Guess What?

Posted on | January 29, 2010 | 15 Comments

I will be joining the oh so fabulous Maile Belles and very energetic and fun Elise Durenberger at Wplus9 as one of their design team!! I am so excited! Do you know Dawn Woleslagle? She’s the person behind Wplus9 and she’s an amazing graphic artist. What is Wplus9? It’s a new photo-polymer stamp company and if you want to get an idea what Dawn’s stamps might be like, well, take a look at this and while you’re there go and see her card creations. Gorgeous crispy clean designs!!

I got a sneaky peaky of her stamps, just to make sure that I’d be able to fit well in her team (also to make sure that there’s not going to be a lot of coloring involved cause you all know how “great” I am at it), and all I can say is, you big (favorite) companies out there, watch out, Wplus9 is coming!!!

When will the store open? February-ish. If you want to be the first to shop, hop on over to the store’s website and sign-up to be in the store’s mailing list! I cannot wait to receive her stamps!!

Okie doke, moving on… a card a card AND I stamped everything. Proud of me? Just say yes {::SMILE}. I really like this PTI stamp set and I’m kind of liking the process of making my own pattern paper with stamps.

Laters!!

Flabby Butt and Signing

Posted on | January 27, 2010 | 12 Comments

My M said this evening:

M: Mommy, when are you going to start working out again?
Me: Why?
M: You have a flabby butt.
Me: (deep inside: AAAAAAURGGHHHHHH!!!!)Thanks, M.

So I was doing the P90x but that was short lived. I blame it on M. She puked all over my workout rug. Don’t ask me what happened. I think all the rolling around and crazy moves that I did made her sick. After she threw up she went to bed and was all better the next morning. I ended up watching the video while cleaning up M’s mess. I had to air out the room too and it was probably 0 degrees outside.

BUT, it will continue! I have the kids on a schedule this week and so far so good. If this continues I should be able to workout at around 9:30 p.m.! Of course we’ll see. My hobby might just distract me, ha!

The signing deal… my baby is growing up!! Jovie can sign “milk” and “change“. I use change instead of “diapers” because it’s harder to see the sign for diapers. She’s also understanding “bath” and “all done“. The milk sign started a few weeks ago but I wasn’t sure until a week or two ago. We have this parents as teachers program here and her mentor was here when Jovie signed milk. We’re so proud of our little peanut!! M signed when she was 6-months-old and she got “dog” at 7-months. The rest came tumbling through quickly (we watched the My Baby Can Talk video and Signing Time) and at 14-months M knew about 33 some words. M started talking at 14-months. She skipped babbling and went to talking but a few words were sometimes unclear and so M would speak and sign until she was 18-months-old. By then she was speaking in 4-5 word sentences.

We’re hoping Jovie can do at least the basics. We’ve noticed that she’s a lot slower than M in terms of development timeline. M had a few teeth at Jovie’s age while Jovie’s still toothless. M was already pulling herself up too while Jovie is still not crawling although she loves to sit up by herself and jump on her jumparoo. It’s so interesting to see how different each are. Fun fun!!

I did make a card and this one is based on the current Embellish magazine challenge: stripes and the colors kraft, purple, and brown. So ok, it’s not a traditional stripe but I’ve got some lines in there, right? I wanted to use more of the PTI stamps I got!!

Before I go I want to share this photo. I love how solemn Jovie looked. Have a nice one and more later!!!

Would You Still Love Me If…

Posted on | January 26, 2010 | 14 Comments

You were my husband and I did the below for you?

I mentioned before that now and then I’d do something crazy just to get on my hubby’s nerves and often times he’d wonder: “What the hell was I thinking asking this girl to marry me?” When we met he was drunk and during those (special) moments he’d tell me that he’s been drunk ever since because he’s still crazy enough to be with me. Here’s a sample of me torturing the husband. I thought that without an audio sample the post wouldn’t be perfect… although I might regret this in the morning. Oh well… what’s life without a bit of fun, right?

