GOod News just keeps comin'

MAN I have had a lucky week. I am just beside myself with excitement. My pal Wendy told me to come hang out with her some at this site a while back, and I just love it there. Really fun. awesome atmosphere. WELLL.. The owner (who rocks outloud HEY SHER!!) asked me to be the MY LIFE COORDINATOR at her site!!!! whehew what does that mean you say? Well I will be doing some "All About Me" style classes and challenges using her cool products she gets in for these challenges. HOW MUCH DOES THAT ROCK! I am really excited. I used to teach "All About Me" classes here in Mobile and was asked if I ever thought of doing that again well.. the answer is YES! I will be sure and give you info before hand. Be sure and check out her site at WWW.Scrap-Diner.Com

Thank you Wendy OH and CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU for MAKING HER DESIGN TEAM. I TOLD YOU THAT YOU ROCK WOMAN!! Congratulations to all the ladies that made the team there. You are all SOOO deserving!

I also want to say Thanks to Sher for this opportunity.

I interupt this message for another important message.

I GOT PUBLISHEDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!! WHEHEHWWWWWWWW! Can you feel my excitement??!! THis is not a little pub people this is a 3 page pub in Somerset Studios Home magazine coming out in Feb/March of 2008! 3 PAGESSSS! omgosh Im about to faint. Im so excited. Its an article about the album, the photos in the album, (they are my daddy when he was a little boy) and info on me. Im so excited. AND OH YEAH. I GET PAID!!! AND ... because I used certain manufacturers products on it.... I GET PAID AGAINNNNN! THANK YOU GOD!
ps:Thank you Daddy! I know this is just another little way of you saying You are HERE and STILL gonna take care of me always! yup cuz IM just that spoiled by my daddy! ::WINK::

busy busy just so busy...

Hey there, Sorry for the length of my last post. I was pretty perterbed at the lady thievin' (is that a word? It is in Alabama) my work and posting it in her sales ads. IM very happy it was taken care of so quickly. That was the 2nd time this woman has done this. SO Yall keep your eyes on ebay if you are a scrapper or altered artist.. You may just have your work in print and not know it!!

We have a busy weekend going on at Treasures to Scrap. We are participating in the Breast Cancer Awareness crop for a cause. We will have LOTS of challenges, games, PRIZES and a HUGE sale at the store. SO come on by if you get a chance and take a look.


I have a couple of women in our family that were effected by Breast cancer directly so it is dear to my heart. We hope you participate at Treasures but I know ALOT of Local Scrapbook Stores are doing the crop for a cure as well. SO we understand if you are going to one of those. I pray you participate in some fashion in this wonderful cause.

Had a busy day today. We had a meeting this morning at Bella's school she goes to for the upcoming Fall Festival. IT IS GONNA BE SOOO MUCH FUN. I am so excited. AND since OUR CLASS is gonna do a basket to auction off with a TUSCANY theme IT was the perfect opportunity for me to go invade one of my FAV O RITE stores WORLD MARKET. OH I could just stay in there for hours. I smelled all the cool soaps, sampled some amazing food and scanned through amazing cookbooks. AHHH so much to inhale. I Just love that place it awakens all of the senses. I settled on some lucious rosemary and garlic infused dipping oils that had Tuscany on the label (ha cant get much better than that!) John is gonna FLIP when he sees what I paid for that. but IT IS FOR A GOOD cause. IT also looks SOOO Pretty. Yall know me with Italian cuisine I drew a total blank was thinking ok spaghettio's what? ravioli. Im clueless. I thought ok movie under the Tuscan sun OHHHH that would be a good idea for the basket!! someone could put the movie in there. My wheels are turning can you see it? SO yall just holler out now any suggestions you have for the Tuscany Basket. We want it to auction off for a good amount like 150 bucks or up. So just give me a yell Im all for the suggestions.

Well I better go I told Bella she could watch this little Strawberry Shortcake dvd and it is almost over here so I got to get movin'
I THINK the kidney stones are gone. At least they arent hurting anymore so that is fine by me. SO thank you all so much for your prayers and concern.

boy people got SOME NERVE!

I got a sweet email from this lady tonight informing me that ANOTHER one of my basic Grey pages is posted ON EBAY with an ad to sell product. NORMALLY I would be flattered. BUT This person is just going on the bg site and saving layouts to her hard drive and USING THEM WITHOUT PERMISSION In her ads. NOT paying or any type of compensation but most of all WITHOUT PERMISSION. IF SHE HAD READ THE FINE PRINT SHE WOULD KNOW once Basic Grey publishes your work on their website. IT IS THEIRS! THEY HAVE rights to that page. SO that makes it ILLEGAL for her to do this. IM NOT TALKING ABOUT scraplifting and making a page similar with someone elses kid or whatever I MEAN IT IS LITERALLY MY PAGE, MY KID, (or my DOG in this case) MY SUPPLIES. copied and pasted into her ad. THIS IS ME SOOOO ANGRY right now. Being a freelance scrapbooker THAT is how I make money and product. WHAT GIVES ANYONE the right to do that ESPECIALLY if it is on Basic greys gallery. THE NERVE of some people. I wrote her a note VERY NICE saying IM FLATTERED THANK YOU FOR LIKING MY PAGE BUT.... IT must be taken down because of copyright laws. SHE went off saying it was posted in a public forum. well THAT IS TRUE.. BUT.. that public FORUM IS COPYRIGHTED which equals ILLEGAL.
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO with that said IM gonna have to put a clause up on my blog as well since this is NOT the first time it has happened.
IF you use my pages as scraplifts or as inspiration THIS DOESN't EFFECT YOU. IM flattered seriously. OR I woulndt post it on here in the first place. WHat it does mean.. is business owners CANNOT go on, copy and paste my layouts to use in their advertising to sell their product WITHOUT PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT.
Hope that makes sense and I NEVER DREAMED I would have to do such a thing. Plain pathetic. OK My rant is over. IM just so dissapointed and angry that this has happned AGAIN. BUT I had to get basic grey involved since they own the rights to the page now SO IT WILL BE TAKEN DOWN. sad sad sad.

