I'm almost off...

Brandy went to the sonographer today to get an estimate on the baby's weight. Well, it seems the wee man ain't so wee! :D The little guy is guestimated to be 10lbs. 3 oz. UMMM yeah. Big baby! :D Man I can't wait to meet him, see Brandy, squeeze Gracie, all that good schtuff! I'll be bloggin' on the road so expect a post or two! ;)

Scrapbooking in the news!

Bright and early this Sunday morning (way tooo early for my allergy induced puffy eyed self!), Cathy from Scrap-Masters and I went to WJZ in Baltimore to film a segment on scrapping! Way fun! Cathy did an awesome job with the intro and I did the layout demo, if you'd like to take a peek at it, here it is http://wjz.com/video/?id=24462@wjz.dayport.com. I got so excited (you know how passionate scrappers are) I got a bit wordy! LOL We also actually did another 1 minute segment on the junque bracelette but it's not shown. At least Cathy and I didn't get the giggles like we were worried about!

On another note: we stocked the Jenni Bowlin goodies at the store and they are flying off the shelves! For example, we only have 2 brag books out of 12 left. So cool to see that!

Yes, more Jenni B love...

I know, here we go again! I know this layout is very similar to the other I posted a few days ago but I made a new one with requested adjustments for CHA. The mini book above is Jenni Bowlin's brag book kit aht we are selling at my lss. Such a cute book! The first page has an extra little flap in black. I LOVE mini books!

I was supposed to work last night at the restaurant and I got called before I left to see if I wanted to stay home. I had originally tentatively took off because I thought I'd be in N.C. with my sister and Grace and new baby nephew. But as you know, that didn't happen. So I happily stayed home and we all went to CHILIs, gosh we love Chilis! LOL The two big kids both became Patriots this week (An intense 5th grade program where they have to memorize a bunch of things like the bill of rights and the preamble to the constitution), we thought a celebration was in order! When we came home the roads were icy which always makes me nervous. We parked in the drive way and the big kids hopped out and I went to the back passenger seat to unbuckle Peyton's carseat. Matt put the Trailblazer in park and got out and....IT started SLIDING BACKWARDS DOWN THE DRIVE WAY! I don't like ICE it scared me to death! He hopped in and braked but my gooodness, not before I had a heartattack!

So I'm thinking it's not such a baaaad week...

My sister hasn't had the baby yet. I'm still here buttttt I'm getting a lot done! I'm really starting to think that Valentines day is my peak mojo time. ((See last years V-day post)). So I whipped up this purse pal for another class and I also made some sample goodies for Callie and Cole's teacher. She's going to decide which would be better for the v-day craft. I'll show you what she decides!

I got a fun email today with notice that my Jenni Bowlin CD tin will be published, so that's cool! :D Yay me! LOL (obviously, I watch too many episodes of The Suite Life Of Zach And Cody, with my kids. London always says, "yay me!" So between my major mojo, my book thingy and the tiny tv spot this Sunday....it's a pretty good week!

one more cha project...

I tried to get lots of pictures on this layout as per the request. 12 is not so bad! :D Not an original title but I like it anyway. Kraft background, although it doesn't look it in the pic, Basic Grey blitzen, Foofala harlaquin, Imagination Project coasters, and I can't remember that paper in the strip form on the side...and I'm too lazy after my infinit loads of laundry today to run down to the scrap room and check. I hope you can deal with it. LOL The little frame is I Kandee but I grinded off the little eyelet. I'm handy in the garage you know...me and the grinder get along really well. I also made friends with the circular saw in the past few years and of course the drill and I are old friends.

Well, I was supposed to go to N.C. today, we thought my sister was going to be induced tomorrow. She went to the doctor today and she's slightly dialated but because she has a tilted uterus the baby is NOT engaged at all. Her doctor was afraid if she was induced she'd have a VERY long labor like last time so he wants to wait, he'll check her again on Friday. I'm bummed, Peyton is bummed and Brandy is a WRECK. Poor girl. Makes me sad. Those last weeks of pregnancy are H A R D! Anyway, with my nervous energy today I was very productive. I got a lot accomplished at home...do you notice I'm trying to give this a positive spin, that's me and my glass half full self.

On another positive note, I'm probably going to do a 3 minute human interest story on a local tv channel on Sunday morning with the owner of Scrap-Masters. It's channel 13 for you locals...it's funny because when I told Cole he said "that's cool Mom, but nobody watches that channel anyway." :-) We are loyal NBC fans here! LOL

CHA bound, not me silly, the project!

The owner of the lss where I teach and dt for is going to CHA and he's taking a couple of my projects with him to showcase their photo lab goodies. At least my stuff is going! LOL I love this little purse pal I finished tonight. It's just my style (well, I've got a million styles but...) and I love the colors and can't wait to put this on my family room table with the other mini books. The blue's will blend right in and the bird on the front, well it goes well with the other 5 real ones we have in there!

