well DUH

I couldnt figure out WHY the photo of my box didnt show up.... and then I realised (Ok be easy on my IM SICK REMEMBER and on medication) I didnt upload it. SO I will put it here and then go crawl my dyin butt back to bed. I also realised I left out the LINKS to my recommended sites. GOSH Im batting the full inning here huh!

The links of the sites are (in no order still ok!) www.scrapthatmoment.com , www.theuntamedscrapper.com, www.scrappychick.com, www.scrappersbliss.com, www.scrapstreet.com, and www.thememorysafe.com These are the sites I frequent most. So stop by and say hello LOTS Of amazing talent! Tell me your favorite sites YOU KNOW I am always looking at different places online. OK crawling off to bed. hope your having a great day today!

an AH HAA ROCKIN' moment!

OK I have to get on my box for a moment so everyone step back. I got an invite from scrap that moment/scrappy chicks to do some freelance work for their magazine. I was like OMG OK yeah sure! I am SOOOOO excited about this and floored and shocked (they want me?! gulp!) Anyway I was like sure thing lets see how fast I can fly over and look at that site! OH MY GOSH yall IM so im pressed! that site IS SOOOOO ROCKIN! Their members and staff all have posts IN THE THOUSANDS. Now that tells me something ... THey have a very active community. Ok so I am intimidated a little when I look at the site IT IS SO polished and sooo eye pleasing and just flat out gorgeous. I mean look at some of the sites that are out there people and you will understand IM JUST mouth hanging open at how this place is set up. The graphics are amazing! The people are just so friendly and in one day I had like no less than 8 comments on some of my gallery submissions. SO I was like Oh ok they just want to impress me. SO I go look around and like EVERYONE has tons of comments. I was like well heck yeah. THey have some amazing talent over there I am just browsing and am getting ideas and wanna go scrap (dang kidney stones wont let me do much today SO anyway I highly recommend this site! Yall all know I have my favorites scrappersbliss, The Untamed Scrapper and The memory safe. IN NO specific ORder (I dont want ugly feed back now y a hear) SO TELL ME. What are your favorite sites? WHere do you post your work and why? What impresses you most when you go on a site and what really turns you off to it? I wanna hear from YOU! OH and here is a card box I made yesterday. A good friend of mine's mom was dx with colon cancer and lymphnode cancer. I thought this would be a little cheer me up for her and I am going to make some thank you cards and she can keep the cards she gets in it as well. SHe goes to our church her husband is our Sunday school teacher and I just love them to pieces SO PLEASE keep Mrs. Vicky in your prayers SHe has a great recovery prognosis and is doing real well but is feeling bad and sad and all so just pray for her THANKS YALL ROCK!

The shirt says it all

The shirt says it all. I got this at Great American Scrapbook Convention. I LOVE this shirt and BELLA loves to wear her "crappin turt" she is such a ham. SHe had to strike a pose to show off her scrapbook modeling skills.. NO we havn't created a monster hahahaaha

WHOOPS I did a boo boo. I was wrong about the Hobby Lobby magazine. IT WILL BE IN OCTOBER that it will come out with Bellas sweet face in it. AND at your request since alot of you don't get that magazine here is a VERY ROUGH copy of the page it looks better in person. This is a last years page and has a VERY FUNNY photo that I didnt include on the layout. I had a few tell me to send it in to jay leno for the funny pictures but I DIDNT want to embarass the poor lady so bad but here is the photo YOU HAVE TO LOOK IN THE BACK GROUND I felt so sorry for her but dadgum we have laughed our tails off at that poor woman. That is so my luck ya know but ussually IM the one IN the picture not taking it. WE had no idea this was on the photo till we got the photos developed. Im standing in wal-mart and the photos are on the screen and Im about to wet my pants Im laughing so hard at it and finally the little dude behind the counter comes around and is like OK WHAT is so funny and I showed him. WEll then he calls over his buddies they call over theres by the time it got around we had like 30 people staring at the kodak machine in tears cuz the poor ladies face just says it all. IF YOu know this lady tell her THANKS FOR letting us laugh at her and IM SO SORRY I didnt purposfully take this picture but man we appreciate it!

