The One With Friday!!!

I am SO happy it is Friday and I'm sure I'm not alone in this!

Yesterday's P365 photo comes to you by way of storyboard. I was so happy when my camera came in the mail, that of course my photo of the day had to be me ecstatically holding my camera. Maybe I don't look ecstatic--truth be told I look like I'm in love :P



And because that was out of the way, I went ahead and did my Project 365 week two layout. I really love how it turned out! :) And, I'm going for matchy matchy this year, so you can see how it compares to week one.


It's time for me to get this Friday started...if I don't blog over the weekend, I'll see ya Monday! :)

The One With The Small Projects

I realized yesterday that I had a zillion small projects unfinished. I needed to wrap up a little bit of scrapping, a little bit of work, a little bit of home organizing. Well of course I didn't get to all of it...but I did tie up *some* loose ends at least. I worked some and I finished up my scrapping portfolio for January. I still plan to scrap some but it will be my CT work and stuff I just want to do. I needed a new fridge layout and those ones...I spend a lot of time on...because I have to look at them all the time! I spent a few hours and came up with this...I'm so happy with it! The credits can be found here.

At 15 days post-op, I was allowed to drive again. It was nice to have my freedom. I went to town to pick up a few things and it was nice to drive myself! :) Hence, my 365 photo for the day !



OH!!! Fed-Ex says that my camera will be delivered today!!! I could SHOUT IT I am so excited. I have missed my DSLR so much...hug your camerababies a little tighter for me! ;)

Well, I'm going to work some more today on finishing up those little projects...'till tomorrow, friends! :)

The One With The Happy Day

I had a happy day yesterday. I'm generally a happy-go-lucky person anyway, but you know that great feeling you get when it's just an awesome day? Nothing spectacular happened. I spent time organizing and cleaning, which is one of my favorite activities. Since I've been recovering from surgery, I haven't been able to do much of that and I was going through withdrawal I think.

I talked on the phone with my best friend and my sister (she is just upstairs but we use an intercom feature on our phones). I had my boyfriend over for dinner and made my favorite meal, chicken tacos. And, I got good news that my camera was repaired. Just a really great day.

My DSLR bit the dust at the end of October. One day it just stopped reading the memory card. I researched it and found it was a known problem with Canon Rebels. I couldn't afford the repairs at Christmastime though...I had other priorities. So I sent it off last week and my baby is safely on its way back home to me. I've been borrowing an old P&S from Tab. I appreciate the loaner, but the photo quality is terrible...mostly just a LOT of grain. But, it was such a happy day yesterday that this is what I decided to make my P365 photo about...just a happy me (grain and all) :) Have a Happy Wednesday friends!

The One With To-Do Tuesday

I don't have categorized posts. I kind of wish I did. I don't really know what I would do, even if I did! Everyone has such neat ideas!! But today I wanted to try one on for size and try a To-Do Tuesday. I don't know if I'll stick with it or not, but I figured I'd try it anyway and share my to-do list with you. It was fun procrastinating and making the list instead of getting up and doing any of it HAHAH!!!!!!!!



It was fun because it was even my handwriting by Ms. Darcy Baldwin! If you don't have your own handwriting font, you should...because it's affordable and very neat to use for stuff like this, not just layouts! You can buy my handwriting too, but I recommend getting your own :P

Here's yesterdays' P365 photo...I love me a spinach salad! Now...I'm off to work on that list :) Till tomorrow, friends!

The One With Small Victories

Here are my two P365 photos from the weekend!


9/365. I Love My Bed. Didn't want to get out of bed today. Once I did get out of bed, have been scheming reasons to go back to bed. Now that the day is winding down, can't wait for bedtime.



10/365. Small Victories. I have been on a slow and steady weight loss journey. Today when I weighed myself I was happy to see I had lost just a little over 20 pounds in the last few months. Yay!


I have been scrapping some more, too. I am really enjoying it but it is almost time to print! I print when I have 100 layouts done and it is about that time again! Hard to believe! I really love both of these layouts of two of my favorite people in the whole world <3


The credits for these layouts can be found here.


That's all from me! I suppose it's time for me to get to work!

The One With the Random Act of Kindness

Yesterday when I opened the mail, I expected this envelope to be a computer generated comment card from the hospital. I was quite surprised to find that it was a handwritten get well note from the nurse who cared for me two days last week. It was such a nice surprise!


I scrapped a bunch yesterday but I think for now I'll just share my Project 365 week one layout. I really like how it turned out!


I hope you have a great weekend, friends! Mine will be very, very quiet and low-key. I am alone (and if we are being honest, a tad lonely), and I plan on scrapping and watching a movie...and maybe a nap!

The One About Me

So I'm participating in Sweet Shoppe Scrapper's Portfolio, and part of that is creating a Book of Me in 2010. I'm pretty good with scrapping about myself, I find it very cathartic. I have printed a whole book of layouts that were about me, my SO, my house, etc; everything not kids related. I called it "The Other Side of the Lens", vol I. But a whole organized book about me, I find this fun. So...I did my first 3 pages. I decided I'm going to do the facing pages using the same kit for some continuity. Here is my opener page, and my first two pages. The journaling and credits are here.



