Load day 26....only 2 left...

There's only two days left of this years LOAD challenge. I'm glad, because its getting a bit daunting some days (when real life is hectic and with the kids being sick)....but I'm sad too, because it really makes me accountable for scrapbooking....it forces me to make time for me, and what I like to do. So, I'm going to challenge myself to a page every other day, for the month of March. I'm planning to post them here, so will someone (if there's anyone out there reading this) please keep me accountable?!

Here's the last couple days pages:

Digital Credits: Quickpage (WM [squared] Designs), White Painted Acylic Alpha (K Aagard), Font: CK Alis Writing
Digital Credits: Quickpage (Chris Young), Funky Print Alpha Brush (Mindy), Font: CK Handprint
Digital Credits: Quickpage (Tracy), Lil Stinker Green Alpha (Krystal Hartley), Font: CK Becky

Digital Credits: Quickpage (Jonee, Weeds & Wildflowers), Font: CK Primary

As you can tell, I have a thing for Quickpages. I love them. I love the simplicity of them (for me) and the look of them (because the designers that create them are geniuses!). I typically only add a title, journaling or some word art to them. They don't need much else...and that makes me happy!

I'm off to put a few things on Craigslist, while I have a few minutes! Hope everyone is having a great day and thanks for checkin out these layouts!

Soooo....its been a few days.....and your point?!

It's been a crazy week here....and I was out alot....but we've been home today, trying to play catchup, so maybe I can catch up here too?!

Last I posted was Tuesday I think...Wednesday was a pretty uneventful and unproductive day. I didn't get to scrap while the kids were at school, but I did manage to get Aiden's closet finished, and got some yard sale stuff piled up! Then I headed out for Moms Night Out with some friends (was supposed to go to a Navy meeting, but it got cancelled at the last minute). Had a great time and an awesome raspberry martini. Thursday I spent the day cleaning and playing with Aiden, and prepping a few things for a meeting, and for Fridays crop! Did some laundry, dishes...you know the boring stuff. Then I was off to a Navy meeting for a few hours. Had some YUMMO desserts and laughed alot! Friday I dropped Aiden off at school and got right to scrappin...well, kindda....cleaned my scraproom up some, and then finished packing...did a few digital layouts and then hurried back to pick him up! Then after I tried to get him to nap, I snoozed for a few on the couch, and headed out for a crop as soon as Erik got home! I had a great time, and even won a prize--for having a golf ball in my purse! (it was plastic, but they had to give it to me, since I was the only one with a golf ball of any type!...and they had already cancelled my win for an ear plug...I only had one, and she asked for ear plugS). I, unfortunately, could not fit Keno Man in my purse....will bring a bigger bag next time! (on tuesday, I mean!).

Here's my LOAD pages for this week:

Digital Credits: Template (Alane Pan), Advent Calendar Bits & Pieces (Cat Scrap), Merry Mistletoe
Blue Paper (Chere Nordstrand), Blue Snowflake and Green Backgrounds (Ellie Lash),
Fonts: LD Punch Out, Times New Roman, Pea Jamie*B*

Digital Credits: Quickpage (K Sharon K Designs)
Font: Scrap Cursive

Digital Credits: Quickpage (Dani Mogstad), Font: SP Inspired

Digital Credits: Template (Charlene Virkler), Cotton Candy Kit (Mandy Mystiques Design), Paper Cuts Alpha (Terri Martin)
Font: CK Ali's Writing

Digital Credits: Quick Page (purple tulip designs), font: CK Typewriter

I'm planning to unpack the stuff I did at the crop sometime tomorrow. I hope to get it all photographed and up here for your viewing pleasure soon!

To conclude, here's a pic of Ashleigh's new do. She chose the hairstyle all by herself (although I think it got cut a little shorter then she expected....it'll grow tho!).

Here's hoping everyone has a wonderful evening! I'll be back......

A few more pages....

Today was another busy day, but a good one! Got lots done this afternoon, and am glad that the house is clean too! Gonna scrap while the kids are at school tomorrow!

Here's todays LOAD page:

Digital Credits: Quickpage (dy_juno), Font: CK Kindergarden

Here's a couple others I've done in the last couple days too!

Digital Credits: Quickpage (Amanda Wall), Fonts: AL Slab, CK Handprint

Digital Credits: Quickpage (J Schmitt), Christmas Joy Stamp (Katie Pertiet), Font: LD Remington Portable

And here's another paper page I made for the Scrap Shack:

Supplies: Two Scoops Papers (Basic Grey), Cardstock, Flowers & White Just The Edges (Bazzill), Photo Corner Punch (EK Success),
Border Punch (Fiskars), Crystal Stickles (Ranger), 2”, 3” & 4” Circles (AccuCut), Glitter Cuts Title (Fancy Pants), Yellow Eyelet

I think its time to hit the couch...I can't figure out why the font sizes on here keep going wonky (thanks Cricket & Kathy for that word), and I'm tired of trying to figure it out! Erik is doing homework this evening, so I'm gonna go watch something that's on the DVR!
Night!

