New Year Scrapy Goals

Happy New Year!

I know I miss the WOYWW yesterday. I wasn't feeling well, in fact I'm still not up to par today. I have a sinus infection. So lovely to get. lol I have been reading everyone blog on my list. Most has made list of top's 10, etc. I have made ten goals I wanted to accomplish in the coming year. I posted these on two peas board and wanted to post here. Ten goals that I want to complete by 2012: 1. Reorganize my scrap room and purge things i won't use 2. Finish all the unfinished layouts I have in a pile that need journals or pictures 3. Sort the finish layouts in the bins before putting into albums 4. Finish my daughter's baby album in January-only couple more layouts to complete 5. Start my son's baby album (he is four months old but want to finish his before august) 6. Use my stash more before buying more supplies 7. Start my scrappy business in January thru etsy shop and my friend's business 8. Sort pictures of my nieces and nephew by year and add journals to them. 9. Upload pictures to shutterfly and get them print 10. Enter more challenges to get those pictures scrap As time go, I will change my goals as I have complete them. I'm looking forward to the new year. So much has happen this past year that i hope it's better in 2011. To all my new friends, Thanks for being with me in past year. I have cherished every one of you. Thanks!

Good Morning!

Good morning! Sorry i haven't posted since wednesday as it was very busy. Yes cookies was save for Santa! lol We had a wonderful time. My sister and her kids came over Christmas eve for dinner and getting ready for Santa. We also had birthday cake for my little girl. Yep, she is two now. Her birthday was sunday. Christmas Day--daddy was up before everyone. lol he heard me get up and thought it was me and amber but I came down with Caleb. Amber was still sleeping. lol Then an hour later, she woke up and came down. She was so surprised! she was so good in taking turn with her baby brother. then both plays with their new toys. She saw the empty place. We told her santa ate all the cookies when he dropped off your presents. I got the perfect picture of her saying it's all gone. so adorable. I will posted them in while. I'm still taking pictures and journals for my Dec Daily. I'm planning to get them develop next month and will finish it up. I had so much fun. I'm planning to look previous christmas and see what pictures i have taken. I know i took alot everyday so i may be able to do it just the journals may be the hard part. We'll see. I have alot to share. I so need to go in my craft room now and clean but today is another busy day hopefully i will able to tonite. I have a few projects I want to work on and finish up this week before New year. I hope everyone had great christmas.

What's on your workdesk? Wednesday 81

Good afternoon, Sorry I didn't get this up this morning as we were getting ready to go over to my mom's house to make cookies. I know Amber has a ball watching us making cookie and putting them on the tray. Both kids are napping now. It is four o'clock here. This mama is pooped and still have alot to do. Trying to get few things done today. On my desk, is the reindeer oranments I'm making for kids that are coming over on friday for christmas eve dinner. You will also see the orange box that is shutterfly. My christmas cards came in yesterday so I was putting them together and addresses are on the envelops so now I just need to get them into the mailbox. Also in the second picture is my Dec Daily, I'm still taking pictures and journaling as i go along some of layouts are done. I'm planning to finish them up in Janurary when I order my pictures. so if you want to know what on your workdesk is all about, head on over to Julia's Stamping Ground http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com/2010/12/whats-on-your-workdesk-wednesday-81.html that started all of this. I will try my best to check in and comment. I wasn't able to this past week to get to everyone.

