Brad got a new job today!!! Yay!!!! He has been laid off since just before Christmas and we were just starting to get a little desperate and then today he got two job offers within 20 minutes of each other. He took the job that has benefits and he will actually be making better money than he was at his last job. He doesn't have to start until Tuesday, so we have a few days to get back into the groove of him not being around to help with the house.
Aside from that I had a pretty good day also. Got some really good deals on some clothes for Mercedes and bought a couple things for gifts also. I've been trying to work on something creative tonight but have so far only made one card although I did make one with Mercedes earlier and she was trying to help with mine so I finally just set it aside until after she was asleep.
Not sure what I'm going to work on next, but I'm wide awake so I'll probably take advantage of the situation, although I think my stunted creativity is due to the fact that I haven't bought any new supplies lately. I'll be so glad when we get Brad's paycheque and I can buy a few new things to rev up the creative juices.
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Reorganization is alot of work....
Well after staying up all night on Saturday, I finally managed to completely clean up and reorganize my scrappin area. So I thought it would be fun to show a few of the before and after pics. These first three pictures are obviously the before pics. The top picture is my desk. The tall bookcase is to the right of my desk. And the shorter shelves are to the left of my desk (when sitting at my desk).
Now after spending 12 straight hours re organizing, re labeling and all the other stuff ... I'm very happy with my scrap area. Mercedes has her own little desk on my left and she has a couple of her own shelves, filled with her own supplies.
After Pics....
But when it is finally finished it is just so worth it!!!
The top picture is taken looking straight onto my scrappin area. I have two big picture windows behind my desk, and the white door that you see on the left edge of the photo is our front door.
The second picture is taken from the corner of the room just to give you an idea of where my desk and stuff is in relation to the rest of the room.
The third picture is the shelves that are to the right of my desk. The bottom shelves on the left side have all my mags, idea books and books & images for altered books. The bottom shelves on the right side are Mercedes shelves. On the right side of the shelves there are in/out trays for projects on the go and above that is a little corkboard with pics and whatever may be inspiring to me that week. :)
Fourth pic is the bookcase to the left of my desk. Along with my sterlite container that has my stamps, inks, and paints. Behind that container is another corkboard that has various things on it at different times...I use it especially to keep things in sight that I always seem to forget I have! lol
And the last pic is just a pic of my favorite supply...paint!!
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Monday, February 05, 2007
Scrap Central weekend
This is the layout I did this last weekend. I joined the site www.scrapcentral.ca this weekend and had a great time enjoying the launch of this new website. I know the owner and I knew right away that I would want to be a part of the site from the beginning. I love the fact that I can host my images right there and doing submissions will be so easy now.
I really haven't been up to much lately. My anxiety is starting to calm down a little bit since last week, which I'm very grateful for. I'm still struggling with sleep issues but hopefully that will work itself out soon. I hope to get more scrappin done in the next few days also...I always feel so much better when I've been creative.
Not much happening this week...I have a hearing test on Wednesday and then I see my dr. on Thursday, but that's all that I have planned so far. Hopefully Brad will be going back to work soon. Well, I obviously don't have much to say tonight, so I'll just sign off and head to bed. :)
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
It's been awhile...
The last couple weeks haven't been very good for me. First we had a really nasty bout of the stomach flu that took it's time finally making it's way through everyone. Since then I've started getting really bad headaches and debilitating anxiety. Hopefully when I see the dr. tomorrow he can come up with some suggestions. Tonight was the first time in a week that I even opened my email or my message boards. And I haven't even sat at my scrapbook desk at all in over a week, and that is really strange cause I usually do something every day. I do have an appointment with my psychiatrist next week so I have a feeling that a med change is probably needed.
Other than that not much happening around here. Brad's still waiting to go back to work...hopefully within the next two weeks. He did a few odds jobs this month just to make a bit of grocery money. It's been nice having him home since I haven't been feeling very well, but it'll be nice to start getting regular paycheques again.
Mercedes hand is much better now, but it looks like it may end up scarring. Hopefully I'll have something new in the creative department soon... but for now here's a photo of the canvas I made for my girlfriend. It looks a little out of whack cause I took the pic on an angle to reduce flash glare. The journalling on the orange sections of cardstock have the lyrics to the song "Godspeed by the Dixie Chicks" it's one of my friends favorite songs. :)
Other than that not much happening around here. Brad's still waiting to go back to work...hopefully within the next two weeks. He did a few odds jobs this month just to make a bit of grocery money. It's been nice having him home since I haven't been feeling very well, but it'll be nice to start getting regular paycheques again.
