Ice, Ice go away

and i think it finally is! yeah! Now i love snow, as long as i can drive in it (and that is getting harder since i don't have the expedition!) but i hate ice. don't like to drive in it, you can't see it sometimes and it is just a pain in the butt! lol

ok, if you haven't checked out Tim Holtz's blog, GO THERE NOW. He did his 12 tags of christmas again this year and they are amazing. even if you don't get into tags, he has some really cool techniques (that have been around awhile (right shirley!) but he explains and makes it look real easy. very, very cool!

Been playing alittle with ps cs3. i have a long way to go. but here is a sample of something little i did. i can see mistakes and can't fix them, cause i really don't remember how i did it. lol but i will figure it out! and i have been reading pioneer woman's photo blog and it is really helping! go check it out if you haven't.




well, i had more typed out but good ole blooger took it away. ughhh. gotta go back to work.

blogger. Hmmhf!

can't understand it. it is drving me crazy!!!! but it's free. so what can i say.

so can you see the post after this one?

if so, that is my big boy Noah! he is getting so BIG! and so cute! he will just smile at you now. it is sooo much fun. we had a mini photo shoot yesterday. i am learning. that is all i can say! i know i need some backgrounds. my assistants were not very good, Amanda and Mark were not very cooperative. complain, complain. jeez. but i have better pictures on my photoshop at home that i did not save correctly. i need some real leasons on photoshop, and soon!!! lol

and i decided to turn my living room upside down. what a diaster. it is still pretty, um, upside down! lol

well, better get back to work.

have a great day!

blogger. Hmmhf!

can't understand it. it is drving me crazy!!!! but it's free. so what can i say.

so can you see the post after this one?

if so, that is my big boy Noah! he is getting so BIG! and so cute! he will just smile at you now. it is sooo much fun. we had a mini photo shoot yesterday. i am learning. that is all i can say! i know i need some backgrounds. my assistants were not very good, Amanda and Mark were not very cooperative. complain, complain. jeez. but i have better pictures on my photoshop at home that i did not save correctly. i need some real leasons on photoshop, and soon!!! lol

and i decided to turn my living room upside down. what a diaster. it is still pretty, um, upside down! lol

well, better get back to work.

have a great day!

It's beginning to look alot like christmas!

Good Monday Morning

Had a great weekend! Hope you did too! (all one of you who reads this! lol)

I took off early thursday and took some food from the department to a coworker who lost her father earlier in the week. It feels good to help others out in there sad time. Then me and amanda hit the road to the ste gen. scrapbook store. She has a great store, just wish it wasn't quite that far!!!! I love her ellison die cut machine! i cut several cool things with it! I also bought stuff to make christmas cards, i hope i get that done. I am really gonna try this year.

Friday was busy getting everything for the kit club together. (i will get my pages on here SOON. i am setting my new computer up at home and it is taking me awhile! i have too much i WANT to do!!! lol) I thought the pages turned out really pretty, theres not much you can do to that little yellow bicycle paper to make it ugly!!!! lol I also found out why we will no longer be able to have the crops at the library, They are moving!!! There new building will be in the old freds/walmart building. Now that will be different. Riverside has been there as long as i have been alive! But there may be hope in a room available somewhere and i am checking that out. So for the January crop, we may have a 'field day' crop and head up to ste gen and go to O'Dears and then to Stella's for lunch and then hit the stamping store. sounds like fun, huh! i'll let ya know what i come up with.

Friday night was marks christmas party and we got our free product. that is always fun, free stuff is always fun!

Saturday was the crop and then me and markie took Chloe girl to see santa at petco. She was so excited just to get out! she was a mess. I was dissappointed in the way they did the santa thing this year. very unorganized and just standing around. I'm sure they knew how i felt by the time i left. but it was bad, lol. I finally had to ask the walking around (and he had been for about 20 minutes) if i could take chloe's picture with him adn i did. as soon as i was done someone rushed up to me and gave me a paper to go to the register to pay 8.95. which i did not mind, it went for a good cause, but the way she did it pissed me off. no one bother to even acknowledge we were standing there oviously (sp) waiting to get out picture taken until i did it myself, then she wanted money. so i paid BUT they were suppose to take chloe's picutre for th 8.95 and she acted like i was crazy cause i wanted her take chloe's picture since i had already did it with my camera. I told her i paid for it, i wanted it. then they weren't gonna give me the treat bag, until i asked for it. Markie said i shouldn't of paid and just left, but i know it went for a good cause and i wanted to support it, but dang it's hard sometimes!

saturday night we went to my christmas party. good meal, good friends, good beer. lol it was alot of fun seeing some friends i hadn't seen in awhile.

sunday Noah came over and stayed with auntie markie and grandma while mom and dad went to winery's with their friends. I also went to a friends daughters baby shower. It was really nice and i had a great time. Krista got a lot of nice things too!

and in between all that, i have gotten half way thru the first book of twillight. awesome book. can't wait to get the next one, and the next and the next. now i may have to go back and watch the movie again. it is just too much to absorb! but oh so good!