Presidents Day

Happy Monday!
Erik is home today, and Ashleigh is on Winter Break, so has today and tomorrow off (good thing, cuz she woke up coughing last night and sounds pretty yucky today, but is better than she was last night!). We've had a pretty laid back day, and we've not done much...I spent the morning putting our 2007 scrapbook pages into albums. It's a novel idea...I spend months getting all the pages made, and then they sit for even more months in these plastic drawers in my office....now they are ALL out and in albums, to be enjoyed! (And I rearranged the bookshelf to hold all the albums...I took out the ones holding pages from before 2003....they are moving to my office for the time being!)
The kids have played inside alot, watched a little tv, and they played outside for a couple hours too! Now Aiden is chillin with The Wiggles, and Ashleigh & Erik are playing guitar in the other room. I'm doing some digi-scrappin and updating here! Fun huh?

Here's todays LOAD page:

Digital Credits: Comfort and Joy 1 Quickpage (SM), Sentimental Cuts (Lauren Reid), Font: LD Fierro

Here's a pic of all the albums lined up pretty like on the bookshelf:
See that bottom shelf? Its ALL Ashleigh....every book down there has pages of the girl in them! Aiden has the two blue ones on the next shelf up....with the white tags hanging from them! Poor little guy...he has nowhere near the number of pages she does. I hope that it doesn't someday become an issue! LOL!

Ok....I'm gonna go do a couple more pages and ponder a plan for dinner. I think we might go out, but I don't know....we've probably got some leftovers that we should eat!

LOAD Day 15...and date day!

A pretty nonchalant day around here really...started the day by purging Aiden's closet, including the rubbermaid bins of baby clothes that I thought we needed to keep.....am keeping my faves, but the rest are being passed on, or sold! Went from 4 tubs to 1 and a half (the half is stuff that he's not big enough for yet!). Then I purged a few more toys from the stacks too!

Then we dropped the kids off at my girlfriends house for a couple hours, and hit a few stores (didn't buy much) and had a late lunch/early dinner at PF Changs. It was YUMMO!

Here's my LOAD for today...another simple digital page:

Digital Credits: Quickpage (Creating Keepsakes), Notepaper Sparkle 1 Alpha (Gina Maria Designs), Font: FB Buttercream

Now I'm off to watch my Sunday shows.....YAY for The Amazing Race starting again, and then its time for Desperate Housewives and Brothers & Sisters! I hope everyone has had a great day!

Night!

It's been a busy week....long post....

So, its been almost a week since I've updated this...its been a busy one too!

Monday was playgroup and some last minute prepping for Tuesday.
Tuesday was an all day affair...our Moms Club did a preschool fair and it was a huge success, but a lot of work too! (we were gone from the house from 915am until after 5pm). Then I went out for drinks with some friends and laughed so hard that I cried...a couple times! It was a LONG day, but an awesome one!
Wednesday was most unproductive day...felt like I was hungover (ok, mightta been a little) and like I'd gotten hit by a truck (did cross a few major intersections on foot to post signs on tuesday..) And Wednesday night Erik was out at a concert for the evening, so I put the kids to bed and went to bed early too!
Thursday was a busy day...a trip to the grocery store, early release/parent teacher conferences at school, and a kid swap with some friends (I watched hers while she went to her conference, she kept mine while I went). A last minute trip to the bank and some last minute prep for Friday followed.
Friday involved a trip to a flower wholesaler, to pick up 42 dozen roses (I'm loved, but not THAT loved). Off to the base to sell the roses to Sailors....am guessing we helped make some wives, girlfriends and daughters into happy gals today! Hung out there most of the day, then it was home to kid swap again...we kept some friends kids so they could have a date...they're keeping ours tomorrow. It was fun, but exhausting too...and so much more affordable then a babysitter!
Today we started the day with heart shaped pancakes, then I showered and headed to the Scrap Shack to scrap the day away. So bummed that Lynn has to move, but so thankful for her friendship and spending the day with her. The kids made dinner tonight (pizza & salad) and then we exchanged cards & gifts. They had a great time, and I got a new charm for my bracelet...I'll post about it soon!

