Asleep

Last week when I was dropping off the kids at school, one of Trent's classmates (a 5th grade girl) came up to the stroller where little Blake was in there screaming his head off.

With her fingers in her ears, she looked at me and said, "How do you listen to that all day?"

I just smiled and walked away. He doesn't scream all the time. In fact, most of the time he is in a pretty good mood. However, when he gets in one of his screaming moods, watch out. It's ear piercing shrill and it can go on for 20 or more minutes. There's nothing to do to stop it.

We do have the nice quiet moments. Those are nice. This is new
Simple Stories that I played with over the weekend. 

All of this is older October Afternoon. This is why I don't throw anything away. You just never know when you're going to need to "monster paper". Right?

Apples

I should re-name my blog name to "No Time". I have no time anymore for goofy fun things like playing with paper, stamps and ink.

It took me about a week to come up with each of these pages:

I used leftover Lily Bee from the layout in my previous post. I have corrected Katrina in her spelling and she now knows how to spell "sugar".

"Suger" written three times instantly reminded me of the John Water's movie, Pecker. His little sister loves suger, I mean sugar:

 

and this one was made using BasicGrey Sweet Threads, some really old Sassafras and even older stickers and there are actually some Jolee's in there believe it or not.  Whew, that was a long sentence.

Tomorrow is our last Girl Scout cookie booth. I am so very happy. Kat just made it to 500 boxes sold.

I'll try to blog more often. It seems to keep the spammers away.

Head over heels, smitten

When I found this little gem in Kat's backpack, I knew I would be keeping it for use on a layout later. I had to hide it because when she first saw that I was keeping it, she was embarrassed.

Ok, so look quick and don't say anything to her. She'll be so embarrassed....

All paper is Lily Bee. There are a couple accents from other companies. It's mostly from my "pink box".

 The index card pulls out and has journaling.

The heart was cut on my Cricut using the Victorian Romance cart from Memory Miser.

Blog hop winner and a new layout

Good Morning!! I have the winner of the Snow Day cart from the blog hop. Thank you everyone for stopping by and leaving a nice comment. It just makes my day when I ready them. Thank you!!

Anyway, chosen by random....Elisa Bertram. Congratulations!! Please email me your address and I'll get that cart out to you right away.

Thank you again to Memory Miser for hosting me and allowing me to give away this awesome prize!

My friend, Linda, sent me some of the new Echo Park to play with. I finally got a chance to play with it last night.  This is what I came up with:

Also, be sure to check out the latest Ready, Set, Create. I have several projects in this issue. Thanks again!

Grandma Loves You & Blog Hop

Hello everyone,

This is the first time I've been able to participate in the BBTB2 challenge this year!

It's a Valentine for Blake:

 papers are K&Co and Glitz. Die cut and alpha stickers are Jillibean Soup.

Please leave a comment for the chance to win the Snow Day cartridge provided by Memory Miser. I would really appreciate it if you would sign up to be a follower of my blog, too. I know I haven't written much this year, but I plan on posting a lot more.

Here's a layout I made with the Snow Day cart:

For the next person on the blog hop, please visit the fabulous Shelly.

Thank you for visiting!!

Layouts and stuff

It's 7:00 PM and I can't believe I'm still awake. I'm never up this late. :P

The month of December is over, so I thought I'd post the projects I made for Ready, Set Create:

 BasicGrey

 Digi stamp from A Day for Daisies

Graphic 45

Graphic 45

 Under the Num Num Tree

 Under the Num Num Tree

 Wild Rose Studios

 Wild Rose Studios

Thanks for visiting!

Kat's photo skillz

Here is Katrina taking the photo with my camera:

 and here is her picture. SOC. Not bad, for 8 years old, huh? My settings, but her composition.

 I knew she had photo skillz back when she took the picture of Zoe on the pillows.

"Look, ma! Zoe's playing with the pillows!" She was only 4 when she took this gem:

Then she took this one of my Uncle. I like it.