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.