5 days to Christmas

Where did the time goes? I can't believe Christmas is just around the corner. I'm trying to get caught up. Saturday I decide to make reindeer ornaments for the kids to have on Christmas eve to feed reindeer. Of course I ran out of adhesive again in my sticker machine. They got to put some of kind of warning that it is near the end. lol Anyhow, I will finish that up tonite, as well for couple other items. I'm still working on my dec daily but will wrap it up in January when I get my pictures develop. I have alot to do to get done this week before Christmas. I need to finish those ornaments for kids on eve, finish up the albums if can, mail out Christmas cards as soon as I get them from shutterfly should be either today or tomorrow. I know it's late it was a last minute decisions to get it done. lol I will post it as soon as everyone get their in mail. lol so that what i'm working now is getting the address label done so I just put it on and put it in the mail. I try to do the letter to Santa with my daughter but she wanted no part of it. she is too little yet for that so i figure maybe next year. I already have my album pick out for Dec daily next year. I know early. Have anyone done Dec daily the previous year? I know i have taken pictures everyday last Christmas but journals might be little hard. Last year was a huge Christmas surprise when we find out i was pregnant with our second child. I have date of when we find out and stuffs. so I'm thinking of doing that. I figure that would be January project along with other. lol Off to check others' blogs! I'm trying to get around the blogs thru Stamping Ground but not doing too great on it as I'm not feeling that great, and hard to leave comments when you have a two years old yanking on your arm. lol

What's on your Workdesk? Wednesday 80

Not a whole alot--actually it remains the same as last wednesday. lol honestly Only different is top of washer is clear off so I can do ladurdry today. lol I did complete an order of christmas cards for my sister: the first card I use the vintage christmas tickets printed onto white cardstock. I love how they look. the tickets came from

http://misscutiepiegoes80s.blogspot.com/2010/10/free-vintage-christmas-printables.html

The second card is CTMH vintage christmas stamp. this is my favorate. I'm still working on my dec daily--journaling and taking pictures. I'm hoping today or tomorrow to get catch up on layouts. Thanks for reading.

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Making Christmas cards

It's that time of year where we all are thinking of making our annual Christmas card to send to family and friends. I was originally going to make my homemade, however, time is running out and I'm turning to the help of digital. Below I am writing about shutterfly.com because of an awesome deal they are offering to bloggers, in return I will receive 50 free Christmas cards. This is my opinions and experiences mentioned are mine alone. Since Shutterfly is making it easy for me to make my Christmas cards this year. I went online and check out their website. As I was checking out their card & stationary section (http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/christmas-cards ), there are hundreds of designs to choose from. I was having a hard time picking out the best designs for my pictures as there were so many to chose from. I love them all. They even have more than 1 photo if you want to include a lot of pictures. I have picked out three that go along with my pictures of kids which I‘m excited about. I’m not going to show them because then it won’t be surprise for my family and friends. Shutterfly also offers other products such as coffee mugs for those loves one, ornaments for the tree, or even a calendar of year (http://www.shutterfly.com/photo-gifts . ) Another great gift I'm thinking of doing is recipe book for my mom who make our traditional cookies every christmas--is doing the photobook that Shutterfly is offering. so check it out for yourself-- http://www.shutterfly.com/photo-books so check it out for yourself and see why I love shutterfly.

What's on your workdesk? Wednesday 79

Currently not whole alot on my desktop as everything was move to let our fix it man thur to fix our furance that died on friday and got a new one on monday. IT was very COLD! I ended up taking the kids to my mom's house for warmth on sunday as it dropped below 20. Last night I find this cool blog by Creativity Prompts (http://www.creativityprompt.com/ ). She designs these for Dec Daily. I printed them on bright white which I love. I was orginally was going to use my number stickers for days but I love these better. so I'm excited. I'm planning to work on them tomorrow once I get the room back together and get caught up on that. I have journals and will get photos together to upload to shutterfly using the 8x 10 format which may be cheaper. If you want to look at other workdesks, head on over to Julia's blog (http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com/ )Thank for looking!

ahh!