Mercedes hand is much better now, but it looks like it may end up scarring. Hopefully I'll have something new in the creative department soon... but for now here's a photo of the canvas I made for my girlfriend. It looks a little out of whack cause I took the pic on an angle to reduce flash glare. The journalling on the orange sections of cardstock have the lyrics to the song "Godspeed by the Dixie Chicks" it's one of my friends favorite songs. :)
Sunday, January 14, 2007
Waiting for paint to dry...
Started another canvas last night. I'm making it for Jackie using some of the pics I took of Leif when we were up in Edmonton. I can't get the right background color yet so I just keep adding more washes and glazes...eventually it'll look right. lol Anyhoo since I'm waiting for the paint to dry I figured it was a good time to make a new post.
Not alot happening around here lately. Brad is still not working which is stressing me out, but he's been a great help around the house so it's been kinda nice having him home.
Yesterday Mercedes burnt her hand on the fireplace at Sonda's house. I guess she tripped on something and when she reached out to break her fall she put her hand right on the glass. About 1/3 of the palm of her hand was burnt. When I went to pick her up she was just crying and she started screaming about how bad it hurt all the way home. Sonda was over at mom's so I took Mercedes there so we could borrow some burn stuff from my mom. You can tell that Sonda has six kids...she just looked at Mercedes hand, got her a bowl of cold water and told her to put her hand in there. That at least helped stop the screaming. It was really red but didn't appear to be blistered, although there might have been a small blister on the side of her hand. Anyways we came home and she just kept her hand in cold water for about 4 hours...she would not take it out. I managed to prop her on the pillows in my bed so that she could lay down but still have her hand in the water...luckily I was thinking so I put a couple towels down cause she did start to fall asleep and dump the bowl of water. By this time it was after midnight and she just started screaming that it hurt so bad. I tried to put burn relief on it but she just screamed that it hurt too. She screamed for about 45 minutes and I felt so awful that I couldn't help her. Finally I told Brad that maybe I should take her to the hospital cause she seemed to be in so much pain and I was completely helpless to make her feel better. Brad went in to talk to her and she finally settled down and let me put the burn relief on again. We'd also given her some Tylenol so around 1:30ish she finally started to feel better. Today she was fine.
Other than that not much has been going on. It's been snowing steady for the last couple days and been really cold all week, so we haven't really gone out unless we had too. Today was a totally lazy day and we just watched a bunch of dvd's...we really enjoy all our tv show dvd's...today we watched Desperate Housewives for about 4 hours and then Dead Like Me for a couple hours...total couch potatoes! lol well my paint should be dry by now so I'm off to work on my canvas...just feeling the need to be creative. :)
Not alot happening around here lately. Brad is still not working which is stressing me out, but he's been a great help around the house so it's been kinda nice having him home.
Yesterday Mercedes burnt her hand on the fireplace at Sonda's house. I guess she tripped on something and when she reached out to break her fall she put her hand right on the glass. About 1/3 of the palm of her hand was burnt. When I went to pick her up she was just crying and she started screaming about how bad it hurt all the way home. Sonda was over at mom's so I took Mercedes there so we could borrow some burn stuff from my mom. You can tell that Sonda has six kids...she just looked at Mercedes hand, got her a bowl of cold water and told her to put her hand in there. That at least helped stop the screaming. It was really red but didn't appear to be blistered, although there might have been a small blister on the side of her hand. Anyways we came home and she just kept her hand in cold water for about 4 hours...she would not take it out. I managed to prop her on the pillows in my bed so that she could lay down but still have her hand in the water...luckily I was thinking so I put a couple towels down cause she did start to fall asleep and dump the bowl of water. By this time it was after midnight and she just started screaming that it hurt so bad. I tried to put burn relief on it but she just screamed that it hurt too. She screamed for about 45 minutes and I felt so awful that I couldn't help her. Finally I told Brad that maybe I should take her to the hospital cause she seemed to be in so much pain and I was completely helpless to make her feel better. Brad went in to talk to her and she finally settled down and let me put the burn relief on again. We'd also given her some Tylenol so around 1:30ish she finally started to feel better. Today she was fine.
