Jennifer Fox kits

Take me away available at SO

Jennifer Fox and Amanda Heimann-Fall frolic available at ScrapOrchard.com

I hate my sister AMY JO

Go here to see WHY!

Two words: JELL US!

Walk to school day

It's walk to school day. Which means the "bus" kids get to walk from the HS to the Elementary. Which basically means wet feet! LOL There is always so much dew on the grass. I might make my group walk AROUND the school on the pavement this year. It's longer but hey we are doing it for exercise right so why not walk around! LOL

Still bothered by the lack of parental involvement lately at our school. I mean, in this economy, with people laid off they have nothing BUT TIME, am I wrong? Grrr...Some people's children. I refuse to let it get to me. I'm going to let it go. I just had to get it off my chest. But for those of you with school aged children. Stop and think about how much time you invest in helping out. Could you do any more? Probably. So why not offer to help out for ONE EVENT PER YEAR. It's an hour out of your life or less. You are not committing to a life sentence people. There...now if I only had the guts to send this to 200 people directly! LOL hahahahaha

Biggest Loser

For goodness sake...why do I BAWL every time I watch this show? God I so feel their pain. That's probably why I feel so emotional when I watch this show. I'm feeling some motivation biting me.

Kristin

I am thinking of you. Good luck with the surgery and I hope you have a speedy recovery. If you need me, just say so! GOOD LUCK, CYBER SISTER!! I'll be thinking of you tomorrow. XOXO MWAH!

Isn't life suppose to be...

Fun?

Do I have to remind certain people of that all the time!? You get out of life what you put into it. I'm giving all I have and yet I still have to pick up the slack for others. Geez...get with the program parents!

one of those days

yep it was...

but the best part was coming home from work to see a shutterfly box laying on the table! Ahhh...my Cali photobook is here! I looked at it really fast and started to get teary eyed so I put it down. I had the best time out there and I am so sad to think that I can't just get in the car and drive to see Shell whenever I want. I'm so lucky to have Bev so close to me. And I'm even more lucky to have the BEST FRIENDS a girl could ask for. TRULY. ok...tears are coming again. Just know this....I LOVE YOU SHELL! You are so fun and I adore you.

And BEV...we need to meet up so I can bring you your book!! And a huge hug!
We really need to plan on a reunion in the spring. I'll start saving my pennys right now!

Ikea bound

Heading to the big blue and yellow store with my sister today! WAHOOO!!! We have decided its time for Will's bedroom make over. I think old fashion Winnie the Pooh and friends has lived it's course. He's now 7 and ready for something new. So we are doing Blue, Orange, and Lime.

His favorite color is ORANGE (go figure) so that was easy enough! Here's what I think we are going to pull our colors from. Some bowls at Ikea. Just love these colors and they are so WILL!

Happy Birthday Zander #11

Yep it's true...he's officially 11 today! Wow...

Shared photo book from Rachel

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Mini Tiger Mascot

This is just PRICELESS! Look at Will's face in the first picture! HAHAHAHA Josh is going to be the TIGER in the parade tomorrow with the Lincoln Parent Group Float. Gotta love having a wife that's the President of the group, eh?! He has to love me right to do this!! MWAHAHA

I almost gag thinking about the GERMS inside this but that's beside the point. Tiger Power all the way! Germs or no Germs! GO HUDSON TIGERS!!!

First Day!

We made it! They are in school and hopefully having a ball. If the morning was any indication as to how the whole day will be they will be just fine. I am happy to report that I did NOT cry this year! yet! Whew...could it be?! LOL Cousin Wendy would be so proud of me! I Premade some layouts over the weekend so I had to do was drop in my photos today! Loving being prepared!

Oh yeah...this kit is by Kristin Aagard called Grade School. Available today at ShabbyPickel for 20% off too! If you have school aged kiddos this one is a must have! Love it! But then again, show me ONE THING Kristin has ever done that I don't love! Go ahead, try! You can't do it!

Woke feeling like total crud too. Stuffy nose, sore throat. Blah. Rainy poopy day. Good day to just lay on the couch.Fifth grade already? How???

