I'VE MOVED!!!!

that's right folks.

i decided to make the move to typepad.

so update your bloglines and your links.

you can find me here now.

*smooches*

ADIOS FOR NOW!!!

alright everyone....tomorrow i'm off for cha so this is the last post till i get back. i'll have ton of pictures and ton of catching up to do i know.

i also will be posting pics of the awesome pkg. that kim sent me for the apron swap. if you simply can't wait until then, she's posted pics on her blog. this apron was friggin' amazing. the stitchwork...holy cow!

okay everyone, pray to the ear gods that my ear clears up before i step foot on that plane and that me and greta don't get into too much trouble while we're gone ;)

*smooches*

OUTTA THE MOUTH OF BABES!!!!

while at chili's tonight for dinner (which is a complete treat btw....well it is for the family, i'm there with greta or the major about once a week) mikey was playing his gameboy and bella was coloring while we waited for our food.

a conversation started between big mike and her over what she was doing.

bella said something about her coloring that i missed.

and mike said : well excuse you (in a sing songing smarty voice)

and bella yelled: i didn't fart!!!


damn i shoulda wrote it down while we were there.

greta, where is that pocket protector and pen i keep saying i'm going to carry around on me????

THE TOOTH FAIRY WILL BE MAKING A VISIT TONIGHT!!!

when i took the kiddos to the dentist a few weeks ago for their 6 mos. appt., we found out that mikey had to have a few teeth pulled.

i about cried. my poor baby got my farked up mouth of teeth.

when i was his age, i had six teeth pulled at the same time. one of those teeth (the front one) never came down b/c it was in my gums sideways instead of straight up and down. so when i was about in the fourth grade, i had braces placed on my teeth. i then had oral surgery to have a bracket placed on the tooth still in the gum and a chain (just like a necklace chain) was connected to the bracket on the tooth and the wire on my braces. everytime i went to the orthodonist, then snipped the chain, grabbed the pliers, and got to town yankin' on that damn tooth to get it to turn around and come down straight.

to this day, i still get teary-eyed and white knuckled when i go to the dentist.

mikey didn't seem to scared or worried. he was more worried about how much the tooth fairy is going to leave him.

he was back for a few minutes and then popped out full of gauze and with his three teeth (two of the teeth were like fused together). i about threw up when i saw the teeth. i can't believe how long they were.

so mikey has spent his day playing on the computer all day and eating icecream for meals. he's already to go to bed and wake in the morning to check out his loot.

check out the new grin.


and the nasty teeth...ewwww!

WHEW! THE APRON IS DONE!!!

nothing like waiting until the last minute to work on a swap package. this of course is nothing against the swap itself, just that i've been a busy gal.

so i had another love/hate relationship with my sewing machine but luckily it ended in love. damien rice and dave matthews were who got me thru the whole thing.

but i have to say that i love the way the apron turned out.

i also altered a lil chunky notebook to go with. of course there are other goodies, but i haven't taken a picture of the whole sha-bang yet.

if you haven't noticed, the package has a whole polka-dot theme going on (you know me, i love a theme :)





tomorrow i'll post some more exciting things.

hope ya'll had a great weekend.

and for those going to cha....only 11 more days.

WHOOOOO-HAAAAAAA!

HAPPY (BELATED) 4TH!!! picture heavy

hope everyone had a wonderful 4th filled with grilled meat, mayo-laden salads, plenty of red, white, and blue snacks, and fireworks.

we had a day filled with the above (minus the mayo-laden salads) but a few games of scattagories and texas hold em in its place. we went over to mom's and spent the afternoon there and then let the kiddos do sparklers once it was dark.

we had fun but hated to have to come home and go to bed so we could go to work/school the next day (blech).









before we arrived at mom's though, we decided to stop by the new house to let the kiddos get out and look around.

of course i got some pictures for your viewing pleasure.


front of house


brick


bella in her room


mikey in his room


french doors


my closet....look at all that space.


the craft room.


me in my craft room


cathedral ceiling in living room.