Monday!

anyone out there? i have been blog hopping around and have notice something very disturbing. No one has updated their blog in a long time. NO ONE. I won't name names. i feel like i'm alone out here in cyber land. lol.

I have a great weekend. Friday my friend Debbie H called about 11am asked if i wanted to go to paducah on saturday night on a girls night out. she works for drury and gets rooms really cheap. well, i'm kinda a st louis girl myself, so we changed destinations. then she thought friday night would be good. um, ok. 11am already, i still have to pack. but we left about 2pm. pretty good if you ask me! i left work at 1230, picked up chloe from the groomers and we were off. had a blast in stlouis friday evening and saturday. hit the gordmans and marshalls. we also went to a designer resale shop. that was really cool. i did find a tommy hilfiger shirt that i love. i think that will be a place i will have to go back to in the future. at gordmans and marshalls i found alot of stuff i have been needing. I got Markie some maternity clothes and blanket thingy to take some cool pitures of the boys on. i can't wait til markies baby gets here to take both of tehm together.

Noah is getting so big. i think he has doubled in size. he is growing so fast. Markie babysat him saturday while amanda worked alittle, and she just loves him!! she can't get enough of him. she doesn't want to share him!!!! but he is a cutie, that is for sure. he is a good baby too. amanda has been lucky there.

well lunch is over.

have a great week!

Finally Friday!

And it has been a good week! But i am really glad it is friday. I found out this week that Oak Ridge will be able to finally get DSL from ATT! whooo hoooo. i can't wait. but i'll have to until the first of december. OMG!! i thought it would be many more years before we got something. i had just did the big research for a fast connection and when i finally gave up and went back to dial up, I find the sweetest flyer on my door!!!! DSL in Oak Ridge. aaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I fell like i am in the 2oth centry now! You just don't know what this means. I can hardly stand it!!!!! lol

And i got the kit club kits today! they should be waiting for me when i get home. i was alittle disappointed that i couldn't get what i wanted and had to go to plan B. well i think plan B is gonna be better than plan A!!!!! it is the cutest kit from Teresa Collins Designs. i can't wait to break into it! I will be ordering more next week, so if any kit club memeber would like more they can let me know tomorrow and i'll get them ordered at a special price for ya. and if you aren't a kit club member you can order them also. They retail for 15.99 per kit, but i will sell them for 15.00 and that will include tax. let me know! do you want a picture? well here it is:

Yep, He's Cute!

Just a quick post to post a picture of Noah on halloween. Isn't he a cutie!!! he could be a Anne Geddes baby!!!! (i probally didn't spell that right).

i have a horrible headache s i'm not much into anything right now. and this computer is horribly slow. ugghh. i remember why i got rid of the internet at home. lol

it was a great weekend. sometimes i wish everyday was a weekend!

Noah

Ok, so i'm not as good as my friends, Penne and Nikki, but i tried my luck at some pictures of Noah. i only got about 5 minutes with him. he was hungry and really didn't like his clothes off, lol. so these are the only two that i could really salvage. he has the baby rash some babies get, and it is really bad. he goes to the doctor tomorrow, maybe she will have something we can try. but here he is.

Finally!

Ok, so finally here are some pictures of the what is in the kit club. I am really excited about it! With the slow shipping and the early arrival of Noah, I had to move the October meeting to Nov. 1st. that was what i really did NOT want to do and i apologize profusely. But that just means we meet closer together. November's kit club meeting will be saturday, november 15th. and I promise you will love the november kit. I am finalizing up the purchases for the nov kit and let me tell you, i really think you will like it. it is gonna be jammed packed with goodness. but i don't want to get to far ahead of myself. so here is the kit. it's kinda hard to see what is all in the kit, but it gives you a idea.


contents are: 3 black bazzill, 1 making memory die cut halloween paper, 1 making memory double sided halloween paper, 3 pink paislee patterned paper, 1 pink paislee round scalloped paper, 1 sheet pink paislee alphabet stickers, bazzill only the edges (2 pictured, but you will recieve more), 2 heidi swapp heart mirrows, 1 yard bazzill black pom poms, making memories flowers and buttons.




and here is the box i made with the making memory paper. it is so much cuter in real life!



and here's Noah. He doesn't come with the kit, lol. But i couldn't resist showing him off just one more time. lol. um, i'm sure it won't be the last time either.



