Friday, July 23, 2010

It's been a crazy couple of weeks!

Soooo, I have been so busy lately, I havent even been able to jump on here and update anything. So I decided I was going to take the time today to do that!
First off, I have not been able to scrapbook but I did order and recieve Amy Chomas's gel pen holder and embossign kit. :) I am super excited to play with them. Hopefully this weekend.
As for what I have been so busy doing? Well, here it goes. About 2 weeks ago my kids and I had our dentist appointments. My daughter had 5 cavities. Yes, 5!! WTH??? My son has NEVER had a cavity and I just had my first one ever a couple months ago. What is wrong with my daughters teeth? lol OK so we had to do 2 different appointments to get them filled, which, by the way, was WAY worse for me than it was for her. :) At one point I heard her cry across the dentist office. I think a little piece of my heart broke.
Anyways so on the the next thing. My mother decided we were going to start baking and decorating cakes. This is fine. I enjoy baking cakes. But we had our first order for an adult themed (male body part) cake. Well holy cow was that stressful! The cakes did not want to bake right. Its been hot and 90% humidity didnt help either. Finally cooked one and had it cooling when I remembered I had my sister and her friends and her friends one year old on their way over to take pictures. So I had to rush and get my little fake studio setup. I did get the photos done and they turned out BEAUTIFUL except for the fact that they woke up the 1 year old to bring her over. It was not easy to get her to smile!
So with all this and house work, plus I clean house for an elderly couple and the kids home for the summer....I need a straight jacket and padded cell. :)
Geez I just want some down time. Hopefully next week will be good and calm!!! (crossing my fingers)
so here are some of the pictures I took.






Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Owl in the Family ~ SOUS 4/2



Another Layout done finally. These are some more photos of my kids with their cousins in California. I loved those owls and have been dying to use this cut in a layout. The owl flourish is a SVG cut out with my Make the Cut software.

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Falls at Yosemite`~ SOUS 4/30





Another layout done finally. These photos are at the bottom of Bridalvail, one of the beautiful waterfalls in Yosemite National Park . I finally was able to find the Inkssentials ink blending tool and some more distressing ink this weekend so I played with those A LOT on this layout. Thanks for looking. :)