Weekend update

Not much is going on in my neighborhood. How about yours? Saturday we did some window shopping, I say only window shopping because the "going out of business" sales that are going on around here aren't so great. When you switch a $27.99 kids shirt to a low, low bargain price of $26.49, it really doesn't make me want to pull the debit card out.

Frustrated. Yes. But having money in my pocket after 6 hours of shopping is great! Although I didn't go home with much, it was nice to get out of the house.

Saturday I made this quickie card, horrible picture I know but I hope to have my good camera up and running soon. :)

These pics are possibly as bad as they can get, they do my little card noooo justice whatsoever! I hate it, I really want my kodak back! Curse you Blackberry with little zoom and no focus ability! Curse you! I feel better now having got that out of my system... ugh. So the card was quick, those green strips to the left is the solid color that is also the entire inside of the card, I rounded the edges, added some buttons to form a "flower", added white chipboard and ta-da... nothing to it.. except horrible pictures that is.. ugh. someone... please... buy... me... a... NIKON D80... I'm just sayin'.. haha :)

Updates, updates, and some blog candy--over there!

I've been out of the blogging world for about a week for some personal leave. Today though, I'm back and not in full swing, I'm tired, I'm cold and well grumpy a bit.

So this will be quick and to the point, Halloween Pictures of the girlies, well two of the girlies because the oldest was at her "other" house for Halloween so I missed it. Darn!

Again.. picture quality... NOT.. GREAT~!!!! ugh.. forgive me..Actually this picture (top) is great, why? Because I didn't take it, I got it from my cousin! Thanks Jen! :) But there they are, Nevaeh is a blushing bride and Mikayla is the great Batgirl...And seperately..... (ROAR) or is it screachy? Like a bat?? who knows.. My bride.. geesh I got to get my camera working! ugh.. I can't stand it, blurry pics! And my nephew, Nate, none other than a Broncos player! He refused to wear the helmet for pics! Little Stinker!Candy anyone? Geesh, people sure are generous now compared to when I was little! hahaI can't forget Amora, the bumble bee.. She was too cute! Un-masked little stinkers!
And again, showing sisterly love! I love when they all get along :)

Okay now that you're done looking at all my pics, blurry and more blurry... go on over to Confessions of a 20-Something Scrapbooking Mother, Becky's giving away some blog candy.. :) So go on over, show some love and leave a comment...

happy scrapping,

Liz

Horrible Blog Candy Receiver!!!!!!

Geesh! Maybe I should take a blog etiquette class cause I totally suck at giving props to blog candy givers!!!! UGHHHH, I'm sooooo sorry Damaris!!! She really rocks! She has a blog, you may know it, Within the Corners of My Kitchen which is an excellent source of great goodies, great recipes and well she's just great.

So the point of this post is that she gives some great blog candy and well I WON one! It's so cute and HORRIBLE ME, I forgot to give her props and post about it. Well I didn't entirely forget, I created a post about it and then took the pictures later and forgot to add them to the draft and post it! Crazy I know but it was around the time my camera was out of memory and I switched jobs... hence the bad BB pics. ugh.

So this is what I got, with my girls in mind and they loved it. Damaris has these random giveaways and this one happened to be from an online store she liked, called Kung Fu Cowgirl. The bag is adorable and it's about 3x5 and it was stuffed with goodies for the girls. Old school stickers, remember these? Scratch and sniff? haha :) love em'
Then another little sticker and a rainbow-ish ring that Mikayla loves! :)

These cute buttons that I wanted to swipe to put in my office but the girls decided to add them to the straps of their backpacks... CUTE!

And of course the cutest are these earrings, two sets, pizza and cupcakes! Love them both but I have to work on getting the girls to peirce their ears without crying bloody murder and having me walk around the mall for an hour trying to convince them to peirce the 2nd ear! yeah it's happened... I'm still crazy about it, can you tell? haha

So aren't they the cutest things you ever saw? I love the cupcakes! especially cause they're chocolate I guess! :) So there you have it, curse me, scold me, tell me how horrible I am to not have posted this earlier, but I want to tell you that I did email her as soon as I won and told her thank you a few times! :)

HSM3 Movie Review

WOW! On Friday I told you all that I was taking the girls to go see HSM3, that's High School Musical for all you non-Disney people.....My girls had October 24th (HSM3 release date) etched in their brains because they wanted to see it sooooo badly. Even my 3 year old knew it was coming out and she just knew she had to be there for it.

