Almost Done!

All week I have been working on my scrappy area in the computer room. About four hours in the morning and then a few at night. It's coming along. I can't believe the paper though, and all those layouts, projects that I was going to do.....with all that paper! It feels good though, knowing I will share it with friends, that it will be used. That they are so happy when I give them my scrappy goodies! That's you Lette! It's all piled up in the upstairs hallway. I keep telling myself to call your Mommy, but I still haven't! We might need a truck to get this stuff outta here (just kidding)! Opps, sorry, I haven't even asked you if you want it?

Went over to Charleeny's lastnight and helped her out while the kids were at sports. I held that "little princess" for well over an hour straight! Yep, didn't put her down, didn't even give her to her mommy until it was time for her feeding! She's beautiful and makes me happy that I am her Auntie Velma!

Suppose to go into the City tomorrow to have dinner with our close friends that are here from Boston. I keep worrying about my back, but isn't that my worry all the time? Haven't decided what to do yet. I was thinking of taking Bart, but, I think they might close down by the time we are done visiting and dining with our friends. Mmm, does Bart close down? Anyway, "happy weekend" to all of you.

My First Acyrlic Card

I was stumped and had "Brain Freeze" when I was trying to make a baby card. So this is what I came up with. I used an acyrlic card from Page Frame Designs. It's different, but I liked how it turned out. Use some overlays and did some inking on the edges, and of course, my favorite... flowers!

A "Little Shower"

During our "Friday Night Scrappiness", we had a little baby shower for Charleeny. A yummy cake filled with fresh strawberries and whipped cream! Ahh, who could ask for anything more yummier than that? Lots of beautiful gifts for the "little one". (Buy the way, she is here!) All the little clothes were so cute and of course....the brown diaper bag (from the "old lady" who wore yellow in the layout!) I still had it in my mind that this "little life" was going to be a boy! Well, "WRONG"!

I saw the baby lastnight, she's beautiful. She's so tiny, she's so little and so so soft! She's also perfect! But of course she is ~ she's from Heaven! She looks like her Daddy and Big Brother! At the hospital lastnight and I had tears, lots of tears, tears of joy! Charleeny is happy, healthy and doing fine. Everyone is doing fine and so so happy!

Cleaning Again!

Have been cleaning out my "scrappy stuff" ~ again! I'm trying hard to re-arrange my shelving area in the closet. I have paper coming out of my ears! I'm taking the millions of pieces of paper that I haven't used in soo long and giving it away! I know it'll be used, but for my own use, it's been sitting on the shelves forever. I feel bad that it just "sits". But then I'm mad because I have allowed myself to buy so much. But (another "but") , I had good intentions for every piece of paper that I own. I love paper, what can I say? I am guilty of buying and going crazy over paper. I always thought I had to have the "latest and the greatest", but that's not going to be the case anymore! I know I need to use what I have. I have told myself that if I am going to buy paper, only buy and few pieces (yeah right!). Here is a layout I was working on before I tore into the closet that houses the million and trillion pieces of paper. I keep telling myself not to scrap anything until I am happy with the cleaning out and re-arranging of the closet! Lette...get ready for some scrappy stuff.........cause it's about to come your way! I just love looking at this (un-finished) layout because of the colors. I love all the blue, and I don't really create layouts using the color blue. Maybe because it's summer, I dont' know. Maybe it's the "beautiful" pics of my Gelica and Rosie. Yeah, I think it is, because the "old lady" in this pic has yellow on.

New Pool Toys!

This weekend was so hot, my hubby and I spent time in the pool just kicking back. He went and bought us new chairs for the pool. I had to put a pillow behind my back to keep it in an "ok" position. Didn't stay in the chair for too long, as that would've killed my back. For a while there we were playing "bumper boats"! Remember those rides at theme parks, you get in your "bumper boat" or "car" and go crazy bumping the other person. Didn't do that for too long either, my "back" is wacked!

1 School Year Left

I can't believe my daughter is a "Senior" in High School! Yes, one year left and I can't believe how the time has flown! So much to look forward too! I can't wait for her "Winter Ball" and "Prom"! I know she's looking forward to that! I have promised myself that I will scrap her photos and not get behind.

ANOTHER ROAD TRIP?

Don't kill me Rosie for posting this picture, I love it! I love candid shots! And I love the look on your face! Love you!




Another favorite place of mine... The Scrapbook Expo! We drove to Santa Clara on Saturday and browsed through all the scrappy goodies! It's always fun running into friends that I haven't seen in a while...I know I can usually find them there. It was pretty dark in the building but you can still get a good idea of what we were doing! Yes, shopping, shopping, shopping! My favorite find for the day were my die cuts for my "Revolution". I already have a million flowers, but I especially love the ones I bought from "Prima". Sizzix had a good sale, 50% off their dies, so I bought a large butterfly and a Nor-cal star, or better known as a 5 point star? I don't know what the right name is, but I bought one.

