JUGS

Posted on | March 5, 2010 | 11 Comments

Wuih! What a week! It’s been crazy busy here and I think in a little bit I will be able to relax… furniture-less but relaxing! The moving folks are coming to pick up our stuff mid-month (FINALLY!!). It’ll take about 55-60 days to get to the UK. Then early April they’re going to take everything else like extra clothes, pots and pans, crafty stuff, etc. This last part is called unaccompanied baggage and this shipment takes about 40-45 days to get to the UK. When will we leave? About April 21st. That’s more less what I am aiming for. M’s British school starts the 20th (last term) but I have a presentation on the 20th (and a breakfast the 19th). The headmaster said it’s ok for her to start a tad bit later so we’re going to try and have her go that following Monday… unless she’s got crazy jet lag.

Today I just want to share a card based on a sketch by Just Us Girls and sponsored by Wplus9. Great sketch and I loooove Wplus9’s stamps!! Oh, release #2 are coming up soon and I’ve gotten a sneaky peaky of them and they are FABULOUS!! Trust me! I cannot wait to get my hands on them and other goodies that Dawn of Wplus9 has in store!

So here’s my take on the sketch:

I used Funky Foliage for this card and some digi paper by Dysfunctional Design, Skwerm, at The DigiChick.

This is my first time playing at JUGS and it looks like they’re pretty busy there. If you haven’t come check them out and see what the DTs there create using Wplus9’s stamps!!

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!

What Will I Do in the UK?

Posted on | February 22, 2010 | 9 Comments

I’m sitting here taking a grading break. Last week was a disaster for me in terms of computers, teaching, and health. I’ve been playing catch up and I am almost there. Being stuck at home and having all your computers break down (or for one it just turns on when it wants to and then randomly freezes up) while teaching online was just not ideal. Right now I’m on this dinosaur computer. It does what I need to do but it’s painful. One of the IT guys did pick up my work laptop today so that should be (I hope) fixed soon but I still haven’t had time to go to Kansas City to get my iMac looked at and (hopefully) fixed. The iMac is completely dead!

In a few weeks the movers are coming (EXCITING!!!!!) and lately I’ve been thinking a lot more of what I will do while in the UK. I know that I want things to be different and although scary I am quite ready to go to the other side… the stay-at-home-mom side. BUT, Savitri refuses to be a 100% SAHM. I want to do stuff and still want a title other than SAHM but I’m not sure what (I think SAHMs are great but I’ve worked since college and it’ll just be really weird without a job title). I guess things will fall into place once we all get there but I kind of like to have some sort of plan… something to get myself started at least towards a title. I know it’s not going to be in higher education and/or technology unless I get lucky and I get a telecommuting job (just nothing much in the area and so far no openings). I’d like to do something around my hobbies but I’m not very confident in my abilities right now and I will need a lot of practice before I produce something great or start charging people. I’m not as big of a perfectionist as my colleague but I do like the end results to look satisfying. I want to be proud of it. I know I’ll have time to think about this after I get there but as much as I always tell my husband and M to be patient I can get pretty impatient when it comes to getting started on things for myself.

So I dunno. Do you have any suggestion? M’s suggestion is to sell cards at the farmer’s market. Ha ha… cute but I rather sleep in {::SMILE}.

I did make a card. I think it was last weekend. I used more of the Skwerm paper from Dysfunctional Design at TDC and Wplus9’s stamp set Love Birds (it’s still on sale, folks!!). Oh, the cloud’s from Sassafrass Lass.

Well, that’s it. I’ve got more grading and more pondering to do…

Hybrid Challenge at TDC

Posted on | February 20, 2010 | 6 Comments

Hey, it’s me again! I have some fun news to share but not today. In the mean time, hope on over to the DigiChick cause I’m hosting a challenge and if you play a long you can win a prize (even if you don’t to play hop on over, there’s a free paper pack that you can download)! It’s my first blog post at TDC and I think my first challenge <– Wow, did I just write that? My kid has had more challenges under her belt than me! Speaking of, the M is out of sketch ideas. She said she wants to do another one but oh so mojo-less. I’ve been unsuccessful in motivating her. She’s got a lot going on right now, I wish I can share, but that too will be for another time.

Anyhoot, here’s the card that I created for the TDC challenge:

I was going for the manly kind of card. I thought the shapes reminded me of gears. Perfect for my hubby. Savitri is gear-tarded. I have a hard time imagining gear movements and hubby always had a fun time explaining the movement to me each time there’s a complicated one (I finally got a hang of the easy one). This is why I have never been good in physics. As long as I have a good teacher I can do math and chemistry but physics… after the first two weeks my grades would go down, down, down, and down. A “C” in physics is fabulous for me. Hubby, he’s math-tarded but he understands the concepts of physics really well. Now he won’t pass the calculation portion of it (cause he’s math-tarded) but he can explain whatever concept he’s learned pretty well.

For the card I used Karen Lewis’s Makin’ Mischief kit. Cute (masculine) kit! If you’re a card maker I think you can get by with getting just the paper pack. But if you scrapbook, there are some nice tags in there!! The stamp is Wplus9, Funky Foliage.

Well, don’t expect too much out of me this week. All my computers died on me and right now I am on a dinosaur laptop. On top of my busted computers my memory card reader broke in half (no, my big fat butt did not sit on it) so I’ve been downloading photos from my camera using the USB connection which totally sucks because it doesn’t pick-up the RAW files. I’m still peachy and positive but doing computer/Internet/photo/blogging things will be a tad bit more inconvenient. Ok, I’m done. Going to bed. Me sleepy!!!!

Clear and Simple Goodies

Posted on | February 19, 2010 | 10 Comments

Remember I told you about my Embellish Magazine win? Well, the package from Clear and Simple stamps came today on my day off!! Savitri needed a break from taking care of sick kids. Plus, the house needed some lovin’.

From CSS I got some buttons, ribbons, stamp cleaners, acrylic blocks, a stamp set, paper, and inks (I used most on the card below… everything CSS but the hybrid pattern paper). I haven’t tried them all but so far, everything I used was really nice! Thank you ladies at Clear and Simple!!!!

The pattern paper’s from the DigiChick. They’re pattern paper by Dysfunctional Design: Skwerm.