KI MEMORIES Blog Challenge

So I just could not resist the KI Memories blog challenge to make a mini book using all KI stuff....challenge is from Elsie.....Thanks sooo much for the inspiration...I looove my lil album and so does my four year old, Averee...she has been sitting looking at it forever!!

I LooooVe Electricity!!

Never knew just how much you would miss something till it was gone......FOR THREE DAYS IT WAS GONE.....ice, rain, snow.....just miserable.....but then again this is Iowa we are talking about! We got just too much ice for those poor utility poles to handle and they just snapped off.....Yes I am talking the HUGE utility poles.....broke like toothpicks.....over 5000 of em......all I can say is I LOVE POWER!!! 3 days and three kids and 5 family members in one house huddled around a tv and a corn burner and one light.....and no hot water.....makes for a very very long event!! But we did survive, the power is back and we are bearing down for yet another bout of rain, ice, and snow! when will this end?? I WANT SPRING!! Including justa couple of pics I took from inside the porch....did not want my baby Rebel to get wet!!!

So creating was on the back burner for a few days but since then I have been going full speed ahead and havin a blast! I will be posting some new creatings starting tomorrow!!! I am soo excited to share!

HeY Jeri.......

My first official request for a felt bag is finito!!! This one's for you Jeri....I am soo hoping that you like what you see!! Got her colors that she wanted and just went to town and added lots of little touches here and there including a hand stitched handle and button to keep the bag closed! Soo hoping it works for you girl!

Any other requests out there, just throw them my way...would be happy to create a one of a kind just for you!

New bag...new use!

This one is gonna be my diaper/wipes/snacks/money/ shopping with the girlies tote! I just can't keep my hands off this felt...gives me such a sense of accomplishment since I have never once been taught how to amke these....soo free to do whatever I please!

Have been seriously considering doing some of these for friends and family and all my scrappy buddies...PERSONALIZED OF COURSE!! So if you are interested in a one of a kind, please let me know!!!!!!!

STEP AWAY FROM THE FELT........

Seriously can't stop

There is addictive problems here

Gotta keep touching and cutting

And sewing and creating

AND NOW SHARING!

EXPERIMENTING WITH FELT....

Just loving how this lil purse came out for my darling 4 year old...she has been carrying it around...think she likes it. Well I am sure there is much much more of this to come cuz it is very addictive!!

I NeeD more hours in the day.....

to do daily housework....

to play with my children....

to have to myself.....

to JUST CATCH UP ON LIFE!

Ever get that feeling that you are sinking down into the hole of housework? Maybe it's cuz it is just soo darn cold outside that I wanna scrap and snuggle and watch movies and NOT do anything remotely close to cleaning. Maybe the warm temps next week will spark a cleaning frenzy in me.....oooh yeah.....and if any of you have the cell phone number to the cleaning fairy, let me know and I will give her a ring!

Lots and lots going on in the scrappy world tho that make me oooh sooo happy!! New stuff arriving at stores from CHA, being able to create wonderful layouts with all the goodies from my DT spots at The Scrapbook Site, Imagine, Create, Scrap, and ScrapnCircle! I am just having waaay too much fun right now with all this! Will post some layouts for you to peruse...and go check out the above sites for some more FANTASTIC INSPIRATIONS!!

Making a Creative Manifesto

I was soo incrediblely inspired by Ali's newsletter for making a creative manifesto for youself, that I just dove in head first and looooved every inspiring moment of it. Who woulda thunk I could find such relevance in definitons???? I decided to call my manifesto a TesTaMent instead of the traditional manifesto.....I know not why but it fits!! Here is my Testament!!!

My TesTaMeNT

*resolution*announcement*acclamation*deposition*manifesto

I have found my calling in LIFE.......Creating in hopes of INSPIRING!

I want to help others realize their true POTENTIAL for creative success.

Creativity for me is a NATURAL PROCESS...going with what works for me DOES work for me!

Embrace yourself and your creative blessings.

enjoy the process...revel in the results.

Share enthusiasm for your passion and you will SHINE!!

Come on and try out for......

ScrapnCircle.com is having a guest design team call out and we want you!!!! Here are the details!!

We are looking for a Guest Design Team Member for the Month of March.

Do you have what it takes??? I bet you do!!!!

