Windy City

I'm off to the Windy City for a Dental Convention. See you all next week.

Boogity Boogity Boogity!

Let's go racing boys!! Oh sooooo close for Gordon this week. Man...It's like he gets right there but just can't finish the job. Las Vegas here we come! Third times the charm, I hope! GO #24~
Oh how I have missed my NASCAR! Glad the season is back in full swing!

GO GORDON! You will be in the winners circle next week!!

Mad rush

Trying to get my layouts done before I head out of town this week. I have to go to Chicago for a Dental Convention. Sine has some really cool templates coming out on Friday. Here's a few layouts using them. Kristin has a really cool new kit coming out and I got those layouts done. But can't post. The Ettes have a new kit coming out as well. Got 3 layouts done using that kit. But can't post those either. So yes, you can say I had a productive few days. But not much to show for it! LOL

So I am still dealing with this sinus crap. I have now developed a nice cough to go along with the stuff nose. Life is just so unfair.

My sister and I went to Ikea yesterday. Had a blast. Took along a little friend of mine too. Can't really go into details on that little event yet either! LOL So secretive, aren't I?
I promise once I can share all this fun stuff with you all, I will.

I have been short one son all weekend. The oldest went to stay with his Aunt Abby in Bowling Green. Josh has been gone all day. Work. So it's just been Willy Bob and I home alone all day today. He's been playing Club Penguin and coloring all day. And I have been on the computer getting stuff done.

So I suppose you all want the back story on the weird al layout huh?! LOL Well, my girlfriend/coworker wore this half wig to work on Thursday and for whatever reason, my boss got the bright idea he was going to put it on. Well I didn't believe him. And when he walked into the room at lunch with it on, he literally scared me. I jumped because I had no clue he had put it on. You know how you can just tell when someone is standing behind you, well I turned to look because I knew he walked up behind me. Well this is what I saw! I ran to get my camera. And he actually stood there and let me take his picture. Silly silly man. Does he not comprehend the word BLACKMAIL?! We laughed very hard for awhile and little did we know that our next patients had come into the office. And we are all are in the back laughing so hard. So I ran up to use the restroom before lunch was over and there they were. Sitting there in the lobby wondering what in the heck was happening because we were laughing so hard and loud they heard us. So he of course had to go up front and show them. Oh...days like this make all the crappy ones worth it! He really does have a great sense of humor when he chooses to share it. It's just that he doesn't share it very often.
Well I also made the comment that it looked like a mop. And I said it reminded me of the swiffer commerical where the mop keeps trying to get back inside. And the song, Baby Come Back, is playing in the background. So all day long...we would move our own mop around the office with a sign on it that read, "Baby Come Back". It was extremely funny! It would be in the bathroom, the break room, the kitchen, our exam rooms, the waiting room. You get the idea. Cathy would stick it up behind the door so only I could see it and make me laugh while working on a patient. And then my last patient put on the wig and had it on when he walked into my room to do her exam! It was a classic!

Meredith Cardall-Honey Bee Mine

Dude by Ettes and Co.

just a few layouts using the newest Ette's kits.

Jen Maceyunas-Christmas Cheer

Yep leave it to me to use a Christmas kits for something NOT Christmas. I don't get to use pink to often so I can, I do! These are my girls! Four legs and all! Ginger, Libby, & Sophie. If it weren't for them I would be out number by the boys! heehee Girls RULE in our house!

Meredith, Ettes, ADSR & Sick

This for the bonus challenge at ADSR.

Family Collection by the EttesFamily Collection by the Ettes

Honey Bee Kit by Meredith with a splash of Ashley! Rock it girls!

oh yeah..the SICK part...just got back from the doctors and I have 1. Ear Infection, 2. Sinus Infection, and 3. Urinary Tract Infection, and was tested for Strep throat. So yeah...good times around here for Me! NOT!!!

Ettes & Co.

Using: Feeling Happy
Using: Mom's Life
Using Be My Guest

Using Be My Guest.

Just a few more views of the Ette's stuff. And yes, that's Bo and Hope Brady. We go way back! We've been friends for years and in honor of Valentine's Day coming up, I thought I would scrap my Favorite Couple of all times! LOL Such a Days of our Lives Freak! My sister is too so I have someone to share my passion with too!

Love with all your Soul

Credits: BRAND NEW KRYSTAL HARTLEY!!! Coming soon to ScrapOrchard called Oh NO you didn't!!

