Saturday, May 20, 2006

Birthdays and Cousins




Jeff's family has a birthday party tradition - anybody's birthday is a reason to have a gathering. Today was Jeff's mom's birthday. Grandma - as the kids call her. We always like getting the little ones together - they are all so close in age. Arielle just happened to match her two cousin brothers - they were all dressed in blue.



Saturday, May 13, 2006

Granny blows bubbles


We visited my mom's on mother's day weekend. She had a bottle of bubbles that she brought outside where we were sitting. Turns out bubbles aren't just for little ones.






Thursday, May 11, 2006

Spring photo shoot


My son had an art show at one of the local museums. He's in the talented art program. I wonder where he gets it from.. For some reason he only wanted me to go with him. Maybe he didn't want his little sister running around the museum eating all the pizza and cookies. Anyway - we went. The art by all the students was just awesome.

We turned the trip into a photo shoot. I don't have any spring photos of my son because I never got the sping photos that they took at school. The spring photos are always the best. Well, I'll never know. Why?He threw them away. Yes, that is what he said. He didn't like them. Okay - so I'll have to take his word. Even so - I have no new photos of him. I can't believe he cooperated. Maybe it was because I told him he looked cool. Maybe because I let him wear the pink jacket. I don't know - but he totally got into this photo shoot. I think he'll let me take more pics of him. Maybe it's because he's growing up.









Monday, May 01, 2006

Well... true cause of tiredness

at least according to Mike at Creative Leisure News:

WHY I AM TIRED
For a couple of years I've been blaming it on lack of sleep, not enough sunshine, too much pressure from my job, etc. But now I found out the real reason: I'm overworked. Here's why:

The population of the U.S. is 273 million. 140 million are retired – that leaves 133 million to do the work. There are 85 million in school. Which leaves 48 million to do the work.

Of this there are 29 million employed by the federal government, leaving 19 million to do the work. 2.8 million are in the armed forces, which leaves 16.2 million to do the work.

Take from the total the 14.8 million people who work for state government and that leaves 1.4 million to do the work. At any given time there are 188,000 people in hospitals, leaving 1,212,000 to do the work. And there are 1,211,998 people in prisons, leaving just two people to do the work.

You and me. And there you are sitting on your butt, at your computer, reading jokes. Nice, real nice.

Friday, April 28, 2006

Practice, practice and more practice







I'm practicing. I'm not even in the ballet and I'm practicing. I'm practicing making my daughter's ballet recital hair bun. I've made buns in my own hair, but never in a little girls. She had class photos taken this week and this was my first attempt at getting her hair fixed. This is MY first time doing her hair, and her first hair bun, so I thought it was worthy of a photo.

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Tagged Again!

Oh, no! I've been tagged again. This time by Catherine. Okay, here goes!

5 Things in my fridge:
orange juice
grapes
alfalfa sprouts (no kidding!)
milk
leftover rice a roni
5 things In My Closet:
jeans & T's
dresses/skirts
hubby's clothes
saxaphone (really, I promise)
quilts
5 things in my Purse:
gum
keys
checkbook
photos
scrapbook receipts
5 things In My Car:
umbrella
extra phone book
car seat
empty water bottles
toys
5 things On My Tivo:
On my Tivo:

I don't HAVE a Tivo!!!

Okay - so now I have to tag some people. Hmmm.... okay - how about Samantha
and one more...
Joan!.

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Old photos


I love looking at old photos. I always have. This photo is my mom (left) and her mom. They look like sisters to me. I never realized how young my grandmother must have been when my mom was born. To me, even 20 is young. They are so cute here - they even have their arms locked together. It makes me realize how much my grandmother must have missed my mom when she married my dad and he swept her away into Air Force life. - Oh, Nancy Jean, if you are reading this and want a copy of this pic - just let me know.

Monday, April 24, 2006

Dora Live

I took Arielle to Dora Live earlier this month. The Basic Grey Color Me Silly papers were perfect for the colorful photos. I just got Flair's new RUB ONs! (yeah) so I used them on a big brad and the tag. They go on like butter!



Sunday, April 23, 2006

Welcome Home, Emery







Emery is a fellow scrapbooker who is also graduation from Louisiana Tech University in a few short weeks in graphic design. She just got back from a trip with fellow art students to France. I'm so jealous - not only do I envy her completing college in art - but I was born in France and wish I could have went. She sent us a pic - so I celebrated her trip by creating this layout. The papers are a monet painting by Paper House Productions (some I rec'd in my CHA -W Designer Goodie Bag). If you double click the layout - it will pop up larger. I doubt Em will ever see this blog - but just in case - we are all glad you are home!

Sunday, April 16, 2006

Eggs, More Eggs - Me thinks it's Easter

I snapped these pics right before we headed to church. Believe it or not - Daniel's shirt is a NEW shirt specifically for Easter Sunday, and I had a time getting him to put it on.



We went to the park for an egg hunt, well, not actually a hunt - since the eggs were just laying in the grass. It was more like a pick up as many as you can before they are all picked up game. And my little darling left 20 eggs laying at her feet to dash to the end of the field to pick up one egg, and enjoyed every minute of it.








And if we didn't have enough eggs..... The kids did the egg coloring thing this weekend. Glitter eggs, sticker eggs, egg dye kits - but nothing works better than good ole food coloring. We did them all.