I DO have to add HUGEEEEE accolades to Basic Grey for their speedy work with getting the page down! Literally an hour ago I sent them email re it and they contacted EBAY and it IS NOT THERE. SO I THANK THEM SO MUCH for their help with this. Pretty sad you have to do it though huh?

What is your opinion on this? WHat do you think should be done in order to protect pages? should you just not post them? I hate to not do that I do like the companesation, I like to share my work with my friends and family online.. just hate it when People think JUST BECAUSE it is in a gallery they can use it for their personal use.

WHHHHHEEWWWHEWWWWWWWWWW

ITS FINALLLY THURSDAY AND TIME FOR SURVIVOR CHINAAAAAAAA!!! IM SOOOO EXCITED! GEtting all my chores done early so I can attach myself to the tv. I know my pal Annette will be watching also. IM in a pool on treasures for a big prize on who will win. I havn't been able to pick my person yet. BUT I KNOW who I wanna pick if they are still available by the time its my turn to pick. hehe.


OH ANGEL to answer your question I got that little book from Magistical Memories. ITs designed by my pal Cheryl Mezzetti (SHE ROCKS) you have to bind it yourself but it is really cute. The paper is the sponsor this month WE R MEMORY KEEPERS at Treasures.

We have a HUGE sale going on right now at Treasures still too so If you need to stock up head on over.

I have been very busy lately I have SEVERAL Pubs coming up and had to get it all mailed. I had a project assigned that I had to get finished, ALso working on stuff for the newsletter. I got a call from another place to send her another thing I had so IM all excited. Waitin' on the checks.

I finally got all that consignment stuff done for Michelle. She is just the sweetest ever. We have this HUGEEEEEEE consignment 2 times a year in Mobile. MY friend Annette hooked me up with. I had stuff in my garage from when Bella was a baby still. Between being sick and life getting in the way I haven't gotten rid of much. soooo We loaded up. Michelle gave me permission to bring as much as I wanted this time Ussually you cant bring but 200 items but I told her I have alot of big stuff so bless her she let me. THE REST I will hook her up come the spring one. So hopefully that will work out. I priced kinda low to get rid of everything.I didnt get to do much toys I had so many outfits and big things. Bella was wanting to go shopping sooo bad I told her I would be sure and get her something special. I have to get her some church clothes for winter the kid is growing like a weed. She is only 4 but so tall she is wearing 6's!!!! Thank the lord she wont be short like me maybe. She was never a tiny thing. Has always been a 98 percentile kid.

Well I have lots to finish before I can get survivor ready. TA TA FOR NOW Hope yall ahve a good day. I will post some of the stuff im working on hopefully by this weekend I cant post it just yet.
OH OH OH. I got the preview from scrapbooking stamping and stationary and OMG it looks sooo good. IT looks better every time it comes out. I swear they need to charge more for that book. IT is becoming a must have! I was so excited to see the stuff in there IT looks so good. SO GREAT JOB GUYS!!!! YALL ROCK!!

Some new projects

I wanna say HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY MOM!! I havn't mailed your present yet... maybe it will go out Monday (fingers crossed)

WE R MEMORY KEEPERS is the sponsor this month for TREASURES TO SCRAP. I did this little pumpkin chipboard album by Magistical Memories and used the W.R.M.K. papers to decorate with and the ribbons. Had alot of fun playing with these papers!!







Here is my sweet guard dog MISTER GUIDO. HE is so sweet. He thinks BELLA Is his girl. Any time we play with her and get her laughing loud or hollering Guido comes and perches up to the window in the living room looking in at us with a snoopy stare, barking until Bella comes and tells him SHE IS OK..

WHen she was a little bitty thing It would upset him so bad when she cried. I would have to take her over to the back door and show him she was ok. Is that not funny how attached they get!
These new periphery papers by Basic Grey went so well with the photograph

WHOOPS forgot to put the paper kits!

IM SOOOO SORRY. I forgot to put the Paper kits up on my blog for the Breast cancer awareness crop at Treasures to scrap. Here are the links to them in the Treasures to scrap store. sorry about that.

KIT 1



KIT 2


More details about the crop will follow.

WHOA DUDE!!! NOW THAT IS A MEGA KIT!!!!

THE SEPTEMBER MEGA KIT IS IN THE STORE! (click on the image to see it larger) There is so much you can do with this kit Be sure and check out the other kits and designers while your there.

ALSO STOP BY THE PAPER STORE AND CHECK OUT THE ROCKIN DEALS GOIN on! SHe has EVERYTHING on sale!! We are making room for new inventory and EVERYTHING HAS TO GO! THIS IS Tracy'S birthday month so we are naming the sale IN HONOR OF HER BIRTHDAY!! SOOO THE SALE GOES AS FOLLOWS:

WE NEED TO CELEBRATE!!!!!!

Paper Store at TTS

30% off all product except for Sept and BCA (Breast Cancer Awareness) TTS kits until 9/30/2007

Use the Coupon Code: Tracysbirthday

Now if you buy $25 or more then give yourself 40% off with the coupon code: whatasteal

BUT WAIT: SHe has marked some things down to OMG YOUR KIDDING ME PRICES SO check that out... read the posts she has links to the products there!!!

THIS IS A MARVELOUS TIME TO STOCK UP ON YOUR FAVORITE SUPPLIES!

Schoooool daysssssss......

Bella is learning so much in school. She loves her teacher and loves going to school. SHe doesn't like when we make her go over and over what she learned that day. Ussually daddy has to sit down with her (so she won't be monkeying around) and help her (make her) do her letters and sounds she did that day. We got a note home from her teacher saying we needed to work with her on writing her letters. That she was confused on holding her pencil (???) and was holding it with both hands. SO ughmm YEAH MONKEYING!
SHe has known how to write her name for a longggg time now and held a pencil like a pencil since she was 2. I kept quizzing her on why she was holding it with 2 hands.. Was it heavy? Was it too big? Did it hurt? Was it stuck to the paper? of course she grinned at my questions. Finally she loosened up and told me that the little boy that sits behind her holds HIS PENCIL with 2 hands.... AHHHHH so nowww I SEE.. yup... MONKEYING. So after having to redo all her work after she gets home everyday for a bit maybe we will get the idea. PEER PRESSURE and such a young age!!



