More TA-DA's! YAY! I scrapped a BIT this week, these first four pages I actually just put finishing touches on this week. The last one I think still needs ... something.

These came together pretty quickly, nothing fancy, and yet I like them a lot :-D

Now see this last one here seems to be missing ... SOMETHING. I don't know what. Any suggestions?! I might think about it and attempt to fix it some time this week. We'll see how much I will actually get done with the new set up we have at Rockwell Manor - MORE on THAT hopefully tomorrow *SIGH*.

I do have some pretty exciting {for me} news though! For my To-Do this week, I need to clear out a space in our garage for ... MY NEW SCRAP TABLE/SPACE!!!! IT's aaaaaaall MINE! I just have to clear out about eleventy hundred boxes of stuff IdontknowwhattheCRAPtodowith and then my DH will build my table/desk! I even has cabinets above the space I can use! I am so freakin excited! That is going to help me so much to keep the dining room table clean :-D

So for more people Scrappin on Sunday click here!

Well I finished a SUPER cute project this week ifIdosaysomyself!

I was getting together with a couple of gals Tuesday and I knew my hubby was planning something good for Valentine's Day, so I decided at first to make him a card. Weeeeeell, this card kinda took on a life of it's own :-D

I was just going to put a picture of us inside the card, then I couldn't chose which photo cause I loved them all so much!

So I dug out a hard back mini album that I got in the DOLLAR AISLE AT TARGET! It had 8 pages so I took my "L is for LOVE" sticker sheet from 7gypsies and got to work!

This is the first page and I placed the picture just so you could see us in the window :-D

Now throughout the album I used a couple different pattern papers and a couple solid colors, did some inking and OH I just LOVE IT!

Now ... um ... you don't have to READ the journalling there ... I didn't think to take pictures until after I wrote on it *BLUSHES* ... SO ... uhhhhh ... yeah ... you can skip that if you want :-D

SO the album was $1, the sticker sheet was all the embelishment and was $1.75, then there was the papers that came out of a pack on clearence at Target for $3.97 {and I only used a few sheets of the HELLA it had} so the album only cost like $5!!!!
The best part was how much he loved it, he teared up a bit. He's a very sensitive sweet guy, that's why I love doing stuff like this for him. And it really gets my creative juices flowing!
For my TO-DO's: MORE ... do MORE! Simple and easy to do :-D


This week's bonus question is what are my best org tips for my scrappy stuff? Recently I bought a few clear small containers that are stackable at the dollar store. They are deep so I keep chipboard letters in one, all my ribbons in another, one for flowers and misc bulky stuff, and one for misc other stuff like staplers, inks and adhesives. For my stickers and rubons and flat stuff like sticker letters, I use those plastic expandable file folders that I got in the dollar aisle at Target! I LOVE ME SOME DOLLAR STUFF!
Now for more peeps scrappin on Sunday, check out Sunday Scrappin! And BE INSPIRED!

*****CAUTION!***** THE SAP METER IS OFF THE CHARTS!!*****Proceed with extreme caution if you aren't into that kinda thing ;-)

Ya know, I have started this entry about 13 times and I still just don't know exactly what I want to say.

I keep hearing people say how Valentine's Day is a "Halmark Holiday" and that it's all just a bunch of crap. Part of me is curious as to how and who exactly DID start the tradition. The other part of me is just sad for the amount of venom this holiday can bring out in people!

I've never HATED the day, well unless you include the time in 5th grade that I gave Joel Laterri a very SPECIAL Valentine and he did NOT recipricate the feelings. Since then I have gone from frustrated tween, to celebrated girlfriend, to hopeful but disapointed wife, to what I am now :-D

I always looked at Valentines Day as a day to take time out and celebrate your love. In my first marriage that was more so because it took a lot of prodding to get him to do that kind of stuff so I really looked forward to it, even if he didn't do a lot, it was still a lot for him.

But this time around, things are different. We don't JUST celebrate our love on Valentines Day. We make a point of appreciating each other all the time, celebrating the day we got married every month, that kinda thing. But Valentine's Day is a SUPER special day to have fun with and get excited about!

Today after my hubby left he sent me a text message with a clue ... he said you're first clue is "tickety tack ... hehehehe" so I flew to the computer! Found a sweet letter telling me sweet stuff, then explaining how I will have 4 gifts but that I have to work for them ;-)

Since then I have found one present (3 cute little glass containers to collect sand from our favorite beaches) and another letter! Now I have to wait for another clue to lead me to the next :-D This is so much fun!