ok, so i rode with Rona to the St Gen scrapbook store, O'Dears, and we had so much fun. Debbie's store is really nice and it is jammed packed with goodies. i loved just looking thru the stuff. she has the cutest samples too. and I found some of the coolest stuff!!!! She has some of the coredinations papers and i can't wait to play with them. ever since i seen what julie was doing with them at the crop a couple weeks ago, i've been wanting to play with them!!! and here is the coolest thing, She has the big die cut machine, i can't remember its name, but OMG, she has the coolest dies for it too. AND you can use it for free as long as you buy your paper there. that is a awesome deal. and the stuff you can cut out! she has mini book dies, border dies, alphabet dies, tag dies, shape dies, OMG, i could spend the whole day there cutting stuff out. and she has sheets of chipboard and acrylic that you can cut stuff out of. you could probally do a whole acrylic book for a couple bucks. I cut out some cool looking snowflakes with the acrylic sheets that i can't wait to alter with some glitter. ohhlalala! i can not wait to go back.

ok, so i have to tell ya what i have planned for the november kit. it is too cool to keep a secret! and i hate secrets, lol. i don't know the specific amounts but i do know the products i want to use. here's my idea's.

a mini christmas book by teresa collins. it is really cool, it comes already together and is really cute. we'll alter that baby up!

little yellow bicycle christmas papers. These papers are to die for. OMG. i can't wait to order them and run my fingers thru them. there will be several patterned papers in it and some die cut papers. some journaling sheets and some transparent sheets too. i'm telling ya, this line is the bomb!

for upcoming months i have my eye on the new imaginese winter line, i think it is called snowy jo. it is very pretty too.

i'm telling ya, there is some really cool stuff out there and it is hard to choose!

well, i'd better get busy, we're having company for supper. of course Noah and his parents, oh wait, that's amanda and neil, my mom and dad and our friend tim and his family. i have so much other stuff to do, but oh well. i love having family together too. so the work can wait. and i have all the october kits together, that is what matters the most! lol

have a great sunday!

Check Him Out!

Noah's on the internet!

Ok, so you are going to get tired of me talking about him, sorry.

http://www.our365.com/NewbornPortraits/HospitalBabyDetail.aspx?birthid=ce0f9f1a-82a8-49f2-b146-73f3bdb86c5a&babyid=e7de2833-8881-4d5b-8955-d1559b408e2f

Introducing Noah Allen

He is the cutest baby!!! no really he is! lol and he is soooo good. he rarely cries. and just looks around. he is really smart. lol when he looks at you, you think he actually knows who you are and what you are saying to him.

In these pictures he is just hours old.

It's A Boy!

of course you already knew that! but he is here!!! Noah Allen was born at 559pm on 10/16/08 weighing 6lbs 10oz and 20 1/2 inches long. He is the cutest thing! it was scary for a bit, but he is here! she seen her ob earlier in the day and they did a stress test and a ultrasound because he hadn't been moving hardly at all. all babies do that, but he just wasn't doing it near enough. they delivered him by
c-section and the cord was wrapped around his neck SIX times. 6 times. they say he is a miracle baby. Amanda and Noah are doing great. and of course he is the cutest thing!!! pictures to come!!!!

quick note

headed out the door to court, say a prayer for us. i'll be back to write more later. have lots to talk about!!! had a great time this weekend at the crop for a cure. outstanding crop and for a great cause.

quick note

headed out the door to court, say a prayer for us. i'll be back to write more later. have lots to talk about!!! had a great time this weekend at the crop for a cure. outstanding crop and for a great cause.

ok so i'm having some troubles

it won't post what i want it too. i will be back to write more.

briefly, if you need to sign up for kit club, let me know. today is the cut off and i have to order more stuff, i do have some already.

dexter crop this saturday. fun stuff. good time.

Hello!

Well lots going on at the sharrock home. We've been getting ready for babies, had some sniffles and snots, had a bout of the nasty flu (won't go into any detail here), and had a 21st birthday party. and the fun hasn't even started! Amanda is having pains here and there and just doesn't know why! um, hello, you are pregnant, you will have them for the rest of your life now, lol. seriously, she is having some pain and is thinning out, so it could be any day. she was at my house last night having those pains and i told neil he needed to take her home, i wasn't deliving any babies tonight. she didn't like that to much. lol


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Today is the last day to sign up for the kit club for this month. i have some cool things in store, have gotten the Pink Paislee stuff and it is really cool. i love the fall colors and the papers are

Markie's Senior Pictures

Here are some awesome sr pictures Penne took of markie a couple weeks ago. i love them!

oh, i am gonna be a grandma to TWO BOYS! what in the world am i gonna do with two stinky boys? lol i know God knows what He is doing, but boy. i'm in for alot of Prayers, lol. we found out yesterday that markie is having a boy too.

Someone has a Secret

and it's Nikki! lets see if she posts it to her blog today!!!!!!! If not go leave her a comment and make her tell!!!! mention the words Blue and Grand!