LOAD is still happening and I'm up to date and still going strong, thanks to digital pages...and using Quickpages!
Here's this weeks pages:
Monday:

Digital Credits: Template (Shazbutt's Digi Scrapz), Play Time! Kit (Joyful Heart Designs), Note Tag (ZigZag Scraps), Word Art (Dirty Feet Designs), Funky Black & White Alpha (Misty Cato), Balloons & Cupcake (Heather Roselli), Font: CK Typist

Tuesday:

Digital Credits: Quickpage (Abish Allen), Bare chipboard Alpha (Katescrap), Font: FB Lipgloss

Wednesday:

Digital Credits: Quickpage (Kim B Designs), Word Art (lieN), Font: Pea Jamie*B*

Thursday:

Digital Credits: Quickpage (Biebel Scraps), Font: Pea Jamie*B*

Friday:

Digital Credits: Quickpage (Creating Keepsakes), Font: CK Tall Type

And today's page...its all paper (and my first paper layout this month!):

Supplies: Two Scoops Papers (Basic Grey), Cardstock, Flowers & White Just The Edges (Bazzill), Photo Corner Punch (EK Success), Grom-lets & Big Bite (We R Memory Keepers), White Thickers (American Crafts), Brad, Ribbon, Notebook Paper

Ok...if you've made it this far--THANK YOU. For reading, for looking, and for caring! I know my life is rather ordinary, and I'm so thankful for that...and I appreciate you caring!

I'm off to add the Scrap Shack link to my blog (for fear of being cut off), and then I'm gonna email this link to some scrappy friends! (*waving to Jill & Amy*). Night!

Wow....busy busy.....but its a good busy!!

Sorry I didn't update this yesterday (not that I have a ton of followers or anything...but ya know!). We went to the zoo in the morning, and had a great time. The kids LOVED it (as usual) and we got to do a few super fun things there...we fed some birds with nectar (Erik and I both ended up with birds on our arms), and the kids fed the giraffes! The lion cubs have tripled in size since this fall, and Aiden wants one...Ashleigh just wants a few pink flamingos, cuz they are her favorite color! (and they were gorgeous yesterday).
Today has been a busy one too...cleaning, a meeting, several people & kids here, chores, etc.....now its almost my tv time (Desperate Housewives & Brothers and Sisters!).
So, before a crazy week kicks off, I thought I'd post my last couple days worth of LOAD layouts! Here's yesterdays:

Credits: Quickpage (Crystal), Stamped Alpha (Dunia), Date Bits 4 (Misty Cato), Fonts: FB Buttercream

Here's today's page...just a quick one showing some cool pics of snowflakes on our trash can....I know...silly place to take pics, but the flakes were crystal clear. Wish the camera had caught as much detail as we could see!

Credits: Quickpage (Britt-ish Designs); Whimsical Wonderland WordArt (ChaosLounge), SSLayer

File Tabs Brush (MST, ScrapGirls), Font: FB Buttercream

Ok....I'm off in time to catch the end of Home Makeover (tear jerker for sure) and catch my other shows! Thanks for looking...and night!

LOAD Day 6....and a busy (but great) life.....

I've been told that I might be tackling too many projects all at once.....probably, but I won't admit total defeat yet. I'm still plugging away at the LOAD challenge, and here's my layout for Day 6:

Credits: Template (JFish), Express Yourself Kit (Carrie Stephens), Fonts: SP Toby Type, Marcelle Script

(Oops...there is a white background behind that layout, and I'm sure its gonna look like floating pics and words when it posts to my bog....sorry....)

Other things going on here include a trip to the zoo tomorrow, finishing up some MOMS Club paperwork and projects for a huge preschool fair we're hosting next week, reading some Navy paperwork and helping Ashleigh work on her Valentine's projects for school. She's handwriting all her cards this year (at her choosing) and it's taking some time to get through them all, but she's loving it. We have to make the box too....always my favorite part when I was a kid!

Ok....off to wrap up one more project tonight! (and tomorrow I hope to finish all the other ones I have started...after the zoo of course....unless Erik will willingly take them so I CAN finish things.....ok, that was hopeful thinking...)

Night!

LOAD Day 5

Real quick before my hubby has a fit....we're gonna watch a movie and he's waiting on me!

Here's my day 5 (that's today) layout:

Credits: Template (unknown), Paint Swirl Strips (Kelly Mize), Bubbles Paint Stamp (Danielle Young), Fonts: CoffeShop, Doodle Print

Thanks for looking! Happy Scrappin!

LOAD day 4

Its been a busy few days, and while I did get my LOAD page done yesterday, I didn't get it posted on here. Here it is, in all its "glory"!

