Pumpkins, Wizards and More...

Mine is the one on the left, no pattern just happy, T's is the middle and J did the one on the right... (which turned out pretty good for his first one hmmm?!?) okay it won't let me put in a fourth photo so the pumpkins will go in a few minutes... So, I may have mentioned on a recent shopping excursion... Toy'sRuS carries HP costumes? so we picked up a proper robe and a wand. (that is my old witched broom hee) So Serious hmmm?

If you've ever wondered how many candles it takes to boil water, well now i know... Yvonne sent me a funny link to a site that will tell you that, among other things...

so now you know, its not really a cake with candles its a hand warmer...

A Beautiful Morning...

These are on the counter in a row right this minute even as you peek at this blog waiting for the annual Carving ceremony to be held later today... (Tim grew all 6 of these in his garden this summer) :) todays plans includes dinner out (haven't decided where yet, picky James will not eat much you know) This Mornings events included coffee in bed, Huge breakfast cooked (with a spotless kitchen) & Opening the cards from the guys. Who have decided to spoil me with a gift certificate to my favorite Local scrapbook store. Whoo. so yes, this is partially what spoiled looks like... (I have put most the things away, but i did buy myself a pair of tall brown leather boots for skirts) I have wanted some for years and years and i wear skirts all the time. :)

Look Look, I DID get your cards :) and gifts! and emails and email cards! Yep I do read my e-mail at least once every 24 hours and some days more often not to worry. :) I know some are still coming in the mail and that happens. Dont worry i will holler when i get them. :)

So here's hopping you are having as good of a day as i am.

try this one...

the other one has too many htttp's in it... http://www.creativexpress.com/community/xpressions/showthread.php?t=9914 hopefully that works i did it different than the first one... So anyways its still pheasant season, and the plan is for the guys to go out tomorrow morning again (so i will be headed to my scrap space with coffee) Oh yeah i promised you test results, well they have not bothered to tell me the diabetes test results, an the cholestorol is two good numbers and one slightly above where it should be number however in my defence i had shrimp for dinner the night before the test... which they dont tell you is bad for you. HA who knew... so its probably a fluke from that... they dont want to do the test again for 5 more years... (oh goodie) ;) have a good weekend people. me

I WON i WON!

hee hee... In case your not a scrapper and really dont know what im talking about I guess i should put in a brief "what's what comment" I read and participate on alot of scrapbooking boards across the internet. on all of them My screen name is JBgreendawn (or if its an msn group and im using a storage account it has greendawn in it somewhere) (so you see that its probably me) this is a link to a scrapbooking store that i started posting on a month or so ago... ( I joined it when it was new but just started posting recently...) http://http://www.creativexpress.com/community/xpressions/showthread.php?t=9914 this should take you to the page... :)

the hugs and kisses is the first round card i have ever made and the thanks is the second, cant post the third as the person I'm mailing it to reads this blog hee... :)

not much going on today im just really really sleepy & my allergies are kicking my butt. so I am going to sign off and go to bed. I just wanted to say Hey, and thanks for the b-day cards and gifts that have arrived cool stuff to find in the mail box... :)

some recent pages...

So, this last weekend went real quick didn't it? Tim and James and Slick went pheasant hunting sat morning, (got one gave it to Mancell) I went shopping... Then Tim and I went out to dinner (for our anniv (late) but feeling better now) that was yummy. And Sunday we started putting the new roof on the barn. ( the garage was done last month ~ that was a huge messy project because it had to have new plywood the whole thing) the barn is just getting shingles so the south sides done and the north sides 2/3 way done but it cant be finished until the wood stove pipe goes in (since it will vent through the roof) Oh yeah on a side note cows are just as big of "beggers" as dogs, cats and chickens... I have been dumping my rose bush cuttings into Tim's burn pile (its not burn day here yet) and the darn cows are climbing the pile to eat the rose bush branches... ( yes they DO have thorns!) Silly cows watch me walk around the yard with one of those big black planting pots to toss things in and think its a big grain bucket or something, they eyeball me where ever i walk... Cat's in a fairly bad mood today & yesterday, he caught 6 snakes on saturday and nothing yesterday or today. (the bad part is he usually brings them to me... lucky me hmmmm?) this one no one's real sure of the date of the photo we have to do more"research" I. E. "dig for some pic's that show how many kids and how big they are hee hee..." another funny thought occured to me as i was mostly done with this one, it is mainly FLAT yes you read that right, I cant tell you the last time i did a flat page... It has a lot of depth though from the fonts on the paper and the stickers and what not...

