To come back or not to come back.....?

I used to keep this blog some what updated and as you can see I let it go. I'm thinking of blogging again mostly to share crafty things. I just don't know if I have the desire to keep up with it. Facebook makes me lazy. It's so easy to share on there and not have to write a post about it but on the other hand, sometimes it's nice. I guess I'll just have to see.

So what have I been up to, you ask? A lot of nothing really. LOL. No, seriously just your typical family stuff. I did start a short lived Esty store. I loved it but it got to be a little stressful (for me) and kind of took the joy out of making things. I don't do well with time lines. I like to create things at my own pace. And as this was mostly jewelry and key chains, I missed scrapbooking and paper crafting - which is what I really love. I enjoy the jewelry but I think I'd rather scrapbook if given the chance. Maybe one day I'll open it back up but I doubt I'll do custom orders. That was the most time consuming although it was what I sold the most of. Sigh.

For now I'm jumping back into the paper crafting world. Recently I've been helping my teacher friend, Morgan, decorate her classroom for the new school year.



I made most of the banners and helped to decorate the room. Isn't her room adorable?? :D

I've also been helping her with decorations for her and her sisters (she's a twin - how awesome is that?) 30th birthday party. Here are a few things I made in Silhouette Studio:

I think they turned out pretty cute. I still need to cut them out but that won't take too long.

Oh and I'm ready for the new school year - 

They turned out so cute! I love them. I also have teacher and staff gifts that I really want to post photos of but they will have to wait until after school starts so I don't ruin it for them ;)

Well I guess I should end this post now. It's getting long. I will hopefully be posting more. I do have a lot more to share :D 

Thanks for reading!

New October Promotion for Stampin' Up!

Got My Sizzix!

 I got my Sizzix Big Shot (113439) from Stampin' Up! and I can't wait to use it this weekend.

 I wish I could use it sooner but it looks like the weekend will have to do. I'm loving all the dies and embossing folders that Stampin' Up! has as well. I have an Epic 6 and before that had a cuttle bug but for some reason this Big Shot just called my name. It also seems much sturdier than the other 2 machines I had. 

 Oh and I finally took pictures of the cards I made. They aren't the best so I need to do a little editing or re take them. I promise to post them by this weekend (or hopefully sooner). I'm pretty excited about them. I'm not a card maker so this is a big deal for me. I just hope you all enjoy looking at them as much as I enjoyed making them.


 Well going to go hang with the kids for bit before bed. Have a great evening everyone!

September Stampin' Up Promotions

This is an awesome promotion. I have some of this ribbon and it's great stuff and I'm not one to use a lot of ribbon either. 

I'm back with big news!

 Well it's been a long time and I have a lot to catch up on but first my big news! I am now a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator! I'm so excited and a little scared too. Anyone who knows me knows that I am in no way a salesperson so this is completely out of character for me. I've always loved Stampin' Up products and thought it would be cool to sell them but I was always too scared to try. But I finally decided that it's time to step out of my comfort zone. At the very least I will be able to support my paper craft habit! 

 I'm still learning the ropes but you can order anytime with the link in the sidebar on the right or click here. You can also message me with any questions.

You can find the catalog here:

Or you can download the pdf here.

I do have some things that I've made recently that I will post later. I would have done it today but I spent the day revamping my blog as you may have noticed. I used the Beau Chateau Designer Series Paper - Digital Download
to create my background, header and all the extras, including my signature! I'm loving that Stampin' Up! has digital versions of their stuff. The possibilities are endless that way. (Wow I am starting to sound like a salesperson! )

On that note I need to end this but I will be back and trying to keep this as updated as possible. 


Take care!

I keep debating on whether or not to keep this up. I post so seldom anymore. I like to share stuff but there are so many other sites where I share things that my blog has been neglected. And now with facebook it's so much easier to keep connected. I have more friends on facebook than I have who read my blog. So I think I'm going to call it quits. As for my SVG files, I haven't made any in a while as I have tons that I have not even used. If I happen to make a new one I will post them. I'm still around if you have any questions and if you aren't already friends with me on facebook - please add me! :D

Take care!!!

Want some blog candy???

How about a......

Sizzix Big Shot! And some Sizzix Dies! These are just the cutest! A Bow maker, butterfly and look at these awesome flowers!! Yup, you can also win these 3 dies along with the machine! What do you have to do you ask?? Well, that's easy!


Go Here - and leave her a nice comment :D Her creations are awesome!!

