Hello all out there in blogger land. It's been awhile, I know, what can I say? Nothing, I have no excuse. Life just gets in the way. Well I've changed my banner, not to sure if it goes with the background, but I liked it and that is all that matters right now.

I have a couple of pages to share, I made these using My Digitial Studio from Stampin' Up!. This is a new product available now. It's real easy to use. These pages are did where pretty basic. I'm not a very good scrapper but I'm trying. Without further ado, here they are.

The first one is a 12 x12, as you can see it from July 4th 2006. I'm just a little behind in my pictures.

This next one is an 8 x 8 page. This is also from July 2006, this was from our first trip to mammoth for the canoe races.

I have some more things to add, but I've got to get myself and house cleaned up.

Have a great day.

Wow, I've been gone for a while. Time just speeds right on by when your not looking.
When I agreed to become more involved with scouting for my two boys I never knew it was going to take over my life. I don't mind so much, but with my hubbies schedule it sometimes makes housework impossible. With that I mean, you know laundry, maybe shopping for food, you know little things. And of course no time for stamping. I did manage to sneak in 2 cards this last week. One was a graduation card for #2 son, who graduated from 6th grade and the other was for my hubby for fathers day. I haven't taken pictures to share yet. They were those "OH! I need a card and I have to leave in 30 minutes" cards. I'm sure if I had managed my time a little better I would have been a little happier with the outcome. But hey the receipents loved them and I suppose that's all that matters.

Well this was a short little post to let you know I'm still here, and to breakup my work day.
Until later.

Life's Simple Pleasures

I've been playing with digital scrapbooking lately. Here are some pages I completed. I'm just starting to figure out photoshop elements 7. Now to find more elements to attach to the pages.

Hope you like them, I think they turned out pretty good.

These pictures are from 2006, Garrett had school project where he had to do a report on the city of Fountain Valley. We spent the day visiting various places in the city.

We started at the hospital that Garrett was born at, then made our way to City Hall. We also visited Boomers a miniature golf course with go carts, batting cages, bumper boats, etc.

Emmett needed to be in the pictures with Garrett. They look so cute together, if only they stayed that way.

The last place we visited was Miles Square Park, the park has a couple of big lakes and concrete canals connecting the lakes together. The boys had to jump across the canals because they were there.

There are sidewalks that wind up and down and all around the lake. We rented a pedal bike for a couple of hours. We were a sight the four of us pedaling all over the place. The boys had a great time riding that pedal bike, they thought is was the greatest thing. As the title says, Life's Simple Pleasures.

Until later,
Enjoy Life's Simple Pleasures.

Yes I am Alive

This has been a very busy last couple of weeks. My oldest son turned 16 on last Thursday, my middle son went camping this weekend for scouts and my youngest son had his Blue and Gold Banquet for cub scouts. Getting ready for all this has kept me very busy. Between my oldest and his school baseball, and my other two in scouts there hasn't been much time for me to stamp. But I do have a few things to share. 1st is the card I made for my oldest son's birthday. I thought it turned out really cool and my son's response when he opened it confirmed it, by his "COOOL".


I made this card with almost everything retired from Stampin'Up!. The sets I used are Catchin Air, So Cool, Collage Alphabet Numbers and In the Stars. The card was made with pacific point, going gray and some very old designer paper, I think it was one of our first and some silver star brads from a hodgepod set. I stamped directly on the designer paper in pacific point ink. I stamped the snowboarder 1st, then masked it and stamped the dude on top of it.

He just learned to snowboard this winter and he is hooked. His dad and a couple of guys from hubbies work took him snowboarding for his birthday. Since they went on a Thursday there were no crowds which was a good thing as there was a constant snowball fight on the lifts.

That same evening Wyatt received an award from school for outstanding academic achievement.This is about one of the only times he let us take his picture. His biology teacher nominated him for this award. He is the only student to have an A+ in the class.

Now for the other two who have kept me just as busy. Garrett had a camp out this weekend for boy scouts and he was one of the many cooks for this outing. Since he was a cook he needed to do the shopping also. Well you know who had to take him, that's right me. This was an experience, to say the least, now mind you every Monday night Wyatt has the fire explorer program he goes to, he needs to be there by 5:30 pm, my youngest son is a cub scout where I am the den leader, we need to be at our meeting by 6:30 pm. and Garrett has scouts on Wednesday nights were he needs to be there by 7:00pm., now on Tuesday nights is my weight watchers meeting at 6:00pm which gets bumped if I'm needed someway else. As you can see I don't have much free time during the week and much less during the weekends as there is always something scout related.

Now back to this shopping, we were to meet at the store at 7:00pm this last Thursday, we didn't get out of the store until 9:00pm, from there they had to go pack the food in the bins they use for their outings. We got home at 10:00pm. Friday we meet at 6:30pm to leave for the outing. I was a driver so I got home about 9:30pm, luckily it was close by. Now on Saturday was my younger son's Blue and Gold Banquet, our pack as been in existence for 50 years so it was a big deal. We were there from 3:30 pm, to help set up until 9:00 pm when it ended. Here are a few pictures from our Blue and Gold.

Thank you for lasting this long. And since you did I have another item for your viewing pleasure.
I made these for our monthly Bunco meeting.

These were so easy to make, spiltcoaststampers has so many great tutorials.

Now I'm off to finish the laundry, vacuum and then find time to do a little of the work I brought home from work. Next week should be a little lighter I will be down one son. My middle son will be off to science camp for a week. That should free up one night to Stamp, I Hope I Hope.