Credits: Red Background (Rachel Young), Ambulance (Faith True Designs), Stitches (Olga Mishyna (aka Jasmin-Olya aka jasminolya), Homemade Alpha (thomsen), Frame (Heidi Larsen), Journaling Block (Ali Edwards), Arrows (Suzanne C. Walker), Font: CK Ali's Writing

Here's another layout I did yesterday, or maybe it was the day before...I can't remember now ;-)

Credits: Template (Cindy Schneider), Playdate Add-On Mini Kit (Amy Bleser), Yellow Alpha (Cintia Scrap), Font: CK Gutenberg

I'm off to put the kids to bed, then we're gonna watch a movie and I'm gonna try to sneak in todays LOAD page while we're watching...or else I'm pulling a late one! (its all in the name of a challenge! he he he!).

I hope everyone's having a great day...

LOAD Day 3, and taxes DONE!

It's day 3 of the LOAD Challenge...and I'm not feeling any pressure yet! (the laundry is pressuring me a bit, but I'll get to it eventually!).
Here's my Day 3 layout...using a photo that was taken by the local newspaper photographer last May. This picture was featured in the paper and Aiden became remotely famous! (At least the preschool director & a few others picked him out.)

Credits: QuickPage (Dani's Delusions), Fonts: AL Stencil Distress, Arial

Today was a pretty good day....dinner in the crockpot, Aiden napped for 2.5hours, and I did our taxes! (I know it seems like a chore for most, but I love doing them really...and I'm planning to work in tax accounting some day!). I'm happy to report that we're getting a nice chunk back, and that all of Erik's time overseas this year paid off! We're planning a family vacation for sure, but we're not sure to where yet...we have a couple ideas though! And I hope that we can get a few rooms redone (or maybe done the right way, I should say) too!

Ok..off to scrap a few more quick pages while Erik entertains the kids. They are having music night and its rather noisy back there!

Another day, another layout...

Today was an awesome day overall. Playgroup this morning was a success, I got a power nap in this afternoon, we ate dinner out (gotta love $5 pizza) and then Erik got the kids ready for bed! I've not scrapped as much as I had hoped for the day, but I have gotten several domestic chores done, and some Moms Club stuff done too! And I'm working this evening, on something I should have started awhile ago...procrastinating by posting here too!

I've only gotten one layout done today...the minimum for LOAD. I hope to get to another tonight, but it's second on the burner behind the project I need to meet a quickly approaching deadline! So, without further ado, er procrastinating, here's the LOAD layout for today:

Credits: Template (Emily Howard), Spacey Circle Background Paper (April Staker),
Orange Grunge Background Paper (Chris Stone), Navy Blue, Lime Green & Brown Papers (Kiki),
Doodled Journaling Box (Lauren Reid), Flocked Alphabet (Christina Renee),
Happy Alpha (Miss Vivi), Buttons (Kate F), Font: CK Tall Type

I'm off to "work" now....although, I have to say, this kind of working in my world is actually fun!

I'll post again later if I get anymore layouts done tonight!

PS I'm thanking the angels that were watching over us earlier...we were cruising towards dinner and some jerk was coming at us, in our lane, passing in a no passing zone on a 2 lane road, at about 55mph, during rushhour traffic.....it was almost ugly, but thankfully Erik was paying attention and was able to move us safely off the road and to a complete stop (quickly) and thankfully there was no one behind us...or we'd have gotten hit from there too. Talk about heart stopping....

Welcome....

It's February 1st already....time FLIES I tell ya. I'm starting this blog, in hopes of displaying my crafty creations here, (and probably lots of random ramblings too!). I'm gonna try to update it when I take pics of layouts, projects, etc...and when I create digi-pages worthy of being seen!

I'm playing in the LOAD (Layout A Day) challenge with Lain Ehmann (from Simple Scrapbooks), so I thought I'd start this blog with my first layout for the month, and we'll see where it goes! I pulled a late one last night, and got lots of files sorted and organized on my puter (still need another external though) and got 2 digi-pages done!

Here's the one I submitted for LOAD today: Credits: QuickPage (Cardamome), Word Art (elegant_WA), Font: SP Purkage

Here's the other one I did last night:

Credits: A Year In Our Ordinary Life Templates (Jessica Sprague), Cardboard BG Paper (JHI, Scrap Girls), Orange BG Paper & Blue Clip (Monica Guerra Leiria), J Journal Tab (Anna Aspnes), Font: Arial

And here's one last layout for today...I did this one a few weeks ago, but haven't posted it anywhere, so thought I'd share! The pics were taken in April 2006...it seems like forever ago!
Credits: Quickpage (Holly), Stinker Green Alpha (Krystal Hartley), Font: Pea Jenny

Thanks for looking! I'm off to help the girl work on some Valentine's Day cards! I hope everyone is having a great day!