I got him a $100 gift cert to a spa so he can get a massage or facial or whatever he wants. Then the other day I started making a card but it morphed into a mini album of sorts ... that I still need to finish! It's so freakin cute though, I am so proud of it, and I know he will LOVE it! I'll probably share that on Sunday Scrappin!

To me, today isn't about Halmark, or Ghirardelli, it's about your love. It doesn't have to be about presents or clues, it's about loving and appreciating your husband/wife/boyfriend/girlfriend for what they do for your life. It's about remembering and celebrating those things in them that you first fell in love with and keeps you together still. They may not be the most romantic person ever, but maybe that's because they work so hard every other day to take care of their family. Celebrate that strength in them. Celebrate whatever it is that makes you smile when you think about it.

Not all men are into Valentine's Day and celebrating it, but that doesn't mean you can't do it for them. Even if it's just a home made dinner, or some time alone with you. Tell them what it is about them that you love and makes you happy. Sometimes men need to be led to the water ;-) But who knows, maybe next year they will take the lead!

I hope everyone has a wonderful day and celebrates someone they love :-D Happy Valentine's Day!!!!

Well, I guess I didn't knock on wood enough ... a new sickness has invaded my house. This weekend Tween started coughing more than she had been, then there was talk of a sore throat and a stuff hurty nose. Then yesterday Boy came home and we were told he was thought to have Bronchaitis. Now Terrible Two is talking with a bit of a stuffed up sound. So far {KNOCKING ON WOOD} Princess seems ok.

But to combat the spread of the various sicknesses ON A HOLIDAY WHEN THEY ARE AAAAAAALL HOME, I have made the executive decision to sequester them all.

Tell me how this sounds like a death sentence ... because that's how they all look at me ... as if the firing squad has just been called.

I have sent Tween and Boy to their respective rooms - with their own TVs/toys a plenty/games/all manner of fun older kid stuff - and still they act like I've punished them. They usually aren't allowed to watch movies in their rooms and I'm letting them! I gave them JUICE in their room! I NEVER do that! And still it's torture for them. They don't even have to put up with the constant interuptions from Princess and Terrible Two!

I have those two either in their room or watching TV in the living room. Coloring, playing, coloring, eating and coloring some more - whatever it takes to keep them out of the other two's rooms and confine their germs to each other.

Funny how a child's nightmare could be an adults heaven.

I want to be TOLD to stay in my room. I want someone to bring me JUICE! I want to watch TV without having to share! I want to play with my toys without someone taking them away from me! I WANNA COLOR! I want someone to change my diaper and be at my beck and call.

Okay, maybe not so much that last one ... although ... the thought of not getting out of bed for hours even to go potty ain't SO bad if you think about it.

Well, ok yeah it kinda is, maybe I'm just REALLY tired right now and the thought of BED + HOURS = HEAVEN!

In fact, I hate to say it, even to THINK it, but it might be hitting me too.

I was FINE this morning. Quite ambitious and productive even! Especially for having so damn many kids here during the day. But now as I sit here with the sickness surrounding me, my head is starting to hurt, I notice a slight sore through, and a burning nose. And as I attempt to lift my cup of tea I thought 'Wow, this is heavy, I need a straw' - then thought 'K, it's half empty and my arm is shaking to lift it, perhaps this is a bad sign'.

It wouldn't be SO bad, if there weren't four more loads of laundry to do, four sandwhiches to make, naps to enforce, tax forms to find, calls to make, and bills to pay.

What really scares me, is that not only might the sickness be back and worse and attacking me, but that the 'man cold' isn't far behind. THAT is scarier than four kids home sick from school.

So as I batten down the hatches for the invasion, and knock on everything wood in this house, wish me luck, cross your fingers, and send me happy 'man-cold' free thoughts!

HEY! I'm back to Sunday Scrappin! YAY! I wanted so badly to post last week {AND the week before ahem} but just didn't have anything to share. My ta-da's were ta-nothing, and my to-do's were to-much! It was a little overwhelming.

Well this week, after the sickness left our house, and the houses of anyone I even TALK to, I had a friend over and we scrapped our little hearts out! I have a LOT of holiday pictures so a while back I bought the "Fall Stack" - it was 1/2 off! - so I decided I needed to BUUUURN though it! And burn I did :-D

Here are my TA-DA's!

