I've been...

MIA! I know I have...I'm sorry! We had a super busy week this last week and then this weekend we spent trying to get our house back in order and ready for Fall and Winter. Yesterday was spent cleaning and tidying up our back yard, which had become a little straggly. A portion of our fence was also knocked down during our last big storm and we finally started working on repairing it this weekend. We weren't able to finish yesterday but hope to wrap things up this coming week.



I haven't been able do any scrapbooking due to be being busy but also because I haven't printed any new pictures! I tend to print the pictures I want to scrapbook on a need basis only because otherwise I start feeling pretty overwhelmed! And I don't scrapbook in chronological order so when I do print pictures to scrapbook I usually just pick whatever strikes my fancy at that moment in time. It may sound odd and unorganized but right now this is what works for me! :o)



And since I've posted quite a bit lately about re-decorating Jonah's bedroom I thought I would share the bedding/theme that we have decided to use.

Cute, right?! I love it! And we know that Jonah will adore it. This weekend I was finally able to get some paint cards so we could make a decision on his wall color. I'll be posting pictures this weekend to show you our progress.

Have a wonderful Monday! Ta ta for now!

Crafty, scrappy goodness...

I finally had some time to take bad, blurry pictures of what I've done the last week or two and get them on the computer! I know I promised never to take pictures with my camera phone again but really, it's all I had on hand and...well, that's it really. Sorry for the blurryness. Blurriness? Bluriness-oh I give up!

I was looking for some frames to put Jonah's artwork in for his amazing bedroom transformation but couldn't find one the right size for one piece in particular. I rummaged and rummaged (I have lots of random frames laying around...I'm a frame-a-holic...) and finally found one in a box of frames I had bought at a yard sale for about $1 when I was in high school. (I started with the frames early, I tell ya!) It was the perfect size but there was one problem. It had dividers for multiple pictures. The only solution was to tear out the dividers. So I took the hammer to it! (I was so excited that I started demo before I remembered to take a picture!)









This obviously, is post dividers. All it needed then was a couple dabs of black paint and...

instant cuteness!

This is just another frame in my collection that was previously a horrendous shade of fake gold. I liked the texture of it though so decided to keep it. I painted it black and *voila!* more cuteness! (By the way, this drawing was the first one that Jonah informed us what it was when he was finished drawing. It, obviously, is a fish.) :o)

Ta ta for now!

Olympics, layouts and a new kitten...

I had a good weekend. How about yours? Bishnu was off this weekend so we did a lot of hanging aruond the house. It was wonderful! We did spend some time with my parents Friday evening and Saturday because the Olympics has started! We are definitely an Olympic-watching family! The opening ceremony was beautiful, breathtaking and so artistic. There is so much history in China that I'm sure it would have been a daunting task to try to encompess it all! But it was done - with pride and beauty. It's been hard to do anything in the house at all since Friday evening because I don't want to miss any of the Olympics... I've especially been glued to the tv with the swimming events. My brother was a swimmer throughout school and our family really became interested in it during that time. And it's an exciting time to be watching swimming with our US team leading the way! Did anyone else catch the amazing US vs. France relay event aired last night?! I had to keep checking myself so I wouldn't wake Jonah up...lol! I also love the gymnastics, which has already started. Although it doesn't have as much grandeur as it seemed to have a couple of Olympics ago, it is still exciting to watch. The US team in those events is promising and it'll be fun to watch how it all unfolds. And last, but not least, the track and field events. I CAN NOT wait for those. Being a former runner, I know firsthand the excitement of a good track/distance race even if it was on a MUCH smaller scale! There's several new runners and hurdlers competing for the US this Olympics and I can't wait to see how they fare in comparison to some of the more seasoned athletes. Whew! That was much longer and long-winded than I thought it would be...

Just a couple of layouts that I finished this weekend. This was all part of a 2peas Young Scrappers Challenge/Anniversary Week. I just recently joined this group and am having quite a bit of fun!

This one doesn't actually feel complete yet...I'm thinking the title needs to be beefed up some more. What do you think?

And lastly, I introduce our new kitten! She is super sweet and cuddly, although she may not look like it in this picture! Bishnu and I have been joking that she can literally kill a person with kindness! My office manager discovered her one day while doing yardwork. She heard her mewing and found her sitting in a bird's nest that was balanced in a shrub! She and Glendale seem to have a love/hate relationship and we'll see how that eventually plays out. We are absolutely stumped on a name for her, though. So I am asking for help! Please readers, if you see this picture and think of a fitting name, feel free to leave me a comment! Because I am sincerely getting tired of calling her 'the kitten' and we are ready for something permanent.




















