April at the Chalet.

April is going to be a VERY FUN MONTH at THE CHALET! We have this awesome Kit offering. I had so much fun playing with this kit. SO MUCH FUN I can't wait to order another one! The paper is by paperloft and is soooo stinkin cute. THe cardstock is the fabulous bazzil BLING! I LOVE THAT STUFF and Laura has a fabulous price on it! This kit is schlam full of goodies. Enough that I made this mini album. the purse and the page and STILL have enough left over IM gonna make another page. The chatterbox letters are so cute you can sand them so the embossed textures and scrolls come up. I inked them so they really popped out. This kit will be available april 1st so BE SURE YOU are on ready to get it. THEY WILL GO FAST! You can sign up in advance for kits by purchasing a 3 or 6 month pre purchase so that way YOU will be sure not to miss any of these kits. I had so much fun with this one I cant wait for the next.

The little mini album I made a story to go with the photos. It is based on the actual photo shoot but I made it into fairy tale style.
* The book and purse are NOT included in the kit but are made by 7 gypsies. I also added the heidi swapp (little letters) chipboard words to the cover and the arrow photo turns to show that you need to turn the book over to continue the story.

Everything else is in the kit.

I added the Basic grey magnets to the purse to hold the flap closed. Also the ric rak is from my stash.

On the BELLA BUG page everything is included in the kit except the photo turns and the bling dots. I also added the green cardstock mat.

I hope you enjoy looking at it as much as I enjoyed making it.

wheweew I did it!

I finally got my cubes all put together and my stuff put on it. This is just phase 2. We still have the island to be put together and then the table moved to the corner and the room painted. WHEHEWW. SO excited. Been waiting on this for quiet some time. Hubby found some AMAZING deal on some base cabinets and the countertop of course. I got the rest of the cubes on clearance some for christmas and birthday when they went on sale. been adding to them. Its sloowwwly getting there. as soon as it gets warm enough we can paint and put all that in. THen reorganize and be all set. NOW Im ready to go mess it all up scrapping HEHE!

OH MY GAWESH!!!

I JUST GOT MY FIRST KIT FROM THE CHALET and ALL I CAN SAY IS BLING CARDSTOCK FREAKIN ROCKS OUTLOUD! THIS IS SOOOOOOOO STINKIN CUTEEEEEEE HOLY COW!!! YALL ARE GOING TO FLIP OUT when you see these kits THEY ARE awesome I CANT GET OVER HOW MUCH WAS IN THIS BOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IM DROOLING I CANT WAIT TO SCRAP AND IM SUPPOSED TO BE CLEANING, HUBBY IS GONNA BE so MAD at ME... BUT OMG, BLING BABY BLING I LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT!!!!! I HAVE TO BUY ANOTHER ONE OF THESE cuz NO WAY YOU COULD GET ALL THIS FOR THE MONEY IF YOU JuST WENT AND BOUGHT IT OMGOSH!!! CANT GET OVER THE BLING!!!CHALET ROCKS OUTLOUD AND ONFIRE BABEEEYYYYYY! IT FEELS LIKE CHRISTMAS!! IM JUMPING AROUND SINGING WITH MY VIDEO!!!

LITTLE HELP FOR OUR FRIEND

If you all remember we are doing an auction to help Traelyn's daughter GABBY.
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO DONATE something to be AUCTIONED or if you want to purchase something that is being AUCTIONED. PLEASE just click on the links.

Gabby is doing well and is going to get to come home. A very big answered prayer. SHe still has a haul in front of her and her family. SO please keep them in your prayers and for more information. GO to SCRAPBOOK CHALET. You can just ask anyone there and we can get you any info you need.

A HUGE thank you to Laura and to Kat and Charlee for doing this for them. YOU GUYS WILL DEFINITLY WEAR GOLDEN BLINGED CROWNS SOME DAY. BIG HUGS TO YOU GUYS!
WE WELCOME YOUR SUPPORT ANYTHING YOU CAN DO TO HELP.

Here is the previous post regarding Traelyn and her daughter Gabby.

