Jesus, Family & Scrapbooking

May Theme:
Fresh

fresh wound

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I cut my finger a week ago Tuesday. And yes, it was NASTY. I sliced the side of my pinky off with a mandolin slicer. My gramma said, well that’s more protein in the potatoes:) EW GROSS:) I couldn’t get it to stop bleeding, and kept almost passing out…and I’m not talking about like a couple of minutes….it was a couple of days. I called everyone I knew for advice, I got on my boards and asked all my online friends what to do. There wasn’t any skin left to sew together on the wound, so I stayed out of the ER, but I was terrified that it would be a long and drawn out process of bandaging and nursing my finger back to health. Well, once I got the bleeding to stop, and the cut to be out from the bandages at night, the process got MUCH faster! I’m glad to say that God has totally taken care of me (once again) and my finger is in nearly perfect condition. The cut healed quickly, and my finger is a little dented, but I’m guessing in another week, you’ll hardly be able to tell anything happened. I’m totally praising God about this, b/c I just had many fears of how this would hinder my regularly scheduled life.

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Here’s some cards that are winging their way to Provo as we speak. They will hopefully be in an infomercial with the Cricut that is being filmed next week. When I took these to the Kinko’s to send out, the girl there was interested in what I do, and looked at my cards. She is now planning on buying a Cricut. NOW THAT’s a boost to my confidence.

For the last three months I’ve made things for the infomercial and its been an interesting process. It’s been challenging, but I’ve actually liked several of the things I’ve made a LOT. We were working off a very limited set of Cricut cuts, and although that was limiting, it was also cool to see what I can come up with using this limited selection. What do you think about the pear card? I was going back and forth if I should say “pair” or “pear” wherein lies the pun….Hmmmmmm!

april monthly theme:
absurd

just a little absurd:)

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I love a good challenge:)

Here’s a few for challenges:

Nicole S. challenged us on the Studio Calico blog to a color challenge with rainy colors and flower colors combined….Here’s my take:

Also a few How Much is TOO Much challenges:

only chipboard, felt, and ribbon….your background can be cardstock or patterned paper.

also another one, based on the plane that Elizabeth flew:

7 - rubons
3 - pictures
7 - stickers
5 - flowers
0 - use no buttons
0 - use no ribbon

Its on sale at Studio Calico RIGHT NOW:) I loved this kit SO HARD!!! Click through to flickr if you want to see anything larger sized!

its webkinz day….well really webkinz weekend, and one of the contests they are running is to write a Haiku about spring. Since it is also National Poetry Month, I decided to write my own Haiku about spring:D

awake from slumber
bursting out of velvet case
welcome back the spring

Nope, not my 25th album, but an album featuring a year of 25ths.

This idea is a free mini class from my supah dupah creative cutie friend shimelle. Check it out and join in with me, shimelle, and all the cool kids with this album.

Here’s my photos from the day:

Jon missed take your daughter to work day and Jaylie has been asking him about it for a year since LAST years take your daughter to work day. They decided to do it today instead. Daddy took both Jaden and Jaylie today. Woo Hoo, break for mommy.

Journey and I started out by going to the scrapbook store. Great start, don’t you think?

She was so cute and kept saying that we were on a date We ate at her favorite restaurant Bickdonalds.

the evening ended with dinner and dancing at qdoba:D

scrapbooks.com wants us to wait 3 months before we show large sized versions of our layouts on the web. I totally understand their reasoning, they want to draw people to their site, but I keep forgetting to add my past months stuff anywhere after 3 months:) Here are a BUNCH of things I’ve done for them in the past 9 months. Wow, how time flies!!! The top is from November 2007 and the bottom is from August 2007. Its interesting to see how my style has evolved and HASN’T evolved in the last 9 months.

Here is my sneaks for scrapbooks.com

You should go look at them full sized HERE:

Here are a few more sneaks for Studio Calico

Here’s a little sneak of my supah secret project for SC.

here’s a tiny taste of what’s to come for this month at studio calico

If you click on the link, you can see the sneak peek of the kit itself. Let it run through the first 2 slides for April, and then you’ll see it in all its goodness. It is my FAVORITE kit so far. I’ve said that a couple of times, and its true this time too. I love yellow right now, I’d even say its my favorite color right now, and this kit is full of lovely yellow and orange! YUM!!!

I have 3 layouts done-ish so far and at least 2 more at least in the works, and a FABU (if I do say so myself) project that i love.

I’m so excited about this kit:)

although I think that tax day is a bit absurd….I went with and absurdly GIANT flower behind my ear:)

other absurdities at www.selfportraitchallenge.net

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I’m working really hard on a BUNCH of projects….I’ll add photos when I can….I’m alive, just working hard.

she has a blanket,
she calls it rinky,
that she loves,
it is often stinky….
this is her song about it.

on YouTube

my husband didn’t want it to be imbeddable, so its not, but go watch it, its hilarious.

April Monthly Challenge: Absurd

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http://www.selfportraitchallenge.net

my kids voices are driving me crazy
i haven’t had five minutes alone today
i’ve been driving for an hour
i may pull out my hair

how do I get rid of my funky attitude?
five minutes in the bathroom with silly glasses and my d80

Have a silly day

I’ve been working for Lasting Memories again. I made a two page layout for them to showcase the new Cody line by Love Elsie. Typically I don’t make two page layouts and these were my ONLY sports photos that I own:D

I’m really happy with how it turned out if I do say so myself:D

is on sale at StudioCalico.com

Here is my offerings this month: