it's spring!

this is going to be a long one. i have lots to gab about today,

plus p365 to catch up.

please fasten your seat belts and keep

your hands inside the vehicle.

 

finally, it's starting to feel like spring!

saturday it was so beautiful outside.

i threw on my bikini and

laid out. my soul

needs sunshine and heat, and the more

i get the happier i am.

i was extremely happy saturday.

and i got to work on my tan lines.

it was really cool yesterday.

today it's cold and rainy, cool again tomorrow,

but starting wednesday we're getting

close to 80. you can

bet your butt i'm going to be outside soaking up

the sunshine!

the kids are on spring break this week.

usually i dread long breaks from school. they fight.

we fight. they cry. i cry.

today hasn't been that bad.

but it's only day 1. we've still

got the rest of the week to get through. maybe being

outside and running off some of

that energy will help.

i've been reading the mortal instruments.

i really really liked city of bones. a lot.

city of ashes was meh. i had a hard time getting into it.

i think it was the whole 

'oh, you're my sister/brother? great! lemme jump your bones!'

i'm about halfway through city of glass.

i like it better than the second one.

not as much as the first.

but i'm not done with it yet, so who knows.

have you been keeping up with amy's designaversary?

every day this month you'll get a freebie from the

ct. and there are games weekly.

we really had fun putting this together.

day 12 was my day, and my gift was a template.

you can still get it  >HERE<

amy also has release 2 super cute kits friday.

super super cute!

lucky charm and it's a boy's world(with jen yurko)

I <3 when amy and jen collab.

my layout with lucky charm

and with it's a boy's world

hang tight, the end is in sight!

day 70: borderlands.

i'm hot.

day 71:  city of glass

book 3

day 72: flarp.

how can you not love this stuff?

and that, my loves, concludes this broadcast.

tune in next time when i ramble lamely some more :p

Songbird & Hodge Podge

This one's all business!
It's February 1st and I've got some goodies to share!

First up is Songbird Avenue.
On January 12th, the earthquake that rocked the island nation of Haiti resonated throughout the world through news organizations and the internet. Many people wondered what they can do to help, many people have contributed to charities and raised funds through whatever means they had at their disposal. Songbird Avenue, as a site devoted to charitable giving, has asked past guest designers to come together with us to create a beautiful piece of art to benefit Doctors Without Borders, just one of so many organizations committed to helping the people of Haiti. On February 1st, Port au Prince will go on sale. Over 56 designers came together to create this colorful digital scrapbooking kit, including over 100 papers, over 200 embellishments, 6 templates and 8 alpha sets. For only $8, you can purchase the kit to use to scrap your cherished memories and send help to a country and organization that needs it.

And just look...gorgeous and HUGE!






Wow, right? So what are you waiting for?
Head on over to Songbird Avenue and pick up Port au Prince now! It's only $8!

Next up is Hodge Podge!
I was asked to join the Hodge Podge team, an offer I couldn't refuse!
Today is the first challenge for the year-the letter A, and
we're making an All About ABC album.
All about whatever you want!!
Mine is going to be All About My Life--in general.
My family, my likes, dislikes, things that make me tick!



This week you're playing for $10 GC from Traci and Emily
So head on over to the Hodge Podge blog and get started!!

I've still got yesterday and today's P365 photos to dump off my camera...
I'll get around to that sometime today!

checkcheck...check it out

Have you scooped up this beauty from Sir Scrapalot yet?

No? Why not?

Go...now....fast...buy!!!

I'm so behind on my uploading and junk.....

Geez,  take a week or so to do nothing but read and 

I end up swamped.

Story of my life.

Still got my P365 photo for today to take-bleh.

Have I mentioned I hate P365?

Ooooh, and Amanda and I are doing adsr again this year!

We're team #36! 

So, with that I am off to round up the kids for bed, get their clothes laid out for
school tomorrow, a load of laundry in the washer, take my
P365 photo, and get a LO or two done.

Look who's going to ES!!

Amanda's heading on over to ES! Come party with us tomorrow and get 25% off all her stuffs!!

Colder than a witch's titty......

Happy Hump Day!
It's a frigidly cold day here in my little corner of the south.
I hate it.  I need to be warm.
I need heat and humidity.
I need it to be summer.
Or I need to live somewhere tropical.
Yes, I can see it now......a nice beach with a beautiful shot of endless ocean.....
sand, trees, heat, isolation.
I dream big :P


It's Wednesday, and that means new goodies to scrap with from Polka Dot Plum!

Feast your eyes on this gorgeousness released today from Sir Scrapalot!









