I made it to round 2 !!!!!!!! woohoo! I am so excited ! This contest round required that you make 2 papers focusing on texture. Texture!!!! Yeah - I love texture and I had to put restraints on to not put on too much. I have folders of textures I have been collecting. The red one has a coarse paper texture and concrete and the pink has more of a linen texture with a few scratches. I kept the similar color scheme as I love it. If you missed the contest it is at scrapartist. The link to see the other submissions is here.
News on the homefront- Jd had homecoming dance last weekend and this one.

His girlfriend is a cutie- wish my son had shorter hair than her! Went all over the mall one night looking for turquoise men's stuff- not an easy thing to find!

Emily started basketball and that makes for long days. She does not get home until 545 and with John working overtime- it is hard to get anything done with Ben! I spent the afternoon trying to repair a wall with paint . I had to try to re-rag roll a part of a wall . It was tricky as there were 4 colors of paint - that I had to guess at and I had to do one of a time and 2 base coats. But - it fools the eye and I got it to blend in very nicely . You would really have to look for it to know that part of the wall was repainted.

We are also replacing some fixtures in one upstairs bathroom . I even picked out decorative molding to try and frame up a rather plain mirror. I hope it turns out.

Was blessed that our van battery did not blow up. I have been driving it for a couple of weeks leaking battery acid and my dear FIL hear about it and had a fit! He replaced it and told me it could have blown up!. EEK We were going to take it in this Friday- but he did not want to wait.Yeah!

It is going to get into the 30's tonight! Brrr. I guess fall is really here.

Thanks for listening!

My first kit ever and you can download it!!!

I am so excited that I decided to just go for it and make a kit and enter in the Scrapartist
Apprentice contest. So here is my first kit and you can download it here. I was apprehensive about putting my art out there to be evaluated - but am glad I did. Hope to see some people using it! I just wish I had more time to create. I so enjoy doing it.
Seems everyday I end up having a BIG MESS to clean up- yesterday a brand new bottle of fabric softener fell off the dryer and spilled out all over the utility room and under the washer and dryer- uggh.
Have a great day!

Happy Birthday Lori!

credits- sara carling amalie kit


Hope you have a great day Lori!!!!!!!!! I wish you a great dinner and retail therapy and blessings all year! HMM - maybe I should post a couple of pics? LOL

I have been too busy lately! I am going to try to balance my life - really! So tired to do much - Ben did not sleep again- but I know the reason why! I caught JD giving him DRPepper!!!!!!!! But I did not catch him until he had drunk almost half a can!!!!!!!!!! I was so upset.
Homecoming is this weekend and next. After the flowers, shirt and tie- I am broke. JD is going to work for it though. He has a new girlfriend- but as soon as I scrap them they break up- kind of like knitting a sweater- old wive's tale. So maybe I better not scrap the pics?

I have been given a new blinkie- it is on the right-studio crew!

I am very excited and a bit overwhelmed by it! Just love the studio girls- they are terrific!

credits-all Sausan designs- industrial grunge and beautiful new day- pp, flower. AL chaisma font, my brush

promise to write more frequently!!!

Here are a few microscope slide necklaces I made a long time ago. I used leading and a solder gun to put them together. I borrowed my FIL's gun and it "exploded" while soldering them. I felt like a mad scientist- my daughter rushed in to see what happened - there was smoke and sparks! My son just shook his head and said- "mom's at it again." lo
Ben is finally sleeping a bit better- only up once or twice - quick nurse and back in his crib. He is even waking up in the morning in it ! yeah! Bought him a "cage"- lol- it is a superyard open bottom "playpen". I told Em to only call it his Fort! He kept getting into everything- stuff I can't baby proof- like my harddrive- that he insists on turning off! I really wanted it to put the Christmas tree in.
Here is a CT layout- all by JoDE Lawrence at Altered Scrapping.

quick post

Wow - I have several blog subscribers! I am excited to know someone is out there!!!! LOL If you subscribe- all you do is click on the right column and enter your e-mail. You will not get spam or anything. You will just get my newest blog entry in an e-mail.
I found the keys after searching all day and John found them in a basket! I can' t remember anything lately. I need a heavy duty "spackle" to erase the permanent black circles under the eyes. Anyway- I have been designing a lot of things and having fun doing it. I have been praying about it and put it in the Lord's hands. I do not want to put the cart before the horse. I have tons of ideas and have been learning all I can. I need to know how to do a lot of things- ie - getting my metals to look realistic enough. I have been making overlays, brushes , patterns, alphabets, textures- you name it. I tried a channel selection and I want to learn more. I need to learn ribbons- etc. I want to learn it all - just very hard with Ben into EVERYTHING!

Had a wonderful surprise- had a message at Scrapartist that they wanted to put my artwork in their upcoming Muse newsletter! It is the teesha moore challenge that was featured on Inspire Me Thursday. It is shown below. Anyway , I said sure and they gave me a $6.99 gift certificate.
I get to shop! yippee- retail therapy! Maybe I will save it until the next sale!
Need to go- Ben is crying in his high chair. Em went to a football game and JD was grounded for curfew violation- but he drove with Dad .

What a LOOOOOOOONG weekend!! Never thought I would ever get the kids back to school!
Friday I spent the day with JD having his wisdom teeth out . Saturday he felt good enough to run around with his friends - he is doing amazingly well. But he is tough as nails! He broke his arm at 5 and he went for weeks without really complaining. The doctor told me he could not have broken it and I asked nicely if she would just do an x-ray to humor me. Sure enough it was broken! I thought it was because I saw him at baseball practice and he was wincing a bit as he was pitching. He had broken it on the playground and just said it hurt a little.
The album above is a paper bag album I did for my pregnancy. The picture is terrible= I need to scan it as it is so textural. It says 9 mos to baby , and I has texture paste on the front I stenciled on . It was really fun to do - with lots of pockets and things that open up.
It was fun to make and I sewes the pages to the bag and left sides open as pockets for tags.

This has a library pocket that pulls out with my dr appt.s on it and information.

The shower pics are in a mini album - held closed with a paper clip. the tags that pull out have one for who, what, when and where. I will show more later. Ben is fussing and I need to go and look for JD's keys= I hid them and I can't remember where I put them! I have looked all over and can't find them! I have until 3 to locate them. You would have thought I lost his prize possession or something! Wish me luck!!! LOL