My Second Grader! This is my toothless wonder boy! How freaking cute is he?!
And finally, Nana and her boys!

EDIT TO ADD: the font in these layouts are the one and only KRYSTAL HARTLEY'S handwritting. You can get it here.

Two toothless children

Daddy pulled Zander's first. His first "molar" and it has a silver "star" in it. Will see's that his older brother did just fine with his Daddy helping the tooth out so he says, Do mine next. His was more loose than Z's. So with one tiny tug it was out. So I have TWO children going to the first day of School with one less tooth. What a fine day! Ah...tomorrow will come all too soon and I'm more nervous than the boys. They are both very excited and ready to go back to school. Wish I could say the same. I'm gonna miss my boys. How will I ever survive them going off to college? AHhhhh Can't go there. Just going to enjoy what we have NOW!

Been scrapping

Working on a photobook! 34 pages done. I'd say I'm just about half way there. I can't stop smiling. I love my friends!

Miss me yet?

Just wondering...

Pullin' it all in

This turtles pulling it all in for a short while. I'm beyond frustrated with life at the moment and need to regroup my thoughts. I"ll be back next week I'm sure!

I'm Featured!!

I was contacted a few weeks back about being the featured Digital Discovery for ScrapStreet Magazine. It's an online publication. So, here's the article. Read it, Print it, Frame it, and let me autograph it because it will be the one and only time you ever hear me say these words! I'm so proud of myself! How cool is this?! Really!

Thank you to whom ever nominated, noticed, or named me for this opportunity! My first time ever for such an event and I think it's pretty cool that my designers got the opportunity to get their names in print too! It's a win-win for all for sure. Now stop reading my post and go read the article! It won't mean anything unless you read it! heehee

Ritz Toasted Chips

Curse you Nabsico, Kraft, Ritz, whomever makes these evil evil chips/crackers. And as long as I am swearing, I am going to add my Stupid Sister, Amy Jo, to the mix. It's all HER FAULT. She let me try these at her house a few weeks ago when I went up to spend the night. I HATE HER FOR IT. They consume my every food thought. From sun up to sun down. And even in my dreams. I think about these stupid things. Do NOT try them. You will HATE THEM. They are evil. (saying this only so you won't buy them and I can!)In the course of two days or just over 36 hours...I manage to eat (not fully alone in that act-Thanks Zander & Will) the whole stinking bag. UGH...Now I'm out. hmmm...I wonder how long it would take for me to run to WalMart and back at 10:22pm?? So for now, I will just lick my computer screen while looking at this

Jennifer Fox Guest Designer @ ScrapOrchard

My girl Jennifer is the guest at SO for the month of Sept! Wahoo! Can you believe it?! I'm so excited for her! This is really a great opportunity for her! Here's a few layouts with a couple of her new kits.

Home today

I'm not working today as I didn't have any patients. UGH....Not a good sign. I only work 2 days a week and need that pay check. another UGH...

So, not sure what is on the agenda for the day but I am feeling the urge to get out of the house.

Hybrid Lysol Teacher Gift

Here's one of the back to school teacher gifts I have for our new teachers this year. I'm sooo excited about the boys teachers this year. We got some great ones!!! Used Jennifer Fox's new school kit and Krystal Hartley's Study hall kit. Got em some blank cards and filled a tin bucket with office supply thingys. (paper clips, tacks, etc)

Jennifer Fox-Oh SO Silly, Sassy, Studious

OH MY GOODNESS!!! Jennifer Fox is a guest designer at ScrapOrchard for the month of Sept!! Wahoooo! And....on top of that...she just released 3, yes, THREE super cute kits. Here's how I used them! I love love love love the oh so studious one. The color are do die for. I have begged to use this color palate again in more general type kit. Yum, folks! If you can't get the whole collection and can only buy one...GET OH SO STUDIOUS!!! I love that kit!

Cat issues

We have two cats that apparently have lost their minds. They have started peeing on the carpet. So yeah...they just cut their own lives short. Literally. I love my pets but I have to draw the line at that. I put way too much time and money into my house to have it smell like a pisshole. Won't do it. So if anyone has any ideas how to stop this...please share. Otherwise, we will be down two pets at the Stiverson house. I mean it. The kids are so angry with us right now over this but they have no clue what we have done to get our house to this level. HELP!

