Scrap Happy Girl

a tribute to Joe..... I'm not sure when I met Joe and his wife Kathleen but it has most certainly been a while ago probably to the tune of about more than 15 years ago. Joe is my sister-in-law (Janet's) father, she is married to Clipie's oldest brother Rick. I don't remember the first time I met them but I do remember the last time I spent time with them. In July we went to Atlanta to their grandson's wedding and we shared a dinner table as well as one of the last dances of the night. Clipie and I and he and Katleen were the only couples dancing to the tune of Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville. Joe was always quick to remember me by name and greet me with a hug and kiss, even though we are not that related, I was always treated with lots of love and as a member of the family. He was always smiling and ready to tell a joke. He was the A typical "Dad like" figure. My memory is so odd sometimes, I can remember giving him our typical hug and kiss when they le

eight almost down to a week! Well today is shaping up to be another busy day. So with that I'll wish you all a Happy and safe Halloween. blessings a

joy challenge paper is doodle charms a punch was used for the diamonds and the snowflakes were standouts and inked my me enjoy! A.

9 days buffet pricing (I called myself and spoke with Namoi (sp??)) Breakfast Monday -Saturday 6.95 Sunday 7.95 Lunch Monday- Saturday 7.95 Sunday 12.95 Dinner is 12.49 daily tht blessings a

Just 10 days!

Wow what a surprise waking up to 33 degrees on the back porch. I'm not complaining cause it's much better than a hot 100 that we had not much more than a month ago. I may need to pull out the old Columbia coat cause that's a bit chilly. And yes I'm up early this morning. In other very sad news Porter Wagner has died, now if you will recall Clipie and I did see him at the Grand Ole Ory in August of this year. If you don't know who he was he was the one who invented the very flashy country and western sequined suit and back in the older days he would open up his suit jacket and it would say "Hi" or something like that. And the weekend brought another scrapbooking scandal and yes again it centers around the Scrap Smack Blog, who have been the industry whistle blowers of late. According to one smacker the garden girls at 2 peas have a private message board to converse on, and these garden girls don't like scrap smack especially when they start telling the

11 Days from now we will be basking in retreat goodness. We will be safely tucked away in a secluded and remote area filled with scraphappyness . We will glance at the natural beauty around us as we use un recycled paper in the name of archiving and giggle when we spread the best glues hobby lobby has to offer. We will love the sound of the cricut and call it the best bug ever. We will rejoice in a scrap happy sisterhood and eat at lest three times a day. We will not shy away from Chocolate or sweet, or greasy snacks we will embrace them by chewing the love out of them. We will dress up and act silly and have a great time I'm looking forward to it! a

just a sample of joys of the season and cricut markers

OK I may have found something http://www.fruit.com/outerwear.shtml?1530R these pants I'm pretty sure they come big enough and should be packaged like t- shirts in the t-shirt section I'll check this weekend , If I find them you all may just get a phone call. I'll also take look at the scrubbs see if they fit at walmart. In other news favorite colors a pink bak red I think dw pink dh green chelle ? and new m? terri ? tracy ? pleas leave me best guesses I will have our poster done this weekend or Monday when it is finished I'll e-mail you the results but do to "keeping things a secret" I will not post it.

I find this very cute

so since this is a scrap blog I thought we may want some scrapping on it the Autumn card is alphalicious and the tree is zoo balloo the city card I don't like at all it is covered in glitter and the font is plantin schoolbook?

This afternoon I received our retreat letter...... I have a few things that I would like to bring up 1.first does anyone know the cost to eat at the lodge? the buffet 2. who is making the flag? 3. pj's - after reading the letter I think we clearly need pj's I really didn't think it was to important until I read the letter. I really don't know what to do at this point. Like I said early today I feel mostly responsible cause of my big behind. It would not be a problem for me to wear something different. And yes I have lost weight but I don't think it's enough. Also I'm not opposed to trying on anything or helping look. I think at this point you all should decide what to do? You all get matching pj's and I'll try to match them up as best I can or something, I'm really at a loss here. If you want me to help look just list where you have looked (including online) the prices and possibilities. That way we are not all looking in the same place. I'll

lands end, wal mart, are other places I have checked they have nothing on line..... kmart did have lands end soft stretchy pants that look like pj's for 9, bucks online I can go to the store and see if they fit, not a problem. I do think the fashion bug pj's are just to high in price You know if you all want to go ahead and do the stripe pants that's ok. (I'm not opposed to wearing somthing diffrent). I feel bad at this point and I feel like I'm mostly to blame cause my butt is so darn big. a

for the slender http://fashionbug.charmingshoppes.com/pagebuilder/fashion_bug_product_page?item=1131689& pagesize =3& nav = Intimatemisses &sub_cat=&shop = for the fluffly http://fashionbug.charmingshoppes.com/pagebuilder/fashion_bug_product_page?nav=Intimateplus&item=1131242& pagesize =3&sub_cat=SLEEP%20SEPARATES&shop = it is only fate that is has a pink bow. yes I know we would need to hide it I'm just sayin its pink it could be fated to be with me cause it's pink and that's how I roll. pink