They like me, they really like me :D

Isn't that sweet?!? My swirly sister Jan gave me this award. I'm thrilled but also a little shocked since I'm so bad at keeping this thing up. So I guess there are some rules I need to follow.

1. Give a list of ten things that make me happy.

2. A trivia of five things about me.

3. Share the award with only 5 people and ask them to do the same.

4. Link the blogs I choose and the blog of the ones who gave me the award.

So, here goes:

1. Ten things that make me happy: my family, my kids laughing, scrapping, my Mac, coca cola zero -- vanilla or cherry, good friends, a good sale, finding money in my purse or pocket that I forgot about, pedicures and sunshine.

2. Five things about me: I'm a self taught computer geek (but still have a lot to learn), I don't like my feet touched (unless it's for a pedicure but it's still hard), I was born legally blind, I don't like to swim and I love Red Robins honey mustard dressing.

3 . I am going to share this award with: Rose, Lisa, Bonnie, Angelica and Tammy.

4. Did that one already :D

Thanks again Jan - that was fun!



And lastly,

As usual

I have a lot to catch up on and of course I don't know where to start. Instead of going through all the junk I'll just get to the good stuff.

Here is what I have done since my last post:



Not a lot but that's ok. I've been messing with SVG's lately. They can get addicting. I'm also leaving for a Scrap retreat this coming Thursday so I'm really excited. I'm already all packed (scrappy stuff anyway). I knew I'd be busy this week so I wanted to get it done and out of the way. I'll be gone Thursday - Sunday. Let me tell you, I need the break. It will be so fun to hang out with my friends and just scrap. No worries about anything! Whoo hoo!

Ok back to the SVG's. I have not test cut a lot of these but they should work. I made them from free digital brushes for photoshop that I found on the web. If you have any problems - shoot me an email and I will see what I can do to fix it.

































































Well that's about it for now. Hope you enjoy the files. Let me know what you think of them and if you use them I'd sure like to see.

I give up!

I've tried and tried to be good and keep this thing updated and it never works. I've said it before and I'll say it again, my life just isn't that interesting. I think I may try to do short little posts and not worry about having pictures to put in it. I think that's what keeps me from posting - I feel like I need to have some kind of picture in my posts and something interesting to say. Maybe I can try to overcome that.

I'm not going to bore you with details and try to catch up again. Nothing exciting happened or I would have posted it -hahahaha. Seriously, just the normal every day stuff. Not much going on now either. Since the weather has been mild here lately and we haven't gotten any snow except the mountains, we went searching for some on Valentine's day. We found a little bit but there was really no where for the kids to play. Kind of sucked. It was a nice day though and I did get a few pictures.

Here is what I got from Pete for Valentines:


Purty isn't it? I was really shocked that he remembered at all. He had just come home the day before from California (his grandmother passed away - such a sweet lady - she will be missed) and I know his mind wasn't on Valentine's day but he fooled me.

I made Tyler's class some paper mailboxes and put little candies in them. I also decorated those $1 mailboxes from Target for his teachers again this year. They loved them.











I was pretty happy with the way they turned out too. Simple but cute.

And of course I did some scrapping. Here's what I've done lately:






































I'm really happy with the direction my scrapping is going in now. I've been wanting to do more and try more and I've been doing that lately. My tastes have changed a lot in what I buy now too. A lot of it has to do with the kit club I joined a while back - Swirlydoos. It is awesome! I'm loving everything from that club. I still enjoy Simply Obsessed although I must admit I don't hang out there much anymore. Not that I don't want to but there's just not enough time in the day. And I probably won't be renewing my subscription either, sad to say. I need to pick one club and I'm really liking Swirlydoos. Lately SO just hasn't had the papers that inspire me much anymore. They're great and Heather is awesome. It's just not the stuff I'd pick out myself anymore unfortunately. I will stay in touch with the girls - thanks to facebook and maybe at some time I'll go back.

Since I'm on the subject of scrapping (I know when am I not?) I get to go to another retreat this year! In April! Woot! Woot! Lori is putting on another Eat, Nap, Scrap retreat at Ft. Flagler and Sarah and I are going again. Last year was my first retreat ever and I loved it! Couldn't wait for her to have another one. So as soon as she sent out the email for the one in April, I marked my calendar, made arrangements with Pete and my mom and paid my fees. Did I mention I can't wait!! Should be a lot of fun.