Have a wonderful Monday!

Ta ta for now!

10 unfinished projects...

that are DEFINITELY hanging over my head! That is the subject of the 2peas Blogger Challenge today and it did not take me long to fill that list. In fact, on our refrigerator I currently have a list of projects to be completed for each room in our home, yard and garage! Bishnu looks at that list and just groans. I look at that list and can't hep but grin. I love projects! So, here is my current Top 10 To-Do List (not to be confused with my Honey-Do List which is completely separate):

1. Finish all current Jonah layouts that are in progress.
2. Print pictures and scrapbook Minnesota trip.
3. Print pictures and scrapbook Jonah's 2nd Birthday Party.
4. Print pictures and scrapbook St. Louis trip.
5. Email St. Louis pictures to best friends (who were also on said trip).
6. Finish altered gardening book and start planning for next year's garden.
7. Start decorating Jonah's bedroom.
8. Start decorating our bedroom.
9. Organize my scrapbook area.
10. Finalize details for my Young Scrapper's Challenge for Sunday on 2peas.

There you have it, folks. Actually, now that I am thinking about all of this I am slightly daunted. Well, actually, very daunted. Is daunted a word? No? Hhm....

Anyways, I need to get going quick-like on some of this or it will never get done! Thanks for the motivation 2peas bloggers!

Ta ta for now!

Wow. I really need...

that digital camera I posted about awhile back. My phone camera just isn't cutting it anymore...I can't even believe I used my phone camera to take these! They're horrible! They're blurry, fuzzy and even though I sharpened, lightened, auto-fixed, etc. them to death they still look pathetic. Well, please, look past all of those imperfections and I promise I won't post any layouts that look like this anymore!


Jonah @ 6 months


A baby card

I used Bazzill cardstock for both the lo and the card. I love the stickers used on the card, too! Aren't they adorable?! I saw them and just had to have them. You know, I really don't consider myself a simple, streamlined scrapbooker but that is the direction I seem to be headed these days. I love looking at layouts that seem to hold much more than what I place on mine. I think I am always slightly worried that I will "overload" my pages and thus, they end up looking slightly bare to me but streamline and normal to others.

In scrapbook room/area news. I have a desk. And it has 3 picture frames on it. And I have yet to use it to scrapbook. WHAAAATTTT?! I know. Crazy, right? I really don't have any good excuses but I can come up with some pretty crappy ones: 1.) It's in the basement and we don't really use the basement all that much yet. 2.) I, uhm...well. I guess that's it, really. I'll try to come up with another one later. Seriously, it just doesn't feel "comfortable" to me yet. There is nothing down there except my scrapping stuff and like I said, we just don't really utilize that space yet. I think I'll end up feeling lonely down there and/or paranoid about Jonah being on a different level of the house and feeling the need to check on him every 10 minutes. I think I just need to suck it up and get down there already, right? Right??? Hmm, okay. I'll keep you all updated...

Ta ta for now!

It's hot, Don.

Don?! Who the heck is Don? Well, really, if you don't live in southern Indiana or northern Kentucky you probably won't get it (It's from a car commercial a local dealer updates every summer). But it really is hot. Last week it started warming up and today it was supposed to get into the 90s. I'm not really sure what the high today actually was but I can vouch that it was pretty high up there. So can my flowers. I think they're dying...and if they aren't yet they will start to pretty soon. It just got too hot, too fast. I sort of feel like a failure in the gardening department right now. I'm trying to keep the soil moist without over watering them and nothing is really working. I'll just have to keep chugging along and hope they stay alive. :o)

I'm really starting to feel the fact that I haven't scrapbooked in the last month. Yes, you read right. A. Month. We have been so busy since we moved into the house that I haven't even had time to set up my scrapbook area downstairs, much less try to put together a page. I'm really starting to miss it though. I think tonight I'll work on some Thank You cards and see what I can get done.

Anyhoo I'll leave y'all with some cute pics of Jonah playing with one of his many cars. Lord, we find these things all over the house...

and one more pic from Minnesota of me and Bishnu -

Hm....methinks I should start running again...I'm starting to look like a chunky monkey...I'll think more about it after I finish this here bowl of ice cream with chocolate syrup.

Ta ta for now!