Other than that not much has been going on. It's been snowing steady for the last couple days and been really cold all week, so we haven't really gone out unless we had too. Today was a totally lazy day and we just watched a bunch of dvd's...we really enjoy all our tv show dvd's...today we watched Desperate Housewives for about 4 hours and then Dead Like Me for a couple hours...total couch potatoes! lol well my paint should be dry by now so I'm off to work on my canvas...just feeling the need to be creative. :)
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
More on the grandma stories...
- baby on the doorstep
- German war prisoners
-Almost freezing in a blizzard when my dad was very little and my grandpa frostbit his cheeks so bad that they split open
-granpda hanging from the Lethbridge bridge
-granpda getting hurt with a pitchfork(?)
-dad and uncle ralph eating all the cookies in the cookie jar and locking grandma outta of the house so she had to climp through a window when she was eight months pregnant!
-having the feeling to get up out of her chair for only seconds later it was hit be lightning?
-making dad a new sunday suit only to have him through it down the outhouse...another time he threw down a chicken!
-my dad had a pet antelope for awhile.
- Grandma was a tomboy with white blonde hair...her sister's used to tease her and called her towhead.
-She rode a horse and sleigh to school...they would heat up rocks and put them under the blankets to keep them warm.
-I've never met nor have I even ever heard of someone that doesn't like my grandma.
-Learning to cook with Grandma...she'd set up a little table in the kitchen for me and we'd make cookies and pies. One time she was making lemon meringue pie and she let me make my very own little tart. I rolled out the pastry, and grandma helped me get it in the tart pan. I added my pie filling, and a dollop of meringue and into the oven it went. I was so proud of that little pie. I ever so carefully cradled in my hands as I so cautiously walked home. When supper was over and my dad asked what was for dessert I was so excited to tell him that I made dessert! He took one look at my tart and said "what's for the rest of them?" and he laughed. I don't know how she did it, but my mom managed to cut a little tiny lemon tart into five pieces that night and I was so proud to have made dessert for my family. I think that's the day my love of cooking began...in my grandma's kitchen.
-Grandma always read lots of stories - Three Billy Goats Gruff, Little Black Sambo, Hansel and Gretel, Pinochia, Cinderella and countless others.
-Grandma always played games with us too...I learned how to play crib, chinese checkers, other card game and trouble...we spent many hours sitting in front of the heat vent playing games.
-Grandma has aLWAYS believed that I could do anything I put my mind too....ANYTHING. I think I can honestly say that I have never in my life felt anything but complete unconditional love from her. I'm not sure that I can say that about anyone else. She makes me want to be a better person. She has seen me make countless mistakes and has always treated me the same...like I'm her favorite...which I know is the exact same way she treats each and every one of her grandchildren. My grandma has been one of the biggest blessings in my life and I can't imagine what my life would have been like without her. She has influenced me in ways that I'm not even concious of. She has a great big place in my heart and I just pray that her surgery will go perfectly next week.
- German war prisoners
-Almost freezing in a blizzard when my dad was very little and my grandpa frostbit his cheeks so bad that they split open
-granpda hanging from the Lethbridge bridge
-granpda getting hurt with a pitchfork(?)
-dad and uncle ralph eating all the cookies in the cookie jar and locking grandma outta of the house so she had to climp through a window when she was eight months pregnant!
-having the feeling to get up out of her chair for only seconds later it was hit be lightning?
-making dad a new sunday suit only to have him through it down the outhouse...another time he threw down a chicken!
-my dad had a pet antelope for awhile.
- Grandma was a tomboy with white blonde hair...her sister's used to tease her and called her towhead.
-She rode a horse and sleigh to school...they would heat up rocks and put them under the blankets to keep them warm.
-I've never met nor have I even ever heard of someone that doesn't like my grandma.
-Learning to cook with Grandma...she'd set up a little table in the kitchen for me and we'd make cookies and pies. One time she was making lemon meringue pie and she let me make my very own little tart. I rolled out the pastry, and grandma helped me get it in the tart pan. I added my pie filling, and a dollop of meringue and into the oven it went. I was so proud of that little pie. I ever so carefully cradled in my hands as I so cautiously walked home. When supper was over and my dad asked what was for dessert I was so excited to tell him that I made dessert! He took one look at my tart and said "what's for the rest of them?" and he laughed. I don't know how she did it, but my mom managed to cut a little tiny lemon tart into five pieces that night and I was so proud to have made dessert for my family. I think that's the day my love of cooking began...in my grandma's kitchen.
-Grandma always read lots of stories - Three Billy Goats Gruff, Little Black Sambo, Hansel and Gretel, Pinochia, Cinderella and countless others.
