another lazy day

Another lazy day......... spent it getting everything organized for work tomorrow, which I am completely dreading after having two weeks of vacation. I so hate getting up early, and it is going to be especially hard after staying up late for so many nights. Vegas might have done me in. LOL I then spent the 2nd part of the day getting some scrapbooking LOs in - 2 for Concroption and 2 others. I will have to photograph them tomorrow and post them.

Today I am thankful for: my Kindle, cheddar broccoli soup from Corner Street Bakery and finally setting up my Facebook profile.

believe

The word of the year is........ BELIEVE. The other top contenders ended up being POSSIBILITIES and STRENGTH.

I spent much of today getting organized - transferred info to the new Franklin Covey month pages, added appointments, uploaded photos, printed out photos. Basically getting ready for an exciting year. I can't wait to scrap tomorrow - I have the photos printed and the chores out of the way!

Today I am thankful for: being able to get along with Daniel (Happy Birthday!), Sex and the City movie (again - I love it!) and Kevin's freshly shaven face.

still deciding...........

I'm still deciding on a word for the year........

Things I am grateful for today: Kevin getting me breakfast while I am still sleeping, playing good golf (yay me!) and warm bread with butter.

happy new year!!!

I can't believe it is 2009 already. I have been a bad, bad blogger but this year I intend (no resolutions only intentions here) to blog much, much more.

I love Ali Edwards and every year I try and come up with a new word for the year to focus on and I can't decide. These are my options: BELIEVE, DARE, STRENGTH, PERSEVERE, DREAM, BALANCE, RENEW or ACHIEVE. My mom thinks I should go with FOCUS and my dad likes STRENGTH. Kevin likes BELIEVE and I'm still meditiating on it...........

I usually come up with three things I'm grateful for everyday but have never blogged them before. The big ones are obvious: my family, Kevin, my boys, health, a job, money to pay the bills, food on my table, a roof over my head, good friends etc....... so I usually try and remember some of the small things that I'm grateful for everyday. Today they are: dinner at my parents house, a lazy day at home with Kevin and puppy kisses.

Happy new year to you all and I hope 2009 brings you everything you wanted and more!

my travel album

I have been a very bad blogger, but in all fairness I did go on vacation (Kevin & I went to Hawaii) and I have been swamped at work. As a result of all this I have had a cold for the past 2 weeks & summer colds suck!

The good news is that Freckle Friends has developed my Cabo travel memorabilia album into their July project of the month. I love this album because it uses 7 Gypsies envelopes to store all these random items neatly. I think I might have to make one for Hawaii now! I have been busy scrapbooking so I will post all my new Hawaii pages up soon - of course the first ones I made were of our cage dive with sharks!!!

some more recent layouts

some of the wedding layouts

new layouts

I actually got quite a bit of scrapping sone on NSD & I am very excited about that. Here are a few of the new ones I completed.

national scrapbooking day

I'm looking forward to National Scrapbooking Day this Saturday. What a great excuse to do nothing but scrap (not that I really need an excuse...) all day long and catch up with TIVO. At the moment I am kinda blown away with LOST - I love that show but I can so easily obsess over it. Ben is my favorite character - he is so twisted! Sorry for the diversion, what is everyone else doing on NSD?

i love my choos

a few of my favorite things....

other new layouts

scrapjacked!

where did it go?

It seems like all my scrapping mojo has left me temporarily so I'm shopping online. But how cute is this yellow jacket? or this golf polo? But most importantly - where did my scrapping mojo go?

my moldy office...

Unfortunately, I haven't been too motivated to scrap lately because I have been fending off allergies. The chief one being to mold due to the recent flood in my office. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the insurance company comes through soon so that I can breathe freely again!

why i will never be a great golfer.....

my husband distracts me! well that's my story and i'm sticking to it.....

my bachelorette party - march concroption project

These are pics of the March project I created for Concroption using their awesome Teresa Collins kit and an acrylic album. Obviously the album is of my bachelorette party (at least the pics I could show), but the subtitle is 'why the Captain is no longer my friend!', which is a reference to the huge amount of Captain Morgan I was forced to drink. Needless to say, I can't drink rum to this day. I loved the kit though - pretty, pink & girly!

my greeting card solution

I don't know about the rest of you, but I save every single card (birthday, Christmas, friendship etc...) that I receive. The problem is that I have for years and as a result I have hundreds stashed away in boxes. Occasionally I like to look through them, but because of my random stashing in boxes it can become a time consuming and messy affair. This weekend I decided to do something about it so I created a 'card album' if you may. I sandwiched a piece of double sided patterned paper between two thin sheets of acrylic and adhered it together. I made another one for the back cover - I determined the size of the covers by adding a half inch to the dimensions of the largest card. I then punched a hole in the corner of both covers. I positioned my cards so that they were flush to that corner and punched holes in all of them. I used a standard book ring to secure them all and decorated the cover. For my Christmas 2007 cards I used Basic Grey paper, a Fontwerks label and some Prima flowers jazzed up with bling. Once I have all of the 'card albums' put together I plan on storing them in a basket in my family room.

mellow weekend

Kevin & I had a mellow weekend - he was still recovering from his oral surgery but we had tix to the Improv on Friday night to see Joel McHale. We love Joel McHale & watch our TIVO'd 'The Soup' religiously on Saturday mornings while we eat breakfast. Needless to say he was even funnier in person and bears an even more striking resemblance to my bro than we once thought. We find out at the end that his wife was sitting behind us (heavily prego - she is due in 2 weeks) so it was a good thing we were laughing. Bad part is it was killing Kevin's jaw, which is why the rest of the weekend was spent catching up on TIVO and hanging around the house. I love my 'Lost' but who are all these new people?! Harper?! Ben is definitely our fav - definitely the man with the plan! Somehow we also started watching 'Sensing Murder' (super spooky on psychics who help detectives solve cold cases) and 'Jon & Kate Plus 8' (go figure). I scrapped a little, but spent more time reorganizing my Clip-It-Up than anything else.

some recent layouts