This weekend did not go as planned. We meet with my bbf on Friday for dinner and exchange gifts. I will post pictures later after i do my Dec daily layout. Then we arrived home wondering why heat wasn't on. my bf went down and check it and got it running. then during the night it quits. so we were without heat for weekend until landlord got new one for us on Monday. so Monday came got it in and running. Poor guy took him almost six hours to get it hook up. Then i had a major scare last night. my 3 months old was playing on the floor when my daughter got behind our big bookshelf and push it. it fell on him. So I called 911 and took him to er. He is perfect, not a scratch on him. Thank the lord for sending him an guardian angel. so he is fine like nothing happen. ugh not soemthing this mommy want to happen. so i am getting rid of the bookshelf. whew! what a weekend! so my plan to scrap was postpone. I'm hoping to get in there today or tomorrow to catch up. I need to finish my dec daily and couple other things. as well. Thanks for reading.,

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updated

Today we put our tree up. No it's not decorate yet. We're planning to in couple days. Our daughter was so amazed by it. lol We trying to tell her about christmas and stuffs but she doesn't quite get it yet. lol Anyway, I'm sorry for really bad pictures. no matter how I try different angle, the lighting in room is really bad plus it's been dark and rainy. This little frame is 4 by 4. The Happy St. Patricks day sign came from Creating Keepsake freebie. the sticker is what i had in my stash. the green cardstock is from SU. the first card is white base then birthday cake was a sticker that was in my stash for long time. I use yellow glitter glue to highlite certain areas. I'm planning to stamp a saying inside. The second card is also from my stash, This is creative memories kit that come in small envelope. I use them here. it turn out really cute. i need to make one more card--for my daughter's 2nd birthday. I can't believe she will be two in 25 days. where did the time go? this card is for the jitterbugin challenge--may or may not use sketch, need to add ribbon and bling. Use white card base, ink around the edge with SU olive ink, tag came from CTMH christmas stamp. I add silver brad and top with lite green bling which is hard to see. the polka dot is su paper wrap green ribbon like it was a present and add the tag.

What's on your Workdesk? Wednesday 77

Well as you can see, not whole alot since sunday post. My little girl haven't been feeling well so everytime I would go in this room she would fuss and want me to hold her. lol Daddy would not do. Anyhow, I found these picture frames in my totes. I got them at Target $1 bins last year. I just decide to create one frame for my friend, Sherry to celebrate St. Patrick day. I'm still planning to give her the valentine collage but need to go to walmart to get a bigger frame. I also finish making a birthday card. I have couple birthdays this month so I need to make three more. I'm planning to do the Jitterbuggin challenge today and get it posted it. I'm hoping I can get in there. lol The design team for Scrapbooking Ali--I didn't get the email but Congrats to all those who did. She posted that they recieve over 60 entries. She is also planning to pick 12 guest designers. I'm looking forward to all those postings in the next year. (yes--I'm disappointed but it's ok. I will keep trying). The scrapbooking Queen also pick their winner and it wasn't me either. lol I know one day I will win something. Anyhow, my goal today is to finish those cards, finish the frame, finish uploading pictures to shutterfly and get them order, put our christmas tree up and take pictures. Also, do my dec daily page today I have them set up just need to do the journalings then that will be done today. Also, I need a to do clipboard for all of these things I need to do. lol I'm off to surf what's on your workdesk? so if you wanna follow along, start at Julia's blog:

http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com/2010/12/whats-on-your-workdesk-wednesday-77.html

Sunday Workdesk

Good afternoon all. I was hoping to do some scrapping but my mojo was not here today. so i decide to clean up and put stuffs away. On top of folding table, I started making a card for jitterbuggin challenge went thur my birthday sticker folders for some ideas. couple came up so i'm working on this. You will see my sketch book that i have started using to sketch out my ideas for dec daily I'm working on. I'm having a hard time picking papers. lol but i know what i want to do. the cabinet I finally clean off and got my large cutter out to work on some stuffs. the black desk is still messy but in process of cleaning up. It also holds some of my current christmas projects in work. the little table belong to my daughter. I currently have it in scraproom as she was using it as a climbing tool to get over the gate. smart cookie. lol you will see my red album that I'm using it for my dec daily. I planning to adhere a metal tag that i purchase from ctmh few years back to front that will say december daily 2010 on it. i think. lol It also hold my die cutting machine. I'm planning ot move them to the cabinet once i figure out where to put the other stuffs. I just uploaded pictures to shutterfly and planning to get them develop on friday when i get pay. I know they are having a special which end tonite but no money for shipping so no biggie. I'm planning to work on the kids' birthday album with those pictures and get them done for christmas. I'm also planning to make couple other christmas gifts. so much to do, so little time to do them all. lol Thanks for reading.

