Scrap Happy Girl

I'm sliding in at the last few hours to say Happy New Year! May the new year Bless you and your family's in every way A

Hiding out is my name not eating eggs, sausage, biscuits and syrup and all the other stuff is my game and my little rap it a bit lame but you like me any way and I'm done rapping today Ok I'll stop, is that better? Not much going on today just hanging out with clipie . Tomorrow at an un earthly hour of 7:30am est we will put the car in the shop. So that translates into I will probably wont blog early. What is it with mechanics why do they get up before the sun? Moving on not much to tell you about other than snow we may get to see some today 20% chance! And tomorrow the same, nothing says Christmas like snow. Happy New Year too all of you! blessings A

We have been on the car hunt. A so not fun car hunt that turned into an suv hunt that has turned into a" Oh my Lord do they really expect me to pay this much for a thing with wheels"? Seriously I'm way out of touch when it comes to car pricing. They pretty much want 20,000 for anything will seat 4, I'm just shocked. So that has led to can we keep fixing the car for a while? I what I really mean is can we use it till the wheels fall off? Big mama is staying in the family for a while but it looks like the "other woman" is going to be seeing greener pastures as we pre pair and save money for a new car. Be praying for Clipie he has decided to sell her (the vette )....I'm shocked and don't really know how to react. I guess it's time to do those car pages of him and her. I have absolutely no projects to share with you of late. I haven't done a project since Saturday. I'm itching to use my ds but there is no time to spare with all of the ...

So how was your Christmas? mine was great no snow for the second year in a row so I was a bit disappointed with that. Other than that Santa was good to me. I did get the design studio for the bug and quite a few clothes. I have a couple of things to take back today for my mom and later we are going to put my car in the shop it is very sick we may need to go look at new cars..... ugh I wasn't wanting to do this for a while. But you can only sink so much into a car that had 109,000 miles on it and it's 8 years old..... yes big mama is getting up there in years and I may halfta giver her up. Since it's only the second car I have ever had in my life it's sorta big. Other than that things are same ol same o kinda thing. blessings A

Finding your place is sometimes easy, like when you are at a wedding reception you don't decide where to sit they have a seating arrangement and you sit, no choice in the matter, you just automatically you have a place to be. We also have our favorite places to sit whether they be in in your lazy boy chair or on the arm of the couch its comfortable to you and you alone. Not many will ever understand why I love sitting with one leg tucked up under me at the end of the couch, (just like my Aunt Jane) . We all have a natural place's in our own families youngest, oldest, tallest ,smallest. Finding your place in the world outside of family and work sometimes is challenging. In December of 03 I had a place in this world, it was in a small suburb of a large Midwestern city. It was not a large life but it was full and one I had spent 30 years in building. I was a daycare teacher for 12 years, I was active in Girl Scouts, had wonderful neighbors/friends, I was a sitter for the Mops...

tick tick tick tick tick tick Welcome I'm Angie Wallace and this is 60 seconds with a scrapper Do you remember the beginning to 60 minutes? I do, when it came on, it meant it was time to turn the channel to the Muppet show. I feel like the past few days all I can hear is that clock tick tick ticking away counting down till Christmas. At last I only have cookies to make, still need to make the cranberry sauce and cinnamon bread. I'm playing the part of the chicken on the sauce, I'm a bit intimidated by the cran, how do I know that 1/2 of them have popped? I'm all done shopping although that may not stop me from wondering out into the madness to go over to Kohl's later to check out the Rachel ray knife set that is on a huge sale. Cause my Chicago steel knifes keep rusting and my Henkels (sp??) are never very sharp and yes I know how to sharpen the knifes. In other exciting news Mr Cippie is in the dog house. It all started when he asked me why I had to go to walmar...

Cranberry sauce 2 bag o cran some cran apple or cran grape juice 1/2 cup of sugar 1 tbsp of honey 1 can mandarin oranges drained and cut at least in half Do y'all know how to make cranberry sauce? ( I know probably a silly question) I have made it twice the first time it went in the trash, the second time... well lets just say it was ok but not great. This is a new recipe I sorta put together after looking a many recipes on the food network a mish mash of every one's ideals. The big changes are boiling the cranberry's in juice not water and adding honey. Wish me luck! I'll report back soon, lets hope the third time is the charm. I have been making cheese balls and will be cooking at least two dishes a day for the next few days until Christmas. I will mostly freeze the goodies to keep the clipie from eating all of the tasty foods. Which is my of telling you I must end my blog session to go cook! Blessings A 6 days till Christmas 3 gifts left, to get! I can see th...

