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!

READING

This is something I really enjoy. (hope it's rubbing off on my child!). I have many, many favorite authors. But I really like: Patricia Cornwell, James Patterson and John Sanford. There are several "romance" authors I like also: Nora Roberts, Jude Deveraux, Sandra Brown and many others. I just finished Patricia Cornwell's PREDATOR. Very gripping... gotta finish it now kind of book. I read it in about 3 days, all 453 pages of it. Of course, my boss as been out of the office, so I've read a lot at work. I finished it today. I'm not picking up another book till I finish my last 8x8 book (should go pretty fast though). I hope to get most of it done this weekend. I really want to deliver it by Dec 15. I also need to get Em's teacher present done too. An altered clipboard.

My friend, Beth, has had a loss in her family. Her 15 yr old nephew was in a car accident and has died. He was at Vanderbilt in the trauma unit for a couple of days and they declared him clinically dead this morning. The family is donating his organs - or at least what organs they can. They are almost for sure his Liver will be used ...... not sure about heart or kidneys yets. Waiting on testing. Very sad, he would have turned 16 next week. BUT, one good thing is that in his family of 5, he was the only one to go to church. His youth minister had one kid saved last night because of this accident and anticipates more at the funeral. It appears that his nephew made a huge impact on his church youth group and didn't even know it! God always has a plan!

More later!

If you need someplace to go Christmas Eve .....

http://www.thegatheringnashville.com/christmas_eve_ryman.html

This would be cool.

Going to a crop tonight

YEA! I have't been in ages! I really need a night out. I thought about working on a gift album for a friend, but I think I want to work on Em pictures. She's the light of my life, seeing her makes me smile. Sometimes I just need that - don't we all. Honestly, sometime she wears me so much. Our mornings are rough, I fuss at her, even spanked her one morning for talking back. It was a terrible morning. Then yesterday, a perfect angel. This morning was almost as good. NICE ...... love easy mornings!

I read a good Elizabeth Lowell book this week. The Wrong Hostage. Quick read, easy to understand- other than it uses a lot of Spanish. But it's still a quick read. Now I'm reading (at work --- shhhh!) a Judy Deveraux book - High Tide - pretty good so far.

Gotta run! Have a good weekend!

Thanksgiving update

We have such a low key Thanksgiving that I don't even take pictures ...... so in Em's books it'll look like we don't celebrate Thanksgiving. Actually, the past two years, Steve has worked. Last year I think he got off a little early, but this year he didn't get off till 4:15, so he didn't get to eat with us. We couldn't wait .... :-)

I've had 8 clipboard orders and 2 8x8 album orders - I've got one clipboard completely finished and delivering today. I've got 3 about 90% done, two 85% done, one 70% done and one planned. Two of those HAVE to be finished this week!!! And of course one of those is the "planned" one. I really do have a plan and once I get two sheets of specific paper, I'll be good to go. The 8x8 albums will go quickly, I've got one of them almost done and I'll just copy of the other from it, so it'll go fast! Then I might have 3 more orders for clipboards and have Em's teachers clipboard to do. I think I might start on it this week sometime, at least get some of it done.

Business if okay. Could be better, but I could also be putting more effort in it. I didn't realize how unproductive I could be if I HAVE to be productive. I work better when it come naturally. Plus I'm not one for getting things done early - I tend to wait ............. not good when you have a scrapbooking for you business and work full-time. Just like 6 of these clipboards, I've had those orders for at least a month or more and I've only been working on them for the past two weeks. Why do I wait? Cause it's my personality!

Gotta run, more later!

Rose, Cream, Brown......

Thats the colors of the baby album I'm working on for a client. Then another for a boy, sage green, black&white and blue ..... another easy one, huh? I thought the rose, cream and brown would be easy, but not really - at least for babies it's not that easy. I'm going to have to adapt something. Right now I have the vintage hip from Making Memories on my desk trying to decide if thats okay. I think some of it will work. I plan on using very little of the pattern paper and a lot more solids, with just a hint of pattern paper .... what do you think? The boy album - I'm not sure...... not to mention my 5 dance clipboards! Those are wearing me out!!!

OH YEA - I found my gold/purple stripes ...... I couldn't believe it! A store in OH - Scrapbook Superstore. I had to call Scrappin Sports and they told me the paper was discontinued, but hasn't been for long. The last store to make an order was th Scrapbook Superstore and they probably would have some .... oh yea - they do, plus the solid cardstock that goes with it! YEA! I bought 15 sheets of the stripes and 10 each of purple and gold that match! I'm so stoked!

Gotta run, gotta leave for a dr appointment and I'm trying to figure out when I can sneak in a HL run cause they have their rub-ons on sale!

