My first crafty post of the year

in keeping with the plan here are a few message boards that I made. One for Haley and one for Ashleigh.

Wow has it really been 2 years since I have posted anything here?

I decided to try and start blogging again. I want a place to showcase my crafts and share stories of my crazy family so I decided to check in with the old blog. Dec 7 2008 was my last post, wow! I promise to try better to post. Not that there is anyone out there to hear me but this is better than talking to myself where people can see! lol My goal is to post once a week and to post a project at least once a week. So maybe 2 entries a week unless I am really on top of things and have pictures ready to post when I post! yeah that probably won't happen.

We started the week off with a severe weather day. The base and the schools were closed so the kiddos and I had a lazy day at home. Well it wasn't all lazy. I did finish Ashleigh and Haley's message boards. I plan to finish Haley's night light tonight. So we can take them with us this coming weekend when we travel to Missouri to visit.

The girls also start tumbling this week so I will be spending 4 evening a week at the armery, yeah fun.

I guess that is all for now. I will be back later this week with a post so I can share the girls message boards and Haley's night light.

TTFN

Happy Sunday

I know your shocked to see me back so soon:) I promise to be a better blogger and to share some of my projects with you. I finished a Christmas Countdown calendar today. I wish I could take credit for it but I actually saw it in a newsletter from Scrap etc in Birmingham. They were offering a class and since I couldn't make it I decided to give it a try. I am not real good at mixing patterned papers but I figured what the heck. I cut everything using my Cricut and used George and Christmas Cheer cartridges. Let me know what you think.

I am also working on ATC's this week. I have become addicted to those cute little suckers. I have a couple of Christmas ones to do so I will try and post those to before they go into the mail.

Remember that awesome tulip Chandelier I linked to in my last post? Well I won it! How awesome is that. I can not wait for it to get here and be added to my scrapbook room.

If you haven't been following it Tim Holtz is a little over half way through his 12 days of Christmas tags. I am in awe every day at the things he does. Go check them out if you haven't already. http://timholtz.typepad.com/my_weblog/

I guess that is all for now. Have a great week and I will see you soon:)

Christi

The day after

Wow it has been 2 months again. I always have the best of intentions and then fall through. I am going to add updating my blog to my weekly task list and see if I can get better at it.

Yesterday was Black Friday and there was nothing I had to rush out and get first thing in the morning so Ashleigh and I did not leave the house until almost 8. I did not buy one single Christmas gift but did pick up soem things we needed.

This morning am I am crusing the internet and I came across this cool site. These calendars would be a great gift for anyone in your life and look really cool. So check them out. http://talkottown.blogspot.com/2008/11/etsys-keeping-me-awake-give-away.html

and while your there check out the pink blingy chandelier. I definitely need one of these for my scraproom! http://talkottown.blogspot.com/

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving and got some of their shopping done. Today will be dead here so might go out shopping again. The iron bowl is on and everybody and their mother will be glue to the tv:)

Happy Labor Day

It is hard to believe it is September 1st. This year has really flown by. Before I know it Halloween will be here and then Christmas.

The school year is going well for the kiddos so far. Ashleigh brought home signed papers yesterday with her first official conduct grades of second grade and she had A's in both classes. I am soooooo proud of her

I have decided this weekend I wasnt to redo my scraproom. It has been a while so I need to rework things. I have decided to go ahead and unmount the rest of my stamps. I had started the process a while back but when I became a Stampin Up demo I stopped. I have about 75 sets I want to unmount, then I will coat the back with Aleene's tack it over and over. It is way cheaper them ezmount. Then I will store them in page protectors in 3 ring binders. My goal is to unmount 5 sets a day and more when I can.

I have a new obsession. Somehow I have cupcakes on the brain. I decided a couple of weekends ago I wanted cupcake stamps and went on a search for some. I found this set at ac moore on sale because they are closing the store.
Then I found these online:

So if you see any cute cupcake stuff send me a link:)

Diet is still going good. I am closing in on my first major goal. As of this morning I am 2 pounds away! Yea Me lol only 32 more pounds to go now. I hope to start running this week and that should help get a bit more off.

That is about it here, back to work and school tomorrow. It will be hard because we have done absolutely nothing this weekend. But nothing is sometimes good.

TTFN

Christi

Week 1 Down

The first week of school has been great! Hold onto your hats my friends, Ashleigh has not gotten a conduct check in almost 2 weeks! Woo hoo WTG baby girl. She told me the other night 2nd grade was really easy. Craig is adjusting to Emily crash landing on his planet and has even tried to be friendly to her (i.e. sitting next to her on the bus) to which she says ruined her life. Don't worry he assured her, it will help you be more popular because I am one of the cool 8th graders. God help us all! LOL





Check out http://www.unkit.blogspot.com/ This is my friend Sudie who is putting together something different. Most definitely the way to go if you like monthly kits. I just got done playing with the August Disney kit and will share pictures as soon as I can. The kit and the idea for what to do wiht your kit are awesome. Stop by and say hi and tell her Christi sent you.





Weight is going down, down, down. I am 4 pounds away from my first major goal! Yea me 31 pounds and 35 more to go. I will have to post some picture soon. It is nice to put clothes on and them be to big, it has been a while since I have had that issue.





Here is my new desktop at work, I saw the saying on a t-shirt in a catalog. I went online and found the picture and think it will be just perfect for my desktop at work. If only it would scare off some of the interruptions! LOL

Have a great week and do something nice for yourself, you deserve it:)

TTFN

Christi

Happy First Day of School to you:)

Happy monday, first day of school day around here:) We got up bright and early this morning and put on our first day of school outfits, packed our lunch boxes and headed back to school. Ashleigh was super excited, Emily was super nervous and Craig was just well not sure about his sister invading his space. Never mind they will probably never see each other, she was still coming to his planet. They were very nice to each other last night trying to help each other pick out what to wear and giving advice. Is it possible, could we be wandering into that undiscivered terrirtory I like to dream of called getting along? I highly doubt it but a mom can dream can't she?



The parking situation at Dalraida this morning was a nightmare. I am not sure hwo the genius is who decide to rework their parking situation and car pool drop offs but they should be shot. They have fenced off a whole parking lot so you can not get into it at all. They are supposed to start construction soon and I am guessing they thought they should make life hell now and not wait. Even the buses were having a hard time because there was no where for them to turn around. So we will have to deal with that but ti will all work itself out.



We are just excited to be back in school and on a steady schedule. The kids love summer and they love spending time with their grandparents but the gas has killed me this summer. But Craig needs the guy time with his Opa and his Opa needs his kid fix. I am so thankfully for all the help Oma and Opa give me during the summer, I do nto know what I would do without them.



That is about it for here. I have been working on some projects but I can not show them to you yet. They are for a friend of mine who has a cool scrapbooking kit going on. Check it out at http://unkit.wordpress.com/ She has a very cool idea and I can see it really taking off. The August kit was a Disney kit and since we just got back from Disney I had a few pictures I could out together. So keep an eye out and I will try and let you know how that goes.

Talk to you soon.

Christi