This layout starts with my first attempt at "BOO'ing" and I had so much fun I had to take a picture of it ;-) Then continued with our pumkin painting! I LOVE these letters! The set contained both positives AND negatives in brown AND pink! The reverse side is pink! I LOVE them! OH and those cute little wooden pumpkins came in a pack of 10 and were on clearence for $0.50!!! YAY SALES!

These pages are from a trip we took into the foothills to our favorite wine club. The papers I got from a friend of mine who just needed the skyline, they were so pretty! So I tore along the top and put it on cardstock. It was kind of hard to get so many pictures on here without covering up something! That top page has IMHO the CUTEST TWO PICS EVER! My hubby and my daughter are just too cute ;-)

This layout was kindof just thrown together. It's Thanksgiving but not the ONLY Thanksgiving layout so I just threw the pics on, made it pertty, wrote stuff, and was done ;-) I love the ribbon and jeweled brads though, makes it pretty :-D

My To-Do's for the week are pretty simple: DO ... MORE. I have a few pages started but just not ... done. So I would like to scrap more, maybe get my scrappy chicks over again. Hope everyone is still healthy, we sure don't need that sickness up in HERE again!

Now the bonus question is HUGE this week. What are my fav scrappy sites? WOW, I just have SO DARN MANY! OK, let's make a list :-D

• My fav scrappy place for anything: http://twopeasinabucket.kaboose.com/
• My fav online scrappy store: http://scrapbooking-warehouse.com/
• My fav scrappy blog {besides my own ;-)}: http://www.scrappingservant.com/
• My fav store I would love to spend WAY too much money at: http://www.licketysplitscrapbooks.com/main.htm
• My other fav blog: http://3scrapbookingladies.blogspot.com/

SO! I was busy! How bout you?! Check out Sunday Scrappin! and post YOUR ta-da's today!

YAY TAT! I missed you last week! Not that I had anything particular to TAT about, but I missed you just the same ;-)

Well, I don't know if any of you heard, but there was this little thing going on round here called the BIGGEST BUNCH OF GIVEAWAYS EVER! Actually it was just a little winter give away carnival that went from cute to ulta mega crazy in about 49 hours. There were almost 900 participants giving away anything from a bunch of old coupons to digital cameras! Most of the giveaways were cute homemade things or gift cards. I only entered contests I was REALLY interested in. Because I didn't want to spend ALL of my time entering contests just to win a new hammer collection or something.

So I said to myself "Self, you should only enter this contest if you KNOW you would be over joyed! if you won" and I answered "Self, that is a good idea, we don't REALLY need this hammer collection, though it is quite lovely."

And then I checked WebMD to see if that was considered 'hearing voices in my head'.

After my sanity was confirmed for the moment, I went back to entering contests a plenty! I have NO idea how many I did enter, I can only tell you that my week's history cache actually made a popping sound.

HOWEVER! It was all for the good! BECAUSE I ACTUALLY *WON* stuff!!! I won something for ME! And something for my "lil sister" Rachelle! I am REALLY excited about both.

FOR ME: I found a website called Rosie's Whimsy and she was giving away this SUPER CUTE handbag! I mean tell me that ain't cute! So I entered and took a look around her etsy shop where she has the most amazing homemade stuff that look like you would find in a cute little boutique shop! These wall hanging pockets are just so cute and functional too! OH and this awesome pink and brown bag that is just so pretty! So you should go by her site and check out her great stuff, tell her hi for me :-D

FOR SHELL: {disclaimer......RACHELLE MARIE MCCALMON.......DO NOT CLICK ON ANY LINKS BELOW HERE......AND I WILL KNOW IF YOU DO.......HEY! DON'T YOU CLICK IT MISSY!} I found Not So SAHM and she was giving away the cutest THESE well actually I got to go to her beautiful store and pick out the version I liked best! And I also got to customize them completely and they are going to be BEAUTIFUL! You should go RIGHT NOW and see all the gorgeous stuff she has! Like this! And THESE! I am so excited to give these to Rachelle! Her first baby is due May 23rd and it's going to be a sweet little girl. I just can't wait to meet her!

So those are my winnings for this bloggy carnival - I am a LUCKY GIRL! Both of these ladies are truly talented and I was so fortunate to win their giveaways! Thank you both! And thank you Random Number Generator!

And for more people Talkin About Tuesday! go see Lara at the Lazy Oraganizer!