this is my card for knitty friends and ww Just stopping by for a quick visit with you all today I'm very tired after a marathon visit with walmart yesterday. I believe it was one of the longest trips ever....at leas it felt that way. Today I'm in the mists of Christmas goodness, cards and a crock pot that seems to be used daily due to my lack of time to cook. I'm printing coupons off the net to save on the last few gifts I have to get and thinking I want to have a nice nap. (been up since 5 b/c clipies car (the other woman) is acting up) I'm also knitting an alpaca ( itchie knitty - must be allergic) in the mix. Gotta go Blessings A

Not that any of you are that interested in my ambitious knitting frenzy of Christmas 07 I'm going to blabber on about it for just a bit cause I have a need to. I finished one of my 5 scarfs yesterday This morning I got started on another and I think I'm half way My clipie scarf I have no ideal.... Will it get done? That is the question. I'm doing his scarf on size 4 needles (0 is the smallest size in needles if you are wondering) but extremely simple and no real pattern. I have two more I have yet to start! One is for a cousin hers will be a sloppy scarf (just name of pattern) and the other will be for me to match my coat I will be getting for Christmas. ugh will I ever learn I'm in to deep? I have a small amount of shopping to finish and no real good gift for clippie yet ugh morning frustration I have cards to get out today (mine) and cards to finish making for my knitty pot luck not to mention my a couple cards for some ww people. And I need to decide what ...

^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^ ^ ^^ ^ ^^^ ^^^^^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^^ ^ ^^^ ^^ ^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^ Do you think Santa ever took a course in time management? When he was taking Clause classes did they show him the busy lives of wife's and mothers and let them explain multitasking? I think we all feel the need for a time management class's except we don't have time for the class, or the time to think about something like that. Most of us don't have the time to read our favorite blogs and attend to our favorite hobbies in fact most of you are probably feeling guilty about taking the time to read this. We all are in the same boat so busy that you are multi tasking your own thoughts, and multiple lists being made at one time. My mother who knows I get overwhelmed quickly taught me to start small. Lets say you need to clean the hurricane oops I meant house, start with the smallest room and work your way to the largest. Start in the corner of the room, not the middle, so you can look back on your c...

do you need a vacation? do you need a break? how about this I'll give you a few minutes to mentally pack . . . . . . . ready to go how about the Hampton's I know it's a bit cold but you will love it it's beautiful have fun link to a mini mental vacation http://www.hamptons.com/lv_beachcam.ihtml

I wanted to share my screen wallpaper it's free at http://susanbranch.com/shopping/wallpaper.cfm The Santa is so cute! So is Susan Branch's site check it out! http://susanbranch.com/

My outdoor Christmas lights are red and white,with candy cane accents. (My angel I had out the night of the party quit working so I had to replace her) The hearts are 2 candy canes strapped together with those plastic twisty like things. Well if you haven't noticed our usual sunny weather has headed south, so to speak. I'm missing my vitamin d from the sun. No I'm just tired of the grey, I'm used to it yes, just tired of it and ready for some Christmas sun. Bear with me these next few days I have some big projects going on and big decisions, part of the reason my blogging is behind. I'm thinking I may need to change my e-mail it would make it tons easier for me. I may be doing that as well as trying to transfer all my old message and favorite files to the new net home. I'm off to work on Christmas cards today mine and my mom's (she still has no glasses) so it will be a joint venture this year to the better part of the family. blessings A

I should be at ww weighing in I should be having the chicken Mandarin salad after that class And I should be going to my knitting class after that but I'm not I think it was all the greasy food I ate yesterday I don't know but today is going to be a couch day! blessings a

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On Saturday I installed the Internet my self! And after a phone call to tech support I was up and running. And the very best part was the only help I had was the tech guy that's right Clipie didn't help (he was at work). I wanted to take a picture of my outdoor Christmas lights however since we are in the middle of a torrential down pour it's not going to happen. I spent the better part of yesterday (after church) working on the outdoor lights. The lights were very hard to work with this year we only did the bushes by the door and around the door. We also spent much time trying to repair the angel that is still not working I'm very sad to say. I also should have another card on the bitten by the bug site some time this morning. link http://regina-bittenbythebug.blogspot.com On Saturday my sister went back home, she was feeling better, her cold was just about gone and it had stopped snowing more that 4 inches at a time making it much more easy to travel. My Mother said ...

Ok well as you can see it took me about 3 min to upload a 12 megapixil immage as opposed to 30 to 45 a huge improvement. Also my phone works while I'm on line as well, hmmmmmmm I'm liking this.

