IT'S HERE!!!!!!!!!!

The new Stampin' Up! catty!!!! This has been such a hard week as far as my impatience goes!

I'M GOING CRAZY!

So if you would've told me a couple of years ago that I would be going insane over a catalog I would've said YOU ARE CRAZY! Stampin' Up! releases their new Fall/Winter 2007 catalog on July 1 but the demo's are receiving it this week! Mine is due to be delivered tomorrow and I'm about ready to camp out just so that I don't miss the UPS man! I can't wait to get my hands on that magnificent little book of stamps! I had to keep myself busy last night so that I didn't obsess over it so I stamped a little. I did two cards using my newest Bella stamps.

This is just a quick Bella card I put together to send to my friend who just moved out of state last week and already I miss her dearly. So my creative time is picking up just a bit. Can you tell? Are you a Stampin' Up! customer? You need to checkout the list of accessories that will be retiring at the end of this month. WOWZERS! I really don't know what's going to be left! It looks to me like they're preparing for a complete overhaul which excites me to no end! Like I really have room for more stamps and stuff! Where there's a will there's a way right? :)

I'm back!

So I took a few days off in the effort to organize our new place. Well that really didn't happen. You know how that goes. You have every intention of cleaning, dusting, organizing, etc. But the kids have other plans for you. :) I did however get a page done. Let me know what you think.

AND we have new kittens now! As of 8:00 p.m. last night our cat had four kittens. I'll post some pics tomorrow.

New magazines!

I love when new issues of Scrapbooks, etc. and Creating Keepsakes hit the news stands. I spent my entire evening last night thumbing through both new issues. AND Scrapbooks, etc. came with an extra goody. A small 45 page book of 30 minute scrapbook pages with directions! My poor fiance just doesn't understand my excitement. Is it just me? I sure hope not, I know there have to be other scrapaholics out there. I was just on Heidi Swapp's blog (Still me) http://heidiswapp.typepad.com/. She mentioned a new club that is in the works and I'm so excited! I just think she is awesome! I would love to meet both her and Lisa Bearnson. Others would like to meet movies stars, singers, etc. and I wanna meet the Scrap Diva's! :)

All moved in.

So me and my boys are all moved into my fiance's house now. What a huge relief. Believe it or not I actually use to love moving but I've grown very tired of it as I've moved 3 times in the past year! My next huge project is turning a bachelor pad into a family pad. :) I wish that I would've taken pictures when we first moved in. What a sight that was! It's amazing what a few pictures on the walls will do! LOL! Anyway, I was so busy unpacking yesterday that I didn't get a chance to scrap so I took a couple pics of my lovely Bella collection and a reorganized work space. I can't wait till my craft room gets done but it's looking like it might be a while so for now I'll just have to settle with the kitchen table. Stay tuned because I have something really cute that I'd like to work on. One of my best friends is moving away to Florida and I bought a small chipboard book to decorate for her. Have a great day!

Ugh! Another Monday!

Do you ever feel like you really never had a weekend? That's how I feel today. I'm actually glad to be back at work because I'll get more rest here than at home. My youngest son had a baseball tournament over the weekend so we had 2 games both Saturday and Sunday. And of course it's never really considered a weekend until your house gets destroyed by oodles of boys and animals that are running around! Oh well! What can ya do? Just another one of the joys of being a parent. I wouldn't trade it for anything! In fact I've been thinking more lately about the possibility of having another child. Am I crazy you ask? YES YES YES! :) My biological clock must be in overdrive or something. Do I really want to go back to the diaper world? Hmmmmm? That's something to ponder. Anyway, I didn't have time to create over the weekend so I hope you all will forgive me.
I've got soooo many goodies arriving this week! I have two Bella's coming, paper from Eclectic Paperie, and three photography books from Amazon! Photography is something that I'm just getting more interested in. I've always been a point and shoot kind of girl but I'm thinking of investing in a Digital SLR camera. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this!

