This year I decided to so a layout per person for christmas. There are just too many photos to try and get one layout for them all so this way everyone can have a special page. My goal is to also have the person do their own journaling. (we’ll see how that goes)
paper- scenic route, title quicktuz snowday, I cut the photo corners myself and I cut the ornaments out of the paper and popped them up. The ornament hangers if created out of thin wire.
worlds worst blogger the winner is Patti Church.
I would like to thank the academy for this nomination, and all the little people that make this blog possible. The pitty is I don’t really have an excuse other then I don’t take the time to sit down long enough and write something. My life is not really that exciting and to try and make it so is hard work.
As for scrapping not been getting much done lately. So no really pages to show off. Still cropping on a weekly basis but dinners have been stuff we have already had. (note to self-find some new recipes).
In regards to the family everything is great. Hannah just bought a car last week and I do believe that she is trying to run the wheels off of it by July 1st. Catie is great not working as much as she would like but picking up tons of baby and dog sitting jobs. Rick and I spent most of the weekend in the car, with a wedding in Indiana and visiting his grama in Wisconsin. So lots of sitting time, but it was a great weekend.
Now off to go be creative, I promise to share whatever I create tomorrow.
Or that’s how I am looking at it. Yesterday in my email box I received an email from quickutz, (now I don’t know if everyone got this but I like to think that only a few were chosen and one of them was me.)
They are looking for Quickutz Ambassadors, there was a short survey that you had to take and then send a photo of yourself and a 2 page layout that you used quickutz on. Now the photo of me, not hard to find however the 2 page layout was a little more difficult not to find but to decide which one to use.
So I am keeping my fingers crossed that I am one of the lucky ones picked. Talk about a dream come true. I would be in heaven cause you know that I LOVE QUICKUTZ.
have a special place in my heart. Years ago while at the lake over the 4th of July my husband, brother and 2 cousins while out fishing decided that they were going to quit their jobs and become pirates. Now keep in mind that one of them is the ceo of a company, one is a financial adviser, one a computer programmer and one is a truck driver. Once they came back and told the wives their plans they somehow changed their minds. Not sure how that happened but it was a fun dream job while it lasted.
Here is another layout from my Disney trip
karen foster and doodle bug patterned paper. quickutz alpha and pirate shapes, misc buttons.
on a Tuesday that I don’t have to go and bowl. The season is over fo rthe year and I am not going back in the fall. It was fun when I started and I love my teammates but It just got to be not fun anymore, and someone said “if your not having fun with it you should stop doing it” and id decided to take there advice. And when you figure the cost it was quite a bit of change on a yearly basis.
But I still have a very busy day. Hannah and I got up early and walked, we are also going to run a million errands today. Then dinner with Melissa tonight. Hopefully I will even get some laundry done.
Have a great day
are home alone, cause Rick and Catie went to the Lodi lake house to work on a boat or something. Not that Catie is working on the boat she just loves the lake and goes anytime she can. So Hannah and I grocery shopped, I baked 2 pies, and started dinner for the crop tonight. All while hannah watched and then she played nintendo and yelled at the tv the entire time.
God it’s good to have her home.
So both girls are now home, and then fun has just begun. We got home with Hannah on Saturday, and the van was packed. There was not enough room for a bag of rice to fit. So now she has the task of putting it all away. They are pretty good about it, perhaps it’s all the nagging I do. Anyway there are a ton of boxes in the basement along with 2 fridges 2 microwaves and other misc. stuff, and the next task is to organize that so we can get to the washer. However that will have to be another day.
Mothers Day was wonderful. Kids home, Parents over for Dinner what could be better. Got some Quickutz and a flowering tree.
We have a ton of things going on here at the Church house, going away for Memorial Day, Dave coming into town. We are trying to figure out what to do for the 4th. The usual is to go to my aunts lake house which we have loved for the last million years (not really but almost) however Dave will be in town and me have tossed around staying home and doing stuff here, Perhaps a Cougars game, the parade, fireworks and a bbq. Not sure yet….
Well I have to get in the shower and get to work there late tonight, perhaps I will get some scrapbooking done.
and one to go. Catie is officially done with her Junior year of college and all her stuff is now on the living room floor waiting for someone (me) to put it away. We were working on it together and I sat down for 2 seconds and she is not sleeping (and snoring) on the couch. I have picked up the big things and pack some stuff up to bring to good will tomorrow, but for the most part I am done for the night.
Saturday we will get to do this all over again when we come home with Hannah. Not complaining at all it’s kinda nice to have her home.
I just got a call from Hannah that she has finished her first year of college.
And let me tell you that it was a rough year to say the least. I never would have believed anyone if they told me how much I would have missed her. I am looking forward to having her home. I know it is going to be a little crazy in the beginning, but I hope and pray that we will all adjust and get thru the summer.
For those of you asking she is planning on returning to the great state of Michagen in the fall and I guess we will play the whole missing you game over. Maybe this time she will have a better understand of college life and better luck with a roommate.
As for Catie she is done tomorrow. Rick is going tonight to help her move her stuff out. And then she will be home on Thursday.
change is something that I am not very good at. Who am I kidding I hate it, now I know that’s a very strong word but I use it strongly. It can be the smallest thing and it just throws my whole day off.
We had no crop last weekend and it was really weird for me. The ladies I crop with have become not only my customers but my friends and I miss seeing them. I did get to do something very fun tho. We spent the weekend at my aunts lake house in Wi., we were 4 of 19 people in the house and it was cramped but fun.
Rick and Mike got some fishing in, I don’t think either of them caught anything, but at least they got to “drop a line”, (I think that’s fish lingo). It was great to see my cousins and their families.
Well as I get ready for the girls to come home from college for the summer, it has got me thinking about how our lives will change in the coming months. I am having a real hard time with not being the one in control of their lives and hope that when the summer is over they don’t run screaming for the exit.
