Thinking of You

Posted on | February 25, 2010 | 8 Comments

I’ve been kind of lazy lately. I haven’t been really motivated to make anything crafty. Most of it I think is due to lack of sleep. Jovie’s been on some funky sleep pattern and I’m not sure if it’s cause she’s going through another growth spurt (the kid needs one) or cause of the two teeth that are coming out. Whatever it is she better hurry it up cause momma can only hold on for so long. I’ve also been a lazy blog hopper. I’ve been glancing at my Google Reader but I’ve only clicked a few post and commented here and there.

But any hoot, I figured I need to get my butt in gear and so I decided to see what’s up at Moxie Fab. I’ve been hearing a lot of hoopla going around there so I figured if I need to be someplace in the papercrafting world Moxie Fab should be the place to be {::SMILE}. So here’s a little Trigger Tuesday card:

A little bit of Papertrey, a bit of Hero Arts, a bit of Nestabilities, a bit of hybrid using pattern paper by Sugarplum Paperie (Tiny Princess) at the DigiChick, a bitty bit of ribbon and some pearls for a little bitty card.

Gotta go, more later!

Thanks + Christmas {Uber Simple} Card

Posted on | August 28, 2009 | 17 Comments

First of all I want to thank everybody for all the wonderful things you’ve written about M. We really appreciate it and after that incident we had a little talk with her and told her how wonderful she is (without giving her a big head — and M’s pretty down to earth so we’re not too worried there) and that if anybody tells her otherwise she should just smile, say “thank you”, and walk away. We did find out that the after school teacher had a talk with the girl. Did her parents find out? We don’t know, we didn’t ask. But hubby went and picked M up again yesterday and the first thing he did was look for that girl. She was there and when they made eye contact (and hubby can look super scary!) she looked down. I guess he gave her the stare a few times and the teacher and him knew that she’d never say such thing again to anybody. I feel like I’ve become drama mama since school started! What next? Hopefully nothing!!!

Up next is the super simple Christmas card. It even has no sentiment! But ya know, I think it looks better without. I just gives it a classy wintery look to the card. I did add some Pink Paislee Pixies on the trees and mounds. You can’t see the glitter effect on the pictures but in real life, this card is pretty shimmery. I love it!! I used regular (Stampin’ Up!) pen glue and then sprinkled the pixies on it. Love it better than regular glitters… less messy!

I hope you all have a great weekend! I get to pick-up my iMac tomorrow. Yeah!! Hopefully it’ll stay well until I save enough for a 24″ one! M can’t wait and hope it doesn’t break again also. Why? Cause this 20″ one will be her computer – for homework she said (like she has any that uses a computer!). She’s such a geek. She said the most fun class in school is computer lab. Wow, she is turning into her momma {::SMILES}.

Card and Stuff

Posted on | August 27, 2009 | 30 Comments

Wow, I made a card! I haven’t had a lot of craft time since I started work again last week. Actually I haven’t had a lot of time period! I walked into my craft room the other day and I was so surprised to see it nice and tidy. Even the desk was clean! It felt good making this card but boy, I’ll probably pay for it later this evening!!! So here’s a Christmas card using Dawn’s colors for this week. The card’s inspired by Moxie Fab: vintage and I think it can past for clean and simple too. What do you think?

The stuff… my poor Emma… ya know, the kid in the picture above… school’s just rough for her! I thought I had it bad when the girls use to gang up on me cause I was bi-racial but goodness, nobody ever told my daddy, right on his face, that I was ugly.

Yesterday hubby picked M up from school, the after school program to be more exact. While M was getting her backpack and stuff, this girl came up to my hubby and told him this: Your little girl has an ugly face. My husband loves kids. Kids love him too but when he heard that he automatically went into fight mode and all sorts of bad things ran into his head and if looks could kill, that little girl would have been a goner! It was his sweet little M that the girl was referring to and nobody messes with his little baby girl!!! But he didn’t do anything although he did say: It’s like the pot calling the kettle black, huh? Instead, he just looked at the teacher (who also heard and was in shock) and asked her to do something with that girl.

So my kid’s eccentric. Sometimes, when she comes downstairs her clothing choices would just shock me but she loved every bit of how she looked and that I’m cool with. She’s confident about her decisions and I’m proud of her for that (of course if she wants to wear a bikini to school I’d have a say in it but so far she’s modest… just colorful). Plus, despite her colorfulness (she reminds me of Punky Brewster) she’s not at all ugly. Nothing she wore has ever made her face look anything but beautiful. What makes her more special is that she’s also beautiful on the inside. She thinks everybody’s beautiful and she treats everybody equally.

Hopefully school will be a positive and safe place for her to learn. I hope things will get better (being slapped last week was shocking too) and if not, we’re glad that we’ll be moving soon and hope that the next school (hopefully with nuns in them!) will be better.