Blue Dog and The Unity Wednesday Challenge

The other night I get home from work to find my family room carpet looking like this




This is just a small sampling- there is blue everywhere and little blue pawprints all over the house. I can't imagine who could have done such a thing....





Can you?

At least it was a crayola marker so it's water soluble. I have not found any pieces of it though so she must have eaten the whole thing. That's what Cocoa does. She eats things. Nothing is safe. She's eaten holes in our comforters, all of my flip flops (my fault I know), see that couch she's sitting on? She's even been eating the frame underneath- and before you tell me to buy her a toy, trust me we have, they work for about a day or two until she eats them.








Here is my card for the Unity Wednesday Challenge at Splitcoast. The challenge today was to create a masculine card. I have trouble with boy cards so this WAS a challenge.






Supplies Used: Pattern Paper; Memory Box

Stamps: Unity Stamp Company; Tiny Trinity, Simply Said

Hemp, eyelets




I also did this layout inspired by the new sketch site Inspired Blueprints.

Supplies Used:

Pattern Paper: Basic Grey

Bazzill cardstock with an Edge

Unity Stamp Company: Oh what a beautiful morning, Sept KOM, Oct KOM, Owl always love you, Simply Said

That's me and my Sister in Spirit, Stephanie at her going away party in the summer of 2007. She moved to Japan, and I miss her so much. She was here this past June and stayed with us for a week and we had so much fun. She's my person. Meredith has Christina (Grey's anatomy reference here) and I have Steph. If you get a chance stop by her blog and tell her I said to get her non-bloggy butt blogging again. She has some pretty cool pictures there too.

That's it for today! Thanks for stopping by!

Gratitude:

1. Rain (hopefully it will cool down)

2. Jimmy John's subs (have you had these they are yummy)

3. Landon's bday is tomorrow

4. Yesterday was our 14th anniversary...(that's another post)

5. Goofy assed dogs

ATC Swaparamma!!

Who wants to play? So far I've got..

Lisa

Casii

Robin

Deanna

Judy

Kathryn

Christi

and of course me....

come on you know you want to... Dianna? Carolyn?

We found a home for Retro...and I miss her already and so do the kids...and so does Rob...but 3 dogs...we don't have a fenced yard..yada yada yada...so if it doesn't work out with her new family they're going to give her back to us...

I'm more that a little brainless tonight..I had to work today..not in heaven (Scrapbook Factory)...at my JOB ...tomorrow I get to go and work in Heaven...

the boys start Spring Break tomorrow...and I'm off from my JOB until next Tuesday..

Tonight we're going to watch Atonement..which I've really been looking forward to seeing.

That's all I've got tonight...

Thanks for stopping by!

There must be a sign...

Above my door, that only animals can read that says "All Furry Four Legged Creatures Welcome Here!" because look at this...

This came over yesterday while I was at work and the boys were playing outside with some of the neighbor kids...this wrapped my husband around her furry little paw in less than 30 seconds (although somehow this is all my fault even though I wasn't even here..huh?)...This ended up getting a bath from me at 9pm because I couldn't bear to stare at those eyes begging to be let in our home...This does not have a microchip...This was not reported missing in any of the local newspapers or Human Societies....This is something like sleeping with a toodler that drools a little more....This is the sweetest most docile well behaved probably pure bred black lab puppy you ever met in your life...This now has a name courtesy of Britain "Retro"..."Retro" needs a happy home....because I already have

this....

and let us not forget...

this one....I do not need 3 dogs...ok?

I loved my first day at SBF (my new 2nd job at The Scrapbook Factory) it's so fun...I so enjoyed helping customers pick things out and I don't know...for me there are no words..I know it sounds silly but it's like Utopia..it's not stressful when you're doing what you love...anyway here's a picture of Amy (this one is Amy Jo) she's the one who's been showing me the ropes

and here is a really bad picture of me trying to look studious...I just don't do studious...

I've completed my Deck of Me card for Week 11...prompt was "what is something you do for yourself everyday?" Mine is coffee time...that time in the morning when I'm the only one awake the house is quiet and I'm enjoying my morning coffee..photo on the front side is from Flickr.com

and I'm trying my hand at tags and joined a tag swap with some Fiskateers...so here's my first one

I know kind of simple...but it's my first one...oh and yeah, those are paint chips...love all the colors on these and guess what they're free! So I pick a few up now and then when I go to the store and have been trying to figure out what to do with them...so they landed on this tag...

I also did some page kits for the SBF...

With both jobs, a third dog, science fair crap, school crap, and spring break starting Wed...and the usual day to day house, work and kid stuff, I've been missing a lot of blog days lately...and projects...I have so many projects "in waiting"....but this is what I love to do and I don't want to make it a chore, so I'm taking it one day at a time and I will not stress myself out over not blogging every day...I say this because after missing a day or two here and there and looking at the huge mess in my craft area I found myself beating myself up about it...and I had to tell myself to get a grip and let it go....(which is a lot of talking to myself )

...(there is so much flying around in my head at any given time it gets pretty crowded in there)

I'd like to start an ATC Swap...who's up? The way it would work is this

after I get a count of how many sign up I'll let everyone know and you would make that many cards, every card should have your name on it and where your from, (blog/email is optional)

we'll set a deadline and you'll have all your cards to me by that date along with the extra postage (equal to the amount that it took to send your cards to me) I will then send you back one of each of everyone else's cards...I'm thinking having them all in to me by the end of April...sound fun?...I don't want this to be stressful, I want it to be fun...but if you sign up please make sure you can follow through...sound good? I've been wanting to play more with these and the Deck of Me has me loving this size...If you can't find blank ATC's use a deck of cards and alter them...or just cut heavy cardstock to 2 1/2 by 3 1/2...so leave a comment if you want to play and I'll send you and email.... can't wait to get going!

That's it for tonight...

Gratitudes:

1. dogs...even when everything else is going crazy they love you

2. being able to do something you love and get paid to

3. our trees are starting to bud...I do believe spring is around the corner

4. setting deadlines..it's what keeps me sane and on task

5. chili on a cold wet day

Thanks for stopping by!