nEW LaYOuts

I had a productive day yesterday :-) Got some layouts done and worked on several new products and kits hooray! Told DH I just had to have a day without all the interruptions and sidetracking he tends to toss my direction let alone phone calls and noise so shut myself up in the bedroom with my friendly computer and got something done for a change lol.
Here's the layouts I have finished so far :-) THanks for looking!

ALL BOYS -- Credits :
Vicki Acreman -- All Boy QP
http://txbubbles-bubblesbabbles.blogspot.com/

My Daddy's Chair
Credits:
Flergs AML Freebie

WILDFLOWER GIRL
This was my first attempt at blending a photo with a paper and am really happy with how it turned out. I fell so in love with products over at Weeds and Wildflowers so downloaded a couple of challenge freebies to see how i like them and I am officially HOOKED lol. Thanks for looking!
Credits:
AMenegassi -fun garden doodles flowers
boyerville-whoababy paper
Digitalegacies --alpha
Chez Nanine -- "Romance"Stitches and "En attendant le printemps" buttons colorized

Two Littlest "Weeds" lol
Another from Weeds and Wildflowers challenge freebies!
Thanks for looking!
Credits:
DJB ANGELA font
Weeds N Wildflowers -- GinaMarie Huff --Freebie Challenge --
Doodly Patterns and Word Art

Inspiration

In case you hadn't noticed I really have been in a bad slump for inspiration and ideas. I went traveling the past few days checking out sites and blogs and so forth and happened across a designer and site I had not seen before and totally fell in love with their site--tis called Weeds and Wildflowers. I loved the offerings of the designers there and think they gave me a "oomph" in the ideas..now if i can make myself sit and draw lol. I have been playing more with my wacom and since it's been sitting here gathering dust it's about time I just bit the bullet and learn how to use the blasted thing! Doesn't do me any good to have spent that much money on a "toy" I have only used a couple of times since I got it! I should have my son come learn with me as he is the artist of the family..he does such beautiful freehand work and now is doing tattoo work and I am just sit and oooooooo and ahhhhh when I see how easily it comes to him! Two of his girls so far love to sit and draw for hours on end as well so hopefully it keeps on going in the family! Then I came across a few bloggers that I had not seen before either and one in particular I ended up spending half the night reading all her past posts and laughing sometimes so hard I about pmp! ROTFL. She also does some super QP's for free and of course I had to grab those too and that led me to another blogger who does only QP's for free and spent a few hours there as well..NOW maybe I will get more scrapping done yes? Check them out in the side bar for blogs I visit..they are WMP and Bubbles Babbles.

We had a big ole turkey dinner with the trimmings down at my son's yesterday and it was YUM! I get so hungry for it at other times of the year other than Thanksgiving and Christmas so it was a lovely change. Tracey did it in the roaster so at least it did not heat up their home too badly but the humidity here was really bad and by the time I got home i felt like i had been under a shower for days I was that drenched! I dunno sometimes what is worse..heat or cold with this lupus! Both really bother me and make my skin awfullllllllllllll!

Woke up to a nasty thunderstorm half way thru the night and my left ankle feeling like it did when i first broke it back in 1991! It's so swollen up it looks like an elephant foot at times and trust me that is NOT a pretty site! UGH!...Don't get old and break your bones folks lol !

Hmmm thinking ...yeah me thinking that is scary isn't it? DH is making me crazy..he's been off work now since Feb and the dr told him Weds it will be after labor day now before he can go back to work! He is no spring chicken and just is not healing fast since his surgery. Mind you I love the man and would miss him if he wasn't here but having him underfoot 24/7 can make me totally nuts! I finally got so mad this week I told him either he finds a hobby or gets out of the house more or I will go stay with one of the kids for a few weeks just to have some peace and quiet lol...Fat chance of that happening there but you get the drift! Every time I am into something design wise he manages to come up and want me to look up stuff on the computer for him. I keep saying he needs to learn how to use a computer and would hook up the old one to the internet for him in the spare bedroom but he doesn't seem to want to. Think my son may talk him into it so at least that part he would keep busy doing something else instead of standing over my shoulder! That's another side effect of the dang Lupus..I cannot stand it when anyone is hovering or to be in a crowded place even on the interstate highway i freak when cars and trucks have me "penned" in. I can't control it and I can't explain it --it just happens. One of the meds I take now helps some but for someone who was always a people person and who used to travel for work it's really is an odd way to feel trust me!

OK i really have babbled tonight errr this morning haven't I! Hope everyone out there is well!

Dunno if anyone even reads me anymore but hey at least i am trying to blog a bit more often than I had been!
Hugs all arround to those who need it!

