I PROMISE!!

It has been a long weekend, with lots of stuff going on! I promise to catch up on the WHOLE weekend tomorrow! I am not going to class in the morning (so hopefully I can CLEAN my house) and I will post pics and everything tomorrow!!!

I PROMISE!!!!

Mommy's Secret!

Yesterday was a LONG day! I had class and mom took the baby to the Dr. Ear infection and bacterial infection. Then Kaelin had her follow up with the ENT (that we forgot about and were LATE) I also brought KJ because his ear was bleeding. Everything was fine with both of them. After we got home I had to finish getting everything ready for Mommy's Secret. Got all my stuff ready and then Rob wanted to add somemore. We were up until 12:00. So I didn't add his stuff until this morning. So we spent all morning finishing things up. Finally got it all ready to be dropped off!! 258 items!! Mom went with me to drop it off. Thank God because we were there for an hour and half and I could only imagine how long I would have been there if she wasn't there to help. When I finally got home I started getting stuff ready for my booth at Mommy's Secret. I went up there tonight to start putting things up. I am not sure if I am ready for this LONG weekend. Kaelin also had soccer tonight. It was so HOT!! I sure hope it is not this hot on Saturday. I took pics of her practicing but did not get them loaded on the computer. It will probably have to wait until Monday. She also got her uniform. Their colors are red, white, and blue. The uniform looks like Spiderman. Kaed thinks they are!! I did not put them on her to take a picture tonight, but I will for sure get one before the game on Saturday. It has been along 2 days so I am going to bed early tonight! I promise to post pics soon!!

Love

LONG DAY!!!!

We had a very busy do today! I had class again!! YAH!! I came home and finished one of my challenges for this week!! (will post at the end!) Rob came and stole the kids and brought them to Chuck E Cheese for about 2 hours. As soon as they came in I threw the older two in the car to go to soccer practice! Kaelin did so good tonight. They were playing on teams and she did really good getting her ball in the goal. I can't wait til Saturday for the game!! It should be really funny!!! After that dad took us to dinner!! Kaelin's ate 2 pieces of pizza at CEC then at Wendy's she ate all of her happy meal (4 nuggets) and then ask for more. We got her 4 more and she ate all those also. She even ate half my fries!! And still ask for more chicken!! WHAT A PIGGY!!! Dad brought the kids home. When I got home MeeMee was rocking KJ and that is NOT normal! He looked aweful!! He has ANOTHER ear infection!!!!!!!! Got to take him to the doctor tomorrow!!! The kids stayed up really late and I know Kaelin will be exhausted in the morning!! Well I have so much to do but have done nothing!! I have nothing ready for Mommy's Secret this weekend! I don' t even have my consign stuff ready and I have been working on it since May! So tomorrow night (NOT tonight) I will be pulling an all-nighter to get stuff done!!!!

Anyways.. on with the challenge!!

Day 4... The last day!!

Holiday Cards:

1. This card must include at least one of the following: gold, silver or copper.

2. This card must include a Bible verse.

3. This card should include some sort of nativity scene.



Layouts:

1. Create a subtitle for the layout and attach it.

2. Create an additional journaling space and add it to the layout.

3. Add any final touches that you feel are necessary for the layout, but remember that sometimes the best final touches are to do nothing more.

Post your pics here and don't forget to ask questions!!

I hope you had fun with Challenge 3. I certainly did, and I am really looking forward to seeing your Christmas cards and final layouts. Good luck everyone!


I have only finished Kaelin's, the boys probably won't get finished until this weekend while I am at Mommy's Secret or next week after I get calmed back down!!!

Kaelin's ( I am not going to show the progress just the finished, if you would like to see the progress email me and I will send you pics)

I know!!!

I need to keep up daily because this post is going to be REALLY long!! Sorry I have a lot to catch up on!!

First, High school Musical on Saturday!! I am only going to post a few pics because I am working on the layout and it will be up by Friday!! I PROMISE!!!





Sunday!!! Grandparents day!! I am ALMOST forgot!! Chris called and reminded me and told me to do something special for mom before she went to work. So I run to my room pick out a card (THANK YOU SWAPS!!) and have all three kids sign it. Then we go next door and mom IS NOT THERE!!! I call her and she said she was coming back to the house before she went to work. I told her to come see us before she left. She thought something was wrong.




