Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Is it still an air conditioner if it doesn't condition air?

I think it should be demoted to "Potted Plant Pedestal".  "Twisted Mass of Wrecked Metal" also comes to mind.  But, then again, I might just be cranky from the humidity, too. ::sigh::

So, we're having another repair service out to poke around.  The last one said it isn't the a/c, it's the electrical. Hmmm, then what's all that white, frosty, foamy stuff on the piping out there? Fairy spit? I figure it should take approximately three weeks to get them out here. I know this because it's going to be the hottest day we've had so far this year with temps above 100 degrees and it's not even August yet. Which means everyone and their brother will need a/c repair. ::sigh::

So, I'll just upload my layout for today and try to nap before it gets hot. Then my boy Swiffer and I will find somewhere to hide this afternoon...assuming the a/c doesn't have mercy and start working.

Here's my baby girl at her graduation.


Kit: Days Gone By from Jensen Motley Crew Designs
Clock from Beautiful Bike Ride by Deatles for KimB's July 2010 Color Challenge.
The polka dot frame and I Love You charm are from Blissful by Jensen Motley Crew Designs, also.

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Leaving a Legacy

I love the Leaving a Legacy challenges at Digi Scrapbook Mania. I'm working through them and creating a book of really important memories about who I am.  This month we were to journal about some event that has changed our lives. I thought about my husband and giving birth, but I do layouts about those things all the time. I couldn't decide between two events so I did them both. When I look them over I noticed a couple things I almost went back and changed, but I decided to leave it alone...You know, I was emotional when I did them and I want them to stay that way. Sometimes I work things until they're bland.

First is "In God's Hands." It's about an accident I had. In that moment when I knew what was coming I was helpless and alone and not scared at all. There was nothing but me and Jesus in that van.


In God's Hands
There are no credits for this one. Just a pic I googled and texturized. I could not find an artist.

Tea Party with Jesus
Time is now divided into before Zoey and after Zoey.
Kits: Sweet Cream and Neoplitan by Ivy's Inspirations, Ribbons, tea set, cupcake, etc. are mine.
Painting is by Greg Olsen and I photo shopped Zoey in.

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Fairies




Papers: Summer Sunshine by Jenni Bean Designs
Moon: Baroque by Juicy Scrap
Galaxy Pic used as an overlay from NASA
Fairy: clipart used as photo mask
Photomask: Maske2 by Dani3
Star Glitter recolored from DSM's July 2010 Build a Kit.
Font: Vtks Beautiful Dreams

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

New Property

Today is the day of discontented children.  Child one is unhappy because she foraged for food on her own and then we ordered pizza. "Someone coulda told me," she said. Child two returned to his job as camp counselor today to discover that he left his pillow at home, because it has a camouflage cover and it was next to our loden couch. Child four is unhappy because we wouldn't allow her to begin a movie at 10:15 p.m...especially since her chosen movie is the interminably long "My Fair Lady." Child three is the only one without a gripe at this point. Give it a few minutes, I'm sure it's coming!

I have two layouts today. Both were taken at our new property where we will be building a house soon. First is Child four, who is twelve, with Swiffer.


Kit is Forest Discoveries from Tiggcon's Scrap Designs with a few pink pieces thrown in from 
Summer Daisy by Mel Haines.

The second is of the property (and Swiffer, of course).


Kit is the July 2010 Build a Kit from Digiscrapbook Mania.

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Sinuses Strike Back

This morning when I opened my eyes, I knew I had one of those headaches that was going to stick around all day. I tried all my little remedies and nothing even touched it. My sinuses have been really acting up. I know it's probably something in the air, but I'm not sure what.

Then my son comes in and says he thinks he has a sinus infection. His face hurts, his chest is congested, his ears ache and he's running a low fever. Whoops. So I spent the morning at the walk-in clinic (since he has to be back at camp tomorrow morning, I need to get some antibiotics in this kid!) Yup, the doctor says his ears are full, and the glands in his neck are swollen. Sure glad he didn't wait until tomorrow to be sick!

I finished a layout of Child three and Child four (otherwise known as Morgan and McKenzie) on Easter morning before church. It was a beautiful day, but church is early and it was a little chilly outside for the pics.


