100 Years

I love this song. I just downloaded it for my ringtone. Nice we can do these things now.

uggg... maybe I'll die!

I had a little surgery Wednesday. I had to look to see exactly what they did to me, besides rotter-router my sinuses. Shame when you let a doctor operate on you and not even sure exactly what he is doing!

The goal of the surgery is to correct any structural problems within the nose and sinuses as well as to eliminate blockage by removing thickened tissue creating wider drainage channels.

Exactly like I thought! Rotter-router!

Wednesday I thought I'd die... but Thursday I was hoping to die... and then Friday... I was afraid I wouldn't die. But today... I feel bad but not like killing myself!

My daughter's Wedding Dress

I was making a little brag book for my daughter's wedding. She got married last month at the justice of the peace. I was mad, because I wanted the whole big shindig! So... I made a photo of her in a wedding dress.

I like it! LOL!

I needed the perfect frame for this... so I asked Dawn Inskip for a white-lacy frame. She made the frame, and an entire kit! Beautiful.
All elements & papers are from her kits, Heritage & Love you Lots.

I'll be posting these sometime next week.

Put some 'joi' in your scraping!

I found this really cool new forum, k-joi studios. The folks are really friendly and the designers are great. I can't wait to get my hands on these designs. I found Irene Brown there... and Dragon's Lair designs... can't wait to see who else is there!

I've been visiting for a few days... and think I will stay. Come and see me here!

Changes

Well, it's time for a few changes in my life. Change is so hard... I make resolutions and plans, and then somehow they slip right out of my fingers... or mind... or whatever.

Like making our beds. Hubby and I have twin Sealy beds.. pushed together to make a king size bed. I love the twin beds and enjoy being able to use the adjustable back and foot thingy. But NOW I have to make up THREE beds, instead of one. I make up his side, then my side then put the king-sized bedspread & stuff on them. You know how easy it is to put that off?

And what about vacuuming? My husbands dog looses about 3-5 lbs of hair a day. I vacuum today, and tomorrow it needs it again. And he STINKS & drools! Cats are so much nicer! :)

She got married this morning!

Hey! I just got a call from my daughter telling me she got married an hour ago! WOW!

My desktop:

New again...

Our old den lazyboy chairs have seen their better days, but they are the most comfortable ones in the house. So, I thought they might do with a little face-life.

Do you know how hard it is to find someone to upholster here in the country. There's a lady over in Smithfield that has been upholstering for about 20+ years. So yesterday, I brought home about 20 books of fabric. I narrowed it down to about five and had Ray choose between them. We ended up picking a whole new fabric! :)

Same old 'same old'

I'm just tired of seeing the same post for the last month. Hopefully this will get me in the mood to blog a bit more! :D

Vacation Plans!

Well.. we have our vacation planned and all the hotel arrangements. All we need to do is go enjoy... and pay for everything! LOL!

We're landing Wednesday in Providence, RI and spending the night in a nearby hotel, a Holiday Inn in Mansville, MA.

Then we are heading up to Bath, ME! We're heading on over to Rockland, ME for the Lobster Fest. YAY! Lobsters for me! Then the night in another Holiday Inn in Bath.

The Friday & Saturday nights will be at Bar Harbor, at.... guess! RIGHT! Holiday Inn SunSpree Resort! There we are going to go out to enjoy the coast and the parks and relax a bit. We haven't mapped out anything special yet... but I hope it is a visit to Stonington at Deer Island!

Then it is heading home time. But this evening is going to be special! We're going to spend Sunday night at Wentworth by the Sea. Hope it is a relaxing and fun day and night for both of us. I know I'M going to enjoy it. I already have appointments for a facial and a manicure! Trying to get hubby to take a mud bath... HA!

Then down into Boston, where I hope to be able to meet up with Irene Brown... the en-able 'em of all my scrapping. She hangs around Rakscraps and keeps thing running. She has a sister in Cape Cod... should have planned another day staying with the sister! JK! But we love Boston and that area, too, so want to spend the day there.

That night, we plan to stay by the airport in Providence, RI, at.... guess where? Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites! Poor hubby used up all his points on this trip. Now he will have to work more out of town and gather some more points for next year! )

More later!

It's VACATION Time!

That's right... hubby and I are planning a vacation to Maine. For the lobster fest in Rockland. Hubby is a die-hard lobster fan. Loves the things.

So far, we have airplane tickets and hotel rooms (all more or less free on hubby's priority points. Still so much more to plan. I hope to visit with Irene when we are up there.

My cute puppy!

Last week, I was trying to take a little nap when I heard my dog barking... and barking... continuously! I thought maybe someone was outside, but instead, Zac was running around the yard... chasing robins.

When Zac was a pup, a robin must have chased him away and maybe pecked him on the head. Well, since then, he has hated robins. Any other bird can walk across his nose, and he doesn't care. But robins are not allowed to land in the yard. Worst part of it, when the robins fly up to the trees, he thinks he has "treed" them! :D

When our German Shepherd was a puppy we think a robin chased him away by pecking him on the head. Now he hates all robins. Any other bird can land in the yard, but he will try to chase the robins out. He *thinks* he's treeing them!
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This layout contains pieces from many kits:
* Monica Larsen's Summer Flirt
* paper from Clohie Watkins My Precious One
* tag and string bow from Monica Larsen's Workable
* frames from Christine Renee Piled High Photos
* stitches from Monica Larsen Cute & Shabby
* cardboard edge from Monica Larsen's From This Moment On
* reeds from Monica Larsen's Sandy Beach
* pin from Monica Larson Lily

I am so MAD!

