Back to School Week

Hi ya'll, it's back to school week here in our town. My son started Monday, and it's hard to get used to the strange hours. It really seems like hours in the day are missing. Wondered where all that time went all of a sudden. School begins at 7:45 he has to be there 7:30am. Gets out 2:45pm. Been doing a lot of house-cleaning. Need to finish some of that housework and work on some new layouts for my Creative Teams. I have ideas for freebies, or what I like to call samples. Maybe by Christmas time I'll be designing? Sounds like a plan...

I have been thinking about having an old-fashioned All Hallows Eve party. My friend, Laurie likes that idea and she most likely will be accompanying me on my endeavors. Hahaha, evil laugh commencing. She's real good at poetry. She'll be putting together all her poems to make a book. I can hardly wait, I get a signed copy! Woohoo! I have to finish some layouts and get my son off to bed.... So see ya later gators!

Hey, I got those DVD's I was looking for when I got back from Padre Island! Woohoo! Six DVD's full of kits etc. I got the whole store instead of just the page kits. How awesome is that? I was so excited. Just to catch you up... I won the Ultimate Scrapper Challenge at GottaPixel. I did 58 layouts for the challenge. At first I couldn't believe I won! And the day before I got a fortune cookie that said, 'Among the lucky, you are the Chosen One'! How cool is that? I scrapped it. I got two screen shots and scrapped both.

About my trip... I took my laptop with me to work on my layouts if I got bored. Yep, got bored at night in room only one TV. Well, guess what... forgot to pack the power cord! Then I thought maybe I can buy one and still use it. Just for the converter it was $150.00 and the part to hook it from the computer to the converter was not included. WOW. So I didn't bother with that. Well, then... I took a lot of pictures and figured out when my memory was full, I remembered I could not download them, no power cord. So I bought some extra memory for my camera, it was cheaper than the power cord.

Strange goings on lately. I hear reports of gremlins from all over! Air conditioning units in cars and houses going out. Cars breaking down. Someone stole my husbands wallet! Found out it was his new employee. He's on the run, cause he also stole a car. It was really fishy that every weekend since he has been in town, he's ended up in jail. Every weekend! Unbelievable!

Today
Went to bookstore today with my friend, Laurie. These are the books I brought home.

1. Gifts for the Cookie Jar

2. Hairstyles of the World

3. Projects for Pets

4. Heavenly Chocolate Recipes

5.American Sign Language

6.Design Source Book for Crafters

Watched Wild Hogs with the hubby. Got a crop to go to "Divine Diva Deal" @ Divine Digital. Started 5 min. ago....bye for now.

Am back .... I thought I would put up a freebie!

Here's the Preview, it's the purple weave patterned paper above.

Please leave a comment and let me know what you think... thanks!

Why Mona Lisa smiles today...

Just booked the weekend at a hotel on South Padre Island. Woohoo .... relaxation. First get-a-way all summer. Hopefully it won't rain, but hey if it does... I will take pictures! It's got an indoor heated pool. It's near the beach too. Thursday thru Sunday, back to work on Monday.

I'm hoping my Ultimate Scrapper Challenge winnings from Gotta Pixel will be waiting in the mail when I get back. I won June 31, 2007. It's Aug 8 and the package is still a no show. I have notified her. And she mailed out a duplicate July 31. Of course with her apologies for it not showing up yet. The postman "Bob" told me it probably got destroyed in the mail, cause it should not have taken this long. Hey, cross your fingers and toes for me!

I need to start packing for the trip. I'm looking forward to not cooking! Hopefully I won't gain back any of the weight I have lost since dieting. Yep I've lost 18 lbs. I'm on the Kimkim's diet.
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If you need to get in touch with her, she can be reached through the Gotta Pixel website here:
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The Main Sign @ Bracken Village

Thought this was a cute little house. Awwwe

I bought stuff here. Let's see, a black cat,
a cardinal, a teacup and a teakettle one set in
violets and the other in roses, to hang on my
tree at Christmas time.

The sign is so cute.

Today is Wednesday Aug. 1, 2007


Me and my friend Laurie went out on an excursion today. We went to Bracken Village. We took lots of pictures and had a good time. We sure needed a break from the house and kids for a little while. It was refreshing getting out of the house after all the rain we've had.

My husband is planning a 3 day trip to Corpus Christi next weekend. Yeah! No cooking for 3 days!! Woohoo!