{Poor Blogging Habits}

Isn't it funny how life just seems to go so quickly?  Kids growing at such a rapid rate that it seems like seconds from one year to the next.  Before you know it they are almost as tall as you and wearing your socks!  Yes that one is specific.  I had to purchase PINK bottom socks to keep a certain little boy out of my drawer, but alas that failed.  The other day he fell asleep at my parent's house and when I sent to wake him and removed the blanket I noticed MY pink bottom socks on his monster feet!  I really did have to laugh though!  I guess it is time for new socks. can you imagine how desparate he must have been to wear pink! 

I have been busy creating new cards.  Halloween goodie bags for my son's class. I just received my first order from Paper Trey ink and I can not wait to start creating with all the goodies.  I loved their stuff so much that the day I got my order I placed another one, and one from Two Peas as well. I must be stopped!

The holidays are coming and I really want to make my own cards this year again.  I feel I will have to start NOW!  My classes start up again in November and I want to make the most of my time NOT in class.  Once they start I am screwed for "me" time.  Oh well it was a blast while it lasted. 

My son was so excited to go to school today.  The kids were going to have a web chat with R.L. Stine, the author today!  AND his teacher said he could bring in his own "experiment" to do with the class.  Mentos and Diet Coke.  I really wish I was there to take pictures!  I sure hope his teacher realizes what she is getting into.  It was funny as we were walking out the door today he goes, "hey Daddy shouln't I have my safety glasses for this".  I thought OH NO this is NOT going to be good! LOL

So living in South FL, the heat tends to kill the Fall mood, though it is my favorite holiday.  I dream of living up North where there is an actual change of seasons.  Halloween is supposed to be about 88 degrees, nice right? NOT.  My son's scout pack had their annual Halloween event on Monday.  All the kids came in costume and each Den had a carnival game for them to play. Well needless to say it was a normal SO FL night with humidity reaching 85%.  All the kids with makeup were nice and shiney!  LOL Here are some quick pics of the night.

Aaron and Daddy, yes my hubby wears his socks that high.  It kills me! LOL

This was the end of the night and it was stinkin' hot!

Thing 2 had a family of Things - it was great!  This is Aaron's Den minus 2 kids.

Cory, Chris, Twin 1, Aaron, Jeremy, "Pimp Daddy" Fred, and Twin 2

Well I hope to post pictures of my newest cards tomorrow.  Tonight is laundry and card making.  Oh and who can forget Glee, Modern Family, and Cougar Town.  Thank God for Hulu.  The freaking Cougar Town cracks me up!  Modern Family is a hoot!  Bought time comedies were funny again!  Glee is my modern day Fame from back in the day.  I used to watch that with my Mamaw and I am sure she would have loved Glee today!

Well I have to get back to my REAL job.  Hope everyone is enjoying their week!

{World Card Making Day}

Boy was I busy this weekend.  I am totally addicted to making cards right now and I sat down today and made about 6 in just a few hours. I just had to break in my new goodies I bought last weekend.  I found this Blog for Scrapbook and Cards Today and just loved the sketches they had posted for WCMD.  It really got me inspired to create!

This simple card was made with

the new Crate paper line, water color pencils, and Nestablities Lables 8

I made this card for the Unity Friends with Flair, but thought it was FLAT

So I added a popped up flower and button

Cosmo Cricket PP, Paper Trey Ink kraft, Cuttle Bug Embossing, Basic Grey CB Letters,

Inkadinkado Butterfly stamp

American Crafts PP and Flair, and Basic Grey CB Letters. 

Thought this would be cute for a new baby!

Again American Crafts PP and Flair

Cosmo Cricket PP, Dew Drops

Jillibean Soup PP, Jenni Bowlin CB Button, PTI Kraft

Crate paper PP and CB Flower and HI, Stick Pens Maya Road

I should have watched closer for the pattern paper to change, but came out cute none the less

Upside down birds are not too bad right! :)

Here is a card sketch book that I made from the Kristina Werner downloads. 

Came out super cute!  I am not a fan of my handwriting......

Well all in all I had a blast creating this weekend.  As I make more I will post, but I thought this was a great start. I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend, heres to a great Monday!!!  Hey I have to thank positive right. 

{Friday Friends with Flair}

Well I have really been crazy busy this week, but I had to get crafty.  Here are some items I made last night.  I am loving the fact that I now have the new Jillibean Soup and Cosmo Cricket papers.  They are really just too cute and make creating so easy.  Here are my entries for this Friday.  I hope to have more up over the weekend since I will have a household void of boys on Saturday!  yeah me!  Off Camping they will be.  I hope every has a wonderful weekend and enjoy your Friday!  Thanks for stopping by.

On this one I used one of the trees from the Tiny Grove set from Unity to make the leaves

Jenni Bowlin ChipBoard Button

Jillibean Soup PP

I used the March09 KOM to stamp the sentiment

Cosmo Cricket PP

Spellbinders Die

This card was made using a Hero Arts Stamp for the Butterfly

water colored the wings

 Technique Tuesday - Ali Edwards for the sentiment

{Busy Weekend, lots of shopping}

Well my weekend started off with a nice night with my me and my hubby.  My Mom and Dad took my son and my 3 nephews for the night and most of Saturday.  AHHHHH relaxing at its finest.  Saturday my friend Tammy and I decided to go and check out one of the LSS and wow was it wonderful.  They had a ton of beautiful items, so much EYE CANDY!!!!  Ribbon......Prima flowers and papers......American Crafts...... well let me just say a little too much money later and we were happy campers!  After leaving the store in pouring down rain, yes did I mention we live in the sun shine state.....  well off to get my son.  Now mind you my parents have had 4 boys since Friday after school ranging in the ages from 3-9.  Here is what I found,

One second without rain and they are in the pool using their otter spotters.  The two oldest, both 9

The boys were over to decorate with my Mom for Fall/halloween.  Though come to find out in South FL, where it is still 81 degrees at 7AM, the pumpkin patches are not open yet, so this was as far as they got.