I made a little thrown together mini album for my mom for her Birthday coming up. NOW I HAVE TO GET IT IN THE MAIL and to her. You can also see it here in Basic Greys Gallery. I used some Basic Grey BLush I had in my stash (tryin to use up some of this) and used these sweet little pictures I had collected of them. I hope she likes how it turned out.

newest pages...

Here are some new pages I did


I love this picture of Bella chillin' in her little pool, wiggling her toes!!
THis is some AMerican Crafts paper I had love the flowers on here.
This is my Nephew and his cutey girlfriend. THey have been together like 4 years are they not the cutest ever. PERFECT photo for this Love Elsie Paper.



JOhn told me tonight I had gone to the dr today and was just tired and hurting when I got home so took a long nap. He said the door bell rang and when he answered it THERE STOOD 4 Year old Brayden. GRINNIN' JOhn said "well HEY BRAYDEN"
Brayden says " I BROUGHT BELLA A POPSICLE!!!!" (grinnin') Bella comes running to the door HEY BRAYDEN THANK YOU!!! Takes the popsicle... waves to Brayden's daddy thank you.
JOhn closes the door... Tells me He was thinking... YES IT HAS BEGUN.. SMART KID.. WOOING his daughter with treats!! Just like her mama.. wanna win her heart. BRING HER SOMETHIN' sweet hahahaha! Brayden is just THE CUTEST THING EVER. Good thing I was asleep I guess cuz YOU KNOW I would have been snappin pictures!!!!
have a good weekend!

HUGEEEEE SALE GOING ON!!!

YES YOU HEARD ME... SALE my favorite 4 letter word. IN the store at treasures. awesome sale going on. WE have the paper store marked down like mad right now at TREASURES TO SCRAP.
EVERYTHING in the store (except the September kits) is 30% off across the board BUT WAIT. IF YOU SPEND 25.00 or more (which HELLLOOOOO I can do in less than a minute) YOu GET 40% OFF YOUR ORDER! That is getting your scrapbook supplies AT COST!!!!
Yeah be sure and look at the primas, she has all the basic grey, she has a ton of cool 7 gypsies, dream street, YOu name it go look on the side under manufacturers and Have at it. SO MUCH cool rockin stuff in there. Be sure and stock up now while you can this stuff is flyin out!
You get the sale price at check out. You use the coupon code TRACYSBIRTHDAY for under 25.00 order over 25.00 you use whatasteal!

so come check it out and stock up on your favorite supplies while they are in stock at TREASURES TO SCRAP.

have you been itchin for some of those prima pop up flowers and little accents? 7 gypsies stamps? YUP its in stock so come get it while it is on sale!

We R Memory Keepers

The sponsor for Treasures to scrap this month is We R memory keepers. They were very generous with their product and we had a lot of fun playing with their fall line. Check out the Newsletter for more designs by our design team. You can also check out the gallery for more views as well.
We haven't been doing alot around here this weekend still trying to shake this crapp Bella brought home to me. That is the only bad part of her being in school.. she brings home colds and virus's. Its ok though she is having so much fun at school and loving it. IT has been really good for her. This is based on the September sketch By Di Hickman.

I got another publication to tell yall about. Im pretty excited. Making memories Fabulous Friendships book is publishing the page I did for my nephew on his senior year. He is all excited about it. Me too. SO when that comes out be sure and pick up a copy. OK I gotta go lay back down.. I get up to take breathing treatments and then its back to bed I go. Hopefully though this will all be gone soon. Thanks for the prayers and well wishes. I also want to say Miss ya daddy. Today would have been his 70th birthday. Makes me kinda sad missing him but I have a reason to be happy also...
I didnt realise but TODAY IS MY FRIEND TRACY'S BIRTHDAY ALSO! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TRACY! IM so happy I have you in my life YOu are an amazing friend and I just love you to pieces! MEAN IT!!! xoxoxo Hope you do have a wonderful day!

Three bugs loved Bella.

Bella made the Three Bugs in a Rug Newletter whehew. Here is the link TOP Of page 3! IM stalking the mailman for my goody box they said it is on its way YIPEEEEEE!
We have all been Illin' the sinus coughing sneezing crapp. Hope this goes away SOOOON! Gotta get back to work. Got alot of catchin' up to do.





Over heard while Bella was taking a bath: I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO the Flag, and by his hands we were kids, Thank you lord for daily Beds. IN Jesus name AMEN.

One little two little three little idiots, four little five little six little idiots seben little eight little nine little idiots TEn little idiot BOYSSSSSSSSSSS but not Brayden he is my friend.



Hope you all have a great day.

Sorry Greyson...

I know your gonna be mad at me when you see this layout.. but you were just so darn cute. How could you not wanna squeeze those little baby roll legs and pinch those cheeks? You were the cutest pirate EVERRRRRRR! SO what that your almost a double digit now... None of your friends read my blog anyway. Just some day when you go to get married I will pull this out at your wedding and say LOOK HOW STINKIN' CUTE HE IS AS A PIRATE! ARN'T YOU GLAD your not MY KID!!! smooches!


Karen Foster is the Sponsor this month at TREASURES TO SCRAP.Be sure and stop by and check out the gallery. LOTS of Cool things being uploaded. BElla and her best friend Eva Caroline who lives across the street had so much fun digging in the dirt. They told me they were looking for treasures. Guido was assisting them so well by being their fierce protector and keeping them on track of where they needed to dig. Man he is a good babysitter huh? TOo bad he was teaching them to dig SO HE COULD TRY TO ESCAPE the backyard!! I know he is thinking just a few more inches and that pesky cat running loose in the neighbor hood is MINE!!!!!BWAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA. ANyway be sure and check out the rest of the fun stuff we have uploaded in the Sponsor Gallery at Treasures To Scrap :) ps: if you wanna read the journaling just click on the image and you will see a larger page that has the little story on it. It's pretty funny.