I'm not excited to tell you that fashion bug does have black pj bottoms but they arr 28 bucks a pair, what is up with that? Looks like fashion bug is pretending to be Dillard's . So I was thinking by the weekend if we could check Goody's and K-mart, I really can't think of any other store we haven't looked at. That's it for now blessings a

We have finally received some rain! Yesterday and today it's been wet and when you get wet you actually get cold. Now cold is something we have not had the pleasure to feel all summer long and I'm so lovin our rain filled days. (you get wet and cold when you step out on to your patio to put your mums in the rain so they will keep living and do not need to use the city watter to keep them alive. You sacrifice getting wet and cold b/c you are trying to conserve watter and be kind to your environment, seeing that your in a drought and don't want to become the city of Atlanta and not have drinking watter and all ) And News flash my mums have lived through several week in my care and I am amazed at this fact I have kept plaint life alive my grandma would have been some what proud. Ok moving on How about glue? yesterday I did go get some sale glue there were only 4 packs of glue star herma left and there were bunches on Saturday. So we all must be stocking up for retreat or it

take a look at what this scrapper did with her paper dolls cartridge. http://www.cricut.com/messageboard/tm.aspx?m=1169983

First lets thank Betty for once again getting the club house for us. Second let me know if i need to go to old navy Third adhesive is on sale at hl go get some for retreat soon Fourth retreat is officially 19 days away! Fifth OK so about Grey's it was on tonight after the local news. I have and update if you want it. Do you? I would not want to spoil it for anyone and yes it was great. Sixth sorry no posts over the weekend I just have had a busy weekend Seventh that's a nice number isn't it? Eighth I hope everyone had a great weekend I did and I just cant wait until retreat. also if you have been reading the message boards they have been saying that un do is no longer available try Lowe's so I'm told and another thank you to dh's hubby for taking care of the bug for us. Blessings a

blog birthday While I have been working on many things yesterday (my home has been a flurry of activity of late) my blog anniversary slipped away from me. As of the 17 my blog is a year old, can you believe it? It in no way seems like a year, since then I've had more than 7,500 page viewings. Wow that's a lot. So I just want to say thanks to my best friends and family for stopping by and participating and in truth it's that participation that makes this blog interesting. Y'all give me ideals and topics to wright about and always coming up with something new to say or share. So here is a big fat Thank You from me to all of you for reading, participating , overlooking my creative spelling as well as crazy posts. just a few things chelle would be proud..... I have cleaned one whole bin of stuff out of my sbr closet, as well as put paper on the shelves in there. Also the back bedroom is some what looking better. I'm also bringing some tags and stuff to get rid

The Trippiest Optical Illusions on the 'Net Posted Oct 15th 2007 3:31PM by Terrence O'Brien This silhouette wins the award for coolest thing we've seen all day -- and it's not just because the tiny dancer above is in the buff. This is a little test that will tell you whether the left or right hemisphere of your brain is more dominant.Instead of concentrating on her chest, concentrate on the woman's movement. If you see her spinning clockwise, that means you're using the right side, or more creative side of your brain. If she appears to be moving counter-clockwise, then that means the left side, or more logical side of your think muscle is superior. At the Switched office, some of us see her going clockwise, others see her spinning counter-clockwise. At least one of us claims to see both, while another one of us opened this animation in Adobe ImageReady in order to isolate the frames to see if there's any direction-changing funny business going on. There isn

Well this is my second attempt to blog this morning my electric has been going on and off all morning and it's only 6:30 am! It all started when poor clipies back up alarm went off at the wrong time ugh I felt bad for him cause he is moving to a new job (same place of work just moving him) and had to go in early today. Well he got in the car and the electric came back on so he had to get back out and fix the garage door for me (making him about a whole 1 minute early for work). Then all was fine until I was sitting where I'm sitting now and the lights went out. yep me by my self sitting at my computer still typing and its dark. I'm so thankfully God let some very smart brain event cell phones cause the come in handy epically when you don't have a flash light. So my house smells pretty this morning a mix of different scented candles and the hum of the computer and swirl of the cling fan. Now that my smeller , humming and swirling is going on I can get my geek o