Mom was only able to use the "fake" pumpkins so far.  The boys all agreed it needed more "color"  too much

This is a window they decorated with handmade decorations.  Notice there is no Treat after the Trick O'.  This is what you get with 4 boys and short attention spans.  I had to laugh. 

Here is the other half of the window

Mom and Dad have been doing an amazing job of remodeling the house and I am just loving it.  This time of year the late afternoon sunlight is just beautiful coming in the back of the house.  This is the dinning room.

I think the kitchen is my most favorite.  My Mom has an amazing eye for details.  My parents home is extremely warm and inviting and it still feels like home to me!

Well that was my Saturday and it was FUN!!!   Sunday I got a surprise text from Tammy asking if I was up for another journey to more LSS.  Really did she have to ask!  LOL.  So off we were again!  More eye candy more money spent!!!  Ugh we are NOT good together. :)  All in all a GREAT weekend.  Tammy already started creating.  Her new cards are FANTABULOUS!  Tonight after cleaning my scraproom I will start getting crafty.  Can not wait. 

Oh wait I know this is a photo heavy post, but I can not forget to show my son and his friends getting their scouting "Bling" as the Cubmaster calls it, for all the accomplishments they made this summer!

Sorry for the poor pictures throughout the entire post, they were taken with my point and shoot and UGH!!!  Oh well you get the idea of what a great weekend we had!  Hope yours was just a swell!!! 

{Friends with Flair and Support our Troops}

Happy Friday to all.  It has been an extremely long week.  Our kitty cat is still healing and we have been spoon/force feeding her for a week. Today is the first day she is acting semi-normal.  I hope this is a good sign.  Though only time will tell.  We are praying that she makes a full recovery.  Thanks for all your prayers and calls.  Sasha is a true member of our family.  On another note my son Aaron is a Webelo Scout this year and his Pack is selling Popcorn as a fund raiser.  I really HATE fundraisers and normally have him hit up the close family for support, but this year the Popcorn company we are using has an option for making a Military Donation, this will send Popcorn to the troops overseas.  It gives them a little bit of home and comfort.  It is a nice treat for those men and women who are protecting our freedoms.  So if anyone is interested in sending popcorn to the troops and helping Aaron's pack please follow this link and Aaron's scout number is 3067142 the name that comes up is Aaron R.  We really appreciate your support. 
Now on to my cards for the week.

Ok I did post this one on Sunday, but I ended up coloring in the heart.  I did it with water color pencils and you can see it is still a little wet in the picture. :) I love this stamp.  I used the Cosmo Cricket Earth Love for this one. This paper rawks.

No Stamping on this one, but used the Mojo Monday sketch for it.  Basic grey paper and embellishments, White polka dot paper is from Making Memories

I love how simple this card is, but how cute it came out.  This is what you get when you are super tired, but need that one card for the next day!  Unity Stamps, Papertrey Kraft paper, misc. ribbon, Water colored with ink and a waterbrush pen.

This card uses the new Unity grainy background stamp and the mojo monday sketch.

Thanks for stopping by.  I hope everyone has a great weekend.  In South Florida we are still waiting for Fall to get here, but for those of you with fall in the air go out and enjoy it.  My parents are taking all 4 grandkids this weekend - all boys - ranging from 3-9. Hubby and I get a night out and we still do not know what to do.  Decisions Decisions. I am sure we will figure something out. 

{Busy Crazy Weekend}

Well this past week has been an emotional one. Our Kitty Sasha has been extremely ill. We had to make a decision about putting her to sleep or trying surgery and praying for the best.  We have had her for 17 years and she is totally a member of our family.  So after MANY tears we decided to try surgery.  Well, we have her home since Friday night and there are times I am not sure we made the right decision, but force feeding for now and 6 meds a day is hopefully going to work.  I really can not imagine putting her down.  It would break our hearts.

Well to take my mind off things I got busy scrapping.  Sasha was in the animal hospital for 2 nights and it was very hard coming home to an empty home.  Here are the fruits of my labor. 

I am really addicted to using up my scraps for butterflies

I got this pumpkin from Kristina Werner - I am still working on the Ghost and other adorable Halloween card using Cosmo Cricket Papers

This is my first EVA 8 1/2 x 11 Layout.  I used Cosmo Cricket Earth Love papers.  They are VERY cute!!!!  This is me when I was 3 years old! Wow a very long time ago. :(

I bought the little pad of papers from the Earth Love collection and they are perfect for making cards.  I used the Unity Stamp for the sentiment.  This design is also from Kristina Werner.  I have to say she is the Card Making QUEEN! Thanks to her I am back to using stamps and making cards.  I really Love it.  Well thanks for looking.

{Unity Friends with Flair}

Hello all here are my entries for this weeks Unity Friends with Flair. I have to say having this blog hop has really gotten me into the scrapping/stamping mode and I am loving it. This card and LO are also for my DT kit at Cherry Blossom Studio.
For the card I used the Unity Stamp Floral Friends the sentiment from July KOM. I love them ALL. I used the sketch from Kristina Werner for this one.
For the Layout I used the Scrapbook Collage Le Chic Vintage, which was such a great kit it is sold out! Just goes to show how great the product is. Well I hope you enjoyed this weeks creations. It really is fun creating with Unity Stamps. I hope everyone has a GREAT weekend!