Gasp..she did shabby..

So we all know i am totally not a shabby chic kinda gal. I mean i love the look of it i think it is feminine and pretty but that is just not my style.

When i first realized i was getting the Sold out Seaside Cottage kit from Noel Mignon i was sweating a tiny bit...okay who am i kidding...i was sweating bullets. Then i received the kit and started pulling it out and i fell in love...seriously all these layouts i have been doing with this kit has put themselves together. I can't get enough of it. I am starting to wonder if my style is changing....because seriously i can't wait for the next shabby kit she puts out :) You will be seeing more.









But for now I shall move on to the oh so springy/summer fabu Sonoma County Kit. (I believe she only has a few left). I have already put together one layout using it. And tonight i have high hopes of completing another one. My goal this week is one layout every night this week. So stay tuned for those.

Peace Out!

Mini vacay time

I am leaving this Friday to go spend the weekend in N.O.
We booked our hotel in the French Quarter. friday night it will just be O'Neil and I and the rest of the gang will be coming on Saturday and they are staying at the same hotel too. it is going to be great fun. I was wishing that Elizabeth and Mike could come too so Pope (mike) and Perfect (O'Neil) could experience the moocho fun E and I have at the good ole Cat's Meow. I just don't know if i can go their without her so I guess Pat O's will have to do. Saturday morning I plan on getting up and dragging my tail to Petunia's for breakfast. Sluuurrrrp!!

Ekkk! I can't wait to get away for a little bit to be able to stay out as late as I want...to be able to get up when i want...eat when i want....hell even suffer from a serious hangover without the kids by my bedside wanting to know when am i going to get up....they think if they are up the whole house should be up! Now that is just nerve ;)

I am hoping to have some good pics when i get back!

Here are a few layouts I did this past weekend and week!


Noel's winter kit..and like a crazy person i lost my mind temporarily and embossed that star on transparency. OY!! that was almost a disaster...YIKES!!


this one was based on a challenge of add inspiration from Scrap Diner for the Viva La Friday challenges. Which by the way I won for November along with Tammy! YAY!


awwwww my sweet precious baby boy! okay moving on enough of that ;)


the title speaks for itself!

and then there is my poor pitiful tree I made with the BG fruitcake line...yeah Simone I got ya beat girl...this thing is PITIFUL...but i know where i went wrong...i didn't read the instructions fully...i did my normal skimming.


and everyone please pull out your sunglasses you will need them...Let me forwarn you that my 3 year old picked out her room color and let me just say that was a mistake...now we know my love for pink...well....let's just say this is pepto bismol pink...and it is bright...so i am toning it down with black! AY YI YAH!! I will be repainting this room after my kitchen

OUCH! that is mighty bright..wooo weeeee!!! but she is happier than pig rolling around in shit with it. I guess that is all that counts and thank goodness i don't have to look at it all the time...

Sorry about the long post I am trying to cram in everything in one before I take an absence for the much needed R&R this weekend.

CAIO BABY

7 Course Crop

Yep this weekend was the 7 course crop over at Scrap Diner. I had a ton of fun and got alot done. i even won a prize....woo hooo....

There were 12 challenges in all and I have done 6 of them so far. i am determined I am going to finish the rest of them. My bootay was going to town. Jonnine came over on Saturday and she scrapped with me for the most part...well actually she scrapped a little and watched me the rest of the time...i told her she can't get anything done watching me. We had fun. Not much going on to speak of really...been kinda quiet on the homefront, which is scary!

OH YEAH ...also on saturday i received my box from Noel with all my kit goodies in it...OH MY LORD PEOPLE...THAT THING WEIGHED A TON...not to mention i shopped a bit in her store too... i wish you could have seen me..i saw the mailman drive up and put mail in my mailbox...now keep in mind my saturday mailan isn't the normal bitch of a mail lady i have to cuss out on a regular basis. So i see him out my scrap room window and i am just gleaming cause i knew my box should have been here...so at first it looks as if he is going to drive off and i get up i am like nooooooooo come back...well he parks , gets out and he sees me running to him...so he knows it is something i want really really bad...well he decides he is going to have some fun with me...yes i am literally chasing him around my yeard for my box...it was so funny...my grandmother (she's 80) was looking at us...like what the hell is going on out there....it was funny...but anyway...

here are my goodies i made this weekend






this last layout was inspired from a layout i saw but i can't remember who or where....grrrr!!! if anyone knows please let me know.

