Cookbook Layouts

I had been wanting to work on cookbook pages for our family and when I saw Sarah Meyer's Grammy's Apron Quickpages and Scrapkit at Digitals I knew it was perfect for the project. Here are some of the pages I have gotten done so far!

Late as usual!

I totally meant to post a sneak peek at the rest of the SAD kit but things at home went haywire as usual lol. Seems like there is always something going on never a dull moment! With that said here is a sneak peek at the second half you get for posting your layout!

Hope to see you there...Weds Aug 20 3Scrapateers Chat room at 10 pm Eastern Time!

So what's new?

Well let's see...update on little Zach is he is home and doing just fine! He is on the monitor but so far it's not gone off again that I know of so thanks for good things!


A new scary note this afternoon I went to the store where dd works and when I looked down thru the parking lot in the lower end there were several fire trucks, ambulances and men in chemical suits all over the place and it was all cordened off with police tape! Come to find out apparently there was an anthrax scare at the post office!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I dont' know much more and will have to check the news at 5 to find out details as the news crew was there as well but I sure hope it was a false alarm!!!!!!!!!!


On a designing note I have the Scrap A Deal Crop coming up at 3Scrapateers on Aug 20th so check out the deal then buy it and join me for some free goodies that night and get the other half of the kit when you post your layout in the proper gallery! Can't beat the deal for $2.00!

Wanna peek?

Here's the first part

And then you will get alot more when you post your layout! Sneak peek you say? Hmmm stay tuned tomorrow haha. May even give you a peek at the goodies you will get if you come to the crop!
Have a super weekend!

ANother visit point

I have totally forgotten to say i love Shabby Miss Jen Designs! I so love her style and products and her tuts are understandable hooray! I want to be her when I grow up haha!

On a note about baby Zach he is being kept in the hospital yet again tonight and will be sent home on an apnea monitor. They have ruled out any major heart and lung issues thank heavens and apparently he suffered the horrid apnea that sometimes takes a child in their sleep! Two of my grandson's also had it happen when they were several days to several weeks old and were both on an apnea monitor the first year of their lives. It is scary at first but bless the inventor of this monitor as it alerts the parents or sitter or grandparents ect the moment the baby is in distress or stops breathing for so many seconds. It became a normal routine for us and I am sure Zach's momma and daddy and grandma will adapt to it tho he will adapt sooner than they will lol..children are so adaptable most of the time to things that make us adults cringe! I have apnea which developed since I was "blessed" with the Lupus and Fibro and sleep with a CPAP machine which is a normal part of my life. The grands were a bit curious and a bit itimidated by it when I first got it three years ago but now it's just part of who Nana is when she sleeps. One said I look like I should be in a star wars movie hahahaha! God Bless the mouths of babes! I find I CANNOT sleep without it now and have learned to sleep in any position with it on and just change the hose and mask to roll with me!

Ok so much for wierd pictures of me to float in your heads rotfl.

Have a great week. Off to work on some kits..have a crop coming up at 3Scrapateers so check back to see what, when and where!


My August girl is by

Scary Moments

I had quite a scare a bit ago. I was sitting here working on a kit when I heard voices outside and someone yelling for help and recognized my one neighbor's voice. Ran as fast as these old legs would take me down the steps and out the door to find her sobbing hysterically and holding her brand new grandson of 5 days not breathing. The baby's mother was in hysterics and daddy was on the phone with 911 who were not coming nearly fast enough! I went to her and tried with her to get the lil guy breathing hollering at them to run up and get my next door neighbor who is a paramedic and one of the 911 directors. We beat on their door all the while trying to get Zach to breathe and he did take one gaspy one and i could hear him whimper a bit but he just stopped again and his lips were turning blue. Our neighbor's wife did hear us and got him fast and he grabbed the baby and did a fast mouth to mouth and got him breathing again and he let out a huge wail much to my relief. Grandma and mom were still in sobbing mode naturally but did get them to realize he was okay and awake and looking at them. Meantime the ambulance and police got to the complex only to go to the wrong area. We could see their lights but they were not where they could get to us so the daddy tossed me the phone and he ran as fast as i ever saw anyone run to where they were and the paramedic and emt came back with him. Bern did have the baby breathing and doing okay but they naturally grabbed him and mommy up and took them into the ambulance and made sure he was stable and that mom was okay and then came back to check on grandma as well before taking them all to the ER to make sure things are okay. I am still shaking and while he is not my grandbaby it felt like it was! To see that lil precious face turning blue terrified us all. Apparently he has apnea which two of my grandchildren had as babies and i can remember how scary it was! Hopefully they will put zach on an apnea monitor like ours was on! Keep them in your thoughts and prayers and will update when grandma comes home and I hear how things are!

