Some new creations just for me

I made these two layouts for no other reason than because I wanted to. I wasn't doing any challenges, no pubcalls or dt calls, no commitment scrapping. I did these for the pure love of the craft. The "A Rare Moment" one I absolutely love. It's not my normal style of scrapping but I absolutely love how it all turned out! I love the "chillin" one too. It's not an AMAZING-dang-I've-got-to-get-it-published layout but I love how the pictures and the colors in the paper compliment each other.

Diaper Cake

I made this last night for a friend who just had a baby. I always make a matching card for them as well. I used the My Mind's Eye Oui Oui papers and loved how it turned out!

3rd grade

Hmmm..not really the greatest scan...but I love it anyways!

Quite the scare

So, last night, I sent in my submissions for both Piggy Tales and October Afternoon. It was around 9 when I got them sent in. Midnight was the deadline for the Piggy Tales so I submitted that onee first. I did the October Afternoon submission next and after I sent that email off I noticed I recieved a new email..It was a "Mailer Demon!--address unknown" My Piggy Tales one was sent back! I accidently put an extra 'n' in the address. So, I fixed it, resent it and thought it was good. Well about a half hour later I checked again and I got another mailer demon! This time I figured it was because my aol capitalized the beginning and maybe the address was case sensitive. I wanted to fix it but had to get the kids to bed so I thought I would just do it right after that. Well, after I put Suzi to bed I started scrapbooking and at about midnight I remembered I forgot to resend it. I wanted to cry so bad! So I thought I'd get the brilliant idea to resend it, with the mailer demon messages, proving I did send it before midnight. So I sent it a third time, made sure everything was perfect and sent it again. I waited for a couple of minutes then checked my mail...guess what? Another demon! And this point I was in tears. I posted on a message board my fustration then i noticed the clock...12:46 am...MOUNTAIN TIME. I still had 14 minutes to get my entry in. It was only 11:46 pm pacific! So, I sent it a fourth time from my Yahoo email and I am happy to report, this morning I got a confirmation email saying they recieved my Submission!!! I'm so happy!

I also made 1 page last night. I LOVE how it turned out. I pretty much scraplifted a layout from Scrapbook etc. magazine so it took like 20 minutes to do. My stitching program has issues when I use white backgrounds so the image isn't the greatest, but it is one of my new favorite layouts!

Some of my altered art and cards..Enjoy!

More layouts

Check out the blinkie

Erica from http://www.acbaileydesigns.com/ asked me to make this blinkie for their upcoming party in September. I love how it turned out. It's a 60 themed month full of fun. Their DT has some great things planned, so check it out. All September long.

Layouts I'm proud of

yea!!!

Brad from Jack's a/c repair is coming tomorrow!! I'm so excited! It was 105 outside and 90 again inside!

I'm So HOT!!!!!

And I'm not talking about looks! I guess I should be used to it because I am in the desert, but my a/c keeps going out. I walked into the house tonight and it was 80 inside! My a/c froze over AGAIN. We had this problem last year and we would have to have the a/c serviced literally every month. Fortunately we rent so it doesn't come out of our pocket. This summer or spring actually we had it serviced and haven't had a problem until now. I feel a cool breeze from somewhere near me so hopefully it's going to work. I hate being hot when I'm trying to sleep and I fell bad when my kids have to sweat too.

I'm so excited!!!!

I finally got my internet back. Things are finally looking up for the Maloney family. I called last Wednesday and they said it would be up Tuesday. Waiting those days about killed me, so after a very emotionally filled weekend, I'm happily catching up on message boards and emails. I'm back in my zone and doing so much better than I was doing yesterday. It's amazing how one little thing can totally change your outlook on things. So now I'm back and thought I'd do something about a blog (especially now that I may have people who would actually want to read it, thanks Marci!) I was going to just start over, but I like how I named this one. It fits so I'll keep it. I'm going to do some "dressing up" if I can figure it out. One things for sure, I'll get some pictures up. I love bragging about my kids so I should have something up about them.

So today was my son's first day of school. He's in third grade now and holy cow the boy's getting big. I'm so proud of him. Last year when the school year was over, he was reading and understanding math beyond his grade level. I can't wait for his first assesment to see what his teacher says about him.

My daughter, hmm...what can I say about that fidgiting ball of energy, other than I'm glad it's not destructive energy. The girl is not a sitter. Of course at 20 months she should be all over the place. But the other night she woke up in the middle of the night crying and she actually let me rock her back to sleep! This girl NEVER lets me rock her, and she hasn't purposely fell asleep on me since she was 4 months. So even though it was late I enjoyed every minute of it.

Well that's all I can think of for now. Hopefully I'll play around with this tomorrow. I need to work on my October Afternoon and Piggy Tales DT submissions, so I'm not sure where my focus will be. They both say you can do previous work, but I wanna give them something that I put my heart in just for them. TTFN!