Kit Club

So I have decided to continue the scrapbook club Rona started over a year. She had alot of fun and so did alot of you. I hope to continue that fun! I hope you will give it a try, as i have lots of fun in store!
I sent this out over the yahoo group and in case you didn't get it, here it is again:
New Scrapbook Club Kit


Since Rona is no longer doing the Scrapbook Club, I have decide to
contine with one. I am excited about this and I hope you are too.
Anyone can join!

Here's the Details!

*The cost will still be $15.00 a month. The first month I am asking
that you pay for that month and a deposit of $15.00, so a total of
$30.00. ($15.00 for October and $15.00 deposit). Then $15.00 for every
month there after. So if you sign up for October, you will pay me
$30.00 and then in November you will pay me $15.00, and so on. When
you decide to cancel, I would like a months notice. So if you decide
to cancel in March, you would still get your april kit at no cost, and
that will be your deposit back. Since i have to order in advance,
this is the way i must do it. If at any time you would like to pay in
advance, that is ok too!

*We will continue to meet at the Riverside Library each month. For
now we will continue to meet the second saturday of the month. I may
change that on special occasions to accomadate holidays or vacations.
Since my husband only gets every other weekend off, i try and do
stuff with him, but not always!

*My plans for product you will recieve for the club are this: I
want to be able to give you enough paper to make at least 2 - 2 page
layouts. For the embellishments, I plan on dividing packages up
between kits. Which means you may not have the exact flower, brad,
chipboard embellie your neighbor has, but it will be from the same
package and equal amount. This is one of the things i think a kit
club is good for. Sometimes when you buy package's of embellishments,
there is no way you can use them all and you end up with 1/2 packages
of embellishments taking up room in your scrap area. And you will get
more for your money this way!! I also plan on having some projects
different months. Of course I like all the lastest and greatest stuff
and that is what i plan on putting in the kits. On occasion, some of
the manufactures have really good sales on older products, and I will
purchase some of their product and use that product in the kits. This
will only be a benefit to you, as you will get more goodies than usual!!!

*As time will allow me (hey, i'm gonna be grandma x2! and may be to
busy sometimes, lol) i plan on having extra's that you can buy.
wether it be add on's to your kit, or another whole kit, who knows,
but i have some idea's i have to get out of my head and onto some
paper, lol. I will try and surprise you month to month.

*I have asked several people (and still have a few to ask! lol) if
they would like to design pages or projects and are waiting for their
reply. You should have several different idea's each month to choose
from.

****So are you ready to sign up? Good. Here is what you need to do.
Let me know by emailing me at cyndesharok@hotmail.com (please put Kit
Club in subject line) or calling me at 573-382-1444. You can either
pay me by paypal or personal check. To get in on the October Kit, i
would like to know that you are interested by tuesday, September
30th. But if you decide after that date, please call me as i may have
a few kits that are still available.

I am really excited about this opportunity and hope to see many of you
at the crops. I know it has been a couple months since i cropped and
i am looking forward to getting back in the swing of things!

Cynde Sharrock

Just a Quick Note

A Page in Time in Dexter is having their Crop for a Cure again this year on Oct 4th. It's 25 bucks and it is well worth it! last year we got lunch, supper, drinks all day, snacks, a tshirt and drawings! Last year me and Penne met up with Mary and Angelia there and had the best time!!!! Some of us are planning on going again this year. I think it would be cool if alot of us went! i know she usually has a large crowd and i think it said on her website that she is only taking 125 this year. let me tell ya, there was at least that many last year. Call the Dexter store at 573-614-4777 to reserve your spot! let me know if you are going and want us to get some tables together!

Have a great day!

Craziness!

LOL! that has been how i feel lately! I am doing much better since my last post and better than i have been in the last couple weeks. Markie is doing good, she is going to school and not complaining much! yeah. it's about time after 12 years. lol she had her ultrasound on monday and she is 13 weeks with a due date of march 1. hopefully dr morton will keep it at that date. the earlier the better. she is feeling ok, wants to eat all the time. and she is eating better. had to make her soup the other day. in the middle of summer! lol my mother in law was nice enought to make her chicken and dumplin's too. yummy! amanda is doing good. she is at 32 weeks. we'll have a baby boy before we know it!!!!

so i am cleaning out amanda's room and trying to get all my scrap stuff together so i can go thru it and get ready for a garage sale. i think we're going to have one at my mom's house in jackson. i just need to ask her! lol. she usually don't care.