Template by Tracy Blankenship of FPD.

Play Just be a kid

Colie's Corner-City Boy

Credits: Colie's Corner-City Boy kit available at GottaPixel.net

Ok I have the strangest child in the world. Zander is just such a nut. I don't know whatelse to say about him. He wraps my scarf around his head and walks around the house like that for a while the other day. I asked him what he was doing and he just looks at me and muffles thru the scarf: Being a terrorist. Like it was just the dumbest question I could have asked him. So that really gets me thinking. He's 10. I can't even imagine what runs thru his mind about that topic at age 1o. How sad is that we live in a nation that kids that young know about stuff like that? I am sure someone along the way will take offense to his comment but hey, its called REAL LIFE deal with it. I am sorry he has to even know what they look like. And I am not going to cover my tracks and not share something just because it might offend. Tough toenails folks...unfortunately that's life now. And sometimes the truth is painful.

ADSR Challenge #12

This challenge was an Intersection: Meaning one layout but both of us had to work on it.
The challenge was to talk about how you got into scrapbooking and what it means to you.
You had to include a picture of each racer in the lower right corner with the whole focus on your journaling. You had to have atleast 5 embellishments and no more than 2 sheets of paper and you had to use their word art (we are StoryTellers).
Journaling can be read by clicking on the layout, it will take you to the printed words.

ADSR Challenge #11

So...What the heck you might be saying?! LOL The challenge was to ask someone ONE Question. It could be anyone, Dead or Alive, Friend or foe. I chose as my SOMEONE, Hannibal Lector! LOL I wanted to know, "Is it true that you don't eat clowns because they taste funny?"

It's a burning question and one that I want answered. My next choice was the Trix Rabbit. I was going to ask him, " Why ARE trix just for kids?" or how about: "How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Tootsie Pop?" See there are things that keep me awake at night. I am not nor will I ever be a DEEP THINKER. Its all about the humor with me folks. Anyone who knows me, can back me up on this one. I can count on one hand the number of times I did anything that required truly DEEP THOUGHTS. Even my own wedding had humor built right into it. As did the birth of my children and anything else that have ever meant something to me for the most part. So if you don't like this, tough. I didn't do it for you!

Ettes and Company stuff

Just using the Ettes things!!! Yep...you can safely say, ADDICTED to ETTES and Co. ahhh...live is sooo good right now!

Be My Guest - Ettes and Co.

Here's another soon to be released kit by the Ettes called Be My Guest. It was originally put together to be parts and pieces of a book that could be used at weddings, showers, funerals, etc. You know...a guest book. But since I don't like to use things for their original intent, I did a birthday layout! LOL

I'm An Ette's Girl

Got something exciting to share....Look here!Here's my first layout for them! Using a really pretty kit called Mom's Life. And a template by Sine of Scraporchard called SO Bec 2. Off to work...will link up tonight after work.

Holy Sale

I was just surfing around a few of the stores I love to look at and I stumbled onto this sale at FPD. There are a couple links under the Clearance I and Clearance II....And when I say SALE I mean SALE...Like were are talking some things for a freaking quarter?! I kid you not...go look. WOW?!! I get nothing for promoting this but when I see a sale like this...I have to share it with my Homies!

Kristin Aagard-Sweet Love

Such an awesome kit. The alphabet has little twinkles on them! And her mixture of Real and whimsy is pure genious again!

I WON!!!!

Look here to see it to believe it!!

THANK YOU SO MUCH. This week is just amazing. I got more wonderful news last night that I can't share just yet. But soon!!!

I'm giddy with excitement. Getting my hair done today too...ahhh...its a GREAT WEEK! After last week, anything is an improvement.

ADSR Challenge #9

For ADSR 4 Challenge #9 by KB and Friends

1. 2 generations : I have 3

2. Lace

3. Old Metal: Frames and key

4. Atleast one flower: Pink Daisy

5. Atleast one Vintage item: Clock and book

Credits: Background Paper, key, clock, book: Kristin Aagard-Pieces of him

Lace, flower: Kristin Aagard-Pretty in Pink at GottaPixel

Frames and pin: Designs by Sine: SO useful Frames and SO useful Pins at ScrapOrchard

Fern: Meredith Cardall-Singing in the Rain at ElementalScraps

This was terribly hard for me. I am soooo not a vintage type of scrapper. So it if doesn't have that true vintage feel...that's cause I have no clue how to get that way! LOL