Scrapping the Music Guest Designteam work...

I was tickled pink when I received an e-mail from Mary at Scrapping the Music a while ago, asking if I'd be their June guest designer. Of course I said yes and went straight to work.

Here is my first LO:


Supplies: this, that and the other from my scraps.

Other than that, it looked like it was going to be a dreary Monday, but it seems to be clearing up. I had major insomnia last night, so I really need a nap, but I almost hate to sleep through the bit of sunshine we might get today.

I am also trying to finish off my list from yesterday. Right now, I am making strawberry freezer jam. Yum!
The basement.... well, I suppose I will tackle that task after lunch.


Have a good one.

Happy Sunday!

It's raining and it looks like it is going to be a "putter around the house" kind of day.

Like anyone cares, but here's my list of things to do:
1. finish cleaning up my scrappy corner. I put up two new shelves yesterday, so maybe I will get things organized. DONE
2. touch-up work in the hallway bathroom. I painted it months ago and still need to do touch-up work. I know.... sad, isn't it? DONE and I painted part of a wall in my bedroom, too. Though still need to do touch-up work there.
3. fold laundry. Working on it....
4. make strawberry jam... started to, realized I didn't have the right sugar. Ate strawberries instead.
5. clean up the basement. Though... that might be a better project for this coming week, when the kids aren't here to distract me.
6. walk the dog. DONE... okay, T#1 did, but the dog was walked. grin! And I walked him this afternoon, too. So he got plenty of exercise.
7. bathe the dog... remember, it's raining, he will be a complete mess! Amazingly, wasn't necessary. Oops, I spoke too soon. He needed a bath after the second walk. He was a mess.
8. make "starting-school" gift for neighbor girl. I want to make a chipboard album for her for all the first day of school pictures.


And just because.... a LO about Trouble #3.



It is hard to see in the pictures, but when we were walking the dog in the forest a few months ago, there were lots of trees where rain had collected at the bottom where the roots were above ground... does that make sense? Anyway, anytime we came by a tree like that the dog had to stop and drink some water and we were joking that he was "bar-hopping".

Have a good one.

A Trouble #2 funny for the weekend....

Sorry, the LO is in German, but it was too funny not to scrap it. The journaling essentially reads: Word of the day- permanent stupidity. Doesn't sound very funny writing it right now. It might not even be as funny in German, guess you just had to be there.

Das LO ist, im Gegensatz zu meisstens, mal auf Deutsch. Aber es lies sich einfach nicht richtig übersetzen.

Anyway, the story: On a recent car trip, coming home from a funeral of all things, the kids were getting cranky, and we started playing silly games. One game we play is that one of us picks a letter, and the others have to come up with ten (or more) words that start with that letter. So it was my turn, I picked the letter "d" and Trouble #2 shouted out "dauerdumm". After having grumbled over stupid drivers, stupid soccer fans (we were stuck in traffic b/c of a soccer game) and overall being crabby... this word was perfect.

Die Geschichte zu dem LO: auf der Heimfahrt von einer Beerdigung neulich, waren die kids müde, wurden nervig, etc. etc. Zum Ablenken haben wir alberne Spielchen gespielt. Eins der Spiele ist so, dass einer eine Buchstaben aussucht, und die anderen dann 10 (oder mehr) Wörter finden die den Buchstaben als Anfangsbuchstaben haben. Ich war also dran, und hatte den Buchstaben "D" ausgesucht, da rief Trouble #2 "dauerdumm". Nachdem ich schon die ganze Zeit über dummer Autofahrer, noch dümmere Fussballfans (wir standen nämlich im Stau wegen eines Fussballspiels) und allgemein dumme Leute geschimpft habe, war das Wort einfach perfekt.



Supplies: PP Prima, Paperwerx, Hambly overlay, misc. letters.

Have a good one.

Nothing exciting here....

I don't feel so hot right now.... lots of stress... but I did want to show one of my latest LOs.

Lots of pink....


Have a good one.

#35

Not really a creative title, but that's all I could come up with. This is the 35th LO for the year. It's a month or two old already, but I don't think I showed it yet. And it is a change, I guess, from the usual kid/dog LOs.



Supplies: all kinds of PP from my scrap box.

The LO is about the statues, real or fake (a mime) as they might be, I encountered while walking around Rome last year. I was getting bored with all the (real) statues, and just couldn't stop laughing when the mime scared some tourists who were trying to have their picture taken with what they assumed to be a real statue. I am juvenile like that....


Have a good one.

Pretty productive....

these days, but I can't show most of it yet.

But, with the upcoming election, you might get a chuckle out of this LO. I saw the ballot the other day and couldn't help but laugh at the choices presented. Of course there were the usual suspects, the "big" parties. But then there were three parties representing those over 50 or retirees. There was the "violet party for spiritual politics". There was a party for the protection of animals. And then there was the PIRATE Party. I guess I don't mean disrespect to any of these people, but really... a Pirate Party?



Have a good one.

What a wonderful afternoon....

It's not the best picture, but life doesn't get much better than sitting on a rooftop terrace in the city, drinking coffee, enjoying the sunshine, talking to a wonderful friend. That was my afternoon yesterday.



Today is a holiday, too, and I am enjoying the sun.

Have a good one.