Thank You!

Lovin' the Fresh line a little too much. I need to use my Vibe stuff too. I wish I could do better boy pages!

Another Bo Bunny project

Another Bo Bunny project for CMK this month.

Lucky Me!

To get to spend the day with this little character.

Meet Our New Baby!

Did you know we were expecting? Expecting this little one since she was just days old. Finally she got to come home yesterday. She's not really ours...dad won't allow pets, but grandma and grandpa (mostly grandpa) decided the kids needed a puppy, so they got one. Adorable isn't she? I'm not sure what the little guy is doing, but I love the picture. Yes, it says Crazy on his shirt.

Bottle Cap pencil cup and card

Here is what I finished today. Finally using up these bottle caps I used to think were SO COOL! Feels good to put them to use!

Saturday!

Finally Saturday! This was such a long week. I was so tired last night. Now, I have some time to myself and I'm trying to decide what needs to be done first. Laundry, cleaning, a little scrappin'? I'm anxiously awaiting some new Art Warehouse prototypes to play with. I think everyone is going to love the stuff that's coming out. I know I do! Maybe I'll have a scrappy post later if I get in gear.

I Did It!

I finally got a job. I'm going to be a 3rd/4th grade reading teacher. So totally happy. I couldn't imagine a better job! So, I can't have a post without a pic...here is my sweet girl. Love the look on her face.

Yummy Storage

I love my yummy new storage containers. I painted the lids to match my scrapbook room. They hold lots of treats! Sorry, I tilted the camera a little much with the top picture.

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun!

Hope everyone had a Happy Happy Mother's Day yesterday. This is a little card I made with the Art Warehouse Fresh line and lots of ribbon.

That is....

so fake! She thinks she is the boss. I know she secretly loves it that I take her picture every- where she goes. Love my silly girl!

Smile....

It's Friday!!! Just a little lion card. It opens in the back where the circle is. Kind of silly, huh?

Crash!

I took this picture Monday night, but it just sums up their whole relation- ship. He is looking for someone to crash into and she is constantly jumping in his way and laughing about it. Yikes! I had to take them grocery shopping tonight and somehow managed to come out of 2 less marbles than I went in with, but somehow ended up with 2 packages of mini M&Ms someone snuck in the cart. Then the nightly homework battle began. I want to teach so badly, you would think I could reach my own child. Not at all. It's a good thing I don't use her for a reference on my application. She says I am telling her the wrong thing. I'm not a real teacher. Should I argue this point. Does she need a copy of my certificate? Or should I just pinch her head off right now? Just kidding. I love her. Children need to make meaning out of learning. She needs to connect it with something she knows and can relate to. I know all of this. I can help. It all goes out the window with your own child.

Bo Bunny

Bo Bunny is the design team sponsor for CMK this month. Here are my first two projects. Their rub ons and brads are my favorite. There is also a contest to win some Bo Bunny product, so if you have some Bo Bunny layouts lying around you should run over and upload them to the Bo Bunny contest gallery for a chance to win. Gotta love a chance at some free stuff!

It's Owl Good!

Love me some Funky t-shirts. My new fav! I really could've used a bigger size... I know, but this is all they had.

Art Warehouse/ Hampton Stamps!

Yummy Yummy stamps! I actually stamped in color instead of just black and brown. This was my challenge for CMK's NSD crop. All Art Warehouse Fresh stuff and Hampton/Limited Edition Stamps.

Happy National Scrapbooking Day!

From my mess to yours!

NSD at CMK!

CMK is having an on-line crop for National Scrapbook Day. There will be challenges all day long and lots of prizes. Rebecca always gives away the best stuff! I am also giving away a Stamp RAK for my challenge...Elepahant Stampede. Come by and play! Hope to see you there!

Happy Birthday!!

Somebody around here had a birthday!! So happy I have this sweet girl. Even when she drives me bonkers.

AW Product Spotlight

This is my Product Spotlight for Art Warehouse. You can find step-by-step directions and a supply list on the Art Warehouse site.

A Quick Art Warehouse layout...

This was a really fast one. All new Fresh by Art Warehouse except the felt and the ribbon. You can even get a whole pack of coordinating Bazzill cardstock to match this line. How easy is that...except I don't think that brown came out of the pack. LOL! but the blue did! Matches Annika's eyes perfectly.