And this beauty from Susan and Polka Dot Pixels:

And, of course, P365.

Bah.

Is it only day 6?  I was hoping I'd wake up and be like 

day 365 or something.......

Anywho, on with today's photo:

You need the right socks to rule the world :P

Yes, those are Cullen Crest socks.  And yes, that is a Jake pillow.

My husband feeds my addiction quite well.

Any time he goes to Hastings he heads to their Twilight section

and picks up anything I don't have.

He loves me like that :D

50% off LCC by Amy Stoffel TODAY ONLY!!

Get your booty over to Scrap Orchard and buy some Amy goodness!  50% off today only!!

October Font Challenge @ PGD

Happy Friday! I just posted the font challenge @ PGD

We've all got favorite fonts, and, if you're anythng like me, they tend to usually change from month to month!  Some of my favorites are always the Pea fonts, I can always find a new favorite!

Your challenge is to use Pea Jacks and Matty font on your layout. Use it for your journaling, title, date, whatever pleases you!

You can find the font here ---> http://kevinandamanda.com/fonts/fontsforpeas/pea-jacks-and-matty/


As always, to get credit for the challenge you must use at least one PGD item(free treats are A-OK), post the layout to our gallery and link it back up to the thread! 

You get points for completing the challenges every month. At the end of the month, you can trade your points in as follows, or roll them over to the next month:

5 points can be redeemed for a 35% off coupon (off a single order)
10 points = 45% off coupon (off a single order)
15 points = 50% off coupon (off a single order)
20 points = $10 gift cert
35 points = $20 gift cert


Here's my layout for a little Gypsy Inspiration:
 

Retirement Sale!!

Sherrie Piegdon has over 50 products marked down 75% off! You better hurry, the sale's over Wednesday September 30th, and then they're gone for good!!

A new face on the block!

There's a new face joining the PGD family! Aimee Harrison will be making her debut on Friday 9/18 and I have a sneek peek for you!

Make sure to stop by Friday and welcome
Aimee to the PGD family and scoop up the newest goodies(30% off on Friday!)

I swear I'll be back with not business blogging nightmare......
eventually.
There just aren't enough hours in the day. *sigh*

Sneak Peak from Ami!!

I have a sneak peak for you today! This will be hitting the store on Friday, and boy does Ami have some gorgeousness cooked up for you! Ready for your tease??

You're drooling, right? Don't forget, Friday all new products
are 30% off, so get them while they're hot!!

See ya shopping on Friday!!

Hello out there!

Yah, I know...I suck to the max! Sometimes I wonder if there's just any hope for me and blogging. Well, I'm sporadic about it, that's for sure, and if you know me then you know that is so me, so I guess I can't expect anything less than that!

It's September, unbelievably! Gabe's loving school, and I hate the fact it's turned my sweet little boy into a raging butt head! Alee hates school, of course, LOL! E's finally adjusted to it being just the two of us home. She's not crammed up my butt all day crying, which makes me happy. But boy is she glad to see Gabe in the afternoon! Ever so often she'll ask if it's time for Bubba to be home yet, and I get that sad little sigh, but she bucks up and just goes back to playing.

Other than that it's pretty quiet on the home front!!

My guest spot with Amy Stoffel turned into a full time gig, and I am sooo jazzed about that! A definite dream spot! Things are awesome at PGD-did you check out the awesome goodies released today? I swear, PGD owns my EHD--it's going to explode from all the stuff I have crammed on it!

We finally got around to watching Death Note: The Last Name. I swear, I have a thing for bad movies! At least they dubbed it with the voices from the anime!

Things wrong with this Death Note Movie:

1. It's dubbed--way better than reading, but it kills me when the
mouths aren't with the words

2. Rem's voice is way wrong. Wrong.Wrong.Wrong.

3.Misa--um, where'd her blonde hair and boobs go?

4. It really is a bad movie, LOL!

L: Change the World hits the shelves in about a week or two...of course, I'll be watching it :P

And I'm so bummed that the end of Season 2 of True Blood is practically here. Can't wait for the DVD to come out so I can obsessively watch it with season 1! OOh, and my new favorite phrase is 'Teacup Humans'.... like I can make a whole sentence out of my 2 favorite phrases now...."I seriously love my teacup humans". Yah, I'm a dork. Take it or leave it :P

I guess that's it for now. I've rambled on about absolutely nothing, and I hear my teacup humans giggling like mad loons in the bathroom and that can only mean trouble. *sigh*

2 out of 3....

