Thursday Things...Mini Kit 3 Freebie!!!

How fun is this?!!! I've been working diligently today on One Crazy Summer - Mini Kit 3. It rained so we couldn't play outside until late in the afternoon. So I finished some fun stuff for this mini. My favorite part is the rope frame. I can't wait to see how people use it. I so love incorporating natural textures in a believable way. The kids are having a blast at vacation bible school. I love having 2 hours a day to myself (although I haven't used it to get ahead on housework LOL). Saturday, Zoe goes to her first Girl Scout camp of the year. It's a science fair day camp. She's been growing a FUNGUS GARDEN in a container in one of my cupboards and keeping a journal on what colors of fungi are growing and how fast they appeared. Lucky for me DH loves this kind of stuff. I will spare you any pictures. Okay - another midnght post so I'm off to bed. Click on the image to download and don't forget to leave comments and love....I really read them all and I've been encouraged by those who told me they like the way One Crazy Summer is shaping up. xoxoxo

Guest CT Contest and other things...

I have been a busy lady. My Zoe girl has been sick for 3 days. Yesterday her fever hit 103° and she's had a terrible headache. I really didn't want to leave her side much so I had lots of time to work on scraps etcetera. I updated my blog template thanks to Joanna's suggestions. I didn't realize I would have to hunt down all my blinkies and widgets again, but it's all chalked up to learning LOL.

I also found a wonderful designer, ScrapShana, with a very talented CT called Shana's Starlets and she is holding a contest for a guest CT. At this point I would LOVE to be part of a CT and this is a great chance for me to get some experience. So I took her lovely kit Chocolate Linen which is this fabulous combination of soft browns, blues and violet and put together a layout. I would have LOVED to use everything in her kit it is so cool. I did create an alpha with her delightful checked background paper (Am I becoming some kind of Alpha Addict or what???? ROFL). Click on Shana's Chocolate Linen kit for the link to her site and her freebie.

I would love some feedback on my layout and alphas. If Shana gives permission I will see about finishing the alpha set as a freebie.... Wish me luck in the contest!!!

Good Morning Monday!

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. I had a 4 year old with a fever hovering around 104°F (38°C) and a terrible headache. Sti;ll we went over to a church we bought a wooden playset from, in order to disassemble it and bring it home and had Murphy's Law take over our lives. When I offered to buy the playset from the church I forgot that we had just traded in our Ford F35o long bed pick-up truck for a Ford Escape. DH has had a truck as long as I have known him. After three trips to the church (it's only 10 minutes away) to attempt taking it apart, DH decided to rent a truck for a day and just load it in one piece. Let me precede this by saying that DH brought home a Saturn Sky from work on Friday. Since he's a test engineer he does this occasionally, especially when there is a car he knows I'd love to drive. So, by his choice, Mark and Mack went to pick up the rental truck at 9am on Sunday morning (Father's Day... I know). We headed out at about 12:30 to go to the church. When Zoe and I got there with the convertible, shortly behind the boys, Mark was ready to have me help him tip the playset into the truck.... it was 1 inch too wide!!! So we started to tear it apart... mark went to move the truck forward a bit and it sunk to the axel in soft, wet dirt. After 40 minutes of trying to wedge something under the back wheels, Mark pulledthe Sky up and used it to secure a strap that he used to pull the truck forward. It worked, but the knot he tied to fasten the strap was tightened so much, we couldn't get it undone. He left me to work on it while he got back to disassembling the playset. Almost instantly it downpoured!!!! Quickly I put the convertible top up, closed the windows and trunk on the Sky, Mark gathered the kids, the dog (yes she was with us) and the tools together and we huddled in the back of the still unloaded rental truck. As the rain poured down (of course blowing into the back of the truck) and we all tried to stay dry, sweet little Zoe said, "this is the worst Father's Day EVER!" to which Mark replied, "No, it's not. We're all together as a family. That's all any Daddy ever wants for Father's Day is to have his family all together." AWWWW! Suffice it to say that we did get the playset pulled apart, loaded and unloaded again in our driveway at home (although not before I sunk the SKY in the soft, wet dirt up to the frame and pulled it out the same way we did the rental truck). By 4:00 Mark had taken the truck back and he and I cleaned the inside and outside of the Sky so that it could be returned in perfect shape. In spite of this excitement and drama, I did manage to get a new kit under way called, appropriately enough, One Crazy Summer. I've already finished the Alphas for it, but as today is a workday, I'll have to load them up later. Be sure to check back!!!!