New Fancy Pants lines.....

so i just got my box yesterday with the new releases from Fancy Pants. One is called 'Artic Chill' and has some great colors for winter pictures. The other is 'Splendid' the Valentine Line. I had just printed the perfect picture for these papers so i stayed up late again and played! Here is the layout i did with 'Splendid' - go check out the Fancy Pants Blog for sneaks of the rest of the paper and goodies that go with it! I'm just realizing my last layout has the same title! Oh well - its true! I love them!

Well - today is day 5 that Dean has been gone - i'm honestly about ready to hit FREAK OUT mode. This has been a long one. Didn't help that Mas was out of School sick and then no school thursday and friday for UEA - but mama has had it. I'm ready for him to get home already. I havn't even accomplished any packing because i havn't felt good myself. He did shoot a 'once in a lifetime' deer, so he's pretty happy - we can't wait to see it.

Hope everyone has a great weekend! I'm going to attempt taking the kids to the pumpkin patch by myself to get some pictures, we will see if i have the energy or the patience to get it done.

To Do's

my list is a mile long right now and i can't do much about it. It's driving me crazy. Dean is out of town all week hunting - and i'm stuck home with sick kids. Some kind of flu bug - mason has had it since saturday and today Ethan and Baylee got it. Soooooooooo i can't leave my house and there is no school Thursday or Friday. I think i might go crazy! I just hope i don't get it. I've tried to start packing (not doing well) but i did get my dress and more luggage. Now waiting for our costumes to come in the mail. I need to make some serious lists so i can be organized about it.

I stayed up way to late last night to get some Fancy Pants projects done last night. Can i just say how much I LOVE thier stuff - not that i'm partial or anything - but seriously - they have great product. This first layout - is so ARtsy Fartsy - and i used all FP product. It was totally inspired by Dina Wakely - i just drool over her projects - she brings the out the artsy side of me - when normally i'm more of a cutsey (not a word is it?) scrapper - but she is always using the spray inks and glimmer mists - so i gave it a try - loved the outcome - i used the Fancy Pants chipboard letters as a mask and removed them after spraying - then traced the edges with a black pen. And the glitter cuts from FP this time around are to die for. Mostly the 'Daily Grind' line here.

This is a line from winter CHA - but i still love it - its Daydreams - and love these pictures of mason trying to get a kiss from his baby sister!The card is mostly the 'All Fall' line. The flower and tab are diecuts and the the buttons are from this line too. The red paper is from 'Daily Grind'

Thanks for taking a peek. I guess i better get to my lists of things that i need to do. They aren't going to mark themselves off - right? Have a good weekend - i might get one more post in before the trip - depends on how busy it gets!

Oh - i did have an unwind weekend with some girlfriends this last weekend - went to Wolf Creek lodge and did nothing but watch movies and eat alot of junk. It was perfect - just what i need to get me through the next few weeks!

Rub ons

who loves them? ME! i kinda went a little crazy - but the new challenge over at Method Playground is to use LOTS of rubons on the same layout. I have 4 different manufacturer's rub ons on this layout! Love this picture of Baylees little girly attitude and this yummy PINK GLITTER paper from SEI! I did some fussy cutting (total Becky term) and this is what we ended up with. Go check out the MP blog to see the other girls layouts and join in the challenge.

A little bit excited about this news - I was selected to be one of the guest Dream girls for Dream street papers this last week for 2009. Check out thier blog to see the other girls on the list - i'm lucky to be included in such a talented list of girls - not sure which month i will be doing yet - but can't wait.

Okay - so i don't remember if i told you we are taking the kids on a disney cruise at the end of the month - but we told them on Sunday and they are so excited - like are you serious we aren't going camping excited. That is usually the extent of our vacationing around here so we are definatley going to be out of our element. I'm really excited but getting kinda freaked out. The whole packing thing and flying with the kids. We will be gone over Halloween so i have to pack costumes and everything. I'm sure it will all work out and i will be excited when we get there - but not so much right now.

Thanks for stopping by............hope you have a great day!

Lucky Me!

I'm not sure if you guys remember a few months ago I won some yummy Making Memory goodies and a Layout by Laura Vegas. Well - she finished the layout and I love it! Its a 2 pager and i love that even more because i can't bring myself to do them very often any more. She used the pics from our 4th of July venture up at the property and i just am so happy with how it turned out! Thank you so much Laura! Here it is: go check out her blog to see close ups! I went up to my sisters house last week and spent the day with her and her kids because her hubby was in ALaska. We had a great time - the kids loved every minute of it. We went to the little zoo they have up there and then rode bikes and watched a movie. So fun - here are a few pictures - i swear i will send them to you soon Karie.

