squeeeeee!

i've just received notice that four of my layouts will be published in the next issue of scrap 'n art ezine! i'm so excited :D :D :D
i will have to take these down for the period between april and july, but i'm just so tickled!!

lots of catching up to do!

in fact, i often feel like i spend most of my life rushing to catch up on something. or with something. i really have to remind myself to slow down and enjoy things. :)

but here's a random happy thought that just happened to make itself accessible to my camera:

how can you not be happy looking at a little girl curled up under the couch cushions sleeping in a sunbeam?

the CAT scan went fine. it was weird but the entire thing lasted under 5 minutes. heck, i was in and out of the office within 15! anyway, i'm not really sure i get the whole thing; like every specialist appointment i've ever had, there was more waiting than there was time with the doctor and i never think of the questions i need to ask while i'm there. he thinks a surgical procedure that has something to do with my mucus glands and draining my sinuses will help, so i'm scheduled for 3/19. it's outpatient so it shouldn't be too bad. :)

so i have been one busy scrapper this last month! first, i finished off my february c2p inspiration squad layouts. this kit was way out of my comfort zone with it's bright blues and reds but i really got into it and managed to make some pretty layouts, too. at least i think so :)

then there are several for a weekly challenge i'm participating in:

poetry in motion--a haiku and photos showing motion

bling baby! lots of bling and at least 6 embellishments


over under sideways down--i don't remember everything lol but you had to have one vertical and one horizontal photo, an element going up and down, something with at least 3 layers, and something hidden.


the last challenge was to use the oldest, ugliest, FUGLIEST patterned paper you could find! i had this really bright and obnoxious tinkerbell paper pack. i cut out the butterflies, leaf, heart, and flower from some of the more obnoxious papers and used the pink, green and orange for blocking. :) i think it turned out rather pretty!

sorry...it's been a month since i last posted so i've got a lot. :D

i realized the day before evie's school valentine's celebration that i had no valentine's cards for her to hand out. i asked her if she wanted me to go get her some pretty ones or if she wanted to make some with me and she chose make them, of course. so we ate dinner and got to work. she went to bed and i kept working. then we lost power at 10-ish and it didn't come back on. so i finished the last 2-3 by candlelight. thank goodness there are only 10 children in her class!!






....and that's all folks! i'll be back soon with my march commit2paper layouts :)

my february c2p kit!!

it's SO FUNKY! i'm having a lot of fun with the prima {you}th collection!

more snow?

yes, indeed. we have now had snow on the ground (enough that you can't see grass) consistently since thanksgiving. we currently have a good 18" to 2' that's lasted since early/mid-january. and guess what i just saw when i looked out the window? yeah, you guessed it. it's snowing. oh, sure, it's light. BUT IT'S STILL SNOWING. gah.
anywho, this sinus infection that i haven't been able to kick is still kickin' my butt. it's been since the beginning of december now; i've had two rounds of antibiotics and it's still there. so my doc is sending me to an ear/nose/throat guy, which means i have to have a CAT scan. i've never had one before, trying not to dwell on it too much.
so what's a girl to do? tired, snowed in, achey in the head? well, scrap of course!!

nostalgia...

was talking with my darling kt via aim tonight and remembered when we dressed evie in hot pink hi top chuck taylors for a year, year and a half. she must have had 4 or 5 pairs of those cute little sneakers. i was so bummed when i couldn't find the right size/color combo anymore. now i am determined to look for them again! 3 years later, i'm a lot more confident about online shopping so i say BRING IT ON!

here ya go kt

i just thought you should know that we had marmalized pork chops last night. apparently, this is the kind of dish you get when you apply orange marmalade to said pork chops. evie proudly told me that her and daddy are "gonna marmalize that porkie!" and had to show me her prized jar of orange marmalade that they had to go to the store to purchase to effect said marmalization.
i love that she's taken an interest in cooking--it's so much easier to get a 5 year old to actually eat her dinner when she's helped to make it. amazing.
the amount of talking she can produce is truly astounding. non stop. if she's not talking, she's singing. she sings while she goes potty. she sings while she gets dressed. she sings to her babies. it takes her an hour to eat her dinner because there has to be some sort of comment interjected between bites.
she loves infomercials. she tried to bargain with me at michael's last week. "mama, if i don't buy this yo yo ball and this sword, will you buy me this mighty putty?" she can quote them. aqua globes are still her favorite, although she loves mighty putty, the slider station, and sham WOW.
a new scrapbook layout: (yes, that's pretty much all i do in my spare time)

this was for a challenge on scrapbook.com i'm participating in, a 10 week extravaganza called the scraptathlon. week 2's challenge was to create a layout about your breakfast: routine, ritual (or lack thereof) or must have food. i've been wanting to do this layout for a while--i so appreciate all the little things andy does for me. you're a good man, charlie brown. ;)

just realized that i haven't uploaded this :D it was done for a challenge to use very holiday themed papers and embellishments for a layout having nothing to do with said holiday. it was fun!