IT'S FRIDAY!!!!!

Wow! I made it through my first week on Weight Watchers but the real test will be this weekend. I'm a little nervous. The weekend is when I tend to go a little crazy with the fast food. It's just so much easier than having to cook. Wish me luck. I did however get on the scale this morning and I've lost 3lbs. since Tuesday! WOW! That's strictly with watching my points and no exercise this week. That loss was enough to keep me determined though so I'm very happy!

So today is also my fiance's birthday. So last night I made a VERY quick card. I literally had to make this card in 5 minutes because he was home and me being me procrastinated and waited till the last minute. His gift I've had done for a month but I just never got around to making the card. I'm not real proud of it but hopefully what I wrote on the inside will make up for it.

So no kittens on the home front yet! My poor kitty is just exhausted from hauling around the extra weight. I think it's getting VERY close. Stay tuned.......

Have a terrific weekend!

We've almost made it to Friday!

Well.....yet again I did not get to sit down and do any creating last night :( I did however sit down and pick out some pictures that I would like to use on future pages. And I did this at 11:30 p.m. Am I ever going to make it to bed before 1:00 a.m.? I'm starting to wonder. I also placed two orders yesterday. I ordered 2 new Bella's from Stamping Bella and some paper and EZ Mount from Eclectic Paperie. I CAN'T wait to get my new Bella's!!!! I'm going to be stalking the poor mail man! Emily just revealed a Billboard Bella! OMG! She is ADORABLE! She's holding a little billboard and there are different sentiments that you can stamp inside of the billboard! What a FABULOUS idea!!!!
So yesterday was my first full day on Weight Watchers and I seemed to do pretty well. I was allowed 25 points for the day and I used 26 which means that I tapped into my extra weekly allowance of 35 points. Not bad at all! AND for dinner I was able to have 2 Ranchero Chicken Soft Tacos (12) and a Pintos n Cheese (3) from Taco Bell which was a total of 15 points. There were many ways I could of lessened that but I forgot to bring my little book with me so I tried to choose wisely on my own.
Well I'm going to try my best to do some stamping tonight. I have3 Birthday cards I need to make for this month so I better get a move on it! I'll set a goal for myself of at least getting 1 of those 3 cards made this evening. That is after the Little League game :) Oh the joys of summer!

Happy Hump Day!

Good morning! Well believe it or not I actually got to sit down and scrap a page last night. Even after two little league games! I was up until almost 1:00 a.m. but hey I did accomplish something right? I'm definitely paying for it today though *yawn*. I did an an 8x8 page of my Aunt and her adorable little daughter McKenna. When I first started scrapping I was doing the 12x12 pages but I've found that I really enjoy doing the smaller pages now. Of course you can't fit as much on a page so I have both a 12x12 book and an 8x8 book. The 8x8's I basically use for one pic and the 12x12 for actual layouts.

So as I mentioned in my previous post I started Weight Watchers and today is my first official day on the plan after my depressing first weigh in yesterday. Ugh! Apparently I've spent entirely too much time in the drive-thru's lately. So I started my morning off with my allowance of points that are supposed to last me throughout the day! Yea, we'll see about that. :) *sarcastic laugh* In all honesty it's a great plan and it really works. Some of my co-workers are on it also and they've had tremendous results. One woman lost 26.5 pounds in the past three months! Wowzers! She looks amazing! So wish me luck and keep your fingers crossed for me. I'm going to try to take some pics tonight as humiliating as it will be just so I can have something to look back at. My fiance bought me an elliptical trainer last week so I'm hoping with exercising and doing the WW plan I can really take the weight off. My goal is to slip into a size 10 wedding dress by October! That would mean I have to lose around 40 pounds. Enough about that! Ugh, it depresses me!

Have a superrific day!

Top O' the morning to ya!

