Growing In Unity Week!!! Day two...

Hello my funny little friends...

Well, it's Tuesday,

GIU Day 2....

and hopefully I am somewhere

past Lexington, Ky

on the road in my Dodge Dakota

free and easy down the road I go

with Houdini and Gerbil our Hamsters

and Duchess and Cocoa the dogs

and one of the kids

probably strapped to the roof with duct tape...

ok not really

BUT

enough about The Travelling Castellano's

You want eyecandy

so here ya go

I made this envelope using a 61/2 by 12 sheet of cardstock, folded up the bottom to about two inches from the top and stiched around the sides to create a pocket. I then folded down the top to creat a flap, and scalloped the edge and rounded all the corners. I used Unity Stamp Company: Giggle Grove, Growing in Unity, and Circle of Thanks. Paper is Basic grey Offbeat. Love that paper!

And a layout...

I used Unity Stamp Company Nov KOM, Our Life Our Stories, and Smile Paper is We R Memory Keepers and Fancy Pants..

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Thanks!!

Hello Monday...

The boys had a five day weekend and the weather has been so nice. I wanted to do something nice and take them to the zoo, the fall colors are absolutely beautiful there this time of year...plus with cooler weather the animals seem to be more fun to look at...(hey if I had to lay in the 90 degree sun licking my butt while people stared at me all day, I'd probably be in a bad mood too)

BUT..my kids didn't want to go the zoo...they weren't really "in the mood"...ok whatever...so instead I took them school clothes shopping...for some strange reason incomprehensible to me they LOVE the mall...I hate the mall. I could take a week here telling you all the reasons I hate they mall...but really I wanted them to actually wear the clothes I bought which means letting them pick them out...so I cowboy-ed up...and we went to JC Penney...which I must say has some pretty awesome bargains right now...

They also hate the camera right now...I pull it out-they get obnoxious..it's sort of an autonomic response...so here's a couple picture of the boys at the food court...

that's Landon behind the bag

and Britain

I've also made a few things...on Friday I made this chalkboard...I had been wanting one of these for the kitchen for a while and I finally found the size I was looking for.

I made this a little hastily...I'm still not sure how much I like it... it only took like 20 minutes not include drying time

I also made this little card...I just love this stamp Christi let me borrow it. It's by Rubber Stamped.

Today, I did two layouts. I don't usually stamp on layouts, I don't know why I never have. So I've been practicing. Unity Stamp Company makes it so easy to do so because their stamps are so versatile.

This first one is based on Pencil Lines sketch of the week #106

Ever since the kids were babies I've sung this song to them...of course now I get eye rolls and exasperated "Maa-ooms!"

Supplies Uses: American Crafts paper

Unity Stamp Company: Oh What a Beautiful Morning, Sept KOM

This is a second interpretation of the same sketch I just turned it and chaged up the elements a little.

Supplies used:

Pattern Paper: Memory Makers, Dreamstreat, We R Memory Keepers

Unity Stamp Company Sept KOM, Oct KOM

Letters: Memory Makers

I spent some time at my neighbor Pat's today...Look what she gave me!

She found these at an Estate Sale! I just love them! Thanks Pat! She also gave me a bunch of these...

Aren't they fun?! Go see what she's doing with them here.

That's all!

Thanks for stopping by!

Gratitude:

1. HBO

2. My cool neighbor

3. The long weekend (even though it's over ;-( )

4. beautiful weather

5. krispy kreme pumpkin spice donuts...heaven

Everything's Coming up Roses!!

So several people asked me whether or not I was going to accept the job in Heaven (aka The Scrapbook Factory) and I have to say at this point how could I not...? right? but I'm going to go by there after work tomorrow and talk with Anne and see what's next....I'm so excited I could pee my pants!!

In other news...another super cool thing happened to me today...I am joining the team at OhScrap, on online magazine and blog soon to publish it's first issue...I don't know all the details of what you're going to be seeing in there yet and some stuff is still super secret..but I can promise it's going to be a lot of fun... I am going to be the Sketch Coordinator!! I am so excited that I already completed my first assignment! You can go subscribe here now....that would be now....and then come back and read about the rest of what's going on around here....

I actually started to blog last night, but blogger kept giving me error messages so I gave up...

While I've been missing the past couple days, I've actually gotten quite a bit done...

This is Landon helping me with my suitcase...I'm having a lot of fun with this medium or I should say we are...but I'm not showing you anymore of it until it's done...