Ok first I'll explain the Internet yes it is high speed but not true dsl - no I do not understand it he told me if I don't like it, or if it's not fast enough he will change it I have no ideal how it works other than it is something about compressing???? on the regular phone line and I can use the phone at the same time like dsl so I will not have a busy signal anymore only draw back is I don't have free long distance and it should be here today or tomorrow and he will try to hook it up as soon as we get our unit. And I'm waiting to post scrappie things until then, my last down load took 45 min for the card for the bitten by the bug site and that my friends is too long. As for my life I have a house full of people and I'm told two good apple pies. I think they had to much flower in the apple part but I was told I was wrong, who knows. I'm counting down to December 22 when I may have almost 48 hrs alone with my husband. I received my pd cart yester...

It's as easy as apple pie To some, not others like me. Today I made 2 apple pies and it took the better part of 2 hrs. Not exactly easy to this person who has only ever made 1 pie in her life. How is it that I never have? You ask well..... I don't really have an answer to that other than it's just life getting in the way of the pie. Now I'm not a ultra talented cook I can make most of the basics and I only have about one bad dinner a month. I'm defiantly not from the school of ultra talented like Emerald or the Barefoot Countessa (sp???) nope not me simple girl, simple cook. It really helps out that I have not been doing a lot of cooking of late, less cooking = less bad dinners. How did that first pie turn out you ask (or maybe you don't want to know the crust on the bottom did not get done enough for me it was editable) it was ok the guys ate it and well I don't really know how much that says most guys will eat it if you put enough cool whip on it kwi...

So much for regular blogging my sis is sick and decided to stay seeing that she would have been driving home in about 7 inches of snow. And speaking of snow it is extremely rare that it snow's 7 inches before Christmas back home. After Christmas it's nothing to start with a 9 inch snow or more but before it's all dusting's and by dusting I mean 2 inches or less. One year I can remember having flurries in June (a few years ago just before we left home) and the earliest was 1 week before Halloween and that was just a dusting back in 91 (the same year I graduated high school). Now down here in the south when you say snow you mean " THE SKY IS FALLING" everyone is in a virtual frenzy and runs to the store for the southern basics (which are) Bread, Beer, Milk and eggs. Back home we scoff at this preparing frenzy the only frenzy we ever witnessed was y2k and yes I did participate in the silly ness, but not in an extreme manor. I had a case of diced tomatoes, a case ...

Yes I'm going to order the stamp! let me know what you want to do Mr I will be working my Internet today (I is for Internet today) hopefully we will be seeing the digi net in my home soon. Wow I cant wait to upload and put all my pics and projects on the blog. As for me as usual Today is full of ww and knitting while Mr I checks out price plans and runs his fingers through cyber world learning about the dsl . And speaking of stamps have any of you seen the doodle bug stamps they are cute here is a link. http://www.doodlebug.ws/viewCategoryContents.action?categoryId=4028818a1092a4620110985cab990034 blessings Scrap happy girl will return to regular blogging tomorrow when hubby goes back to work a

Today I'm spending the day with Mr I. He is using up his final two days of vacation he has left this year. While he sleeps I blog. I did promise something scrappy a few days ago so I promise to eventually get to it. So what do y'all think about the stamp? I was surprised, I never have heard of Peachy Kean stamps and they seem to be very nostalgic. And an interesting fact if you get published using their stamps they will actually pay you -interesting concept. if anyone wants to order let me know we will do a group thing. And in the news I'm being published on the Internet! I'm going to be featured on the bitten by the bug blog as Decembers guest designer with my Santa card. My card should be up sometime today here is the link: http://regina-bittenbythebug.blogspot.com/2007_12_01_archive.html I may periodically have work on her blog this month so stay tuned for future work on her blog. This is my first time ever being published for my work! blessings I'm truly a Scrap...

I found it This stamp the "ginger girl" yes the ginger girl is a stamp! Was referred to me by the bitten by the bug site, someone suggested I should enter their contest so when I found this ginger girl I was so shocked. Oddly enough this image was the topic of conversation at our Christmas party last night. I had been in a swap on the cricut board and received a swap tag with this girl and I had no ideal where it came from. I'm glad it was found here is the link http://peachykeenstamps.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code= SpinAGrin &Category_Code=gingers

National Geographic at 1:00 pm cst the ultimate factories The corvette plant is being featured and Mr I and my bil will be on. Just a glimpse of my dream boat but Carl gets a full screen shot he will be putting in door windows. We have had a great Christmas party, Chelle we missed you. More later....... blessings A