front porch

hope ya'll are having a good week. i haven't been able to cruise around many blogs, but i hope to do some catching up tomorrow :)

*hugs*

UGH!!!

ya know, i spent about an hour and a half last night working on what i think is the worst lo i have ever done. know that i'm not posting this on here for pity and comments that let me know that it's okay.

i'm posting it as a reminder of the way that *i* scrap. i spent a good part of yesterday surfin' around scrappin' blogs, message boards, and the famous scrappers bloggers.

the "in" things seems to be cluttered pages. now i don't mean that as something bad b/c i love the look. its pages with a lot of embellishments on them and i think they look fab.

i however, can not accomplish this. the only way i would be able to accomplish this look is if i totally scraplift someone 100% (and i am so not into scraplifting at all really. then i can't claim the creativity as my own thats all).

so after i did all my surfin around, i sketched some lo ideas and thought that i was going to go home last tonight and get to scrappin'. i would have lo's completed in minutes (not hours) and i was going to have a great start to my "all about me" album.

shit, was i wrong. this lo is not even one of the sketches that i did. i was a photo i wanted to use b/c i love it so much. i love the flash mark on my face. i love how you can still see my eyes and eyelashes. i love the ghosty look to the whole shot. heck, i love it so much, its my avatar for crying out loud.

okay, so i had the photo and looking at the photo i knew that i wanted to do a black and white lo. i also wanted to use some heidi swapp rub ons i had.

i thought it was going to be a breeze.

wrong.

like i said, and hour and a half later, i felt like all i accomplished was a waste of supplies.

i did however learn a lesson. i am a simple scrapbooker. i will always be a simple scrapbooker. my lo colors will always match. i will always want clean lines. there will always be a good embellishment/paper space ratio.

i just have to accept that is my style and that i can continue to admire those styles that are different.

okay, so here is what all the fuss is about. keep in mind that the shot is a lil dark. the paper (aside from the inking on the sides) is stark white.

CHICAGO HERE WE COME!!!!

look who will be headed to chicago in july for CHA?????

thats right folks.

the dynamic southern duo.

ya know, we woke up this a.m. without a thought about this in our mind. hell, even at lunch we still weren't thinking about it.

around two the thoughts began.

at four it was all set.

TWO HOURS!!!

the wonderfully fab simone has graciously offered to let us two wack-a-doos stay at her house.

we are going to get the opportunity to meet all sorts of fabulous gals and we are "beside ourselves about it" (ala dan conner from "roseanne" when he expresses his joy for jackie going to the police academy for six weeks. veronica, i know you are rollin' at this point :)

the plane tickets are being booked as we speak.

i am still in udder shock aobut this. like i can't believe this is happening.

this is so what i needed.

okay, so who else will be there?

eeeeeeeeek!

i'm so friggin' excited :)

oh, and i will be drawing a name on friday evening for the goodie package.

thanks to all you fabulous people who left such awesome comments in the past post.

good to know that people care what i spew outta my mouth and the rest of the going ons in my boring life :)

much love to ya all.

ANY LURKERS OUT THERE????

here lately, in my time away from posting (yeah, i know, but life has gotten in the way) i've wondered how many people stop by here on a regular basis that have never posted a comment before.

so with that, i ask all the lurkers to come outta lurkdom and tell me why it is you visit "my lil space".

even the regulars....tell me why it is you stop by here.

all that comment on this post, will have their names scratched on a piece of paper and i will draw a name and send that extremely lucky person a lil goodie.

ya'll know a lot (probably too friggin' much) about me, so let me learn something about you :)

NOTHIN' TO REPORT BUT SOME RANDOM PHOTOS & A CRAZY OBSESSION!!!

things are still hectic, so i leave with you some random photos.


bella as a messy princess.


mikey discovers that he can make dogs with legos.


a kinda recent photo of "the house".

ya know, i got a wonderful magazine today from sundance catalog. upon having some "quiet-time" in the bathroom {wink wink} i noticed the back cover. it was an old pick up truck filled with these wonderful embroidered pillows for each of the states.

i gasped!!!!