Since I went home this (past) weekend and didn't get back until late Monday I feel like I'm behind in the week. For example I only have 2 1/2 days till our crop on Friday, I haven't even began to think about what I'm going to do. I wanted to assemble kits for the retreat but I'm not sure that there is time to print up pictures and from what the news is saying I'm not spending the money in gas (I haven't been out this morning seeing that it's close to 6:30 am) to go see. So today I'll be project hunting and thinking up things to do. I did sign up for an on line swap so I need to get started on that soon. I also need to say that Saturday morning I'll be late (i think) I'm supposed to take my sister out to breakfast cause she is coming down for a visit. I may leave early each night but I'm still going to crop, after all it will be my last chance until retreat. And speaking of retreat we are 3 weeks away as of this Thursday. So it looks like

so I did post my cricut l/o on the cricut message board http://www.cricut.com/messageboard/tm.aspx?m=1155107 The prime reason I haven't posted anything before was i could not figure out how to make my file small enough to fit on there pg but found a way as of last night that involved cutting and pasting, I hope I can remember how i did it cause I want to do it again. right now I'm working on a city snow scape. if it turns out I'll post it too but later after things settle down a bit. I have laundry to do at the moment so I'm off with a date with the washer and dryer (oh joy) blessings a

I used Animal kingdom 3 inch owl Christmas cheer for the house George for the fence (number symbols) Georgie circle for the moon and the grass I did with scissors

I hope everyone had a great weekend I wanted to remind everyone that the crop is Friday and Saturday @ the Club House Also seeing that we are 4 weeks from retreat, this weekend (and this will be our last crop until retreat) would be a good time to get everything in order for it. So if you think of anything we need to bring let me know and I'll get the word out. Also we will be planning a clean and crop/ Christmas party for my house on Friday and Saturday November30 and December 1st. White elephant gift $5.00 (same as last year?) sounds good? let's decide Friday and Saturday so you all will have time to think about it.If it's OK with you I'd like to do the Christmas fun stuff Friday and Saturday the clean and organize. To those of you who haven't read my blog long I have a great really wonderful set of Friends who happen to be scrappers and they are going to help me re organize my dysfunctional and unclean scrapbook room. See federal disaster area (I mean my messy s

I must give another shout out to the http://www.scrapsmack.blogspot.com/ or aka GUESS WHO for linking over to me about the Creating Keepsakes HOF sweepstakes violations. I as I said in an previous post. (link: http://scraphappygirl4.blogspot.com/2007/10/top-of-morning-to-ya.html ) Her blog brings many fine points to this whole huge mess. I also think she has done a great job with hooking up scrappers with links to express there concerned scrapper voice's. As I mentions in a previous post I entered a page contest at cku m and did wonder why some of the top ten landed in that pile of winners. Not all of them were bad mind you, there were pages much better than mine (I did not place and in reality I probably would have not been in the top 50). What this blog bring to light is a multitude of other scrappers asking lots of questions like Was any ck contest ever fair? I've been left thinking I'll never know where I really stood in that contest, but it's for sure I'll

I forgot one thing 4 weeks until RETREAT

I know I did this picture on a l/o before however the pick I had on it I was not happy with. But I wanted to post it so I am. In other news well .... there is not much other news right now other than I seem to be addicted to this smack blog thing. Only other things is my knitting and I don't think any of you are really excited about my knitting. blessings a

ok after about 2 days of cleaning her is what my room looks like this afternoon. The last pic is of the spare bedroom beside my room that has also been taken over by scrapboooking supplies. Soon we will have before and after pictures So November 30 th and December 1st my place for Christmas party and cleaning we will work out the details later. Thanks for coming over. I needed to hear that I had a messy room and that I need to clean it up and in order to do that I can't keep everything that's in there now. And I really do need to be able to see my carpet. thanks and blessings a

On Saturday my good friend was telling me about one of the many blogs she reads one of them just happened to be the scrap smack blog http://scrapsmack.blogspot.com/ Apparently most of the content is controversial or just plain nosey but they have brought and issue with Creating Keepsakes Hall of Fame contest ( HOF ) to light. Makes me feel a bit squirmy cause I did enter the page contest when I went to cku masters and didn't to agree at all with some of the pages picked. So it does make me wonder was I judged on a level playing field ? Who knows it was 2 years ago and you just cant go back and change the results now. But do go over some of them should get an a + in creative writing ; ) Moving on last night I did go buy a few totes and need to know what time are you coming over? And yes I have tried to clean some but I don't think it helped much. I may continue to try to clean until y'all get here. And lastly It's is finally cold outside! I'm n ot sure I kn

