2 more kits coming to Scrap Cloud soon!

Who would I like to change places with, and why!

I'm gonna have to be generic here. I'd love to change places with any number of the hot scrap designers out there today. I'd love to crawl around in their brain and see their creativity from start to finish...How cool would that be?

Wow! 2 kits went live this week!

I never told anyone. I was accepted as a designer at www.scrapcloud.com!!! Feels great! I'm so psyched to do this! Whether others like my art or not, I've always been a creative person by nature! I love designing things. I had (and still o) hoped to go to school to pursue a degree in graphic or web design. Anyways, back to the kits! My first 2 kits went into the shop!

Citrus Kiss



Nevermind


It feels good to be doing this. I love being creative, anything above and beyond this being a creative outlet is just icing on the proverbial cake!!! If you happen to purchase either of these...let me know what you think and send me a link to one of your LOs!! I'd be so appreciative!!

If I could make a fantasy camp...

Hmmm...Fantasy Camps are all the rage right now! If I could design a fantasy camp it would be a graphic designers paradise...all of the newest techie gadgets, a PC per person, and all you can eat junk food to help the creative juices flow! I'd have each person design a billboard, magazine ad, paper product or website of their choice. That sounds like heaven!!

10 "atainable" goals for my family

1. I want my kids to learn to be more appreciative and humble, we've lost that in the younger generations, and it's time for a comeback!

2. I will start taking better care of all of our "stuff". I tend to let things go, then get mad and just toss things out or give them away instead of actually utilizing and taking care of them.

3. My husband and I will have our Master Suite finished!!!

4. To become more organized and get the house in order.

5. We will find more time for "us". Unhappy, fighting, grumpy people do not make award winning or even mediocre parents! My husband and I need to each find our seperate "happy places" and our couple "happy place" and go there as often as we can manage with 4 kids and 2 jobs!

6. For my husband to get the proverbial "ducks in a row", so that he can fullfill his dream of starting his own business sometime in the next few years.

7. Give the kids weekly chores, make sure they DO the weekly chores, and hopefully find a few minutes more for myself as well as teaching them to be more helpful.

8. My kids need to learn how to be more self-sufficient. I think I'm doing something wrong, when my 7 year old still needs me to lay out clothes for bed AND school.

9. Get all of our medical bills paid off.

10. I aim to have a new camera and PS CS2. I consider this a family purchase even though I'm the main user, because I want to leave a lasting, tangible, and meaningful legacy for my children, grandchildren, and all future generations. I know that even though my husband doesn't always "get" my obsession, er...love of scrapping, he does agree that what I'm doing is a good thing! (Hey, getting them to admit that is the first step, right?)

Top 5 things I stink at...

1. Cleaning...one look at my house and you'd agree! I just can't stay on top of it. I can get it into a semi-stable enviorment, but it's never really CLEAN clean. I hate that about myself. My best friend is a clean "freak" and I really wish I was, but its so hard woth 4 kids, a husband, and 4 daycare kids on top of that! I try, I really do!

2. Saying NO! I am notorious for overcommitting, or just plain old committing and complaining about it to anyone who'll listen. I tend to not feel validated unless I have 4 people who NEED me to do something for them, but I'm so passive agressive...because after committing, I sit and complain about how I hate being tied down to so many things...it's a viscious cycle I hope to stop...someday...

3. Nurturing my relationships and keeping in touch with loved ones. I tend to live in my own little world, and unless others step into it, iIm not one to go out on my own. I've been trying to be more social, but again, with 4 kids, it's just hard to find "me" time. Thank goodness for the internet. I've met some great women, and I hope even 2 or 3 of them feel as fondly of me as I feel about them. I have vowed to start keeping up a weekly corrrespondance with my out of town friends, and attempting a monthly night out with my girl friends who live close by, and I've even beem trying to get on the chat rooms and IM my internet friends more often.

4. Laundry! I't a never ending chore...I can get it to the laundry room, into the washer, and even into the dryer and into a basket, but that seems to be all the farther it gets. Folding with a two year old is like plowing in a blizzard...basically pointless, but atleast it makes you feel as if you're making headway.

5. Enjoying the little things...I watch my mom and my grandma with my kids and I can't wait to be a grammy. They say it's wonderful...no strain of the day to day raising of a child....just pure enjoyment without consequence. I wish I could slow myself down, and regain some patience so I could stop and play Boggle with Seth, have a dress-up tea party with Leah, read Who Wants a Dragon? 80 times in a row to Isaac, and sit and rock Ruby as I kiss her small cheek and sing You Are My Sunshine to her...but there never seems to be enough hours in the day...

I'm sick...really!

Oh, I'm getting a terrible cold. It started with sneezing and a sore throat on Saturday...and today I'm feeling weak, light-headed, my throat is scratchy, my nose is runny...blah! It's August...who gets a cold in AUGUST? I hope it goes away quickly, just got my CT assignments for SS and I just don't feel creative today! :)

One famous person I'd like to have dinner with is...

Margaret Mitchell. Regrettably, she is deceased, but I still find her completely fascinating! She is the author of Gone With the Wind. My all-time FAVORITE book. I read it once a year and thoroughly enjoy it every time! If you've never read it, you should! It is a great read both as a fictional novel, but also as a historical novel as well. The Civil War era in the United States was a scary and confusing time, and Margaret Mitchell did a wonderful job in making it all seem so real and giving a very thoughtful retrospect of a lot of real events. I doubt you'd ever read such an insightful view of this time in America. I'd love to meet and chat with the mind behind such a superbly written historical piece of literature. I know her story is fictional, but it is set in such a historically accurate setting that it reads almost as a non-fictional tale. Her way with character writing helps this fact a lot! Ms. Mitchell knew how to write a heroine. Scarlett O'Hara is the girl you love to hate and hate to love! So assign, if you have never done so, grab a copy of Gone With the Wind and try it out, I promise you'll not be sorry, maybe you'll decide that YOU'D like to have dinner with Margaret Mitchell as well!