-Grandma always played games with us too...I learned how to play crib, chinese checkers, other card game and trouble...we spent many hours sitting in front of the heat vent playing games.
-Grandma has aLWAYS believed that I could do anything I put my mind too....ANYTHING. I think I can honestly say that I have never in my life felt anything but complete unconditional love from her. I'm not sure that I can say that about anyone else. She makes me want to be a better person. She has seen me make countless mistakes and has always treated me the same...like I'm her favorite...which I know is the exact same way she treats each and every one of her grandchildren. My grandma has been one of the biggest blessings in my life and I can't imagine what my life would have been like without her. She has influenced me in ways that I'm not even concious of. She has a great big place in my heart and I just pray that her surgery will go perfectly next week.
Stories of my Grandma....
I called my grandma tonight. I've really worried about her having surgery next week. We had a nice visit on the phone, but I just wish I was with her for a few hours. I've decided that I want to do a mini album about my grandma and some of the stories from her life that she told me about. She is such an amazing woman and has had some incredible experiences in her life. I'm also kinda curious to see if the stories I remember are the same ones she told me! Who knows what my young brain forgot or totally focused on.
I may write more later, just needed to write down this idea so I can start thinking about how I'd like to do it. :)
I may write more later, just needed to write down this idea so I can start thinking about how I'd like to do it. :)
Saturday, January 06, 2007
Just a quick post...
Well it's been a long week. I've been fighting a cold all week and I think I may even have bronchitis. I've not been sleeping very well at night, so I've been taking long naps whenever I can finally fall asleep. It's kinda nice that Brad's been home to help out with Mercedes. Hopefully though they will call him next week to go back to work. This whole having no money thing really sucks.
I managed to get most of my supplies all cleaned and organized this week, along with making something for Chris and finishing a 2 pg LO for Launi and I'm started on another one. I've done a couple of things for the design team I'm on, but I need to get a couple more things made. I'd also really like to catch up in and then finish my art journal from last year. I've also started a mini album called "Things that make me Happy" I think it's going to be a fun little project to work on in the next little while. I want to start paying more attention to submission calls again so I can try to submit more this year. I also want to spend more time playing and learning new techniques. Perfect things to be doing in an altered book. And of course I'm feeling the itch for a canvas project again soon...probably work on one for Jackie, using pics of her & Leif and maybe the words to Godspeed.
Guess that's all for now...warned ya that it would be a quick note! lol
Tania
I managed to get most of my supplies all cleaned and organized this week, along with making something for Chris and finishing a 2 pg LO for Launi and I'm started on another one. I've done a couple of things for the design team I'm on, but I need to get a couple more things made. I'd also really like to catch up in and then finish my art journal from last year. I've also started a mini album called "Things that make me Happy" I think it's going to be a fun little project to work on in the next little while. I want to start paying more attention to submission calls again so I can try to submit more this year. I also want to spend more time playing and learning new techniques. Perfect things to be doing in an altered book. And of course I'm feeling the itch for a canvas project again soon...probably work on one for Jackie, using pics of her & Leif and maybe the words to Godspeed.
Guess that's all for now...warned ya that it would be a quick note! lol
Tania
Thursday, December 28, 2006
A few pics
Mercedes and Leif
Jackie and Leif
Jackie, Leif and Ethan
Leif
Mercedes and Daddy in the hot tub
The 32 pound turkey!!!
Baby Maria
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| From Christmas 2006 |
Jackie and Leif
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| From Christmas 2006 |
Jackie, Leif and Ethan
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| From Christmas 2006 |
Leif
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| From Christmas 2006 |
Mercedes and Daddy in the hot tub
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| From Christmas 2006 |
The 32 pound turkey!!!
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| From Christmas 2006 |
Baby Maria
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| From Christmas 2006 |
Christmas 2006
We went up to Edmonton for Christmas this year. Spent most of our time with Brad's parents, but did spend a day with Jackie & Leif. I'll try to upload a few of my favorite pics from our trip at some point. We went up on Dec 22, and came back on Boxing Day. Christmas was nice with Brad's parents and then the rest of the family came over in the afternoon for Christmas dinner. Mercedes got totally spoiled rotten again, but that's no surprise! lol She got lots of craft stuff so she's thrilled with that, a couple new games & movies, and a Barbie & My Little pony stuff. She also got three new dresses, some play makeup, new earrings and various other odds and ends. For me it was the year of the cookbook as I got 7 new recipe books this year! lol I guess everyone really does know what I like! lol I got a couple little scrappy things, along with some new pj's & pj pants. I also got a few new novels and a gardening book that I wanted. My mom gave us gift cards for Extra Foods, a new portable heater for the scrapbook room and a big box of toilet paper! lol I also managed to buy myself a few Christmas presents too! lol I ordered the Autumn Leaves calendar which I can't wait to look at. I bought a silent setter just a couple weeks before Christmas and then today I went and bought a really cool hardcover book about Classic Toys & their toymakers, and then I went and bought Friends Scene It game since Extra had them 1/2 off!