New creations

WHew, Just got finished with the two pages I had started. I was determined I would finish them tonight. I got this paper from the lss (It's not just scrap) here in Alabama (Semmes) Karla was so sweet and held some stuff for me (and Marcy too big hugs girly) They knew I wanted,so I could make the journey out there (wink) LOVED this Creative imaginations paper and the Imaginisce, the around the block brads are too fun! YOU KNoW IM ALL ABOUT some photo turns too, goes perfect with the photo! Bella is such a little ham! THanks Karla and crew. I guess it woulda been nice If I told you the journaling huh... IT says: KNOCK KNOCK.. WHO IS THERE? IRISH.. IRISH WHO? I RISH YOU WOULD KISS ME. (BElla thinks she is sooo funny and well I think so too haha)



(jouranling says: It was a scorcher of a day in late August. We went to a "back to school" Family day with our friends and neighbors David and Diane Carter. Bella her her first snow cone, a welcomed treat on such a hot day. August 2005)
This is the other new line of paper they got in from Imaginisce. SOO CUTE. YES I cut out all those flowers last night during a 3 hour tv watching spree. You can't see in the photo, but I pop dotted some of them for dimension. I will take a better photo tomorrow.(yes Jeanne I will photo it so you can see the blingage and the Bling cardstock and the flowers better heheh)
My hands are killin' me, but it was worth it. Love the dimension it adds. had to take my pain meds first time in quiet a while.. well I take that back, I had to take it when we had all the "tomatoe washings" haha (tornadoe watches/warnings that is what Bella calls them) My joints were all funky then too. Today it is just from play group being out in the sun (forgot my sunscreen like a dummy) and then all the running around we had to do yesterday, chasing Bella all over the place, then the scrap session I have done all this past weekend and this week getting all my projects finished up. snap! I just remembered I gotta finish my journaling on that other page... I keep putting it off because it is another one of my daddy pages and it just upsets me.. I will have to just sit down and do it and get it over with.
Good night yall out there in blog land. Hope you all have a beautiful fun Friday. I KNOW WE WILL. GOT BIG PLANS today and all weekend! I will tell ya more about it Later and show some photos :) OH I ALMOST FORGOT! GO check out the Chalet, On the design team page! SHe has my bio and my picture up with the other rockin girls (CANNOT BELIEVE MY NAME IS UP THERE WITH SOME OF THE MOST ROCKIN PEOPLE EVERRRRR!!!!) IM SO EXCITED! Be sure and say HI while your there! THis is a MAJOR dream come true and a HUGE opportunity to make a big dream come true!
Thanks for looking.

whats happnin'

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Here is a preview of "one" of the pages Im working on for the big project coming up. Im really excited about this and CANNOT WAIT to tell yall all the wonderful news. BUT, I cant yet. I cant leave this page up but for a couple days then i have to take it back down. BUT you can at least see what I have been working on :)

ALSO I made this for Miss Bella Bug:




This is for the Design Team I am on TREASURES TO SCRAP. Three bugs in a rug is the Dt featured sponsor for this month. SO be sure and check them out.

FOr the ones that need to hear it

"Bless your persecutors; never curse them, bless them. Rejoice with others when they rejoice, and be sad with those in sorrow. Give the same consideration to all others alike... Never pay back evil with evil, but bear in mind the ideals that all regard with respect. As much as is possible, and to the utmost of your ability, be at peace with everyone... If your enemy is hungry give him something to eat; if thirsty, something to drink. By this you will be heaping red-hot coals on his head. Do not be mastered by evil, but master evil with good."

So to the ones that need it today I say this....
BLESS YOU.

THANK YOU CAROLE!

THis is the page I made with the RAK that CAROLE sent me. THANK YOU SO MUCH CAROLE. I had so much fun making this page! I won layout of the day today at TREASURES TO SCRAP!!! WHEHEW go check it out!I have been working hard on some pages of my dad this weekend and today. Getting ready for a pub. IT is alot tougher than I thought. I remember why it has been 11 years since I have done a page.
Hope everyone has a great week.

FINALLY FRIDAY!

LOVE these photos of Bella and her Papa last year on her birthday. She just loves her papa sooo much and wants to call and talk to him all the time. SHe is so funny and he is JUST A LITTTTLLEEE TINY BIT crazy about her too hahaha! This is from the IMAGINE CREATE SCRAP MARCH KIT (fancy pants). Where I am a design team member. I had alot of trouble cutting this paper cuz well, it is so pretty! I still have a few designs left to scrap.

