Tiny Dancer

My sweet little niece turned four the other day. I can't believe how fast she is growing up. She takes dance class and she looks so graceful in some of the photo's her mom has taken of her. I haven't seen her dance yet but can't wait to see her first recital. I did a LO of my tiny dancer so here you go

(Credits: "Hello Birdy" by Melissa Bennett available at SSD)

Tonight was her party and since her actual birthday was Tuesday (Mardi Gras) that was the theme of her party. We had a great time! I will have to post birthday LO's soon.

An Interesting Fact

As SSD wraps up its 3 year birthday celebration our FOBTY challenge today was to find an interesting birthday fact.

The most common birth date is October 5 and the least common is May 22 in U.S.A

However I have to say I do not know anyone born on October 5, or May 22 for that matter.

I'm off to work for now so See Ya :)

My Little Buddies

Today has been filled with fun and excitement. AJ had yet another Doctors appointment today. He had to be put back on the prednisone and has to be out of school for the rest of the week which makes like two weeks in a row. In total he has missed darn near 40 days this year So as of this afternoon AJ is no longer in school he will be home bound taught for now. I'm not sure how it works but I know he will have tutors come to the house daily to help keep him up on his studies. I don't want to see him fail the school year for reasons out of his control, but I know its tough to be taken away from your friends and such. The doctors are telling us that AJ is like a puzzle with lots of pieces and we have to get all of these pieces and put them together to try and get him better but it will take time.

Well I got to keep Vinny overnight again the other night and that was fun. He is such a sweet little guy, and getting so big. I took a few pictures and of course I had to scrap them so here we go my new Vinny LO's

(Credits: "Any Which Way" by Traci Reed and Lauren Grier at SSD, Beadazzled Alpha: squared off by Traci Reed, and Date Bits by Misty Cato)

(Credits: "My Tea's Gone Cold" by Lauren Grier at SSD)

That's about it for now. Gonna go and watch group two tonight on American Idol and hit the sack.

Vincent

Just a quick picture to show of my little buddy who came to see me tonight!

Lizard Lips

All is quiet today. Nothing much at all exciting going on. I have a new kit to show you by Penny Springmann and Sara Amarie called "Lizard Lips"

its a fun kit with bright colors and awesome elements A must have for those with boys or even girls! What kids don't love lizards! and here is my LO using it

That's about it for me today. Hope you like it!

A Few LO's

So on this challenge we were supposed to scrap something that made us feel better when we were sick. Well This is Pooh and he belongs to my youngest son. When he was very small he told us pooh was magic and he will make us feel better. Here is the story.

(Credits: "Fantabulous You" by Julie Billingsley and Eva Kipler)


Here is another page I did the other night too

(Credits: "Rough n' Tough" by Michelene Martin and Melissa Bennett)

I'm an Oddball?

For the Blog challenge today at SSD we got to see what our birthdays mean
heres what mine said!

You Are an Oddball

You tend to be understated and under appreciated. You have a hidden force to do amazing things, doing them your own way. People may see you as strange and shy, but they know little. Your unconventional ways have more power than they (and even you) know. Your strength: Standing up for what you know is true Your weakness: You tend to be picky and rigid Your power color: Silver Your power symbol: Square Your power month: April

What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

Funny April is the month I married my wonderful hubby!!!! And gave birth to my two beautiful sons!!!

Blah Day!

Today is almost over and sadly I am thrilled by this. My poor AJ ended up spending most of the day down at Children's hospital today. He had a pretty bad asthma attack in gym class and we weren't able to get it under control. Super long story short he is doing much better this evening and is resting well. He starts all of his appointments with all these specialists down there on Friday and I am glad that we are almost there. I just want him to get better.

I wasn't sure if I was going to do the Month in Review challenge at SSD but after seeing my very own LO on the Gallery Stand Outs on the SSD Blog I was pumped! So I did it. (Now I just need to keep the momentum) So here is My January 09 in review LO

(Credits: Dani Mogstad's "Frosted Flakes" kit from SSD)

Well that's all from me tonight. Good Night and I really hope tomorrow is a better day!

Good Morning!

Good Morning! Well at least so far it is. I got up made some coffee, started the laundry, scrapped a little. So far so good. I have already finished today's challenge at SSD. Today was the add challenge. You look at an add and let it inspire you. Here is today's Add.

And this is how it inspired me. Keeping with the multiple photos and the clean lines. Here is my LO

(Credits: "Grid Iron Glory" by Julie Billingsley, and Bree Clarkson's "Borderline: Simple" pack all from SSD)

So that's about it for now, you might wanna pop back in later and see if I added anything more. That will depend on how badly the laundry takes over my day!