There was a slight damper on the holidays though...Brad got laid off as of Dec 22 for an undetermined amount of time. They told him that they hoped to be calling him back by mid-January, but we'll just have to wait and see. As it is it's kinda nice to have him home for a few days so I can have a little vacation too. The trip to Edmonton was not really all that relaxing and I came home more tired than I was before I left. It was so nice to get back into our own home again though. All and all it was a pretty good holiday with lots of time spent with our friends and families. :)
There was a slight damper on the holidays though...Brad got laid off as of Dec 22 for an undetermined amount of time. They told him that they hoped to be calling him back by mid-January, but we'll just have to wait and see. As it is it's kinda nice to have him home for a few days so I can have a little vacation too. The trip to Edmonton was not really all that relaxing and I came home more tired than I was before I left. It was so nice to get back into our own home again though. All and all it was a pretty good holiday with lots of time spent with our friends and families. :)
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Is it Christmas yet?
I think I'm starting to get tired of Christmas preparations! lol It feels like I've been working on gifts for weeks now, and yet I still feel like I don't have much done. Today Mercedes and I went and got wrapping paper and actually wrapped a couple presents, so I feel like I've accomplished something and yet my to-do list doesn't seem any shorter!
The slide shows are pretty much done, just need to find some cases and make the covers. I think I'm finished with Mercedes' teacher's gift, but I'm too tired to take pics tonight. I still need to make about 10 more cards, finish my mom's gift and make something for my step-sister's family. I will be so glad to get back to just doing my own thing...I have some fun supplies that I'm looking forward to playing with after Christmas. And it will be so nice to get my desk cleaned up! Right now it looks like a bomb went off on it...in fact I've pretty much taken over an entire half of the living room! I just have too many different projects on the go now, so I have stuff everywhere and it's really starting to get on my nerves! lol
Taught piano tonight...I've really noticed a difference in the kids abilities in the last year...maybe I do know what I'm doing! lol Sonda was over at my mom's this evening working on the quilt she's making Cole, so I went over for a few minutes and we kinda got the giggles...it was fun to laugh until my stomach hurt, and I always crack up when my sister gets the giggles...we're going to end up just like my mom and my aunts! lol It was a good thing though cause I needed a good laugh today...I found out today that my kids still won't see me. I kinda expected that, yet when Terry told me it still broke my heart. At least my mom will get to see them, and I'll have to give Ferrin a quick photo lesson before so he can get me some good pics. According to Terry, when he asked the kids if they wanted to see me, Nyal immediately said no, but Jessi said "maybe next time"...I suppose that is better than an immediate no, but it still sucks. That's all I'll say on this subject...it needs to go back into that little lock box I keep it in so I don't have to hurt so bad.
On the plus side I had a good visit with Amy and with Launi today and my brother came down so I'll get to see him tomorrow...I really value my friends & family so much. Amy is going through a really rough time right now and I feel so bad for her cause I know what it's like...besides it's such a turn around...usually I'm the basketcase & she's the sane(r) one! And Amy if you read this you know I say that with love! lol Well, that's all for now, I think I'm gonna try to get some sleep. :)
The slide shows are pretty much done, just need to find some cases and make the covers. I think I'm finished with Mercedes' teacher's gift, but I'm too tired to take pics tonight. I still need to make about 10 more cards, finish my mom's gift and make something for my step-sister's family. I will be so glad to get back to just doing my own thing...I have some fun supplies that I'm looking forward to playing with after Christmas. And it will be so nice to get my desk cleaned up! Right now it looks like a bomb went off on it...in fact I've pretty much taken over an entire half of the living room! I just have too many different projects on the go now, so I have stuff everywhere and it's really starting to get on my nerves! lol
Taught piano tonight...I've really noticed a difference in the kids abilities in the last year...maybe I do know what I'm doing! lol Sonda was over at my mom's this evening working on the quilt she's making Cole, so I went over for a few minutes and we kinda got the giggles...it was fun to laugh until my stomach hurt, and I always crack up when my sister gets the giggles...we're going to end up just like my mom and my aunts! lol It was a good thing though cause I needed a good laugh today...I found out today that my kids still won't see me. I kinda expected that, yet when Terry told me it still broke my heart. At least my mom will get to see them, and I'll have to give Ferrin a quick photo lesson before so he can get me some good pics. According to Terry, when he asked the kids if they wanted to see me, Nyal immediately said no, but Jessi said "maybe next time"...I suppose that is better than an immediate no, but it still sucks. That's all I'll say on this subject...it needs to go back into that little lock box I keep it in so I don't have to hurt so bad.
