This blog post is being dedicated to Denise, Mary W, Sherry, Beth and Jacki. Thanks girls for the nice emails and Facebook comments looking for me. Facebook is my new stomping ground as it's easier to micro blog in a few short sentances than to formulate a project and toughts here. I'm not saying that I don't miss my blog and blogging friends.....it's a time thing....and I just haven't figured out how to add blogging back into my juggling act and judging by the crappy photo I have forgotten how to use my camera too.

First the stamping and then I'll get to my crazy life. My stamp room has become the junk epicenter of the household...quite embarassing and I am actually going to show you the before I clean it up video to prove it and it's not pretty. I can honestly say that I have not been stamping....nor can I find anything so that I can stamp.

By the looks of this lame tag it shouldn't be any surprise that I have not been stamping. (That will drop another 10 readers that are looking at this blog for stamping inspiration.) I tried to make the above tag to attach to a get well gift a while back and I couldn't even find which drawer I keep my brads in....nice. I didn't have any mono so I was using that huge industrial tape runner thingy. And sadly....I never mailed the get well gift to the recipient either. (by the way, she's feeling better now.)

I am officially on vacation the rest of the week and my goal this afternoon is to get my stamp room in order so that I may be more crafty, creative and productive. (Sounds like I am taking a Stamping Oath and I need to raise my right hand.) That should have been my Lenten promise instead of giving up Starbucks cause that one isn't going so well.

Ok...brace yourself. Here is my first stamping video ever and just so you know...there is no stamping lesson in this video. I am NOT going to show you anything new, trendy or creative. This is just a bold step into my room full of crap that I never use anymore....the title of my video is....The Unorganized Scrapbooker.

Where's the beach?

No stamping today. Just a photo from my PAD collection. This is what my deck currently looks like and it just makes me want to escape to the beach forever! I am craving warmth and sunshine like never before. With the low single digit temps and snow that I am sure won't thaw til June makes me crave sand between my toes.

I am having trouble with this Photo A Day (PAD) thing and I am finding that my oh so exciting life is really oh so boring. What the heck am I supposed to be photographing? Any good ideas on how to make my photo taking more meaningful rather than so random and boring? Who the heck wants to scrap about snow and soup? But right now....that's all I have in my hot and cold life.....soup and snow...snow and soup.

Hey, I have some crafty stuff to give away. I have a ton of those tonic punches that I have never used....not my thing....but I am sure they are a great tool for someone else. They were given to me and I have no use for them. I feel some blog candy coming on....oh and I have some JustRite sets to give away too.....lots of them. Sweet. I'll put it together and post it this weekend.

See ya on the blog.

How Time Flies

Hey there people in blogville. My how time flies these days. So much so that I seem to forget about blogging these days. As I said before I spend most of my time on Facebook because it is faster....more like micro-blogging in sentances rather than paragraphs as I explained to Beth today.

Anyway while I was blog surfing today I came across a post talking about the Project 365 and the blogger asked.... if you could look at old photos what were you doing one year ago? Hmmmm. Well if I look back at my blog posts a year ago I was exstatic to be invited to attend CHA with JustRite. I was off to California and ready to take a huge leap into the craft and hobby industry. A leap that I thought would make all my crafting dreams come true. Wrong.

Fast forward.....it's CHA time again....I am here....thankful, grateful, appreciative, overjoyed..... and any other happy adjective you can stick in here....that I am home, stress free and lovin life. Really....life is good and I am thankful for all the opportunities I have had in my life time. There is nothing I can't do...well except put up with ridiculously stupid people....but who can? So what were you doing a year ago?

I went stamping last night with some friends (Jen, Krista and Ivy) and we laughed all night long. It was so awesome to get crafty for the hell of it. So here is one of the cards I made. Can't show you the rest because they are a personalized gift for someone that reads this blog and then it won't be a surprise. So...you'll just have to wait.

Brrrrr....Baby it's cold outside!

So the Photo A Day isn't going to work for me. I will take the 356 photos but it won't be one a day as some days I will have to snap more than one to keep up. Regardless it will keep me using my camera and that's the whole point...right....to take more pics?

Here is a lovely pic of me running to the car because it was soooooo fricken cold and of course snowing again. I really don't mind snowy cold weather (couldn't tell by all my bitching this week) but I can't handle painfully cold weather and that is what it was this week.