Haute Artist Project

And finally.....my little 2x4 mini album! I love making these!

Haute Artist Layouts

On this layout of me and my husband, I used the lyrics from a song by Lenny Kravitz dedicating it to my husband. Every day that passes, I realize just how blessed I am to have this man in my life. Yes, you guessed it! He is my "Butterfly"!

My beautiful daughter, she's on the left, and her best friend!

I loved creating these layouts for "Haute Artist". I really enjoyed working with all these fun butterflies, especially using the technique with the embossing powder on the material! And butterflies really do "fly", because one flew away when I was working and I couldn't find it for about 10 minutes. I went looking for it, and there it was! On the floor!

Summer Road Trip

Here's the layout I said I would post when we took our trip to the "Galt Flea Market. I love the colors. Mmm, I'm looking at it, I forgot to add the green ribbon to the bottom. Gotta go and do that! Hope you like it. I love the people in the pic! With the help of Reiko, I finally got my punch, it's the frame behind the picture of the four of us. Thank you Reiko!

Happy Monday

Hope your weekend was a good one. My family took the jet ski out also with some good friends from my hubby's office. They barbequed tri-tip, corn and ate alot of good food! Me? Didn't get to the lake because of my painful back. Yes, I'm tired of pain, and pills and just being tired. Going to another MRI with "contrast" per Dr.'s orders for a NeuroSpinal Surgeon in Modesto. Gee, will he agree to remove all the metal in me?

On a scrappy note: I did a layout using Studio Calico's June kit. Ahhh, I love this line of October Afternoon paper for summer layouts! I love it so much, I've been just looking at it, oh, for about 3 days now. I like it so much I keep touching everything, I think it's time to glue this baby together? As soon as I do all that, I'll post it! Have a good Monday (I don't care for Mondays, especially this afternoon)

Let! I love your POST! While looking and scrolling down, I felt like I was a child again. Being born in S.F. and spending so much time at the Palace of Fine Arts, playing with the ducks and opps! falling into the water! Yes, that would be me, way back along time ago, and I'm talking a long long time ago! I love all the pics of you and the kids and your parents! I'm so happy you had a wonderful day.

So Happy and Excited

After leaving Galt, we headed up to Rocklin. It seemed forever! I know I drove the girls crazy, I was like a kid..."are we there yet"? Rosemary would say to me, "the next Bridge Velma and we'll be there". I closed my eyes, as I was exhausted from walking the flea market. I would open my eyes. Where was that darn bridge? "We're almost there", Rosemary would say. I swear, I never saw a bridge. This scrapbook store adventure was something we had wanted to do for so long. I didn't think I could make the drive because of my back. We stopped so I could get out to walk and stretch. Ok, so we finally get there (still never saw that bridge!) Reiko could not get out of the car fast enough, really, I was amazed, I was in awe just watching her, I didn't even get out of the car, I sat there and watched. She had smiles and smiles and more smiles. So, the girls are out of the car, I'm still watching, they're in store. The next thing I know, they are inside, at the window, product in their hands and holding it all up to show me. I still wasn't in the store yet. I started laughing so hard I knew if I didn't go inside I was gonna pee my pants! Now I'm in the store. I just looked at everything, I didn't move, I just stood there. This place was so spread out with goodies all over the place, rows and rows and more rows of scrappy goodness were everywhere. It was all that and more that people told me it would be. Yes, I was in scrapbook heaven! As I was walking around, I hardly saw the girls, if I wanted them, I called them on their cell phones...."where are you"? After being there a while, my cell phone rang. It was Angelica, well maybe not, I can't remember, finally found Gelica, by yelling her name (remember, this place is huge), she found her "paper line", yes! Her "coffee" line of paper that she designed was there on the racks. One of the employees told me that they couldn't keep that paper in stock, they were always having to re-order. The best part of this day ~~~ was the happiness I saw on the girls faces.

I Love Purses!! And Wallets too, and maybe a hat?

We did a Road Trip to the Galt Flea Market. Myself, Rosemary, Angelica and Reiko. We all got up early, (with the roosters! I was dragging my feet, so tired and complaining the whole way, "are we there yet"?) Got to the Flea Market and the weather was perfect! We walked around talking, laughing, giggling, and just taking everything in. We bought this and that. My favorite finds for the morning...BUTTERFLIES! Yes, I think I bought them in every color! Going into the vendors booths were fun. Oh, except one. Rosemary and I were on the floor looking at purses, we saw so many purses, I couldn't decide which one to buy so I bought all three! At one point, I was on the floor, so tired and my back was hurting, I had been looking at this black leather (well, they said it was leather!) wallet for a while and I finally asked Rosemary to put the wallet back for me. Well, she put the wallet back all right. She did exactly what I had told her to do. Off we went to other vendors booths looking around. I opened up my purse to get something and there it was..........the wallet I had asked Rosie to put back, it was in "MY PURSE"! Oh my gosh! I grabbed Rosie and told her and we both started laughing, but, when I saw the wallet in my purse, I immediately looked around to see if security, or someone had been following me to grab me for shop lifting. Rosie and I went back to the booth where the wallet belonged. I was such a chicken, I told Rosie, "here's the wallet, you do it"! She took the wallet out of my purse and kinda threw it on the table and off we went, acually, we kinda ran! You had to have been there to understand. For me, it was scary, but at the same time, it was hilarious! I could just see the headlines in the paper............"Two crazy women from Tracy steal wallet and are totally outta control"! From there, back to the bathroom I went (for the 50th time). Ahhh, the carmel popcorn was the best!