Gabe had his first day of kindergarten today. I've been dreading this day for months. He's been looking forward to it. My heart broke when he marched his little butt out to the bus this morning like he owned it. And poor E. She was so lost without Gabey today. The first 30 minutes consisted of her crying and telling me "You have to go get bubba, Momma. I need him." She eventually cried herself to sleep :( Later she told me "You'll just have to be my best friend now, Momma, since Gabey's at school. I guess you'll do." Can't tell you how loved that made me feel, LOL! She was so glad to see him come home! She's been hanging on him since he hit the door. Personally, I'd love it if he never went back :P I caught a glimpse of my future when he said "I found these 2 girls..." He doesn't want ot saty home tomorrow, which I guess is a good thing he likes it....but gee, what's so bad about wanting to hang with Momma all day? Alee was in full guard dog mode looking out for him today. She sat with him on the bus, walked him to his room, even went to check on him at one point and make sure he and his teacher knew what bus he was getting on. I do have pictures...Alee started on Friday, I just haven't gotten around to uploading any of the photos before now.

(frames by Amanda Carlson, tape by Ami Collofello)

His teacher is really really sweet, and Gabe, of course, charmed the pants off of her ;o) Oh, the 10 boxes of crayons....each month they get a new box and they bring the old ones home. They have a little cubby on the back wall, and there's a spot to keep the extra stuff. I think he's offically got the coolest class room. They have 4 computers in the room(the other rooms only have 1). There's this little loft thing they can climb up in for reading time-they can either look at the books, or slip the headphones on and listen to a book. Once a week, someone brings bottles of water(8 ozs) and they get to keep them at their seat(they refill them at the water fountain)...just generally cool stuff :o) So, yeah, that was school!

BOTCT is over. Even though I generally complained the whole time I had fun. I'm just a complainer about these things though, it wasn't anything specific. Our last challenge produced our best LO's I think. We went with a 10 Reasons theme, and you had to scraplift 2 of your teammates. This was mine

I'm far too lazy to get you caught up on the rest of the LO's for the challenges, but they're in my gallery :o)
Did I tell you I got a guest spot this month with Amy Stoffel? I am so stoked about it!! Seriously fun stuff to scrap with! And, of course, you know I'm going to show you the LO's I've done with her goodies!!





You can find this whole collection, Flavors of Life:Summer at Scrap Orchard...or you can buy each kit separately ;o)

Lots of good stuff hitting the shelves Friday at PGD! This LO has a little of the new stuff(I have more LO's in the works, if I get them done before tomorrow night, I'll let you sneaky peek the goods), and is for an upcoming challenge


That's going to be about it for today...the kids are screaming for food, I have more scrapping to do and books to read!
Later loves!

Get your challenge on!!

Today is the last challenge of the month at PGD, and it's all mine! It's a Wild Card Challenge....Opposites Attract......You scrap the opposite way you usually do!
Like, I'm a complete jouranlphobe(I seriously hate journaling) and I'm all about the white space. So I forced myself to move out of the corner and use more of the page and I even journaled!


There's still time to catch up on any challenges you've missed--remember, the points roll over month to month!

I don't have a problem....I swear!

Brandy says I wear my obsessions. I like to think my clothing choices reflect my interests. I have my 'decent' shirts that I wear when we go some where nice, and the really dressy something for the occasional occasion that warrants it. But for every day wear, trips to WalBangers, hanging at MaMaws, I want to be comfortable, and wear things I like. That includes the oodles of Twilight shirts and jewelry I have, Death Note shirts, Kingdom Hearts shirts.....if I like it chances are good I can wear it! Adding to the list today, a Fangtasia Shirt :o)

I love it :D And just lemme say, I am glad I bought a Large. If that's a large I'd hate to see a small.I have more I plan on buying....a Merlotte's shirt, another Fangtasia one that has Life Begins at Night(they didn't have one of those when I ordered mine), a hat for Brandy.....

Amanda let me borrow her Sookie Stackhouse books....which I finished and immediately bought. *LOVE* them. Of course, I plowed through them the first time...now I'm rereading them, taking my time, enjoying them. They really are good. I suggest reading them. And watching True Blood....it's good, even though I'd say it's soft porn. Not so much season 2 as season 1, though.

Oooh ooh, I saw some New Moon merchandise---YES!!!!!!!!!!! I am so excited and can't wait until I can start buying stuff! I am beyond excited about the movie! Alee and I spent I don't know how long playing around on the NM Site today! http://www.newmoonthemovie.com/ It is soooo cool! We played in the Cullen House, reading about everyone, fangirl squealing about everything, and then we headed over to the La Push Reservation, read everything, fangirl squealed about about everything. Is it November yet??

