in a couple of days!

The Next Level

Come check out The Next Level's blog, it will be launched on the 1st of June. What's cool about them is that their 'Weekly Challenges are not tied to any specific brand' -which I like. I can't wait to see what else they have to offer! I know it will be one of the many sites I will be on to give me more inspirational ideas.

What's even cool is their blog candies that they will be giving out one the Launch day. There will be two yes 2 candies given away! Can you believe that! I'm excited. hehe.

Polka Doodle Challenge

While looking around at other blogs I came across Polka Doodles' blog and they are having their FIRST challenge this week. No theme just a sketch to follow. Which is great, considering that I'm new to it all.

So here is the Sketch to follow:








After a couple of minutes thinking, I decided to make one. I couldn't think of a title, but I remember, yes, I almost forgot, that it was Dh birthday coming up so - there was the title. and so here it is: - sorry if the picutre isnt clear enough.










Products used

• Mixed Media Pack from Colorbok (also the chipboard)
  
• Nursery Tales from Prima Marketing Inc.
• Birthdaze font (cupcake)
  
• Stamp from an old stash that I dont recall getting it. (happy birthday)
  
• Ribbin from Michaels
  
• Buttons from my mom's bucket of buttons
• Star paper fastener from CreativeImpressions.com
• Thread from my mom's sewing room
• Ring stamp from Martha Stewart
  

I made it last night before I went to bed, so I was safe from keeping it away from Dh. However, today was a different story. Supposedly, Dh knows about it and has seen it. And has been teasing me all day about. And thats alright I'll still give it to him on the 29th lol.

New project...

Well I'm working on something for father's day, I'm thinking about making a word album, "daddy". I'm trying to do it all from scratch, so far so good, considering that I'm new to the scrap booking world. I'm using SCAL and the Cricut to do it. Wish me luck hehe.

also..

check out Carline's blog, she has made tons of cute stuff! And she is giving away a set of markers, Stampin' Write Markers from Stampin' up. Take a peek at it and leave a comment!!

New addition

After some thought after finishing the Christmas LO, I didn't like how it looked so I changed it and here is the the new finished page. (Totally forgot to publish this post couple of days ago). Anyways, I took out the film strip and added the gift box, and 3 ornaments. I think it looks a lot better.

On Monday Dear Husband (dh) came home with this new car (not new new but new to us). It's a 2000 Mitsubishi Galant. He traded the old VW for it. Dh didn't tell me about it, but that morning when I saw Dh grabbing some papers I had a hunch that he grabbed the tittle of the old car. My dad knew about it but kept it from me as well. I sure will miss driving in my 2006 Scion but the Galant has tons of storage and it fits two full size strollers! took me 10 minutes to figure it out but I got them both in! hehe. Scion will still be available for me to use so can't complain too much right?!

Any luck coming my way?

I was planning to post earlier, however I got a little side track and finished my scrapbook layout. The layout I was working on was for Christmas, yes I know it's a bit late. However, I was waiting for my Cricut expression and some ideas lol. Actually, I was pretty busy, from being a new mom, moving out in March to live back at my parents place, and just trying to keep sane, while living in a house with 11 other people! Yes, 11! Sorry. Back to the subject ... LO, the papers I used are from, Memories Forever, Color mates, Studio Basics 101 and Best Occasions. The tree, circle, film strip and the holly leaves are images I found online, and the bottom and the string were from my mom's secret stash. The font I used was Monterey BT. This layout is pretty plain, but I'm still a newbie and still learning. Oh, I almost forgot, I also used SCAL, Inkscape, and the Cricut.

Another thing I also want to share is, I found 4 four leaf clovers in the back yard. They were all in the same general area, (behind the garage). I found one on Wednesday, and three yesterday. The first two, from yesterday were found within 5 minutes apart from each other and later in the evening I was able to find another one within 10minutes. So does that mean I'll have a lot of luck coming my way or will it just cancel itself out since I found so many in less then 24 hours? I sure hope the luck doesn't cancel itself out. Since I really do need some luck especially now lol.

ITS HERE!!

Well... it's here. DH got me Sure Cuts A Lot! I'm supper excited! I've read so many great reviews on it so I can't wait to put my two cents in. He wanted me to use it right away but I still want to make sure I know how to use it first. Once I make something from it I'll post it up.
Other then that, it was a beautiful day in the mid 70's, so Vince and I spent some time outside on the front lawn. This weekend our family will be taking a trip to St. Paul. I can't wait. It will be Vince's first trip out of state, and a four and a half hour trip. I sure hope he can make it that far! We will be traveling at night so most likely (fingers cross) he should be sleeping. Anyhow, dinner wont be ready if I don't start on it so goodnight.

What's all the fuss?

Well while looking at everyone's blog I figure, why not set one up as well. And so ... TADA here I am. It's about 2:15am now on a rainy Thursday early morning. OH dear I think I just saw a bug. If you know how I am, I'm deathly afraid of bugs. ANY KIND. really! I think that's sign I better call it a night ... eek i think its getting closer ...