Happy Black Friday!

hi, all hope everyone has a great thanksgiving! We enjoy our time with family. We did go out today for some shopping but we went around 9am. not an early bird here. lol so it wasn't too bad we got our christmas shopping done today. So I'm thankful for that. Next week, we're planning to do some shopping for the stockings and tree decoration. i did pick up some scrappy items when we were at ollie's. i got two paper packs, baby metal items, and 8x8 winter wonderland album. off to relaxbefore bedtime.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Good morning, all Happy Thanksgiving! I'm thanksful for my two wonderful kids and my sweetie. This past year has been a tough year for us financially but a happy times. We are so looking forward to going down to his mom for dinner. I can't wait. lol It is sleeting outside so we're hoping it lighten up before we head down. Last night, I put this card together pretty quickly using the Jitterbuggin challenge (http://jitterbugginchallenge.blogspot.com/ ). I originally was going to use a butterfly from my cricut but I had this kite already cut out from preivious project and thought it would work out even better. I use CTMH zipper stamp as an overlock stitch around the card border. then i hand stitch around mat, three color box and kite itself. It looks really cute all together. Thank for looking.

I'm off to get stuff together for our trip down to his mom. We're planning to stay overnight and go shopping on black friday. His mom will be watching the kids for us.

What's on your Workdesk? Wednesday 77

Here is my workdesk this afternoon: I finished the valentine collage but need to get the bigger frame. The frame I was planning to use the glass broke. :( I also started cleaning up putting papers, scraps, and tools away. We are goign away tomorrow and I want to have a clean scraproom when I come back on saturday. lol While i was cleaning up, I find my cupcake recipe album from a swap i did a few months before. I was going thur them and pick few recipes to try out for next month. I also receive my soup swap this past friday. I will post them next wednesday when i get an album for them. I ran out of page protectors so that mean a trip to Micheal. lol which is fine I have a list that i need to get while I'm there anyhow.

There are three layouts I send for Scrapbooking Ali design team. She provided three different sketches to chose from. I chose the first two. I love how they turn out. I know I need to work on taking pictures of my layouts. Sometime I luck out and other time it look crappy. lol I've been looking at wide format printer that would scan these. It is something on my wishlist.

Here is the card I made for the wedding invitation for The Scrapbook Queen: I really like how my cover turn out. I use Bazzil birthstone paper then I embossed in silver power for edge. then I printed their engagment picture in B & W then inside. I had trouble with but i like it.

Well, that's it for now. I'm working on the Jitterbuggin challenge today. I will post it tomorrow before we head down to his mom for Thanksgiving dinner.

Stylish Blogger Award

Wow, I got this award twice! so I will thanks both Rhonda and Becky for this award. Now, this award does come with some rules and I have to pay it forward: 1. Thank and link back to the person who awarded you this 2. Share 8 things about yourself 3. Pay it forward to 8 bloggers that you have recently discovered 4. Contact those bloggers and tell them about their awards Thank you Rhonda and Becky for this award . Please check out their website. both has alot of awesome inspiration: http://scraphappenswithrhonda.blogspot.com/ and http://fourthouseontheright.blogspot.com/ 8 things about myself: 1. I love my family! 2. My brother and I were the only ones deaf in our family. Now my brother's three kids are deaf. 3. I love to create! 4. I'm trying to create out of my comfort zone! 5. I'm trying out for design teams. 6. I love meeting with new people. 7. I need my morning cup of joe to get moving! 8. I love chocolate! 8 bloggers I've recently discovered: 1.Sweet Pete http://agirlnamedsweetpete.blogspot.com/ 2.Cristie http://creationsbychristie.blogspot.com/ 3.Christy http://christyscorner86.blogspot.com/ 4. Kathy http://thedailymarker.blogspot.com/ 5. Stacey http://staceymichaud.blogspot.com/ 6.Meriah http://twoscraptasticgals.blogspot.com/ 7.Mary http://www.siehledwithakiss.blogspot.com/ 8. Eugenia http://under-the-pink.blogspot.com/ I will contact them above throughout today as I get on here and there. lol Thanks for reading

Harry Potter!!!!!