the oldest girl in the top left corner is Tim's mama. this was taken we think around sept of 1957 as the youngest (danny the baby) was born in august of that year...

Yes, i did do a few others but since i cant remember which ones are in here and which ones are not i will post these and peek at the blog to remember. (yep its that bad already) ;)

just some scraps from the last few days...

This is the page i tried to upload the other day... the Baby in the center is Tim :) there are paper tags on this that look like they are really hard to read on the scan but they are a quote from the Pinocchio that reads, to become a real boy you must prove your self brave, truthful and unselfish... the side tags read brave, truthful and unselfish. so this is the tags I'm thinking about attaching to treat bags this year with skinny black gross-grain ribbon. Not sure yet how many kids are in James class at school or if his teacher is going to allow a party or not, but so far I have 30 of these in various stages of "done" I don't have any idea if we will get trick or treaters at this house, we didn't live here last year then so... I probably wont make more than 30 baggies so James can take them to school and then we will see what will happen. Haven't gotten any of the decor out yet either. Just totally un-motivated to do it. Gee I wish i could pay everyone i care about a nickle to start their own blogs so i can see what they have been up too! what a thought hmmm? Okay i gotta go practice, have to have 5 more sentences to sign for the class tonight... ( I*think* I know what i am going to say, but if i have the signs correct is another guess)

Happy Hump Day!

I keep trying to make new posts every so often but the site seems to eat them rather than post them and I usually dont have that much free time to fight with this thing... just remember all the times you've been told you DO get what you Pay for! (and this sites free) I have been scrapping again, i havent made real pages for me that i keep all summer just the circle journal pages mainly and they get mailed away... so when the insert a photo button decides to cooperate again i will show you. In the mean time, today I have a blood screening test for cholestorol levels. Oh what fun, gee i wish i was sipping coffee instead of water... Yes Im sure im fine i think its just the people are hoping to find something to tinker with or more pills to prescribe haha. (seriously) James had his first parent teacher conferences last night it mostly went well but we've decided to let him go to a "call back thing" where he goes before school for more help he's totally mortified, at the old school they did this after school not before. So he wont give us a reason of why its so important for him to not go but i think its a peer pressure thing. so thats sad but hes still going... told him if he improves hard enough and works at it, then maybe he doesnt have to go all year. who knows? so far he's finding 4th grade to be a bigger challenge than the last years... School photos are in, btw, thats pretty much what I am doing for X-mas this year is cards with school photos... (our renters are moving so we will have the two morgage payments until we rent the house again) so just so you know, I'm hoping no one is expecting some fabulous hand-made well thought out things, I just don't have the time or the funds this year, I hate to say that i really do love Christmas. But it IS getting easier to do the whole BAh-Hum-Bug thing too...

Dare I Hope???

This is NOT a normal view in our house, usually he's glued to the boob tube or wanting to play video games...

It's almost amazing that Tim and I grew up without such things ehh?

(school homework... free reading 30 minutes daily) ~ the first day he read one of his books 6 times to make it 30 minutes... then i handed him Harry Potter the next day... so now he's already into the second book... some days he forgets to watch the clock and reads past the 30 minute mark! (others he whines about how bad his eyes hurt and is it time to Quit yet??)

Oh yeah in the quest for the perfect Halloween costume i picked up a witch hat at Wally world that had stars and moons on it, cut the brim off and sewed a black satin blanket binding to the edges and Ta-Da! Its now a Wizard hat! GO MOM! ;)

however i have been informed the cape i picked up is actually a Star-Wars guy cape NOT a HP cape (which should have sleeves) SO, since he has Star-Wars stuff he may end up going that route. (like i have endless patience, time & funds for him to be everything he wants in one night hahahaha...)