Sorry I havn't updated my blog have not been doing well but then yall all know about the kidneys :( anyway huh... so just keep us in your prayers. Thanks xoxoxox

it lives

Did you think I left you guys? sorry 'bout that. ohhh about 9ish pm Saturday night I had not felt good and slept most of the evening. IT had been a great day. We went to Tara's and played with Braydon. Bella had soooo much fun. WE had come home I got some cleaning done, John went to Wal mart for me with Bella and did the shopping. I laid down for a bit, rolled over and when I did it literally woke me up. Our Neighbor, who is a nurse, came over and looked at me. mushed on my side to see what was swollen etc. Said "go your butt to er" cuz we really thought it was appendix. Got there, man they didn't waste any time I went straight in the back they pushed me through and had an iv in me before John had the car parked good. They put that iv in me and kicked it on hi, within 30 minutes UGHHHH! I thought I was in labor. OWWW! SO yes I gave birth to we think 3 little rocks to add to my collection. Gonna have a rock group here before long. SO THAT is where I have been. Its all good now, feeling much better. Just have to re-adjust my diet ONCE again and take it easy. DRINK MORE water, yeah yeah, I KNOW but man, I hate to drink just plain water and can't have artificial sweetner so it is like major mayhem.

We have alot going on at TREASURES TO SCRAP you MUST come see. WE are growing like a weed over here with fertilizer on it. The site is jumping in the numbers. Karen Foster is our sponsor this month. HEre are 2 really quick pages I got done in between all the other stuff going on.The first one is my nephew Zach when he was in Kindergarten. seems so long ago now. Im sure he will LOVE ME for putting this up on my blog. HE is now a teen ager and I know how much this would cramp his style. Sorry Zach. Least they weren't baby photos of you in diapers!!
This one is the plaque hung in my daddys honor, at the policeman's hall of fame in Miami, Florida. Yall pray for our family this month by the way. The 28th of this month, is the anniversary of his death in line of duty. We know years have passed but to us this was still my daddy, my brothers daddy, My mom's husband, a person that was loved by our family. We miss him so very much and not a day goes by we don't hurt from this horrible event. To us it could have been yesterday... so anyway Thank you for remembering us especially my mom that day.

I am still working on mini books. Im so behind I have alot to catch up on. The baby book Is almost done for Bella's teacher. Her son and his wife just had TWINS a boy and a girl. I really hope she enjoys this little book as much as I enjoyed making it for her. She is just a joy to these children in Bella's class. She comes home every day talking about her and how much she just loves her teacher. THis makes me SOOOO happy! I cannot wait to see this with photos of them inside. I will have a sample for that going up soon.

Bella is LOVING SCHOOL! She even has a boy friend!! (John cringes at the thought) BUT they are so cute. The little boy we had the play date with Saturday, Braydon. His mom works with John. They live just down a few houses from us. They are such nice folks. Braydon is the cutest thing ever. I will have to post some pics of them soon.

I sent in my final page for Scrapbook Lifestyles Stylin Idol. THIS IS THE FINAL SHABANG. AHHHHH! Im so nervous. I worked very hard on my page. WAIT till you hear what our challenge was! OMGOSH it was definitly a challenge. BUT I had soo much fun with it. Thank GOD I had it almost done before the kidney stone incident. So be sure and check that out once she has that all posted. There are some AMAAZIIINGGGG scrappers in this competition. CANNOT BELIEVEEE my name is up there with them. So I feel a little out of place. IM more like the country bumpkin that brought he great big squash to the county fair amongst all of these ladies. I have to tell you though, Im just happy to still be in the finals lol. Great friends great people, scrapping our babies.. what more could you ask for!!
Hope you all have a great day I have Bella's uniforms washing. Then I will Iron. YES I KNOW but I cannot let her go to school in this little uniform and it be all wrinkly. I may not get alot of things done but SHE WILL be pressed. I was in bed for a couple of days and I asked John did you iron her uniform (why did I ask? I KNEW better) He said OH they dont care about that. OMGOSH I CARE about that. YEAH I KNOW its a mommy thing. But right now she only has 2 of the little jumpers since the rest haven't come in yet that are back ordered.. (reminds me to call today see if they are in yet) so we have to wear one wash one... FUN! IT is too hot to wear the little pants and stuff so we go with the jumper. BElla likes the dress better anyway. She is such a little girl hehe.
OK I am really out of here Time to get her movin and ready for school! XOXOXOOXOX

The photos from yesterday...

Here are the photos from yesterday that BLOGGER wouldn't let me load grrrr.
A busy Saturday here. We went to our friend Tara's house this morning to play. Her little boy is in Bella's class. He is sooo dadgum cute. They had a big time. It is just SOOOO hot outside. JOhn and Bella went shopping for me at Wal mart and got what we call "big groceries" YOu know how you stock up on stuff. Well they did that. I cleaned up some around here and did laundry but wasn't feeling great so Layed down for a while. That did make me feel LOTS better so IM back at it getting laundry done and cleaning. SO not gonna break my progress and get back to it. Just wanted to show these photos from yesterdays blog post that blogger was being such a pain and not letting me show!! Ta ta for now!!


Bella at her little desk (is this not the cutest ever!)
This is Bella's Teacher. Bella loves her so much. I can see why. She is just so sweet and loves those kids so much. She truly is one of those people you just see the Joy they have for life. I just love people like that.

MORE PHOTOS

HOW CUTE IS THIS LITTLE DESK? (and what't in it) I know yall are probly sick of seeing all my school photos Im taking. BUT I have to say THIS IS SO FUN. She is having a blast and LOVES Her teacher so much. I can so understand why. She really does love those kids and has so much fun with them. YOu can just see her joy. I just love people like that. You know the ones... You can't help but smile when your around them. She is so like that and you can tell those children just love her. I feel so good about this school and what she is doing there. Although I think I screwed up in car line today.. Im a total goof and still don't know what Im doing HA! But will get in the routine soon I hope.