On the plus side I had a good visit with Amy and with Launi today and my brother came down so I'll get to see him tomorrow...I really value my friends & family so much. Amy is going through a really rough time right now and I feel so bad for her cause I know what it's like...besides it's such a turn around...usually I'm the basketcase & she's the sane(r) one! And Amy if you read this you know I say that with love! lol Well, that's all for now, I think I'm gonna try to get some sleep. :)
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
They're almost done!!!
After hours & hours of work, the dvd slideshows are almost all done. I still have to burn a few more copies and label the disks....but then I can cross about 7 people off my Christmas list! Woohoo!! My brother really saved the day for me and I was so glad cause I had reached the point of wanting to throw my computer through my window...and that's never good! lol
Nothing too exciting today...got a few more Christmas cards made & signed...I'll have to pop them in the post tomorrow. After that I think I just have the cards that will be hand delivered left to do. I will be glad when all this Christmas stuff is done, so I'll have more time to just create and play. It's hard to believe that Christmas is only 2 weeks away! I have so much to do before we leave for Edmonton on the 22! Aghhhhh!
Tomorrow I teach piano, Thursday is my nieces choir concert, Friday is Brad's company Christmas party and I think Saturday we may go to Lethbridge. It's going to be a busy week and then next week I'll have to get all the laundry done, presents wrapped and us all packed to go away for a few days! I'm tired just thinking about all the things I need to be doing! lol Oh well, tomorrow's another day. :)
Nothing too exciting today...got a few more Christmas cards made & signed...I'll have to pop them in the post tomorrow. After that I think I just have the cards that will be hand delivered left to do. I will be glad when all this Christmas stuff is done, so I'll have more time to just create and play. It's hard to believe that Christmas is only 2 weeks away! I have so much to do before we leave for Edmonton on the 22! Aghhhhh!
Tomorrow I teach piano, Thursday is my nieces choir concert, Friday is Brad's company Christmas party and I think Saturday we may go to Lethbridge. It's going to be a busy week and then next week I'll have to get all the laundry done, presents wrapped and us all packed to go away for a few days! I'm tired just thinking about all the things I need to be doing! lol Oh well, tomorrow's another day. :)
Sunday, December 10, 2006
a few quick notes today...
I have recently realized that my spelling/grammar is rather atrocious in these blog entries! lol Maybe cause I'm always doing it late at night?
Not much going on today. I can finally see the finish line for these dvd slideshows...hopefully they will be finished tonight. Then I just have to burn a bunch of copies. I also decorated the cd case for it which will qualify as one of my assignments for my design team. I've even got over half my Christmas cards made and some have even been mailed! lol I'm pretty lucky cause we will be seeing most of our family throughout the holiday season, so most of our cards will be hand delivered.
Mercedes went to her first non-family member birthday party today. It was a little interesting. The little girl who's birthday it was (I'll call her J) doesn't have a phone, nor did she had 'Cedes phone number. Finally she got ahold of my cousin, who also has a dd the same age, and the message was then past on to us. It was a swimming party, and by the time we got there there was only about 20 minutes left. Didn't seem to bother Mercedes since she spent the whole time in the hot tub with Shaina! lol After swimming the kids we all going to J's house for cake & presents (Shaina (my cousin) & I were the only people that brought presents). I didn't go to J's house cause Mercedes just went with Shaina, but when Mercedes got home 2 hours later she had a sad story to tell. Apparently J's dad was supposed to show up with the food and the cake well over 2 hours ago...by the time Shaina left he still hadn't shown up. Mercedes was pretty hungry when she got home too cause all she'd eaten was a drink of pop, some chips and 1/8 of a weiner. I just think that is so sad for J. She is a little native girl and seems very sweet. Mercedes and her are always playing together at school, but I found out tonight that any future playdates should be held here since J told her classmates last week that her mommy was in jail again cause her daddy had to call the police. Considering that her dad didn't show up on time with the cake, etc. I imagine there are problems from that end too. There is just so much heartache in the native community here. And if you've never seen someone that is extremely intoxicated on something probably like hairspray or aftershave...it's just very, very sad.
