What's On my Mind...My Blog Thought Bubble

Just this afternoon I thought I would take a break from designing...I've been at it all day! Sometimes when I design for long periods of time...I get a little goofy...silly...or whatever you want to call it! Anyhow I was outside "smoking" my twizzlers and enjoying my diet coke when I had this funny thought about Stray Pixels....(BTW for those that don't know I'm using twizzlers to "puff" on to help me get through my cravings...I've been smoke free for 14 days now!) Now back to the Stray Pixel topic.....I was thinking about as a designer the thought of having stray pixels on your products is treated so very SERIOUSLY. Designers absolutely dread them....customers have been known to throw stones at designers that sneak them in as bonus treat! So for fun I thought I would think of Stray Pixels differently......in a funny way....in a silly way.....Here's My silly Stray Pixel List for you! Enjoy! Oh btw if you want to add to the list feel free to! I would love to hear your thoughts-but please don't throw stones! (how about this in a product description): BONUS: Free stray pixels included! Fighting for the RIGHTS of STRAY PIXELS! Will the REAL stray pixel please STAND up? Please stop the Stray Pixel WITCH HUNTS! Buy 2 stray pixels and you'll get 1 free! Well that's my small list....it kept me amused and my mind off smoking and everything that sometimes makes me want to smoke..hahaha! So whatcha think of my Blog Thought Bubble? I hope to have a batch of these ready soon...now I just have to think of a name for the thought bubbles....if you have suggestions please let me know........ Here's the list I have so far: Revealed Thoughts Someone STOLE my THOUGHTS! My Bubbles BEEN BUSTED! Brain FART I love the Brain Fart one but it might be too Raunchy. If you offer a name for my thought bubbles....and I like it and I pick it I'll send you a batch of thought bubbles! I have some ideas for layouts using these but I plan to use them a lot on my blog...or at least I HOPE I have time to use them on my blog...let's face it....this poor blog has periodically been abandoned...due to having a BUSY life!

My Busy Summer-Lots of Changes!

Time to give my Blog a face lift! (More of a Funky Freestyle look!) Redoing my blog has really jump started my creativity! I can't wait to start working on some new goodies-and maybe I'll even get around to scrapping some photos! The photos I used in the blog are of my youngest DD Melya-I did a photo shoot with the girls on July 3rd. I was inspired my Michelle Pearson (I think I spelled her name right)-she posted this thing about trash your wedding dress-well I did my own twist on it. I went to the GoodWill store and purchased some prom dresses had the girls dressed up and we went to the playground. I let them run around without shoes on too....probably not a wise thing but no one got hurt! It's been rainy a lot-so there were plenty of mud puddles. Anyhow I have lots of great photos to play with now! Thanks Michelle for inspiring me! It's so hard to think of ways to get the girls to take photos-teenagers can be very camera shy ok...maybe not camera shy but stubborn about having their photos taken! When they were little they were hams! Always letting me take their photos...boy do I miss those days! So if you have teenagers this might be a good idea....instead of trash your wedding dress you could do trash a goodwill prom dress! hahahaha! In June-I went to Savannah GA and Charleston S.C. with my friend Laura Burger. It was so nice to get away and see beautiful things! I loved the history, the moss hanging from the big oak trees, the ocean, the crab legs, and the plantations...man GA and SC really know how to make everything look good-I swear even the trash bins looked good! Sounds crazy but it's true....it's so darn purrrrrty there! i got an iphone! i wasn't planning on it! it was time for us to renew our phone contract (with sprint) and get new phones...my other phone's screen went dead on me....and i rarely used it! Anyhow we changed to ATT and Todd had planned on getting an iphone for himself....i told him that i didn't think use i would use it that much..cause i have an ipod and it's got more gigs than the iphone....well when he called to say they had 2 in stock......i changed my mind....it just seemed right.....meant to be! Anyhow the darn thing never leaves my side and it's so much more than a phone...I'm so spoiled by it! I love the touch screen...i love how you can search the net almost anywhere at any time. Gosh i could keep going on and on but...i won't! It was just well worth the money! I finally took the plunge and bought ACDsee-and I have become an organizing GEEK! Love that darn program! Can't wait to actually move from organizing my scrap stuff to organizing my photos! (most of my photos are organized but it will be neat to see them on the calendar in ACDsee! I lost 15 lbs. I've been at it since March...I think it's been since March. I gained some on the trip....like 5 lbs but I got it back off again! I'm still plugging away at losing more....I think I have another 15 lbs to go...I think that's right...as it gets closer I'll post more info about it. Now here's the biggest thing I've changed...I wasn't going tell anyone....only my dear friend Laura and my family but I have changed my mind. Tuesday July 31st-it will have been 14 days since I quit....smoking.....I've always hated telling people or having them find out I smoked.....I never smoked around the kids....I actually always preferred smoking hidden away..from everyone...it was a "me thing"...a time for myself.....well NOT anymore! I'm using the patch.....and I'm using twizzlers to help with the inhaling part that I miss. I just puff away on twizzlers...no lie! If you break them in half ...they have a hole all the way through the center...you can inhale air and exhale....I don't do it all the time but it sure helps with the cravings to do the whole inhaling thing! The girls think I'm crazy...Todd says, "Whatever works!" Adam (my oldest)17 years old-graduated...I just got back from his graduation. Long story but he hasn't lived with us since he was about 13......since then he's got himself in a heap of trouble over the past 4 years.....now he seems to be working towards a better future...I've always stayed in close contact with him through the years. We are so happy to finally see him doing well! He's even writing poems and they are excellent...I teared up when he read them to me! Jessica (Todd's Oldest 18)-graduated this year too! She's got a manager job at a fast food place....and she's going to marry BUBBA and live in a trailer...Just joking! The Fast food thing is correct ..but the other stuff is made up...(I'm curious to see if anyone will actually read this LONG post!) Anyhow she'll be attending college next month with her boyfriend (the same guy she's dated for the past 3 years). Her summer has been pretty relaxing...she is working a lot though......on her days off she complains she's bored..but this past week she didn't' complain much ...I think she's bored less cause she had the Harry Potter book stuff to keep her busy :). I work weekends now.....I'm "processing" on the weekends for Todd's Company. Actually both of us are. Todd's Dad will be taking a 3 week trip to Russia-so we are taking over some of his duties "permanently" My weekends are long and boring! Well that's it.....those are all the changes from my summer of 2007. In the next day or 2 I'll be posting some Info about my new products...so make sure to check back :). Have a great week!

Funky Frayed and Framed

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