good news/bad news

what do you want first? good news? bad news? Ok good news? ok. WELL good news I have 3 pubs in the last few days. I got freelance designer for scrappychic, I got a magazine pub for scrapstreet magazine and I was notified today I will be in september's hobby lobby magazine. I have to mail the layout in because it has shadows on it when I scan it sooo hubby will do that tomorrow for me. I applied for an amazing design team, scrapper's bliss where I met my friend Jeanne. We both are up for it and I pray at least one of us gets it IT WOULD SO ROCK if both of us got it. I just am not sure if I will cuz there are SOME AMAZING scrappers that are up for it and after looking at the ones that submitted well, Im not gonna hold my breath BUT I SOOOOOO WANT THIS MORE THAN ANYTHING I LOVE that site and MAN ITS ROCKIN! SO I got all my fingers toes and anything else I can cross CROSSED. NOW.... the bad news... DR appt. the suckola part of my day today. I have endometriosis... again well it never goes away it gets better and worse. well He said IT doesnt get much worse than this that the only things I could do was either TRY MY DANGDEST to get pregnant and then have a hysterectomy or to go on and have a hysterectomy and since I had so much trouble with Bella having and carrying her whatever guess what my option is.... which is not all bad news I would be feeling ALOT BETTER and not have all these problems anymore. BUT the down side... you knew it was coming. I have to wait till I pass all these kidney stones before we can do the surgery sooo we are looking to August. NOT FUN so another month of suffering before I can do this. yehaw fun. I have mixed emotions I mean.. this makes it FINAL NO more babies. whatsoever it is permanent I mean once they take it out there aint no puttin it back ya know... that is the part I dont like but I KNOW I KNOW it is for the best. I just hate the finality. I always wanted lots of kids. this just settles it and I know we prayed for one healthy baby and I should not be greedy and ask for another and ANY other child we had would probably have a major complex cuz I woudl have to figure a way to scrapbook their life like I do bellas and MAN that would be a job lolol well I know this is for the best I just have to mourn my female organs for a few minutes and Ill be fine. THE GOOD PART. NO MORE MONTHLY MONSTER yipeee!

Toot toot tootin

OK so I GUESS the "wocks" in my tummys as my DD Bella says Just may be my good luck Wocks I mean rocks. I GOT ANOTHER TOOT! Hobby lobby just sent me an email to publish Bellas Pumpkin Patch page. MAN this has been an exciting last few days .... Kidney stones... publish.. kdiney stones... publish... IF they didnt hurt so bad I might just keep em around a few more days to see if some payin gigs come through AHH Oh well Ill just have to pray harder. SOOOOO If You have a hobby lobby near you. Bellas sweet face will be in the September edition it is called at THE PUMPKIN PATCH.

fourth july layouts

WELL here is the layout from fouth of July. Our across the street neighbors have a little girl Eva Caroline that is 5 months older than Bella and they are the best of friends. Every day Bella crys and crys wanting to go play with Eva. SO they met in the front yard daddy's in tow and shot fireworks. well the stomped on snaps. They weren't quite strong enough to make them pop just throwing them. SO they stomped them which they thought was GREAT fun! Bella didnt care for the sparklers and every time they lit something she covered her ears cuz she thought it would be loud. It was really cute but I felt so sad for her because I know it scared her. THEY LOVED for Bradlee (my nephew) to pull them in the wagon he made it OH SO FUN. They ate watermelon and played babies and princesses the rest of the evening. Im so glad she has such a sweet little girl across the street to play with.

MORE GOOD NEWS

I just got an email from scrappy Chic magazine to be a freelance artist for their site. They will let me know when they need projects or "fill ins" and Ill do pages to go intheir magazine for product HOW MUCH DOES THAT ROCK!!! whehwhew THat will make the kidney stones feel better

IM PUB'D!

WELL come AUGUST it will be official. YOu will see Bella's stinkin cute face in Scrapstreets magazine! YEAHHH!!! My splish splash layout is officially published. IM in the run off for the cover SO keep your fingers crossed. I won't know who got it till later on in the month but IM so excited! YIpeee!! She said I could keep the page on my blog so I didn't delete it. It is further down my blog though.

They shall be called payne agony and ouch!

Well so far so good. I have passed 3 kidney stones. I thought I was done at 2 but no no no had to pass one more just for good measure. Carol Burnett once described childbirth pain as to take your bottom lip and pull it over your head. Im not sure that is how Id describe it but lets just say Im still walking funny. I PRAY that is it, being I took the last of the medication they gave me. I have a gyno appt tomorrow at 2 45 to see about the cyst I pray it is something that is easily fixed and We dont have to go through a HUGE drawn out process. I REALLY DO NOT have time for this! Then THURSDAY I have a urologist appt. I guess it would be just silly to have the appt WHEN IM ACTUALLY IN PAIN! whatever... I just hope it goes away and stays.

