Digital Day Planner Pages

I always need something in front of me that says THIS IS DUE TODAY and I am tired of just little post it notes because obviously that system has it's flaws. So today I used Jessica Sprague's Echos of Asia kit downloaded from Creating Keepsakes to make up some cute little day planner pages with the kids on them.

What do you think? Am I getting any better at this digital stuff?

Little cards

Cynthia over at ScrapAddicts made the cutest little cards for all of her co-workers and I loved them so much I had to make some little cards myself. I made up a set of "thinking of you" cards for my friend Jeanine at IDOS. I thought they would be great for putting in lunch pails and brief cases.

Thanks for the inspiration!

Day 1 of Lent is over

39 left to go.

I gave up sweets and unhealthy snacks for Lent. It is a difficult thing for me to give up and I am really hoping that if I can get through 40 days of it, that it will become a habit and I will be making a good lifestyle change. I just eat way too much crap ((for lack of a better word)).

So 1 day down, it wasn't too bad. Afternoons are the worst, I just needed to find something else to do other than put food in my mouth so I called a friend and talked all afternoon. Much more productive than eating chips with nacho cheese dip.

Bored can you tell.

I haven't got much to say except I have a cold so I have been trying to stay away from the kids so they don't catch it. Nothing worse than sick kids. I figure 1 day of being a bad mommy is much better than 2 sick little boys.

I have been hanging out and trying to rest but I was bored today so I played with blogger. Still can't figure out how to put a cool picture in my header but I did make a slide show. :)

Hope you don't catch my cold!! I promise I washed this blog down with Lysol!

Looky what I found.

This is so much fun!! Make your own at the Card Catalog Generator. These would be fun to print out and use on layouts. Might have to try that.

Nothing much to say.

The weather is nasty. We are getting more snow. And as much as I love snow I hate that it is SO windy outside that I can't go out and play. And all of the snow that we have had this year has been super duper dry so it isn't even fun snow where you can go out and make a snowman or fort or even snowballs.

When is spring again?

So I will leave you with just some recent layouts.




"this BOY" based on a sketch by KadensMom at Scrapaddict.com.

New Digital Layout.

Still not sure if I am getting the drop shadows and stuff right but I am still trying (aka: playing).

Digital supplies:
Paper & Rick Rack: RAKScraps (Gwenevere Dupus)
Swirls and stars: Rhonna Farrer
Frame: Tia Bennet
Font: 2Ps Messy Etchy

My Wintery Self Portrait

Took this picture of myself the day we took the boys sledding. I did it right before I rode down the big hill. Thought it might be my last picture!! The paper and flowers from this layout are from the Black is a Happy Color kit from ScrapAddict.com. I took and cut out some snowflakes on my Wishblade and used them as a mask with some light blue paint to make the snowflakes and then used some Stickles in the open space to make them sparkle a little. Man I really love sparkly things!!

Getting to Know You!!! Version 2007

Welcome to the 2007 edition of getting to know your friends. What you are supposed to do is copy (not forward) this entire email and paste it onto a new email that you send. Change all the answers so they apply to you, and then send this to a bunch of friends including the person who sent it to you The theory is that you will learn a lot of little things about your friends if you did not know them already. Enjoy!!

AND IF YOU ARE READING CONSIDER YOURSELF TAGGED!!

1. What time did you get up this morning? 7:07am

2. Diamonds or pearls? Diamonds, definitely diamonds!!!

3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema? I really can't remember so it must have been a really good one!!

4. What is your favorite TV shows? CSI, Monk, House

5. What do you usually have for breakfast? yogurt

6. Favorite cuisine? Pizza!!

7. What are your middle names? Lynn Elizabeth

8. What food do you dislike? Melon

9. What is your favorite CD at the moment? I am an iPod gal so my favorite song is "Into the Ocean" by Blue October

10. What kind of car do you drive? GMC Yukon XL Denali

11. Favorite sandwich? tuna on toast with lettuce

12. What characteristic do you despise? know it alls who really don't

13. Favourite item of clothing? My jeans and t-shirts

14. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation? the grand canyon in an Airstream camper. That is what I want to do.

15. What color is your bathroom? Same yellow as my bedroom (at least it isn't white)

16. Favourite brand of clothing? CJ Banks

17. Where would you retire? I would love to come back to Iowa but I will be happy with someplace in the Midwest.

18. What was your most memorable moment? My wedding day, when my kids were born.

19. Favourite sport to watch? I have to be there in order to watch. I don't like to watch sports on TV, too much advertising.