I never knew that the thermometer in my truck would register below zero digits and indeed it does. When I drove to work the other day it said -14 and with the windchill it was -29...that my friends is what I call PAINFULLY cold!!!

So it's just a quick catch up post today because I have not stamped this week. Too busy with my new job position which I totally love and I am quite confident at the end of the 30 day trial period will be a confirmed permanent position. Everything went well this week and both me and my boss had a good vibe at the end of the week. We had a lot of a-ha moments throughout the week and found that we were very much on the same page....which is always a good thing.

This weekend my baby brother Ryan is coming for a surprise visit...he should be here any minute. I am sooooo excited because I haven't seen him in two years...he lives in south Texas. Why the hell he wants to leave the warmth of Texas to visit us now during a deep freeze is beyond me but I will be happy to see him. According to him...he wants to get drunk and go sledding with me. I should have some interesting pictures for you on Monday. LOL I am not sure how well Martinis and sledding mix but we'll find out soon.

See ya on the blog!

Love You

Here is a Valentine's Day card I made. As you have probably noticed in my very slow return to stamping....I am going for the simple minimalistic approach. Hey there is no stamping on this card at all. Can I really call myself a stamper? Anyway, this isn't my usual style but the problem is that my studio has been unused for three months and I can't remember which draw holds which stuff. Guess I need to work in there more so I can know what I have in there....which is way too much crap. I think I need to give some stuff away.

So back to the card. I used the new SU red color as the base and the heard were punched out of the new SU pattern paper with the Nesabilites heart dies. The hearts are pop dotted for a 3D look. The love sentiment is a Sizzix die that I have had forever. Oh and the white was embossed with the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder. The ribbon is my fav....May Arts. Easy peasy. I think I could crank out several more of these for teachers and co-workers.

Today I am cooking and baking for no reason other than I want to try new recipes. I am making this pasta salad that has a tomato lime dressing because it sounded different and yummy, an apple maple bundt cake just cause it looked good in the pic and some split pea soup because I have been making a different soup each week and freezing the left overs.

See ya on the blog!

So much SNOW!

It has been snowing on and off for two days! I am so glad it's the weekend and I can just stay put. I was driving in a total white out this morning because it was Bailey's First Reconciliation and we were late. I should have confessed that I was swearing all the way to church. We were late and made it just in time for Bailey to be the last confession of the morning.

Then I came home and the boys (Cody and Amy's son TJ) have been sledding and snowmobiling all afternoon. They are going to be like popsicles when they get in the house. I am going to attempt to attach a video of TJ's first time ever driving a snowmobile and you will hear me yelling because he almost tipped over into the bushes. LOL

See ya on the blog!

Smokin and Stampin

Here is the smokin part of my post....PAD5 is a pic of Bill's cigar collection. Well just one little section of the humidor. I just happen to walk by the humidor and the different shades of brown caught my eye and I grabbed my camera. I just might frame this pic to hang in Bill's future library in the basement. Of course, I'll scrapbook about the cigars too....how they smell so bad and he's only allowed to smoke them in the garage. Blah!


Here is the stampin part of my post....a good luck card that I made for my co-worker that left today. Just something nice to wish her well on her new journey in life. It's also my Random Act of Kindness too because I thought about it and I am acting upon it.By the way, I got the awesome paper from Simone's store Craft Fancy. FYI, I bought it back in October so it is probably on sale now.

I am so happy it's Friday! Bailey is making her first Reconciliation tomorrow and then it's cooking and baking for the rest of the weekend. I have been getting up 30 minnutes early to do the Wii Fit and I have got my exercise in every day. Feels good.

I got some great news at work...it's sort of a promotion. Sort of because I get to test run the new position to see if I like it and if so then I will be the Executive Admin Assistant to the Executive Vice President...and still do my Marketing job too with the aid of an Admin Assistant. Shwooo...that's a mouth full and I am sure a bit confusing to you. I am confident all will be fine and this will be a permanent thing in the near future. I already have an excellent working relationship with the EVP as he was my boss for Marketing and not much should change with the added responsibilites of being his full time assistant. I am excited and just gotta say...I LOVE my job. (Sorry if you are sick of hearing it because I am not sick of saying it.)

See ya on the blog!