Also, I finished up P365 week one. I'll have a layout to show you tomorrow, it's almost done.

I love this photo, though I was in an interesting angle to get the shot :P
7/365. Snowed In. What fun is being snowed in if you can't crawl back in bed, snuggle, and nap?

That's all from me today, friends. We'll chat later! :)

The One With A Snow Day

I'm pretty excited this morning (because I'm rotten). James was supposed to go home this morning. But, the weather kind of crapped out on us and it looks like he needs to stay one more day. So I'm not-so-secretly thrilled...what is more romantic than being snowed in? Well, really, we aren't snowed in. The roads are quite passable at my place (though they did shut down school b/c of all the hills and back roads)...but where he lives, an hour away, things are all shut down and snowy~! The snow is supposed to be mostly done by evening, so he'll go home tomorrow! I'll take my extra day and enjoy it.

We're on day 7 of project 365...I haven't decided what my day 7 will be yet, but yesterday I had an appointment to have my staples removed. So, that is naturally my photo...while we were waiting for the doctor to come in, James was snapping photos of me, but he was also saying very silly things that were making me laugh...and, with 19 staples in, laughing still hurt very much. So I was giving him "the look". LOL! I am so happy that once Dr. Barton removed the staples, SO much of my pain was gone! I had no idea that the staples were causing my pain. I'm feeling much better today.



I also found a bit of time to scrap yesterday...here's my layout for January 2010: Sweet Shoppe Scrapper's Portfolio Challenge # 22.



Enjoy your day, friends, and I hope the weather is treating you well!

The One With The Triple Word Score

I love Scrabble. There's something about it that just seriously relaxes me. While I've been recovering from surgery, my boyfriend has been staying with me at my house to help me. The first few days I couldn't even get out of bed without help (anyone who has had a c-section understands what I mean). I lucked out because James teaches college and was on holiday break...having him around has been wonderful. He's going home tomorrow *sniff sniff*...but while he was here he played a lot of Scrabble with me <3 Which brings me to my P365 photo from yesterday :)




I scrapped a bit yesterday... I am working through Sweet Shoppe Designs' Scrapper's Portfolio Challenges for January 2010. Challenge #15 was to scrap a graphic style layout with no shadows. I had a hard time with it, but ultimately settled on something simple: the journaling reads:

for 3 weeks following my hysterectomy, I made plans for Parker & Naomi to stay elsewhere. 2 weeks of that is upstairs with Tab. 1 week down and 2 weeks to go, she brought the kids down to see me. Parker wishing to climb on me perfectly illustrates why I can't care for them right now. They both miss me, but judging from the way he immediately tackled me, I'd say he's really missing mama. (I really miss them, too.)

That's all from me for today...I'm headed out to run some errands and have a post-op visit with my doctor. Till tomorrow friends, toodles!

The One With A Little Break...

4 months.

Seriously? Seriously. I can't believe I "shut down" my blog for 4 months. My friends and family know how important blogging is to me, but sometimes life gets in the way. This incarnation of my blog has been in existence for a year and a half, but my "old" blog has been around for years. I can't believe I've been blogging for almost 4 years!

You all know that I went through a divorce in 2009. Honestly it just wasn't something I felt like talking much about. There wasn't a lot to say about it. We were in an unhappy marriage and separately, we are both happier now. I can say that with complete certainty for me, and with probable certainty for my ex husband. I felt for a while in the latter part of 2009 that I didn't want to share things that were going on in my life for my ex to read about. I felt like eventually he would grow bored of checking up on me and I could resume my relationship with my online friends. A public online persona is just that...public, and anyone can read what you write, in most circumstances. I'm granted some privacy on Facebook and on private forums, but ultimately the internet is very public.

I've found out recently that my ex isn't as uninterested as I would have thought. Just today I found out that he is still interested enough in my life to find what he can online. But you know what? That's okay. I don't write for him. And I don't care if he reads what I write. He was a very important part of my life for 4 years, we shared some fun times and made some very beautiful children. But beyond that, I've moved on. In 2010, I'm going to re-embrace my passions...including scrapping and blogging, and I'm making no apologies.

I'm back, friends. It's so good to be back!

With that, let's get to it! I'd love to share my Project 365 to date!
1/365. Get Well Soon. My wonderful sister brought me flowers in hopes of lifting my spirits, 3 days post-op from my TAH/BSO.

2/365. Happy Birthday. Despite 20 degree weather and me being still under the weather, we ventured out for James' 35th birthday. We ate out and picked up a cake, a very nice evening!


3/365. Spiderman Cake. Today we had Tab, Tim, her kids & my kids down for a little party for James' birthday. The cake turned out awesome and was yummy too!

4/365. 6 days out. 6 days post-op and feeling okay. The estrogen is my friend.

Well this brings me up to date! I'm going to go now...I've got some scrapping to do...but we'll catch up more later, friends. Toodles!