JUST SO YOU KNOW

I haven't really forgotten about all you people in blogland. I'm just obessing this kitchen project. AND work has been super busy. We hired a new director and he doesn't have an assistant yet, so I'm his assistant till 10/1/07..... included his job is event coordinator for an event I know nothing about! NOT FUN and very busy!!! So, just wanted to let you know, that we haven't started on the kitchen yet, but we're planning like crazy.

Granite countertops,
new applicances
tile backsplash
new floors (ceramic tile)
paint

Then for the living room/dining room:
new hardwoods
new paint
new couch/loveseat/endtables/lamps

ALL of which have to coordinate in some way since it's an open floor plan!

Wish me luck!

I know you think I've forgotten you .......

but I haven't. I just haven't felt inspired to blog anything.

Nothing new happening around the house yet. Expecting a concrete quote any day now. Can't wait for that figure. Been looking at tile/hardwood/counter tops a little. We've decided on the hardwood and counter top and probably the tile, but I'm not sold on it yet. And I can't decide on backsplash tile.... I want something that coordinate with my countertop, but I'm having a hard time picturing it from a small little chip. I'm sure it'll come together soon. I'm hoping to get the countertop and new sink soon and then the tile on the floor and backsplash. I think new countertops will make a world of different in the look of our kitchen. Our kitchen is pretty blah now, butcher block counter top.... no color what so ever!

Maybe I'll get up enough nerve to post a before picture and then an after picture. We'll see!

More later!!

Wow! It's been a while

Nothing big happening in my life........ other than

Eventually our house is going to be a wreck!!!! We're planning on a putting in a huge amount of conrete (like a full basketball court!) and then some landscaping (hopefully can do that myself - when it cools off!) and then my beloved hardwood floors. We've been saving forever for some of this and some of it will have to be a loan. We just can't do all that on our own. I hate having borrowing money, but that will so pay off in the long run - an investment. Oh yea, plus the hardwoods I'm getting new counter tops and a new sink and eventually new couch!!! YEA. I so need it all. My counter tops are so dated and fugly! I really want a deep sink - my mom sold me on this when she got hers. It's great!!! And all the flooring in our house needs replacing so, hardwoods here we come. The concrete is a Steve thing. We are pouring about 41 yards .... what, thats HUGE!!!!! But it will be nice to be able to use that space for more than just grass cutting.

I've finished all my consigned project. Should start working on craft fair projects soon. I dropped out of the Livery Stables, I just could keep up with the seasonal things. I think I'm keeping some cards up there since they sold really well. I really just want to concentrate this year on craft fairs and Christmas presents.

Work is work ....... lots of changes, new challenges, just stuff.

I've been keeping up with Christy Tomlinson blog.... have you? http://christytomlinson.typepad.com/ She's been giving great tips and information about make-up. She recently used a "minerals" make-up similar Bare Essentuals and loved it. So much that she hooked her readers up with a make-up rep. Then she's turned us on to E.L.F makeup, which I think I've seen at KMart, but on this site the makeup was only $1.00. Can you imagine? I bought $14.50 worth of stuff, including a set of makeup brushes, cause I soooooo need to replace all of mine! Anyways, take a look at her site, it's fun.

Gotta run to a meeting, blog ya more later!

Up to my ears in consignment projects

I have 4 clipboards I'm trying to complete by tomorrow and a 11 x 8.5 baby book - boy..... you know how I struggle with boy stuff. Although with an 11 x 8.5, it should be all good.... more room to play with than the 8x8. The client wants some 4x6 mats and some 5x7 mats.... mostly by the month with a few "extra" pages thrown in! Need lots of rubons to do "month" 1, etc..... I'd love to run up tot MIB tomorrow while by boards are drying, might try that pretty early, so I can come home and clean/laundry and then deliver the boards to my best buddy.

Wanted to share some recent pictures, but blogger is being bad. Let me try just one at a time.

Nana, Em & Me

Me and Em being silly!!!

I had another to share, but can't get the orientation to stick, so I'll have to upload it using blogger, maybe Monday.

Have a great weekend!!!!!

