Got the box

I got the box of goodies from M2R and I'm ready to get working but I feel like p%p! My ear is starting to ache now and its friday! The dr. office is closed until monday, they have a walk in clinic but I could be there for hours. No way! CVS has a clinic in the store I wonder what the cost is for an ear check. I wish joe would get home so I can have some down time, he's being getting home after 8pm most nights.

Brrrrr

It's 55deg at 6pm at my house and nico is running around naked. That boy will not keep his clothes on, now he's complaining that his legs are cold. @@ Then put on your pants.

I dug around my closet looking for some mini-books to use and I've come up empty. How could that be, guess where I'll be heading on Saturday.

I've been tagged!

by Sarah.

The Rules:
You must list one fact about yourself for each letter of your middle name. Each fact must begin with that letter. If you don't have a middle name, just use your maiden name. After you've been tagged, you need to up-date your blog with your middle name and answers. At the end of your post, you need to tag one person for each letter of your middle name.

My middle name: Lyn

L - Leo - I was born in August
Y- YMCA - I joined the Y just for the indoor racquetball courts.
N-native floridian

3 pages

I cut out the rockets & a few stars to pop them off the page. Heidi Swapp chipboard letters, Basic Grey paper & letters. I cut a couple of photo corners out of the paper
H and the ball pit - Bisous chipboard letters, Scenic Route paper and CI fuzzy brads (love them) and a ScrapWorks fabric tag.

One about me, very simple and used up scraps.

Even better news!

I've been picked as the guest designer for the March Moments to Remember kit! Check it out.

I've been picked!

I'm featured on Moments To Remember website as the "pick of the week". They choose my "boots" page as the page of the week. Check it out on the front page. This is so cool, I've never had a page picked out to showcase and it feels AWESOME.


Other than finding out about M2R pick of the week & surfing the net, I didn't do anything crafty today other than sketch out some pages and clean up my space.

H. had Chick-fil-a nite for a school fundraiser so we headed over there around 6pm for dinner and meet/greet with everyone. The boys always have fun running around the play area and going up the slide instead of down. Nico spent the evening running in and out of the playarea, I guess he was checking to see if we abandoned them.

well its been 3 hours

I got sidetracked by the boys and had to get nico settled down for a nap.

Here's challenge #4 - stitching -real or fake

Challenge #1 f00d - 3 photos, 2 diff. ribbons & 2 diff. pattern papers.

Challenge # 6 - matching embellishements, same colour

so far....

I've completed 2 of the challenges. I need to pics as soon as I finish the 3rd one which will be in about an hour. Check back later.

tired

I worked the all day crop yesterday at the doodle, Jen & I left the house at 7.15am and didn't get home until 11.45pm. I didn't fall asleep until after 1am and the boys got me up at 7am, ugghh.

There's a cyper-crop going on at ScrappyGirlsDesigns with 10 challenges that I want try to complete today. I better get busy.

Nothing today

H. was down today due to a double ear infection and bad allergies. He was miserable most of the night and morning. he took a long nap and woke up at 1pm demanding to go back to school 'because i'm all better'. Poor boy wants to go to school and mommy tells him no.

Jen picked up Nico this afternoon and went over to the doodle to drop off food and then dinner. What a lucky boy. Henry was little bit concern about aunt cissy taking nico, he asked Jen to bring back his brudder by 5 days. I just talked to Jen and the little bud is doing fine and acting all lovey-dovey.

one more for today

I'm liking these challenges that I have come across on some sb boards. This one is about the daily "things" you do. I only did my a.m. to-do's.

goofs

I did a b/w photo! We did all match in this photo - boys blue oxford, joe in a green polo & i in a perwinkle blue shirt - yes it matched. Again those Bisous letters, 7 gyspies gaffer tape and misc pieces of stuff from a bin. I'm liking those fuzzy brads from CI they're pretty much dust free.

Lunar eclipse

I set up the tripod & camera and messed around with the settings. I really couldn't tell what I was getting, my vision is horrible. They were all done in manual mode. Once the moon started to dim, you can make out the surface ever so slight.

First pic I set iso1600 1/40s f/29 - start of the LC.
Then i started messing around trying to get away from the burn out effect. iso1600 1/2s, f/13.
It started to cloud up during the "fill up" - i dropped the iso100, helped with burn/solar spots. f/22 s/2.0
Cropped in 100% iso100, 4.0s, f/16
Getting darker out, bumped shutter speed down 6.0s f/16 iso100

Last pic of the night before the clouds rolled in for good - 8.0s, f/16, iso100

Challenge layout

Now its working....
I did a challenge from Scrappy Girl Designs forum - 5 buttons, 1 flower, 1 odd shape, 1 pat. paper & 1 sheet of cardstock. This page came right together.
Fancy Pant felt pieces, Bisous chipboard letters, Basic Grey paper, Bazzill cardstock and one scrapworks fabric tag.

Tuesday

Well I guess I have to do laundry today, H is out of uniforms and I need some gym clothes. I can't even walk down the hallway without jumping over the pile in front of the machine, need i say more.

H is in school today and woke up with an earache late last night, hopefully he'll survive today. The pedi rarely gives us antibotics for ear infections so what's the point of going and paying $20 for that. If he's still complaining after school then I 'll call and see if they'll send in a script to the pharmacy.

I want to do some pages today, I could be doing a page now while nico is in the backyard digging a hole to Australia. He wants a kangaroo, silly boy.

12x12 version & a keychain

I did a 12x12 version of 'real life' for the dt. The only difference is a bigger picture and some paint under the journaling.

Here's a keychain made with the CI creative cafe tags. I added some contact size pictures, rub-ons and that cool felt ribbon.

2 boys today

h. is out of school today so i had to entertain to whippersnappers today. we finally got out of the house around 11am and picked up joe for lunch. We took joe back to work and headed over to target to check out the $1 spot. The spot was picked over so we moved on to the v-day aisle - 75% off. H picked out a plushy dog for .75 and i found some mini m-m's in packets. H. loves having mm in his yogurt so the mini pre-packaged is perfect for his lunch. Nico found a watercan in the pool aisle, the boy loves watering cans and H wanted another bug jar. An hour later we finally check out and head back home. Nico is down for a nap and henry is whining that he didn't get to help make ice tea, he didn't want to help me when I asked him to and then pitched a fit when I finished making it. What ever kid.

2 pages

Did this page using nothing but scraps of paper except for the main sheet of cardstock. This is nico having or should I say wearing some peas. Finally used the inque boutique circle stamps I bought last year.

This photo documents h. love for tape. He taped himself up so well that I had to cut his shirt off of him. He also had nico's sitting toy all wrapped up and he was dragging poor nico around with him. I printed the journaling but I'm too tired to walk to joe's room to get it.

Wasted day

Jen, Cynthia & I headed over to Stampfest in Clearwater today. I was good, spent only $12 on some unmounted stamps. I'm working on some pages right now and need to mount the stamps so I can use them.

We spent 4 hours at the show! The only reason we left the show was to get food. Cynthia said let's go to the Pirogies place for some food. We had mushroom & sauerkraut pirogies and potato & cheddar cheese pirogies. Yummy!

After we dropped off Cynthia, we headed over to the Y for a few games of racquetball and some puking. just kidding. We played 2 sets in an 90 mins, we hovered at 11/13 for the longest time and then I kicked her butt! Next time she gets to serve first.