Well I'm off to try my first burnt copy of the slideshow, so here's hoping that it'll be just as I imagined it. Maybe I'll even fill out some more Christmas cards while I watch it. I also need to write out the instructions for the altered cd case...then again, I just may go to bed! lol
I actually remembered how to upload some pics so these are just a couple I took around town last night....can you tell that I still have no idea on how to properly use my camera! lol
Not much going on today. I can finally see the finish line for these dvd slideshows...hopefully they will be finished tonight. Then I just have to burn a bunch of copies. I also decorated the cd case for it which will qualify as one of my assignments for my design team. I've even got over half my Christmas cards made and some have even been mailed! lol I'm pretty lucky cause we will be seeing most of our family throughout the holiday season, so most of our cards will be hand delivered.
Mercedes went to her first non-family member birthday party today. It was a little interesting. The little girl who's birthday it was (I'll call her J) doesn't have a phone, nor did she had 'Cedes phone number. Finally she got ahold of my cousin, who also has a dd the same age, and the message was then past on to us. It was a swimming party, and by the time we got there there was only about 20 minutes left. Didn't seem to bother Mercedes since she spent the whole time in the hot tub with Shaina! lol After swimming the kids we all going to J's house for cake & presents (Shaina (my cousin) & I were the only people that brought presents). I didn't go to J's house cause Mercedes just went with Shaina, but when Mercedes got home 2 hours later she had a sad story to tell. Apparently J's dad was supposed to show up with the food and the cake well over 2 hours ago...by the time Shaina left he still hadn't shown up. Mercedes was pretty hungry when she got home too cause all she'd eaten was a drink of pop, some chips and 1/8 of a weiner. I just think that is so sad for J. She is a little native girl and seems very sweet. Mercedes and her are always playing together at school, but I found out tonight that any future playdates should be held here since J told her classmates last week that her mommy was in jail again cause her daddy had to call the police. Considering that her dad didn't show up on time with the cake, etc. I imagine there are problems from that end too. There is just so much heartache in the native community here. And if you've never seen someone that is extremely intoxicated on something probably like hairspray or aftershave...it's just very, very sad.
Well I'm off to try my first burnt copy of the slideshow, so here's hoping that it'll be just as I imagined it. Maybe I'll even fill out some more Christmas cards while I watch it. I also need to write out the instructions for the altered cd case...then again, I just may go to bed! lol
I actually remembered how to upload some pics so these are just a couple I took around town last night....can you tell that I still have no idea on how to properly use my camera! lol
Saturday, December 09, 2006
Maybe I'll try bloggin before...
my manic mind takes total control and tries to make me think doing 5 different things at the same time is a good idea! lol
Today was a pretty good day. I woke up with a sore throat and coughing, but started to feel better throughout the day. Mercedes has been a little sniffly too, so we're probably on the cusp of a cold.
This afternoon I spent working on Christmas cards and phoning people trying to find addresses and all that fun stuff! I also was at my sister's house quite a bit...5 or 6 times, just picking up kids and dropping them off! lol
Brad went down to the Legion for a couple hours this evening which was a nice break for me since Mercedes was at Sonda's. I took my camera out and was trying to get some neat pics of the Christmas lights around town, but I just have so much to learn about SLR cameras! Then I went over a tried to get some pics of my mom's Christmas ornaments. I'll try to post some here and I would totally love any and all constructive critism...and be specific cause I feel like I'm trying to learn a new language or something! lol
Then I came home and started working on Christmas cards (hopefully without Mercedes help), but she wanted to so she was writing her own name in the cards. I finally told she needed to go to bed...and now I can't work on more cards cause they'll still have to wait for her to print her cute little signature! lol
Just found out that I have less three days to finish my dvd slideshow and then alter a cd case. Could be a late night!
Couple more things today...Mercedes went through her toys to donate to the Christmas drive and also picked out a bunch a food. This is pretty exciting for us cause last year we were given a hamper and it was so greatly appreciated.