More JBS

Somebody stooooop me! (said in my best Jim Carey voice from "The Mask")! So I've made a boat load of stuff from last months Jenni Bowlin kit. I can't NOT use this stuff! It's just so delicious with black and white pictures too! YUM! :D Anyway, on the blue moon freak chance that Jenni seee's my blog...I promise I'm not some weird scrap-stalker chic or anything. Well, maybe an teeeny-weeny, itsy bitsy smidgen. :)

Tonight, was one of those nights I couldn't wait for the kiddo's to go to bed! Shocker, I know! Really, I'm not normally like that at all but can you spell H Y P E R? Golly day. And it's finally cold here, I know it took till like mid January. However, I could get used to the milder temps and all, minus the global warming and everything (see post a few down...I'm afraid I contributed to the whole glacier melt thing with my impossibly large bangs about 1987 or so). Anyway, I think it's throwing the kids off or something. Yeah, that's it, my kids are hyper because of global warming! I knew it wasn't my fault or anything.

See, I told you I like Valentines Day!

Am I boring you yet with these flower albums? :D

I know these are all sort of similar but since I teach these, I often direct students here to see what's coming up. This little album is in February and uses the UBER cool Jenni Bowlin goodies.

On another topic, the Ravens lost. So sad :( So close yet so far away!

I'm trying to get ready to go to North Carolina for the birth of my new (yet to be named) nephew.
Can't wait to see my sister and spend time with little Gracie. Gosh I miss them! I'll keep you posted on the big day!

Love

I don't wear a lot of red. Just not my color but I LOVE the look of red and I would love to pair this bracelette with some black or cream! I love Valentines day, adore the hearts and the happiness. I like the decorations for this day and the whole "feeling"! I'm having so much fun with the February projects for my lss. This class will be on a Saturday again. *** Edited to add, the class is Saturday, February 17th. Speaking of February classes I have some super cool news...

On another happy note. Scrap-Masters WILL be getting the Jenni Bowlin goodies in January. MAN I'm psyched! My mind is racing with ideas for projects...I couldn't sleep last night. Sleep is over rated anyway! :D

my new scraplove...

It's no secret that I have a big ol' scrapcrush on the Jenni Bowlin kits. This is a mini book in a cd tin that I put together using various pieces from past kits and the paper
from the December kit. I really love black, red and cream! The title is I (heart)..., it's some of the things I love!

I'm really hoping, crossing fingers and crossing toes that Scrap-Masters will be one of the first stores to carry JBS goodies. I have everything all set and I'm just waiting for final approval! This is way cool news! We'd get our first shipment in January but the goodies
are not really going retail to the rest of the public till MARCH! Gosh, I think that's darn cool. We'd have it about 2 months early. Say your little scrap prayers for me!

New pics

The weather the past two days has been so mild, it's just lovely! Well, for January at least! I've been torturing the kids with the camera and they've been mildly receptive. My son wasn't in the best mood this a.m. because we had to get his flu shot at Johns Hopkins (due to his allergies)so you would have thought he was going to have his big toe lopped off. He did fine of course!

About the weather, I have to admit, I love it but it's really worrying me about global warming! I'm making a mental note to NEVER buy aerosol hairspray again. There is probably a huge hole in the ozone from the big hair trend of the eighties alone!

back to a routine!

The kids went back to school yesterday, I'll miss them but it's so nice to have a normal day again! :)
Tree is away, most of the presents are away.....ahhhh. I love the season but I love getting my house back too!

Here's a little "purse pal tin" I'll be teaching in Jan. Gosh I love these tins, they are so fun to do and so fun to share. Such a cute way to show off your photos and your love of scrappin'! ****Edited**** This tin is about the 2"1/2 by 3 and 1/4 inches. It was orignally inteded to hold business cards. I use passport sized photos and cropped wallet sized prints too.

My sister Brandy's birthday is today...Happy Birthday oh fertile one! Brandy is due in about 3 weeks and if you remember a couple weeks ago I posted about Grace's 1st birthday. That's right folks, they'll be 13 months apart! :D Yeeee Haaaa! That's a good time for sure! Anyway, I don't want to hear any complaining because my first 2 are 7 minutes apart. :D Sweetpea, I hope your birthday is great and I'm sorry I'm not in N.C. to do some major cake damage with you! Love ya!

Okay, this is totally unrelated to anything but I have to write about this. Yesterday, I took my littlest to McDonalds for a yogurt parfait (she really got a happy meal but the parfait sounds infinately more healthy). In the parking lot was a work van for a company that had the MOST hysterical name I've ever seen, although I don't think it was meant to be funny and maybe I just have a weird sense of humor. The company name was

GODLY PEST REMOVAL

Does the pest remover guy say a prayer as he's sprinkling the poison and setting the traps? Does he only set "live" traps and then catch the critters and take them to some special reserve for pests? How would God want us to remove pests?

Flower Album

Happy New Year EVERYONE! I'm hoping you each had a delightful Holiday season, we sure did. My son had asthma and pnuemonia but is now doing so much better and I'm very thankful!

The next class I have at Scrap-masters.com is Wednesday, Jan 10 and it's this super cute little album made from Heidi Swapp flowers. I designed and taught a similar class a few months ago but this one is PINKER and a bit FUNKIER! I originally made the albums (check the archives from the spring) from regular silk flowers and I was inspired by a design made by the uber fantastic Jenni Bowlin. Sorry the pics aren't that great!

If you have any questions just shoot me an email or comment! :)