Did I mention I was doing Battle of the Creative Teams? I'm playing for PGD, of course.
Here's my LO for the first challenge

We had to do white space,
coordinate our colors.
as an added bonus, we
all picked outdoor
photos.

Voting for round one just wrapped up and we're working on round 2. Of course, I'm miserable...I always am when I do these things. I just hate being told what I *have* to do.

Ohmahgawd....Gabe's supply list. 10 boxes of crayons. 10. That just blows my mind. Why? Why does every kid have to bring 10 boxes of 24 crayons? 2 different kinds of markers, 6-12 glue sticks, and then they want a supply fee! If I have to send money for supplies why am I buying 240 crayons, packs of cardstock, baby wipes, germ-x......And when did they stop using the fat kindergarten pencils? Did I miss something? We didn't have to go through this with Alee--we sent her to Abundant Life Chrisitan School for kindergarten, and they supplied everything. If we could afford the $400/month, she'd still be going, and Gabe too. The whole thing just isn't sitting well with me. I have no problem sending what my kids need for school, but I'm not supplying everyone else's kid.

And with that, I'm off I suppose. I have reading to do :P

Sunday funday lazy craziness!

Summer break is in full swing! We're living outside playing. We ended up with an awesome new slipn'n slide--2 lanes with a huge splash pool and these little float thingys to slide on. The kids love it, we love it. Good times! Not to mention the loads of sunshine I've been soaking up!

The big boys(Brandy and Jay) went and shot guns today, so the kids and I hung out here around the house and watched Twilight. And I have to admit, I love the fact they get excited when Edward swoops in to save the day, or Alice goes all bad ass and rips James' head off, I love they know the words to all the songs on the soundtrack, and I love that they all have most of the movie memorized! I am such a good Momma!!

Ugh, the PlayStation kicked the bucket. We are now members of the YLOD club(that's Yellow Light of Death for you non gamers). Yay. And AJ's game is stuck inside the thing. Booooring. I had to bust out our prehistoric dvd player to watch Twilight on(we've had that huge thing for 11 years, and it still works! But I miss the Blu-Rays :( ) We're waiting on a prepaid mailing label to be emailed so we can ship it in to be fixed(thank god we bought the 2 year extended warranty!!) The lady said if we ship it UPS(and we will) that we will have it back in 7-10 days, which is loads better than the month and a half it was gone the first time we had to send it in. I swear the 40 gigs are a joke. And they know it, too, that's why they quit making them. We've decided our Christmas present this year is going to be a new PS3. At the very least we'll have a back up--plus that will let us be able to get our LAN going and actually play online together(we did that with SWBFII on the PS2 and man we had a blast!!)

Yesterday was Mamaw's 89th Birhtday party. She's such a party pooper--she sat in the living room while we were all at the table with the cake singing Happy Birthday. She said "I can hear yall just fine from in here." Cake was good :) We made rough final plans for the kids party this summer. We're just having one big party for them. Gabe's birthday is July 25, E's is Aug 11, Mason is Aug 15, and Alee is Aug 23. We thought it'd just be better for everyone to have one big birthday party. Granny's going to make Masey a little smash cake, and we'll get some cupcakes or something from EW James or something. Now all we have to do is settle on a date, LOL!
Mason is just about walking. He's cruising(and climbing) on everything, and he'll take a couple steps on his own. He took 3 steps to me yesterday and promptly ripped my earring out! Thankfully they have the little hing thing so it only hurt like crap and didn't actually rip my ear.
I got tons of cute photos yesterday, wanna see a few of my faves?(Aherm, due to reasons I'm not getting in to, I'm watermarking my photos now, and it's going to be pretty obnoxious. If you've got access to my dropshots you'll be able to enjoy the not obnoxious ones)









Next weekend is our family vacation to Reelfoot. we're only doing 2 days and one night this time, and I'm not happy about it at all. It's not enough time, we're going to be rushed-and when I fell rushed I get cranky. I'm just not happy. But I'll suck it up and try to be nice. Try being the kid word. MawMaw's been an uber bitch about everything, but you really can't fight back with someone that old. I'm Jess and I will be up to our usual stuff.

Little bit of business for ya!

It's time for Voting for the Pixel Gypsy Elite Scrapper of the Year! Let me tell ya, Scott and Sherrie whipped up an awesome way to vote! It is so neat, I spent so much time playing with it! All of the entrants are just absolutely amazing, and it's not an easy vote! But there's a scale of 1-5 for each layout, which makes it a little better instead of sitting there trying to pick one favorite! And, when you vote, you get a $5 coupon good for your next order, no minimum purchase! So click on the banner and head on over and vote already!

and some LO's for ya!

