Countdown 3, 2, 1 .......

Small post tonight .... very tired here, and because I am so tired, I may miss my chat with Emily that's happening in a bit, because I am just too tired to stay awake much longer.

Coming soon.... I've been tagged by a couple of special people, so those are going to be taken care of real soon. This weekend is my husband's work party, and last years was so amazing. I must take the camera this year, it's a sport theme. I need to go out tomorrow to find something with New England Pat's on it. I could wear some U of M stuff or I could dig into my Nascar collection. But since this is for a party, I must go out and buy something new to wear. Don't you think? LOL I also need to pick something out for my oldest child, she is going to be the big 18 this Sunday. Only 4 more days until she is officially an adult. Let me tell you the time really does fly by, and very quickly I must add to that.

toodles for now

Three Little Birds

No point in the title of this post, it's just a title to a Bob Marley song I like. You might hear it on my music that plays on here. I just thought it would serve well for a title to today's post.
Here is my card for week 4 Deck of Me challenge. The thing I like best on this one, is the pattern paper. This is paper from Fancy Pants, it's one of my favorite companies to work with, but I don't use a lot of embellishments when I use their paper. I don't want to cover the pretty design. I do this with Basic Grey paper, the paper can stand on it's own, and doesn't need to be overworked. I have a homemade album sitting somewhat done on my table, and it is done with Basic Grey. Now if I just had some wax thread on hand, so I could bind this book, it's one of those items that I keep forgetting to pick up.

Last week Michael's had a sale on their storage cubes, and at 50% off I just couldn't pass it up, and it was exactly what my bare wall in my scrap room needed. So I bought 8 cube, spent yesterday morning putting them all together (yes I did it all by myself) and now my bare wall looks like this (picture on right). Aren't they pretty! I'm sure I will have it filled in no time, but it's going to be so handy having these units for storage.

hey it's new and it's cool

have you seen it? Basic Grey's new rub on tool, that's what! I'm here to tell you it's a must have tool. If your like me and own the green handle doodlebug one, you'll get by with it, but I can tell you that mine is going into the scrapbook museum as a tool of the past. This new BG one is going to be the one you will see me using. Love it!

Now onto other pressing business.....

Michigan had a bit of snow last night, it caused some schools to closed, and left some people with the day off from work. I know this because I was one of those people with the day off, and let me tell you it was wonderful! Wait......let me say that again.. It was Wonderful!!! Shoot I've been off work for 4 1/2 days, what a nice little vacation it has been. Now what would be nicer is if another little winter storm blew in tonight and dumped some more snow on us. Big fat chance that would happen, but it was fun thinking about it.

Gotta Go .... internet tv is calling me

mission complete

the remaining cards for emily falconbridge's challenge.

wk. 49 Time Flies - Basic Grey two scoops pp, Heidi Swapp clock & wings stamp, Hero Arts alphabet clear stamps

wk 50 The Greatest Gift - (image did not scan well) the card is done on Making Memories metal sheet (silver) then I used We R Memory Keepers foil, glitter, flock kit, and used the foil one on here, it turned out really cool, if only you could see.

wk 51 Made Me Think of You - all products from Imagination Products, except pink "k" American Craft. I couldn't help doing this card for Kelli, this paper & product made me think of her, and she is "the fashion police".

wk 52 Art - Love this KI Memories paper, and use some of their alphabet soup in Chowder for this card, and the alphabet stamp is Hero Art.
This has completed all 52 weeks, and I had a blast doing them.

Homemade Rub On - 101

I seen some of you asked about the homemade rub on. So I am going to tell you how you can make your own homemade rub on. It's so EASY!

1. Go to your local Hobby Lobby ( if there is no HL in your area, use the link below to see who might carry this product, you must get the following product, for success)

2. This is the product you need to purchase - Rub Onz by Grafix. Here is a link to their website, you can find participating stores on there to - http://www.grafixarts.com/rubonz.htm

3. Once you have your Rub Onz product, hurry home.

4. Find something you really want to make a rub on of. As you can see I needed to make a quote for a ATC card, and I really wanted to put it on the card, so it looked like it came that way, and not hide all the distress ink. But if you want a design instead of words, it will work great too.

5. Now just get your image or word(s) you want, and prep it to be printed through your printer. You will now take a sheet of the frosted looking paper that is in the products package, and load it into your printer (detailed instructions are included with product). Once loaded PRINT!

6. Now that you have your image or word(s) printed. There is a second kind of sheet in your products package, it has a blue background to it. This sheet is actually an adhesive, and it's simple to use. I really suggest that you do this, trim that blue sheet to the size your image/word(s) that you have printed on your "frosted" sheet. No waste this way. Once you have done this, peel the blue backing off the sheet, and stick right on your image. After adhering it I used my brayer and made sure there was no air bubbles. Now let this set for 15 minutes.

7. Ok, time is up! Now you are going to trim as close as you can to your image. Really this is very simple to do. Once you have done this, you are going to peel away that original "frosty" sheet, the one that came out of the printer. The image is now ready to use on your project. Apply it like you would any normal store boughten rub on. Of course this one is better, you made it yourself.

side tip - use mirror image when printing. a real must with words.

This was your homemade rub on 101.

Is it Real or Homemade?

