Mooooooooooo

This is my friend Anita's cow. A little nosy, but nice.

What a week!

I rarely plan such a busy week... but if it was going to happen, last week WOULD have to be the week. I blame the Vernal Equinox. Did you ever try standing an egg upright? Myth or reality? You give it a try and get back to me.

Was trying to scrap for the goodie bag challenge in the Pub at 2peas. Didn't exactly work out as I had hoped - there were appointments, shopping expeditions, school conferences, etc. etc.

But I did take advantage of this and do a double-purpose project... this has some red-hot not-available-in-stores "ribbon" Impress-ons from Creative Imaginations. And I used Making Memories letters (the DAD charms) and some Heidi Swapp ghost hearts. The Ribbon Impress-On Swatch Books are available at ScrapTalk this month. They come in 4 different themes... overall, a really cool product!

My Pink Lady pal 13Lisa tagged me...

Three things you wish for:

- For my children to grow up safely and stick to their beliefs
- A clean house (shallow, I know)
- Happily Ever After... so far, so good

3 Things You Would Do To/For Yourself If There Was No One To Judge You (…or if you had the guts to do it!)

- Get a full-body spray tan
- Have a little plastic surgery here and there
- Go live in another city (my heart longs for The Outer Banks - minus the hurricanes)

3 Bad Habits You Have

- Being overly sarcastic or negative
- Too much time on Internet instead of reading to my kids
- Spending too much money

3 Insecurities You Feel

- That people pretend to like me.
- My face is always really rosy... okay, it's really red.
- I'm not good enough at scrapbooking.

3 Talents/Skills you wish you had

- Sing like a rock star.
- Cleaning
- Play guitar or piano - or both!

3 Things That You Would Do If You Had More Time

- Scrapbook!
- Clean and organize
- Balance the checkbook (this is my reality today...)

3 Things That Bring You Peace/Relaxation

- Having the whole house to myself.
- Prayer/Doing my Bible Study lesson
- Sitting down and reading through a magazine or sometimes even a novel.

3 Things That Spark Your Creativity

- Getting new scrapping supplies
- Looking at magazines
- The gallery at Scraptalk or Two Peas

I'm tagging Lara, Rosy, and plualum...

{Make Room For Family}

Check.

One major thing to cross off my To-Do list.


Okay - well, it's not completely finished. We still need to find the bookshelf, the lamps, the rug... the remaining 1/3 of our couch that was evidently ordered with a LEFT arm instead of a RIGHT arm... but, I still have a major CHECKMARK on this item in my head.

We have painted - with the somewhat elusive Butter paint. It changes color in every corner at every different time of the day - but I like it most of the time - so it's staying.

I found these cool curtains at Pier 1 Imports...

with the matching pillows.

And the funky circular iron wall art piece.

And now this is definitely my favorite room to keep clean.

This says it all for me today...

Like the yellow chipboard letters? Pre-order them now at Scraptalk...

{Pure Genius}

"You're way deep in my bogus bag and it's ziplocked shut"

Just had to share that quote from Gilmore Girls. That was said by the older rocker named Gil to the overly sensitive former lead singer Zack when Zack went to talk to him about getting the band Hep Alien back together.

If you don't watch this show - none of this will remotely make sense to you. But I was watching the episode from last week that I had recorded and just had to get that comment in writing somewhere.

Happy Monday

Let's Go Fly A Kite...

up to the highest height. Let's go fly a kite and send it soaring,
up through the atmosphere,
up where the air is clear,
oh, let's go fly a kite.

Word to the wise: Works better with wind.

Luckily for a happy-go-lucky 3 year old who's willing to fly it with sheer willpower, speed and determination... a small kite will still provide some diversion on a non-windy day.

Thanks to Rosy for organizing our little outing.

You can see that Taryn was having a better time babysitting Rosy's little cherub...
alll in all, it was a great day!

Top 5

Okay... for various reasons and for various purposes here are my Top 5 things today:

5. The Bissell Spot Bot - got kids? got stains? the answer to your problems lies in this wonderful gadget.

4. American Idol - I missed last season, so I'm happy it's back. The whole family enjoys watching it together.

3. CI Studio Basics 101 - Lush collection. It makes me happy.

2. Sleep Comfort Beds - my sleep number is 35. I think we're going to order one of these - I almost fell asleep in the showroom the other night - it was a great bed!

1. Juice It Up! Tropical Tango smoothies. Got one yesterday - with the Immunity Boost and I feel better today.

It's a completely random list, I know. But those are all little unrelated things on my mind. Okay - have to go sort out the disaster zone upstairs now. I took everything the kids had brought downstairs and just dumped it in the hallway. Time to sort, stash, and consolidate.

Happy Thursday!

CI Studio Basics 101 - Lush

They have an amazing contest running at Creative Imaginations!! Check THIS out!

Post a layout per day to enter... the only catch is that you have to use their new Studio Basics line. I'm lucky because we got a little jumpstart over at Scraptalk when we reviewed the products last month! One of the very few breaks I'm ever going to catch in this business!

Here is my entry for today...