Until then,
Thanks for stopping by.

New Stuff

Woohoo!! I finally got my photoshop software and am able to upload some of my new cards. Since has been awhile since I've stamped I was getting impatient about these new cards I stamped. I thought they turned out pretty good.

So here is what I did. The first card I made for my hubby, he has been working a lot of overtime, when I made this card he was going to be gone for 3 days. Isn't it cute, my inspiration came from Beate, she makes such great cards. The stamp set is Owl Together Now, the saying I made from my Karen Foster Snap Stamps. The card size is a 4.25 inch square. I used some baja breeze textured card stock I had on hand and shara sand, and the new riding hood red


He's going to be gone for another 3 days starting Sunday so I better get going on another card.

I also made a thank you card for a very dear friend, she was nice enough to place an order on line.
I hope she likes it, I made it at the same time as my owl card so the layout is very similar. I used the always set and a new hostess set, a little something for the saying. Both cards used SU double sided paper, but I don't know which ones I used. I have a bad habit of hoarding it and then don't remember its name, most likely they are both retired. I had a blue theme going that day, but all in all I was very happy with how they both turned out.

Until later, thanks for stopping by.

Alive and Well

Boy time flies. I can't believe how long it's been since I posted. It's been almost as long since I made any cards. I did manage to make a valentines card for my hubby. But I didn't take a picture of it. Then my computer decided I didn't need a keyboard or mouse; $300 and a week and a half later I got it back. Thankfully I didn't lose any of my pictures, but I did manage to lose my emails and thats because I overrode them when I re-installed my software. All I can say is doah!

Well these last couple of weekends my oldest son has keep me busy. He made the baseball team at school and these last two saturdays have been scrimmages with school outside of their league. I have a couple of pictures to share, but unfortunately I haven't re-installed by photo software yet.

So check back later, when I will have pictures and some new projects I completed.

Until later.

Crazy Life

Man my days are crazy right now. I do have some new cards to post, which I will do later, as I am typing this at work. Shame on me :) But sometimes you just gotta take a break. Something I haven't been able to do for some time.

Well anyways, I was blurfing here at work and came across a fun list on Sunshiny Days blog, she also has some cute cards on there. So, I thought I would give it a try and see how many I could cross off. The bold items are things I have done.

Have you ever??????????

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland/world (ish)
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill (don't tell anyone)
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community (drove thru Amish Country while visiting Allentown, PA)
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted (does chalk count)
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Gotten flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma (does trying count, iron level too low)
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square (drove past Times Square)
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee

Happy New Year!

Hello, I'm back and Happy New Year.

I hope everyone had a great Holiday.

What a hectic month December was! Between work and the kids activities, I didn't get any Christmas cards out this year. At work, I work for a general contractor, we got 2 new projects, which by the way was a life saver, or I would probably be out of work like many people. Well anyways, these 2 new project consist of 4 elementary schools. We will be adding 2 story portable buildings to each of the schools. Now mind you I work for a small contractor and there are just 2 of us in the office, we have put in alot of long hours trying to set these jobs started. So not a lot of time for Christmas shopping or baking. My hubbies schedule was such that he was able to get the shopping and wrapping done for me. I just love him to pieces. Thankfully I was unable to bake because I still managed to gain weight, I know it would have been more if I had baked.

My weekends were busy with Garrett and scouts. The first saturday of December we went and picked mistletoe. The boys use this as one of their fund raisers.


Here is Garrett surrounded by mistletoe. I didn't get alot of pictures because I was also packing the mistletoe in the trashbags. I think we had something like 20 large trashbags filled with mistletoe. From there we went to another scouts house to pack the mistletoe. I forgot to mention Garrett & I started at 7am. The scouts continued to pack until 5 pm and then again on Sun from noon to 3pm. Between Garrett & I we put in 16 hours on Saturday. The next Saturday we were scheduled to sell mistletoe and Albertsons from 9am to noon.
We had just 2 boys at our location, the boys managed to sell $100 worth; thankfully because the mistletoe just wasn't lasting. Most of it was broken. I'm curious how much the troop made and how much goes towards Garretts account to be used toward summer camp.

I did get a few gift cards made and I made knitted 3 scarfs for gifts. Of course I didn't start until the 22nd and made my gift cards on Christmas day. Well here are the gift cards I made.

This one I made for my brother, I thought it turned out real cute. I used Dawn's envelope gift card holder, she has some great tutorials.

On my gift card holder I used a SU medium square envelope. I also used SU's dp to cover the outside of my envelope, I also covered the inside but forgot to take a picture .
The frame is from my square nestibilities.
These are great, I use them with my SU Big Shot.

These other two gift card holders I adapted from cards I had made before. I was running out of time to get them done. Since my creative juices are still not flowing there were the next best thing. I think they turned out cute. I just added a pocket to the inside of the cards.
The dp is from SU, it was from 2007's winter mini. I just love these colors. I'm so glad I bought extra. On my Frosty gift card holder you can see the gift card pecking out from the top.


Here are the scarfs I made my sister-in-laws for Christmas. I made them in 2 nights. These make up real quick. I also made my mom one but forgot to take a picture.






Since then I've made 3 more. I'll show you in my next post.

I did manage to make a card and money holder yesterday for my nephew's 16th birthday. I am now in the process of making my cousin a birthday card.

This year I hope to get a little more stamping in and do the challenges on splitcoaststampers and the various blogs I have come across.

Thanks for lasting this long.

Bye until the next time.