EDITED TO ADD: Chriselda came through for me. The layout is by Justem and you can see her layout here.
Thanks again chriselda

Happy Turkey Week peeps!!

Weekend of Bliss and Quiet

My mother called me on thursday and wanted to know if she could come and get the kids this weekend...ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Hell YEAH YA CAN!!

Can i just say the peace and quiet was sooooo nice. i did miss them but boy did i get to do what i wanted to do and no one to bother me. It was nice.

Friday night i cleaned my house from 5:30 to midnight...it's all sparkly and clean
Saturday I went and got my hair re colored and trimmed and then I scrapped until about midnight. I did have one little mishap that sure made me cuss words i didn't even know existed. I had this genius idea that I wanted to ipen my blinds in my scrap room so i walked around the tables very carefully and i knew i had my light burning (ya know the ones that you put the candle wax wafer ont he top and when you turn the light on it melts it.) yeah so anyway i knew it was there and i be damn if i didn't trip ove rthe cord and wax flew everywhere...lucky it stayed on my table. I pulled that cord so hard that the base flew to the ground but the top stayed put right over the table....ruined some good paper but what ya going to do? I was pissed off to say the least. I cussed and cussed and cussed..my poor 80 year old grandmother...she didn't know what the hell was going on. So anyway...my scrapping started off slow cause i couldn't get the mojo going but it picked up throughout the night. i ened up accomplishing 5 layouts and a mini book made out of the cosmo cricket wanted paper line.
Sunday we went shopping for oneil some new threads for work. he got promoted to investigator so now he has to wear regualr clothes. I love to shop...especially with someone else's money...that makes it better.


yep that was the first layout...can you tell the mojo wasn't flowing?




this layout was for the Viva la Friday challenges at Scrap Diner. The topic is what is your life "stuffed" with?


this one is the hubs back in dec 2005 when he was in a wedding for a friend of his


and this is one i did for a challenge at SIS to scraplift your favorite sisters..
I chose the fabulous Anilu. i have been telling her I was going to lift her but i just never did so what perfect opportunity to do it. it was so much fun. i lifted her "the reason" layout from her August uploads. This girl rocks...she makes fabulous jewlery as well as kick it with the scrappies. her jewlery is even more gorgeous in person than online..just ask me and i will tell you ;). I bought this one. i made my christmas list out for the hubs and her shop is on it. He said well pick some pieces so i will have a clue i said no you can pick because I love all of it. he just rolled his eyes and gave me a deep sigh!
Why are men so difficult...i mean seriously...it's exhausting!

That was my weekend..in a nutshell....oh and throw in a few crown and cokes too!

Check Noel's Challenge for the next 2 weeks...it's adverbs and she is putting up a Photoshop Elements for the prize... woo hooo!!!

A few Scrappies

This is just a few layouts I have been working on.


This one is so funny to me...
Left to right Elizabeth, Nancy and moi! E and I drove over to Mobile to go to target one day and we went to Nancy's house to meet her. Well trying to get this pic we ended up taking so other funny ass pics..that I will scrap as well. Nancy would set her timer and before she would make it back it would go off...we laughed hysterically but I guess you would have had to been there.


This picture on this layout means the world to me. This is really the last good picture i got of all the great grandkids (minus Melana cause she wasn't even a thought at that point) with Maw Maw and Paw Paw before he died. I knew I wanted to scrap it and attempted to scrap it on several occasions but I just wasn't feeling the paper I would had always chose so I never did. That was until I bought Noel's Fall Kit. When I opened it, once i got past the yumminess, I knew I had found the papers i wanted to use for it. So Voila! the layout was born.

I plan on this weekend scrapping until my heart is content and relaxing and tackleing the messy scraproom that is in such disarray. I wish I could be a clean as you go kinda scrapper but unfortunatley I am not. The only good side to being a pigsty scrapper is I do end up using the scraps I set aside (here lately) to make layouts.

After I clean my scrap room I am sure I will be doing a RAK or two, or three, or four...depends on what I get rid of and if it is good stuff... Can't be raking junk. Although it has been said one person's junk is another's treasure...

Happy Scrapping!