Great Weekend.........

Just wanted to say thanks to the ladies at Scrappuccino's for hosting such a wonderful National Scrapbooking Day celebration. I had such a good time!!!! If DH hadn't made plans for us for that afternoon, I could have stayed to 9:00 that night (of course I'd probably be outside on the sidewalk, but as long as I was cropping, I would have been happy!) I love working at the store. Such a fun enviroment!

So, I got 3 12 x 12 pages done and one 11 x 8.5 page (for Tracie Claiborne - scroll to the bottom for the layout). I was on 2001 pictures. DD was so cute!!!

I used these for one of my layouts of Halloween that I need to fit a lot of pictures on (all the pictures were cute, so I couldn't pick!!!). It worked so well. I hadn't thought about using the few templates I have in a year or two, but wow... they saved my sanity on that page!! And let me tell ya, I paid a lot more that $2.00 for them!!!

I'm sad to see Deluxe Design so away. I've always liked them, especially for these templates and their diecuts. I love going to the coventations and buying a whole bunch of them! Now that they are going out of business, I find myself hording those die cuts because I'm afraid I won't ever get another one!!!!

Gotta run!
Busy week. Say a prayer for me. I'm teaching ladies "Historical Scrapbooking" Wed, Thurs and Friday!!!

All about our wedding....

1. Where/How did you meet? We grew up in the same town, but a couple years apart. He went to a different school, etc. So we offically met at Union Hill Drag Strip. I was going out with someone else, we was trying to met my friend. We all ended up at my parents house, they were out of town and the next day, my friend made me tell him she had a boyfriend. He then started calling me to go out. We went out the next week. That was May 1990.


2. How long have you known each other? 17 yrs... talking, but always knew "who each other was".


3. How long after you met did you start dating? A week


4. How long did you date before you were engaged? 5 months


5. How long was your engagement? 11 months


6. How long have you been married? almost 16 yrs



7. What is your anniversary? September 7

8. How many people came to your wedding reception? 100 or so



9. What kind of cake did you serve? Traditional white cake with white icing. Grooms cake was chocolate with a UT theme


10. Where was your wedding? Nashville

11. What did you serve for your meal? No meal, just fruit, ham biscuits, cake, punch


12. How many people were in your wedding party? 8


13. Are you still friends with them all? Yes, most of them. My maid of honor is still my best friend. I talk to 2 of 3 of my brides maids about every other month, sometimes more. The bestman was my hubby's brother. We talk to at least one of his groomsmen every couple of week and the other periodically.


14. Did your spouse cry during the ceremony? No, he was too nervous.


15. Most special moment of your wedding day? Hmmm, I don't really remember. The day was a blur. Now, I'm grateful for pictures I had made with my grandparents since they aren't living anymore.


16. Any funny moments? Me walking around in shorts, button up shirt, house shoes and my veil. The best was on the video though, DH had an itch in a "manly" place. When everyone was praying, we moved up on the stage some and he decided it would be a good time to stratch his itch. As soon as he did, he looked up with the deer in the head light look cause we had a video camera set up at the front of the sancuary to get our faces, it caught a lot more!!!!!


17. Any big disasters? Not that I know of or remember.



18. Where did you go on your honeymoon? Panama City Beach FL




19. How long were you gone? 6 days, was suppose to be 7, but we got homesick......



20. If you were to do your wedding over.... for my first, I'd do nothing different, other than the brides maid dresses, I'd pick something else.

21. What is your song? Don't think we had one.



22. Describe your wedding dress: Straight, off the shoulders with "flowers" on the shoulders.


23. What kind of flowers did you have at your wedding? LOTS AND LOTS of really flowers. The accent color was purple. We had lots of white flowers with purple accents and a little pink.

24. Other interesting details: My photographer was from Sweden. He took great pictures (very expensive, but great!) and he made the funniest noises to get people to smile! His wife did the video. And our flowers were beautiful. I love flowers and I wanted a lot of them. We got married in a Methodist church, which wasn't our church, because I wanted a center aisle to walk down.