Your challenge is....Create a layout with the theme of *LOVE*. This can be love for your child, your husband or a dear close friend. Of course even those pets count. Your layout must consist of Basic Grey products.. At least 70%. ALL layouts must be created for this challenge and must be NEW. They can not be posted on other sites until the designer for march is chosen. Deadline is the Feb. 25, 2007 by midnight ESTOur current DT will be choosing the winning LO. We will post the winner March 1,2007!

Please upload your entries in the gallery here: You must be a registered member to be eligible for this challenge.http://www.scrapncircle.com/Photopost/showgallery.php?cat=620Winner will have all the luxuries our current DT has. including the DT packet for the month!!

Feel free to ask ??? if you have any!!!

Soooooo ExCiTeD!!!

Just last week i was honored with becoming a member of the design team at THE SCRAPBOOK SITE!! They are a kit site and their kits RAWK! I am sooo totally stoked and honored nad flattered and excited and elated all at the same time! Can't wait to do some inspiring and be inspired as well!!!

And lemme tell ya just how freaky cold it is here...sooo cold that school is delayed! Now that is craziness! In all my years of attending school and my years of my children attending school I can not recall a time where they delayed school due to coooold weather!! -14 this morning with a windchill of -35! BRRRRRRRRRRRRR! Good day to stay inside and scrap till my hearts' content! But can you say cabin fever????

Layouts above are from the ROCKIN kits at IMAGINE, CREATE, SCRAP that we get to work with this month...and for only $20 you can get it, too!! GO CHECK EM OUT!!!

Photo sharing time!!

It is sooooooo stinkin cold here! All I can think about is posting these pictures for you to get the idea of just how cold it is! LOL! And all you lucky women in Cali basking in all the CHA glory, I am soooooo envious! (specially you lil miss Jeri!!!) Just sittin here bloggin and waiting patiently for some updates on the new goodies that will be coming our way from CHA!! Anyone else as excited as me to work with new goodies?????

The wait is over....

I finally decided to reveal my SuPeR SeCReT project. I got crazy and altered some Poker chips....lemme tell ya about some small details! I tried and tried to make a clever little fabric bag for them but I failed at making anything worthy of the chips.....soooooooooooooooo........my daughter got a box of valentine's chocolates for her birthday and I decided to use this heart shaped box for my creations! The poker chips fit inside the circles just perfectly and there you have it! I am soo proud of my creation....I wanted it to have an artsy, freestyle feel to it so it might be a little whack for the traditional straight line scrapper...but I loooove it!! Thanks girls for all your comments and praise and waiting for my big reveal!! I love you all!!!

AnoTHeR SneaK PeeK of my ProJecT!!!

This is just a little sneaky peek...from this you should darn well be able to guess by now.....and if you can't well then.....I justr don't know what to tell ya! I am not revealing the whole thing till I am done and that will be some time from now! I am tryin my darndest to get it done and kids just are not cooperating....they just wanna play.....and I must play! So stayed tuned in the near future for the finished product!!!

Is this real?

Getting cold out....gonna be real cold! can't actually believe we will be in below zero temps....this winter has been seriously warm and it is soooo spoiling me and now it is going to get cold....Have I mentioned that I hate cold? Hate Hate...and I don't hate lots of things....just cold!

Tell you what....blogs inspire me...they thrill me....they wow me....they make me do things I thought I could never do! I am working on a project right now that I think is quite possible the koolest thing I have ever seen and I can see myself doing tons of this! I am not going to spill the beans just yet cuz it is something that I have never seen any of my scrapper friends attempt as of yet.....ore if they did attempt it, I have not seen it posted! Takes a lot to knock my socks off but I am floored at this! Wil post some previews for your amusement till I complete the entire project! Lemme just say I certainly found my mojo with this one and I am having the time of my life! And I have a blog to thank for that one....will reveal the blog when I reveal the project! STAY TUNED!!!

Take a deep breath and relax!

We have officially made it thru the Christmas holidays and we are all still here!! Kids were spoiled rotten of course by Santa and all the family members and are having a great time with sleeping in, playing all day, and no school!!! Just want to share with you some of the joyous pics of the season!

The black and white one is not really holiday related but I soooo had to share with you all the obsession that Averee has when I get the camera out. I barely mentioned the fact that I wanted her to give her sis a kiss and there she sat....right next to her kissing and kissing and kissing......HOW SWEET IS THAT????