And I'm happy to say that eggs aren't just for hiding, finding and using in salads. The kids found that you can:
1) Use them as ear muffs
2) Use them as ipods
or
3) Pretend they are mutant seashells.




Eggs, glorious eggs.










Earlier this week I took the little miss to Biedenhard Gardens for some pics of her in her easter dress.





Thursday, April 13, 2006

Mimi's Cafe


I don't share much about my "art" but I wanted to let my readers know about Jasmine. Jasmine (Jazz), my silly dachshund, has been hanging around Mimi's Cafe. Which Mimi's cafe? Well, that's why I'm sharing this. If you have a Mimi's Cafe near you - let me know if you see her. Mimi's currently has over 20 paintings of the Jazz Dog hanging in the newest restaurants across the country. Have you seen her? Do tell!

Friday, April 07, 2006

Happy Friday!!

It's Friday and so far it's been a wonderful day! I was just invited to join the Paper Salon Design Team and I said YES! I'm so excited to be working with this wonderful group of girls and their fabulous products!

I'm going to be working with a youth group tonight making clip boards. One of the girls that I worked with a few years ago in our church youth group is now all grown up now. Her and her hubby are youth pastors and she asked ME to come and speak to her girls and work on a project for them. There are fifteen girls signed up so far! This will be fun!

Happy Friday!!!

Monday, April 03, 2006

Back from South Louisiana

I'm back from South Louisiana! I taught scrapbook classes at Scrapfest and the ladies were so wonderful! I got to visit with some old friends and ate some yummy food. I hooked up with an artist friend, Kerrie Jones. She talked me in to joining her and her artists friends on the streets of the French Quarter - WITH my paintings NEXT SPRING! I'm so excited.

The only photos I have of my weekend were when Kerrie brought her camera to lunch. I forgot to pack my new camera! Thanks, Kerrie!

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

144 Class kits to make - oh my!

I'm almost finished! I'm teaching at Scrapfest at the end of the month and I have to prepare 144 class kits. That means cutting every single piece of paper. I haven't scrapped all week and I'm having withdrawals. I'm trying to convince hubby that assembly line cutting of paper does NOT count as scrapbooking.

If any of you are going to be in South Louisiana in 2 weeks - check out the scrapbook convention. It will be fun!

Sunday, March 12, 2006

X-Treme Boys

















Boys will be boyz and extreme boyz at that. The skate park in our town is temporarily closed and they don't have a place to skateboard. One of the boys' grandpa encouraged them to build a ramp for them to skate (luckily he allowed them to do it in his yard). I tried out my new camera with it's continuous shooting feature - loved the pics. I was glad to get Daniel in action and now I'll have some fresh new things to put in his scrapbook.

Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Crossed Paths has a new contest!

Crossed Paths announces their first on-line competition! MIX-IT UP simply requires you to use at least two of their lines, on one project; but feel free to use more. Entries can include a single or double page, altered item or card. The competition runs from the 1st until the 31st of March and the winner will be announced on the 5th April.

Need some inspiration? Check out how our Designers interpreted this Challenge. We are looking forward to seeing what you do with our various paper, sticker and embellishment lines!

Up for grabs is a complete pack of the new Crossed Paths EASTER line (two of each of the following: paper, tags, ribbons, resins, crosses & stickers.

You can get all the details and see samples of this challenge at

Crossed Paths

Saturday, March 04, 2006

Can it just stay "March" for a few months?



I'm really loving this month. Beautiful weather. Arielle was playing outside again and I snapped this picture of her with my new camera. Loving it!

Thursday, March 02, 2006

It feels like SPRING already!

















Don't hate me. It has been the absolute most BEAUTIFUL spring-like weather here this week. I say "don't hate me" because in 4 months we will be melting. We never get snow, and when we do get ice - people her don't know how to drive in it and wreck their cars and injure people. But - today the weather was beautiful!! Around 6pm this evening, I realized I needed to take some photos (duh - how can I forget about my new camera??). So, even tho the sun was going down - I snapped these. Jasmine was having fun digging and trying to catch dirt clods that Jeff was throwing at her. She was moving so fast that I only got one good photo of her. Arielle was in the sandbox - a sandbox with PINK sand, mind you.

New Words

Okay - I had to share these. I got these off of Tia Bennett's blog. Too cute!

(makes me think of Arielle calling caterpillars pattakillers.)

The Mensa Invitational once again asked members to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are the year 2005's winners:

1. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.

2. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly

3. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign
of breaking down in the near future.

4. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.

5. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high. (This was my favorite.) :)

6. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.

7. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

8. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.

9. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a
serious bummer.

10. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.

11. Glibido: All talk and no action.

12. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly. (Also known as the O'Reilly effect)

13. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.

14. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.

15. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.

Wednesday, March 01, 2006

I love Cards!

Admit it - we all love getting cards in the mail! I've been trying to get some cards made to send to all my convention sponsors. I uploaded a few old and recently published cards in my 2 Peas gallery today. I'm trying to get a few done with Scenic Route's new papers! They sent me a sampling of their 2 new lines and I can't wait to play with it. I got one done so far and it's in my gallery.

I challenge you this week to send a friend a CARD this week! Just to let them know you are thinking of them. We all like getting cards, right?

Hope the rest of your week is great!