Cloudy with a chance of glitter rain!

This weekend I worked on making an ornament (and holiday cards, plus a hat for my two year old). It was a creative weekend for me. I haven't had one of those in a long time. I was in the mood this weekend, for sure! So I cleaned up my area and got to work.

Back to the ornament. I had a picture in my head of how I wanted it to turn out. All the pieces were sitting there calling to me to create this image I had in my head. For the first time in a long time, the image in my head is exactly how this ornament turned out.

All in all, it was a great weekend. Everyone was healthy (finally) and we didn't have a hectic schedule. We put the Christmas tree up and we also had to say good-bye to one of my favorite ornaments. My four year old dropped it on the floor and it broke. It was my favorite because he picked it out when he was two years old. He was mesmerized by this ornament and had to have it. How he didn't break it when he was two, will remain a mystery! I am now keeping pictures of the ornament remains. I think I will start a book called "Another one bites the dust" and compile all the pictures!

Have a great week! OH, the Girl Next Door Collection goes on sale tonight at Scrap in Style. I've seen the sneaks. LOVE IT!

Holy Rotten Sweet Potato!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!

I should have known things were not going to go well this year. I say that with a smile on my face because none of these things are bad, actually I find them all funny. It started last week with the napkins I made for today. I thought they turned out pretty cute. Then I went to wash them and the color ran in the red thread. Oh well.......then today happened!

Seems nothing I do today is going as planned. The great thing about it is we are getting some really great laughs about all of it. I am still living in the haze of this cold so I am using that as my excuse today. First I get up at 7 am, I am not a morning person btw, to make my turkey. Normally I don't make a whole bird. Instead I make turkey and dressing sandwiches. I found that the family is happier with the sandwiches than the plain turkey. So it has become tradition in our house. Only this Thanksgiving Jenni-o has a new package that looks like the package of the turkey I normally buy and this new turkey has a bone in it still. ACK! I can't use that for my turkey dressing sandwiches. Plan B we are having a normal turkey this year. I had to promise my husband I would make the turkey and dressing sandwiches sometime during the winter. Back to the story. After we laughed about having to change up the menu a little bit, I start to season the turkey breast. I purchase most of my spices at Sam's so they are industrial sized. I went to put some black pepper on the turkey and didn't realize I had the huge opening opened. I had about one cup of pepper pour over the turkey! We laugh about that and move on. No big deal. Then I go to cut up the sweet potatoes, rotten! I mean gross and completely nasty. Ted runs to the store and they say they got a bad shipment yesterday so he could get six new sweet potatoes from a new shipment. He comes home, we peel cut and bake thinking they looked better but not quite normal. They were bad too! So, no sweet potatoes this year. By the way, did anyone else have bad sweet potatoes this year?? So, my turkey is cooking, cheesy potatoes in the oven and the green bean casserole. Let's hope all else goes well!

Do you have any funny Thanksgiving stories this year?

The Turkey is thawing in the sink with care........

With hopes it will be a tasty affair!!!! Dad with his sniffles and mom with her snot, settle down and wish they could sleep A LOT!

We have been so sickly around here. I really believe I just had the worst cold I have ever had in my entire life. If I say that again this winter, it is because I think it is like being in labor, you forget how bad it is until you do it again. The worst of it has past but I still sound terrible and I have a heck of a cough!!!

The first day of not feeling very good I received my kit "The Homebody" from SISTV. The hardcore cold hadn't revealed itself yet so I did a little scrappin'. Here's what I came up with.

I literally took the kit into my bed along with a few supplies and did these layouts. I still have a lot of pictures left to scrap with and a lot of this kit left to scrap them. This is not a kit I would have pictured myself liking so much, but I really liked it. Sometimes I think it is the best thing to spark creativity, getting stuff you normally would not choose for yourself. I know I usually choose the same thing over and over again.

Etsy...Oh, how I love it.......and OMG! It is so much work!

Today I spent much of the day posting lovely vintage items in my Etsy store http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5431107. I cannot believe how much time it takes to get everything in there. I love selling on Etsy so every minute is worth it! I'd love to hear about your Etsy stores too! If you have one, please post a link to it in my comments section. I will be sure to check it out!

Tomorrow I am going to be posting more items. That is if my kids will let me! Right now they are both sick, so I am thinking they will be doing a lot of resting tomorrow. Keep your fingers crossed the lighting will be good for taking pictures. I wanna get this amazing shirt posted in the store too. It is vintage and has green cherries on it!

One of the items I will be posting tomorrow is a great collection of vintage items for scrapbooking.

Night Owl and PJ's!

Night Owl will be available tonight at Midnight! I loved playing with these colors. I loved using these colors for a summer page I did (see photo below) and I love it for Halloween pictures! I think it is a really versatile color combo.

We are hosting an online PJ party at http://www.scrapinstyletv.com/ on November 15th starting at 8pm CT. Games, challenges, free classes and lots of laughs! Get in your pj's and have some scrappy fun with your SISters!

Why I am certain my 4 year old has a lot of my family in him!

Grant: "Mama I really want that police toy."

Me: "I know buddy but you have not really been listening very well and little boys that don't listen very good don't get cool new stuff like that."

Grant: "What things do I have to do to be good?"

Me: "You need to listen when I ask you to do something. Also, you can't say no when I ask you to do something you don't want to do. Screaming and having a bad attitude is another thing you have to stop doing."

Grant: "Ok mama. I can do that."

Me: "One more thing. You have to stop being so bossy."

Grant: *long silence* "Ohhhh that's hard Mama. I don't think I can stop doing that."

Just an end note to this. When I tell either my mother or father this stuff about my son they both say "I wonder where he gets that from?" With the implication that it is me he gets it from. I just reply, "The same place I got it from."

Mom says, "Yeah, your father."

Dad says, "Yeah, your mother."

Can you tell they are divorced? LOL!

It's Been 7 YEARS since..............

I dressed up for Halloween! I am so glad I did. We had a great time with the other families at the party. My husband was very happy since Halloween is one of his favorite times of the year. This year he and I waited till the very last minute to get costumes. Why did we do that? Good question. It turned out ok, but as always we were running around like chickens with our heads cut off. So here is how the conversation went down the night before the party.

Me: "Ted we should go to Goodwill early in the morning to see if we can find costumes."

Ted: "Yeah that's probably a good idea, but Grant has a soccer game in the morning."

Me: "AACK! I forgot! Alright I guess that blows the plan. So, we won't go early, we will go after the game. Oh yeah, and we have to figure out what we are going to make for a dessert we signed up to bring. Also, I suppose we will have to make the dessert too. UGGGGHHH."

Ted: "Ok."

Yep, just OK. "OK" like it is very reasonable plan to do all that and get to the party by 5pm meaning we must leave our house at 4:30 pm. I am really lucky he is so calm and cool all the time. Even more lucky he encouraged me to purchase the desert! LOL!

I loved my purple hair! Can you see the "bling" I put on my face? Yeah, got that straight from my scrapbooking supplies. I personally thought it was genius! I did mention this costume was last minute!