One more holiday to go and it is back to life.....back to reality.......and back to normalcy for me! Been a creating machine today and just don't know for sure if I should share any??? How bout a sneak peak at Imagine, Create, Scrap's NEW KITS????? Talk about having everything at your fingertips to just create a ton of goodies! you really must check them out!!!!

My 2006 Accomplishments!

DT member for Imagine, Create, Scrap, July 2006-present
DT member for 2nd term at Imagine, Create, Scrap!!!
DT coordinator for Scrapncircle.com!!!
GDT member for Susan's Scrapbook Shack, April, 2006
GDT member for Scrapbookstar.com, August 2006

Being published in spring 2007 idea book for Scrapbook Styles Defined
Being published in the 2007 Layout Blueprints 2 idea book by Bluemedia Publications

Those are the majors but there have been many other Minors that I have enjoyed throughout the year! But most of all...most important is the pure joy I have gotten out of creating all the wonderful layouts! And the friendships that I have gained on the message boards is just the bestest!!! I love my cyber friends and love to be inspired by them!!! Looking foward to a very prosperous 2007 in life, love, and scrapping!!

Now on with the personals....there is not much to tell except for CHRISTMAS IS ONLY THREE DAYS AWAY! I love to see the look on our kids' faces when they come down the stairs and see what Santa has left for them....love the feeling they have when we go visit all of our family and they 'know" that they will get to play all day long with no rushing!!! After all Christmas is all about the kids, right??? creating has come to an almost standstill here due to the reckless abandonment of my creativity! I stayed up waaaay late two nights ago to finish off the kids' teachers presents and I sure hope that they went over well!! Love to create for others!

SoOoOo MuCH to DO!!!

And soo little time....Averee and Brayden have their Christmas program tonight and I could not be more excited for this! Then only three more days of school and break is here....Santa still has some work to do with the stocking stuffers and wrapping and creating and all that fun stuff!! We will see what this week brings us. Kamy is finally feeling better after bi-lateral ear infection and a touch of brochitis.....what a bad spell that was for the whole family! But she is feeling sooo much better now! Off to clean the house and get busy on my piles of laundry!

ProcraSTinaTioN is a naughty word!

And I am soooo feeling the weight of Christmas coming down on me in a very negative fashion! I have waaay too much shopping to do and not enuff time to do it! How will I ever get done? I am sure that I will but stress will not be relieved till I am done!

Waiting patiently on the Imagine, Create, Scrap DT announcement.......patiently stalking puter every other hour to see if there is a much awaited email!!! Just to let you all know.....Kim.....YOU RAWK!!! Ok enuff of the subliminal butt kissing....of course always busy scrapping and taking care of kiddies....covering for the tooth fairy, and all that jazz!

Having an online crop over at Scrap N Circle this weekend and I cant wait! You all must go check it out!!

I was tagged!

Never have been tagged before so here goes!
A - Available or single: Neither!
B - Best Friend: hmmm....Joy, Kandyce, my mom,
C-Cake or Pie: Pie....Banana Creme to be exact
D - Drink of choice: Cherry Vanilla Dr Pepper
E - Essential Item you use everyday: coffee maker!
F - Favorite color: PINK
G - Gummy Bears or worms: bears
H - Hometown: Marengo
I - Indulgence: Ice cream
J - January or February: January...daughter's birthday!
K - Kids & Names: Brayden, Averee, and Kamryn
L - Life is Incomplete Without? my kiddies!
M - Marriage Date:
N - Number of Siblings: I am a spoiled brat only child!
O - Oranges or Apples: apples
P - Phobias or Fears: small spaces, messy kitchens
Q - Fave Quote: This too shall pass!
R - Reason to Smile: Just three reasons......names mentioned above!
S - Season: Summer!
T - Tag 3 or 4 people: to be determined!
U - Unknown Fact about Me: played college sports
V- Vegetable You Don't Like: cooked carrots
W - Worst Habit: starting something and not finishing it
X - Xrays: hand, foot, chest, head
Y - Your Fave Food: chicked quesidillas
Z - Zodiac Sign: Libra!
Whew! Now on to other stuff since I am here! I got an email yesterday!! I am being published again by BlueMedia for their new Layout Blueprints 2 book! I am sooooo freakin excited!!! Been a creating fool lately, too!! Really have become obsessed with borders and sewing and my colored pens for doodling!! Well I am off to tag some ppl!!

AEzine Challenge:Try on Style!