Happy 4th of July everyone

Hope you are having Lots of fun today on this 4th of July. I hope you get to see LOTS of beautiful fireworks, Eat way too much bar be que and watermelon and ice cream etc and Thank God for our country and our independence today.

PHOTOS FINALLY of the New edition to the family

WELL here she is... FINALLY I have photos of the new ride.. Happy now? ROFL

I wasnt INTENDING on getting a new car NOR did I want a new car... But isnt it pretty. Rides good too. 2007 Toyota Camry still has the new car smell. Bella says Its her car. That is ok with me. I really wanted the Highlander till I saw consumer reports and saw the gas mileage it got so Im the happy owner of a new car. I guess it is time to grow up and be a car driver now. I miss my truck but... we really did need a car with Bella.

Even wumms

A conversation I had with my Dear 3 year old Bella today went like this: BElla: Mommy! Jesus loves everyone ya know. Mommy: Yes Bella Jesus loves everybody. Bella: Even wummms! Mommy: Yep Even wums. Bella: Jesus loves this wumm and Bedda cubber hims up wiff dut... cuz he deayahed. Mommy: Ok... WEll are we having a funeral for him... Bella: HUH? why Bedda have fubertawel? Mommy: No a funeral. Its when something dies and you bury it and say good things about it. Bella: sigh.. NO Bedda just cuvbered hims up wiff durt cuz bedda wike it. Mommy: OK. a few minutes pass... Bella: Mommy EYe a wittle bowey today. Mommy: A little boy? I thought you were mommys beautiful princess. Bella::: TOTALLY ANNOYED:: BEDDA NOT A BOOTIFUWL CINCESS TODAY MOMMY BEDDA BOOTIFUL CINCESS TOMOWOWW!!! SO this is what we did today on a cloudy Sunday afternoon.

True love

Here isa sneak peak of a layout i did that will be featured in this months VIEW at www.theuntamedscrapper.com We had some photo and paper challenges. This is just one of them. You should check out the site we have some great talent there.

Why is it that the ones you trust the most hurt you the most. It never fails.... every day I find something else out about this friend or shall I say who I THOUGHT was my friend. I continue to pray for her. She is in a bad way right now. BUT I am learning My husband is the best friend I will ever have. I am so thankful to him. HE is pretty mad that I helped the friend out and got suckered into the situation and it has put us in a bad way financially for a small while but I have learned a HUGE lesson and IT WILL NEVER happen again.... the fact he has forbid it also helps lol. I guess I should listen to him more. It seems though that when something happens like this it makes us stronger. I dont know if it is because we have to work together to get through it or what, but it shows he is every bit the man I have always thought he was and will be. I thank GOd for him.

agony despair and no good news

WELL.. ONE of these days there will be good news to share... NOT TODAY. well a little today but to start it off. Hubby has a swollen eye so he had to go to optomotrist first thing this morning. seems he got something foreign in it and it got infected... so he is home today. Im having female problems from that blame cyst on my ovary and after having kidney stones earlier (why do they follow each other each time) Im ready to scream im so sore. Called the nurse she said if it gets worse to go in for a ct that it sounds like it could have ruptured. and that I sound like I am getting anemic (ya think? there is gonna be nothing left in me before long!) She told me to drink a large glass of OJ and take a strong multi vitamim ????? Ok did that. and then I ate a good dinner. and believe it or not I FEEL MUCH BETTER. It has slacked off some now and I can sit at the computer. IM so tired of feeling crappy. They already had told me to come in and they were gonna look at taking the cyst cuz I keep having so much trouble.. maybe it will be gone but please let there be no other trouble from it. Im ready to just say TAKE IT ALL OUT and be done with it. They said I shouldnt have any more kids anyway... well I was told not to have Bella either and well That turned out ok but I wont be selfish I got one healthy kid why chance it and do that again.

Nuttin much happnin just scrappin

WHEWHEW stones gone! Feeling almost human! I think I am gonna take Bella to the library tomorrow. We have to return some of her books and maybe get lunch or something. It's just so hot or we would go to the zoo or something outside she loves to be outside. I love to be able to spend so much time with her now. She is turning into quite the little scrapbooker For 3 years old. Here are some pictures I took tonight. SHe was determined to use some of my punches even though they are hard to punch. Other than that....It is kinda quiet tonight Got alot of email to catch up on and I did make that second page of the swim layout. It didnt come out real well in the photo. BUT, the pictures are so cute. I need to get this scanner hooked up John's sister gave me. I dont know where the disc is but I guess I can d/l the drivers off the internet LOVE xp!

