I miss my dog

I miss her so much that it's made me sick. The lack of sleep and nightmares and stress have turned into a cold that hit my lungs so hard. When I woke up Sunday, my nebulizer treatments were no longer working. I took a really, really hot shower and let the water slam my chest but it still didn't help. I went to ER where they hooked me up with some new breathing treatments and sent me home.

I still miss her. I still feel guilty. I'm still not coping well.

Zoe is still dripping blood on the floor.

It's been 4 days.

When does it get better?

It's very quiet now without Liberty. There's no jumping on the sliding glass door, no barking at the air, no barking during feeding time and no whining when the kids go to school. It's just what it is now. Quiet and still.

I'm hosting Thanksgiving but I'm too sick to really move far without having a coughing attack so Erik had to buy the turkey Sunday so we could start to defrost it. He was supposed to buy evaporated milk for the pumpkin dessert but bought condensed milk. Doesn't that sound like a typical man move?

For whatever reason, Erik's check wasn't deposited on Friday. It didn't come in the mail on Saturday and when he went to work today he called about it. Ooops, I guess they didn't get the checks in until today so they will Fed-Ex them tomorrow. How freakin' convenient. We had to charge the Liberty's "Euthanasia Special", Zoe's surgery, my ER visit and meds and the stupid turkey so we could have it defrosted in time. What an inconvenient time to just blow off paychecks. Don't know about you, but we live paycheck to paycheck.

The snake is hungry and sometime between now and Wednesday I have to get her a Jumbo Mouse. Maybe I'll get her two since it's Thanksgiving.

Here's a layout or two because what's a post on a scrapbooking blog without a couple of pages?

I promise I won't come back and post until I'm in a better mood.

Three layouts

Yes, you read that correctly. I have three layouts to post. I've been busy this month. ;)

The rats and the mice are keeping me company in my scraproom. Right now, we have 12 mice and 2 rats. The kids are on fall break this week so we're watching one of Trent's teacher's mice.

Well, as promised, here are a few things I've been working on:

Old Scenic Route kraft background, some BasicGrey, Prima, Bo Bunny, American Crafts, etc. etc. Too many older products to list.

 Mostly Echo Park with some old Foofala, Sass and Graphic 45.

Let's see, an old Bazzil policy envelope, mist, and I think some Crate. Those green bubbles on the left, those are old, old, old KI Memories.

I have so much stuff that I'm trying to use up. I love to mix it up with the new.

So there you have it.

so here it is

I have decided that the layout passed the "overnight test". I don't like the way the stamping turned out, but if I ripped apart every layout over one little thing, I'd never get anything done.

This picture of Blake is from March. Wow!

This is mostly made from Crate and Lily Bee.

Thanks for looking.

Enjoy Life

I found this picture in a stack of others. It's Trent and his cousins the week before Kat was born. They look like they're having so much fun playing in the fountain.

I used the new Crate paper for this.


Buttons are OA.

do you remember...

Awwww, they used to hug when I asked them to pose for the camera.




KI, K&Co, Crate, MME, DCWV, Kaisercraft

Thanks for looking. :D

4 layouts

I don't think I've posted these yet. Thanks for looking. :D

Crate Paper

BasicGrey

Fancy Pants

Cosmo Cricket

Ready 2 Rock

The Bitten By The Bug 2 team was asked by Enfys to use the Ready 2 Rock cut from the Hannah Montana cart. The only thing I could think of was Trent's long hair. He won't let us cut it. I think he's going for the Justin Bieber look but he denies it.

Older Crate Paper. I've had that bird in my stash for what feels like the last 5 years. What a relief to have finally used it. :P

Oh, and of course, it's really not that crooked IRL. My scanner throws things off.

Something cute

Katrina is constantly picking up anything with a cute animal on it.


Crate paper Lillian


BasicGrey Lime Rickey


Sassafras Lass Bungle Jungle


Graphic 45

more layouts

Webster's Hello Beautiful. Isn't this a pretty collection?

Prima You-th. I like their paper lines more and more each release.

Crate Paper Lemon Grass

Scenic Route and Cricut cart, Graphically Speaking.

I haven't posted any layouts in awhile

so, here are some from the last month or so. Thanks for looking. :D

more Scenic Route Sonoma

Flair Merry Little Christmas


Sassafras Lass Life at the Pole

Cosmo Mr. Campy

Crate Prudence

Tags & Stickers

that was the theme for assignments on the 30th at Peek.

All BasicGrey tags and lots-o-7gypsies stickers.

I got the good ol' Making Memories tag maker out for this one. I had to dust it off first. ;)

Some Sweet Bella and some really old Rebeccas Sower stickers. Remember those? More 7g's, too.


And of course, Foofala tags. How could I not do a tag assignment without a little Foof? Love Foofala!
Thanks for looking. :D