Rainbow Wrinkles + MsSickie :)

Check out my new Rainbow Wrinkles Also Check out our new Collab All We Need ____________________________ Ms Melya has been sick for a couple days. I thought it would just "pass" but it hasn't so I'm taking her to the doctor today. Looks like our little 3 day vacation will be delayed.

Handful of Challenges=Lots of Layouts done!

I thought I would actually do some layouts this weekend. Maybe that's what I need to do to bring back my mojo! Feel free to join me! I have 5 different challenges (some belong to me and some belong to others)! Here we go: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- My Ad Inspiration (I can't remember where I found this one but enjoy!) _____________________________ Scraplift this layout from Gina Miller (I always find some great inspiration from Gina's Gallery!) _________________________________________ DigiChicks Ad Inspiration _________________________________________ DigiChicks Sketch Challenge _________________________________________ Quote Challenge I found this quote on Zen Habits “There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” - Albert Einstein ____________________________________ Now it's time to do some shopping! Have a great weekend!

Quote + A Song + Inspiration + Learning= mylife

Quote I like-found this one on Ali Edwards Blog Howard Thurman : Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. "Creating makes me come "alive" and taking photos. I'm going to do that today :)." ________________________________ {A Song About my Liver} Got up bright and early and headed to the Ultrasound place today. On our way to drop off the girls-Melya was singing a song about my Liver Enzymes! I thought it was quite funny! She wished me "luck" today at the doctor. I love how she's so considerate even at this stage of her life. Let's face it-it's usually very typical for teenagers to be only focused on themselves and they rarely come out of their own little world. I feel so blessed :). (Note to myself need to scrap about this) _________________________________ Found a fun site for some inspiration and added it to the side bar. Lots to look at! abduzeedo __________________________________ Hoping to learn a program called "Capture" for the Mac. While in the waiting room I read the instruction manual....I guess that's one way to pass time. I got this program so that I can do some video tutorials. I'm hoping to do a video tutorial on Shoebox.

Tuesday Idol + Mommy Moment + My Health

ACTUALLY Posted Today March 12th _____________________________ my random thoughts about Idol Last night Todd thinks Jason Castro looks like John Travolta What do you think? I think the judges were too tough on.... Kristy Lee Cook I liked her twist on "8 days a week" I voted for Chikezie (like 5 times) Syesha Mercado Jason Castro This season is very tough-there are a lot of good ones! _______________________________ Last night I had a difficult Mommy Moment It was hard to watch Melya after hitting practice. She was tearful...she said she doesn't feel like she fits in with the team..and she doesn't feel like she's all that good. As her mom I just want to give her the strength to strive to do better and I would love to be her softball "friend". I know crazy....I realize that's just a fantasy. What I did was- email the coach and let him know that Melya's feeling like she not fitting in ...he of course said all the right things to me and I'm feeling much better. In a NUTSHELL-It's hard to watch our kids struggle! We just want them to fit in and be successful! __________________________________ I see the liver specialist on Thursday. I have to have another ultrasound done....Yes I'm a bit scared. I'll tell you more later- But to sum it up my liver enzymes are elevated and they aren't sure why......so they are running tests. I need lots of "positive thoughts" and prayers please! Off to get designing done today-I hope!

Foggy Morning

My Foggy Morning on my way to take the kids to school. (actually this particular photo was taken with my iphone on the way home from their school) I've been working on doing my taxes...spent two days figuring out my expenses. Off to watch Idol and fix some photos.

New Designs + Amercian Idol

Check out my new designs on My Designs Blog ________________________________________ {My Thoughts} American Idol 1. good to see Blake on tonight (I've been wondering about him) he was my favorite from last season. 2. Sad to see Danny Noriega get kicked off. I know he probably wasn't the best singer but he sure made me laugh! he reminds me of one of Samantha and Melya's friend. Wish he could have stayed on longer.Maybe he could get a job with Saturday Night Live! 3. Todd was sad to see Kady Malloy leave. I guess she looked like his neighbor when he was in high school. I personal loved hearing her imitate Britney Spears. Besides watching Idol I worked on fixing lots of Easter photos from 2007. Off to get some designing done today. Hope to have some new goodies for you next week! Thank you Jenn for stopping by :). ---------------------------------------------------- Check out this Mommy Tip of the week (found her blog on the Blog Train at DST) Love the idea of the pillow case races!Dawn's Blog

Scott Kelby's 7 point system

Tonight I'm sitting in my living room on the laptop waiting for American Idol to start (and cooking dinner). I've been working on fixing my photos so I can "motivate" myself to do some scrapping! I haven't always felt confident about "fixing" my photos and I've had to rely on lots of photo actions to help me through the process. So just recently I set out to learn how to fix my own photos. (Hey I still love photo actions and L.R. Presets but it's nice to know to fix photos yourself!) I bought Scott Kelby's 7 point system book and I'm on the last chapter. I love the repetition that he uses in the book. The repetition totally makes it stick! If you have the patience to just follow the book and use his photos for fixing then you'll learn how to do your own. I'm no expert at the system but I feel much more confident and happier with my results when I do attempt to fix my photos! Here's a photos I did tonight: BEFORE AFTER This is Melya from last year about this time. I still have most of 2007 to scrap and it's totally motivated me to start scrapping those photos! Hey Eve thank you for dropping by! I loved "hearing" from you! Off to finish dinner and wait for Idol to start!

Texas 2 Step

Check what we did last night at the polls it's called the Texas 2Step We voted yesterday afternoon and then we had to go back to the polls at 7:15pm and it was packed. We waited for 2 hours before we could sign a sheet with our names and who we were voting for. I won't tell you who I voted for because I'm still torn between Obama and Hillary. I wish they could be on the same ticket! Anyhow What an exciting time for us all! I hope we have that many people turn out at the polls in November.

Spring Cleaning

I spent the day updating and giving my blog a "fresh" spring look! All my links etc were out of date-but no longer! I also have a list of my other blogs posted on the left handside. I hope to bring you some mac tutorials by starting with shoebox first. If you're not a mac user I'm sure you'll find some other fun stuff to look at ..for example check out my new inspiration list of links on the right. Click away and enjoy! I'll be back to post about some of my current products. Off to grab the girls from school.