Other happy note...got my January CK and I have found so many different things for inspiration! I haven't even made it through half the magazine and I have a whole bunch of pages marked! lol
Ok, time to get serious....Tonight's goal is to finish slideshow. Wish me luck. :)
And sorry about the no pics tonight, but I seriously cannot seem to get my pics to upload properly and I can't afford to waste any time tonight trying to figure it out! lol
Today was a pretty good day. I woke up with a sore throat and coughing, but started to feel better throughout the day. Mercedes has been a little sniffly too, so we're probably on the cusp of a cold.
This afternoon I spent working on Christmas cards and phoning people trying to find addresses and all that fun stuff! I also was at my sister's house quite a bit...5 or 6 times, just picking up kids and dropping them off! lol
Brad went down to the Legion for a couple hours this evening which was a nice break for me since Mercedes was at Sonda's. I took my camera out and was trying to get some neat pics of the Christmas lights around town, but I just have so much to learn about SLR cameras! Then I went over a tried to get some pics of my mom's Christmas ornaments. I'll try to post some here and I would totally love any and all constructive critism...and be specific cause I feel like I'm trying to learn a new language or something! lol
Then I came home and started working on Christmas cards (hopefully without Mercedes help), but she wanted to so she was writing her own name in the cards. I finally told she needed to go to bed...and now I can't work on more cards cause they'll still have to wait for her to print her cute little signature! lol
Just found out that I have less three days to finish my dvd slideshow and then alter a cd case. Could be a late night!
Couple more things today...Mercedes went through her toys to donate to the Christmas drive and also picked out a bunch a food. This is pretty exciting for us cause last year we were given a hamper and it was so greatly appreciated.
Other happy note...got my January CK and I have found so many different things for inspiration! I haven't even made it through half the magazine and I have a whole bunch of pages marked! lol
Ok, time to get serious....Tonight's goal is to finish slideshow. Wish me luck. :)
And sorry about the no pics tonight, but I seriously cannot seem to get my pics to upload properly and I can't afford to waste any time tonight trying to figure it out! lol
Thursday, December 07, 2006
Here I am again...
Most of the weekend and the beginning of this week I have just been so tired. I was also fighting a killer head. Today didn't start out as bad as recently so I managed to get a few things done. Now it's just after midnight and I'm running around wide awake, trying to work on different projects at once! These are the moments when it's kinda fun to be bi-polar. I have two choices...take advantage of the intense energy and get as much done as possible, BUT then be useless for the next couple days or do I let this opportunity pass me be just cause my body seems to think it needs sleep, every single night?! lol
Pretty disjointed tonight. making Christmas cards. Writing in said Cards. Inserting pics into aforementioned cards...all with the help of a five year old. Working on an altered puzzle, altered clipboard and dvd slideshow. I have a nice stack of cards sitting by the sewing machine ready to be stitched...but my machine and I are really getting along right now, so I decided I would work on the slideshow instead. Meanwhile trying to get Mercedes to stay in bed, so give up on the slide show cause to many interruptions. Back to the sewing machine, except I started thinking how nice it would be to listen to Christmas carols, so off to the computer to try to find some Christmas music. Then I got hungry so off to find a snack, followed by a smoke, and then got distracted by something on the tv. Remind myself, that I haven't blogged all week, so came in here to do this....where the cards are not sewn yet, the Christmas music hasnt' been found and Mercedes is still not in bed!!!!! I can't seem to follow through on anything lately!!
Pretty disjointed tonight. making Christmas cards. Writing in said Cards. Inserting pics into aforementioned cards...all with the help of a five year old. Working on an altered puzzle, altered clipboard and dvd slideshow. I have a nice stack of cards sitting by the sewing machine ready to be stitched...but my machine and I are really getting along right now, so I decided I would work on the slideshow instead. Meanwhile trying to get Mercedes to stay in bed, so give up on the slide show cause to many interruptions. Back to the sewing machine, except I started thinking how nice it would be to listen to Christmas carols, so off to the computer to try to find some Christmas music. Then I got hungry so off to find a snack, followed by a smoke, and then got distracted by something on the tv. Remind myself, that I haven't blogged all week, so came in here to do this....where the cards are not sewn yet, the Christmas music hasnt' been found and Mercedes is still not in bed!!!!! I can't seem to follow through on anything lately!!
Friday, December 01, 2006
It's finally finished!!
My magnetic advent calendar I've been working on is finally finished!! Woohoo! Got a few more Christmas cards made, and a family picture to put in our cards. Still have lots of stuff to make!!
All in all it's been a fairly decent week so far, here's hoping that it warms up for the weekend. :P
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