*** Consider yourself tagged. Leave me a comment so I can read about your wedding!!!*****

By the way, the pictures of the frame above is the only picture I have of us at work. I was looking at my hair stylist..... I was surpise she came!!

Mocha

So, it's been forever since I've blogged and I'm gonna be sad. Sorry!

See that sweet face? That's Mocha and this morning he went to play in doggy heaven. I think he was about 7 yrs old. And at this very moment, we aren't sure what happended to him. All we know is that his body stopped making blood and we'll, you know what happens when you don't make blood. You get reallllllllllly sick. It started about a month ago. His right eye became discolored, bulging and pretty gross. He spent 3 days at the vet and they said he probably suffered some sort of head injury/eye trama. More than likely cause by our other dog, Koda. They play pretty rough - both 90lb labs. Anyways, that got better then Tuesday, the left eye started looking funky. DH put Mocha in the garage to keep him from the other dog getting to rough. That was Wednesday around 4:00 pm., by 5:30 pm, he was a sick puppy, having a hard time breathing and looking sick. I called the vet and they said to watch him and to take him to the Emergency Vet if he got worse. He didn't really get worse that I could tell, but he wasn't getting better either. DH stayed home yesterday morning to take him to the Vet. The vet said heart worms at first, then he said rat poisioning and then this morning when the vet came him, he was much worse and wouldn't/couldn't even stand. They said we said two options. Send him to Knoxville Vet School or put him down. We opted to put him down, not knowing if he'd ever get better. At this moment, all we know is that his body wasn't making blood. They did a mini-autopsy and didn't find anything. The lab is doing more work, free of charge, because they are so baffled at what happened. Plus, we are concerned it could be enviromental and we have another dog in the same yard, plus my house dog. So, love your pet today and tell them you love them! Somehow I knew if would end up like this, I told DD to tell him by and that she loved him yesterday morning cause we never know what could happen.

Wow - two in a row!!!

I went to Scrapn' Memories yesterday during lunch with the girls. It was fun. I spent money (imagine that!) and got one of the two patterns I'm using for a wedding album. My friends Beth talked me into making a wedding album for her to give as a gift. If you know me, I hate doing wedding albums. But this one is going to be very simple and elegant. So maybe I won't stress over it too much.

I'm going to the ScrapHouse in Joelton this weekend - I can't wait. I'm so looking forward to getting this wedding album done and working on stuff for Em. I'm so far behind in her books. And I thought with digital cameras it would be so easy to get pictures printed, but since I see them instantly, I don't print as often as I should, so I'm even behind on getting pictures printed! Crazy!!!! I've got pictures in my cart at winkflash and I need to order them.... maybe I'll do that this afternoon!

I made a yummy roast yesterday. Goodness it was yummy. I was a great cut of meat. We had sweet potoatoe casserole (with marshmellows), carrots, green beans and butter noddles with it. GREAT supper in my opinon! I've got a little roast left, so I'm going to attempt to make veggie soup with it.... never made that before, if you've got a good receipe, please share it!

More later!!!

It's been a while ....... sorry

Nothing exciting to report on .... really boring at my house. We did go to Memphis March 9 & 10. That was fun. Graceland & Elvis was interesting. We had to visit for Em's school project. Now, I've got to get the pictures developed and the poster made - oops, she has to make the poster (yea right!) and write her report. She also has a report due Monday on James and the Giant Peach (a book report). She's doing well at school. Of course, we constantly harp on her. She really could care less if she makes good grades or not! Well, let me rephrase that. She likes to make good grades, but doesn't like to work at it. And she has to work at it. It doesn't come natural to her (guess what, it didn't me either). The only thing that comes pretty easy for her is English/Language. She struggles at Math and Reading (she can read, it's the comprension that she struggles with). Anways, mostly A's & B's on her report card... I can't complain too much!


I going on a SCRAP-RETREAT this weekend! Just the girls. I can't wait to spend 24 hours scrapping with people who want to do nothing but scrap and eat! How much fun is that!!!
I'll try to post pictures next week!

Today is the first day of spring.... my favorite time of the year! Happy Spring to everyone!


Gotta run....... more later!

