Good Times

Wow with the kids gone and oneil on an opposite shift for the time being the house is unusally quiet, no bickering, no whining, no nothing... i miss those lil shits but i have to admit i am feeling less stressed and getting back to my old self again. i think i just needed a much needed and long over do break. This is how i have been spending my time:

reading twilight: almost finished
scrapping:
lounging around
not cooking
the house is clean and has stayed clean
no rushing home from work
nice long showers and baths

ahhhh heaven i tell you.

I cut my hair short. i am loving it. i have always had short hair until i get a wild hair up my ass to let it grow...it gets to be where i want it and i whack it off again. Never ending battle i tell ya.

i am a member at Treasured Scrapbooking and they are having a contest that i decided to particpate in...I am not anticpating on winning but none the less it will be fun. there is some mad talent there and lots of great inspiration.

We had to enter a layout for entry into the contest and then from there they chose 25to move on to the contest. Luckily i made it to round 1 and this is my entry for it



UGH do you know how hard it is to photograph transparent layouts...that is why i got different shots....jeez..remind me not to do this again for any contests...LOL
I will find out Sunday if i move on to round 2. eekkk....exciting. i am trying to think and i do believe this is the first contest i have ever entered so it is very exciting to me. Tow of my buds is in it with me....My homie cheese and my pink haired friend who i live vicariously through because i soooo wish i could rock the pink hair but my conservative boss would shit his pants and die right over as soon as i walked in with it...i was skating on think ice with the red...{deep sigh} i am going to go to beauty school so i can be a hairdresser and make up artist when i grow up and i can have my hair cut any way and colored any way i please...jeez sorry got off on a tangent!! YIPPPEEE!!!!! SKIPPPEEEEE!! we all moved to the 1st round.

If you haven't seen the new challenge at Noel's you should because the video is so inspiring it will have you feeling happy inside. And who can resist a challenge with the name "Where the Hell is Matt". Hope you participate. You won't be disappointed. I promise :)

okie dokie smokies i'm off to finish the last few chapters of Twilight so i can move on.

ahhh..do you hear that? do ya?

it's the sound of peace and quiet...no kids...no hubby...no one...just me....and i am loving it... my kids went to stay the week...(yes envy me now go ahead) with my mother and oneil is on 3p-11p until May...so that means this week i can finish up twilight, scrap some if i want, watch trash tv without anyone bitching (oneil) about the useless shit i watch and well....do what the hell i want....FOR A WEEK....yes that is right like i said envy me. So i am 3/4 the way through twilight and i have to say BRING ON #2. i cant concentrate on scrapping until i get this book finished and i have projects and pages in my head i need to do...what's a girl to do? ithink i'll do both...some of each...that will be fun!

Melana decided she was going to fight mason with a pillow on Friday night and break my glass candle holder and spill hot wax all over mason foot...i could have seriously hurt this kid....i kept telling her to stop but she insisted when i wasn't looking she was going to be hateful as ever and sure enough HE gets hurt.

then saturday, for whatever reason, Mason gets a wild hair up his ass and decides he is going to surf down the stairs...yes...he gets his blow up sleeping bag and is going to ride it down...well needless to say it didn't work out like he thought...i was just crawling into bed with my book, i get all nice and settled and comfy and i hear BOOM, CRASH KABOOM, POW,THUD....i am thinking what in the hell...as i am walking out i hear melana at the top of the stairs asking "Mason did that hurt?" well he says yes and then i guess it set in....he was in big trouble...so he started crying and hooping as if he was dying....the floors downstairs is split brick so that shit don't give and i KNOW that had to hurt like hell...i didn't know what to think....so i give him some tylenol and hg him and see if anything is swollen , bleeding, cracked open or what...nothing was wrong with the melon...i think he just knew he was going to be in big trouble....this incident is so out of character for mason...he thinks everything through and is very careful and conservative so i went upstairs and asked melana if she pushed him down (because truly that would be about right) she said no so i asked mason and he said no...he just decided he was going to ride the stairs...jesus h someone give me a stiff one....now see...that is why i am doing the happy dance...i need a mental vacation...anyway....