Titans pictures

Em danced 10/29 with the Jr. Titans during the Houston game (which they actually won!). It was the Halloween game, so the girls wore halloween mask. It was a cute dance. Here's some shots!

Em and Shannon, her coach!

Game day - our tired Titan cheerleader. Isn't the hair cute!!! See the white barrett? Thats because she cute her hair back before Easter and its growning out. It's long enough now that it's very noticable that it's not the length as everything else! I needed a brown one, but couldn't find one at the house.

On the field performance! She's the "line leader" standing on the 30 yard line! I was so pround, she did really good and I think she smiled the whole time - which is a challenge for her, she concentrates so hard. But she had the moves and they were GREAT!

Halloween Pictures

What a terrible shot of our pumpkins, but I did get some good shots of them individually using my new mono-pod.

I've been trying for weeks to upload pictures into blogger, what gives! I'll try to post more in this entry and then a few more in other entries.

Here's our Victorian Vampire! Isn't she cute! Check out these shots (doctored in Picasa!)

Cards; Titans; Halloween

I'm on a card kick. I'm really enjoying making cards, not stamped cards, cause those never turn out like I want them too, but paper crafting cards. (Sorry Teresa B if you're reading). I recently made some of the cutest birthday card out of some stuff I bought a while ago, but never had used. REALLY cute! I think thats what I like about making cards, I can use up old stuff, although I always need more stuff! My mom and I have been making Christmas cards. She's making the "base" and I'm embellishing them. Thats really hard though, cause I'm not sure exactly what she had in mind when I get them. AND if I want to put eyelets or brads in, I have to "undo" her gluing - and she uses a UHU glue stick, so it's not always that easy to undo! Anyways, I think I like the card making because its a quick fix. Sometimes when I'm on crunch to get a scrapbooking project done, I feel unmotivated to do any scrapbooking, but making the cards and seeing the results almost immediately helps me get my motivation back. Plus, I really need to get some Christmas and Thanksgiving stuff up at the Livery Stables. My sports clipboard haven't sold yet, but I'm thinking about doing a baby's first Christmas and just a plain Christmas one.

This weekend is the weekend Em cheers/dances with the Titans. Please pray for semi-warm weather. Her uniform is really too small to wear a turtleneck with, but I was too cheap to buy another this year (they are changing next year for sure). So the warmer the better for her sake.

Can you believe that Halloween is Tuesday night. I can't believe this month has gone by so fast. Gosh! I love Halloween, but unfortunely, with our labs, we can't put out much decorations. Basically we have pumpkins on the porch Halloween night, even though we aren't home. But I love carving them and will probably do that this weekend sometime!

Gotta run! More later!

My donations

Em's school has a "Cougar Day" every year for one of their major fundraisers. Of course, this is our first involvement, but I have friends that went there, so I remember it from them talking about it (20 yrs ago). They ask each family to donate at least 2 things for the auction and 1 baked good. I figured putting some scrapbooking items in might boost my business. I'm donating an 8x8 album. (think I talk about this in another blog - sounds familiar - I'm losing my mind!!!) It's orange, pinks, brown, turquoise. Very cute, "friend" themed. If I were selling it, I'd have to sell it for at LEAST $50.00, but probably start out with $65.00 on it. I have at least $30.00 of product in it. Lots of flowers, rubons, bling, etc. I'm also donating a "cougar" themed clipboard - yellow, blue and white. Cute. My mom made two fall themed wreaths to be donated and two small Christmas things. I don't think I'm going to put the two Christmas things in it. You have to tag everything with the resell value, mim and max bid. I'm not sure what to put on everything yet. Have to think about it some. Maybe next year I can have a booth in the craft fair part of it. This year since we were new, I wasn't sure if they were going to have them (for a couple years that didn't have booths - but I think people really like them and it brings in outside people). Maybe next year mom and I can share a space and have scrapbooking items and flower arrangements. And if I start making things now, maybe I can have some school albums done, which I think would sell well!

Gotta run!
Christy

This weekend was nice!

What did I do this weekend you ask? I made about 14 cards. YEA ME!!! It was fun. I made birthday cards Friday night and Thank You cards Saturday night. DH worked night shift, so he was sleeping or gone and DD was with Nana and Grandaddy Friday for a while and then at a friend's house Saturday. I worked Friday night till about 11:00 and probably till 11:00 Saturday night. I didn't scan any yet, but I will and then I'll post some of them. My mom has even gotten the bug. She wants to use stamps on her cards (mine are more papercrafting cards - no stamps). She's going to make Christmas cards. I'll probably make some too ... her's will be more classy. Mine'll be "fun"! cards.

More later ............

Wow; it's been a long time!

So long in fact, that I had to enter my login and password to get into blogger!!! Isn't that funny!

