My Life Monday - Project Life wk 2

What a week it was. It all started off with my birthday on Monday. My younger son took me and my husband out to dinner to celebrate and also bought me a big piece of cake. (not the best week for trying to lose weight). It was super sweet and we had a good time at dinner.

I wanted my title card to reflect my birthday week so I chose Birthday Bash for the funny bird. I then used Art Philosophy for the font, a strip of washi tape and a little stamping.

The week was extremely cold and my space heater in my scraproom got a work-out. Evidently I'm not the only one that enjoys it though. Everytime I plug it in I find Olivia laying in front of it.

I added the picture of my desk at work because it was such a crazy, stressful day at work. Our computer guy came in because the computers were doing weird things. At first he thought our computers were hacked and that it started with my computer. Luckily it was just a virus and it DIDN'T start with my computer. He got us back up and running before the work day was over.

This week I got my first ever flu shot. It's been all over the news that the flu has hit epidemic proportions and that everyone should get the shot if they are able to find one. I guess California is one of only 3 states where the flu hasn't peaked yet and a lot of places have run out of the vaccine.

The rest of the week included getting my hair done and football all weekend. (Go 49ers!) The very last picture is of my sweet hubby washing our vehicles. I'm so glad he washes them because it's too cold for me.

Well, that's my life for the week. The next couple of weeks are going to be busy so it might be tough to keep myself on schedule, but I'm going to try. I may not get any layouts done though.

Oh Happy Day layout and a winner

Happy Monday. I have a new layout today and a winner of my blog candy. First I'll share my layout. The paper is Echo Part and the title was cut from Don Juan at 4".

And now on to my Blog Candy winner. Picked by Random.org was Dedrah! Thank you so much for following my blog and the nice comments.

Dedrah send me your address so that I can get your prize package to you.

See you back here soon. Cindy

Tiger by the tail

Another layout completed. This is the girl version of the layout I posted yesterday. I love these pictures. Just to see that smiley face on Khloe brings a smile to my face. She loves her puppy dogs and she gets the giggles everytime they come up to her. In these pictures the dogs were licking her hands because she had baby food on them. Khloe thought it was the funniest thing and in the last picture you can see that she got ahold of the dogs tongue.

The font is from Don Juan and the circles are from the George and Basic Shapes cartridge. The buttons and flowers are from my stash as well as the paper.
Now I need to go pick out another sketch for my next layouts. Have a wonderful day. Cindy

I'm Back!

I cannot believe it has been two weeks since my last post. It's been a crazy time with my family. My Dad had an allergic reaction to some of his medications and ended up in the hospital. Just when he finally got out of the hospital and was feeling a little better it happened again. This time it was even scarier because the doctor had taken him off all of his medications. They had no idea at this point what was causing his throat to swell shut.

Hubby and I packed some clothes and headed off to the hospital.... 16 hours away. We drove straight there, only stopping when necessary. I was very happy that I could be there when my Dad woke up. We stayed until he was out of the hospital and then had to make the long trip back home. He had an appointment with a specialist the next day and they think it was the first allergic reaction that was not fully out of his system. He was only told to take Benadryl for 3 days. Once the three days had passed the swelling came back. Now he is on a few different medications for 10 days. According to the doctor that should take care of it. I sure hope so.

Now that we are back home I had a little time to spend in my scrapbook room and unwind. I was working on a layout before we left, so I got that finished up and started on a second one. Here is the sketch I used. It is page 33 from PageMaps.

The layout includes pictures of my younger son again. For the Cricut cuts I used Don Juan for the title and George for the stars and circles.

I'll try to get the 'girl' version finished and posted tomorrow. I'm almost done with it. Hopefully I won't be missing in action anymore, but most importantly I hope everyone stays well. Take care everyone. Cindy

I couldn't wait to post

I added pictures, a title and some Cricut cuts. I'm really pleased with the way this layout looks. The pictures are from over a year ago when my Nephew was turning 8. (I'm very behind) I still need to add journaling on the bottom of the right hand side, but I'll do that later. For now I'm calling it done.

Okay, now I'm off to do some more layouts. Tomorrow I get off work early and should have more time to play.