IM slaving away working on my page for the finals at scrapbook lifestyle's Stylin' Idol contest. Im already so nervous ::insert nail biting smiley here:: BUT I HAVE to say THIS IS SOOOO MUCH STINKIN FUN!!!! I have had So much fun doing these challenges. I cannot BELIEVE Im still in this contest. SO many amazing scrappers in this and then there is ME ha! I say grace of God and a little luck IM still in there. I may not win this thing but I can sure tell you I HAVE HAD A TOTAL BLAST. Met some COOL people with MASSIVE skillz. Had some AMAZING well thought challenges that made me get down and dirty (especially the paint one I think I was giggling most of the time I was painting I had it everywhere) THis time IS NOOO different. IM putting alot of hours in this page. again I may not win but man I think It is one of my most favorite. I always hated contests and never did them.. but I have done 2 in the last year and I have gotten some AMAZING pages from both contests I have to admit I AM SO GLAD I DID.

Anyway.. it is time for Supper around here and I dont smell anything cooking so I reckon John must be tired. HE does alot of our cooking since he just enjoys cooking so much. ::ducks because I KNOW he is gonna throw something at me when he reads this::
He has been on vacation and has painted the house in between rain storms. Weeded the landscaping and done all kinda yard work. I tell you JUST watch NEXT week it will be sunny and beautiful EVERY DAY. IT has been SO HOT and then those afternoon lightning and thunderstorms have been horrid. IT has rain rain rained but IT is SOOO stinkin hot and well we needed the rain. OK really going to go fix some supper now before my family comes in here and wheels my chair out.
BYEEE have a great weekend!

ps: I dont know WHY my photos are not showing up I will try again to put them up in a bit. YOU HAVE to see this little desk with her sitting in it OMGOSH gonna be the CUTEST layout EVERRRRR. I am sure her teacher thinks Im nuttier than I am since I keep walking around there with a camera. Bella is so used to it she just stands there and smiles like GET IT OVER WITH MOM! hehe OK IM GOING IM GOING!

first day of school photos

ITS hereeee....

WEll, TODAYS THE DAY. Bellas FIRST DAY OF PRE K. I know I KNOW it doesn't seem like a big deal to alot of people but SHE Is taking this SOOOO seriously. SHe is in big school now. Goes all day EVEN HAS HOME WORK. IN the first 6 weeks even.. They are starting phonics. MY BABY IS GONNA BE ABLE TO READ! SHE is so pumped about that. She does know a couple site words already but I don't really know the phonics way of teaching so I guess IM losing out on it. SO we will learn this together as she learns i suppose. BUT she is all ready. Her back pack all packed. Uniform all pressed and set out. She packed enough snack to feed I think herself for the next two weeks. I told her she WOULD be coming back home! She didnt need ALL that. SHe is so excited about getting to wear her back pack. I DONT THINK that she REALLY needs it actually looking at the class room and stuff. But she is SOOO convinced she has to have it.
SHe loves her teacher she talked about her all night last night on the way home and has talked about her today. Saying how pretty she is and she is smart too! (I told her I bet she is smart because you have to be VERY smart to be a teacher) SHe said THAT Is because she is VERY SMART.. THAT is why they made her a teacher mommy! Like I was a big ol dummy for thinking. She didn't even fuss about going to bed tonight she was so excited she gets to go to school.
I hope her teacher doesn't think IM a total loon tomorrow when paparazzi mom pops out the camera and takes 10 thousand pictures while crying my eyes out that my baby is actually BIG ENOUGH to go to school.
I know you think pre K whats to it but IM telling you they have these little tiny desks that are just so unbelievably cute (I WANT ONE TO ALTER) and the bulletin boards, they have a curricullum. It is AMAZINGGG what they learn so early now. Bella has been out of that environment for the last year with all my health crapp. IM SO HAPPY AND EXCITED FOR HER to get to go back now. she is going to have so much fun and have so much to do and see. SUCH a wonderful adventure to start. Im so proud of her and so sad at the same time. She is my only one so I have to relish each second of this. so yeah there will probly be 40 scrapbook pages of her first day of school.... but that is ok. She can not say ever that her life is not well documented if anything else. I HAVE the proof. ha! I am looking forward to being able to get the things done I need to get done. I have to get this routine down. IM so frantic worried Im going to be that ONE PARENT that gets the entire class a note sent home ha! I dont want to foul this up. I know I stress over the rules and stuff too much but, I know how hard it has to be dealing with that many children their parents and God forbid any of them have STEP anything... Just want it to be easy on them as well. so anyway.. I will be back later with a ton of photos to bore you with but when yall see these tiny desks and how cute she is in this uniform. I totally melted. You will see why Im crying happy tears. xoxoxox


OH!! I amost forgot! LOOK for my mini album I did on my dad I know yall have seen it. The one out of the cardboard that has all the antique photos of my dad in it (my brother has one i made him for Christmas identical to it) IT is being published in Somerset Studio Magazine (formerly known as Legacy) so how exciting is that! I also hear I have an entire page in the next Hobby Lobby Magazine. Im so interested to see it and how she has it arranged. They are so cool with that magazine and so savvy with how they put it together. All of that just amazes and interests me. OK I REALLY have to go to bed. gotta get my camera all charged up!! so exciting!!

ICE CREAM MAN!!!

Do you ever get so caught up in deadlines and daily grind that you don't get those pages you just wanna have fun and scrap done? I have been so LAST NIGHT I sat down and just scrapped. Not with anything that I HAD to scrap just some photos I WANTED to scrap. I loved these photos of Bella racing to see the ICE cream man. I know it is a moment I wont forget. WE never had ice cream trucks that came around growing up. I guess mainly because we lived 2 miles south on the left of no where. We were so impressed when we moved here that we could order pizza (NO we didn't make him pose for a photo actually hmmm that is a thought hehe) but I was surprised they had ice cream trucks. I guess living in the sticks all my life I had never seen such. Well anyway Here is to you and I HOPE you sit down and just scrap for the fun of it.
I go to the dentist tomorrow step one of the dental reconstruction so.. I guess I will be happy to see that ice cream truck more often haha at least till its over.

