What is up???

Okay, I just posted a new entry, but it's not showing up unless I click on the July link on the side? Hmmmm????


Okay, now that I published this little thing...there it is! LOL

Just An Update

I am so not good at keeping up with this! Not much has been going on here either so I don't feel like I have anything to write about! I should make stuff up!! LOL

Here are a few LO's I've done in the days since I last posted. I'm pretty happy with all of them.

A little update on my treadmill progress...still working on it every day. I don't know how, but my running consecutively thing has gone down the toilet because for whatever reason, I can't seem to get past three minutes now!! I don't know what that's about??!!?? Instead I started alternating running and walking and that (for now) seems to work out pretty good. I'll start off running two minutes, then walking two minutes then running then walking, ect. I have been doing roughly 2.3 miles a day and it had been taking me about 35 minutes to do it. Within the last two days, I have shaved five minutes off my time and have been doing it in only 30 minutes. Might not be a big deal, but a big accomplishment for me. That dress I have been wanting to fit in....fits me perfectly...except still a tiny big snug in the chest. Hmmm...I'll have to see what I can do about that. I'm very happy though because that thing wasn't fitting me good at all before I started with the whole treadmill thing. It's a size 10 which is my old size before I had Mikey. I will be soooo happy to be back in a size 10!!!

Anyway, here are the LO's.

This first one, I did for a challeng on sb.com that Pammy is hosting...the "Copy Yourself" challenge. We had to scraplift off of one of our own layouts. I used my "Things I've Learned" LO and came up with this one. I love the way it turned out and I just love this pic of Mikey on his new bike!



This was just a quick LO with a pic of Mikey and Lij. Love the way it looks in sepia.



This last one, I got the idea from the August/September issue of Memory Makers. It was from a LO on page 72. I used the same Creative Imaginations paper and pretty much the same placement of pic and papers, but changed the embellies up. I wonder if that's still considered a "scraplift"?? I am never sure about things like that. Anyway, that's all for now. Oh and if Lori gets to read this...."HELLO" :) :)

A Sad Day and Some LO's

Well, Sheba is officially gone and while I am happy that I won't be having to clean up any more cat hair and can finally use our master bathroom again, I am very sad because I didn't want her to have to go. Damn my OCD!! I know it wasn't fair to her to be in that one room and that she is probably better off somewhere else. Still can't help but feel sad. We did have her for almost a year. I just have to try to not think about it.

Anyway, I did a couple more LO's. The one about my scraproom, I did yesterday. I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out. I used some new Daisy D's stuff I had gotten at 911 and some Kelli Panacci stuff I had gotten at HL. I was going to use it for my 5 Product challenge on my Yahoo group, but I went over on the products. So instead today, I did another LO using my Cosmo Cricket Halfway Cafe which I've had FOREVER and just opened today. I REALLY love the way that one turned out! I'm using that one for my 5 Product challenge. Since I'm supplying the prize, I can't win, but I thought I'd do it anyway.

Here are some new LO's I've done. I still need to catch up on my art journal cards...need to do four...gotta catch up again! Not much new is going on here. Today was my "cleaning day" so I spent most of the day just cleaning up! It took me an HOUR to clean up our bathroom of all the cat hair! I told Miguel that he needs to take Sheba somewhere tomorow. Take her back to PetSmart or something. I love her, but oh my Gosh, am I tired of cleaning up hair!! She has been shedding like crazy and the poor thing needs to get out of that bathroom! It's the best thing for her to go. Anyway, hopefully tomorrow I can have some more scrapping time and maybe get all my cards done!

This first LO was left over from last month's crop. It was the only LO I packed that I didn't get around to working on so I finished it up last week I think. Just hadn't uploaded it until tonight. Elijah really likes his skateboard that my sis got him. It's nice seeing him do something that requires physical activity and not just sitting around inside!



I was going to enter this second one in the Lucky 7 Contest, but didn't upload it to the computer in time! Oh well!! I was going for a simple look so I just did some frames and put the pic on top. I really like it! Got to use my Cosmo Cricket Dutch Girl that I got last week! Love that paper!!




I really love this last LO although it's kind of simple too! Miguel got Mikey this cute little tricycle yesterday and Mikey LOVED it! He even got the whole pedaling thing down all on his own!! I love the way the pic came out! I have some more cool pics of him on the bike that I will have to do other LO's with! Got to use my Dutch Girl here too!

