halloween treat & hellos

hello friends. are you still there? i don't think i've had a comment from anyone in months. maybe i'm just writing to my self sporadically. i don't want to delete this blog in hopes that i actually post more often... so let me know if you are still out there. :)

just wanted to say hi, and show a lil treat baggie i made. nothing big, really. quick and cute--it's an easy gift for busy moms to make for your children's friends, right? LOVE the m&m colors for halloween, bought a HUGE bag of them, and i think this tiny baggie is about what's left. they are great to throw in a glass jar and munch on when you are creating. i will be filling up my jar later with a new bag.

i do have another set of projects to share, but i am entering them in a lil contest, so i will wait until the deadline is up...i'll post my fun stuff if i don't win, and i'll let ya know how happy i am if i do win. :)

happy monday peeps!!

*all supplies used on treat bag are Stampin' Up!

OH --have i mentioned that if you go to my Stampin' Up! Business website--the link is on the side of my blog--well there is a link at the top on the home page for online shopping--YES my friends, you can now shop for Stampin Up! supplies right off my home page in the comforts of your homes. Yippee, I know. So don't be afraid to browse the online catalog on my site and order anything your lil heart desires . :)

xoxo

i am here

i am here. i am just going about my days. doing all the things a mommy of three children and two dogs does. yes, thats right--we now have 2 doggies. alex showed up home with a puppy. i wanna say that he, (his name is henry higgins williams by the way), is taking every calm moment in our lives and turning it to havoc. i will be straight and say i did not want this dog. nor did i agree to him. as a matterafact--i said NO, more than once. but alex figured he deserved him...needed him more than anything. he has obsessed over this dog for months, even while in Iraq. he sent me countless emails about him. he even photoshopped a picture of one into a pic i sent him of the kids. yes, the man is that crazy over dogs. i spent a week hating both of them, i assure you. but alex knows i am a sucker if not a lady with a big heart. and so i am falling for henry more each day. cmon though, most all pups are cute...so i lose the battle there. and he named him henry. our special name reserved for my st bernard that we cannot get yet. so...i am adapting to life with henry. he is about 9 1/2 weeks old...tiny and growing and all over the place...he knows how to sit and "go potty" outside. although he loves going potty inside as well. i dont have my photos of him yet on the computer, but when i do i will show some pictures of him. oh--he is a staffordshire bull terrier--hence my reservation in wanting him....he will be the buff little terror--i mean terrier--next to our sweet bassett buster.

the kids are successfully getting up and ready for school each day. only a few major/minor meltdowns so far. :) homework has been better, the kids know they must do homework in order to do anything else like play with neighbors or watch tv etc...and they for the most part, LIKE to do school work, so no problems there.

i am slowly working on some stampin' up! stuff. getting things in places i can use easily. alex moved me back down to the basement. its cold and a bit dark--but i have a lot of space and its good to create with all your supplies in one place. i am usually just getting a few minutes here and there to make a single card, or put stuff together for future projects. i am working a halloween treat box right now.

alex is busy back to work--very different here than in wa, but things are well for him now too.

its time to get some little kiddos up--ones about to leave and 2 more to get up and ready to go, i'm headed to return library books today and then the post office--i know SO exciting huh?

xoxo

first week of school

a few photos of our week. i couldn't load all of them. i'll try a few more after this post as well. things are going well. getting up on time was a bit of a challenge--getting up by 6am even harder. so far Camille has liked each day. she walks to school with some girls in the neighborhood and then the other two get to the bus stop which is so very conveniently located at the top of our street--walk past about 5 houses and there it is. I LOVE THAT. no real homework this week. signing some more papers, getting notebooks organized, buying even more supplies....

since when did it cost a hundred bucks a kid for school supplies...i guess when they started asking for classroom Kleenex and papers and dry erase markers etc for everyone to share. I thought that's what our home taxes were for...but i guess not enough of it goes for that. anyways...

everyone likes school so far. izzy is the only one feeling the effects of this new move, new school etc...in the classroom i mean. she is not finding a friend just yet, and that is very hard on her. she is very social, but in a kinda awkward way, so she either comes off to strong, or maybe shy. shes very sweet and sensitive, and she was not ready to be a big girl and be in 5th grade this year. ive got my eye on her so we'll see. as the mama, i want everyone to be happy, make friends and get all A's--of course!!!

it's saturday. plans for today: throw in some clarol instincts #2 hair rinse to make ALL my hair blonde (the gray hair seems to be multiplying) for the next 6 weeks... clean the bathrooms, have the kids clean their rooms, wash buster, sweep, and pick out a semi sexy nice outfit to pick up alex at the airport this evening. Adog has been in WA for a month now, and we are so happy he is finally moving to maryland with us. maybe things will start to feel like home here with all of us together again. gotta run, be back soon.

xoxo

last days of summer vacation

so...these are the last few days of summer vacation. school begins Tuesday for Logi and Izzy and Wednesday for miss Cam. sheesh. a long eventful summer. some good, some bad. happy for some kind of routine to kick in. glad the kids will be in a social network of some kind...they need to meet some kids in this new town, find their place in it all.














