Mommy & Mercedes Friday night is...

Party Night!! Or so Mercedes tells me! ;)

Today was a fun and busy day, just me and Mercedes, hanging out around the house, then doing some errands, and finally ended off the day with a Friday evening party.

Mercedes idea of a party is when we have a special supper, a movie, some kind of snack, and she gets to stay up late.

Today's errands included getting groceries, mail, picking up prescriptions and then she got a couple things from the dollar store. After all that we went to the library and she got to pick out some movies for the weekend and some books to read. It's so cool to see her reading chapter books now and it's neat to see her reading books that I actually remembering reading when I was about her age!

The party officially started when we got Subway for supper, and then we were supposed to watch the movie "Marly & Me", but Mercedes begged to watch Lion King 1 1/2, so needless to say I *may* have dozed off during some of the movie, but Mercedes was ok with that since she was pretty wrapped up in the movie.

After the movie, we read together for awile, then we played with her new toy that she got today, and then spent some time together on the computer. By the time we had finished all our activities it was 11:30 and time for bed! All and all Mercedes had a very fun Friday night and I enjoyed our time together.

I'm trying to make more time to enjoy these things she wants to do together cause I know that before I know it she won't want to do things with me, so I want to treasure every minute with her that I have. All and all today was a great day.

Insomnia, the start of big projects, and of course a bunch of cards...

This week is reading week here, so I made a goal to at least get started on this big project that I have planned for myself. Currently I have a scrapping desk & shelves set up in my living room and Mercedes has kinds taken that over, and I have pretty much completely moved into the den where I have set up another scrapping area. Now next to the den is a storage room, that could be made really nice, so the ultimate idea is to fix up the storage room and gather all the scrappin supplies and put everything together in the storage room and then just have one storage space and one scrappin area. However to do this, is going to be one very big, huge, gigantic project!!! I have lots, and lots, and lots of supplies...lots...more than you think...lots!

So tonight I couldn't sleep so I decided to tackle one shelf. Here's the before shot...

And here is the after shot...The things on the very top shelf will be coming down, they are Brad's I just need to get more boxes to pack his stuff in, and the stuff on the bottom shelf is mostly stuff that goes with my sewing machine which is on a table just underneath this shelf. Not sure yet what I'll be using this shelf for, but definately stuff that I use alot since this is very close to my workspace, so super handy space for the stuff I use daily.

This is a new card design that I just tried. This is the Mojo Monday126 sketch. If you've never tried one of there sketches, definately give them a try they are awesome and they have new ones every Monday. Check them out at http://mojomonday.blogspot.com/

These are all just some cards I've made over the past few days. I'm enjoying making these ones that use the scor-pal...you can tell that I'm still having fun playing with my latest toy! ;)

I thought this was a cute card for a boy's birthday

I'm loving this blinged out gate fold card, but it was a bit of a pain trying to get all those little gems all even around that big blue gem!

Just some gift tags I made for a local store....I was trying to match the gift bags that she sells

Another gate fold card with a bling'd butterfly on it

Another cute teddy bear gate fold

A quick Mother's Day card that was requested from one of the local stores that sell my cards. You can't tell in the picture but the patterned paper is up on foam tape so the butterfly kinda comes outta the circle...if that makes any sense?

Just more gift tags for the local store. As you can see I've been keeping busy, but enjoying it!

Hope you are all keeping busy too, and feel free to leave a link in the comment section, cause I'd love to see what you've been up too! :)