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I’ve got all sorts of collection, the above is my romantic mellow version (and not as loud, ha!). He hates them all. I’ve got crazy moves too – my Elaine dances (he hates them more) – but there’s no way I’d video tape myself. He’d asked why and I just laugh and keep going until he tackles me. In reality, when I want to and try, I’m not that bad. No pro but tolerable. But for him… he gets the one of a kind Savitri special ha ha ha…

Ok, more serious stuff… I did make a card. I did another one of Laura’s sketch at 2Sketches4You. I wanted to do Sarah’s last week but goodness, like I said, a lot went one last week and this past weekend. Next time, my friend!! I am also playing with Nicole Heady’s scrap challege at Papertrey Ink. I’ve got scraps I tell you!!

I used some more digital paper from Traci Reed at Sweet Shoppe, Qwirky Twerp digital paper, Gardenologi, from the DigiChick, PTI stamps on the butterflies, Making Memories tags, SU rub-ons and gold mist (probably too much).

Ok, I need to go to bed. I spent too much time trying to convert my audio to an mp3 file that won’t get all jacked up. I felt stupid after though because I could have done everything in 3 minutes using Audacity and Lame plugin (instead of Garageband and trying to figure out how to change the settings to be more web friendly). It’s actually quite embarrassing… I teach my students to use Audacity and exporting to mp3 using Lame and here’s me, messing around with something else. Ahhh….. Must be late! Good night!!!

What a Week + End

Posted on | January 24, 2010 | 9 Comments

Just a lot going on this week and this weekend!! I am hoping though that from now on things will kind of settle a bit… with some activities here and there related to our move. There have been a couple of happy emails too last week (no I’m not getting published this year… I haven’t even submitted) and one I’m looking forward to hear more (job related in the UK – currently just a lead but I’m hoping it’ll be a good one).

Yesterday the family went out and on our way home we stumbled upon a new Scrapbook store in the suburb of Kansas City: Scrapbook Boutique in Lees Summit, MO. I LOVE this store. It’s got a bit of everything. If I were to open a scrapbook store it’d be this size. It’s small, cozy and chock full of gorgeous goodies. I got the EK scallop punch (and gorgeous Prima goodies for a page or two). I’ve been looking for that thing! I could have bought tons of paper but I didn’t. I’ve already got a lot in that department that I’m hoarding. If you’re in the area, do stop by. Downtown Lees Summit is lovely already and having this store there makes it more worthwhile. I’ll only be here a few more months but I’ll be visiting that store a few more times before then.

Here’s a bright card using a digital kit by Traci Reed from Sweet Shoppe Designs: Live Your Life, a stamp from PaperTrey, and the scallop punch. Such a vibrant digi set!! I LOVE Traci’s stuff!!!

Alright, I got to go before the Jovie wakes up. I am starving!!! Laters!

When You Can’t Color

Posted on | January 21, 2010 | 5 Comments

Find a pretty paper and stamp the image on it. I think the butterfly looks way better than if I were to hand color it myself {::SMILE}.

Been MIA the last few days. Just A LOT going on. After this weekend it’ll be calmer — maybe — I hope — we’ll see…

This is why I love butterfly stamps (Hero Arts cling stamp). The 3D flying effect/look. I put some shimmers (Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist). You probably can’t see it.

For the butterfly I used the last bit of Quirky Twerp’s Gardenologie paper. The other day I got a shipment from PTI and lookie lookie… background stamps! I wish I had more time (made this card in 15 minutes) but with the time I had I just had to use one of my new goodies. For the sentiment I used a digital wordart by Manda Bean at Sweet Shoppe Designs. I got the Adoption set. Even though I don’t know of anybody who is adopting I think a lot of the sentiments can apply to any. Very pretty!!

I think we’re having hubby’s friends over for dinner. I’m not sure. He’s in charge. We’re kind of weird that way. If it’s his friend he’s in charge of prepping the food if it’s mine or ours it’ll be me. Have a good one!