I rearranged my scraproom....AGAIN!! LOL

Yes, I moved all my stuff around....AGAIN!! I can't help it! It's like a quest for the PERFECT set up! I think I really like this! I had always wanted to put my two big tables together to make one HUGE area kind of like having an island in the middle of the room, but I could never figure out HOW to do it or WHERE to put the tables. So today when Mikey took a nap, I started moving stuff around and came up with this! Unfortunately, Mikey woke up when I was like fifteen minutes into it and had stuff ALL OVER the place! I should have taken a picture of that. Dang! Didn't think to do it until now! So it probably took me longer to finish with Mikey running around than had I had the full two hours that he usually naps to do it in! Either way, it's done! And I am really loving it! I need to get myself a couple of GOOD stools with backs to sit at the tables if I want to sit. And FINALLY the tables are in PERFECT position so that the light overhead shines down right on the tables because before no matter where I stood to scrap, I always covered the light with my back! I also like the way most of my stuff is on that one wall now with the shelves and stuff. Not so much walking around looking for stuff now! Anyway, just thought I'd upload some pics to share :)

A New LO

Here's a LO I worked on yesterday with a pic of me and Miguel last Valentine's Day. TFL :)

I've been tagged by Gina

1. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE? yes, an ex girlfriend of my Uncle Frank:)

2. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED? Just the other day.

3. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING? yes, kind of.

4. WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE LUNCH MEAT? salami

5. DO YOU HAVE KIDS? yes, 2 boys

6. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU? But of course!

7. DO YOU USE SARCASM A LOT? ALL the time!

8. DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS? no

9. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP? I have a huge fear of heights, but I think I would still like to try to get over my fear.

10. WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE CEREAL? Chocolate Chip Cookie Crisp

11. DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF? no

12. DO YOU THINK YOU ARE STRONG? I think I am..both physically and mentally.

13. WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE ICE CREAM? Ben and Jerry's Fudge Brownie

14. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE? eyes or smile:)

15. RED OR PINK? Red

16. WHAT IS THE LEAST FAVOURITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF? my teeth

17. WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST? Right now, Elijah :(

18. DO YOU WANT EVERYONE TO SEND THIS BACK TO YOU? yes

19. WHAT COLOUR PANTS AND SHOES ARE YOU WEARING? brown shorts...no shoes

20. WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU ATE? a beef and bean burrito

21. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW? some cartoon that Mikey is watching on TV.

22. IF YOU WHERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOUR WOULD YOU BE? hmmm...brown?

23. FAVOURITE SMELLS? The smells of my 3 men, vanilla, the smell of CLEAN!! LOL :)

24. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE? my sister

25. DO YOU LIKE THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO YOU? Yes...I do:)

26. FAVOURITE SPORTS TO WATCH? don't really like sports.

27. HAIR COLOUR? brown

28. EYE COLOUR? dark brown

29. DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS? no

30. FAVOURITE FOOD? Mexican food or Chinese

31. SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS? happy endings

32. LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED? Spiderman 3

33. WHAT COLOUR SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING? brown tshirt

34. SUMMER OR WINTER? summer

35. HUGS OR KISSES? HUGS :)

37. MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND? my sis

38. LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND? ???

39. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING NOW? not currently reading anything right now.

40. WHAT IS ON YOUR MOUSE PAD? nothing..it's blue

41. WHAT DID YOU WATCH ON T.V. LAST NIGHT? movies with Mikey

42. FAVOURITE SOUND? "I love you's"

43. ROLLING STONES OR BEATLES? I guess the Rolling Stones

44. WHAT IS THE FARTHEST YOU HAVE BEEN FROM HOME? Michigan

45. DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT? Hmm...I can REALLY stretch my money! LOL

46. WHERE WERE YOU BORN? San Antonio

47. WHAT SUPERPOWER WOULD YOU LIKE? That's a tough one...to go back in time.

8 minutes, 8 pounds, and 5 layouts....