A long time friend passed away this week. He was a friend to many and i'm not sure he knew a stranger. Harold, or Big H as we knew him was one of the nicest guys. he'll be missed by many. rock on Harold, rock on.

well, hello there.

sorry i havent' been around. i don't have internet at home right now, gonna work on that this week. works is filtered. so i'm very limited. lol

but i have other things to keep my mind busy. Amanda is getting bigger and bigger every day. she is doing good.

not sure how to put this, so here goes. (good thing you can't see me, cause i'm gonna cry) My daughter Markie is pregnant. she is only 17 and a senior in hs. we had hoped to kinda keep it quite for a few more months just so she could at least have a few 'normal' months of her senior year. but thanks to some very chatty 'do gooders'. oh well. it has been a roller coaster of a few weeks. thanks to my friends that have listened to me, let me cry, helped me, drank with me, called places for me, ect, ect. lol. it is all so confusing, but we are doing our best. Markie has become a very good liar, adn that is something i am having a VERY HARD time with. i would rather be punched in the face than to be lied to. adn she continues to do it even though i have proof. lets just say it will be a very long 6 months. i have told her that i will help her and make her senior year as normal as possible as long as she quits lying and she tries to help herself. we'll see. we've (well i) have been busy trying to figure out insurance adn stuff. she doesn't quailfy for medicaid, but she is under both mine and marks insurance, which is great. lets just say she doesn't have a clue.

we won't talk about the boyfriend. this was my one of my worst fears.

scrapbooking has taken a back seat. i was wanting to start a scrapbook kit club, not sure now. not even sure about scrapbooking.

Two Days in a Row!!!

wow! ok so all the sneak peaks has me all hyper. geez. it's only paper and stuff. yeah right. lol so if you want to feel the same way, just take a look at the new fancy pants designs website. here's the link. http://www.fancypantsdesigns.com/store/index.php?main_page=featured_products&disp_order=1&page=1

8 pages of awesome goodness. i want it all. and my favorite? don't laugh, but it's the ball ribbon. it is the coolest! i want it in all colors imaginable. i do. but i don't always get what i want, lol. i can't wait to find out when this stuff is shipping. and we are planning a fall retreat, and i can't wait.

i haven't seen some of you in a while. hope everyone is doing good.

opps, i'll be back.

Hello

where has the time went? we went camping the first week in July and since then the time has flown by. i worked everyday last week adn will this week. no weekday off. yuck. i'm a 72 hour person, so that means i get one day off every two weeks, but not this pay period. i was suppose to be off this friday to go to CHA, but that is not gonna happen. i just can't swing it, that wedding. lol since this store is a 'no loans' kinda store, i have some limitations. lol. so i have decided to just order what looks like the coolest new stuff that i can see on the internet. let me just say, there are some pretty awesome sneak peaks out there. i have made a list and have been checking it twice. the list that follows is my most favorites so far!

Pink Paislee-- i just love this company. i want it all. so i have selected a few i think i must really get, but i want to know what you like too. so go here:
http://www.pinkpaislee.com/home.php?cat=6
and leave me a comment and let me know what you like.


Fancy Pants-- of course! i haven't seen all of this yet, but i will def. be getting this in. if there is something you must have from them, let me know!!

October afternoon-- the one new line that i have seen is the BOMB! this one will be hard for me to withhold ordering all of it!

Crete Paper--haven't seen it yet. i'm sure i'll have to have it all

My Little Yellow Bicycle--There new lines are totally awesome. it is almost my fav!

STudio 8--awesome new papers and teh dinosar line is my favorite! (ok, 2m onths ago i would not of given it a second look, but ya know, a grandSON changes all that! and it's soooo funny, i was at a garage sale and i bought the cutest onsie with dinosars on them. lol. oh, it's a WHOLE new world!)

teresa collins--she has a awesome new recipe line out. it is the coolest!

if you want to see all of these, head on over to
http://mb.lifetimemoments.com/index.php?showtopic=167810

and let me know what you are liking! i like to know if it is the same as me!!!!

right now i am without internet at home, so bare with me. it will be back on shortly. i am trying to figure out what i want to do. i must have it though.

Had a Great Time!

Well where do i begin? lol Yesterday i had a great time. just a laid back day scrappin' with some of the coolest people! there were only 9 or 10 of us, but it was sooooo much fun!

The Red Barn (not to be confused with the resturant in fruitland) on hwy 61 is almost perfect for some crazy croppers for us! let me tell you about it! There is only one thing wrong with it, but i think it is something we can over come with a little thought. it is perfect in size for a all day crop. Heck, we've decided we can do a weekend cause there is a big room upstairs with a bed!! i'm not sure the landgrafts rent it out all weekend, but i'm gonna find out! there is one big room down stairs, another little room off the back and a full kitchen! yep, stove refrigerator, and microwave. and two bathrooms!!! that is important! so now for the one thing that wasn't that great. the lighting. and that is VERY important. but there was very little. very little. once i got there i realized this and called nikki and she brought her table lamp that she uses in her own scraproom. and it worked great! so for the next crop we're gonna see what we can do. now we know the problem, we'll find a solution!!!!

so we've got our thinking caps on and we're ready to get scrapping again! i'll post what i got done yesterday a little later. i think it's still in the car! yep, i was very tired when i got home, to tired to bring my stuff in! but i had soooooo much fun!

