Good bye May

So I didn't quite make the blog a day in May goal. Although I think I only missed like 3 or 4 days. Not too bad, given my usual 2 or 3 posts a week. I haven't felt much like blogging the past few days. Lots of thoughts in my head. Keeping me preoccupied.

Besides turning thoughts around and around in my head and incessantly researching things on the computer, I spent the weekend scrapping and cleaning. After work yesterday, I cleaned the house a bit, than Michelle came over to scrap. We were pretty productive, 4 pages for her and 3 pages and a card for me. We took a break for dinner and headed to Pita Jungle to split a trio of hummus with cucumbers and the best salad ever, the Lentil Fetoosh. YUM! Here's one of the pages I made (from Danielle's lift challenge):


and a card I made with the scraps from this layout (another challenge):


Both of these were made with the June Scrap for a Cure kit. The kit goes live tomorrow and you should definitely check it out. I have pretty much used up the whole kit.

Nothing too eventful today. Laundry, computer time, hanging with Shawn, billing, cooking and a little scrapping. Oh and pie eating. Shawn decided he was craving pecan pie so he headed to Marie Callendars to pick one up. They were out of pecan apparently and I did not hear my phone when he called (twice) to figure out what kind to get, so, he got two pies. Yes, two pies, because we both need our own whole pie to eat. I had apple. It was delicious. If you want some pie, we've got plenty to share...

I'd best get off the computer. My wrist is killing me and I'm sure the computer surfing and typing is not helping. I think I'll go read my book or catch up on my pile of magazines.

Hope you had a nice weekend.

Come and Play

We're cropping this weekend at Scrap for A Cure. Plenty of challenges, games and tutorials and lots of fun. Come check it out. I'll be hosting a challenge and a game tomorrow afternoon. In the mean time, here's a sneak from the June SFAC kit:


Have a fabulous weekend!

Have you watched it yet?

If you are a choir/band/theater geek, you will love it!

Weekend Adventures

Its been a good weekend...not quite the weekend of nothingness at home that I planned, but good none the less. Here's a little weekend recap.

Friday night we had dinner at Pappadeux, where we enjoyed a really good, but rich dinner. We shared mussels as an appetizer and I had almond crusted trout and a nice glass of wine. Unfortunately, my poor stomach is not used to eating so much rich food, so it wasn't too happy with me during the night and the next morning.

Saturday night went to Michelina's for some Italian food. Another thing I haven't enjoyed in a long time. I decided to be careful about not overdoing it and stressing out my poor stomach, but had a great meal none the less.

Sunday I met up with my mom for pedicures and a little shopping. It was probably the best pedicure I've every gotten. Definitely the best foot massage. We hit World Market just in time for their outdoor sale and I got this fabulous striped umbrella for our courtyard. It matches out trim paint perfectly. I spent the rest of my Sunday doing laundry and scrapbooking. I was working with the June Scrap for a Cure kit. I'm in love with the kit and the Cosmo Cricket goodness inside of it.

Here's one of my pages, this week's Monday Challenge at SFAC. The challenge is to use at least 4 different patterned papers on your page. If you play along, post your creation in the challenge gallery to be eligible for the monthly RAK.


Monday I had intended to spend today in my pj's not leaving the house, cleaning and scrapping. Shawn had other plans. Instead I spent 2.5 hours at the Nissan dealership while Shawn got his new car. He decided on this car in Bitter Chocolate a couple of weeks ago and was just waiting for the dealership where he had worked a deal to get one in for him. He sold his Rx8 on Friday and was not enjoying being car less for the weekend. It's a pretty nice car and really comfortable and roomy on the inside. Plus it gets much better gas mileage than the Rx8 (and will hold a carseat, which is important in my book). He's awfully excited. After the dealership we grabbed a late lunch at BJ's Brewhouse and I headed home while Shawn went to show off his new car (he's showing it off to yet another friend right now in fact). I finished some of the cleaning and the laundry, planted some succulents and did some more scrapping. I just finished my 4th layout with the SFAC kit and my pages for the Scrapgal June gallery. Now I'm ready to go crawl in bed with a book or my knitting and get some rest before a really long day at work tomorrow.

Hope you had an enjoyable weekend.

Crazy

Did you see my crazy video collection? It's fixed now. Apparently all the attempts I made at sharing videos from You Tube on Wednesday night ended up posting some time yesterday. So I apologize if you stopped by and saw tons of videos all in a row. Crazy internet madness!

Speaking of crazy, today was a crazy day. It was like a full moon day, only I don't think it's a full moon. My first kiddo threw a major tantrum that involved breaking his alphasmart device, attempting to break his glasses and drawing blood on my arm. Nice. Next up I had a little grumpy pants who yelled at me every time I chose a task. Number three was a bit crazy and wild, although he did a pretty good job. Probably because I wasn't taking anymore nonsense and was pretty tough with him. I went to church with my last kiddo to keep her in line during communion practice, only no one was there for communion practice when we arrived. Oops! Her mom missed the memo apparently. Did I mention I had a stomach ache during much of this day? Fun times.

Since getting home, I've been putzing around the house. I managed to work on a couple of Scrapgal projects. If you haven't already checkout our May Contest, Scrapbooking from A-Z, you should. There are tons of fun challenge (one for each letter of the alphabet) and you can win prizes for playing along. Today's prompt from me, showed up a little late because I had to create it first, but it's up now....T is for TAPE:


I also worked on using up a big pile of scraps to create some ATC backgrounds. Here's one, Friday's Create 09 prompt from me, "what's your current playlist?"



Now I must go get ready for dinner. I think we are going for Italian food. We shall see what my stomach things of that.

Happy Saturday!

Listening

Another artist I've been listening to a lot lately. There's just something about her voice.

Love

Here's what I wanted to post yesterday. Vimeo is my friend.
I adore this song!

Priscilla Ahn - "Dream" from Paste Magazine on Vimeo.