LOL that is what has been going on with me in the last ten days since I posted here. I'm still doing the treadmill...EVERY day even when I don't want to! And I am up to running 8 minutes straight which is ALMOST a full mile. I weighed myself on Saturday and I have lost EIGHT pounds since I last weighed myself about a month ago. I'm curious to know how many inches I have lost. I know I have because of the way my clothes fit, but I'd like to know the exact numbers. So there is hope for me yet!! I just may fit into that dress next month!! Cross your fingers for me!! :)

So we had our monthly crop this past Saturday and I was able to finish five of the six LO's I had packed! YAY! And I didn't even go crazy with the shopping either...so proud of myself :) I only spent $14!! I guess it helped that they didn't have any new stuff in since the last time I was there. At least not anything that I REALLY needed!! LOL I did get some SUPER CUTE Daisy D's cs stickers and then just some random papers. I got to meet Karen (Scrappikat) from sb.com, her lovely friend Sharon who is also on sb.com and Karen's too cute daughter Lexie. We had so much fun! I can't wait until next month's crop!! So much fun to have girl time! Hanging out, chatting, laughing and scrapping! Can't beat that!!
So here are the layouts I finished.

This one is my favorite. We took this picture of my grandmother this past Mother's Day. We took all the grandkids to see her and we got her bouquets of roses. She looked so good and so happy to have us all there. I'm going to enter this one in the Lucky 7 contest on sb.com.


This one is also going into the contest. I really love the way this one turned out! This is a picture of the house that I grew up in for 18 years.



This is just a quick and simple LO that I scraplifted off of sb.com. I can't remember from who!! I will check and post that later.



This is just a simple LO I did of Mikey :)



I also love the way this one turned out. I love how I mixed differnt papers and got to use up some of my old stash of papers!



This is a scraplift of Miss Gina's LO "Monkey Bars". What do you think, Gina?? :)

It's been a while....

WOW...I didn't realize it had been over a week since I last blogged. Not much had been going on I guess. Actually, Mikey had been sick and then I got whatever he had so I hadn't been doing much of anything. Mikey seems to have gotten over the most of it and thankfully I didn't get as bad as he had been.

So, I've still been getting on the treadmill. I absolutley HATE it, but love the results I'm seeing. I'm not kidding when I say that every day I HAVE to make myself do it. I tell myself that I owe it to myself and that I will be happy with the end result. I haven't weighed myself in about three weeks...maybe longer, so I don't know if I've lost any more weight, but I am losing LOTS of inches. My shorts are fitting alot looser and I'm even fitting into shorts that HADN'T been fitting me! And most importantly...my SHIRTS are fitting looser and so are my bras!! LOL HAPPY DAY!! Good bye to the girls!! LMBO Maybe Miguel won't be too happy about that!! LOL I'm up to running seven minutes straight and still doing my 3o minutes a day. When I run longer, I cover more distance in that time. It's getting easier and my legs aren't hurting as much so yesterday I did a total of 45 minutes and did three miles. YAY! I'm really proud of myself for sticking with it so far. Next week will be one month. I talked to Miguel about it the other day and told him to not let me give up. His brother is getting married in late July and Miguel is standing in the wedding. I'll be going with him and there is a black dress that I have that I am DETERMINED to fit into. Last time I tried it on, it was fitting good except for my "chest area"....maybe in a few more weeks, it will fit better.

Anyway, I did my last two cards for the art journal challenge: the "right now" card and the "what I'd like to learn". And I also uploaded a LO I did last week or the week before..not sure. I totally forgot about it so here it is too.

Some Scraplifts

I'm so happy when I get some time to scrap! The kids woke up pretty early today so I got an early start on all my chores and was done before nine!! Mikey took an early nap and I got to do some scrapping. He even woke up and took a second nap...I joined him on that one! LOL We slept for like two hours I think. And when we woke up, him and Lij played in his room while I scrapped a second LO. I ordered pizza, we ate, played outside then the kids came in and bathed. I'm about to go downstairs and get on the treadmill and do my two miles. It usually takes me about 30 minutes to do about 2.1 miles. I've been sticking to it for two weeks now and although I've only lost two pounds the last time I checked, I can "feel" a difference in my body and see that my clothes aren't fitting as tightly and that's GOOD! LOL Okay, here are the LO's. The kids are fighting and I need to get to it!!

The first one I did, I was inspired by a girl on sb.com:LindsD620. I don't think I scraplifted it because I didn't even use the same "design" I liked her idea of doing a LO about things her bf liked which I did too!

The second was pretty much a scraplift of a LO done by Kittyeisner on sb.com. I changed the title on mine, but other than that, it's pretty much the same. I just LOVE it though!! I had to copy it!!