Sunday already?

Oye! This weekend went by too fast. So a quick picture heavy post about yesterday....

Crop & Grill

Had a fabulous day yesterday at the annual "Crop & Grill" at . I have a hard time scrapping anywhere other than at home, so I knew not to bother with packing anything. Luckily there were a few others that weren't scrapping, so I didn't feel like a total loser. But I still had a great time, just chatting and hanging out....

The grill master himself:


And the obligatory group picture:


Jan and Anke had everyone create a card and we sent them off with balloons. If someone happens to find one of the cards somewhere, they can call Scrapbook-King and receive a small prize.

Cupcakes

Made some "Caribbean Sun" cupcakes to take to the Crop & Grill. It's a coconut/pineapple cupcake with a coconut/rum buttercream, topped with a piece of pineapple. If I may say so myself...they were delish!.



Scrapping the Music-Germany

And it was time for another new song at Scrapping the Music-Germany yesterday. I had never heard of the singer or the song, and I didn't even particularly like it, but heck.... there is always something to pull from song lyrics. So this time I tried to incorporate lots of pictures from last year's trip to NY.



Flowers

Oh, and my mom brought me flowers the other day. They were still pretty closed up, but now they are in full bloom. Aren't they gorgeous?



And now Sunday is almost half over, I better get to doing things.

Have a good one.

TGIF....

for some reason Trouble #1 was up early this morning, while I couldn't get my behind out of bed. Didn't help that I was up half the night again, coughing my lungs out. I actually went to see my Doc yesterday. I have been coughing for almost 10 days and am not getting any sleep and that's catching up with me. Now I am on 10 days of antibiotics. Hopefully it will do the trick SOON, because I really need some sleep.

Anyway, another Cosmo Cricket LO. I love these pictures of Trouble #2 and her grandpa. It is funny.... T#1 always seemed to have the closer connection to her grandmothers. T#2, however, has both grandpas wrapped around her little finger. I still remember her running down to the barn or around the farm with her grandpa when we were living in NE, and here in Germany... she'd be talking tools and such with my dad. He even bought her her own rubber mallet (and some other tool, can't remember...) one year for Christmas, because she kept getting into his tool box, and he figured she couldn't do too much damage with a rubber mallet.



Supplies: PP Cosmo Cricket, Creative Imaginations, misc. chipboard and ribbon, Ranger Crackle paint.

Off to take T#2 to school. It is raining and cold. Feels like fall. That is NOT GOOD! Summer break starts in one week.

Have a good one.

Since I am on about...

3 hours of sleep, all you get today is another Cosmo Cricket LO.

I love this picture of Trouble #2 with her great-grandfather.



have a good one.

Day 7459 of cleaning the basement....

or so it seems. Does it ever end? I knew T#1 & #2 have too many toys, but THIS many? Oye! But and end is in sight. Hopefully by tonight, I will be done. I managed to send some toys to the neighbor girl and some clothes to Good Will. There are plenty of folded up boxes going to paper recycling, and my garbage can is overflowing (and my parents' too, since I took some garbage over there last night). Now I have to finish installing the shelving which I started installing 1.5 years ago. Blush! And my basement should look presentable (and you won't have to read about any more basement cleaning for a while).

Anyway, I totally spaced the Cosmo Cricket DT call. I had all my LOs finished, but never uploaded. Oh well....


Supplies: PP Cosmo Cricket, Danyeela pattern paper, HS masks, Adirondack Color Wash, lots of buttons.

Now I have to take T#2 to school, and head back to cleaning.

Have a good one.

Girls....

I am telling you, Trouble #1 is true to her name. I don't know if she is just really ready for summer break to get here, of if puberty is starting, or she just wants to test my patience... she was such an easy baby! What happened? So, fittingly, here's a LO I did a while ago:



Back to the basement. Still lots of cleaning to do. But an end is in sight.

Have a good one.

Nothing exciting....

going on here.

I am battling a nasty cough which is keeping me up most nights. And, because I keep trying not to cough, I have a permanent headache.

I am also decided to clean up/out my basement. It's been a disgrace for way too long and with the weather being so hot, it was actually somewhat pleasant (as much as cleaning a basement can be pleasant) to be down there. Not done yet, but I am making progress. Hopefully by Wednesday I will be done.

So, needless to say, I haven't been doing any scrapping. The same two pieces of paper have been sitting on my desk.... and I just haven't felt the need to do anything with them. So here's an older LO. I don't think I showed it yet.



Off to pick up T#2 from school.

Have a good one.

Happy 4th of July!

Oh, how I wish I could see some of this:



but instead we are celebrating Trouble #3's birthday. Since he was a stray, we are not sure of his exact birthdate, but the vet estimated him to be born sometime in July of last year, so we decided that Independence Day is a good day to be his birthday.

So here's the birthday boy:



And now I am off to make some of these:



Have a good one.