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Today's Scrappy Page

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Here’s the page I just finished.

Credits:
All papers and elements (except pear) from a freebie Kit – “About a Boy” by Vicki
Word Art by Bethany
Template by Droopette

Aren’t you proud of me? I knew where everything came from! lol

I should explain who these 2 handsome young men are in this page. These are our nephews, Elijah and Andrew. Elijah is my sister’s son and Andrew is my husband’s sister and her husband’s son. That picture was taken at my inlaws’ lake home. We take Elijah there with us for the weekend at least once a year. He and Andrew get along so well together even though there’s a 5 year age difference between them.

Ugh, I just noticed the journaling has typos in it…I think i saved this as a pds before i made it into a jpg, I’ll have to check. *Note to self: Double check journaling prior to saving as a jpg!*

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New Blog Look!

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Well, in my endless search for free scrappy things online, I ran across Sweet Scraps. Christie is the blog owner and she has the sweetest kit available for free! It’s called “Simply Adorable” and it really is just that!


The theme of her blog was made by Allie with one of her kits. It’s too cute, so I went and checked out Allie’s blog and she has other themes available and also directions on how to use them. I tried to use the kitty one but the background was a little dark for me, so I decided to make my own!

Why pears? Well, it’s a long running joke from when I worked in the grocery store. I’d smell the pear wrappers…they really smell like pears!! And it just escalated from there!

So now I collect pears. My kitchen and dining room “theme” is pears and I have pears everywhere in my house. Here are a couple photos of the kitchen and dining room.

Razzle…aka Yidda in the dining room window

Our baker’s rack and my pears!

The kitty is Razzle, he’s a manx and the only cat we didn’t adopt from the animal shelter. We got him from a rescue. We adopted him after we lost Zagnut, our first kitty in 2006 to the Diamond food recall. We lost two cats due to that recall, it was really tough to go through. That’s one reason why I’m so anal I guess you could say about our pet’s food. I don’t want to go through another devestating loss again.

On a different note…I’m going to try to display one of my completed pages each day I blog and I’m going to try to blog everyday. I may not have a lot to say and who knows who’s reading, but isn’t that how it all starts? Someone reads one blog, something catches their eye and then they come back. That’s how I’ve found most of the blogs I read on a regular basis.

I’ll post the page a bit later, I need to make one today 🙂

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Lazy Sunday

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This weekend I was supposed to work on website things for the APSFA. I am so behind in everything, but for whatever reason Frontpage wasn’t cooperating and I cannot connect to upload. I don’t understand. I tried to turn the firewall off and everything. I messed with it for a few hours yesterday and then again for a couple hours today. I’m just get frustrating and I keep getting that dreaded “default beep”…a noise I hate. So I guess I’ll look at it again tomorrow.

I was also supposed to do the dishes this weekend. I HATE doing the dishes. I will let them completely stack up until we don’t have any dishes clean before I do them. I know that’s nasty, and we even have a dishwasher, but I despise doing dishes. I’ll have to bite the bullet and do them one day this week. Maybe tomorrow.

What I did do today was organize my scrapbook stuff on my external hard drive and downloaded some more freebies. The organizing took a long time, but it’s worth it because everything is nice and neat now. I even downloaded a new little program to extract zip and rar files. It’s much better than Winzip. It’s called “ExtractNow” and it works really quickly and can do multiple files at once!!! Which is something that really annoyed my about Winzip. So now I can just download and extract scrappy things much much quicker. lol Lord, help me!

I made this page today:

I need to find the link where I got the template, but all of the papers are from Michi and they are a freebie mega kit called “Endless”. The ribbon on the side is also from there and the crown is from somewhere else that I’m not sure of.

Like I’ve said before I was just downloading and never saving where things came from, so most of my kits and everything, I have NO clue where they came from. Most are freebies. I didn’t change the filenames so some I can figure out. If I’m posting pages here I’ll try to figure it out so I can give credit where I can. Just assume I made NONE of the papers or embellishments because I have no clue how to even color something!!! LOL I’m learning though!

The picture is of Jellybean, aka Beans or “Missy Beans” as she’s more recently been called. I guess I should have put her name on there somewhere. She’s our only girl kitty and she’s a rescue. We adopted her from a shelter that we volunteered at for a while. Actually all but one of our cats came from that shelter. Good thing we’re not still there or we’d have many more cats!! Beans is 2 yrs old I think now and she’s just a little bitty thing. She’s been more social lately and comes out more…she used to just hide mostly.

It’s not a great thing to have so many cats in the same age range. Especially boys!!! I totally prefer boy cats to girl cats for many reasons, but they are so bad…it’s like a house full of toddlers here. They’re just into EVERYTHING and I swear, they get together at night and conspire against us!! lol

Tomorrow I’m going to make a scrapbook page using a photo of my two nephews together. It’s a silly and cute picture of them sticking their tongues out. I don’t know if I am going to put it up or not. I’m not sure if I should put their pictures out there for all to see. Maybe it doesn’t matter, so many people do it. I’ll have to think about it. I’ll probably put it on here. I’m really going to try to make a page a day…or a couple a week anyways.

Well I need to put the food I made for my breakfast tomorrow away in the fridge and my bed is calling me. I hate having no food and no money. Hopefully that stimulus check comes tomorrow!!!

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