I had a rockin COOOOOOL as Snow mail day yesterday. I GOT 36 sheets of the new BLING CARDSTOCK from THE CHALET. She also sent some basic grey I needed to finish a project. Laura YOU ARE A ROCKSTAR WOMAN! I JUST LOVE YA! SO glad I got it before it started stormin too! I would have died if that got wet!

Today I register BElla for school. I cannot believe my baby is big enough to go to school. 4K She is going to love it. I will love it too since I can get some things done, but Im gonna miss her runnin round here up my tail all day hahaha. We have since Im feeling better, had alot of funbeing home together. SHe is my scrappin buddy and loves to help me cook and do things. I have missed her so much while being sick and recovering from one thing after the other this passed year. I feel so bad that I was in bed with her here bored all day. IT doesnt mix well. SHe stayed in trouble. BUT the good thing is she got to spend alot of time with Grandma and she got to spoil her totally rotten. SHe is one of those kids that wants full attention and something to do. we have been goin to play group more since IM not havin to take the medication that makes me sick and not be out and about. I still have to be careful for the next several weeks but dont have to take it anymore so we are sooo happy. it is miserable to feel nauseaus and achey allt he time. I cant remember the last time I felt good that is pretty sad. BUT IT IS GETTING BETTER and IM SO GREATFUL FOR everyones prayers. It got real depressing for a while there. I sometimes think it is worse to feel good and get to do things and become almost a normal human out in society then whamo have another huge flair up and have to be secluded to home and feel crappy all the time and get depressed. IT is truly devastating to the entire family. Nothing is normal anymore everyone has to work harder. It is just not fair sometimes. I hate it worse for my hubby and Bella. BUt Im thankful I have both of them soooo much! This week we have gone To play group and the mall and actually and going again today weather permitting to play with our friends. It is good to be around my pals and so good for bella to get to play.

Speaking of weather I know alot of you are worried because we had so much bad weather yesterday. My phone was ringing off the hook. But my calls kept dropping in and out also. But we are ok. The really bad stuff that killed all the people is North East of us. That was so horrible and I feel so bad for all of those people.Keep them in your prayers.
Hope everyone is safe and survived the storms.


TOnight there is a Celebrity chat at The Chalet with Christy Tomlinson of BHG scrapbooks etc. SO be sure and stop in and hear what great things she has to say about the scrapbooking industry. SHould be so much fun and very informative. ON the front page you will see her photo and the chat room is right under there. Just click on the link and follow the instructions. Hope to see you there.

GOt alot of errands to run today. SO will be out and about with the kiddo. Then home and major scrappin to finish up.

I HAVE a really big publishing gig coming up I cant mention yet but found out about yesterday. 2 actually, 1 is an online e-zine yall will be hearing about very soon and its a BIG DEAL! IM SO EXCITED AND GRATEFUL TO THE OWNER OF THE SITE for picking me. SHE KNOWS WHO SHE IS and you will see some advertising on it soon. My mouth is still on the floor. The other one is rockin cool and Im really excited about especially because of WHICH pages it is that are getting published and where they are being published in the media. More news will come on that because I cant say yet and still working on getting details all worked out with the person and the company. DID I mention I get paid for this HOW COOL IS THAT! SO im praying it turns out well. THis is huge, bigger than anything I have done so far or ever THOUGHT I would be able to do and a DREAM come true.I need to go before I start crying again about it haha! So just keep your fingers crossed for me!Don't wanna jinx it.
toodles hope you have a great friday!!

This months kit from ics

This is the new Imagine Create Scrap KIT for this month. THis Fancy pants paper is super delicious and was almost too beautiful too cut. I really had a problem putting it through my trimmer.




I laid down at the park to get this shot of Miss priss. LOVE the way the light shines on her.
I added extra primas and extra bling . The chipboard letters, and fancy pants chipboard flowers were added as well. Everything else though you get in the kit.