Something done :-)

Happy Sunday everyone!

I want to say thanks to Kim from Daisy Cottage for even visiting my blog here! Thanks so much for your comment on my layouts and stuffers here. It's wonderful know someone at least checks on me from time to time and I am soooooo loving her home and what she finds along the way! In my next life I swear I will own a home and one similar to her awesome place. I so love cottage style living and decor but alas at my age fat chance of that ever happening so I live my life vicariously thru her lol. Thanks Kim for the visit and keep the wonderful finds coming! My "wish" book is slowly filling up with ideas and finds and wants and many thanks to you on alot of them. My health does not allow me to go yard sale'ing, or antique browsing so it is lovely to be able to visit her finds! I used to work part time for a writer in Chicago area who did alot of articles and photo shoots for several of the magazines on Kim's site so they are very familiar faces to my old weary brain :-) Sad to say my old boss passed away of breast CA many years ago now but i have alot of fond memories of the treasures she would find and some of which she shared with me and some of which i just got to enjoy when we would also house sit for her at her lake house in Michigan.

Found a wonderful desktop freebie and just had to use it! I rarely put anything on my desktop as it seems to suck up my resources but could not resist this one! It's from Jennifer Layden/Misty Cato. Thanks for looking!

Ok so true lol I love Country Music

You Are Country Music

You are friendly, down to earth, and fairly conservative. You are true to your friends and your upbringing. Change is hard for you. But beneath your old fashioned attitude, you are expressive and artistic in your own way. Very few people can express pain and pleasure as eloquently as you can.

What Kind of Music Are You?

Just browsin around

I have been just a browsin' around some the past week or so and also helping ds and dd with computer problems along the way(UGH). Son got infected with a dang trojan on his laptop that is about to drive him mad and he finally had enuf sense to call mom lol. Think we have him about fixed now thanks to places like Tom Coyote's site What The Tech which I swear by and a few others out there. I even learned how to run and read HiJackThis and it's been a huge livesaver many times over the past two years and it was all we needed to fix daughter dear's. Honestly you would think grown children in their 30's would know enough to NOT click on some of the sites you see on the internet but dd has a roomer that just doesn't get it lol and I told him I will cheerfully break his fingers if he does it one more time on her computer! I am the one who spends hours with them either in person or on the phone with them fixing booboo's!


Discovering blogs I never had time to find before has been an adventure as well the past few weeks. Some of them I found and enjoy are places like Cen's Loft, Scrapping with Ikeagoddess, Daisy Cottage (whose house i would love to live in lol), A Work In Progress, Women - Art - and Life, ScrapDoctor, BubblesBabbles (who makes me laugh so hard sometimes it's embarressing lol), and MyGrateful Heart just to name a few. Some have made me laugh so hard and some have brought tears and prayers but they all have something to offer me. Not always scrapping related stuff but life stuff too! I am not sure sometimes how I find some of them but tend to check out links on blogs I enjoy and wah lah sometimes it just sends me someplace I fall in love with.

Judy at My Grateful Heart made me a wonderful new siggie :-)

Isn't it gorgeous? The artwork she purchased is from Kreated4U whose talent just puts me in awe! I love this little redhead! THanks again Judy! You are a super lady and I am so enjoying reading your day to day life and how you are dealing with some rough and some wonderful times!

Hmm where else have I adventured lately? A new to me place called Step by Step Digital Scrapbook run by Karen at ScrapsOfMind looks like it would be a wonderful resource for newbie scrappers and give ideas to us oldbie scrappers :-) It looks really informative!

Oh and for any of you who love pixels please take time to visit my friend Susan at Grandma's Attic. She makes wonderful websets, sigtags, and other items from her own artwork. She is awsome in the pixel world in my opinion. Pixels are my second love next to my scrapping can you tell haha. I have my own pixel site that I mess with from time to time as well ..the link is over -------------------------------------------------> at the top. :-)

Ok rambled quite enough for one night ! Hope you are all well!