The 4 of us

BUTTERFLY ACRYLIC ALBUM

Here is the butterfly acrylic album I said I would post! I really like it, it was fun to create. I always tell myself to be simple, but I always end up getting everything out I own and then have this "huge" mess that sits there until I can clean it up. I'm serious, the front page must have three different colors of paint. I kept messing up, or didn't like it and would keep painting over it. The front cover also has a Hambly orange graph overlay on top. Paint, distressing, modge podge. The bird is a Heidi Swapp Ghost with a piece of paper from A Cherry On Top that I cut out. Chipboard swirls with paper from Quick Quotes and then finally the ribbon. I love my new ribbon with the butterflies on it. I got that on our road trip to Stamper's Wherehouse in Danville (remember - when D.J. picked flowers for Auntie Velma). I love the picture of Boston (my little doggie) looking at his paw prints on the deck. The picture of me and Rosanne was taken on the 4th of July, we met 15 yrs. ago when we all moved into our neighborhood. That's why my mini album is called memories! I need to find photos now to complete my album. Hope you like it!

THIS HEAT HAS ME "BLAH"

Happy Friday to all my friends out there! As many of you know, I can't handle the "heat". It's hot in here Tracy Town. I'm so hot and sticky, I can't bring myself to cool down and start "creating".

I've been feeling so tired, hot and sticky, that late at night, 11:30, I will go and get into the pool for about 20 minutes, enough to cool down and do my excersies for my lower back. Shower and then it's bed. This has been helping me to sleep all night.

Over the "4th", I created a butterfly mini album called "Memories", to celebrate our 15 yrs. in our home. Gosh, Eric was 10 and Samantha was 2-1/2. 1993 and it was the "4th" of July weekend we moved into our very own home. We were so pleased and excited. These years have flown by, alot of changes, and my babies not being babies anymore ~~~ beautiful young adults now, and all the changes, I'm not sure I can handle, but I know I have too, because it's "Life". Ok, done with the personal stuff!

I have been getting into my old stash, papers mostly, and pulling them out and wanting to use them, I sure do miss them. They were the "must have" papers way back when. Some Daisy D's, Quick Quotes, and Dream Street Designs. Oh, and I am definitely going to start incorporating my stamps, Prima, 7-Gypsies, Autumn Leaves into my layouts and mini albums, my poor hundred of stamps have just been sitting here staring me in the face. Watch for my postings of my butterfly album, coming ~~~~~~~~~~well, I'm not sure yet!

Saying goodbye for now, have a good weekend and try to stay cool. (my hubby took his bike in today, ugh, that heat blowing on my face would knock me to the freeway!)

Saturday, June 28, 2008

I have been trying to go into my "scrappy room", to try and put things away. Ugh....My problem? Things just seem to stack up on my project desk, and then I come along and add more. I did, however, get a box and managed to put some goodies in it for my girlfriend's daughter.....yeah! That's you "Let"! Maybe it's stuff I just didn't want to put away? No, I want to share! I was able to clean out two baskets, putting things in their "little home" in my scrap room. OK, my desk is nice and clean and all is well. When I want to be downstairs with the rest of the world, I get a basket, gather some supplies ~ papers, ribbons, rub-ons, the trimmer, the ATG gun dispenser (that I carry here and there and end up misplacing it! I'm waiting to leave it at the nursing home where my "mommy" resides) So, I get my stuff out, work on it, go upstairs and get more goodies! Then I end up with this huge mess downstairs, I pack it up, the table in the diningroom or kitchen is nice and clean, then "wham", it sits downstairs until I am ready to lug it back up!

Got out my June Kit from "Cocoa Daisy", (I love my Cocoa Daisy goodies, my kit comes every month with the latest and greatest stuff!) spread it all out and lost all my imagination! Stared at it a little longer, shut down the lights and came down stairs!I think it's because I haven't been feeling good all week. Just plain "icky".

Everyone is asleep, Boston already ate his breakfast. Waiting for my hubby to walk through the door. I'm headed upstairs to see if my "creativelyouttacontrol" mind is back to being creative! Let's see if I can do this, I do know what the problem is, I want to create a mini album, but I can't! I have to create layouts, layouts and more layouts! Will let my wonderful friends (who read my blog) know what I've come up with later on. Happy Saturday to all of you!

KICKING BACK AND SO SO COMFORTABLE!