I bought the tickets online so I wouldn't have to wait in line at the theater, I also wanted to suprise the girls. I knew it would be hard since they knew exactly what day it was... But I did it anyway AND I pulled it off! hahahahaha

How'd I do it??? I'm tricky thats how! I told them we were going to see that Chihuahua movie, not sure the name, but when I told them that booooyyyyy were they upset! I couldn't trick the littlest one though, not sure how that happened, but she was pretty much convinced from the get go that we were watching HSM3, no buts about it. Mikayla wasn't extremely unhappy because she figured she would end up watching it one day soon, so the Chihuahua movie was okay with her. But Alex, no way, talk about an angry 9 year old that planned on staring at Zac Efron all night, whew, if looks could kill! hahaha..

I'm not sure how they didn't figure it out, we went an HOUR before showtime to sit in line, we had to runnnn to the theater once the guy took our tickets, the entire theater was packed, I mean PACKED with 12 and under kids and a row of 17 year olds... Mikayla said... whoa there's alot of people that want to see this Chihuahua movie huh mom? haha.. I said yup!

All the movie trailers went on and on and on, and finally the movie started, I think they thought it was another movie trailer but then the SINGING commenced! Yikes! They totally owe me! The show had a positive outcome overall though, yeah the singing was a BIT cheesy, the acting wasn't 100% up to par, but overall the true meaning of the story was great, it encourages young people not to "follow the crowd" and to be individuals and to make their own choices. It was a good movie, great choreography, etc. but I think for ME, the singing was a bit much at times. And well it's the so I won't say it's bad, it's a good movie for kids and all three of mine sat and watched intensely through the entire hour and forty minutes of it; and they sang and danced along as did much of the kids watching the show. :)

Lonnnnng post.. get ready.. get set... GOOOOO

Sorry in advance for the extra long post you are about to see... Lots of stuff going on...and I promise if you read far enough into the post you'll see my crafty late night stuff from last night! :)


Okay, first.. Tag-I'm it! Carol over at Crazy for Crafting tagged me to put up 7 facts about me, here goes.

1. I'm a Libra and I just turned 28!
2. I was in the Army for a total of 8 years as a Human Resources Specialist
3. I am NOT a morning person AT ALLLLLLL--which will probably have you asking how I made it in the Army.. well when someone is yelling at you at 4 in the morning, you're inclined to just get up so they can shut up... :)
4. I LOVVVEEEE ELVIS!
5. I love to paint and draw but can never seem to find the time for it
6. I am secretly making something for my sisters for Christmas this year! It's going to be GREAT!
7. I would do absolutely, positively ANYTHING on this green Earth for any one of my family members, they mean the Galaxy to me! (You know cause the Galaxy is wayyy bigger than the World)

So upon being tagged, doing my tag duties and passing on the tag, I now tag.... Nancy Face, Ms. Sassy Sasha and Lauren, now tag on sisters, tag on! :)


Other news... my blog candy will be a suprise, maybe it will be when I hit 2950 hits on my blog, or maybe when I hit 3000, or maybe it will be at 3101. You just never know, but the only ones that will be entered are the Non-lurkers, the ones that leave real, actual comments! :) yay...