Laughing layout

Okay, so I made this layout a couple of days ago and wasn't very happy with it.  I used my K&Company paper, some cardstock from my pile of paper and the Don Juan cartridge for the word laughter. It might look better with pictures covering the white cardstock, but it just wasn't working for me. So I went back to my supplies to see what else I could add that might look better. I covered thed white mats with more K&Company paper, added a layer of orange printed paper to the peachy colored cardstock and a little ribbon to the top. It's still not my favorite layout, but I think it looks much better than it did. I've never been good at combining patterned papers so this was a little difficult for me (I think I mentioned that in my previous post). If you have any tips for me I'd love to hear them. In the mean time I will keep trying and see what else I get out of this tablet of paper. Thanks for stoppin' by.

Tomato Thief

 

These are pictures of my sons dog. My husband had planted a tomatillo plant and was eagerly waiting for them to ripen. Unfortunately the dog found the plant before hubby had a chance to pick them. In these pictures the dog was pulling off the tomatillo, squeezing through the railing that was meant to keep him out and then running off to the lawn to eat it. I used the new Cricut Lite cartridge Block Party for the tomatoes and the dog. I also used the Sugar and Spice cartridge for the scallop circle.

Arm Wrestling

 

Scrapbook pages from Christopher's 18th Birthday. He had bet Michael that when he turned 18 he would be able to beat him in arm wrestling. Well, the day finally came and they sat down to fulfill their bet. Christopher was not so happy when at the end he was not the winner.

LID Challenge 4/3-4/9/10

 

 

I had so much fun with this layout. My inspiration was of course Starlet's name and the awesome sketch Bearylish posted for the LID Challenge this week. Our new little girl likes to play fetch with her play mouse. It's so cute. Of course I had to take a bunch of pictures.

Birthday Card for Dad

This is a birthday card I made for my Dad. He loves his coffee, so I thought this would be the perfect card for him on his birthday.

Friendly Competition

Another LID challenge for the Cricut Message Board. These pictures were taken at the Alameda County Fair. I used the Celebrations cartridge for the balloons at 6 inches. I also used the Don Juan cartridge for the title at 1 inch.

County Fair Critters

These are a couple of layouts I did for thed LID girls challenge on the Cricut Message Board. These pictures are from the Alameda County Fair. I used Don Juan font and the Paper Dolls cartridges on these layouts.

Christopher's 18th Birthday

For Christopher's 18th Birthday he wanted to play in a Texas Hold'em Tournament. The only place close to us that you can play at age 18 is Jackson Rancheria, so off we went. Mike, Mark, Michael and Christopher all entered the tournament. The first one out was Michael, next was Mark and then Mike. Christopher stayed in until 4th place - out of 23 people. One person away from the money. We later found out that the two people that got 1st and 2nd place were husband and wife and they play all the time.

San Francisco, CA

I made a one page layout into two pages so that I could have more pictures.

San Francisco, CA

Our day in San Francisco. It was a beautiful day and we had a lot of fun.

Olivia AKA Fatty Patty

Little Miss Olivia. This is a layout I did for the LID girls challenge on the Cricut Message Board for this week. Olivia is Christopher's kitty. We were not expecting to get another cat. We were at our Veterinarians office picking up medicine for our other kitty that was very sick. We suddenly heard this sad crying coming from the other side of the room. We looked over and the lady at the front desk saw us. She said, "she's looking for a home".  Christopher went straight over and took her out of her cage. He sat down and refused to leave until I agreed that he could have her.

Alameda County Fair 2009

This was from July 2009 when we went to the Alameda County Fair. The "Guys" gave their best effort to riding the mechanical bull. The youngest of the bunch, Christopher, stayed on the longest and did the best. Normally the saying would be, "mess with the bull and you'll get the horns", but with a mechanical bull you just get thrown off and land on the cushioned mat. Much safer.

LID Challenge Week 4

This is a layout I did for the LID challenge on the Cricut Message Board this week. I used Storybook to cut out the scallop background and Don Juan for the title. These pictures are from August when my son moved back home temporarily.

LID Challenge

This is another two page layout I did with the LID (Laying It Down) girls challenge over on the Cricut Message board. The sketch was just for one page (the one on the left), but I always like to do two page spreads. I've had this paper and punch-out embellishments laying around my scrapbook room for about a year. I'm so happy to have finally used it.The title circle was cut using the Cricut George Cartridge. The title was cut using my new Don Juan cartridge. I was able to get it using the Cricut reward points and I love it.