20. Furthest place you are sending this? it's on the WWW so it could go to Mars for all I know?

21. Who do you least expect to send this back to you? Well I know a lot of people won't do it because they don't read my blog so they won't know about it. :)

22. Person you expect to send it back first? no one, I am posting it to my blog so others can post it to theirs!!!

23. Who is your favorite Super Hero? Wonder Woman of course.

24. When is your birthday? 6/24/73

25. Are you a morning person or a night person? I am more a morning person than a night owl.

26. What is your shoe size? 8ish depending on the shoe, I can do 7 1/2 too.

27. Pets? Beaker the Wonder Dog who is 11 1/2 years old.

28. What jobs have your held in your life? babysitter, cashier, stocker, Radiation Therapist, Xray Tech, librarian, mommy

29. What did you want to be when you were little? I just wanted to ride horses.

30. How are you today? Still waking up but ready for action. Feeling like I need to shop but I don't need anything.

31. What is your favourite lolly/sweets? chocolate

32. What is your favourite flower? tulips and lilacs

33. What is a date on the calendar you are looking forward to? the day that we move away from IOWA

34. What time is it? 8:05am CST

35. Piercing? 1 in each earlobe

36. Place of birth? Dubuque Iowa

37. Love someone/something so much it made you cry? yes

38. Favourite Restaurant? We eat out so often that I really don't have a favorite, I am happy when we just stay home.

39. Favourite Alcohol Drink? Smirnoff Apple or Berry

40. Favorite ice cream? any, as long as it has lots of stuff mixed into it and sauce on top!!

41. What color is your bedroom? the walls are like a really light buttery yellow and my spread is white with oak furniture.

42. Before this one, from who did you get your last e-mail? Automatic notification from Have Your Way With Paper that I have a personal message.

43. What do you do most often when you are bored? eat or surf the net

44. What is your dream car? pink VW convertible bug

45. Ford or Chevy? Well since I am a GMC girl I will have to say Chevy since they are siblings.

46. What are you listening to right now? Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and the boys playing

47. What is your favourite color? red

48. Which came first the chicken or the egg? Well you have to have an egg to get a chicken oh but wait no you have to have a chicken to get an egg but ....... MAN couldn't I just explain why the sky is blue?

49. Do you still mail REAL letters to you friends? Yes

50. What is the greatest place on earth? with my family!!

51. How would you react to a flat tire? I would be calm and call AAA that's what I pay them for.

52. Do you have any tattoos? none -- I am a big chicken and I would hate to see what it would look like on my saggy body in 50 years.

Omaha or BUST

Well lets just say Omaha was a BUST! We didn't even stay overnight, we drove right back home. Hubby had a doctor appointment at Offut AFB and since part of it was an eye exam and they were going to dilate his eyes we all packed up in the family truckster and rode along. The kids and I watched movies in the truck (and I finished a scarf for Darren) in the backseat while he was at his appointment. Much easier than trying to keep 2 kids entertained in a hospital while he is there. He got done at noon which I was disappointed because it took them forever and so I was worried we wouldn't have enough time to do the Children's Museum since they closed at 5pm.

We got to the Museum at 1pm and luckily they gave us 1/2 price admission for being military because I would have been really upset if we had paid all that money for that. I guess I got spoiled taking them to the one in Indianapolis last year (that museum was AWESOME). We finished this one in 45 minutes and that was going back and forth to the exhibits a couple of times. They had 2 huge areas of the museum closed for renovation and another exhibit was just a table that kids could do crafts at. There wasn't anyone there at the crafts table to help out and they didn't have any supplies except some 1/2 colored on sheets of copy paper and scissors. Their traveling exhibit was Sesame Street and you weren't allowed to take flash pictures in the exhibit (what is up with that!!!). So basically at 2pm the kids were starting to get tired and I looked at hubby and said "Let's just drive back home." And he agreed. We were thinking about coming back to go to the zoo when it is warmer but really I think we will save the money and go visit Chicago with the kids before we move because I know the museums there are fabulous!!

Say a little prayer for IDOS

It has been down now since the 21st or 22nd of December and Yahoo is no closer to figuring out what is wrong from the sounds of it. But one of our members made up some kits for the DT to use for January's challenge and I wanted to share it. The Paper Salon papers are so yummy!! I would have had it done sooner had I not redid the title 5 different times. I just couldn't get it to look like what I pictured in my head. And for ShadeyJ, I used some Stickles for my letters in my title!! I just LOVE me some Stickles!!

Thanks LubeQueen for the great kit!! :)