30 September 2006

Twice in one week!


So excited to be back trying to keep blog updated!
My life is just crazy...hence the name of the blog.
Kids just dont ever slow down.
Even if I want to, they dont!
I am scrapping today.
I am creating today.
I need my fix!

29 September 2006

I have a lot of catching up to do.....



Much to do
So Little time
Laundry's piling up
Soccer clothes are dirty
Need to do some grocery shopping
Scrapping is taking precedence
Does this ever happen to you??

Tried to submit this layout

Nothing heard back

I am almost ready to not submit

Guess if you submit just one and dont receive an offer, you should not give up.

I dont submit....I just dont.

I wish I could.

I hate to wait.

I would love to see my work published!

SOMEDAY MY FRIENDS, SOMEDAY!!!

12 September 2006

Scrap AC challenge #2


Challenge this time was a tad easier...use three pp....no more no less.....I used some Basic Grey oh baby girl and some chatterbox which should give me some bonus points!!

09 September 2006

First Scrap AC challenge


Lucky I even got this one done...baby has the croup and has been up and down for last three hours....ugh!!! First challenge called for using two different languages...sure hope the next one is a lil easier!!

01 September 2006

Lots to do...


And soo little time...
Want to do some new inspirations....
Will the baby let me????
Two new projects to get done...
However will I find the time????

Newest creation...Finally found the white colored pencil of my dreams....we will see just how much I can play with it!!

31 August 2006

I lifted Elsie!!


Have her new book and I am finding myself just going crazy trying all this new stuff...just did one of the sketches in the book and kept it kinda simple cuz I am using it to be in the ezine for my DT...but I soooo love the results...hope you all do to. Such a creative time for me right now...I am just having such a hard time moving away from the scrapping table!!!

30 August 2006

Let's play catch up!!




I need to update more....
I need to pay closer attention....
I need to make sure I check my blog....
I need to add layouts to my blog....
I need to clean my house today....
I need to do laundry today.....
I need to pay some bills today....
I need to take the kids to the park today.....
I need to TAKE A BREAK TODAY!!!!!
Nah really...I have a to do list a mile long and just don't know where to start.....I am sooo bad at procrastinating and it is really getting in the way of my scrapping!! what is a girl to do?? Been reading tons and tons of blogs lately and just soo inspired by the ppl that are out there that go out of the box with the things they do and are not afraid to try anything just once...puts such a spin on the whole world of scrapping clean lines, now doesn't it????

Oh yeah...just wanted to mention that Basic Grey picked up THREE OF MY LAYOUTS!!! I am soo freakin excited...have submitted to them quite a few times to no avail....just had to toot my own horn for a bit!!

12 August 2006

This has been one crazy week!


Ok...so I am really bad at posting on my blog but with fil having heart troubles, the baby being sick, school starting soon...just need to find more time in the day if that is really possible.

I took the dive and entered the effers contest of dares and made it to the second round with the entry seen here. I am soooo excited...trying to work on my next dare of using 13 pictures and it is giving me fit after fit. I am going to start over of course.....AAAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHH!

My guest designer term for August has started now over at The scrapbook Star...such a rockin site and I love all the girlies there....go check it out!!

06 August 2006

Can anyone help me with a link?

I am wondering where I can link my layout to this blog when I am done...there is no comments on the blog that I read....can anyone help out? LOL...I feel silly but the comments icon went away!

04 August 2006

It just gets busier every day!


I am able now to officially announce that I am the Guest Designer for The Scrapbook Star for the month of August. They sent me an ultra kool kit and I made a gret layout of my baby girl in her tiara! Love that website!! It rocks!! Everything is starting to get really busy right now in the scrapping world. I have a lot to get caught up on and I am going for the effers dares in August.....but there are like 450 women in it and I probably don't stand a chance, but I have to have to try!!! Loving the idea of dares and of course love the idea of competition!!!

Can't wait to go shopping this weekend to get some school clothes for my three year old girl....LOVE THE DRESSES!!! She will of course go and help!

26 July 2006

I made it through the weekend!


Well my baby is now one year old and we actually made it thru the weekend with no major meltdowns for me! Phew....now if I can just hold it together when odd goes to preschool.....busy busy around here....have Lance Armstrong coming to town tomorrow to our town for ragbrai....and another 30,000 people.....this town is tooo small for that! We are only a mere 2500 in population!!! It will be complete chaos, but hopefully I can get some good pictures of him! Have not had time to be real creative with the birthday and all...but will be busy soon!