Another Challenge LO

Here is a LO for the color confectionery challenge at SSD. The challenge was to do a black and white LO with a touch of a color of your choice. I chose red as you see. The ball Vinny is holding is my Dad's baseball that he had autographed by the Pittsburgh Pirates when Roberto Clemente played. For as long as I can remember this has been an important momento to my dad.

(Credits: Elements from Libby Weifenbach's "Peanuts and Crackerjacks", Penny Springmann's "Game On", overlay by Penny Springmann, and Alpha by Zoe Pearn "Funky Bets")

New Release

Karen Lewis has a beautiful new release coming out today at Gotta Pixel and Digital Freebies called "Eezy Breezy"

I really love the colors of this kit and that the alpha and tags in this kit are like vellum. So beautiful! Here is a LO I did using this kit. This is my sister and holding our new nephew for the very first time without all of his IV's and such.

(Credits: "Eezy Breezy" by Karen Lewis at Gotta Pixel and Digital Freebies)

Enjoy :)

I have really been trying to keep up with the challenges over at SSD. I haven't been doing too badly either, not great, but not bad! The other day was the slogan challenge and the slogan of the day was "Enjoy" well this was perfect because that particular day was so beautiful here and my little nephew got to go out for his very first walk. So in honor of him being able to enjoy the moment I chose to scrap about that. So here it is

(credits: "Little C" by Melissa Bennett, worn overlay by Something Blue Studios and alpha from Eva Kipler & Julie Billingsley's "Fantabulous You")

Another Challenge was to do a LO about Loving Yourself, I always find it a little harder to scrap about myself, but I did this one anyway and am pretty happy with the results.

(Credits: "One Fine Day" by Penny Springmann")

I have one more for . It's my son and his cool new electric guitar he wanted for Christmas. Now he wants to find a few buddies and Start a Band!

(Credits: "Punked" by Dani Mogstad)

So thats what I have for you guys today nothing too much. It was kind of a lazy day today. Maybe after work tommorrow I will get some more done.

LuAnn tagged me!!!

The tag is that I am supposed to list 6 interesting things about myself and than link back to the one who tagged me and tag 6 friends. So, here are 6 things about me....

1. I am a twin, and even though we are not identical everyone thinks we are. She is my best friend and oddly enough we really can feel each others pains!

2. I currently work as a cook for the county jail, but my dream job is to be a neonatal nurse. Sadly It is not the best point in my life to return to school and pursue this.

3. I love music and in high school participated in show choir, chorus, and musical theatre. I dreamed to one day perform on Broadway, but picked up smoking as a bad habit and destroyed any chances for that ever happening.

4. I hate calling people I don't know on the phone! everyone I know thinks that I'm crazy because I am a highly outgoing person. But It takes me a while to warm up to new people, and since I don't know the person on the other end it makes me nervous. Now the people I do know can't get me off the phone!!...LOL

5. I have an addiction to Medical Drama's on TV. I have to watch my shows weekly and you can't bother me during them. ( Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice, and ER) and I have almost every Season of these on DVD!

6. I am secretly having a love affair with Garth Brooks (OK I can dream can't I)

I don't really know too many other people who blog yet so again I will have to think on who to send this to. But At least I answered them :)

The Great Valentine's Day Party Save!

For the challenge at SSD we had to take a quiz to see what our word was. I have to say I am pretty pleased with my word!

Your Word is "Love"

You see life as possibility to form deep connections with a few people. Relationships are the center of your world, and you always take time to bond with those you love. You are caring and giving. You enjoy helping those you love. And when it comes to romantic love, you feel passionately ... even in a very long term relationship.

What's" Your Word?

Last night right before dinner my son comes to me and says By the way mom I need Valentines for my party tomorrow. WHAT??? That's tomorrow already? Wow where has time gone? So I have to send a Big Thank You out to Penny Springmann and her Printable Valentine Goodies.

Here is how our treats turned out

(Credits: Penny's Printables: Heart Pockets with treats from SSD)

(Credits: Penny's Printables: Love Treats from SSD)

So The kiddo got his treats ( which by the way he said they were the coolest in his class) and the world did not come to an end! Yippee!

I hope everyone has a great Valentine's Day Tomorrow! I hope to, Alan says he has a surprise for me after work so We will see what he has up his sleeve.

Silly Girl in a Box with a Dragon!

So I have really been getting into the challenges over at Sweet Shopppe Designs. They are really a great way to get the creative mojo flowing. Here is a LO I did for the Spin-A-Lift challenge.

(credits: "Smooches" by Mellisa Bennett at Sweet Shoppe Designs)

Here is a link to the LO I lifted by Di-ahh called "Just Looking Close"

http://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=69720&ppuser=182

Another cool challenge is the hybrid challenge. It encourages those of us who don't typically do hybrid projects to give it a try. And for those who do gives them new and exciting ideas. This challenge was to think inside the box. Really! It was on origami box made from paper. I found this super easy and will definitely find myself using it again. Here is my try at the challenge.

