HOPE YA'LL HAVE A GOOD ONE!!!

l to r: mikey's, mine, and bella's (a la picasso)

HALLOWEEN PARTY 2007

why is it that you have good intentions to take a ton of pictures at a party and then you get a couple....errr....6 coronas in your hands and you forget?!?!?!?

this of course is michael and i dressed up like columbo and j.b. fletcher. ya'll know how much i adore ms. fletcher!!!

i think our costumes were quite sucessful if i do say so myself!!!!

we had oodles of fun and were in great company. i wish i had more pics to show, but again, the beer came into play.

the food was yummy too! we had chili, sliced "bones", boogers on a stick (well i didn't eat any of those ;), kitty litter cake, cheese n crackers, and fingers dipped in a yummy sauce.

hopefully greta got pics of the yumminess :)

so another sucessful party is behind us and i'm already thinking of next year. i think we are going to be the flinstones and greta and her hubby are going to be the rubbles.

WHAT'S STAZ ON?!?!?!?

whats staz on?


whats stickles?

I think the title of this post pretty much sums up the croppin’ weekend…lol.

Greta and I were a lil surprised I think about how many girls scrapped differently then the two of us. I mean we expected some, but not 45+.

When we got there, we found out where we were sitting which was a vendor location so it was just the two of us and quite frankly, I think that if she wasn’t sellin’ her stampin up stuff, no one woulda talked to us. We walked the room hoping to meet some new people, but they weren’t bitin’.

Greta needed some staz on and when the owner of the lss asked if anyone had any in the color that g was needing, you heard a hushed “what’s staz on?” echo about the room. after picking my mouth up off the floor, g and I had a great laugh over it.

Speaking of laughing, there were a few times that we laughed so hard that we were crying.
“whip it good!!!”

I think by day two we were a lil delirious and I kept scanning the room waiting patiently for something to crack my ass up. And indeed I found it on a coupla occasions.

We had a blast and I got a lot done. the only thing that majorly sucked was we met evie a lil too late. We shoulda known better. Friday evening she walked by our table and asked g if she was using some jenni bowlin paper. jenni bowlin? Did she just say jenni bowlin? Holy shit, she knows who she is. wait, maybe she didn’t. me and g were so floored that we didn’t even holler for her to come back. quite frankly, I think we both heard wrong. It wasn’t until Saturday night that we found out that she is one of us!!! She trolls around sis and is a strong member of a cherry on top. Holy cannoli! So we hung out with her the rest of the night and had a good time. Evie if you’re reading love {waves hand wildly}.
She also happens to live between g and I and I hope that we get together soon to scrap with her ass.

We also chummed up with the girl that is opening up the new lss and we are all quite excited about it.

So that is pretty much it.
Oh wait!
I did get 14 lo’s done…..whooo*haaaaa!!!!



my work station.



other part of my work station

DON'T BE JEALOUS!!!

greta and i are off to a weekend long crop!!!

here's hoping i get a lot of lo's done to share on monday :)

hope ya'll have a fab*boo weekend.




and i have to give myself a pat on the back for bloggin' every day this week.
{pat pat}

ITS BEGINNING.....

...to look and feel like fall around here and i have to say that i'm as pleased as punch about it.

SOME SCRAPPAGE!!!

believe it or not amongst everything else going on, i've been trying to squeeze in some scrap time. lucky for me, this weekend i am going to an all weekend crop and hope to catch up on my this is me journal and some lo's.


this lo was done for noel's new challenge. this was such a great challenge for me b/c i have a hard time scrappin' events...lol.


my lil bella boo....for this lo, i used the paper, ribbon slider, lil circle stickers, and scenic route chipboard circles all from noel's first kit. umm...hello? if you haven't bought it yet, why not?!?! and i'm not just saying that b/c i'm her guest dt, i'm saying that b/c the kit rocks. wait till ya'll see her winter and valentine kit....swooonage!!!