Hi all I know I'm supper late with today's post but what can I say it's been a busy morning. Yesterday I finally lost 5 pounds with ww yep does not sound like much but pick up a 5 pound bag of sugar then it makes you smile (as my mom pointed out). So as of this week I guess I'm going to stick with ww for a bit longer and see what happens (other things have happened but not something I can tell you on the blog : ) just plain to personal. In my quest for scrap happiness daily I ran across my weekly cricut e-mail and you will never guess who popped up! Yes dh is featured on a message board highlight and here it is take a look for your self. Happy Holidays is her's : ) message board's highlighted threads are: Fall Layout for my class Happy Holidays Baby Boy ABC Abulm Pigtail Cutie reste toujours toi - même Halloween Paperbag BIA alb um Halloween using Cricut Birthday card Inspired by Regina so I have requested a formal blog interview when she returns to

How is everybody? Doing good I hope Today I find my self a bit tired,(probably cause I haven't woke up yet) happy that we are getting some sprinkles of rain and happy that the temperature is not sweltering for the first day since March. Did I say I was thankful for not sweating through my clothing before 7 am? Oh my just now it has started poring rain here at my house yeah! I don't need to go out and watter my mums and that is a pain this early in the morning let me tell you. Moving on Rod's dad got to go home last night, he is doing better but still needs check ups and is much more comfortable at home. He is on high doses of meds but very happy to be back in his lazy boy chair. Yesterday My sweet sister went to see him while he was still at the hospital and didn't know what his name was. I have always called him Joe so that's all she knew to call him was Joe. Joe's real name is Leo, I don't know when where or how he found Joe but his real name is Leo (yes l

You want room pictures? maybe later I'll need to clean first yes it really is that bad ummm dont know what else to say, other than its bad. It's worse now than when dw looked at it. And I would like to thank my computer for being a pain. I was trying to post the 7 day forecast on my blog and it refuses to do so, so I will just say it is forested for later in the week to be 68. It will be so nice after our 93 degree yesterday (and hot today high of 92 and yes we broke a weather record) I'll be so glad when the hot leaves with the leaves at this point, we are all ready for winter forget fall we just want some relief. And as most of you know Christmas did come early here at my house I did purchase the big bug ( cricut expression) this past Friday. And no I still do not know how to work the thing but that's what today is for! blessings a PS . Rods dad is making some progress he is still in the hospital .

68 can you believe it it's going to be 68 this week

So who is packed and ready? I'm not I've got to do that this morning as well as print off some pictures for this weekend. Oh and find my glasses anybody know where I left them and my keys? (that have been missing since August). All jokes aside I've got to go put some stuff together for tonight and decide what I'm going to bring to eat tomorrow. ps, Rod's dad (Joe)was admitted to the hospital yesterday we don't have all the details yet but it's in part due to an infection remember him in prayer.

Ok so if you have not read the posts below chelle has offed to bring us dinner Friday night so come hungry ! And a Great big thank you to her for putting that together for us mmm good. Also I would like to highlight dh today (no I did not tell her about this so surprise dh ) but any who dh did us up a page a while back peach tea page. I was a very nice page with little peaches on it and cute (see example page). We all know she is a crafty girl and can put some if the cutest things together, so I wanted to showcase this and point it out. In the November issue of paper crafts magazine there is a very similar l/o that look almost like dh's and while this nice, I like ( dh's ) better, the peaches she added are to cute. Michele B oyer designed the paper crafts l/o. And Just so you know we are officially 5 weeks away form retreat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have a few great announcements our niece Raven (Rod's side of the family the one who got married in July) Is going to make us a Great Aunt and Uncle (again, his niece Tiffany has had two children already but I'm happy to play the part again) And it looks like Rod job is very stable for the next 8 years I have been sweating that one out for a while, his union contracts are not settled (yet) I'm thinking after yesterdays announcement we should be fine. So good news all around And knitting classes are starting up again so I'm excited about that I know none of you knit but you understand the concept of had made products hard and challenging but rewarding in the end. A lot like life don't you think? blessings a

just a few things today....................... Crop an the club house this Friday and Saturday (box o wine & Dixie cups optional) Striped pants... the fabric was there but now it's gone ...can't seem to find the fabric,(a disappearing act in other words) it was at the west wally but now it is gone we will need to decide this weekend if we still have time for a hunt. All about me project now that recipes are done I would still like to this, I'm going to make an example and post it soon. It will be un complicated and quick to do and not to big and no more than 1 sheet per person (I hope). I intend to post it before the end of the week and bring it with me this weekend. And the recipe book is over and all my pages are done but one! I have them with me this weekend. And as of this Thursday RETREAT is 5 WEEKS away!