the girls decided to try on outfits and so i grabbed the camera and shot a few pictures of them being silly. nothing fancy..they didn't want to stand there for very long...just wham bam...run back upstairs and try another. camille goes for poses, and isabelle just laughs as she struts her stuff. silly girls. one wants heels and skinny jeans, the other wants flair legged and converse.....such different little girls i have. so sweet and so ornery the both of them.


logan spent a bit of time finding things to check out with his science kit. he took some of the clumped up hairs that were falling off of buster (our poor dog & his allergies) and some bits of leaves, grass, dirt, he even put some ice tea in a test tube to check out what was floating around that maybe we couldn't see....









it was fun to see him get excited about his discoveries. my kids can be a pain when they are bored, let me tell you. they just get in each others faces...but i sure do love the heck out of them. and i love to look at photos that capture who they are right now...seeing them like this, helps me to appreciate how good and wonderful they each really are. (you know its hard to see that during the long days of summer where all they seem to do is argue over who gets what, or who is right, or who won what game etc.....



















well. that's all for now. lots going on in the next few days...really been kinda busy. today i want to put some pictures and decorations on the walls finally. nothing too exciting, but its something i've wanted to do since we got in this house. :)

xoxo

i finally created something

so...here is something i worked on yesterday just to get back into making something. i pulled out some SU pattern paper and some scallop cards and stamps and went to work.

i think they turned out pretty good. i used some older retired products along with some new stamps. i had to photograph them outside on the back deck, there isnt a lot of good light in here yet.






i think i am going to make a few more today to go with these ones. some smaller rectangular sized cards. i'm just gonna create until i get sick of seeing these colors. :)


drop me a comment and maybe i'll send one to you...they have nice chocolate chip matching envelopes too.




here is L-DOG (logan) with his ever growing collection of Marvel heroes. they come in all shapes and sizes. he has spent endless summer days sharing all the tiny tidbits about each character with me...it is absolutely driving me nutso...but if i am ever in the position to talk marvel heroes with other moms, i can almost guarantee i'd run the show on that one. and when i say he shares everything i mean EVERYTHING. it is pretty cool that he is SO into them. his dad is so happy --it beats the littlest pet shop obsession from the previous years...he is finally finding his little boy stuff in the midst of living with two very dominant sisters. my favorite is to walk into a room and find them lined up on a table or hanging off umbrellas as he's done here. i love the way his imagination is taking off with this. we busted out Alex's childhood collection of comics to keep him occupied until Alex's return, and the boy is in complete marvel heaven. he even took his spiderman gloves with the fingers cut off and inserted pencils in the tips to create his own Wolverine hands. did i mention he's a little genius too?? i love that kid!!!


thats all for today. happy sunday!
xoxo

SU! celebrando creatividad & promo

SU! is having a great promotion...15% off select brand new sets. i have already ordered one or two of these. who doesn't love a great discount on their favorite stamps?? just let me know if i can email you the list....

Here is the new cover to the SU! Spanish language catalog. isn't it SO cute? love all that bright birthday stuff. i can feel my Spanish speaking skills getting ready to kick in...

and this sweet little bird book, i got off the SU! demo site. it was an art challenge done by one of SU! official design artists. whoever they are, can i just say WOW. i love it. that cute bird was cut with SU!'s new die cut machine. i really want one of those. but they are a tad pricey...something i will have to save up for. it is really nice though. they have exclusive dies with SU! only designs. birds, and flowers and labels and pouches, etc. i've never invested in a die cutting machine; but i'm afraid i will be soon enough. maybe if i save up i can have it for Christmas...i believe it debuts in the SU! Holiday mini catalog. can you believe it will be time for holiday stuff soon enough? i am just trying to get through summer and school starting--but it'll be fun to have holiday projects to think about.

that's all for today...

xoxo

i told ya...

so here it is....here i am..with my new Stampin' Up! catalog. so darn happy still. let me think what to say about it now...

ok the project ideas in this catalog are by far my favorite. i want to copy every single idea. so INSPIRING!!! i just can't decide what i need most first. i also got the SU! celebrando creatividad catalog. its SU!'s new spanish language catalog. SUPER COOL. all sorts of stamp sets and accessories in spanish. how creative is that? its 47 pages of fun in espanol. it is SO the thing to help me continue on my journey of learning spanish. i have always regretted the fact that i took classes for like 8 years and i let it all slip by me by not using the language, by not speaking it. its my bffs (yolanda) first language and one of my best friends (DIANA) teaches it...so I really have no excuse. anyways. so much going on with stampin up this year. they are celebrating 20 years of creativity, opportunity, and service. and as a little incentive to myself, i am celebrating right along with them.

i wonder if i'll find some maryland girls to be so interested in SU! i hope so. i have a lot to share. once the kids get back to school, im kicking my business in gear. i'm spending the next few weeks just playing with some new ideas and getting things ready. if i happen to owe you cards (Heather M.) i will get them to you soon. i'll forget and then remember...50 times before i get to something...but you know i'll eventually get back to it. :)

ok. off to do some mommy stuff and hopefully have a relaxing day.

xoxo