One last thing - got my box from Scrapbook Trends with my layout in it today. Absolutley love this idea book! So much inspiration and fun things for christmas. I was a little disappointed in the way my layout was photographed - its on the very last page and it makes Baylee's face look really bad - real orangy and splotchy (are those words?) - but for the most part i'm happy with it. I will post the layout in a month or so!

Also got this magazine last week - LOVE IT! probably my fav magazine right now besides Scrapbooks ECT. really happy with the way my layout in this one turned out. great picture and description.

New MP challenge!

I swear the weeks go by so fast. It seems like every time i post its for a new challenge - but i guess that just means i'm really bad at updating my blog. This time around the challenge was to use Chipboard in a way that it wasn't intended to be used. I took a Fancy Pants chipboard flower and trimmed off the stem and used it as a scalloped frame. I've been wanting to scrap these old pictures forever and the new line from Fancy Pants Designs the "Daily Grind" is just perfect for them. So here it is: Go check out what the other girls did and join us in the challenge!

Dress up time for Baylee - i can't resist sharing these pictures. My friend Bobbie is always sending her girls clothes my way once they don't fit hers anymore and we get some dang good stuff - her girls are always dressed so cute - so Baylee and i sat down to go through the bag and she wanted to try everything on so i had to take a few pics!

she is so dang cute! And so girly - I love it.

Ethan is feeling much better and is pretty much back to normal (which means he is still whining) but not about EVERYTHING - so that is good.

Nothing else new here other than my sweet husband decided on Saturday night that we needed to do a Classic Western marathon (yipee) - so not a western girl - but it has been nice spending time with him - the movies have been awful. Tonight were taking a break - only 2 left to go. Then its my turn to pick 5! I might just be gaining all that weight back - we both have had popcorn every night and the last 2 - banana bread that i made on Sunday. I better watch it.

Thanks for stopping by............

a day in the life

of a kid with his tonsils just removed. TORTURE! I was hoping when they removed his tonsils - they would remove his whiner too - but they didn't! In the beginning it wasn't too bad - he just didnt talk - our main struggle was getting medicine down him and getting him to eat and drink - which was a HUGE fight - but if you left him alone - he was fine. Now the whining has come back with a vengence. I know he still doesn't feel well and i so feel bad for him - but nothing comes out of his mouth in a normal voice - its always a whine -someone HELP me! He went back to shool today so that was good - i think he's on the mend - but still won't eat much nor take his meds willingly. It can't be like this much longer - can it?? I hope not.

Enough of that - today I took Baylee to her Kindermusic class - so fun. She loves to sing and dance and her teacher is so animated it cracks me up - she sucks those little ones in like a vacuume - they love it. I want to take the camera - but don't want to bother anyone either - maybe i will get brave one of these weeks. Speaking of pictures - i just uploaded 685 pictures to Walmart to archive - holy crap - i need to do it once a month so it doesn't get so overwhelming. I need to delete more pictures too - i'm still at the 'i can't bear to part with them' stage. So they all go - and they all HOG space on my hard drive.

I will leave you with a layout i did a while back - on my overnight crop back in June - i've been hoarding it for a while - its of Baylee singing! One of my faves so far!

New MP challenge is up.....

So the new Method Playground challenge was a lot of fun. The challenge was to use Wet Paint and play in it - either by stamping and lifting the paint of doodling in it. I kept it simple and painted the rectangle chipboard and used a large polka dot backgrounder stamp from CHF. Very subtle but i like how it turned out. Used the Fancy Pants 'Crush' Line for this layout! I swear it is straight in real life - just couldn't get a good picture with the white background!

Another Fancy Pants layout using the About a boy collection - my fav i think. Love these colors together. And then Ethan got his tonsils out this morning - poor thing is so dang ornery. I feel bad for him. He was sure tough though - i was proud of how he handled it in the hospital. Now its a matter of him taking his meds with out me sitting on him. The did a wash of his lungs too which was really good - they said they were pretty clear. So prayers for him that he will recover quickly!

Thanks for stopping by...............and for your comments on my last layout!