Nothing exciting!

I shipped out my stuff to the consignment store Friday (see link below). She got it Saturday and called yesterday to tell me she loved my paper bag albums. She (Dawn) doesn't think the 6x6 "hard" books will sell for $40, but there's a lot of work and time in those things. She's probably right. She knows her clintel better than I do.
http://www.funtiquesconsignment.com/index.html


Nothing exciting going on. Went to the NWTF convention this past Saturday. Saw some "hunting" celebrities. It's funny. Reminds me of scrapbooking!

This weekend we're headed to Memphis to visit Graceland. Em has a report due first of April about a historic TN place. She picked Graceland. Fun ......

Gotta run and read blogs :-)

More later!

Birthday; Valentines; Scrapbooking; Tax Time

So, my birthday was last week. We celebrated with my parent on Sunday, the 11th. Chinese buffet and Red Velvet Cake - after this birthday, no more celebrations .... no more birthdays. I'm stuck for the rest of my life at 36!!!! See, that's only 4 away from 40 and I'm having a hard time with 40. I've already started panic mode ... only 4 more years and I'll be 40! YEEEKKK!!!
It was a good birthday. I got money - more on what I do with it later in the post.

Valentines is the day after my birthday, so really they are combined. I don't blame DH for doing that, I probably would too if it were me! So, DD got money and a small box of chocolates since I knew she was getting a lot of candy from her party. On Valentines, the 4th grades classes at her school had a singing program. My little Em stole the show (in my opinon). They sang classic love songs and that sounded really good. Some of the songs had some dancing with them and we all know that Em loves to dance. She was on the front row and really getting into the dancing. During the last song, I heard a few comments on the little girl on the front row having rhythm. That's my girl! After the show I had a few friends ask where she got it and it's not from me. Must be the good dance genes that skipped me! Everyone kept coming up to her telling her how well she did and how good she danced. I don't think she realized she was the only putting so much effort into the dancing. She asked "Why does everyone keep coming up to me telling me I did good?" Too cute! I video taped the performance and then we bought a DVD. Good memories!

I'm taking a few days break from scrapbooking..... maybe. It seems when I get home, I don't want to scrapbook. It's too cold in my area of the basement. I don't like going down there and freezing. So I'm not motivated. I did make some cute cards that I copied from a card magazine yesterday using scraps, which is always a good thing. But not much scrapbooking, although I took off Friday and really planned on working hard this weekend. I did however make a major purchase this weekend! I put my deposit down on a Silhouette! I can't wait for it to come in! Now, just to figure out where to put it!

Taxes are down. I did them myself. Just to have them double checked by a friend and they are ready to be submitted!

Gotta run .... more later!

My life is so boring

that I don't even have anything to blog about. We'll at least not anything I want the world to know! :-)

I have been working pretty hard on getting some paper bag albums, cards and other things ready for the lady in Murfreesbboro. I need about 3 more paper bag albums to feel like I'm giving her something she can sell. I need to call her, because I'm not sure how she want to handle the cards - individuals or several packaged together.

I did make two "tear bears" this weekend. Did you see them when they were huge? I mean some of these cute little bears sold for $100's on ebay! They are cute, but not that cute!!!

These little guys are cute. I just found them on ebay - 1scrapbooklane is the creator. Mine aren't this cute yet, but they are cute. Her's are much fuzzier than mine. I did find out that different color handmade paper tears differently. The white I used was much easier to tear.

As soon as I get my cards scanned, I'll post them. They are very simple, except the bears.

New CLIP Board

This is a clipboard I did before Christmas - commissioned piece. I made two of them, very similar. They were for our Viking Jr. Pro program. The lady who commissioned them was putting a 4x6 picture in them and giving them to deserving moms who helped her through out the season. They turned out okay - I guess. I've done better and seen a lot better!


More later! (I've figured out how to published pictures from Picasa to blogger .... easy as pie!) 

Dentist & Purging

So, two post in two days ...... how's that? I must have something on my mind!!! :-)


I had to go to the dentist yesterday ....... $395.00 visit. What the heck, right? Well, call me having a new crown $395.00! Thats after my insurance pays for 1/2! So, I sit here today with a sore tooth (not really that bad) and a temp crown that is GOLD! How funny! Anyway, I hate the dentist. I hate having anything done to my mouth! I'd rather have 10 yearly exam than go through what I'm going through now! No kidding!

On to something more fun ..... purging. I'm purging my stash! And I've discovered something. I love paper! HA-HA-HA! Really I have so much paper that I'll probably never use. I went through it and pulled out a lot of "older" stuff. But I still need to go through it again. I've decided that I love kits ...... it's so nice to have the pattern paper and solids all together. I wish I could sell all my paper and start over with only kits! Just think of all the cool embellishments I'd have! Anyways, I brought a lot of paper in and several of the ladies bought it. I made about $45! I'm either saving for a Cricut or a new Quickutz tool .... can't decide which yet!

I made the cutest "girl friends" paper bag album for the consignment store in Murfreesboro. The first of many. If I can get 6 done by Jan 31 .... I'll be sitting happy. The "girl friends" book took me 3 days to complete (oh yea, I need a few ribbons on the spine, but that all) so, if I have a book every 3 days, I'll have 6 done! Then I need to do a receipe box and a paint can and some card. Which I've made 5 cards in the past few days too! I'll take picture of the girl friends book soon. I used some K&Company paper (Neapolitan line) and it's sooooo cute! I made some b-day cards to match using scraps. How cool would it be to receive a present with a matching card?!?!?!?!

More later - and hopefully pictures!

Okay, so I'm a terrible blogger. I must confess, I get all up tight when the blogs I read aren't updated regularly and here I am, not EVER updating mine!

I'm at work today, no holiday for me! DD is at Nana's, DH is a work also and I have a dentist appointment today.

Not much going on. I did have someone contact me about putting some of my products in a consignment sale in Murfreesboro. I'm going to try it. So I'm knee deep in make cards, paper bag albums and paint cans (that's what she wanted). I don't know if I'll be able to make any more off the stuff or not. There's a split on the sales between me and the owner of the consignment shop. We'll see how it goes. I have to have all the product ready by mid-Feb! UGH! Gotta get working!

Nothing fun happen on the home front. Pretty boring life!

Gotta run!

Can you believe it!!?!?!?!?

I got an email yesterday morning from ScrapIt! One of our LSS's. It's so sad they are closing their store! It's one of my favorites. I didn't get by there as much as I wanted, but they are kinda on the wrong side of town from me, but anytime I was over that way, I'd stop. It's sad when a store closes .... I'll miss them!!!

WOW! It's been a while!!!!! Happy New Year

So, I'm not sure why it's been almost a month since I posted last. Probably because I like to post with pictures and I don't have any new ones to show ...... so no post!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Last year seemed to fly by! 2006 came and went soooooo fast. I can't believe its 2007 and I'm almost a year older!

So, what did you get for Christmas? I got (from DH) a $75 gift certificate to Scrappuccino's and the EK Success Disney book. From mom & dad I got the QK Sunshine set and a Xyron 900, with and extra cartridge, plus a few cartrides for my 500 model. YEA! I also got clothes, towels, earrings, perfume and some other cool stuff! Em racked up ..... PS2, Karoke machine, Ipod Nano, American Girl and Bitty Baby stuff, CD's out the wazoooo, clothes, jewerly box ..... lots and lots. Steve got money - that's what he wanted. He's going on a guided hunt next year, so he's trying to save every bit of extra money he can to pay cash for it! (good for him!)

It was a great Christmas and so nice to have off almost 11 days straight. I cleaned out my closet, cleaned up some of the basement, took stuff to the daycare, gave clothes away to someone who's house burned down ....... nice to have that done. And the basement is getting cleaned so we can start working on building a wall and sheetrocking my scrap studio! YEA!!!!


I might have pictures soon. I should have already downloaded them off the card, but I was lazy when it came to spending time on the computer. I didn't even check my checking account and it was hurting when I looked this morning ...... :-)!

Gotta run and work on the above mentioned problem. More later!