Y'all are too kind

Boy after reading the comments regarding the last post I have to agree that it must have been in the air. I am feeling a little bit better today but probably because it is Friday. Thank you to everyone for you kind words it did put a smile on my face :)
I am however extremely excited for Elizabeth and her mom's 2nd Annual Halloween Party on Saturday. It is going to be good times and I can't wait to get my drunk on and wear my costume. I said I wasn't going to drink to much but after this shitty week girl here is going to TEAR IT UP!! I really have looked forward to this party ever since last year. We all had good times but not such a good time the next day :(

This year I decided that Oneil was going to be a Breathalyzer and I am going to be a Martini. Here's to hoping my olive hair piece I am going to make will work. Keep your fingers crossed.
Saturday I am going to make that funny ass kitty litter cake to bring tot he party and some strained eyeballs. Even though I won't eat the eyeballs they will be fun to look at and watch peoples reactions to that and the cake. i will definitly have to close my eyes to eat the cake too. bwhahahahhahaha i am sure everyone has seen the cake but if you haven't you can view it here.

In other news (mainly scrapage news)
I have managed to get yet another 2 layouts done. One of the layouts was a 3 challenges in one. I love when they come to gether like that.

awww...i could just eat Mason up I tell ya.

eeekkk!

I just saw the sneak peek that Noel just put up on her blog for the winter kit. I cannot wait to get this stuff.
I borrowed these pics from her blog. She is waiting for the FP overlays to get here and then she will start the pre-orders. hey girl...set the kit and add on aside for me would ya? ;)


main kit


add on.

She is also having a sale in her store. Everything is on sale including the last kit and add on.
ETA: Sale ended Sunday but she still has things on sale.

Not to much happened this weekend. i did manage to finish the layout i started of me and Elizabeth along with 2 more.


and

the layout of Melana is used scraps that i had laying around within arms reach. i need to do that more often and use up some of this crap i have everywhere in my room.
I can actually see a piece of my table now.

I also did a layout for a Friday challenge at Scrap Diner that Tanisha posted. You had to use no patterned paper whatso ever. your pp had to be made by you by either stamping or doodleing or whatever you came up with.
I decided to use brads and bling. Boy was that a chore.
ETA: my layout


I received my halloween swap package from my awesome partner Jennifer. she really out did herself.
Love everything in it.

see that bag of candy corn...yeah it's gone and i didn't share either :)
She made me an apron and a coin purse that i love. i received a ghost cookie cutter, 2 stamps, a ghost tealight candle holder (soo freaking cute), a pumpkin magnet (displayed in my office on my filing cabinet), 2 candles in pumpkin spice (in my office as well) and it smells sooo yummy and some of the cutest scrapbooking stickers. The best part was it was addressed to Frankengreta....How freaking funny is that. This girl rocks! so glad i got her as my partner.
For all you crafty girls out there she does crafty tuesday which i will be particpating in soon. Of course my crafts will be scrapping and not sewing. i got burnt out on sewing so I put the machine away until the urge strikes again.

Happy Monday

What I managed to get done

I did 4.5 layouts actually at the crop not 3.5 like i originally thought.

Now I am trying to play catch up since I have been such a slacker with everything going on. And if you don't beleive me just ask Noel who received a halloween card from me that was BLANK inside...yes people I forgot to write in it! {deep sigh}
Good thing I put a return address on it i guess....her and her hubs Jason got a good laugh out of me at my expense...bwhahahhaha now I am sitting here wonder how many more went out that i didn't write in? Inquiring minds want to know people. if you received a card and nothing was in it please feel free to give me a good belly laugh at myself.. thank you!

okay so this is what i mananged to get done:

Yeah his daddy don't like when i do his hair in the hawk but it is 2 against one so phhffftttt! he loses


let me hear it now...all together....awwwwwwwwwww!! ;)


Flossie and Mason clowning waiting for them to call out name for out sunday breakfast outing.

and this people.....this is my favorite shirt of all time...
No this is not my shirt...i wish it was though...this is a friend of mines shirt and i had to scrap it. You know how you see something and you just know exactly what you are going to do with it..yeah this was it..

full layout and for those of you with bad eyes (like me)


close up of the shirt
bwhahahahahahahahahahaha isn't that shirt the best?
I freaking love it!

Next post is my halloween goodies i received from the fab Jennifer. Yeah i am still slacking. I just can't seem to catch up. grrrrr!!!!