Well it's Tuesday and I'm still sick!!! This cold is hanging on for dear life. But compared to Saturday and Sunday I feel almost normal. I just keep drinking that O.J. and trying to rest when I can. I haven't go to do much of anything around the house. I did however try to organize my mess of stampin' stuff on the dining room table and it looks a lot better. I'll try to post pics tomorrow. That should help those creative juices get to flowin'! I never realized how much of a difference it makes when everything is out of place. It's pure chaos and I've found that I just have a hard time working that way. I have so many projects that I want to work on yet I just can't find the time.
Today is also my first Weight Watchers meeting. The firm I work for has made it possible for it's employees to join WW and attend meeting on our lunch hours. PLUS if we lost 6 percent of our body weight in 12 weeks we get half of our money back! That means I have to lose 11 pounds. I think I can do it. This should be interesting! :) I did Weight Watchers back in 2003 and lost 54 pounds in 9 months. I can't tell you how much healthier I felt back then which is what prompted me to join again. I've gained every bit of that back plus some! So stay tuned for my journey. I might even post some pics if I get brave enough :)
See ya tomorrow!

On the mend.

So I get home from work Friday and I've got that itchy scratchy throat that just bothers ya to no end. You KNOW what's coming! Sickness! Ugh! Yep, I woke up Saturday morning and I was running a temp and felt like I had been run over by a truck! Needless to say I spent my ENTIRE weekend in bed. Now it's Sunday night (9:00 p.m.) and I'm starting to feel better. Just in time to go back to work tomorrow! Woo-Hoo! Geez I wonder who slapped that bit of bad luck on me. Oh well. Since I was in bed all weekend I thought I'd share a few pics of my kitty who is preggers and will be delivering in the next few weeks and also my work space at the moment. I've just moved in with my fiance and we're in the middle of building my stamp room so all of my stampin' and scrappin' stuff has taken up residence in our dining room! :) Hope everybody else had a healthy weekend! See ya tomorrow!

A little early!

Okay so I have a full day planned tomorrow so I'm posting tomorrows post tonight. This is what I was working this evening. I used my Little Lady set AGAIN! :) I just love it! I painted a terracotta pot then stamped the lady bug along the rim. What do ya think? I kind of rushed because I was so excited to see what it would turn out like but I'm pretty pleased. I bought two of the terracotta pots so who knows what I'll do with the other. Shall I do another lady bug ? Hmmmmm.... Of course I couldn't go to Micheal's without putting a pretty dent in my checkbook. I also bought some more paper (just what I need ), rub-ons, brads, and $1 stamps. If I just had some will power! What a hoot! That'll never happen.

June is here!!!

Wow! Can you believe it? It's June! So I didn't get to do any stampin' or scrappin' last night and I think I'm starting to have withdrawal. All of my stuff is just sitting on my kitchen table calling my name! Every time I walk by I just wanna sit down and scrap a page or make a card but I know that I just don't have the time to put the effort I want to into it. And I am one of my worst critics so if I sit down and do a layout that takes me 10 minutes and I am not happy with it I will be so hard on myself because I know that I can do better.

So I'm standing in line at Schnuck's the other day picking up some things for dinner and there at the checkout is a special edition of Scrapbooks, etc. It's Scrapbooks, etc. BABY! Have you seen it? Oh my gosh! It is just way to adorable!!! Now keep in mind that I DO NOT have any babies. My boys are ages 15 and 11! What was I even thinking buying this magazine??? I just couldn't pass it up though. It takes you through layout ideas from pregnancy on through the baby's first year. The closest thing in my house to a baby is the kittens that will be born within the next couple of weeks! Oh well, I know that I can take the layouts and convert them into something I can use. But when I thumb through this magazine I can just smell the baby powder! Ahhhhh... Scrapbooks, etc. is my favorite magazine. I love that they include not only scrapbook layouts but they also have really cute ideas for gifts and using your photos as home decor.

Time to get to work! Have a wonderful Friday!