HAPPY {BELATED} NSD!!!

Well for all you non-scrappers out there, Saturday was national scrapbooking day (aka nsd). Me and greta had a whole day of scrappy goodness planned. We started the day by going to the lss and buying some goodies and registering for some freebies. Needless to say, I was a loser and greta won a goodie. We got back to her house and started our mojo. It was slow at first, but I got the mojo flowing. We spent the day in front of the tv watching sex and the city dvd’s and searching one of my new found loves treasures to scrap. we had a blast and I’m so excited that I got pages done and lo’s complete for challenges on treasures to scrap.

It was a great nsd!!!


this is by far my most fav lo. i love the pic, love the new style i'm trying to work with. i'm going to submit this one to hambly for their july guest dt. i know i don't have a shot in hell, but i love it none the less.
















oh how i hate this lo. it was for a challenge on tts to use as many brads as you can. thank goodness is was a pic of hunter and not my kids, b/c this will be done over and mikey can have this lo to hang in his room if he wants as much as he loves hunter.



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what did all my scrappy bloggers do for nsd???

THE NEW HOUSE!!!

Well things have still been super-dooper busy and stressful for me.
We had some major house selling drama the past few weeks. Had to cuss out the
the land owner, cry quite a few tears, and slam down a couple of coronas.
But its beginning to look like everything may work out in the end. I’m hoping that
we close on the old house next week.

As far as the new house goes…..ITS ALMOST DONE!!!!

WHOOOOO-HAAAAAA!!!!

The builder told us that the closing day is scheduled for the 28th of this month. Michael
doesn’t think it will be done by then, but if its another week after that, I’m fine with that.
I finally got around to taking some pictures of the progress. Now keep in mind that the
picture quality is not that great. I was on the phone while taking them, the battery was
dying on me, and quite frankly I was in a rush to go get the kids.

Be prepared, there are 44 pictures I took 


Front of house


Front porch


Front door


Porch lights


Foyer




Foyer light



Foyer floor


Living room. 14’ cathedral ceilings and 10’ ceilings in the rest of the house.


Fire place (well soon to be….they still need to brick the mantle and stuff)


Dining room


Dining room light (love this!)


Right side of kitchen


L eft side of kitchen


Trash bins (in a cabinet baby!!)

I have two of these false lil drawers. Can’t wait to fill em up with sponges and stuff!


My lazy susan


Kitchen sink


My island (aka baking space) this is my kitchen aid’s new home.


Light over island


Drawers in island (ready to be filled with sprinkles, rolling pins, spatulas, frosting, cupcake papers, etc)


Breakfast rm. This is the other side of the kitchen. There is a door that goes out onto the back porch.


Breakfast room light


Kitchen/breakfast room floor


There are two of these sconces hanging in the hallway between the kids bedrooms/garage


The hall floor


Mikey’s bedroom light


Kiddos’ bathroom


Bella’s bedroom light. I am so looking forward to decorating her room shabby shic/thrifty


Our guest bedroom (this is where you’ll be staying simone). Of course you’ll have to step over all the toys b/c I am turning this room into a play room for the kids. But don’t fret, they’ll be a something to sleep on.


Guest full bathroom


The light that hangs in the guest bedroom and the hall that runs from the guest bedroom to the master bedroom


The master suite!



The door that leads to the back porch in the master bedroom


My 10’x10’ closet. That’s right folks. My (and I mean all mine, mike has his own closet) clothes will be living in the lap of luxury.


Floor in master bath


My vanity in master bath.


Mike’s vanity in master bath.




Michael’s closet



Of course Michael wanted a separate lil room for him to poo in. I guess he doesn’t like it when I go in there while he’s in the bathroom to fix my hair.


The bench and tile that is in the standup shower. Since my battery was dying I didn’t get a shot of our jaccuzzi tub in the master bath.


And what you all have been waiting for…..the craft room. I soooo cannot wait to get in this room. The organizing ideas are flowing, all the crafty goodness that I plan on creating is floating in my head. Aside from the kitchen, this of course is the room that I am most excited about.