Ami's Sweet Tweet's mini

Ashley's He Sells Sea Shells

So that's pretty much all I've got today. The kids are hungry and cranky!

Summer's here!

I know I've been horrible about blogging lately. I have an excuse, seriously! School is winding down(tomorrow is the last day-1/2 day at that) and we've been getting ready for summer. And I've picked up a nasty cold. We all have it, you should hear the kiddos coughing...well, maybe not. It'll keep you up at night! I seriously spent the majority of the day cleaning the house yesterday(and it was all undone in 4.9 seconds by my absolutely evil children). It got destroyed over the long weekend with us all being home and in and out all day just dumping stuff. Chowder has decided the mop is his mortal enemy and must be destroyed at all costs, so cleaning the floor was next to impossible. And then he decided the wet floor was the Indy 500 track and ran(or should I say slid and fell) laps around the kitchen. Pure joy, I tell ya.

Hmm....lots to cover as this is a catch up post. First up, CT and Scrapping stuffs!

I've got a new CT! I'm really excited about it! Hazel Olive Designs--she's got some really awesome stuff! These are some LO's I've done with her stuff--which, by the way, I'm finding myself scrapping way outside my norm, and I am so loving it!!

Friday (5/28) at TLP and SA is a little beauty, Backyard Bliss by Rachel, Gina & Kate(award winning combo)....here's my LO with it, doesn't even do the kit justice!


Now, let's move on to....NEW MOON! O.M.G. Wonderful, awesome, drool worthy photos coming out of Italy today. I am so jealous of those lucky people in Italy that are getting these shots! Now, for the record, let me state; Yes, Rob is easy on the eyes. I don't think he's as hot as some other folks do, but he's not hard to look at. Now...these here pictures, DAMN! I absolutely *love* that little V area thingy around the hips--I think it's so sexy(and it drives me crazy that Brandy has it).....anywho, here are two of my faves from the ones popping up today.

Just look at her running to Edward...awesomeness!
(and check out the sweet man hips)

Whoa! that lip lock is HOT!

I am so excited for this movie! As super jazzed as I was for Twilight I'm even more so for New Moon. Everything I've seen is just right. And, if you're honest with yourself you can admit, Twilight totally sucked. Am I saying I hated it? Absolutely not. I loved the movie, saw it countless times and own 2 copies of it. But, as far as movies goes, it just....lacked. I have very high expectations for New Moon--and everything I've read and seen is just raising those expectations. Is it November yet?? :0)

I've spent a lot of today bumming. Tomorrow we had plans to go to Memphis and meet up with Sherrie and Scott. I've been looking forward to it for 2 weeks. But it's just not going to happen. My aunt had to go in and have a hysterectomy. Seeing as how she was to be my babysitter tomorrow...well, yeah, that was the end of that. Totally bites :(

So well, I guess that's it...I've gotten distracted(Death Note, I can not resist) and this has been sitting here for about 45 minutes or so...I had the "Oh yeah, I was blogging" light click on :P


Oooh, totally forgot...I did a bit of revamping last night and added a cute little music player to the blog(cause I love music and must have it!) It's set to auto play, does that bother anyone? I guess I could set it to where you have to push play, or you could hit stop? I don't know? Totally stupid having it anyway?

geeked out Saturday!

It was so gorgeous today! Sunny and hot, you know I was in heaven!! It was our usual Saturday lunch at Mamaw's. We ate and all immediately hit the yard for the rest of the day. I think the fresh air kept us from all killing each other. It was close a few times, but we just walked away for a little while until the nerves settled. ;o)

My honey and I were geeked out today, he was in Naruto, I was in Death Note :P



I'm just jazzed I have a decent photo of the two of us. Neither one of us ever likes the photos we're in, so to actually get one we're both saying 'not the bad' about is a big deal :P

Ooooh, I have to show you this kit of Monica's. O.M.G. I love it!! here's the kit--Urban Life(this is the collection that has the bonus papers and alpha in it--seriously, it's the only way to go!)



and the layout I did with it(I've had this sitting there for a couple weeks-when the Studio FEMNZ April Grab bag came out(that's where the box is from)-I just couldn't get anything to work right with it. And then Monica dropped this kit on me!

I'm not usually one for extractions anymore(I'm just too lazy these days), but I knew what I wanted to do when I saw that box. I'm pretty pleased with it, especially since it's finally finished :P

Tomorrow is going to be another gorgeous day, and we're planning on spending the day out in the yard--Brandy's grilling out-YUMMERS!!

Think I'll go catch a few Death Note episodes before bed time :D