Okay the next story is long but FUN nonetheless. We were sitting watching TV last night about 9:30ish and the door bell rang. Hummm who could it be??? I sent the husband to go check it out, and who is there??? NOBODY! NOBODY at all can you believe it? BUT, they left a gift, (imagine picture here) it was a halloween cup, filled with candy and a scarecrow on a stick, with a paper attached that read:

The "Phantom Ghost" has come to town to leave you some goodies, I see you have found.
If you do not wish a curse to fall, continue this greeting, this "Phantom" call.
First post this "Phantom" where it can be seen, and leave it there until Halloween.
This will scare other Phantoms who may visit, be sure to participate, don't be a fis-bidget.
Second, make 2 "Phantoms" and 2 notes like this, deliver them to 2 friends who may have been missed.
Don't let them see you, be sneaky, no doubt, and make sure they put their Phantom Ghost out!
Next, you only have ONE DAY to act, so be quick!
Leave it at doors where the Phantom hasn't hit!
Deliver at dark, when there is no light.
Ring the doorbell and run, stay out of sight!!!
At last, but not least, come join in the season.
Don't worry, be happy, you need no reason.
Be cool, have fun, and remember don't be seen.. and share in the spirit of HALLOWEEN!!!!!!



My first question is... Am I the only one that has never seen this??? If you have let me know cause it's new to me. Second, what is a fis-bidget? Welllll.. my neighbors are.. shall we say... creative in more ways than one. I think I know who put it there and she's all about fun and games and it's neat that our neighborhood is getting involved and keeping morale up so to speak, but ONE DAY??? I mean really??? ONE DAY??? hahaha.. just kidding, I won't complain and I won't go all Humbug on you so lastnight I made these lovely door hangers which I will fill up with candy and a mini scarecrow. :)

This is a 12x12 paper, rolled into a cone, I tore off the edge so you can see the white under the orange, more Halloweenish I guess.. haha :) just go with me here..
You can see where I drew a web inside the cone, very spooky, right? :) Well I used the Cricut to cut out the BOO and the black tags they are on. I used some orange $1 ribbon as the holders, so I can easily put them around the door knob, ring the doorbell and run like the dickens! DARN.. times like this I wish I was in better shape! haha
This is the back/side of the cone. Bad picture I know but I'm still using the Blackberry to do this stuff.. sorry... but if anyone would like to get me an early Christmas present... NIKON D80 please... :) So I also cut out the black asteric looking flowers that are behind the orange flowers on the Cricut as well.
I added the letters to the tags with a glue stick, and then added a little straw stuff to one of the tag holes on each letter.
The flowers are primas and I used the cropadile to add the centers and make them all stay on the cone.
These little guys took the longest of all, I had to free hand 4 of them, 2 for each cone and I only adhered them in the middle so the batty wings can look like they were flying! :)
So there you have it, that's what I'll be doing tonight... riiiiiight after I get home from taking my girls to see High School Musical 3! Lord help me! :)

Blog candy... go check it out!

Geesh I love the blog world, crafty women who blog, hilarious women that blog, real women that blog, I love that we all relate in some way....

I especially love FREE stuff, c'mon on, you know you do too! So go check out the blog candy over at Papercrafts by Rach and over at Jill’s Cards, they are quite fantastic!

Also, I just noticed that I am at over 2900 visitors... so why don't you comment? Lurkers? Stalkers? Non-Commenters? You'll all be sad when I do a giveaway for those of you that do comment.. S-A-D!!!!

Carol... won't they be sad? (Carol was the first winner for comments!) Yeah I know.. they will be...

Quick (crafty) Post...

This is going to be quick, I have about 10 minutes to get this all typed up before I have go to training for work so bear with me if it's choppy and crazy. :) I actually got something done over the last week, ONE thing but it's better than nothing.. Right? Well my sisters birthday was on October 15th and I hadn't seen her but I made this card and was able to hand deliver it this weekend.. Her favorite color is purple so that's why it's so purple--y.. :)

Regular purple cardstock, tore some of the same base color for the center of the inside strip, I got a few different purplish patterned papers to line the torn edge with.
The purple flower is Prima of course, white grommet inside and I cut strips of white cardstock to make the background flower, I frayed the edges with a sharpie and ta-da. :)
I added some chipboard for the "happy" and I wrote in Birthday in a white pen, I love it!I got a matching paperclip to add the gift card (itunes) woohoo, and I added her name with some new sticky letters I got at Hobby Lobby.. :) Yay.. The colors aren't all purple but they make the inside pop! :) I added my sisterly words to the inside with the same white pen. It came out wayyyy better than I imagined it. So I'm happy.. Let me know what you think! :)