Kristin Aagard-Camp Out

Kristin has the coolest Camping/Outdoors kit available today! It's called Camp Out available at ShabbyPickleDesigns.com
I love love love this kit! The animals alone are reason enough to buy this kit! She does amazing Original work! I love that she is so into creating her own pieces by hand. Truly one of a kind this way! And of course it is on sale!! SO HURRY!!!

Girls Weekend Here I come!

Just got off the Phone with my BFF (AmyK) and we are doing a girls weekend Oct 2-4. Wahoo!!!
Going to her camper (yes folks...a camper no hotel!) for the weekend to scrapbook and/or just chill out together! GOD I MISS HER!!! I'm so excited. Nothing will stop me this time. I've already cleared the schedule!
So excited, I just had to share!

Jennifer Fox Moving Sale

Jennifer is closing her store at FPD. So go peek and buy what you love! My favorite is the My Flower Garden! You will love it too! The colors are soooo soft and yummy!

My Sister's New Nephew

I went up to stay with my sister last night and take some pictures of her fiances newest little Nephew. He's sooo darn cute! Here's a couple for you all to enjoy.

Krystal Hartley-Study Hall

Little Miss Krystal has a THEMED {*gasp} kit coming out on Saturday at the SSD! It's back to school time~! I decided to NOT do school layout to show you that you don't have to have school kids to LOVE this kit!

Ettes & Co.--Spooktacular

My take on Spooktacular! Don'tcha just love Flat Shelley!! Ahh...It's so fun to play with her still!

Ettes & Co. --Staycation

So the Ettes went all crazy on me and gave me 3 kits at once!! Yay me! So here's what I did with STAYCATION:

Cursing facebook and it's evil ways

So I refused to let myself explore facebook and all it has to offer as I just don't have TIME. well, yesterday, was thee day. I did it. I clicked on some link for FARKLE. Dang it. WHY????? Yes I am screaming that why! Myself and the boys played that for hours on end yesterday. Grr....I hate when I do stuff like that. Now I feel compelled to go there again but I refuse...for now. I'm weak, let's face it. But first, I must work on Parent Group stuff. That's WAY more important. See how I try to convience myself...will it work?? Only time will tell. I'll let you know!

OMG!! Jeff Gordon!

To say that I have ONE HAPPY BOY is probably not enough. This is the very first time I have not had to say...Zander, Smile! I don't think his grin could have

gotten any bigger. Seriously! Look at him!! And we had to call Aunt Barb and Aunt Amy Jo to tell them that we standing at start/finish line in front of the "stage" waiting for the driver presentations. We got a special stamp/sticker from our friend that allowed us access to this event. I think Zander was in heaven. He wrote his name on the start/finish line and got down and kissed it! Yes, I have pictures!! Words are just not enough to explain what a great day we had. I didn't think it could get any better than last time but it did! What a great great great day! I sure hope he knows how lucky he is! Pretty sure he's aware!

NASCAR or bust!

Boogity boogity boogity...let's go racing boys!

Cross all your body parts that our pit passes turn up Jeff Gordon for one 10 year old boy! PLEASE GOD...let him atleast see him. And if you feel so inclinded...an autograph would make his life! TRULY!

Photobook is DONE!!!

I did a photobook for my Aunts recent roadtrip. I worked on it at the retreat last weekend and got 32 pages done there. Then I worked all day yesterday on it and got it done!!! I LOVE IT! I've very very happy with how it turned out. Doing it 12x12 since I put so many pictures on it. I was afraid they'd be too small if we did 8x8. Thank you's go out to Kristin Aagard, Krystal Hartley, Peta Boardman, Designs by Sine, Simply Yin, and Lyndsey Riches for your awesome products that I used to create this book.