ITS OFFICIAL

THE DIGI STORE AT TREASURES TO SCRAP IS OFFICIALLY OPEN FOR BUSINESS!!! WHEHEWWW! IT IS SOOO EXCITING! THere has been ALOT of work, sweat, tears and yes my friends I think even a slight amount of blood shed but IT IS OPEN! HURRRAYYY! GO CHECK IT OUT and be sure and tell TRACY, WENDI, and CHRIS and all the DIGI DESIGNERS HOW ROCKIN' IT LOOKS! We are so excited and also. WE HAVE A HUGE CONTEST THIS MONTH. BE SURE TO CHECK IT OUT YOU CAN use some of thsoe fabulous digi kits in the contest!

NOW you paper people do not fear. THE CONTEST goes for you guys too! YOU get to pick from the amazing paper kits in the paper store to enter the contest with. SO many new and rockin ones in there so go check it out!

So much to catch up on.

IT has been wild around here lately. JOhn is on vacation this week and we had alot planned to do around here before school starts. THE WEATHER has totally fouled up alot of our plans. John did get to work on painting the house some but he had hoped it would be finished by now so we could go play. We had some fun activities planned but again.. weather messed us up. OF COURSE now the weather is beautiful. figures. during the week when we wanted to get it all done.. NOOoo stormed like crazy. ::sigh:: oh well.
I have gotten alot of scrappin' done. I need to re photo a couple of them. The colors are way off and I don't know why my scanner is doing that.

We have had all kinda stuff happning at Treasures to Scrap. WE just announced the new Creative Team and The digital Store is opening ON MONDAY. SO we have been so busy behind the scenes getting everything prepared for Monday. We also have a new contest all lined up so be sure and check it all out. We have lots of give a ways and fun challenges also. Be sure to say hi. Our sponsor this month is KAREN FOSTER. WE got alot of cool products to play with and are having a great time designing with it. Here are a couple things so far to look at:

The little bucket is a quarter bank I made for Bella to keep her quarters she gets in. I had to girly it all up with the ribbon and the cute Karen Foster papers.

I have another line of paper too but I need to rephoto the layout for it.


Here is the layout I did for the SCRAPBOOK LIFESTYLE SCRAPPIN IDOL contest. It was all about paint this week. I also wanted to thank all of you who voted for me. MAN It is some fierce competition!! Some friends of mine dared me to scrap this dadgum owl (yall know I cannot stand that owl they keep putting on stuff in the scrap supplies yeah yeah some of them are cute but I just dont have an every day need for owls in my scrapping SORRY!)
SO I left him UNSCATHED where you can see him even though IT WAS SOOOO TEMPTING TO cover it up with the paint and flowers. hehehe
I DID let my saracastic side (YEAH I KNOW YOUR SHOCKED TO KNOW I HAVE A SARCASTIC SIDE) have fun with this page and use the phrase from the old TOOTSIE POP commercial as my title. hahahaa. Sorry I JUST HAD TO.

so anyway there are some of my things I made this week there are a few more but IM sure your eyes are tired so I will post that on another day!!

SAY IT AIN'T SO!!!!

MY BABY CANNOT BE BIG ENOUGH TO GO TO SCHOOL!!!! But... she is.
She had so much fun shopping for her backpack, her lunch box and napmat for pre-K.

She thinks she is so big now. (notice the backpack is bigger than she is)I had tears in my eyes taking these photos.Hard to believe this tiny baby is big enough for school.
ONe day we are counting down the days till she goes the next Im crying thinking my baby is growing up. IT goes WAY to fast. SLOW DOWN BABY your not little but once and I wanna savour it as long as I can.

Happy birthday GIYULLS!

Happy Birthday to YOUUUU happy birthday to YOUUUU HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ANNETTE AND KATRINAAAA! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU.
AND MANY MORE MY FRIENDS!!
Hope to see yall at play group tomorrow :)

TTS CREATIVE TEAM CALL!

YOU GOT THE DIGI IN YOU? well BRING IT TO US. We are LOOKING for DIGI SCRAPPERS CHECK OUT THE ABOVE AD that will go OUT well.. NOW!

New projects

THis is the FAMILY album from 2 Daisies Designs. They are a new paper company that premiered at CHA this time. VERY cute stuff go look at them if you get a chance. I LOVE this little mini book. I decorated it with chipboard, ribbons and lots of bling dots in different colors. Really jazzed it up.
I couldnt show all these before then we got sick with the stomach flu so Im just now getting them up here. Thanks for looking.


THis is another line of the paper 2 daisies sent for me to use. The skeletons I thought would make really fun mardi gras papers since Im down here in the heart of Mardi Gras country. I think it turned out really cute. IT IS MUCH brighter and livlier in person and the colors are so much more vibrant the photo doesn't do it justice.



This is a new paper line that premiered at CHA this past weekend called 2 daisies designs. I LOVE this line of paper it was perfect for these photos of my nephew when he was little. (HI ZACH DONT KILL ME MAN) The stars I made 3 d by folding them and placing popdots behind them.



I can finally show you this page I did for the SCRAPBOOK LIFESTYLE TELEVISION'S scrappin Idol contest. I made it through to the next round whehew. THankyou all who voted for me I so appreciate it. I had so much fun on this page. One of my most favorite colors is GREEN so this was really a blast for me. We ahd to use Green Cardstock and embelishments but the patterned paper could be other colors. I know that scalloped paper looks yellow but it is a real limey yellow green color and has green flourishes in the back ground.

spoke just a little too soon

OK I spoke too soon. .... I ended up with some kinda bad stomach flu hat has had me in the bed for a week. For something they say won't kill ya man I sure felt pretty close a few times there. SO easy to get dehydrated. I THINK we are almost over it now. Playing major catch up worse than I was to start with. BUT at least no one is puking.
Just a quick update. Bella got the rest of her uniforms today. John took her and finished that for me (thank you John) she is gonna look too cute but I can tell she is gonna hate this thing before its over. very boring. anyway just a quick update and we are continuing to pray for our friend Billy Hall that was in the boating accident that has a severe head trauma. He is in the neuro science hospital at university medical in Jackson Mississippi so please say an extra prayer for him and his family.