Just had to do this challenge from the most talented Ali Edwards' newsletter. I often find myself looking to others for inspirations, be it the way that they use buttons, the font on their title, down to the color of their patterned paper. Well for this one I decided to go for the whole "random" border look by cutting up different size squares of pp and aligning them all around my 8 1/2 x 11 layout. Well as you can notice the total randomness I was not feeling so I decided to align my squares more and then sew a border right through it. Now this worked for me! I just fell in love with the way it turned out and I am sooo ready to try this sense of style again.

Guess I should tell you where I got the idea...my Elsie idea book...not sure if I can scan pages of it and upload so I will just trust that you understand where I was going with it!!

Thanks to Ali for keeping those ever inspiring ezines flowing in my inbox every week! They are truly exciting and inspiring to read!!!

my MoJo is out of ConTRoL!

And I love it...got three layouts done today...here are two...one I can only share here so I just had to cuz I love it soo!!

It'S OveR!

Back to the normal routine....back to work and back to school...and I don't think I could be any happier...LOL! such a fun weekend to not have to do anything pre planned for fjour days. Black Friday was a blast with Averee! Best Buy was out of control and it's a good thing that I did not need to get anything there! Averee did soo well and stayed up nonstop from 4am till about 12:30 without one complaint! She was such a trooper!

Had late Thanksgiving dinner at my mother's house Sunday and got some good pics to share of the fam and the kiddies!!

Just wanted to say THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU to all of you friends that have taken the time to comment on my blog! I love you all!!!

i Can't Believe...

That i am bloggin in the morning...
my days just get soo busy
and my baby has this aversion to me even looking at the computer
so it isbetter if i do it right now....
been dabbling a lil bit i nthe art journal thing
trying to make an inspiration album for
when my mojo gets up and leaves me
as it often does...
i drew and drew last night for about 1 1/2 hours
just watching televison and
it was soooooo relaxing!
Trying out some new photo software to see which one I want to purchase for Christmas
Picture posted here is the result of me playing around!!

HAVE A GREAT THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!

aLL for NaUgHt??

I am incredibly bummed out!

did not make the next round over at scraplove.com

Love that board tho and will be sticking around for the duration

Girls are soo chatty and nice!

There is a chance for voted players to get back on the team,

but do I dare??

I am soooo ready for four days off and not having to watch anyone's kids but my own for that whole four days! I am in dire need of a large shopping trip soon....TWO MORE DAYS TILL BLACK FRIDAY LADIES!!!

That's a LOT of projects for one week!

Talk about overwhelming! what did I get myself into??? LOL...no really.....I work sooo much better and more efficiently under pressure! I loooooove it! Finished my lo for Week 6 challenge at Scraplove.com. Loooovin the results. Had to use a phrase that we are known for...and of course I am constantly telling my son to stop something that he is doing...he is a boy...he is crazy!

Thanksgiving is right around the corner and so is Black Friday! Taking Averee this year will certainly be an adventure but it is a tradition that I can't wait to get started with my girls!!

Another weekend...Another Project!

Been trying my hand at the MiNi AlBuM from JunKitz I got from thescrapbooksite.com...
My total fave place for KiTs!!!!
Having soooo much fun doing this one all about my baby walking!
I really can't believe how fast she is growing....and now how fast she is moving!
Will try to post the final results! I am pretty pleased so far!
Going to bed now will be a chore...all revved up and ready to keep scrapping
away the nite but duty will call with three children way too early in the am!!

WeEk #5 AnD I'm sTiLL iN iT!

Week #5 challenge and I completed it already....

Scraplove.com So You Think You Can Scrap contest is rawkin my world....
Like I have said before.....hate unfinished scrappy business...
Had to do this cd cover inspired challenge immediately....
Loooove the "ad inspirations" and what it produces.....
See if you feel the same.....

almOsT the WoRsT WeEkEnD EvEr!

Started getting sick on friday....
Right when my two friends were coming over to scrap.....
Lost motivation and was very ill.....
got nothing done...
spent all of Saturday in bed....
went to bed EaRlY...
BUT NOW IT IS SUNDAY NIGHT!!
And I feel like a million bucks but know that I should take it easy!
I hate being sick.
Mothers do have the right to get sick!
bTW....posting my week #4 challenge from contest at Scraplove.com
Lovin that site....loooovin the contest!
Prayin that I make it all the way!
Would be totally honored to be a part of their team!!