Shared photo book from Rachel

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Sleep

ok...I'm so messed up on my sleep schedule! LOL I did manage to catch up this morning. Slept in until 10:30am Yes folks...that's right. I think I might have made it back to my normal amount required to keep me going! Finally! I feel asleep at work yesterday!! No Joke. Just for a split second and hit my head on the counter. I was sitting down with my head on my hand/arm and out I went! LOL

I am up to page 38 with the vacation book for Aunt Barb. I hope she loves it. I am finally at the half way point so that's good!! I feel like I'm running out of creativity and they are all looking the same.
I finally talked to my mom yesterday and she said she throughly enjoyed the adventures of Flat Shelley! LOL Glad to know that it made others happy. I thought maybe it was only my warped sense of humor that found it side splitting funny! I said at one point...if this is still funny in the morning then I will post it. And it was! LOL Still is! hahaha This just might have to become a standard event for me! Taking different people with me to fun locations. Who's next??

Flat Shelley Retired

Or is it just TIRED? Took 142ish pictures of Flat Shelley's adventures and have 962 other photos to sort through. I am missing some so that number will go up. So you will soon be able to see the photos of Flat Shelley's trip. Going to upload them to something today. Lots of them might need an explanation but others are totally a NUFF SAID moment!

Whew...I'm dead tired STILL!

Go with the FLO

Again...NUFF SAID!

Seconds

Sloppy at that! Thanks Shell!

Choc-lick

Nuff Said!

Introducing....Flat Shelley!

Enjoying a cool beverage on the flight from Denver to San Jose! Ahhhh We made safe, tired, but extremely giggly! Oh the stories I have to tell about Flat Shelley sitting on a sleeping lady next to us on the plane. hee hee Evil we were! But hey, she deserved it!

California or bust!

Well, this will probably be the last post from Michigan!! Wahoo!!! I'm so excited. I refuse to let my mind wander to much about as I feel sorta bad that my family and friends are not coming along (other than Bev!) but darn it...I gotta tell ya, I'm pretty darn excited about this trip. For many reasons. The first, is to see Shell again! It's been too long. I'm so looking forward to lots of laughs and goofy photos! Second, Dying to do nothing but scrapbook for two days! Third, Looking forward to seeing the ocean! Forth, umm...can't tell you the 4th reason. Only 2 people know about the 4th reason! LOL Just know it will all be revealed very soon. You will know instantly what reason #4 is once you see the photos! heehee I can't stop smiling! Gotta get #4 packed so I don't forget it! That would be horrible! You know who you are...and I love you for letting me do it! THANK YOU! hahahahaha

oh...the fifth reason...FRAN! I have a cyber friend who lives in San Jose (another one!~) and I have her Phone number and I am hoping to meet with her even if its only for 5 minutes to just say hey and give her a big ole hug! I hope she's ok with hugging! I adore this woman so much. She super funny and we had a heck of a time picking on each other while we were on a CT together. I truly hope we can hook up.
Sixth reason...BEV! We have the BEST TIME no matter where we go or what we do. I can't begin to explain how well we get along and how we just mesh together. She's the best roommate in the world and we laugh about anything and everything. I can't wait!!!

For those of you left behind...you will be there in spirit! I promise to do something special for you while I'm there! heehee Like have a diet coke, chocolate, or maybe even something a little bit Stronger?! Hmmm...should I?
See you all on TUESDAY or maybe before if I have good internet connections at the retreat!

Will's Party

Just adding to Will's Photobook. Trying to finish up his Zoo party. I'm sure I will have lots of time this coming weekend to finish it up!! Whoot!!! 2:30 am Friday morning will come sooo fast!

Meredith Cardall and Kristin Aagard

Meredith has a new kit coming out in a few hours! It's called Lazy Daisy. I love love love the colors in this kit. The papers are super cute!! Available only at ElementalScraps.com

Kristin Aagard's new Zoo Day kit and a template by Carena's Scrapbooking

This is a truly must have kit if you have any zoo type photos. It's super duper cute! I promise! I think it might be her best one yet!! Love it!!!

Round 3 BOTCT

Here's my submission for Round 3 of the battle of the Creative Team contest over at DSA.

We had to come up with a formula that whole team had to follow. Using 10, 9, 8, etc of SOMETHING. We used this formula:

10 circles
9 flowers

8 staples

7 Leaves

6 Animals

5 grass elements

4 Papers

3 photos

2 alpha

1 glitter scatter