this lo is one of my new faves! the lil man and woman at the bottom there are cut out of a muffin mix box..lol. i made the muffins in the a.m. and recycled the box after lunch.
***edit: after posting this, i noticed you can see my shadow on this lo...oops!


oh, and i'm hoping to add some funny*ness to some of my posts.

outta my kiddos' mouth!!!

the first edition is brought to you by miss bella boo!!!!

today while dropping the kids off at daycare, the owner comes and tells me the following.

while another girl's daddy was coming in to pick his daughter up, bella says "kirsten, you're daddy's hot!!!!"


a few weeks ago, michael goes and picks up bella and is told that during class time they were going around saying what their mommy's do. bella pipes up and says "i've got a hot mama!" she got that from the foreigner song.

bwahahahahahaaaa!

YOU'D THINK AFTER 3 MONTHS....

....i woulda already shown ya'll pics of the house.

i know shame on me, but here are some for ya. the pic quality isn't the greatest, but you get the idea :)


right side of the kitchen with my lil coupon/freebie nook. that is now a lot cleaner than it is in the pic.


island and other side of the kitchen. i love, love, love this kitchen.


island, aka baking station. all baking things are in this thing. love it!


dining room. i still haven't found a window treatment for this window. during the day i actually like how open it is. at night i don't...lol.


my copper jello mold collection


dining room



this is actually a cd cabinet that i got for supa cheap and it houses extra glasses, candle holders, and that type of thing. my fab-boo zodiac bar set is sitting on top. framed is a vintage italian pharmacy bottle label and a vintage postcard of an italian girl.


the beginning of the "family" wall. i have allsorts of frames, i just need to put pics in em to get em all up.


the gold "m" that resides on the other side of the dining room window.


living room shot


another living room shot



mantel with vintage camera collection


'nother shot of mantel


this is one of my favorite things in the whole house. its all of our finger prints. i figured since michael is knee deep in fingerprints all day, what a great way to incoporate his life in the house (considering he says that the house is nothing but what i want in it...that's right buddy). so one day we all drove to the pd, michael fingerprinted us, he played around in photoshop to sharpen it all up and voila!!!


vintage posters with got at the tip-top atomic shop in milwaukee four years ago....love these things. they are for an italian festival.


and this is the lil entry way that leads to the guest/play room and the master bedroom.

well i guess that's it for now. as soon as i get a chance i'll show more :)

A WEEKEND IN REVIEW

*spent two hours friday night, while watching murder she wrote and the kids were sleeping and michael was working, going through expired coupons, filing them, making a grocery list, and finding the coupons for the goodies on my list. this was quite a thrill and it felt so good to get rid of that walmart bag full of expires (yes, i said a walmart bag).

*friday afternoon me and the kiddos picked some blacked-eyed susans from the yard (one of my faves).

*mopped

*stopped by big lots to pick up a few packs of the american crafts slick writers that they have for $2...whoo*hoo!

*did my grocery shopping thank goodness b/c it was beginning to look like ol mother hubbard's kitchen at my house and my cat was about to starve to death...lol

*of course used coupons on deals and pretty much saved about $60

*worked on my halloween swap package. i don't wanna give it up :)

*did two three lo's that i'm super excited about how they turned out (stay tuned).

*cleaned

*watched a ton of episodes of the office on netflix. thank you so friggin' much simone for letting me know i could watch them there. i have been hooked in front of the computer most of the weekend catching up. i'm not a coupla episodes into season 3.

*baked three loaves of banana bread

*talked to simone for almost two hours ;)

*made homemade spaghetti sauce

*also made pork bracciole which was delish

*started to reorganize and rearrange the craft room. i swear one of these days ya'll will see pics of it.

*and the saddest thing of all.......



...mikey went on his first sleepover at a friend's house {pouts out lip}. my lil bug is growing up. he was so excited to get outta the house that he didn't even come in and tell me goodbye when he left (believe you me, big michael paid the price for that for not telling mikey to come in and tell me goodbye). i pick mikey up after i get off of work and i hope he had a blast.

not sure if i left anything out, but that was pretty much my weekend.