NO, I feel fine

QUIT WORRYING MA!

IM busy lol Im scrapping like a person with one day left ..... to put all their memories on paper. OH wait THAT WOULD be the case. I have projects coming out the wazoo. One is a last minute thing I was asked to do and I wasn't thinking and said yes. SO when John gets home from work, I have been Under 3 feet of scrap paper which we call my scrap room and just working. Battling headache from allergies and am just TIRED! SO I nap then get up and scrap some more. ITS FUN THOUGH IM NOT COMPLAINING. I love doing this so it gets these pages done. Even Better that they serve more than one purpose. SO I WILL SHOW YOU WHEN I CAN. I dont have them all done but soem will have to be done by tomorrow, so IF I DONT ANSWER THE PHONE.. IF IM SHORT WITH YOU ON THE PHONE. ITS cuz IM BUsy. I got my Normal due stuff this weekend too and Getting Bella ready for school. LOVE YA!
Now back to work. hugs xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

OOPS almost forgot!

Good morning! I have a few minutes between errands while Bella is filling up on "BuGHsketti". I forgot to put my layout up sorry. Got a hectic day today full of errands and appts. (and FINALLY get my hair cut thank you lord!) Don't forget to check out the uploads by The Treasures To Scrap Design Team. Around The Block was the sponsor this month and they completely spoiled us with goodies. I will Add this now and hopefully get to upload the others tonight when things settle down.



Bella: Mommy! This bughsketti is sooo good its havin' a party in my tummy. ::raises up her shirt:: SEEEEEEEE!



I Thought you would get a smile out of that today Mom!

Also the scores should be sent ughmm I think tomorrow for the 2nd week contest at Treasures. I know several of you have asked. I will get back to you on that so Just check the boards. Sorry gotta run Bella is pulling me out of my chair.

What a weekend

Been a busy weekend around here. Hope everyone has been doing good. I wanted to let you know Royce made it through his surgery and is doing great. Thank you again for all the prayers for him and his family.

ALOT going on at Treasures To Scrap this weekend. We had all kinds of challenges and layouts uploaded. Around The Block is the sponsor this month. They were very generous and we all had a great time playing with their products. THOSE INKERS are to die for. THe paper tagger and the label maker rock too. THey have some of the cutest papers and embelishments. Yall have to check it out In the TTS STORE.


Got alot of projects finished this weekend. I have been scrapping away. Got 2 mailed off Friday for a thing I have been working on. Got 2 more made for sponsors and then another project that is almost done. Got my next challenge done as well I think this was the most fun one yet! Had a blast making it thanks Wendy! You rock sista!

Hope you have a great week.

HAPPY FRIDAY!

HEY yall! FIRST THANK YOU ALL SOOOO MUCH for the prayers for Royce Mcglohon that works with John. He was involved in a VERY SERIOUS accident earlier in the week and IS VERY fortunate to be alive. Your continued prayers will be so appreciated. He is having surgery TODAY to repair the c-5 and c-6 vertebrae in his neck. THey have seen no paralysis and Say he should be back up walking and working in around a month! SO many prayers were answered there. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH for your prayers for he and his family. THey all spend so much time in their vehicles working the way they do and it is so scary. People are so distracted now a days with cell phones etc. SO PLEASE be careful and pay extra attention AND SLOW DOWN! Please remember Royce and his family today as he goes through this surgery and also as he endures his recovery.
THe photos are unbelievable. So amazing he is alive.

Vacation Bible School starts next week at our church so please keep that in your thoughts and prayers as well.

I took my last big dose of the shingle medication (WHEHEHWWW pause for cheers and applause) I feel soooo much better. I just have to wait out the time now so I can be around pregnant people and kids under 2 and older people. I have to be off this med for 2 weeks and shingle free 10 days. That kinda knocks out VBS for us but, AT LEAST I can GET OUT OF THIS HOUSE SOME!!! Going stir crazy here!

We have our SPONSOR UPLOAD TOMORROW at TREASURES TO SCRAP. LOTS OF GORGEOUS creations using AROUND THE BLOCK products. We got SOOOOO MANY COOL THINGS to try out and play with. IM LOVING their products. IF YOU DONT have their paper tagger and little label maker, YOU ARE MISSING OUT. THIS IS THE COOLEST THING! THEIR inkers that have the sanders on the opposite ends are also A FAVORITE around here. I want MORE OF THEM!! SO be sure and check that out tomorrow. I will also Post what I did with them On here. SO check back! ALSO the DESIGN TEAM has SCRAPJACKED the site since the owner is out of town. I hear that a few are running wild with red sharpies. PUTTING moustaches on avatars and having way too much fun. THEY also marked down sooo much stuff in the store and are giving discounts right and left. SO ughmm might better hurry before Tracy gets back hahaha!

Well That is all for now. Miss Bella is ready to Play so we are gonna get to it. Hope you have a great Friday :)

CONGRATULATIONS

To all of the contestants going to the next round in the scrapbook lifestyles stylin' idol contest. I cannot wait to see what the next challenge is.





Week 3's challenge was to use Ribbon in a creative way. Here's what the rules were:
Challenge for Week 3 was.........

You must use ribbon!

You must have at least 1 (one) FOOT of ribbon on your page.

You can NOT tie the ribbon on to anything OR in a bow. (it can NOT resemble a bow at all).
The ribbon can NOT be on your layout in a straight line.
Here's the list of who is moving on...