Now it's time to get some work done around here and get ready and go to a family reunion.

have a great day!

Sometimes I Just Don't Understand

what i was thinking. ok so i go to this site my 'womans world' tells me to go to for coupons. i sign up. and say it's ok to send my email addy to their email list. WHAT? WHY THE H*(( DID I DO THAT? geez. i don't even want to image how many additional emails i get a day. i can't tell you what all i've won. i'm not really sure either, since i DON'T OPEN THE EMAILS. ugghh i must find this site and remove my addy. sometimes i just wish i could back in time for just a instant, hit myself in the head, and go on. so if by chance you have emailed this week and i have not gotten back to you, please email me again. and make sure you put something in the subject line i will recongize.
rant over.

I will post a picture of my car soon. penne, it is a four door. can't go to wild ya know! and debbi by the time more grandbabies come, i should have outgrown this phase in my life and have a bigger car to haul all the babies around! but right now, this is toooooo much fun!!! and markie BEGS me to let her drive it. lol almost daily!

Hello

lol. i hate doing a title when i really have nothing to put there. i think i've said that before. been a little busy or busy doing little. one of those. been feeling kinda blah, think there is something going around work. just a real tired feeling and puky kinda feeling. i worked everyday last week adn i have to do it again this week. yuck. but then i'm off again for a FIVE day holiday weekend! yeah! it finally fell right with mark's crazy shift work where we'll get to spend the fourth of july camping. yeah. and it's our first camping trip this year! dang, that is not right. we've usually been 5 or 6 times by now. the wedding got alittle (ok a lot) in the way and a little thing as almost $4.00 agallon gas gets in the way too. lol

speaking of outragous gas prices, i finally bit the bullet and traded in my beloved expedition. i loved that thing. but it was just not practical anymore. no one rides with me adn it got like 15 miles (on a good day coasting down hill) a gallon, so it's gone. and in it's place is a nice new (or new to me) 2007 Pontiac Grand Prix. it has a sunroof, leather, cd player, heated seats, climate control for both seats in front, remote start. and i love it.

I'm getting exited about the crop on saturday. I can't wait to see my friends! and we're gonna have kits if you have the need to buy some. Check out Penne's blog (click on her name on the right) she has a cute kits for cards. (edited from cars to cards, thanks penne) very cool. Rona is gonna have some kits too. and i hope to have a few! i'm thinking i'm getting back in the swing of things. i'm feeling the itch to scrap!!!! yeah! well it's time to go home. have a nice evening. i have to go help unload pavestone we bought at their auction this weekend. yeah. lol

Small Town Girls Crop!

I FORGOT to post this. duh. sorry. but hopefully you got the email nikki sent out.

Small Town Girls Crop
Your Small Town Girls have decided to host a crop!!! This will be a simple get-together-and-crop-for-fun kind of thing! This is gonna replace the Classes we were going to do. Time and life got in the way, but don't fret, we are cooking up something great for fall when all the craziness of summer is over!

So......
No classes, no make & takes, no frills - just hanging out, cropping, eating and talking.

We have a small hall reservered for us on Saturday, June 28th all day - starting at 10am and lasting until the last scrapper falls :-)

The hall is located on Highway 61 about 3 miles north of Fruitland - a big Red Barn (don't worry - it's been remodeled!) on the right side of the highway.

The cost per peson will depend on how many show up - the building is $40 per day and we are just going to ask for a small donation to cover that cost.

Food and drinks will be pot-luck and bring your own. Bring snacks and stuff to share and your own drink
s (or drinks to share...LOL!).

That's it! Nothing fancy...cheap and fun...We just want to get a bunch of us together to crop and hang out!

Please email me or Cynde to let us know your coming or if you need more directions.
Thanks a bunch and we hope to see you there!


and i've already got several that are coming, and we need more! you can email me or call me 573-382-1444 if you want, or if just stop on by, we'll be there. don't forget to bring some food and drinks if you think you might get hungry or thirsty. There is a kitchette in the building too!

I can't wait to see my scrappy friends!!!

I Scrapped!

and it was fun!!!!

after the crop on saturday and looking around willow traders site and looking at all the layouts Stormy got done on the challenge she was doing, i got inspired. and i scraped. and scrapped some more. and it was fun. i waited till the last day of my stay-at-home vacation to get inspired. uuuggghhhhh. oh well it finally hit me. yeah!!!

well it's off to bed for me, this work stuff is to much!!!!


I'm loving this fancy pants stuff!!! the glitter transparency is so much fun! and the paper is easy to work with. love it!


The new Teresa Collins paper! awesome and fun! the brad in the middle of the flower is a cool heidi swapp bling brad. i am in love!!!!


love this Making Memory round paper. and i love this picture of markie. i have had it for awhile and this paper is great for it!!!

another old picture of markie. i'm loving this die cut making memory paper. i need more!!!


ok, love this creative imaginations paper and the blue flower with the HS bling brad. tooo much fun. and the fancy pants velvet ribbon finished it off! fun!