I added buttons, the arrow photo turns, and the extra primas to this. everything else.. Is in the kit

layout of the day

WHewew I got Layout of the day over at Treasures To Scrap! HOW exciting is that! Be sure and check out the site!

whewew cool mail day

I GOT A RAK TODAY from CAROLE! ALL THE WAY ACROSS THE BIG OL OCEAN IN Queensland Australia
THAT ROCKS!
SHe sent the whole line of 3 bugs tickled pink wiht the cardstock tags as well some cute cute little bling circles some flourishes chipboard and ribbon eyelets and mm vintage hip sticker letters!!! I will show you a photo later IM knee deep looking for Bellas birth certificate right now... I had all that stuff together and put up then when Hurricane katrina came we took all of it and put it in a box and taped it up. NOW guess what... WE can't find it AHHHH! SHe registers for School so I gotta find it. NO CLUE where it is. FOund mine and johns birth certificates and our marriage license etc. would think it would be with it. But nooooo. I have no clue . I have turned all these boxes inside out and gone through all kinda stuff and still NOPE not there. IT will turn up probably... when I dont need it anymore ;;SIGH:: well back to it.
JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU CAROLE YOU ROCK!!!!!!

THANKS

THANK YOU!!!! to Angie at SCRAPSCENE for announcing the Design team at SCRAPBOOK CHALET. ALso a big thanks to laura for taking care of us. YOU ROCK OUTLOUD LADIES!

AMERICAN IDOL is a lupus survivor

All of you I believe know the battle we have been fighting for years now with lupus sle/nephritis. I found this an amazing story and am definitly voting for this girl. KNOWING what I KNOW about this illness as a fellow sufferer for her to get on that stage under those lights and do what she is doing is A MAJOR ASTOUNDING accomplishment. So please read her story and think about it while watching Idol



Leslie Hunt Advances to the Top 20 American Idol Finalists


The lupus community is cheering for Leslie Hunt of Chicago, Illinois as she advances to yet another round of competition on American Idol. Hunt is now one of the top 20 finalists. She will perform again on Wednesday, February 28, and the Lupus Foundation of America urges everyone to tune in and vote for Leslie as she seeks to become the next American Idol.

Hunt was diagnosed with lupus at a young age and includes on her American Idol profile that living with the autoimmune disease was the toughest obstacle of her life. Now 24, she has a new passion for life and is taking a proactive approach to overcoming the limitations she experienced while growing up with lupus.

Leslie is making everyone who is touched by lupus very proud as they watch her on national television. Her efforts are creating plenty of goodwill among all who are greatly impacted by lupus and who struggle on a daily basis with the debilitating and disabling consequences of the disease. Best wishes to you, Leslie.

Read Leslie Hunt's biography on the American Idol Web site

Read a Chicago Tribune article about Leslie

Remember to vote on Wednesday evening. Here’s how to vote for Leslie.























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PS: if you are a praying person even if your not please say a prayer tonight for Trevor and his family. (the co owner of treasures to scrap) Trevor is her son in law and is 30 years old and is in kidney failure. He is having complications and its not looking good. They are praying tonight for a miracle so please just remember them in your prayers please and also to bring comfort and peace to them. They are going through so much. It is so helpless to sit and watch someone you love sick and not be able to do anything. SO just keep them in your thoughts and prayers please. ALSO remember Traelyn and her daughter Gabby (we are having the auction for) they left for cincinatti yesterday I think it was or maybe this morning. This is another surgery for Gabby she is 4 years old. SO just remember all of them please.

Happy Birthday bro. AND still spinnin!

MY head is still spinning from all the WONDERFUL news I had this weekend. Im so excited to work on these new teams. I have been hard at it today working on projects for March. I forget February is a short month so I gotta get done with it now.
TOday is my BROTHERS Birthday. YOU ARE OLD just want to be sure you know that bro. Bella has been singing happy birthday to you allllllllllllllllll dayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy lonnnnnnnnnnnng. HOpe you have a good one and make time to count those gray hairs OH WAIT you only have 10 fingers and 10 toes so dont bother. hehehehehhehe muuuuah.

Tonight is the weekly chat over at Treasures To Scrap. We have a lot of fun and play some cool games. SHe gives out prizes too! SO you should stop in and say hi.
Tell em Nancy Sent ya!

Also excited about getting started at Chalet. We have busted our buns to get our numbers looking great and as of now they are at 80 for the top 100 scrapbook sites on the internet. HOW MUCH DOES THAT ROCK! Laura is so proud because her numbers have never looked better. I can't wait to get started on the challenges! SO much fun!