I've really not had much to say, so I've decided to take a small break from blogging. I still don't have much to say, but thought you might like to hear that I'm okay. Cheerleading is full blown; school is crazy. Em did do good on her report card; Three A's; two B's and a C (in reading of all things!). And I'm jonesing to scrapbook again. All is good!!!!

Is she really mine?

I'm thinking lately, is my daughter really mine? I think they might have got her and another baby mixed up in the nursey (honestly, I know she is). She is so not my child. I think I made pretty good grades in school, especially in elementary school to please my parents. Em just doesn't care. How can I motivate her? I tell her that I'm disappointed in her grades, I love her dearly and will forever and ever, but I disappointed that she doesn't make better grades! I see very little evidence of her "trying" to do better. And her grades are sooooooo mixed. She came home with a pile of graded papers and they ranged from 50's to 100's. Quite a few A's, lots of B's, some C's, and 2 F's. What!!!! A 50 on a Reading test, what the heck? Reading, come on, the child can read. Actually before she left public school she was testing at a 5 grade reading level! But now she make a 50! I think its all comprehension. Doesn't that come with age. Seems to me that comprehension was something I struggled with too. I use to read thing several times to "get it". But come one a 50! Of course if you miss 5 questions out of 10, what does that leave you? And all along I thought reading was what she did best!!!!! Such a disappointment! I'm really just sad and have no idea what to say to her to get her to try her best. She says she does, but I'm just not sure. Is there an adjustment period she needs to go through? Going from public to private school? Gosh after getting those grades I was thinking ....... will she make it? Maybe she needs a military school? :-)

Lets face it, I don't have a genius on my hands, unfortunely! She has just enough of me in her to make her an A/B/C student (I even made some D's!) and enough of her Dad in her to not care! What a deadly combination!!!!

This too shall pass...........

In a month our Saturday's get crazy.......

Em cheers on Saturday's. If you read the previous post, you'll see that this past weekend was the first game of the season. But starting in October, she'll be cheering for the Vikings AND practicing for her cheering stunt with the Titans. Last year we signed her up for the Jr. Titan Cheerleading program. She loved it and fell instantly in love with the coach, Ms. Chasity (honestly, who wouldn't - you can check her out at http://www.titansonline.com/team/cheerleaders/bio.php?PRKey=8) She's really pretty! She's excited to do it again this year. But starting Oct 14 we have a game from 12:30 - 2:00 and then Titan practice from 3:00 - 6:00, again Oct 21 and again Oct 28 with the performace being Oct 29. She did soooo good last year. We learned last year that we could bring our video camera, tape the routine and let her practice. That helps a lot. Here's some picture of her last year (incase you missed them in last years post) Oh yea, on top of that Oct 14 cheerleading crazyness, we also have a school fundraiser that I've signed up to volunteer for.


She's the one in front with the big smile and cute red ribbons!

What I did this 3 day weekend!

Not much! YEA! I love weekends were I do have a lot to do. Friday night, Em had gymnastics and then we met her friend Lac at a little carnival at Em's old school. Lac spent the night Friday night. They didn't go to bed till around 1:00. Had football games in White House on Saturday. We had to be there at 12:00. The girls were up by 8:00. I got them ready and we were gone by 11:00. We got to the game and Em's team 9/10 yr old lost and then Steve's team 11/12 team lost also. Lac went home with her mom and we went home. Of course Saturday morning I woke up sneezing my head off, allergy season is kicking in! I was tired and sleepy when we finally got home. Sunday Em and I straightend up the house and waited for Lac to call (she wanted her to come play). We went down my friend Mary Jo's house late Sunday. Lac called and Em went with her to a cook out. She got home around 10:00pm. Monday, Steve went to work. I slept till 8:30, Em slept till 10:00am! I watched CSI: Miami all day on the A&E channel! I mean like 8 hours of it! I did laundry and read during commericals. I love that show! I think finally toward the end of the day I saw one that I had seen before. Lac came over while her mom went shopping for a computer, so she pretty much stayed out of my hair. I finally went to bed around 10:30 and it was hard getting up at 5:00am this morning (which I didn't, I got up around 5:30)

What I didn't do: Scrapbook! I just couldn't get in it. I've got two pages to complete for a gift album and it will be finished. The I need to start on a quickalbum for the same girl to keep her ultrasound picture in. She's had like one a month since she found out she was pg. (She's almost 40 and they thought she couldn't get pg! - miracle baby!) Then I've got to start some project for the either the craft fair or the Livery Stables. I'm not sure yet what I want to do! It's so hard to stayed motivated when you work full-time and then have the extra activities to handle. I think I'm putting too much pressure on myself. I keep thinking what it was like last year trying to get things ready for the craft fair .......... I was pooped by the time it go here and I didn't make that much money at it!!!! Yea, I'm whinning, so I'm signing off!

More later .........