A week In Review & What's In the Coming Week

Wow .... Lots of thing have been happening and there's more to come!

My youngest son turned NINE and my parents came to visit!
I so love 'em dearly, but when they come to town it's like the Hatfield & the McCoys!
[so much dislike between my husband and parents]
Some of you already know!

Anyhow, my boys had a blast eating, swimming, haning out with the g-parents. My youngest got some videos, pokemon cards
(ughhh, I just don't get those things),
toys and lots of hugs!
I always hate it when they have to leave, but all good things must come to an end. Besides that ... I'm planning a trip to visit them and my grandmother in November sometime.

I didn't get to scrap much, well actually none at all.
That royally stinks because I've got to work on an album for someone. I've got lots more to do, but quite honestly it's difficult when you don't know the faces you're looking at and none of the photos are dated. Oh well, just means I have to meet with him often and get relative info to keep scrapping. I have an impending deadline though of around the first week in November ... SO I BETTER STAY BUSY ON IT!

ScrapbookSuppliesDirect.com has yet another Guest Designer call out to reign during the month of November. Deadline for submissions for this call is October 15 (which is rapidly approaching). Oh, and I've seen the new SSD kit that is going to be released soon. IT'S SPOOKTACULAR! Pop on over to SSD and check them out, sign up AND make sure you sign up for the newsletter. Kit details will be in the newsletter, as well as the 2nd Annual HALLOWEEN HOOPLA!

I've got a full day ahead of me on Monday, my LSS class is full to capacity! I'm so excited because this will definitely make the trip much more bearable. The class is on BO Bunny's "Family" word album. I'll have to snap some pictures of it later!

Oh and lastly, my bloggy is soon to be celebrating it's one year anniversary!
Whoo hooo!
Thanks for putting up with me this long!

While the Cat's away .. the mice did play!

Well they're back!

And yup, the mice did play

while the cat was away!

The hubby & youngest son, Alex, went camping overnight and squirrel hunting!

(No worries, no squirrels were harmed)


Alex took some photos and will try to upload them a little later this week.

While they were away, I did get my scrap on a little......

The next few cards are quick cards

I put together to send to the troops so that

they'd have cards to send to their

families for birthdays & anniversaries.

(I'll be making more for Christmas & Halloween!)

and here are two quick ATC's I made for a swap!

I did a layout too, but can't post it yet until a a DT call I submitted it in ends.

Wish me luck on the DT call.

Oh one of my pet peeves & a lighter note

Today is a RANT day!

Firstly, my boys are driving me buggy! They're at each other and doing everything they can to get on my absolute last nerve......... I just wanna choke 'em! I know that's an idle threat, but man, they're really outta control today. If I ground them, then I get stuck home with even more of their bs .... so who really loses when they get grounded?

Secondly, I gotta tell ya gals, if you've ever gone to the grocery store only to come out and find that some dummy has PARKED infront of the buggy return blocking you from being able to RETURN A FREAKIN BUGGY? We'll in the last month that's happend THREE TIMES! Today was the last straw! I got my silent revenge! I loaded my groceries in the car calmly as the mid-teen woman left her car and went into the store. I figured she was either going into the grocery to the bank or to grab a few items. Either way, I KNEW I had to act fast if I was gonna have time to pull it off. I calmly parked my buggy by her door of her car. I moved my car do a differnt spot in the lot and then immediately went around and collected as many buggies as I could and parked them around her car. I was hoping that this IDIOT would stop and wonder why buggies were surrounding her car and realize that maybe it's because she BLOCKED the buggy return. I wish I was able to surround her car, but didn't have enough time. Either way when she came out she had this puzzled look on her face, but the IDIOT just got in her car and drove off .... leaving the buggies RIGHT THERE! Made me feel a little better, but I would have felt ALOT better if I would have inconvenienced her!

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRGHHHH!

Okay I'm better now!

On a much happier note, I want to remind you that if you haven't already tried for my blog candy, you have until the 15th to do so. Also, ScrapbookSuppliesDirect has their Guest Designer call opened until the 15th also, so hop on over and give it a shot. What do you have to lose?
Hope everyone is having a wonderful day! I'm off to turn today into a better day!

Shhhhhhh ... It's a secret!

I've got a secret!
Shhhhhh, don't tell anyone though!

This is just between me and you! I've heard a rumor floating around that ScrapbookSuppliesDirect is adding some new features!
Here it is ......

*They're Adding a Design Team.*
Wanna know the secret ....click and drag your cursor between the two astricks (*).

Leave a comment if you want updates to when scrap entries will begin being accepted. I'll post details as I uncover them!

SCRAP HAPPY AND HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!

Happiness is ......

This creation I can attribute to two things. On Tally, would be CCORIGINAL for a Journal and VictorianGirl for a challenge about Happiness.

Journaling is embedded in the photo and reads.....

Happiness is a frame of mind that is dynamic in it’s nature.

It is the state of oneself and makes one’s life worth living.

Happiness is found within and in the giving and sharing with those less fortunate.

It is a sense of joy that can not be bought or sold.

My happiness is found in the daily sacrifices for my family and the sakes of others.

My happiness can be found in making someone else smile.

It can be found in my acts of charity and the living a righteous life.

My happiness lies within my friends, family and the strangers to whom I’ve brought joy.

This is my happiness!

Naked Cowboy

Today was a difficult day at my LSS (Local Scrap Store) for a teacher! We were creating a tin with cards ..........

While teaching the class ..... guess who rode by the store..... a NAKED COWBOY!

We'll he wasn't completely naked, but apparently he had gone to the saddle club down the street and was riding his horse back home in his boxers! Guess he got hot. He was traveling w/his friend (who was also riding a horse, but he was clothed). I just hope this wan't a hometown version of BROKE BACK MOUNTAIN! ANYWAY, it's really hard to keep the ladies focused on the class when they're gettin a free peek at a sweaty cowboy! This is one of those moments I wish I had my camera with me. I didn't, so you'll have to settle with the cheeky fella above! LOL!!!! Who'da thought!

EK Success Winners Posted

Just so that everyone knows that I'm no just blowing smoke, I thought I'd send you the link to where EK Success, the contest originator, lists my ZOO PAGE as one of their winners. Thanks for checking it out and here's the link... http://www.eksuccess.com/contest.php?id=3

The day is coming....

The day is drawing near for me to see my submission in print with EK Success. I'm so excited. I had to mail them the layout and I know that they said it was the January 8th Newsletter and "What's New" on their site, but I'm not very good at being patient! Atleast not when it comes to getting scrappin goodies! I'll post up details when the email goes out.

I have a busy month ahead of me with lots of meetings, homeschooling, field trips, and teaching scrapbooking classes at my LSS. This month I'll be teaching wedding pages, an altered wooden picture frame & a "Year In Review" two page layout about what else.... the end of 2007 (Shown Below). The tags can be used to show a variety of things. In my example here I have them showing things such as 'current prices for milk, gas, etc. I also have two tags that show what each of my boys liked the most about that year (movie, music, etc).