Oh yea.....signed up on http://http://fortheloveofeffers.blogspot.com/ . They are having a contest in August on Fridays and boy am I excited...they will be getting rid of ppl every week and whittling it down to the final girl....ugh....lots of pressure but I just have to participate!!! It's freestyle for goodness sake!!

20 July 2006

She's almost one...why am I soo sad???


I just can't believe that my baby is almost one...seems like just last week I was complaining that my feet hurt and they were soo swollen...where does the time go??? This is my last baby so all we have left is to go foward and they will all get older......as well as me!!! Nothing really exciting otherwise except for working on a lot of altered things lately...searching around the house to find something to paint, sand, modge podge....whatever strikes the mood...my latest creation for a website that I had to use yellow and orange as the dominant colors.....enjoy your weekend!!!

14 July 2006

Is this heat gonna kill us??


I am pretty sad....its going to be sooooo darn hot this weekend and we aren't able to go camping...thats alright cuz next weekend we are having a party for my baby cuz she will be ONE YEAR OLD!!!!
I am feeling really old...she is growing waaay too fast....where did the time go??? I ahve not a clue!
She is such an animated little one! Gotta love that hairdo!!

12 July 2006


My vacation is over and I am back to reality for the third day....what a shocker! Hubby is gone for three days for work and girls and I are here enjoying the peace of no boys....son went to Maga and Pappa's last nite....

Think that I have hit something with these flowers that I am altering...going to try to mass produce them and see what I can come up...I will post some up later after I find out what everyone thinks.....I am pretty excited but I just don't know if they will catch on, KWIM????

Can you believe in about two weeks, my baby will be ONE YEAR OLD?????

07 July 2006

It's been awhile...



Well it's been awhile since I have blogged....and man has it been busy around here. Got my three layouts done for my new design team and of all the message boards that I am on, I have made layout of the day every day this week!!! Wahooooo! I am really starting to come into my freestyle and loving every single waking creating minute of it! 4th of July has now come and gone and my vacation is over in three days...UGH!!!! Back to reality! Attaching some of my newest creations for you to peruse!

28 June 2006

Almost the 4th!



This is my absolute fave time of the year...probably cuz my vacation is always ove rthe 4th ,but I don't have to watch anyone else's kids but my own for a whole week!!! We of course are going camping and parades and fireworks....loads of fun!

Some more exciting news in the scrapping world for me...got an email yesterday from TheScrapbookplayground because they asked to use two of my layouts in their newsletter for my doodling! I am soooo dang excited! Got a preview of the newsletter.....layouts posted here are the ones they used. Soon Soon I will be in a paper mag....I just know it!!

And another thing....someone actually looked at my blog and made some comments...THANKS GIRLIES!!! LOVE YA!!

26 June 2006

Wow...things are just going my way!!!



I can't believe it...I am here to blog that I HAVE OFFICIALLY MADE IT ON A FULL TIME DESIGN TEAM FOR IMAGINE, CREATE, SCRAP! I am sooooo darn excited to get started and see who we can inspire and who I can be inspired by! there is just an awesome bunch of girls on the team and they are just a riot!!! this is going to be the most fun 6 month term I have ever committed to! The layouts that you see are the ones that got me the DT spot! What a way to start out the month of July...My vacation and a DT spot...my first!

20 June 2006


Man...how addicting is this becoming?? I just checked my email this morning to find out that I had actually won a layout contest for one of my creations about me! How exciting is that??? And to boot, it was a freestyle lo!!! I just am in shock! Here is the winning lo! It is just soo gratifying to see that ppl actually like and enjoy my work as much as I do making it. I can't wait to see what the prize will be!

19 June 2006

Is Blogging a learned affair?



I am once again here and trying to figure out this whole blogging thing...I am really getting into reading them and my fave one right now is reading Elsie Flanigan's blog. I would one day love to be blog saavy and read this post and say "HOW COULD I HAVE NOT KNOWN ABOUT BLOGGING???"

I am in the midst of creating this ooh soo kool freestyle scrapping book trying to find out where my creativity will move me. So far I am jsut loving all the little things I am learning and here are just a couple of pages for you all to peruse!