I should have known when I almost set the kitchen on fire yesterday boiling water for tea that it probably wasn't the best day to start this project..(I sort of forgot about putting the water on and got in the shower)...I got one side done and all impressed with my cute self, turned it over to do the other side and proceeded to put the focal point of the project..the vintage "Once in Love with Amy" ad from a 1950's Life....UPSIDE DOWN...Mod Podge is not a very forgiving sealer so it's stuck that way...it's cute still...just upside down...so I'm not sure if I'm going to just cover over it or say the heck with it and leave it...probably the latter...

Here is my Deck of Me card for week 10..prompt was describe you Happy Place

The paper is Making Memories and the Dye Cuts are from Luxe Designs Color Me Cozy...I so love this line of paper...then I inked them with my CTMH inks

and here is a layout based on one of Christi's Creative Prompts...36 I think...

I used CTMH Cardstock, Making Memories letter stickers, Bazzill cardsock for the Photo matts, Scenic Route Charlotte pattern paper and Daisy D's Beacon Hill patter paper, the butterfly and journal tag are Fancy Pants....

I also did this one of Landon..

For this one I used Bazzill cardstock, Karen Foster pattern paper, We R memory Keepers patter paper and letter stickers, Making Memories pattern paper and journaling page, Fancy Pants ribbon and ribbon holder thingie.

I had Landon home with me today, he's had a really awful cold and has been pretty miserable...but of course with the amazing power of Tylenol Cold by 11 he was feeling fine and dandy and bouncing off the walls so we...well mostly he...I supervised made some chocolate chip cookies...

they turned out really good- so his new aspiration is to become a chef...let's hope he has a lot better luck in the kitchen than I do....I'm way too easily distracted...

That's all I've got for today...thanks so much for stopping by...

Gratitude:

1. Day off with Landon

2. Baking cookies with kid mentioned above

3. Not losing my patience with same earlier mentioned kid

4. getting some scrappy stuff done...

5. staying in my pj's until (blush) about 11...

oh my gosh, I almost forgot to mention...there's this new show on Fox called New Amsterdam...it's on tonight at 8 central...or it might be 9...anyway it's really good you've got to see it and if you missed the first two episodes you can watch them on Fox.com...I watch almost all my shows on the internet anymore...I can never seem to be in front of the tv at a specific time...ok well this post has probably broken records for longest ever..so I'm outta here..

love and kisses...

MWAH!

Giant Steps are what you take...

walking on the moon...

if I how to put music on here, then you'd be hearing The Police right now, but as it is you'll have to imagine it in your head...if Carolyn or Dianna want to help me out in this department please feel free....so

who wants to walk with me?

I should have said "walk around the world" so I apologize to my international friends for my narrowmindedness...

My plan is to start on Monday, I'm hoping that by then it won't be quite as soggy as it has been here the past few days because I do not have a treadmill . I know some of you have already started..Good for you! Kylie's walking "virtually" to Lisbon and will then get rewarded with an actual trip to Lisbon!! This is totally no stress, I just want us to be able to motivate each other to move, I definitely need the extra help, I'd much rather read or play with paper than go for a walk...so I hope you'll check back here and comment when you walk how far you went and by the weekend I'm going to add a walklist over to the right of your links (if you wish to be included please leave me a comment with your link) and it's as easy as that. So fire up those MP3 players and get your walking shoes ready! Set a goal which includes some incentive at the end...Mine is 20 lbs by the end of May and I get Scrapbook Money to spend! So I haven't set a mile goal yet, at first I think I just want to see if I can actually get out the door. Feel free to share pictures of your walking adventures as well, and let anyone know who might want to join to come on by and join us...!!! LET's GO!!

I also have a Ricetta (Italian word for recipe, because everyone says "sketch" and I wanted a cute name, so it's basically a sketch) for you. If you want to play, create a layout inspired by this Ricetta and link me in the comments. Next Wednesday, I will display everyone's pages with a new Ricetta!

so here is Ricetta #1 designed by me...and I don't know how to do it up in a program the way I've seen on a lot of other blogs if someone wants to tell me how that works I'd love to be schooled...Thanks!

and here is my take on it

I hope this inspires you to play!!

I used Bazzill Bling Cardstock

Lace Cardstock by KI Memories

buttons from Rhonna Farrer

Letter stickers by Heidi Grace

I'm trying to be better about doing a supply list

I also completed this layout for the FiskarsCrafts sketch for February

Bazzill Cardstock, CTMH

Pattern Paper Making Memories, CTMH

Chipboard letters are WE R Memory Keepers

I think Thursday is going to be Meme day, and on Friday there will be a project challenge up...at least that's my story and I'm stickin to it...

Today I am grateful for

1. being off work

2. Kids had early release

3. got some scrapping done

4. got some laundry done

5.after tomorrow I have a 4 day weekend! I hope to spend some time at the Fiskars online crop so whoever is going hope to see you there!