Today I am going with my mom and we are going to watch Harry Potter! We've been waiting a long time for it to come in theater. I know I am so excite! I can't wait. lol I've finished the wedding card challenge and send in my entry. It was my first in making it. I think it looks nice maybe too simple for her. We'll see. I'm almost done with my second challenge which i can't post until after they pick winning entry. I will post them if I don't win. I love how all my layouts came out especially the one i just did this morning. lol I'm planning to do the Jitterbuggin' challenge. i already have the design in my head and the colors which wasn't the part of originally design that was in my head until I find the colorbok paper pack that I gotten at Wal-mart couple years ago that i just started using it. lol so i can't wait to do that card tonight. In previous post, I have mentioned of working on my friend's valentine collage. I have decide to do it all in 2x2 squares of various themes. So I am working on that. I'm planning to purchase the larger frame to show the large valentine collage as planned. I know i need to go to Micheal to get larger mat for frame. just need to decide on color--either red or black or maybe white I can mist it with my walnut ink. something to think about. Well, I need to get off and get ready to go over to my mom to go watch Harry Potter. Thanks for reading!

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Wow-times just flew!

Good afternoon, all Yesterday I was at Big Lots and saw this on the shelf. I couldn't resist that big coffee cup. No, I won't be using it as a coffee cup. lol I would never be able to drink it all. lol After I make the cake, I am planning to use this cup in my scraproom to hold my markers and pen. It will go with my colors I have chose for my scraproom. I'm currently working on three projects: my first one is of course the wedding challenge: As you can see, it still in progress. I kinda got stuck on cover. I'm not sure if I'm liking this so I'm working on save the date card. you can see there is other stuffs on this table i need to put away where they belongs. lol Cleaning up is hard to do when i know i have lot of projects i need to do especially with Christmas coming around the corner. so i have decide to wait until January to do the major cleaning and purging where i can focus it more. This is my second project that I just started working on. This is Christmas gift for my friend, Sherry. Don't worry she doesn't know i have this blog. lol She love all the gifts i have made for her this couple past years. I will see if i can find the pictures of all items i have made for her to show you. I'm working on valentine's collage. I gotten this ideas from several blogger. I was originally going to make my own 2x2 squares or Atc size for 13 by 10 frame. While i was getting some papers, embellishments, etc. I came across the valentine swaps I did in 2009 (i think) I had them in a box which i completely forgotten about. so I went thur them as you can see the mess here. lol While i was doing this, I kept thinking of picture frame i saw when i was in big lot that i could incorporate alot more of this. I'm not sure what size that frame was but it was a large square for 10 dollars so that means a trip to big lot to get that frame to do this. I know if i use this smaller frame I might just do the 2x2 square as show on the bottom but i really like the larger pieces. Some of them were tags and i altered them to 2x2 square which work great. so i may change it up and do all 2x2 squares for this smaller frame. or get that larger frame. ooh, what a dilemma. lol or i could do it like i have picture below. wow don't know what to do. I have while yet or i could do both because i know her birthday is two day after Christmas as well. lol i know i know. my third project is one for design team that deadline is coming up pretty soon. I better get cracking and finish that up this weekend. lol Thanks for reading.

What's on your Workday? Wednesday 76

Good morning, all

I'm working on my first cup of coffee. It is very cold and deary outside. brrrr! Here is what my desks look like:

I actually have two desks. This is my main desk that I tend to do layouts and cards but as you can see it actually became catch it all desk from leftover projects and same for the cabinet in second picture. I'm planning to clean this up and put stuffs away and reorganize sometime this weekend. On the table is currently holding my baby bug and current project. I'm currently entering a wedding card challenge which is still in work this morning. I'm working on printing the inside of invitation. I just find the RGB code for silver so I will be doing that later today after doing errands. so join in the fun and post your workdesk! at Stamping Ground (http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com/2010/11/whats-on-your-workdesk-wednesday-76.html )

It's Manic Monday!

