PTI Blog Hop

Posted on | March 25, 2010 | 63 Comments

Well, Clouds left and here we are just relaxing at home. Even though there’s a whole house to clean I really don’t care to do anything. I am going to call the cleaning folks and let them do it. I am pooped with the house and I just want to focus on work and hanging out with the family while waiting for our flight date to the UK.

Anyhoot… it’s kind of late posting but here’s my card for the PTI blog hop. The challenge for this month is to use buttons. I used one. Does it count? {::SMILE}.

My Cutie-Pie

Posted on | February 27, 2010 | 11 Comments

I went to WalMart today and goodness, everybody who saw Jovie had to stop, smile, and tell us how adorable she was. The little shrimp knew that she was the center of attention too because she gave everybody a little smile. It was so cute and of course I was oh so proud of her. M was with me and I told her that she’s cute too and that when she was a baby people did the same thing when we were out and about — except M got money. Yes, people would give me a buck or two cause she was so adorable. They said it’s for her college fund or treat or something. So far nobody’s given Jovie any cash yet he he he…

The other day I submitted Jovie’s picture to Parent’s magazine. There are already TONS of submissions so the chance of Jovie getting picked is slim to none but hey, why not right? You never know if you don’t try… kind of like getting published in a card/scrapbook magazine. I just want a free trip to NY ha ha ha… look at me, exploiting my kid at an early age, ha ha!

I made another card for Moxie Fab, a thank you card this time. Another simple one, just paper on top of each other.

I used more things than usual on one card. Let me see…. Digital paper by Kristin Cronin-Barrow, All About Him, from Sweet Shoppe Designs, PTI stamps, Hero Arts stamp, Melody Ross borders ribbon, button, Pink Paislee pixies, and pearls.

I hope the photo looks ok. I don’t have my computer yet. iMac at the Mac store and my work laptop is with the IS folks. So far I am surviving but it’s tough to be on a 5-yr-old laptop when you use apps that uses up a lot of power. Oh well, a few more days, a few more days!

Have a great one folks, till later!

Billy Joel

Posted on | February 26, 2010 | 11 Comments

Aaah, that name always brings a smile to my face – and it’s not cause I’m a huge fan. There’s a story to this… back in the days when I was still married to my ex Billy Joel came to Boise, Idaho to do a little show. Him and our friends got really excited and bought tickets. Well since I was the wife they got me tickets too. I don’t go to concerts much and so it was exciting for me and even though I was not a huge fan I grew up listening to him so I was cool about going out to see him live. The day of the concert came. We all got there early. We weren’t far from the door I remember and did some random chit-chats. Somehow we got to talking about the concert and here was me in my little (too excited) voice saying more less: “Oh, my favorite song is Uptown Girl (and I did a little sing and dance move)”. Everybody stopped and looked at me. I did the left-right eye-balls move. I thought “What?” Then I saw a smile, then a big grin, and some laughs. I was still confused and started to feel that something was not right. I said, “What?” And somebody said something of this sort, “Uhm, Savitri, we’re not going to a Billy Joel concert. We’re going to a Billy Idol concert.” I think my jaw dropped. I was pretty embarressed. I wasn’t very quiet about loving Uptown Girl either. I wondered how many people heard. YIKES! I can’t remember what my ex did. I think he continued to laugh at me. URGH!!!!! I had a good time but I think I only one or two songs and none was Uptown Girl!!!

So I told my dear husband. He couldn’t believe it and like everybody else he laughed at me. He still does every time a Billy Joel/Idol song comes on. He’d go: “Want to see a Billy Joel concert?” or “Was that Billy Joel?” when he knew it was Billy Idol. URGH!!!!!

So that’s that.

Tonight I made a card. It’s thinking of you just because card. I’m doing another Moxie Fab challenge and came up with this:

Have you seen the movie Bedtime Stories with Adam Sandler? It’s M’s favorite now and I saw the above color combo in one of the hotel lobby scene: A splash of yellow on black and white. I really like this color combo, it’s bold but at the same time there’s some classic elegance to it.

So that’s it for tonight. I haven’t shared a crazy Savitri story in awhile. My husband sometimes wonder if I have a touch of blond underneath my hair (for sure now and then I got a touch of white hair! Funny thing is that my ex always wonder out loud about this blond thing too, maybe I do?). Now, this blond thing I don’t get either. I need to Google to see where the idea of dumb blonds came from. I know a lot of smart blonds. Laters!

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!

SU + PTI

Posted on | January 31, 2010 | 7 Comments

I can’t think of a good title for today’s post. I can’t think of a good story either. We all just had a lazy day today. Both girls are sick and so we all just laid around even though I did get some downstairs cleaning done and a bit of laundry. Nothing exciting really.

Here’s a bit of a blurb for my card… you can read it in the most boring and monotonous way… it’s how I feel right now… I made this card last night. I got some new Stampin’ Up! stamps in the mail and I had to ink ‘em up. I’ve been wanting the Medallion stamp for a while but I never did put in an order until last week. I also wanted to try the new SU cling-on stamps. I like them except that I wish they’d use a CD case instead of a DVD case for storage. It’s nice and all but really, they’re way too big for the stamps I got and they won’t fit into my CD storage unit. The Papertrey stamps I’ve had for awhile but I haven’t really used them until now. I think I got intimidated. I always see all sorts of gorgeous cards using this set and I didn’t want to ruin it. If you’re curious this card is 5.5×5. When I make a card I never think about envelope. Actually I don’t send out as much as I make – a lot of my cards are here with me – and so I never worry about it. It’s a hobby, not a need to send anything out, and so 75% of the time I make them without having anybody in mind to give. I should probably start selling them or something.