Next years Goals??

Last year around Christmas time, I had my arm twisted into Joining a Circle Journal swap… Where each person in the circle Buys an album or journal and picks a theme so all year they moved From scrapper to scrapper and at the end you get your own back. So the one on my desk this week the Theme is "Goals" Goals… I DON’T make goals, then I would be obligated to Do them! ;) So this was a hard page for me to do… It's just a simple one; it's probably hard to see From the scan but the right side is actually a part of a slide mount holder page that I trimmed to fit on the page (this journal is 8 X 8) and then tucked the black cardstock and stuff into the "pockets" of it. this is the right side...

This is the left side...

I'm looking forward to getting mine back, I have one more to work in then I should get mine back around Thanksgiving time. I've gotten some e-Mail about the Duck count. Ok Saturday AM shoot resulted in 3 Ducks, 1 very tired Puppy, 1 cold and crabby kid and one very glad he could leave the kid home for the afternoon shoot Husband… So, the Sat afternoon and Sunday am shoots the ducks were too high in the sky to shoot. Finally finished purchasing all the indg. For The BBQ Duck breast wraps… so tomorrow that's what's for dinner (they are marinating now) Our Chickens are officially HENS! We are getting more than a half a dozen eggs per day! Tim is taking them to work and giving them away now we have so many. I'm surprised James is Not clucking for the number he has consumed. I keep muttering pound cake and angel food cake at Tim…

So, I am creating "cheat sheets"

Today is Opening day of Duck Hunting season, so the guys were up at 4 am and out the door. I'm already starting my Christmas Cards too, or they will never get done. each time i think keep it simple there is just too many people on the list to go crazy with them, but it doesn't work out that way because even the simple ideas & doing them assembly line way takes time. So, I think i am going to seriously keep track of the cards that come in this year. People who don't send me one will be bumped off the list, Nope, it's not a threat just a sanity saver. The older i get the easier it is to go Bah-Humbug. Why is she talking about Christmas already?!? (I'm glad you asked... I went to the fabric store to look for things that will work for James to be Harry Potter for Halloween and they have all there Christmas OUT already. We haven't even hauled the Halloween decor out yet... Why do they do that? by the time i want to see new Christmas Ideas I'm sure the good stuff will be gone already and (like i really need more) NOT!! So I have been making these altered Rolodex Cards to put into the flipper file below, they hold photos and dates on the fronts sides and names and snail mails etc on the back sides... This is a couple of the anniversary ones... Doing birthdays too as I usually look at the Calendar and go dang there is no way to get a card there by tomorrow. (or two days from now) So i have it divided by months. There's about 50 family cards in it now, so its like a portable scrapbook, when I'm done with it I may park it on my desk at work. For my self, I don't remember things unless i write them down, but as a list maker and a paper journal keeper its almost like drowning in paper here. Plus its hard to go back through the paper and find the info... I try to write down things that i used to take for granted such as we went to Salt creek falls on the Sunday before Labor day as a short road trip in Tim's new truck... (we took lots of photos) but see i don't know that date anymore to be able to write it on the photos. so if i had not just written that it would be a who knows when thing by they time i get around to scrapping those photos (if i do) I don't scrap everything. (thats what they make photo albums for) I think i like this blog, I esp. like the fact that i type much much faster than i write and the insert a photo is pretty cool too. so i will probably be linking you guys to this to help you "keep up" with us since it may be faster to type an update this away then to email everyone. (esp. since a good portion the mail we get from family are jokes) Have a good weekend! I think i need to find my witchy poo stuff! ;) ~Stac

Ok

Yep there it goes again, photo is at the top of the box so i hit enter a few times to put these words above it. I need to see how the photos post, when i tried this earlier i would type this big thing then try to insert a photo and it would put the photo above the words instead of where i had the cusor... so here is another test... this is a memory flipper for me, I will explain it after i see where the photo goes...