I should have known something was up. No one wears a stocking cap to the park when it's above 70 degrees outside. He had on gloves too, but took them off because he was sliding around too much. What was I going to say? They went perfectly with the Halloween socks he was wearing. Poor little guy was burning up with a fever a couple of hours later. I hope he is better soon. No fun! The other pic my daughter took of me in my new Creative Imaginations Tee!

Just a little card I made.

Grandpas and Other Mysteries

I love this picture of the little guy and grandpa. We were at the park by grandma and grandpa's house playing. Grandpa takes him there a lot when he visits. Grandpa spoils him a lot apparently. Sometimes when I pick the little guy up at daycare I bring him an Icee. Just because his sister asks for one and I have two children and you know how that goes for those of you who have two children. So I brought him a cherry Icee one day and he throws the biggest fit and says he wants a blue one. Well the motto at our house is, "You get what you get and you don't throw a fit!" So he cried all the way home and he got nothing. natta. zip. Oh, he did get to sit in time out when we got home because he was still screaming about the BLUE ICEE. He's always liked cherry Icees and I am baffled. So, what does this have to do with the park? and grandpa? Lots, because just on the other side of the park is a Casey's and after grandpa takes him to the park they walk to Casey's and get...did you guess...a BLUE icee. Mystery solved. He drank every bit of that Icee and was happy as a little pig in mud.

Purses

I am about to have a "changing of the purses" at my house. It's always a big deal because I manage to accumu- late quite a lot of junk in the current purse. I have been using this orange Wrangler bag I got on clearance for $5.00 at Gordman's. I altered it with ribbon, buttons and felt flowers. My girlfriend affectionately dubbed it "Big Orange". That's a picture of the back of Big Orange on the bottom. It has gotten really dirty and Rebecca at CMK had me do this really cute Memory Purse she is selling in the store. You can also check them out here. These would make great mother's day gifts. I wonder if any of my mothers would want one??

Art Warehouse Goes Digital

I keep forgetting to post this piece of good news. Art Warehouse is going digi with some the retired product. You can find them at Designer Digitals. I hear there may some more fun stuff in the works! So, if you are a digi or a hybrid scrapper you should totally check it out.

I'm Still Alive

Yes, I'm still alive. Barely. I finally finished my grant today. Yay! I'm not sure it's the best, but it's finished. This week was beautiful here. I took the kiddos to Silver Dollar City on Wednesday. There was no one on the rides and we rode and rode and rode. The little guy even behaved himself. We had a wonderful afternoon together. On Friday I got to see Jonathan Kozol speak on Campus. He's an education activist. I read one of his books: Rachel and her Children: Homeless Families in America last semester. It just totally changed the way I looked at people. I started his book Salvage Inequalities. He just seems to give wings to the words in my heart. It's really sad what we feel the penalty for being poor in this country should be, especially for our children. Okay, enough education stuff for today. I'm going to play in the backyard with my own children before dinner. The picture is my beautiful daughter at SDC on Wednesday.

CMK Weekly DT Inspiration

So it is my turn to do the DT Inspiration at CMK.. rub ons to decorate containers. Right up my alley, eh? I got this jar on clearance at Christmas and the rub ons are all Art Ware- house. Yummy stuff. I am becoming a bad blogger. Not too much to update about. I am trying to write a grant for one of my classes and it is sucking dry all my free time (and my poor brain). I'm pooped!

My Hambly Box of Love

I love that little owl. My daughter said it was her favorite sheet of Hambly. She always empties my DT box every month just in case there is something she thinks I might not need. I needed the owl. This is an altered Prima box. I've been saving it for something and I'm glad I did. I wish I had more of these. I really loved the flowers that came in these boxes and I used them all! Oh...my birthday is tomorrow...ha ha ha ha ha ha. Hope it feels like your birthday too, even if it isn't!

Hambly layouts for CMK!

Hope you all had a wonderful Easter weekend. It was freezing here, but we had a great time. I managed to finish a couple of layouts last night after the little one passed out from Easter Egg hunting exhaustion. Hambly is the sponsor at CMK this month. I have never had any Hambly before, so it was a new experience. Did you know they put vanilla in their ink. This stuff seriously smells good. I couldn't quit smelling it. Yummy! Well, here are my layouts. Happy Monday!