My pal Noel gave me this award

so the rules are:
1. The winner can take the logo
2. Place a link to the person that sent you the award
3. Give the Award to at least 7 other Scrapbooking-Blogs, which by its currency,the issues of choice and for their designs are especially noteworthy
4. Put a link to these sites on your Blog.
5. Write a comment on their Blogs that they’ve won an Award.

For this award i choose hmmmm...i shall pick more than 7 because i am a rule breaker..so here is my award list
Rhi Rhi, K-Liz, Lisa B, Dana, Regan, Colleen,Colette
Jude, Nancy, Jan and Dee
sheesh i know i am forgetting folks...so just go ahead and grab it and let me know you posted it...much love to you all!!

A little book therapy

So elizabeth finally let me borrow her Twilight book and i must say i am very nervous..she is neaurotic about her books and well...that just makes me panic...i feel i need to read it with white gloves on or something.
So far i am enjoying it and maybe this weekend i will scrap a little and read a lot. Sunday my 2 kids are going to Honey's (my mom's ) for the week and I am going to take the opportunity to relax without any nagging, fighting, screaming, bickering, arguing and fussing...ahhh the thought of that brings a smile to my face.
O'Neil is going to 3-11 shift starting monday so it will be just me really for a week. i hope to finish this book by the beginning of next week so i can move on to the next one.

I know most of you that read my blog has read this but who hasn't read it yet...inquiring minds want to know?

i am still crabby :(

I am still in a mood and still "off" so i will enable y ou instead :)

Kit includes the following:
Papers
SEI Poppy Collection(Double Sided)
-Sarong
-String Bikini
-Seafoam
-Rattan
-Parasol
-Poppy
-Adirondack
-Palmetto
American Crafts Metropolitan Collection(Double Sided)
-Wall Street
-Manhattan
-Fountain
Jenni Bowlin "Trendy" Designer Papers
-Red Love Song
-Red Wallpaper
-Red Lined Ledger
Prima Angelique Collection (Double Sided)
-Angel Breath
Cosmo Cricket "Hello Sunshine" Collection (Double Sided)
-Picnic
-Berries
Hambly Screen Prints Acrylic Overlay
-ATC Patchwork Black
KI Memories Lace Cardstock
-Tulips Red Hot
Bazzill Basics Cardstock
-Bazzill White
-Blank Check
-Applesauce
-Chili
-Blue Grass
-Black
Double Sided Corrugated Cardboard
1 sheet

Embellishments
-2 sheets vintage sheet music (songs and lyrics vary)
-1 package Making Memories Red Felt Alphas
-1 package Making Memories Tiny Alphas (black on white)
-1 package 7 Gypsies Chiptags elements (4 sheets)
-1 package SEI Poppy Rub ons
-2 sheets American Crafts Remarks stickers journaling sheets (black/white)
-1 ArtChix paper dress form
-2 Jenni Bowlin Calender sheets (1 large, 1 small)
-1 package Melissa Frances Vintage Frames
-2 SEI Poppy frames and tags (shapes will vary)
-1 yard Maya Road Sheer Luxe Scrolls Ribbon
-1 Scenic Route Charlotte Flower Clear Stamp
-2 Jenni Bowlin Felt hearts
-1/2 yard of Maya Road gatered Rick Rack in Red
-1 yard Prima Black lace
-3 Tim Holtz Ideaology Metal tags
-3 Maya Road Sheer Journaling Spots
-1 bottle of Stickles in Turquoise
-2 sets of ArtChix wings (2 silver, 2 black)
-5 assorted Prima Artful Collage florals
-12 assorted buttons (10 white, 2 red)
-4 metal brads (2 Making Memories, 2 Prima Angelique)

This is the newest kit from Noel Mignon Scrap Shoppe It's called delish..errr i mean Memory Lane..to order you can click < a href="http://www.noelmignon.com/store/show/1420">HERE/a>
If you want to see what the DT is up to with this kit you can go here

Nothing new

This past week has been a really bad bad bad week for me.... I am just not myself. I am stressed, i am tired, i am overwhelmed and i am just plain ole grouchy...or bitchy...take your pick any will fit. I have been creating and it feels good. here are some things i have been working on





This was my trial run of an atc card holder....i am starting on my card holder for all 29 of my atc that are coming fromt he SIS rock out swap... I CANNOT wait to get those...i am foaming at the mouth...not really...but damn near close to it ;)



This layout was made with Noel's Picnic Basket Kit. Who knew you could use it for xmas layouts...hehehe


This layout was done for the Christmas in July challenge at Noel's as well...this layout is using her Jack Frost kit. It is packed with yummy goodness. She only has 6 left of those so if you want it i suggest you snag it.