I.MUST.HAVE.THESE.

oh wait. they're $155 EACH!!!!

okay, maybe i won't have them, but the idea of having one for each state that me and michael have lived in is still tempting.

i guess that is until i figured out how much that would be.

lets see.....we would need a pillow for...

wisconsin
alaska
ohio
tennessee
georgia
florida
& mississippi

thats 7 x $155= hold on, lemme break out the calculator.....okay, $1085.00. so like i said, i won't be owning these pillows.

but look at how great they are:



but the point of all of this, is it made me realize how much i am obessed with the states.

*i love those old-kitchy style postcards from prolly the 50's that have the states on them with lil pictures and stuff. i bought two posters that had all 50 states on them at hobby lobby so i could cut them up for crafty stuff. yes, i said two.

*i keep telling michael that i want one of those book-thingies for kids that have a big ol brad in the corner and you can slide out the cards and they have facts on each state.

*i'd like to visit each and every state one day

*i love looking at those sticker maps that people put on the back of their rv's that show all the states they have driven to.

*love looking at state tags. used to play that game in the car all the time when we traveled.

*i pride myself on knowing the majority of the state capitals (i used to know all of them, but that is when i was at school).

case in point: one day, my mom, her at the time husband, michael, my cousin, and myself were playing scattegories and the letter on the die was "F" and one of the catagories was state capitals.

i had this in the bag. i was so excited that i was the only one that knew that frankfurt was the capital of kentucky that i was shaking. i purposely let everyone have their turn so i could be the victor (i am usually this way with ALL games i play...sad i know).

when it got to my turn, i proudly shouted frankfurt!!

everyone laughed at me.

frankfurt is not the capital of kentucky. frankfurt is the capital of germany. lexington is the capital of kentucky they all shouted.

oh no its not i shouted back. and when i mean shouted, i mean shouted. i was pissed at this point.

so i got my fat ass up, marched into my brother's bedroom, grabbed the "K" encyclopedia, opened it up to kentucky and found where it said "capital: frankfurt". i then pounded...errr...marched my way back into the living room (where everyone was still having a good laugh at my expense might i add) and took that open book and shoved in front of everyone's face all the while screaming "frankfurt", then to the next person "frankfurt" until i showed each person.

i ended it with an "i quit!!!" and that was that.

so yes, i know i'm a wack-a-doo but if i say frankfurt is the capital of kentucky, its the capital of kentucky god damn it!!

HAPPY FATHERS DAY BABY!!!

happy fathers day to the best daddy i know!!!!!



here are the goodies he received:



a green bay jersey with his name and badge number on it.


a acordion style album to go on his desk at work.

i also made him eggs, toast, and blueberry muffins for breakfast and i have a yummy dinner in store for him also.

happy fathers day baby.

we luv u!!!

BDAY & BABY SHOWER PRESENTS!!!

yesterday, i finally got to give greta her bday present. this is the surprise that i have been working on last week. i couldn't wait to give it to her.

i made her a scrapbook of all of the "us" pictures that we take. we take "us" pictures (whether we take them ourselves or have someone else take them) pretty much everywhere we go together.

next i'll have to make one for myself :)


her card

































after i gave greta the album, we headed over to a friend's baby shower. we got her a baby bathtub full of goodies and made her some handmade goodies.

i of course forgot to take a picture of the baby wreath and christmas ornament i made her (darn it!!).

but here is a wreath that resembles the one i made. i make these for all my preggo friends to hang on the hospital room door.



i then made her this card and gift tag







those as you can see, this explains why i have been so busy lately :)

I'M STILL HERE!

no folks, i didn't fall off the bloggin' bandwagon, just been uber busy with work, picking out stuff (i.e paint colors, carpet, tile, sinks, tubs, etc.) for the new house (EXHAUSTING!!!), and the every day waiting on three people stuff.

nothing too exciting to post. off to finish working on a surprise for someone i {heart} oh so much.

so i'll leave ya with some photos of myself.
because after all.
this blog is all about me.
and i really like these shots.