I have all kinda ideas flying around must start writing them down.

Be sure and pop in to Jeanne's blog and check out her word of the day.

WHEHEHHEWWWHEHEWWW

IM SOOOOO EXCITED! READ WHAT HAPPENED TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


"Without further ado, it is my pleasure to announce our NEW CREATIVE TEAM.. Let's give a warm welcome to:


Chalet Creative Crew


*Jeanne* ~ Our Creative Team Coordinator
Leslie Ashe ~ Leslie
Isabelle Cipriani ~ Isabelle
Nancy Jones ~ Nancy
Vanilla ~ Michelle
Chelsea Giles ~ Chelsea
Volcano Girl ~ Heather
Mom2Zoe ~ Dena
KristenJo ~ Kristen
BeckyThackston ~ Becky


Card Creation Crew


Bonbitz ~ Jaci
Tropicalart77 ~ Tammy



In addition, I would also like to announce our
Guest Designers for the following 6 months:


March ~ Taylorsmom
April ~ Craft Girl
May ~ Amy Coose
June ~ Jozzie
July ~ Elizabeth
August ~ LAH924



CONGRATULATIONS LADIES & GOOD LUCK!
__________________
Laura Gordon
Owner/Designer
http://scrapbookchalet.typepad.com/ "

WHew hewww good news on a friday

Here is another Layout I made with the Dasher line from Basic grey.


I have a secret I have a secret. I can't tell it yet yall are gonna be excited!!!

BUT here is some news I CAN Share!! I got offered a design team position today for Treasures to Scrap. SO exciting! So many talented people over there and what a gorgeous site and store they have. Stop by and say hello if your in the neighborhood.
It has been a rather quiet day here. Have had a bad headache today. Think it is the weather. Going from 40 to 75 in a day doesn't help. Hoping this doesnt spur on some storms that are headed this way.

Tonight we had a wonderful chat at The Chalet with Karen Russel who created the narratives line for Creative Imaginations. She is so talented and the BE and Narratives lines are just gorgeous eye candy. I got some of the paper and have yet decided which photo to put on it cuz well... IT is just too pretty to cut. I will have to stare at it a bit longer before I can even think of cutting this paper. DO you have papers like that in your stash?

This will be a scrappy weekend. Got projects due and lots of mo jo flowing. SO stand back while the paper is flyin.
Hope you have a great weekend.

still blushin'

Still playin with the basic grey I got valentines day. LOVIN this line
I wanted to scrap my Mardi Gras photos so bad SO i printed this pic. put a new spin on it.

WAIT: The longest wait is right before the parade is to begin.

MONDAY was a gorgeous day

MONDAY was a GORGEOUS day. My friend Annette here in Mobile and her 2 kids asked if we would go with them to the parade downtown. We had never gone to the parades before so bella was so excited. I told her id see cuz well yall know with all the health stuff that has been going on I am not supposed to be out alot. But JOhn said since it is outside and not alot of people crammed in a building it isnt as bad.I was so happy to get out. IT ws pretty and not too cold. WE had soooo much fun. I know back home they dont do much for mardi gras but here they shut down everything and downtown is covered kinda lik new orleans. IT is a huge party and celebration. People everywhere parades all day. School is closed. Like nothing you see back home. The parade was fabulous.SO much more than I expected.The floats were BEAUTIFUL. I was not expecting such professional realistic floats I was thinking oh they willput streamers on a trailer NO YOU WONT BELIEVE the FLOATS omg they were amazing. We had lunch at Pickle fish resteraunt (a YUMMY pizza Place) it was so fun. Bella loved it. I almost teared up several times looking at how happy she was. We dont get to go out and do alot so it was treasured moment definitly. I got to meet Gretchen and we also hit if off immediatly. I had actually met her a couple of times just not had realized it. She is so funny. We divided up the loot and still had to much it covered the table. We have those serpentine things all over the house today bella has been throwing themplaying parade. She walks her babies around in their shopping buggy and throws beads at her stuffed animals. SO FUNNY! SHe had soo much fun and just kept talking about it all day. We will definitly be planning to go more next year. I hope all the family can come down and see some of this you all would love it! We wanted to go back today but after taking my meds last night I was just too nauseaus and exhausted from all the fun we had yesterday.THere are alot more people at it today too and didnt want to take the chance of catching anything. I slept alot today and just finished up some things here at home.
I didn't feel up to going to bunco tonight with Katrina. SORRY GIRL I slept till almost 7. Almost missed AMerican IDOL!! SO I totally wiped that one out. I will make it up to ya. I felt a little better then ate and well that didn't work out well it started all over. Hopefully we can get together and scrap this weekend. That was pretty fun! Well my hubby is ready to watch the movie. Bella is all snuggled down asleep and im still exhausted. I think we walked 10 miles. IT was fun though. I will never forget that day. GOnna scrap it soon got my photos back today and man some awesome shots!!!
Hope yall had a great mardi gras.