P.s. It was monday yesterday when I was type this but didn't get back on last night to finish it up. lol you know how it is~

Anyway:

Wow-where did the weekend go? Ugh! my plan to scrapping was interrupt by numerous things. I never got to do what I wanted to do over the weekend. However, this morning I had a chance to complete one layout for this challenge from Sassy Lil' Sketches (I wasn't able to upload to their site on time yesterday due to numerous interruptions): there was four elements that need to be added to this sketch:

1. group of three

2. Make a mess: ink, paint, etc

3. lace

4. add texture (embossing)

Here is my layout: Sorry for bad picture as it is very deary here. I use SU blue cardstock, moon and star PP for background, then i went thur my scraps stash and 10 squares to go around the pictures. I didn't put any in middle as the pictures would cover up the gap. then I use my cricut: home decor for dream cloud (you can't see it but i written sweet above the dream), new arrival for moon, animal kindgom for lamb border (I am planning to purchase PK face stamps), and star punch for three stars for banner. I didn't journal as the title said it all for me.

the second challenge was Jitterbug sketch (http://jitterbugginchallenge.blogspot.com/ ): Let's talk Turkey! here is my take.

Clean-up is still in progress. Haven't gotten far since the last posted. Well, off to get something done. lol

thanks for reading!

Great day to scrap!

Good morning all, I'm currently working on my photos organization on computer. going thur using fix red eyes, and putting tags on it then will back up to my flashdrive in case harddrive crashes (knock on wood). doing one folder at a time should done this before lol Anyhow, I was cleaning up and reorgaizing my basket that has incomplete layouts that need journaling. I find my son's umbical cord. However in middle of cleaning, I lost that and now cna't find it. I looked everywhere. :( I am refusing to vaccum until i find it I looked on floor, in garabage can, everywhere where i think it might be and nana some elf must of came and got it. lol I'm hoping I will find it while i continue to clean. It can't be lost forever right. so I've couple challenges I am going to try this weekend to work on but we'll see. It is hard to get to room when I can. My daughter is refusing to take nap. She is not even two yet. back to work.

What's on your Workdesk Wednesday?

I've been reading everyone's posts on what's on your workdesk Wednesday that I decided to join in. Currently, I'm in middle of cleaning up and orgainizing. I found these storage box at Wal-mart and thought it would be perfect to hold my small projects as I tend to multi-task. Here is picture of storage box with one of my projects I so need to finish. lol I'm planning to purchase more of these storage boxes. so loving them. Now I just need to find a shelving unit to store them. I have the design in mind but just finding them online is another story. Join in the fun of What's on your Workdesk Wednesday? by going to this blog who started: http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com/2010/11/whats-on-your-workdesk-wednesday-75.html

New look to blog

hi, all Yes i did change it from halloween to this one. I try to find some thanksgiving template and came across this which I love. However, I did lost some of my widgets. oh, well. lol I'm going to update a few things to it. here is my before pictures of scraproom: as you can see i have several projects and mess all around. lol Yesterday, I was able to finish at three projects and clean up by putting papers away, reorangized next projects I will be working on. etc. I also made a list of what i need to purchase next month. This month we are saving for Black friday, My first time shopping on black friday where I wasn't working. lol I used to work at Wal-mart as cashier then floor assistant. It was fun to watch people grabing those specials. WE were always told to hid back so no one run you down. I remember one time there was a lady wearing roll skate. She flew by us. Teh following year manager made her take it off due to safety. lol what would people do?Sorry i was rambling. As you can see i have made some progress. Yes, I'm using my daughter's little table for now. As she is using it to climb over gate, she can't ahve in her playroom. lol my little ape love to climb. i'm not sure if i will be in my scraproom to play as i'm going over to viist my friend for day. Thanks for reading.