Allison Cope
Trish Harwick
Tracy Lathrop
Sabrina Kalleberg
Candice Cook
Nancy Jones
Amy Gebhard
Amy Coose
Liz Jacob
Kathy Waller
Davinie Fiero
Karen Reedy
Debbie VanMarter
Tracy Rizzo
Leslie Ashe
Ashley41
Becky Thackston

Congrats everyone! All the layouts were gorgeous! VERY creative!




Here is the Layout I did for this round:

ILL BE BACK

BELLLAAAAASSS HOME. SO I have been busy busy IM NOT SICK so don't worry JUST BUSY and BElla wont let go of my hand long enough for me to type more than this.

OMGOSH YOU WONT BELIEVE THIS!!

SANTA DEFINITLY CAME TO MY HOUSE TODAY!!! THe mail man came and I got this package and I was pretty clueless wtheck is this. John said DON'T OPEN IT TILL I GET HOME cuz I have to get something. Im thinking GET something???? oook. IT has TTS address on it so Im like hmmmm I didnt order anything. BUt I know something sneaky has been going on cuz John had been Talking to Tracy. ANd Robin has been dancing around I know something you dont know. SO Im like OK the gig is up. SO JOhn was on his way home makes me WAIT!!! meanie. HE gets home and says OK YOU can open it. I told him I THOUGHT you had to get something he said I DO... HE goes and gets MY CAMERA. IM like UGHHHHHH NOOOOOOOO I LOOK HORRIBLE what are you doing HELLOOO unwashed hair no shower yet eww go awayyy HE said I HAVE TO.... well ughmm Ok..
SO I open the box heart pounding cuz the box has fragile all over it Im thinking it is too small to be Bella and I didnt hear any little girl giggling. so still mystery to me..... I open it and there is a PRECIOUS CARD that smells all good and some towels. Im like TOWELS? OK SO I reluctantly READ the card first cuz Yall know me and figure Id get to the good stuff but I read it and she says I had this just laying around here and figured you and bella would enjoy it more. SO IM thinking WHAT... AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THE LIGHT BULB COMES ON. TRACY GOT SOMETHING NEW RECENTLY. THE NEW 12 x12 CRICUIT. SOOOOO GUESS WHAT I GOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Towels.

NO IM KIDDING IM KIDDING HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
NO she gave ME HER CRICUIT SHE HAD BEFORE!!!! OMG CAN YOU BELIEVEEE THAT!! I AM BLOWN AWAYYYYYYY! IM so happy and SO PROUD and I was crying and laughing and then I wanted to beat her cuz that is just tooo much. SHe is so funny THe photos was she wanted to see me open it. I wont show you all cuz UGHHHH yall woudl be scared. BUT IM SOOO EXCITED! THANK YOU SO MUCH TRACY you are just one of my truest bestest buds and I just love you to pieces MEAN IT. BUT I know you know all that!
I brag on her constantly and on her site she is rockin cool and so sweet.

Also ANOTHER HAPPY. MY BABY IS COMING HOME TONIGHT!! SHe was cryin this morning she wanted her mommy and daddy. so... they are comin tongiht. which is fine by me cuz I just figured we woudlnt see her for another month cuz THEY WOULDNT EVEN MENTION coming home!! SO LOTS of good news today.. so ughmm I gotta go ... I got stuff to play with stuff to clean fore they get here BYEE!!!!

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!!

HAPPY 4th OF JULY!!! I hope your Holiday is Great and you remember the reason for it as well :)
WE are just hanging out doing the same thing. I am getting LOTS of rest and getting caught up scrapping. SOMe cleaning done that needed to be done. I hope to get Bella's closet organized and her room cleaned good as well ass the carpets cleaned today. Don't really see all that happning but it was fun to think about



IM beginning to wonder if My child is coming home... .Our family back home is at the family reunion today. I hope the weather holds out for them. I wasn't able to go yet. Riding 3 hours one way with shingles... NOT FUN! Also John had to work yesterday and Tomorrow. WE had bad storms yesterday that took the roof off the Wal mart here near us. Well a section of roof. They called it some kind of micro burst or soemthing... They picked every Redneck in Mobile I think to put on The Weather Channel and on Cnn. BUT WE ARE ALL OK so don't worry lol. My phone rang off the hook yesterday with family worrying and friends back home. IT was like 6 or so miles from here not the one we ussually go to that is right by us. I DO Pray everyone was ok. They said there were not but a few serious injuries. I pray they are all ok...

I DO THINK Bella is having fun. DOnt you think so? Does she look the LEAST bit homesick in ANY OF THESE PHOTOS???? I didn't see it. hahahaha I have tried not to call her alot so she doesn't give them a hard time but when we do she is preoccupied and busy having fun so IM GLAD she isn't sad. PRETTY EVIDENT in those pictures HOW SAD she is huh? I think John and I Miss her LOTS MORE than she does us. John comes by me every now and then and says mamamamamama mammamamamamaa mommy, mom HEY MAAAAAMAAA!!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH LET ME IN! Mama get me so and so Mama I want to play with EVAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! This way I don't miss the NOISE huh?
JUST so I don't get quite as missin her sick hahaha! I know she is having a GREAT time at AUnt Liz's playing with the big boys. SHe loves the trampoline and swimming in the pool so we are letting her have fun as long as possible. IM HOPING by next week I can get out some and drive again. This weekend IM gonna TRY and venture out. BUT IF YOU HAVE ever driven IN Mobile... YOu will understand the importanct of making sure you can see well. I think we have the worse drivers here. BUt we are also a HUGE tourist town during the summer with being close to the beach and on the main road to the on the way to florida. SO I want to make sure I CAN SEE and am NOT DIZZY. HA!
We hopefully can be part of the world again. IM getting better and stronger every day so I HOPE soon I will finally shake this shingle crapp. Our VBS starts not this coming week but the next week. SO I Know she is looking forward to that.

Be sure and stop by Treasures and CHECK out the NEWSLETTER. WE have a great sponsor this month and ALOT OF fun coming up. SO be sure and say hello and JOIN IN THE JULY CONTEST! HOpe you have a Happy 4th of July and be sure to Thank our military guys and gals and THANK THEM for what they do TO KEEP US SAFE!