Kaelin opened her card for her and showed her their names!!! Mom didn't even know it was grandparents day!!! Kaelin signed her own name in the card, I just told her which letters to write. She forgot the "a" and her "n" was backwards!! BUT she did GREAT!! She is growing up! :(

Okay well then there is today!!

KOHEN JAEMS is 11 months old!!!! Can you believe it!!!!! Here are some pics I took today!!!






Okay that is enough!! I took like 100!!!! I will put the rest in Kodak gallery and get them out to everyone!!!

And this is what he learned today!!



Also today, the older two started dance!! Kaed had such a good time!!! He was soo excited and he DID GREAT!!!!!





And after he came home and PAST OUT!!!



And here are some cute ones of KJ:

Future Michael Phelps!!!

New shoes!!


And the boys!!




WOW I am really behind on the challenges!! I sure hope noone is trying to keep up on here!! I PROMISE next week I will keep up!!!


Day 2:

Holiday Cards:

1. Create a card using only red, white and either gold or silver.

2. Write a short poem.

3. Include one homemade embellishment.


Scrapper’s Choice:

1. Add ribbon or fiber to the base in at least three places.

2. Mat or outline photographs after cropping them to at least two different sizes.

3. Attach photographs to layout.

4. Add additional embellishments to one photograph to make it the focal point of the layout.


Good luck! Have fun! I look forward to seeing pretty cards and layouts

Kohen Day 2


Kaed Day 2


Day 3:

Holiday Cards:

Today we’re going to do something a little different. Instead of making holiday cards, we’re going to make holiday gift tags to be used on the presents that will go under your Christmas tree. To be precise each scrapper doing the holiday cards challenge must make 5 gift tags and the requirements for each gift tag are provided below.

Gift Tag #1
1. Must be red and gold.
2. Must be embellished only with words and ribbon or fibers.

Gift Tag #2
1. Can be any color desired.
2. Must have a handmade poinsettia

Gift Tag #3
1. Must be blue and silver.
2. Must have a bell on it – this can be an actual bell, a stamped bell, a die cut bell or a handmade bell.

Gift Tag #4
1. Must be green and white.
2. Must have either a Christmas tree or holly on it.

Gift Tag #5
1. Must have some plaid in Christmas colors.
2. Must have Santa’s face on it.

Notes about All 5 Gift Tags:

1. Cannot be smaller than 2x3 inches.

2. Cannot be larger than 5x7 inches.


Scrapper’s Choice:

1. Journal inside your file folder or pocket, preferably in your own handwriting, but not necessarily so.

2. Create a title using at least three different kinds of paper and a special technique.

NOTE:
Each scrapper gets to define what constitutes a special technique for her, but be prepared to explain why the chosen technique is special for you.

Kohen's Day 3:



Kaed's day 3:
(COMING SOON)




Kaelin DAY 1!!



Yes I am behind on my own challenge, but I have been sick!!! I will get caught up and post them FINISHED by Friday!!

High School Musical on Ice!!

Today me and Brea took Kaelin and Holly to see HSM on ice. It was okay. The girls seemed to like it. There was one time when Kaelin layed her head down and said she was tired! They wanted to cups with the snow cone in it. I said okay thinking they would be around $5-7. NO they were $16 for ONE!!!! So we got these little bitty cups with snow cones!!! I will post some pics tomorrow. I am too tired to do it tonight!!!


I started Challenge #3 today!!

Here is day one!!

his week we will be working on Christmas cards!!! Nothing like getting ahead on something right?

Holiday Cards:

1. Create a card using colors other than red or green.

2. Include the words from a favorite Christmas song.

3. Include three different kinds of embellishments.


LAYOUTS!!

1. Create a base using at least two solid pieces of cardstock and three pieces of pattern paper.

2. Create a pocket or file folder with one photo on the cover and lots of ribbon, fibers or flowers, and attach the pocket to the base.

Post your pictures here and if you have any questions, just ask!

Good luck! Have fun! I look forward to seeing pretty cards and bases


I also have one set done but to tired to loud them on the computer!! Tomorrow I will start the other two and post pics of them all!!!!

I am behind!!!

Wow I didn't think it would be this hard to stay updated!!! Life gets in the way!!!