Nuttin much

Not feeling really great today. I have an ovarian cyst. And when I get kidney stones OMG it really inflames it. I guess they touch or something but man it hurts. SO I was on the heating pad all day uploading. Took my Demrol and uploaded some layouts to www.theuntamedscrapper.com where I am on the design team. GO CHECK OUT MY GALLERY. I just added alot of older layouts I did. BUT I have some newer ones on there too.... they are just further down the line. I know I KNOW but I tried to switch the order but It wont let me ::sigh:: Check out "The View" While your there too. It is our newsletter we publish through the site has some great tips etc in it. We went to eat with the neighbors tonight WITH THE neighbors Isnt that funny. No it is a cool little resteraunt that has like home cooking (awesome mac and cheese) John had helped the neighbors with some stuff they had helped us with some stuff so we went out to eat there cuz it is cheap cheap and SOOO GOOOOD. It is all you can eat for like 7 bucks I CANNOT FEED JOHN a meal for 7 bucks that he can get full on (my hubby is a big man) SO there ya go! I have alot of posting catching up to do on some other sites as well. I just havnt felt good and got alot going on. What? How am I liking my new car? How sweet of you to ask.... ITS OK. It is a car. IT ISNT MY TRUCK:: pout:: and since IT WAS ALMOST PAID FOR it would have been great so Im still pouting. Yeah I KNOW I got a new car I should be happy but we have 5 years of payments also... now I gotta eventually find a job (that sux dont it) and Bella cant go to school but a couple days of week cuz we cant afford it and the new car and the insurance and paying off the medical bills soooooooo. SInce I had to have a new car cuz my truck would have cost us more in the long run.... IM sitting home. AHH it is good for me. My house is getting organized and the living room is cleaner than it has ever been (i took all bellas toys and threw em in her room said THERE KEEP EM IN THERE NOW) didnt work but I tried rofl OK I gotta go lay down Im getting dizzy. muuuuah GO check out my gallery at untamed! DONT FORGET OK? OK!!! AND IM looking for a cool DT to be on so. Lemme know if you know of anyone looking :)

Teaching at gasc..... blowfish??? ahhhhh!

OK so I look at these photos and think EWWW! I hate PREDNISONE. I have blown up so bad like a puffer fish. Thank God Im not on them anymore so ANY DAY now it is gonna come off.. any minute... any second now. waiting....... NOT SO patiently. ANyway... these are the pics from teaching the classes at Great American. This is just one of the classes I instructed. IT was fun. The classes well, this one was not as full I think it was 19 people, or 22 I can't remember now but the smallest was 9 for the mini pages the first day. But the big one was 34. I was screamin cuz we had no volunteers and this sweet lady whom I cannot remember her name to save me, helped me out, I was about to lose it. It was a hard class to teach on top of that and we had just got the stuff in the night before so I had no clue what I was suposed to be doing and some of my supplies were missing and NO SLEEP. (blah blah blah blah blah) BUT I made it through, it is over, No one was injured in the process (cuz i was too darn tired) and I aint doin it again so whewww. That was the most work for no pay I ever did. Mark that under LESSONS LEARNED.

splishin and a splashin' with flair

oh what fun it is to pish pash in a fwimmin pool! I love this photo of Bella. I can just hear her squealling and laughing. She had so much fun that day at "Aunt Biz's" I love the pp from flair designs. The stickers are amazing. I used them around the photo. THe photo turns are basic grey, and I inked them with orange inks. the brads are from accent depot. I LOVE the orange grossgrain ribbon it is wild asparagus and the little clippy doos are around the block. THIS IS SUCH fun product to play with I HIGHLY recommend going RIGHT NOW do not finish reading this GO NOW..... and get this fun paper cuz trust me IT WONT be at your lss long! NOW show me your summer layouts TAG! (what are you doing still reading this I SAID GO NOW GO GET SKEEEDADDLE to your lss and get this!!) rofl

my scrap room~ before

OK DONT LAUGH! ITS A MESS. what else is new huh.. that means im busy rofl this is one of the pics and my little mess maker in the center.I have boxes all over right now cuz we cleaned out the attic for the garage sale. SO I will update the pic after I get it looking better HAHAHA that could be ughmmmmm.....well you understand