Crafter's Workshop at CMK

Crafter's Workshop is the DT sponsor for the month of July at CMKLots of fun!

Park Time

It has been so hot here, but the little ones have been begging to go to the park. We went last night and the heat did not seem to bother them. The little one is learning to hide from the camera. He allowed me to take this one. Ha!

Looky! Looky! At What's Coming Out!

Creative Cafe!! Check this out! These are the new products I have been working with. I still can't share projects yet, but soon! You can check some peeks out on the site.

Flowers....

My girlfriend was bugging me about not having a scrappy post. I guess she's tired of all the pictures. Here it is yes. No, I don't get tired of making things with flowers on them. I wish I did. Almost everything is from the Art Warehouse Fresh line. Thanks for taking a peek! Happy Saturday!

Happy Day After the 4th!

Hope everyone had a wonderful 4th. We had so much fun. The little guy and I had to take a very long nap before Fireworks. :)

Playing in the Backyard

This is what we've been doing. Just hanging out. My daughter thinks she needs to have a friend over or being doing something every second, so she finally joined her brother and I for a little backyard fun.

Art Warehouse Interactive Chipboard

As promised, here is my scrappy post.
Love this new Art Warehouse chipboard. It comes in these cute little clear buckets. I stamped on the felt and the chipboard with Art Warehouse/Hampton stamps. So much fun. The patterned paper is the AW Fresh line.

Box Scrapping

So I was playing around in Photoshop. I'm not sure I like this. What do you think? I wish I had more time to figure this stuff out. I'm sure you are getting tired of all the pics. There will be a scrappy post tomorrow! I promise. I had a class tonight and it was so much fun. It was a small class, but the girls were so easy going and really great to work with. I'm up late cleaning my scrapbook room. I have been box scrapping again. If you are not a slob let me clue you in to what "box scrapping" is. It is when your scrapbook table gets so much CROP on it that you can no longer use the table. You must find a plastic storage box and set it on your lap to scrap. Yikes!! I will get control! I would take a picture, but I'm just too embarrassed. See you tomorrow!

Me Today

Things to do when you're home alone...taking goofy pictures of yourself in front of the mirror. I don't normally do this, really.

Catching Bubbles

I don't advise catching bubbles like this! She's such a goof! Not much going on. We had a nice Father's Day, but I haven't even downloaded any pics of that yet. I finally finished all the top secret projects I have been working on. I'm too tired to scrap anything else now! Hope you have a Super Day!

Kids and things

A pic I took in Branson. The kids love this ride. It shoots them up into the air (not very far). Also I forgot about this
3 Bugs in a Rug used a gift I made for a friend in their May newsletter. Its on page 3!

Some simple cards...

Nothing exciting, but I felt I should post something. My daughter colored the card with the stamps on it. I think she did an awesome job! We went out of town for a couple of days and I have been trying to catch up since we got home. My best friend turned 31 yesterday...ha! So glad she caught up to me. It's better when we are the same age. :)This is such a random post, but I hope you have a super Friday!!

LSS Class

Here is a class I am teaching at Creations Unlimited on June 25th!

More Page Frames!

These are awesome to work with!

More totes and Page Frames

these little Page Frames make perfect tags! Yes, I do need more totes. I added the star and the rick rack to the yellow bag. The other came as is except for the tag I made.

Summer begins...

Officially today. This is our first entire day out of school. My daughter announced before noon while at the park, "I am so bored." Sheesh! I took them to the park. How can the park be boring. She begged all day for a friend to come over. Yes, she won. I would hate to ruin her life and all.

Page Frames

Page Frames is the June design team sponsor at CMK. They are also having a Page Frame contest and you can win one of those super cute clear albums. This little thing was so hard to take pictures of. Hope you can get the idea. It's hanging in a tree. :)

More pictures

Are you sick of the yellow wall pictures yet? My friend Will took this one. He sent it to me tonight. It was so nice of him to go with me. Not much going on. I have made like 8 projects in the last couple of days. I'm pooped. I wish I could share, but not yet. When I do there will be a flood :) I went to my new school today and got to look around my room. I'm so excited!

Monday!!

Not too much to blog about. I don't have any scrappy projects I can share right now. We had a really nice weekend. I took the kids to see Shrek last night. I think taking a 3 year old to a movie is really hazardous to your health. At least I remembered why it had been awhile since I had taken them a movie. Here are a couple pics from Friday night. The little guy insisted I take a picture of his wet footprints. Love his cute little dirty feet. I'm off to work for my very last day this year and my last day at this school. Hope your Monday is wonderful!!

My Favorite Things

this is a blog challenge from CMK...

1. The Joy my kiddos bring me. Even with the poopy underwear I had to wash out and the nightmare I had to soothe at 2:22 am. I don't love them in spite of this; I love them for who they are.

2. Taking photos of my kiddos.
3. My camera
4. My Wizard of Oz stuff
5. My scrapbook room.
6. Teaching children to READ
7. Altering things
8. quiet times to myself
9. Jonathan Kozol books
10. my brown terrycloth pajama pants
11. air mattress night with my kids
12. felt

That's my top 12! What's yours??

Altered Magnetic Board

Good Friday morning!! Here's a little magnetic chalk board I altered with some Art Warehouse and Creative Imaginations things! Hope you have a super day today!

Art Warehouse Sweets

Since I have to work tomorrow I am posting now. This is on the Art Warehouse blog right now. After that last post I needed something sweet! Happy Thursday everyone!!

A few pics

from Monday. Trying to potty train the little guy today. I am so pooped. He's not. In fact that is the whole problem. He will not poop on the potty. He tried to sneak off in his bedroom closet where he likes to go for privacy and when I tried coaxing him to the bathroom he decided he didn't need to go. He had no accidents all day. I tried to bribe him and told him I would get him this toy he wants. He spent a good hour crying about it today. My head is about to blow. I'm so tired of family members bugging me about his potty habits. I'm sure they mean well, but he is such a stubborn little guy and sometimes I just want to tell everyone to mind their own business. You can only push him so far and I'm the one who suffers the repercussions. Okay, sorry. I promised I wouldn't whine on my blog, but I hate to receive unsolicited parenting advice more than anything in the world. Every child is different and learns at their own pace. You don't need an education degree to figure that one out. :) So on that note...Happy Wednesday!!

Some Super Simple Cards

Saturday shots

We had a really nice weekend. I went with my parents on Saturday to decorate graves and then we stopped at Buffalo Days (it's like a small town carnival..they have it right on the square and everything). No, we didn't participate in the buffalo chip throwing contest, but we still had fun. We had already eaten at this really cute little restaurant called Cooky's, so no we didn't eat any Buffalo either. We did have a fair amount of fried chicken and pie...mmmmmm. Today, we went to dh's parents and I got some cutie pics of the kids, but that's for another day:) I need to get some sleep so I don't fall asleep at work tomorrow.

By Bag...

Yes, I love tote bags and purses. I finished this one yesterday. I sewed the heart and flower on, the ribbon around the handles, and altered the hang tags (they are Creative Imaginations). Now I'm off for a fun filled family day! Happy Memorial Day!

Halloween mini album!

I am finishing projects today. I am the Queen of Unfinished projects. I like to start things and then find something better to work on. I have finished 4 things today. Yay!!

Super Duper Day!

This has been the best day. I got to go to an inservice at the school I'll be working at next year. Everyone is so nice. I tell ya, I'm as passionate about teaching as I am about scrapbooking. It is so awesome to be with other people who share your philosophy of teaching. Then I stopped by my LSSand the whole Love Elsie line was in. Well, now it's all at home with me. LOL! I had an hour before school got out so I made a quick layout!