I have a few others but quite frankly i am lazy and i am going to bed and continue to be crabby!

Jingle Bells..Jingle bells...

yep yep...i have officially lost my mind...no not really just teasing...We have a really fun challenge going on at
Noel's. It is Christmas in July. Exhausted after the holiday's and just don't want to scrap? Yep...me too....now is your chance. Head on over and participate..you could win a cool xmas prize.

He's at it again

Mason decided he would kick off karaoke at my aunt's birthday bash on Friday.
He wanted to sing Bon Jovi Wanted Dead or alive. Now if you pay attention after Melana decides she wants to share the spotlight with him...she starts singing and he busts up with a shhhhh in the middle of his perfomance....i cracked up...
Sorry that you can't see them all that well it was getting dark but none the less you can still hear him.

Bon Jovi- Wanted Dead or Alive from Greta Adams on Vimeo.

On another note hop on over to the SYC blog for a chance to win a RAK...

I WON SOMETHING!!

I am so excited...i NEVER win..well except for now and when i won a challenge on Pinky's Message board...maybe i should play the lottery...bwhahahahahaha...
I had participated in the Pink Paisley Blog hop they were having and i won from the fabulous Tammy Tutterow. I cannot wait to get those fabulous goodies from them....i am just beside myself with joy.

I scrapped a few pages using the Picnic Basket from here.
When i got this kit i knew i wanted to use this picture for it ....and it is PERFECT.

This layout however was very frustrating because i pondered and played with this and did all sorts of cutting and changed my mind 1.2 million times...now normally i really don't think about scrapping. I just get there and do it...but i wanted this one to be perfect and i didn't know what perfect was at the time....i am happy the way it turned out though...and i could really eat her bad ass up in that "barini"
This next layout is quite self explanatory...seriously...LMAO

Happy Monday....Blech!

Look what i found

I found this in my blog archives and thought i would share with all my new blog friends that i didn't have back in the day. This post is OLD. So anyway...wanna know how bad i was? Here it is:
**and i was an honor student if that makes me any better** {snicker}

My mom use to tell me..."just wait until you have kids, I hope they act just like you".

Guess what? You got you wish mother...that damn Melana is bad...but i can honestly say she is a different kind of bad than I was...and mom agrees....

Melana's mouth is what is going to get her in the most trouble. She tells me shit like you getting on my nerves, sticks her tongue out at me and rolls them eyes, she is a whiner, constantly whining about something, if she doesn't get her way she falls out and flops around like a fish....SHE IS 3 PEOPLE...I can see she is going to spend alot of time grounded like i was.

I for the most part was a good child...it was the pre-teen (i think they call it something stupid like tween now)years and teen years that I gave my mother all the gray hair she has.

I pulled shit like this:

Sneak out the window (at roughly the age of 11 on...)and go "party" with my friends.

I, at the age of 12, pushed my mom's mustang out the driveway and down to the stop sign cranked it up and went joyriding at about 1-2 in the morning.

I would constantly runaway. Ironically years later I started my law enforcement career at the same police department that would be looking for this bad ass habitual offender...lmao looking back it is funny!

i would get suspended from school for fighting (in the 6th grade) and then again in high school....I didn't take any shit off anybody and I still don't...I use to have a very short temper...as I get older it takes a lot more for me to bust now

There is more but I think that is enough insight on my "tween" and teen years.

There is nothing my 2 kids can do when they get older that I already haven't done. I promise you that....which is a good thing...good because i know what to look for..i know the tricks and the scams....oneil on the other hand was a good boy who did what he was told so he will be nieve to all the signs like my mother...

see mom it is a good thing i was like that....you just didn't know it at the time...bwhahahahaha!!! She is wanting to slap me right now rest assured!