Quote for today:
A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.”
~ Eric Hoffer, The True Believer

FUN FUN FUN!!

Yesterday Was A GORGEOUS day. I felt more human than I have in a long long time. Still sore but not NEAR as nauseaus as I have been. HOPEFULLY Im done with all those days. We will know soon :)
It was Christophers Birthday so we went to his party at lavitra Park. Annette made the Cake herself! I was HIGHLY impressed. It was so cool. Looked like a tank and had an army man sitting on it. It had the field and the gravel the whole works. Bella said it tasted pretty yum yum too! SO way to go Annette! GIrl you sure know how to throw a party. We saw lots of our friends from playgroup and Bella had so much fun playing on the playground. SHe smiles bigger than I have seen in a while.

We came home. Watched Garfield, ate supper. John cleared some old files off my computer... old pictures and other just junk that has taken up space for too long. He fussed cuz I need to reorganize my files on there Yeah i know huney I will I promise. eventually haha! MUAH! I updated my gallery and added more creations to The Chalet. Chatted with my friends for a bit before I hit the hay.





















Today was another pretty day here in Mobile. We have had a good day today. Still no nauseau. Got some of my scrap room cleaned up and ready for my new cabinets and island to come in here. Hopefully it will warm up soon so we can paint. We have changed the cabinet style this is the 4th time because we keep finding a better deal. I cannot wait Im so excited. We also are about to start putting down the hard wood floors and renovating the bathrooms and making this more like home. I guess since it has been 2 years we figure we will be here a while so might as well get comfy.

I wanted to congratualte MICHELLE (vanilla) for winning layout of the week this week over at the CHALET. GIRL your page rocked outloud! Im so proud of you girly girl!

I hope it stays pretty and we stay feeling well like today we have alot of plans for this week and alot of photo ops. SO stay tuned. Im gonna get these and more photos printed up and the pages will be coming soon. Got alot of projects due and alot of pubs coming out! SO keep your eyes peeled!

Hope you have a great week
Hugs and smooches

Another Toot!

Got another page selected up on Basic Grey in their gallery! I SEE MICHELLE OVER THERE TOOO WAY TO GO GIRL!!!!!

Also got confirmation from Somerset home that they still want my project. How exciting!

Hurray CHALET!

GOOD MORNING! Just wanted to heads up everyone that there is a design team call at SCRAPBOOK CHALET. This is an amazing site with alot of talent. There are some familiar faces and MEGA talent over there. IT is a rockin site with LOTS Of chatter and lots of fun goin on. THe gallery is schmokin! IT is hard to keep up with all the amazing designs. COme check it out and put your hat in the ring. IT is an awesome site and it is lightening fast. The owner is super sweet and sends stuff out really fast. I won layout of the week the week before last and already got my prize!! Matter of fact got it last week!!!!! I was shocked and amazed at the box crammed full of basic grey goodies! Laura You rock! She also has a survivor contest going on. COme cheer for your favorite survivor!!

We are off to go play for a bit and then some scrap time. WHewwwheww Mardi Gras! Parades everywhere in Mobile today. Have some king cake with me folks.

catchin on up!

I have alot of catching up to do on my blog! MAN, it has been busy the last few days. Had double dr. appts on valentines day. Don't really know anything just keep doing what Im doing, so that was fun huh...