Ok I'm going to end this now before I start rambling some more and it gets too long and you won't want to read it (see there I go rambling....). Hope you all have a wonderful weekend. And I'd say write again soon but ha - who am I kidding? We'll just have to see what happens.....

It's been a long time

Here I went and did it again. I let this thing go for too long and now I don't even know where to begin. Not a lot to catch up on though. Still deciding if that is a good or bad thing, hmmmm.... We had a nice Thanksgiving and I think the kids really enjoyed their Christmas. I won't bore you with pictures of all of it since there are a lot. If you'd like to see them just click on the 'My Photos' link over in the sidebar. They are all in my Picasa web albums.

I guess I just wanted to let everyone know that I haven't dropped off the face of the earth just haven't been logging onto facebook much or updating this blog obviously. Not sure why, just haven't had the desire to do so. I get so wrapped up in scrapbook sites that time flies and before I know it I don't have time to do anything else (computer related that is) with the exception of work. Ugh! That four letter word.

Anyway, the kids are doing great. I'm still fighting Kaylie with the potty training - well not fighting but she is so darn stubborn! I can't imagine where she gets it from either ;) One of these days we'll get it though. I'm so tired of the diaper thing already.

I'm still making SVG's but I didn't get anything ready to share this time. I so need to find a better way to organize these things. I have so many!! I also found a new program that looks to be a pretty good competitor to SCAL. It's called Make the Cut
and I have to say it is pretty awesome. Much more user friendly too. One thing I love about it too is that they have a gallery that you can link to right from the program where you can share and download svg's or mct files.

Alrighty time for some pictures. You didn't think I wouldn't post a few, did you?

I had so many favorites from the old time photos I had done of the kids that I got a bunch! Here are a couple of the ones I liked the most - and of course I had to scrap them!




And here is one I did of me and my brother (my first Christmas). I'm really happy with how it turned out even though the pictures aren't great (they were scanned from slides).
That's about it for now. I'd say with the new year and all I'd keep this up better but I know me ;) Maybe I'll surprise myself.

Have a wonderful new year!!

Lots of Stuff

To catch up on. I know I've really let this go again and I apologize. Between all that has been happening, feeling guilty for spending too much time on the computer (another post altogether) and sick kids, I've been a little busy. I did accomplish a lot in the mean time though.

Tyler got his school pictures back. They turned out cute but he did that funky smile again. He so tries not to squint with the flash (like his momma does ) so I end up with this smile:



















I still think it's an adorable picture but I'm a little biased though.

We did get to take our trip to the pumpkin patch but it was a bust. It didn't rain that day but it did the week before and the place was pretty flooded. I did get a few cute pictures. I love this one of the hayride:



















And here you can see how wet it really was:

All in all we had a pretty fun day and got some pretty good pumpkins.

And here is what we did with them:







































Then we celebrated Kaylie's birthday on the 30th instead of the 31st. I decided it would be wiser not to mix birthday cake and Halloween candy in one day. I think she had fun - she liked the cake anyway:


That's what I get for going next door to my mom's to wrap her gifts and leave Pete in charge of watching the kids!
Halloween was a lot of fun. We went to Cindy and Brent's for a BBQ and some trick or treating on base. The kids looked so cute and had a lot of fun. This was Tyler's first year of traditional trick or treating. We usually took the kids to the mall where they could trick or treat from store to store. It's a warm safe place and normally it's raining here on Halloween. We lucked out this year. We sure are going to miss The Deerings when they move to Guam next year.
I have some more pictures of the kids that I'm dying to post but I can't right now as they are going to be Christmas gifts for some of the family. Let's just say we did the Antiquities photo shoot and they turned out adorable!!

Ok now for the creations. I made these cute things for Tyler's class:

They went over really well. The kids loved them and I think the teacher loved them even more. I had fun making them too.

Here I did an 8x8 canvas of my Grandparents (my mom's mom and dad). It was the first time I've done one. It was fun. I have a 12 x 12 I want to do next.

And a layout I did a little while ago but hadn't posted here yet. I'm really happy with the way it turned out.


Here are some notebooks I altered for MOPS. We are putting together baskets for teen moms in our area. We will be putting words of wisdom and encouragement for them in them. I thought they looked kind of plain but everyone seemed to like how they turned out.
And now what a lot of you have really been waiting for. Yes, I did do some svg files. I have not cut these yet but they should work. Let me know if you have any problems with them. Click on the picture to download.


Enjoy! And I'll try not to be such a stranger!