My mom finally got it in her head that I was so bad and just didn't care on top of it...i knew i would be in trouble but i didn't care...what's another month or two grounded...i would just sneak out again when i felt like it....i shit you not i was grounded for 1 year and 1 month straight.....yep...and then i would get off and be right back on it within hours...

she thought i was on drugs..she said i had to be on drugs because no child in their right mind would act like i did. So she loaded me up at 3 in the morning after one of my episodes i pulled and off to the hospital we went for them to test me. Much to her amazement she found out I was NOT on drugs...none, zilch, nada....i was bad but drugs just didn't appeal to me. i am a strong willed person and if I say i am not going to do something i mean it...so i didn't have peer pressure trouble. I think she was relieved but in the same token as horrible as it sounds she prolly wished i would have been on something so she would have something to blame all my badness on. LOL...not funny but it is funny!!!

I want to know...where you bad as a teen or were you and "angel". What did you use to do?

New SYC Blinkie

Since we are the ORIGINAL Scrap your stash galsKaren akaliz made this kick ass blinkie for me. See it to the left. Isn't it fab? Now if you have a 3 column blog like me you need the long one but if you have just 1 or 2 columns you can use the wide one.

Both can be found on the SYC Blog.
Feel free to snatch them and display it on your blog or in your siggy on MB's that allow you to do that if that is your thing. I would greatly appreciate it and I also greatly appreciate the 400+ subscribers we have and the over 800 hits a week we have.

I feel a giveaway coming on SYC so continue to check back it will be real soon.
AND NO IT IS NOT MORE CRAP TO HOARD. BUT it is good I promise.

THANK YOU again for all your support i am very humble and appreciative!
Thank you to all my past queens and future queens. This week we are painting...yep pulling out that paint and getting jiggy with it... ugh yeah that was corny :)
oh well... happy thursday!

You can call me GOD

because on July 4th I walked on water.

Here is a little history:

Melana (4 years old) is pretty afraid of the water. It always takes her forever to warm up to the pool. She is very afrraid for weeks until she will finally get in.

Well she has warmed up and all is good with her and the floaties.
I am lounging around the pool on my comfy raft catching some rays, relaxing and enjoying the quiet. Mason is in the pool by the steps (he can swim)playing with the dive rings. Melana is outside of the pool digging in the dirt and rocks that surround our pool. Well earlier in the day we were teaching her how to do cannonballs with the floaties so she can get use to getting her face wet. She DOES NOT like water in her face. AT ALL!! so she is proud of herself we are proud of her because next year we will teach her how to swim. So anyway...oneil is on the back porch in the shade screwing with is blackberry. All of a sudden i hear Mason in a very calm voice say "Mom..melana just did a canonball without her floaties"...in my head i am thinking surely i just did not here that....so i sit up and see my baby under the water with her hair just floating around and no movement. I am across the pool on the opposite end and i could not scream for help...my foot got tangled up in the raft and out of no where i swear i walked on water i yanked her up and then i screamed...here comes superman..because oneil flew through the air with my scream. she looked disoriented but i knew if i could get her to cry she was ok....she didn't cry at first because she was in shock. she had not been under long but it felt like and eternity to me and i am sure to her as well. Oneil grabbed her from me because my arms were numb...my legs were numb...i was numb. i cried...and cried and cried and cried. i couldn't get out the pool but i knew i had to. i had to hold her..i had to assure her she was okay. i finally muster up enough energy to get out and i am walking on noodles which in turn i stumble and fall a bit. As i am holding her that picture is running though my mind of her hair just floating...a thought that will never leave me. I knew not to ask her what was she thinking because i already knew the answer. She didn't remember that she did not have her floaties on. She always leaves them on even when she is out of the pool...ALWAYS...except for this time. After much crying and squeezing her (on my part) she looks up at me from resting her head on my shoulders and says...mommy I "sawry" i forgot i didn't have my floaties on.... alli could say was i know baby...i know....mama knows. Melana is a daddy's girl...she never wants much to do with me when he is around and that is ok. Now there is this unspoken bond we have between us. It's different between us now that i just can't explain.

On a lighter note..you will be seeing this pic come to a layout near you soon.
She wore that itsy bitsy teeny weenie red polka dot bikini...


This bikin was mine when i was her age. I am surprised it is not dry rotted but it's not. She thinks she is sassy in her "barini".