(credits: "Sweetest Heart" By Penny Springmann & Brandy Designs at Sweet Shoppe Designs)

The Challenge for today was to follow the rule of thirds. This one I struggled a little with because well I just like to put things on my page wherever. But on this page I tried to put the main focal points within the points of intersection. I also added my element cluster in the corner in threes and put on three felt stars. It may not be perfect but hey I tried!

(Credits: My Prince to the Rescue by Lauren Grier & Shawna Clingerman at SSD)

Nothing too exciting else going on. Same old, Same old. SO I guess I'm off to either go to bed or who knows maybe scrap some more. However, I need some new pics of Emmie and Vinny (hint hint)

Dance

My sweet little niece has been taking ballet class for sometime now, and boy is she a cutie. Her momma sends me pics from her class all the time so I thought maybe I should do up a LO using some of her pictures. So here you go Gina...Emmie at Dance Class

(Credits: "Take me Dancing" by Lauren Grier)

Lazy Day

I felt like giving my blog another face lift. I know I change it more than my son changes his socks! (just kidding) But it was a little warmer today and it got me thinking about spring. I know the stinkin groundhog says six more weeks of winter, but maybe he lied! Today was a little dull, no Steeler's to watch and NASCAR doesn't really start till next week! Congrats Kevin Harvick for his Shoot Out win last night. (My brother in law is a huge Harvick fan so I had to throw that in there for him.) The kids kind of all hung out and played Mario Kart on the Wii and the hubby and I kind of loafed. I did manage to scrap one page though. It is of Nate holding his baby cousin for the first time.

(credits: "Mud Pie" by Melissa Bennett at Sweet Shoppe Designs)

Tuesday AJ goes for his pulmonary function test at Children's so we will get the testing underway finally. I just hope they can get everything figured out and get him doing better quickly. Asthma alone is a scary thing but with all these other complications its been a real nightmare.

Well I suppose I should go get some laundry or something done, that way I can say I at least did something productive today.

New Stuff!

Well its been a few days since last I posted and I have some new and exciting LO's and such to show off. But first let me tell you about this new beautiful collection by Penny Springmann called "Sweet Beginning's" there is a full size kit in both pink and blue, quick pages in both colors and some of Penny's amazing Word Jumbles. Here is quick preview of the kits

and here are a couple of LO's I did using these kits

They are so beautiful! The papers are just amazing and the elements are just WOW!

I also had to jump on the custom font bandwagon! Every one's are so amazing I just had to have one for myself. So check it out!

and here is a LO I did using my new font and "Organically Yours" by ScrapKitchen Designs, Manda Bean, and Eva Kipler. This was done for the Spin -a-lift challenge at SSD and this is the LO I lifted of Amy's

http://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=75649&ppuser=4470

and this is mine

The Sweet Shoppe is celebrating its third birthday and for the blog challenge this month we are supposed to tell about one of out fondest birthday memories. One of my most favorite memories would have to be my son's first birthday. I think thats when I realized that if I made it through the first year then I was moving in the right direction. That and watching him smear cake all over himself! I made him his very own little birthday cake chocolate with green icing and he had it all over himself, in his hair everywhere. Well its getting late and I have to go to work good and early so I best get my rear end off to bed.

Good Night!

Steeler LO

I wanted to do a LO from my Superbowl pictures and even though this isn't the greatest picture, I decided I still wanted to use it since all of us were in it. SO here is the family (minus mom) Super Bowl Sunday all showing our Steeler Pride!

(credits: Julie Billingsley's "Iron Grid Glory" kit from SSD)

Super Bowl Sunday! GO STEELERS!!!

Super Bowl Sunday and what an awesome game it was! Especially if your a Pittsburgh Steeler's Fan. The family got together for some great food! (Thanks Kim) and some great Football. Of course our boy's couldn't just go in there and get an overwhelming lead, but hey it wouldn't be Steeler football if they did. They kept you on the edge right up until the last seconds! We all had a good time, but we missed our mom who was away visiting friends. I hope she doesn't mind we redecorated for her. Here are a few pics from tonight's game.

Some pre-game horseplay with Gina and Emmie ( and a little extra padding!)

Sorry Mom your decorations had to go! (Notice the upside down cardinals!)

Some snack boxes I made up with Heather Roselli's new templates and Julie Billingsley's kit "Grid Iron Glory"

The Grand Baby's (and not so baby's)

The family posing quickly at half time for a group shot!

The littlest Steeler's fan and his momma

Me and my boys! Cheering on Our Steeler's!

VICTORY DANCE!!!!!!