Ever have one of those jobs where your boss drives you crazy? You wouldn't think that would happen at a church... but believe me, I'm going crazy. This guy just doesn't do his job. And he plans meetings, then gets busy and calls the meeting off! He calls off evening services and kid groups on a whim. Why plan anything?

At least the sanctuary is close so I can go pray for patience!

Monkey Shines

I had to share this with everyone! Here is one of Monica Larsen's other ct's layout of her son. I just love this!

a MONTH?

Wow... it doesn't seem that long. But it has been a busy month.. what with the kids visiting and Mother's Day and my Birthday (which I try to make last until Mother's Day!) And my laptop acting up all the time! I've downloaded a couple of kits from Monica Larsen's wonderful collection.. and now I got to get busy.

I resigned from the Creative Team at Rakscraps. I'm just not creative enough to design! (I'll leave that to my wonderful designers!) I am on the sponsor's team now... and that is a lot of fun! Every time a newsletter comes out, I feel famous! (Where is that little green smile?)

Michael & Marie came up for a visit through Memorial Day. Michael finally got Ray's laptop up and running ok... and I upgraded my dsl... and baby I'm flying! I hope to be back posting and doing layouts like crazy now! Here's just a taste of what we did!

While I have been down and out, Monica has been busy designing and uploading! WOW that girl can design! Check out her new kits at www.wedoscraps. I downloaded her new action, "Tie a Flower" to try out. She has them for both personal and commercial use. Just LOOK at this! Isn't this cute? And so many variations! Check it out here!

I'm back on DSL!

Wow.. I went through withdrawal! Three days without my dsl!

I tried everything I could think of to fix it, then called Bellsouth and had to spend 20 minutes on a line with a computer telling me to do all those things over again! DUH! Where is the bypass this junk button and talk to a real person?

Finally, I did get a person. Somebody probably in India. And he had me do all those things all over again. I finally told him I had even got the neighbors modem and it wouldn't work here. He said he would send a repairman out, but if it was inside the house, it would be $80.00. Hubby about died when I told him, although I assured him it wasn't anything in the house.

Thursday, the guy called.. then went to the building where all the connections are, and found it was a broken wire on their end. Was THAT so hard? Sheesh!

But all is well that ends well... so they say! I'm busy trying to catch up on all my forums and upload lots of stuff. I found a great tutorial from Misty Cato's Blog. How to make a template from a layout. Really interesting. I love learning!

I also bought Sausan Design's new kit, "Cutout Kidoki" Real cute, and I wanted to use the houses with a Church Youth Group photo.

WHERE have I been?

Sheesh.. this month has flashed by! Here it is the day before my Birthday and I haven't blogged since April 4th! Well.. I did have a lot of layouts required for my designers and RAKScraps. Now to post them!

Another Cutie!

This was in an e-mail received today. Is it cute or what? My friend is a budding artist... great work. I may have to scrap this...

Magic

Don't you love it when things just come together? This layout was 'magic' in that all the elements were sent to me about the same time.

This is fun!

From Cartoon Brew

POPEYE’S PIPE

March 30, 2005 9:16 am

Not to prolong any debate about Popeye’s politics, but we just received this missive from Dana Larsen, editor of Cannabis Culture Magazine, who offers some fresh evidence in making the case for the sailor man’s spinach high:

Hi there,
I am Dana Larsen, the author of the article you linked to reply you posted from Bobby London, denying that there was any connection between spinach and cannabis. Of course, he is not the creator of Popeye and there’s no reason he would have any more insight into the thought processes of Popeye creator Segar than anyone else. I thought your readers might like to see this Popeye cover (at right) from October 1939, drawn by Joseph Musial. I only came across this cover recently, after I had written the original article posted on Alternet. The comic cover shows Popeye lounging among pillows in an Arabian sort of tent, smoking out of a hookah labeled “Spinach.” This cover illustration shows that, to at least some people involved in the early formation of the Popeye comics, the spinach/marijuana connection was obvious, and not something they were ashamed of, as King Comics put it prominently on the cover. Thank you for your attention.

Oh no! My last Doris Castle kit.....

Today, I downloaded Doris Castle's newest kit, LeJardin! WOW is it ever great! The papers are beautiful... and so ornamental that you can just post a photo, add some journaling and a title... and ta-dum! You have a page!

I love that most of her kits blend so well together. So sad... this is my last day of being Doris Castle's Guest CT! She is such an artist!

My cat, Shebie, was wandering around the porch today, so of course, I snapped a couple of hundred photos of her. I put her in the flower garden, and she quickly decided to go find critters... some diva she is!

This is the sum of my endeavors today... I love the look on Shebie's face, and the kit was perfect for the look I wanted. I love the journaling block as a frame for my baby Shebie's face.