Friday's Feast 1/17/08

Feast One Hundred & Seventy Six

Appetizer What is your favorite beverage? Diet root beer, iced tea

Soup Name 3 things that are on your computer desk at home or work. Family photos, my coffee cup, half finished scrapbook pages

Salad On a scale of 1-10 (with 10 being highest), how honest do you think you are? 9 1/2

Main Course If you could change the name of one city in the world, what would you rename it and why? I don't know. My best friend lives in Tucson, AZ. Could we change the spelling to match the pronunciation? Leave out the "c".

Dessert What stresses you out? My 19 year old daughters attitude, finances, ex's What calms you down? Spending time with Dave, beading, scrapbooking, music

January 16, 2008

Here is my cube organizer filled with scrapbook supplies. Doesn't it look purty?

January 15, 2008

In my never ending quest for organization I have rebuilt my wire racks. I had them set up for my Close to My Heart cardstock but took them apart to make cubes. I have the cool frosted paper organizers from Oriental Traders that I am going to put on my cubes. I have a whole bag of the black connectors but can't find them right now. I am eventually going to make three of these racks. I moved it into the office space and have it about 3/4 of the way full. Now to find the other connectors.

January 14, 2008

My Mom is down finishing up her packing. My Dad took the trailer full of stuff back to Haines City. So, my Mom is without a car this week. I took her to A.C. Moore (our new favorite craft store) and Publix. Then we stopped and picked up Mickey D's for dinner and came back to my house to eat. That meant Granny got to see Miss Bailey. They matched and Nicole and I took pictures. How cute!

January 13, 2008

I finished these jewelry pieces some time ago but I never glued the loose threads or put the clasps on. These are both from Sandra Halpenny's Drop Lace Necklace Collection. I designed the bracelet and earrings to match the second necklace.

January 12, 2008

Bailey is such a good baby. Nicole brought her downstairs this morning and she was bouncing in her bouncy seat and bounced herself to sleep. No fussing or crying just *boom* asleep.

Today is Brent's 12th birthday. It is hard to believe my baby is 12. He is with his dad this weekend. They were going to go to Disney for the weekend. I am sure he is having a lot of fun. We will celebrate one night this week. He knows I have presents for him so I am sure he is excited about seeing what he got.

January 11, 2008

This is almost as bad as the blue screen on a computer. No Internet light on your modem! I had been down almost 36 hours. I was having Internet DT's. Dave was going to bring home his Sprint modem so I could at least check my email when the light magically came back on. Thank you Embarq!

Friday's Feast 1/11/08

Feast One Hundred & Seventy Five

Appetizer What is your middle name? Would you change any of your names if you could? If so, what would you like to be called? I don't have a middle name. When my parents named me they used my middle name "Christine" as my first name. I guess it was a family tradition. When I got divorced the first time I legally changed my name and dropped my first name and now have no middle name.

Soup If you were a fashion designer, which fabrics, colors, and styles would you probably use the most? For home decor, I love suede and the colors blue and yellow. For clothes, cotton, stretch fabrics in neutrals.

Salad What is your least favorite chore, and why? Cleaning the bathroom, ugh! With a honey and two sons, nasty!

Main Course What is something that really frightens you, and can you trace it back to an event in your life? Thinking about it, I am afraid of a lot of things - swimming in the ocean or gulf (what is in that water?), rides at an amusement park, heights and flying. I guess I was raised to be an non adventurist.

Dessert Where are you sitting right now? Name 3 things you can see at this moment. I am sitting at my computer desk in my office looking at my messy desk, my new Polaroid photo frame (with no pictures in it) and my new 2008 Bead-a-Day Calendar.

January 10, 2008

Ok, this picture may seem a bit weird. It is a dog toy that Baby (our teacup Yorkie) has made bald. She has had this toy for about a year and has bitten off all the fur on the back of the head. She takes this "baby" up and down the stairs and sleeps with it. It is almost as big as she is. Now, the reason for the picture is what I found under the dining room table...
the stuffing to "baby". Seems our Baby has killed her "baby" and it looks like it has snowed under our dining room table. Now, to clean up her mess. At least with a small dog it is usually a small mess!
Now on the top of the dining room table. I think many scrapbookers would sympathize with me regarding a good way to be organized. I am so tired of trying ideas and them not working. For my embellishments I am working on this new idea - frosted photo boxes from Oriental Traders. I finally finished rolling four photo boxes full of ribbon and have put my buttons, eyelets, brads, and other small embellishments in these boxes. I also have a box for adhesive and have a number of other categories that I intent to create.
The other big problem is paper storage. Right now I have my Close to My Heart paper and cardstock on a metal storage rack that is taking up entirely too much room. I also have paper and stickers in 13x13" frosted boxes but the horizontal thing is not working. It is too hard to get to the paper and the stickers are mixed up in a box. I am a messy scrapper and after a few days of scrapbooking my area is full of boxes. So I am going to try the same general idea vertically. I got some more of these frosted paper holders from Oriental Traders and first, I am going to to sort my cardstock. After that task is done I will work on my patterned paper. Then I am going to take down my paper rack and reformat it to make squares that I can put all my frosted organizers on! I am also planning to get rid of my big table in my craft area and replace it with a desk my Mom is giving me. Nobody sits at the table except me and I can put my square metal shelving and the new desk in the same amount of space the table takes up. Dave will be so happy to hear I am reorganizing once again! NOT!

January 9, 2008

Date Night with Brent - Brent and I were able to have an impromptu date night since Brandon was working and Dave wasn't going to be home for dinner. We had a gourmet meal at McDonald's. Dave told Brent he was jealous that he got to have date night with me. We had Bailey with us and had a nice meal and nice conversation and Brent got to have an Oreo McFlurry for dessert!