Summer Fun at Digitals

If you haven't checked out the Christmas in July fun over at DIGITALS now is the time!
There is a treasure hunt in the forums and a Polar Express Blog Train going with some wonderful free items done by some awesome DIGITALS designers!

To visit DIGITALS and find the treasures hidden for you go HERE and follow the directions!

To visit the POLAR EXPRESS BLOG TRAIN:
Individual designers involved have their blog links in that thread!

ANDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

great great Sale right now til July 25th at Digitals

Get 50% off my products (no coupon needed)
Go crazy and SHOP TIL YOU DROP! :-)

and a wide variety of discounts from many of the other Digitals Designers!
CHeck out the info HERE

New kit Release

AMERICAN MADE

Check out my newest release at both Digitals and 3Scrapateers called American Made!

Red, White and Blue this is the scrapkit for You!
Whether for the 4th of July, cross country vacation, summer picnic or other red, white and blue events this scrapkit is perfect for those photos or cards and layouts!
Kit Contains:
Upper and lower case blue chipboard alphabet with numbers and extras
11 12x12 300 DPI papers,
1 round fringed mat,
1 fringed flag mat,
1 bordered mat,
2 buttons in red and blue,
1 gold brad, 5x7 chipboard photo frame,
3 acrylic Stars with firework "sounds" on them,
1 Gold starred 12in.border,
4 ready to use tags,
Lady Liberty,
3 flowers in red, white or blue U, S and A in gold outlined white painted metal hearts,
4 crossed ribbons,
1 beaded red, white and blue tassel,
1 gold star eyelet

You can find it at DIGITALS or 3SCRAPATEERS

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My contribution is "Cool in the Pool"

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4th of July

Just some fast pics from our picnic on the 4th!

--The merry go round has been there since I was a kid lol

Miss Wiggle Butt and I rode this..needless to say it was the ONLY ride I ended up on as was so sick when I got off I didn't think we would make it back to the picnic table. This ride was not that far for most people but it seemed like a million miles to me!

Our Pavillion was in such a nice area and we all enjoyed just sitting around yakking. My bro in law and sis in law with Dh.

I love this shot of the Ferris Wheel all lit up that night!

3 of our girls ..they really had a ball and were quite pooped by the time the day was over!

Bad Blogger lol

I am such a bad bad blogger! it's been forever it seems since I have energy to even update!

With that said just am gonna try to do some bits and blurbs as I can and hope eventually I can be current every day..Yeah ok we shall see lol







Came across this while looking for something else and thought where was it when I used to have a closet full of shoes for work? I admit when I was working I was a shoe and purse hoarder! I had a purse to match every pair of shoes and shoes to match any outfit I wore to work! At any rate it's a neat idea and they even have one for kids in different colors ..what a clever idea!
They are made by Rakku Designs and run about 35.00 - 65.00 depending on the size and color and model lol. WOuld have been worth it space saving wise back in my working days! Now I am lucky I wear a pair of flip flops, a pair of slippers and my good ole tennies!

Things around here have been up and down as usual! We took some time to spend the 4th of July with our kids and most of their kids at Idlewild Park which is something we all used to do when my kids were growing up. My son wanted us to have a old fashioned 4th so got us all together and he made arrangements for us to have a pavillion close to the restrooms and on a level area due to my walking issues and my brother in law uses two canes now so we could not manage otherwise! THe folks there had a lovely small pavillion set up complete with the red and white plastic tableclothes on them 4 huge picnic tables and 5 other long serving wood tables with electric outlets and all set up for us just near the main ride area and handy to the restrooms and by the little creek. The weather was not to be great so we figured we would be rained out at some point but it turned out to be a perfect ride day! No storms tho it did spit a little rain twice but the sun was not miserable and we all had a wonderful day. We stayed for the fireworks which were superb as we all remembered. Needless to say I spent the next two days in bed recovering..walked too much but it was worth it to see the smiles and hear the laughter coming from all our girls and our Jack. Hubby's brother and his wife came as well as friends of our Son and his wife with their boys too so we had a great group and lots of good food and conversation as well as making some great memories! Daughter took some pics and believe my d-i-l did as well so will be posting them later on. I thank the folks at Idlewild for hearing what my son said about having some of us with disability issues for they really did a wonderful job on picking out a perfect pavillion and setting it up so we didn't have to do anything except open the coolers and picnic baskets!

Yeah okay i have rambled on..and will ramble more in a bit haha. Hope you all had a wonderful 4th of July if you celebrate it and for my canadian buds hope you had a super Canada Day!