Friday, November 21, 2008

Happiness in the mail...

Today was a good mail day!
First, I ordered some pendants from HomeStudio and they arrived. I cannot even tell you how much cuter they are irl than on their Etsy site (didn't think it was possible!). If you need a unique gift for someone, go there, they have something for everyone - I cannot wait to give them this Christmas, everyone is going to love them. Here's mine (I love owls, they remind me of my Grandma Chapin and I like to think that these owls represent Alex and me!):

btw - their customer service ROCKS - I emailed them quite a few times asking could they make this one but in a different color, could I change the necklaces in the gift set, could I order multiples of that one - they responded quickly and were willing to do whatever I wanted! So great when you come across a store like that, especially since I did all of my ordering in my jammies!

Next, my Nie shirt came. Love it, it's just so sweet - I can just see Nie and her sisters all wearing it, it's so fun, fresh, such a Clark sister shirt! If you haven't read about the Neilson's, you must go here. I cannot tell you how many prayers I've said for this family and how many tears I've shed while reading about them - they are just a blessing. This past week, my prayers for them have been prayers of thanks, God truly answered the prayers that have been said for them.
Oh shoot, I took the picture in the mirror - silly me, so the words are backwards anyhow, it says "for the Love of Nie".
Hope you have a great Friday and I hope to have some scrappy goodness to share with you soon - right now the sickies have zapped my energy, but I'm swiggin Theraflu in hopes that it goes away quickly and I get some energy to create!

Thursday, November 20, 2008

A birthday wish and to help a crafty lady...

crowdSPRING, hire Kelly Purkey for your new Community Marketing Manager!

Really nothing going on around here, no layouts to post (busy making some Christmas presents that I cannot post here until after Christmas!).

A big HAPPY Birthday to my sweet neice Katy - she's two today and is the most aDORAble bug ever!!

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

20 Wishes...

I'm working on a new scrappy project, 20 Wishes Mini-album. This is for Trisha's Wednesday Challenge at Just4Keeps. We're counting down starting with 20, everyone's albums so far are just so creative, love them!

Here's my cover - you'll see that it's smaller than #20 and #19...hmmm....have to wait till the end to see it all put together to see what I came up with!!
I made my own transparency following April's Saturday Inspiration video, check it out, she's rockin the tutorials!

#20:
(that's my cool number stamp from Studio Calico, LOVE it!)

#19:
I'm trying to keep it simple, a picture or two, three buttons, scallop edges, ribbon border and focus on journaling.
*Just in case you didn't know, my brother was killed in a car accident at 17, so this is just a small piece of how I want to help Alex to come to know his Uncle!
Thanks for coming to peek!

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Happenings around here...

I've been busy, starting to buy some Christmas gifts and am sewing/crafting some Christmas gifts. My theme with gifts this year is "made with love" with the subtitle, "trying to save money!". My subtitle isn't working too well as I have quite expensive taste in fabric;) I've bought a few things off of Etsy - very inspired by this lady who last year took an oath to only buy homemade for Christmas! I'm not completely going homemade, but very close for the ladies in my family:)

Alex finished swimming lessons, he passed Level 1!!
He passed backstroke:

He passed treading water:


And went off the diving board (if you look up in the top left in the stands, the man in the blue shirt is daddy cheering!):


To celebrate, daddy bought him his first 3-D movie (To the Middle of the Earth - or something like that - I watched a few minutes, it made me dizzy, but it was fun!).


Occupational and Speech Therapies are going very well - we've started doing therapeutic listening at home twice a day while exercising, doing a puzzle, eating, anything that doesn't include electronics! The therapists and his Sunday school teacher have both commented on a nice change they've seen so far - yay!

We went to Pump-It-Up one day - Alex had a blast, but I couldn't get a good picture of him on anything except in the red car that he is definitely too big for now!

I am 2 cards away from being caught up on my Deck of Me (it will be the first time in my scrapping career that I can actually say I was caught up on something!):



Kathy's Sunday Challenge at Just 4Keeps was to scrap a picture without people, I chose some shots that I took of my delights from the Farmer's Market here in Lakeville, of course using a random mix of papers from various Studio Calico kits:


We're off to check out a new bowling ally/arcade/laser tag/restaurant super play place that just opened here in Lakeville, man is their timing good, just in time for winter - a great place to hang out inside, they're smart:)
Hope you had a wonderful weekend!