The floor in my craft room. And before ya’ll think I’m crazy, that’s not real wood. I picked linoleum for all those messes I plan on making.


Craft room lights.


The “e” I made out of a piece of wire that was laying on the front porch….gotta mark my territory. I told Michael to leave it there when he was doing some touch up painting over the weekend. Here’s hoping the builders or crew don’t mess with it.



The back porch.

So that’s your tour. Of course since the battery ran out on my camera I didn’t get a chance to snap pictures of the backyard, the garage, etc.

I’ll post those later.

B/C I'M BORED......

...and b/c there is sooo much to write about that its too much, i'll stick a lil meme right now.

i snagged this from greta (who is just as bored at work as me ;)

1. Yourself? frazzled

2. Your boyfriend/girlfriend? understanding

3. Your hair? curly

4. Your mother? amazing

5. Your father? dickhead

6. Your favorite thing? access

7. Your dream last night? dancing

8. Your favorite drink? water

9. Your dream car? gasless

10. The room you're in? office

11 Your fear? dying

12. What you want to be in 10 years? computers

13. Muffins? yummy!

14. Who you hung out with last night? ballfield

15. What you're not? patient

16. Time? early

17. What you're wearing? blisters

18. Your favorite weather? thunderstorms

19. Your favorite book? crime

20. The last thing you ate? pizza

21. Your worst vice? smoking

22. Your best friend/s? opposite

23. What you're thinking about right now? access

24. Your car? kia

25. Your life? crrrrrrraaaaaaazzzzy!!!

you're turn!!!

(as a matter of fact i think i'll be printing out this list and scrapping it for today :)

BEHIND!!!

Well it seems to be the story of my life lately.
Behind.
Actually I haven’t posted b/c I’ve been too upset to post anything.
The deal we had going that we have wasted three fuckin’ months on (again) to sell the old house went into the garbage. Fuckin’ SBA. I tell ya, they have to be so friggin’ difficult. Well they are the reason that the deal didn’t go through and now we are back to square one. We’ve got about three to four weeks to get that piece of shit sold before the other house is done. Sista here cannot afford two mortgage payments. I can’t even be excited about the new house b/c I’m stressing so much about the old one.

Hell, if it wasn’t for the effexor and the xanex that I am currently on, I’d be carried away in a straight jacket and sent to a padded room.

I swear.

And I wanna be soooo excited about the house. I really do, I wanna look forward to it and how its going to look and how its going to feel to walk around naked in it for the first month b/c I’ll finally be in my own house. To sit in the craft room and create, to have the kiddos be in their own space. To bake in my own fuckin’ kitchen. But I can’t. I can’t b/c I’m afraid I’m not going to get it in the end. That all this hard work, all this time, all the money, all the frustration of picking everything out (and boy lemme tell ya, if you’ve never built a house before, don’t….you don’t realize how much bullshit needs to be picked out and how exhausting it is).

I’m trying to be positive, but ya’ll have no idea how hard that is. I’m a worrier. I can’t live in just today. I always worry about tomorrow, next week, next month. I can’t live in the moment. I wish I could. Seriously. Maybe that would make life a lil bit easier for me. It sucks being a worrier.

But anyway, those that are interested in the going-ons with the new house, they laid the tile in the kitchen, dining room, and foyer. Looks gorgeous (from what we could see, me and mike stopped by Saturday night after eating at the shed {yum!} and it was raining and dark, so the only light we had was from the headlights). They do however have to rip out the foyer tile. Our contractor does a design in each foyer and the friggin’ people off-centered it so it looks pretty bad and big-daddy kris (owner of company) said that it needs to be ripped out and redone (yay! That should give us an extra day to sell the house).

So that’s whats going on with us. Aside from baseball practices, fixing a couple of things in the old house, preparing for dance recitals, trying not to buy any scrap goodies, picking out light fixtures, deciding on furniture, stressing about money, dealing with two kiddos who never seem to have enough and always want more (geesh! Can anyone else relate?), spring break, fish fry’s at work, making sure that bills are paid on time (eek!).

Sounds like fun huh?