I won a rak from Jana! I frequent her blog. SHe is sooooooooo rockin talented and the sweetest thing EVAH! SHe sent me all of the stuff you see in the photo below!!! I was about to fall out opening the box! There is a little mini album, a t shirt, the FLOWERS omgoodness the flowers, and and the express ons (rub ons) if you have never used them omgoodness they go on like butter! I got a bracelet too, you can see in the photo. but, Bella took off with that! (I know your surprised haha) "DADDY LOOK WHAT I GOT!" ROFL. she was so cute! I am sure Jana won't mind if I share!

I have been in Rak heaven here the last few weeks I got one from CHERYL that I still need to make my page with.. sorry Cheryl I will post it soon as I can get well and get it done! I haven't even made John and Bella a card or ANYTHING for Valentines day! I know so unlike me. BUt that is how horrible I have been feeling. Hasn't been fun! BUT IT IS GETTING BETTER!

Then I found out I won a rak on CAROLE'S blog! Im smiling soooo big right now! YALL MUST go check out these amazing ladies work. THey are top notch in the industry people and have all taught me so much! TRUE ladies they all are!


My rak from Jana HOW COOL IS THIS!!!!! She really made me smile big!








THis is what John got me for Valentines day. HE IS A ROCKIN HUBBY I MUST TELL YOU! HE knew JUST what to get. Love you sweetie and thanks.




John's Aunt Stephy and Uncle Evans were down in Mobile on business and came by to have suppr with us. I felt like sick, and I know I looked horrible but I really wanted to see them and well, it really did do me good and cheered me up some. THey are always so much fun and so sweet to us. Bella just fell in love with them. THis is the first time she has ever met them. We email them photos all the time and she reads my blog to see what is going on and stuff but nothing like getting a real hug!! Bella coudln't keep her hands off her and was complimenting her fingernails and jewelry. I made aunt steph count all her rings and stuff before she left to make sure the little booger didnt keep any souvenirs from their visit haha. SHe did convince Aunt Stephy to paint her fingernails though. (it didnt take much convincing!at all I am not sure which one had more fun) I had to get some photos for a scrapbook page. We dont get to see them often but they are soooo loved by us and us them! SO I have to add them to Bella's book!


MY 2 valentines!!! THERE is my entire heart in one photo!! I love these two so much!

I hope everyone had a great Valentines Day and TONIGHT IS AN AWESOME TV NIGHT! SURVIVOR/GREYS ANATOMY/ ER there is my line up! SO I am totally gonna be veggin out tonight in front of the tube. I have to watch it in the back because it is too graphic for Bella. John could care less so we got her the curious George movie to watch tonight. SO they will be entertained. SO what do you think is gonna happen on greys? I keep hearing rumor DENNY is coming back! I cannot wait to see how they do this. OK gotta go clean up the chicken and dumplings I made. Uncle Evans is a great cook and he gave me some tips on how to do my chicken and dumplings. MIne keep dissolving so I tried his method and so far so good. I hear no complaints! I felt pretty good this afternoon and ever since we talked the other night about making chicken and dumplings Bella has been on a chicken and dumpling mode. she keeps sayign but pleeeeaaseee. SO I felt some better today so I broke down and made them. They turned out OK but I think it was more I just wasnt feeling 100% than the recipe Know what I mean. OK REALLY gotta go now Bella is quiet and that equals a mess.
TOODLES
Hug the kiddos!

someone need a smile?

Bella brought me this little book earlier today, and it has the best little poems in it. I really like these two. I feel like maybe someone needs to read this today.. So IF it is you. I hope it touches you and makes you smile. :)



INfluence
Drop a pebble in the water,
And it's ripples reach out far;
and the sunbeams dancing on them
May reflect them to a star.

Give a smile to someone passing,
Therby making his morning glad;
It may greet you in the evening
WHen your own heart may be sad.

DO a deed of simple kindness;
Though its end you may not see,
It may reach, like widening ripples,
Down a long eternity.

Joseph Morris


A WORTHWHILE SMILE

It is easy to be pleasant
WHen life flows by like a song,
But the person worthwhile is one who smiles
when everything goes dead wrong

For the test of the heart is trouble
and it will always come witht he years.
And the smile that is worth the praises of earth,
is the smile that shines through the tears.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

BLUSHIN WITH BASIC GREY

Here is another page made with BASIC GREYS BLUSH COLLECTION

TOTALLY IN LOVE WITH THIS LINE!