It has been a busy week. Kaelin had soccer, it got rained out! It has been raining all week!! I have had Block classes all week. One in which the teacher DID NOT show up!!! UGH!!!! This is my second class that has happened too!!

Anyways not going to get to in detail about to much this week!!!

Here is the rest of the challenge for this week!!!


Day 5

Well this is the day to add anything else your layouts needs!!

It could be anything or nothing at all!!!


NOTE: Next week I am going to combine this step with day 4. Because this step will be the last step to EVERY challenge!!!!!


Have fun and I love EVERYONE'S layouts!!!!!! Can't wait to see the final details!!!


Kaed's


Kaelin's


Kohen's




day 4!

You are NOT going to like me today!!!!


today you must participate in NO ADHESIVE DAY which is the day that work must be done without adhesives. This means no glue sticks, glue pens, glue dots, Herma adhesive items, Xyrons, pop dots, adhesive splits, adhesive squares, etc. Scrappers may attach items using sewing, eyelets, snaps, brads, nail heads or even stickers. This is the day to be creative and find interesting and unexpected ways to add elements to a layout.

LAYOUTS!!!!

1. Create a title for the layout that utilizes something that was used in another part of the layout.

2. Add doodling or a metallic element somewhere on the layout.


CARDS!!!

Find an article is a NON-SCRAPBOOK magazine and use it as your inspiration, This could be for placement, phrase, color combination or whatever you see when you look at it that sparks your creativity. But remember NO ADHESIVE!!!!!

When you get done with your card, I want a picture of the article and your completed card.

POST all pics in the thread!!

I can't wait to see these cards!!!

Ask questions if you need to!!

HAVE FUN!!! NO STRESS!!

Kohen's


Kaelin's


Kaed's



Day 3

DAY 3!!!

LAYOUTS!!

1. Create a journaling space that is neither square, nor rectangular.

2. Complete the journaling for the layout on the journaling space.

3. Add mini titles on the photographs.


CARDS!!

Today we are going to use RED and BLACK!!!

Complete a card of your choice using only RED and BLACK!!!
(You may add white if you need to!!)


Pretty simple for the day right??


Kaed's


Kaelin's


Kohen's




Sorry about the sizes of the photos, I want them the bigger size bc you can see them better. But the little ones I would have to reload to get them that size. So next week I will not resize them!!!

Labor day!

We had a great day today. After we all got up and ate breakfast, we got ready and went to look at a Hud House. Well it was CRAP!!! I would NOT even think about wasting money on that thing. But there is another house that we saw when we were yard sale shopping a couple weekends ago and I had picked up a flyer. Well the flyers ALWAYS stay in my car forever!! Well Kaelin asked to look at them about a week ago. And she said "Mommy, I like THIS house!" I said,"Okay tell your daddy." So she showed him. Today while we were out I made him drive by it. It is empty so we got out and looked in the windows and walked in the backyard. It needs a little work, not much. PLUS it has a double garage in the back that was a workshop. It still has all the counter space in there. It has electricity. IT IS PERFECT as a scrapbook space/Kids space/and even Chris space. We would have to work with a little for it to be that but it CAN be done. Tomorrow we are calling the realtor so we can go look at it!!! I am actually kinda excited about it. After that we can home to eat lunch and let the baby sleep. Then we all went to the park. The kids had such a good time!! I got some of the CUTEST pictures.









Well today was DAY 2 of the challenge. Here was the challenge:

LAYOUTS!!

Today's challenge is to create the base for the layout and decide upon the placement for the photos that were prepared yesterday.

1. Prepare a base for the layout using 2 different colors of cardstock, 2 different pattern papers and ribbon.

2. Attach the photographs to the base.


CARDS!!!!

While at convention we heard the story of Thanh. A very heartbreaking story!!!! Read his testimonial here:

http://www.operationsmile.org/testimonials/thanh/

So today we will be using a light blue ("Blue Sky") and yellow ("...future filled with sunshine.") to make an inspirational card!

You must use those 2 colors but if you need to add another you can.

This card should have a piece of ribbon, fiber, waxy flax, or anything else you can think of.

And here is what I came up with!!!



And I decided today that each week I will do a page for each of the kids albums!! And here is Kaelin's



And Kaed's




And here is DAY 1:

Kaelin's



And Kaed's