Kit is from the July 2010 Blog Train Blog "Picnic in the Park". 
Thanks to: Angel Hartline, Bon Scrapatit Designs, Chaos Lounge, Charm City Scraps, Designs by Angel, Digilover's Addiction, MandyMade DigiBits, and Victoria Feemster

Monday, July 5, 2010

Water Parks and Mountain Lions

We enjoyed the day at the water park so much last week, we decided to go again today.  The girls brought a friend and we had a lot of fun. Then we stuffed ourselves with WAY too much ice cream and could barely stay awake for the drive home!  And to kick it off, when I got home, Child number one had washed my van and cleaned its carpets (and, yes, I mean CLEANED the carpets. Like, with soap and water.) Wow. All in all it was an awesome day!

The layout I did today is of my Shih-tzu Swiffer. He's a real cutie and most of the time I just want to squeeze his stuffings out. For little dogs, Shih-tzu have HUGE personalities. He is demanding and spoiled and adores me. Which is pretty much perfect,as far as I'm concerned!

Last week, I was walking him outside my sister-in-law's house and we were minding our own business on the sidewalk when all of a sudden this monster ball of fluff comes spitting and growling off someone's porch and jumps on poor Swiff. I swear I thought it was a mountain lion! (Well, not really, but I was pretty startled.) Swiffer, of course, started screaming like a little girl and ran AWAY from me. I grabbed hold of the retractable leash to try and stop him so I could pick him up and ZIP, the line ran through my fingers and made a nice deep track of burned flesh across the insides of the fleshy part of all my fingers.

About this time, Swiffer apparently had run out from in front of the cat's yard and the cat started to come back. So what does my genius pooch do? He stops, turns around and tries to sniff the cats posterior as it saunters away. That cat flipped around and jumped on him again! By then I was caught up to them and grabbed him up in my arms...at which point the cat started to circle around, staring at Swiffer the whole time! He ran at me and I booted that evil sucker right up in his yard! The whole thing took about 30 seconds.

Okay, I have a cat at home, too. She's 13 and I love her. AND I certainly tried not to do any real damage to that demon. I just wanted to encourage him to cease disturbing my peace! Needless to say, we walked the other way every time after that.  I checked Swiff over and not a scratch, which I found really hard to believe since that cat was riding on him.  I still can hardly close my fingers a week later. I probably should have gotten stitches, but at the time, I didn't think they were that bad since it didn't bleed at all. I think heat from the zipping line must have cauterized it or something.  My life is crazy!

And here's my boy:


Kit is Boyz Rulez from Charlies Digiscraps and the template is from Modern June.

Friday, July 2, 2010

July 2010 Color Challenge

Here ya go...I don't usually name these mini's, but here's "Flower Market."  It was kinda hard not to name it that with the big black words in the middle of the preview! :) I was really going for a soft vintage chic more than flowers. Anyway, the download links are below the preview. Enjoy! And don't forget to check out the rest of the great mini's and layouts in the challenge at DSO.


Thursday, July 1, 2010

Ever wonder what motivates you?

I do. I mean, I haven't been very interested in scrapping for several months. I guess I got all caught up on my photos and just lost interest. I always thought if I could just catch up, then I could do all those layouts I wanted to get around to...those great nature photos, old heritage photos, maybe redo some I'm not ecstatic about...you know.  But when the time came, I was just not motivated.

Then, a few days ago, I just decided to start messing around and designed a kit for Kim B's color challenge at DSO and I've been taking off ever since....weird. I wish I could figure out what lit a fire under me....I'd like to be able to duplicate it again.

and again, and again, and again....

Well, today I did a layout of my eldest daughter (previously referred to as "Child One") It's been nice having a few more pictures of her, because usually I get shots of her hands in front of her face.  These shots were taken when we had to get a pic of her to use for school. I took about a million or so and these were some of her "out takes." (She's going to want to strangle me, so keep it down, okay?)


Thanks to Greenfield Original, Bekah E. Designs, Fanfan-Rue des Anges, Joni Gray Designs, And Deatles for the stuff they shared in Kim B's June 2010 Color Challenge at DSO.  And thanks to Elegant WordArt by Bethany for the word art. 
I love me some freebies!