I'm talking about my homemade rub on, that's on my atc. I used that handy little rub on product from Grafix. Loved it!

Now what I am not loving, is this awful sickness I got. It started on Sunday, and it won't go away. This is another reason I don't like Winter's, some kind of sickness always finds it way into this home.

New Year, New Challenges

Well working on being crafty this weekend. This is my first card in the Deck of Me challenge. I just love making these, and happy to have found a new challenge to follow throughout the year. I'm also doing something new to these cards. I am actually working on the back of them, I didn't do that with the Emily cards, but I thought I would with these ones. So on this one, there is a list of my goals on the backside, that I am going to work on for 2008.

I finally found the One Word for the Year: Renew - renew It's going to be the year for renew in my life. I am going to concentrate on family, home and body. These three things matter the most in my life, and can't be neglected. So renew here I come.

I've been "Read" Tagged!

*1. One book that changed my life: The Kite Runner

*2. One book that you have read more than once: I have never read a book twice

*3. One book that you want on a desert island: How to Survive ... hee hee

*4. One book that made me laugh: One for the Money - Janet Evanovich

*5. One book that made me cry: Message in a Bottle - Nicholas Sparks

*6. One book I wish had been written: Not sure

*7. One book I wish had not been written: I haven't found this one yet

*8. One book I am currently reading: The Little Lady Agency - Hester Browne

*9. One book I've been meaning to read: The manual to my digital camera...LOL

Now if you read this tag, you have been tagged by me, so now copy it and make a post with answers on your blog, so I can buzz by and read your answers.

Too Cute or What?

My sister has managed a veterinary clinic for years, and this was her Christmas present from the Doctor. I believe she has finally gave this pup a name, he will now go by the name Duncan, but we must add Sir to the beginning so he is called Sir Duncan, and believe me this little cutie will carry that name well. Sir Duncan is a King Charles Cavalier. This past year my sister lost three of her Cavaliers, which also meant she didn't have any these special dogs in her home anymore. Dr. Sheets knew how important this breed of dog is to my sister, so he got her one for Christmas. All I can say is he is a cutie!

Please Mister Postman

Please Mister Postman
Originally uploaded by The Unpredictables

I've been tagged by Amy for the 7 random facts. Now if I had known that Amy needed to be tagged, that could've happen when the last time I was tagged, but she was lucky and has been tag now, and I get to share 7 more random facts about me, with you..

1. My oldest child is going to turn 18 yrs. old in less then a month from now. I swear today when I was watching her play the wii, this couldn't be possible. Time sure does Fly!

2. I don't leave my house unless my hair is washed, dry and styled. I can go without makeup, but not without my hair done. Although I usually have makeup on too.

3. I have lived in three different States during my life. Colorado, Arizona & Michigan. Colorado being my favorite for the view, Arizona for the warmth, and Michigan because it is home.

4. If the circus came to town. I would careless if I went to it. I am not a fan of the circus, but I have gone to make sure my children had a chance to see one. Maybe that is why we paid for them to have that ride on the elephant, and their picture with the monkey on their lap. Oh and don't forget the collection of autographs from all the clowns. Now I know that when we did go to the circus, it was be a good memory for them.

5. A couple of my favorite things to do are reading a good book and enjoying some good tunes. Of course I have many thing that are favorites to me, but these two things are a vital part of me. I also don't go to sleep, unless I read something before hand.

6. I wear only gold jewelery. I just never been a fan of silver on me. I really don't wear much jewelery these days, just my 2 rings, my watch and earrings.

7. I will only eat Jiffy peanut butter. I grew up on this brand, that might be the reason why, but another reason could be it just taste good to me.

Here is where I should tag 7 people, but I am not going to tag anyone, but please feel free to post 7 random things about yourself on your blog.

Flickr

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It's a New Year!

No special meaning behind this photo. I just don't have anything of real creating to display, but that should be changing soon. I have lots of fun things to do during the month of January, so I should have a busy month creating.

Now lets talk a bit about the photo. It's not the most exciting thing to view, but for me it's my last habit I have. Although I do like coffee, I'm just not one you would see with a mug of coffee in my hand in the morning, what you see in the photo is what is usually in my hand. I actually prefer to drink something cold to get me going. What is it that you drink in the morning to get you going?

Are you as happy as I am that the holidays are now behind us? Oh I love having the time off from work, and it was a really good Christmas. But having it over with, is such a nice relief. Although, there was one tragic thing that happen. Don bought me a very nice pair of gold earrings, and not even a week of wearing them, one has gone missing. I have no idea were it is, so it's a little bumming, but sh** happens, doesn't it! If it is meant to be found, it will reappear someday, it just would've been nice to get a little wear out of them first. I really hope everyone had a lovely Christmas & New Year, may the new year bring you nothing but good things.

message to Dawn - I'm so sorry about your loss, my the cpu rest in peace. Can't wait to see the speedy message you will have now.

Oh and WTG U of M! On the great win over Florida, going to miss ya Coach Carr. Now will LSU take the National game, crossing fingers here.

While I was off on vacation I manage to read 7 books, and working number 8 right now, but it's the first book I have read of Jimmy Buffett, and all I can say right now about it is, it is interesting. If you have read any of Jimmy's work, let me know what you think of his writing.