Markie and Syndey. and using the Crete Paper kaitlyn line, awesome!!! i love the texture of this paper and the colors are the best!


some more Kaitly paper. now this isn't a second page to markie and syd's page, but it would look great next to each other in my scrapbook, when i get a scrapbook. lol amanda and sydney after the semo parade

survival!

well it's a week after the wedding. we survived. i have been off all week. i have really enjoyed being off. i wish i could go part time at work. but with the economy, there is no way. oh well.

so the wedding was awesome. friday was busy decorating the hall went smoothly. we has lots of help and everyone was great! i throughly enjoy doing all that. the planning, the exacution (sp) of the plan, the ohhhs and ahhs, lol. it was cool. rehearsal was good, we forgot to tell the minister (my cousin) and the pianist (our friend who is amazing!) that we were going to start a hour early. oooppsss. but it was all good. we practiced a few times without and once they got there, it went great! all the girls and guys (25 total) were awesome. couldn't of asked for more sweet and fun people. Neils family is FUN!
saturday went by in a blur. i need to write it all down (guess that is what i kinda am doing now!) so i don't forget. went to the hall to help with the food. there wasn't much to do, open cans of beans and corn and season it. get sodas ready. lit my floralites (these things are the bomb!!! some have stayed lit!) and made sure everything was cleaned up and ready to go. went and got my hair down by the amazing alana (alisha's super sweet sister). stoped by estes for a quick sandwich, poor boy who helped me, i told him i just wanted a sandwich, anything to put food in my stomach, lol. i know he thought i was crazy!!!! then off to the church. it went by in a flash! the church was pretty, the ceremony was perfect and the lil kids did great!!! it was kinda cool to be in the same church me and mark got married in almost 18 years to the day before. our anniversary is the 2nd. pictures went great, awsome photographer! the heat was just to much. with the heaviness of amanda's dress plus being pregnant, amanda decided not to go the park. they went to tractors instead and had a good time there, i am told! lol they had a a van/bus take the wedding party around and that worked out great. it was funny, amanda asked me if it was ok if they went to tractors. i laughed and said, um, you are married now, you don't have to ask me!!! lol. the reception was great. the halle looked great and i had them set up the hall for 350 people and only expected maybe 250-275, but there wasn't many empty seats! the food was excellent. Marks cousin made the mashed potatoes from a mix and i bet NO ONE KNEW that. they were good! grandmas did the corn and green beans (i seasoned some! lol) and perryville legion did the amazing chicken. it is really good. we had many, many compliments on it. the beer flowed, and flowed thanks to the awesome bartenders Amanda and Jared. they were great! i truely owe them!!!!! I had the best time with my friends. It is the best feeling knowing you still have these amazing friendships after 20+ years and you can still dance the night away with them!!!!!! lol. I hope everyone knows how much i appreciate everything they did to help us make this day AWESOME. i will not name names, i will forget someone, not on purpose, but just because i'm me, lol. i will post more pictures and when you get tired of them, let me know!!!!

Wedding Pictures

Just a quick post to share a few wedding pictures. I will post a wedding review soon. i also have a TON of people to thank. and i don't want to forget anyone!! so here are some pictures!




My two babies all grown up!



Dancing on the bar at Tractor's




Markie and Her Escort, Weasel!

2 week countdown

til the wedding. it has come very quickly. everyone asks if i'm ready. how the heck do you know? lol. i'm not sure if i have thought of everything. but we'll see. i'm sure the last week will be crazy. i am off the whole week, so that is a good thing. i'm gonna work on some more stuff this weekend. amanda got another fitting for her dress and the seamstress is a miracle worker!!! she took out the zipper and put her shawl thing in the back and made it a lace up back. it looks better than before! hopefully markies will be done soon. it is sooooo pretty on her. and her tan will look amazing! she has went tanning 5 times and her tan is beautiful. her skin tone is so pretty, so unlike mine. fair. oh well, i'm going tanning so i might have a little color by june 7th. we'll see. lol

we were gonna go camping, but we didn't book a spot in time so now we are s*o*l. mark keeps whining he wants to go and keeps telling chloe he wants to go. he just needs to get over it! i think i'll tell him to go sleep in the camper this weekend. lol then there is 100 mile garage sale. not sure if i want to even attempt it. just trying to get around may be dangerous!! mark is going and said if i wanted to go with him there was not dilly dalleying around. what ever. i will go by myself. wierdo. but i do like me a good yard sale. lol

well construction has begun on the new heart hospital at work. i have decided that i want a career change. i now want to drive on of those things that has the bucket on them and swings around. the guy outside my window makes it look so easy and fun, i think i want to do it. they have been demolishing our parking lot and tearing up the concrete. way cool. the bucket just picks up the concrete making it look like it weights lbs. i am intrigued! but then someone told me there is no airconditioner or heater in the cab, so i'm not so much into it anymore. but it is fun to watch! and in the new place MY OFFICE WILL NOT HAVE A WINDOW. wth. i have to have a window. i have had one for 12 years. not fair.