How tacky is this?

so my beloved noel sends me a link to a challenge blog that she found while blog hopping. Well i check this out and it is a total rip off of SYC. They even had NERVE enough to use the same EXACT wording our blog as far as why we are doing it. Now i know that using up what you have is not re inventing the wheel by any means but there was no challenge blog about it. i know these girls knew about SYC b/c i am all over the MB that they participate at. So to take clippings of almost the EXACT same words of OUR blog is just down right TACKY!
I guess the ole saying is true imitation is the best form of flattery but in this case i am not flattered i am irritated. if you want to use the same concept fine...go with it BUT DON"T TAKE our words off our blog...BE ORIGINAL WOULD YA?

That would be like me starting a One Little Word and taking their same exact words as well....

Coincidence NO...BULLSHIT!
AND...AND this is the best part...let's challenge you to use your stash and let's give you more crap to hoard....yeah that is a brilliant idea. Not only that but this site (that i will not even give credit too) doesn't have alot of challenges...no it's all bullshit chatting and doing this call and a blinkie contest and all sorts of crap! ummm challenge site and blinkie contest...yeah they go hand in hand...dontcha think {eyeroll}...and talking they talk alot amongst themselves...yeah that is challenging...i do that quite well to myself i don't need a CHALLENGE blog to talk....if you are a challenge site DO CHALLENGES! seriously....uggghhhhhhh {shaking head}

okay rant over....
{deep sigh} so much for holding in my thoughts and biting my tongue....screw that...i won't even try. I'm back to the ole me :)
and this layout...well....i tried but i just cannot hold back....like i said STUPIDITY and STUPID PEOPLE piss me off

Conversation with a 4 year old

--------Driving home from daycare-----------

Me: Good grief Melana is that your feet I am smelling?
Melana: {giggling}
Me: My lord child i smell those feet all the way up front and it's blowing out my air conditioner
Melana: Yep that would be my stinky feet
Me: Sista when you get home you have to wash those nasty feet because it is making me gag
Melana: with a rag or do I have to use soap and "wata"
Me: soap and water would be great....i don't think just a rag will cut that funky smell
Melana: giggling----Ok
Me: where did you get that smell from
Melana: Daddy....

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHAHA i couldn't wait to get home and tell him that!!

Happy 4th of July

Wishing all my buddies a happy and safe 4th.

My plans are to chillax (as simone would say) in the pool and drink some cocktails with an umbrella and straw and eat some BBQ!!

PSSSTTTTT!!!!!

I have been meaning to post this since February...yeah ummm...just a little late...we are in July for those of you that don't realize this but anyway thanks to my pal E finding this chicks blog the no-reply@blogger has been solved... i hate not being able to email you folks back when you leave comments so hop over and read what you need to do if you have blogger in order to show your email so we can email ya back! It is in your profile... i changed mine so now you can email me back if ya so choose...lol


okay now that i got that out the way....

So today i did a lot of thinking while i was busy at work and I have to say....
I am going to have a new attitude...I am not going to let negativity drag me down...after dealing with this bitch at work this week (she is freaking nuts) and all the other shit that goes on....i am over it and i am over negative people....
when all that crazy drama starts to happen i just simply need to keep my mouth shut and move on because i am OPINIONATED and i tend to voice it and really there is no need...no one really cares....i am just going to do my thing, scrap my shit and hang with my peeps.

THE END!

Little Picasso's

Since i have had these canvases FOREVER and the kids were tired of swimming we decided to play and get messy. It was a good time and both enjoyed the heck out of being picasso's. This was actually perfect because this weeks challenge at Noel wanted to get the kids involved. I think we will do another one. This time maybe a layout ;)



mason (age 6)

Melana's (age 4)



There are still a few Picnic basket Kits left...better hurray if you want one...they are selling fast. I can't wait to use the rest of mine on some 4th of July layouts...

I pledge allegiance

This was inspired by the Elsie recipe box that Simone sent me for my birthday.
I just love this and thought it was appropriate for this challenge.
I used a piece of cardboard and then painted it with metallic paints that E let me use. used some hambly rub on's which were a challenge to get off on the painted cardboard but i like that it cracked some of the rub on and gace it that old look.

Hope to see you participate in this challenge.