Pictures from Today

I dressed the kids up and took them out for some Christmas shots.


I had to bribe them with cookies.

31st Upload

I have started grouting my scraproom. What a mess! It's especially difficult with a 25 pound girl that wants to ride on my back as I sponge the grout away.

The 31st upload at Peek was Creative Journaling:


This layout would just not work for me. I ripped it apart so many times. I just can't figure out what is missing.

Tiled!

Finally, the tile is in! We still need to grout and add the trim.

This is my new scrap/art room. When we moved in, the area with the door was part of the garage and the rest of the room was the old storeroom the previous owners had turned into an office. I had to step out of the laundry room into the garage, walk across 6 feet, step up, open the door into my scraproom. I hated it and wanted it all one continuous room.

I supposed I should have picked up some of the stuff on the floor before I took the picture, but my thighs hurt too much. :P The tiles are soooo heavy. They're 20" porcelain tiles and besides being so heavy both my hands and Erik's are just raw from handling them. Oh, and guess who did all those teeny tiny cuts for the step??? ME!

Last week I finished the painting. I chose the same color my friend, Hilary, used in her scraproom. She was nice enough to share the color with me. Thanks!


 

Sweetwater LO's

I didn't get to upload October's LO's because blogger was acting badly:

More and more and more uploads

I'm so sad to say that DML is going out of business. :( This will be my last upload for her.




















The hat is from the birthday party at Disneyland.


















I love the ledger paper from Mustard Moon.


















The theme this month was "Scrap your space".



















Trent's reject Halloween costume.

At Peek, we did scraplifts:




























































This is one of Sherry's.

Happiest Birthday Dance

Erik caught Katrina doing a little happy dance at her Disney birthday party. We were walking back from meeting Mickey and Minnie when he caught this,

31st Upload

The upload at Peek for the 15th was for Halloween Collections. KI Memories


A 2-pager using Reminisce. I haven't done a 2 page layout in a really long time! You know, I like Reminisce. I always have so much fun with it.

Pics from today

Trent's school had their annual fair today. The kids had fun, but I think they had the most fun just swinging on the swings at the "big kid" playground.
Katrina has cupcake in her teeth. I thought it looked funny and made her give me a big smile. ;)
The kids sharing a train ride.

 

According to Trent...

I was changing Katrina's diaper last night and I said to her, "You have the cutest little butt!"

Trent overheard and said, "You (Katrina) have a little butt. When you are big like Mommy, you will have a BIG BUTT. When you are even bigger, you will have a HUGE BUTT like Daddy!"

Chat with Thena

Tonight, Peek is having a chat with Thena Smith. See you there.

Also, Tammy asked about the KI flower on my "Cutie" LO. KI actually calls those "Bubble Frames". All I did was flip it around (they're hollow frames), filled it with some seed beads I bought at Michaels, some micro-glitter I had from my old stamping days and topped it all off with Diamond Glaze. It takes overnight for the Glaze to dry to a nice, clear & shiny filling. Once it was dry, I just added a little more Glaze on top of the dried filling and used it to adhere to the layout.

It's pretty easy. :D

Pat at Peek is out, but Jill at DML has some frames left.

15th Upload

It's the 15th again, and that means LOTS of layouts.

The theme at Peek was Glitter and Gems. Here are mine:



I had to take a picture of this layout as it is so lumpy bumpy.


close up of the above layout. I made a little crown by cutting a Heidi Swapp ghost star in half. I held the pieces together with Making Memories brads. I did this before, on one of the Alphabetica pages.





I couldn't think of a clever title, so I went with the always popular "Cutie". :P

I filled up a KI acrylic flower with Diamond Glaze, beads and glitter.

Layouts at DML:



This is Heidi Swapp sneeze, huh? The only thing that isn't HS is the flower paper and one Making Memories brad.



REJECTED at the BasicGrey gallery. I just don't get them. It does make it difficult to keep pumping money into their pockets by purchasing their product if they keep rejecting my layouts (this isn't the first one). I like this layout...it's one of my favorite's this time. :D



The theme at DML was Shabby Chic. This was my attempt. The Basic Grey would NOT scan well for me. The colors look awful here...it's so much better IRL.

I have Sweetwater layouts, too. However, it seems Blogger gets a little irritated and stops uploading pictures after so many. I'll have to upload those later.

Thanks everyone for looking. :D

A trip to the farm

Of course, a trip to the farm is not complete without a gigantic bag of Kettle Korn. Lucky you, because I had the camera on some wrong settings, you get this pictured all desatured and stuff. Otherwise, it looked kinda pinkish.

Typical Katrina look

I want to include this picture in my blog. It goes with the story from yesterday. This is the attitude I was getting right before she started shaking her head. This is the attitude I get 75% of the time. Stinker.  

Trying to be a stinker

Katrina was trying to be a stinker and not let me take her picture. She kept shaking her head back and forth









like this...










and this....

and then....




I got this! I was so lucky to get this while she was shaking her head around. Her smile is just so natural.

The time is near...

Yesterday I was informed that I needed to get a new color bra. White was no longer acceptable.

This order did not come from my husband, but from my almost 3 year old nursing daughter. She wants pink. I'm sure if there was a Disney Princess bra, she would most certainly request that I wear that.

This evening as I was taking a shower, a little head poked around the corner.

"Why you getting my meemee's wet?"

I think I'm going to have to take this weaning stuff into my own hands. She's never going to quit on her own.