Markie has been fun to be around this week. really she has. i think we have all realized that we were all in the wrong alittle in the past. she is my baby and i may have been a little over protective. i do need to give her more freedom. not nessecarly at 1,2,3 or 4 oclock in the morning like she would like. lol i hope it really is over with the boyfriend. he just wasn't right for her and i think she knows that deep down. she is so pretty and smart, she deverse more. we'll see.

the store is hanging in there. i am neglecting that for alittle while. i will be back in full force come june 14, gotta relax alittle! i have some idea's that i hope everyone likes.

well back to work!

Exhausted

I am that. lol. ***warning*** there may be some whining ahead, so you have been warned. lol.

it has been a wild couple of months. i'm exhausted mentally and emotionally. God has really been testing me lately. but i am gonna pass those tests. yes i will. There is alot i want to do, alot i have to do, alot i THINK i have to do, and i'm getting alittle confused at what i should be doing, lol.

Markie has been giving us some trouble. I think she is testing us and trying to see how far she can go. Her 'boyfriend', well lets just say we don't like him. I have tried. really i have. but i can't anymore. and i won't hide it anymore. she knows, he knows, pretty sure everyone knows. i don't like the way he treats her and she deserves SOOOO much more than that. so much more. she just can't see it, yet. hopefully she will. just not sure when.

The wedidng plans are going good. Amanda wanted the minister that performed my parents wedding, but health problems are interfering and now we are looking for a replacement. 3 weeks before the wedding. but we love brother Bray. it is he neatest. I think other things are going good. just a few more things to do. then it's all last minute stuff. Her dress is being altered to fit since she has a poooch. she is 17 weeks pregnant now. she will find out June 2 what she is having. they think i want a girl but i jus thope it is healthy. Markies dress fit except in the chest. she has to take alittle in. no biggie.

the March of Dimes crop went great! I didn't see alot of familiar faces, but everyone was great!!! Cheryl is working on hosting another one in july. i think july 25, but don't qoute me on that. thanks to all who did purchase a/some kits. the photos are on the store blog, url up in the upper right hand corner.

if you would like to purchase a kit on the blog, let me know and we can make arrangements to get it to you. I will post the boy layouts i have in the works too. I was shocked how fun they were to do!!! everyone know how i love my girl pages! lol. no pink on these pages, no sir!! lol

the online store has taken a back burner until the wedding is over. I still hope to attend CHA in july, if only to drool over all the goodies. unfortantly the wedding is taking all m y expendiable cash at the moment! lol

well better get busy. have alot to do.

Have a great day!

Beautiful Weather!

Ok, so me, Rona and Nikki had a great time saturday. All the ladies in poplar bluff were so nice! our classes were full, the crop was full with 40 ladies. I hope everyone enjoyed the kits we made up to sell too. i only brought home a few. yeah! Debbie has a nice store too. scored me some creative imaginations paper that i love. I hope everyone enjoyed their National Scrapbook Day. Next year I will not have a wedding (or I hope, i do have one more daughter!) hanging over my head and will plan a retreat. i already have idea's! Don't forget about the retreat i have scheduled for June 27th and 28th. we'll celebrate my husbands birthday, even though he won't be there! lol he has to work! well, i better get to work, i will be back soon. i have some more kits made up and i will post later! cynde

Two Days in a Row!!!

Well I went to markie's spring concert last night. one more year then i am done with hight school! i will miss it, but then again, maybe not!!!! my babies are growing up.

I am looking forward to going to poplar bluff this weekend and teaching again. here are a couple of my class layouts.

You Make Me Giggle!
of course it's about Chloe! We are gonna title it using the cricut and then use stickles to make it pop!





This one doesn't have a title. and it is backwards page one is on the bottom and page two on top.




and the last one. Wonderful! i just love these rusty pickle letters!




I also made 6 kits, yes SIX! i am so excited. i hope the ladies like them. it is kinda scary going in and not knowing them and their styles or if they will like you. I guess i will have to behave and not yell at anyone like i usually do. lol. I will try and post pictures of the kits soon. I may have a bunch left!

have a great day!

So

Nikki has called me slacker, or something similar. lol so here i am. not much going on in my life. oh yeah, except planning a wedding (i think sometimes by myself),end of school activities for markie, work (there was a bird in my ceiling today, don't ask me how), markies birthday, getting ready for NSD in poplar bluff, ect, ect. so i think i will just post some pictures and call it a day.

here's markie's prom pictures. she went by herself. ms independent!