So my orange wall has a few pictures on it and I thought I would share them with you. A few people asked to see a picture. So here it is. I wasn’t aware of how much orange is in my collection of paintings. Kinda cool. Everytime I look at the wall tho’ I think…. ORANGE SHERBERT!! hmmm. I love Sherbert.

So I gave up Pepsi on Friday the 20th. I went to docs appt and we had a long discussion about upcoming surgery (more on that later) and Carbonated Drinks. Seems I won’t be able to drink them ever again. I was a Pepsi phene. But I came home and drank the last one over ice. It was the last can in the house actually. I enjoyed and was done with it. I thought headaches would come and I wouldn’t be able to get up in the morning. It hasn’t been so. This is awesome. I am super happy about it. But after the doc visit I went to meet my in-laws at the book store where they had my little one. He was please as punch he got breakfast, a new book, a new toy and grandma was buying him a cookie and a milk when we got there. {rolling eyes} This is what grandparents are for. My son is grinning from ear to ear. My hubby went to take him to the car and what did I do?? I ran up to the counter and grabbbbbbeddd…….

tada…

The latest Janet Evanovich book. Fearless Fourteen. I love the Stephanie Plum character. I love the whole crew actually. Grandma Majur makes me giggle so much I have to get up at night and read on the couch and not in bed because I keep my hubby up.

I read it the next day in completion and will be handing it on to the family. It will get passed with lightening speed around through many hands. I love the family book system. We are all readers.

Anyways it was good book and now I am back to my library books. I pretty much have started library booking it completely with the exception of a few. I have to have space in my house and I read about a book every three days sometimes. This can be a twenty buck a week habit. Wow. Can be alot of dough. So I am a library bookee and my son is loving the trips to the library to see all the books. Sometimes I plop right down on the floor and quietly read him the one he just grabbed if it looks short. He sits in my lap and we just enjoy the moment.

My other purchase that day at the bookstore were two Lindor White Chocolate Truffles. I threw them in my purse. In the little zipper pouch… Do you know where this is heading? This is the pouch I only relegate my lipstick to in case it comes open. Well I found those truffles yesterday. Thank goodness they were in the lipstick pouch. It was quite a goopy mess. But since I am trying to lose 10 lbs in the next couple weeks with a vacation scheduled in there. It probably is a good thing they melted, but lipstick has a hint of white chocolate when I open it. Wew. The world is full of tempations. Just don’t leave ’em in your purse in 112 degree weather for a few days they tend to dissolve away.

Have a wonderful day!

Enjoy!
Chris

PS Challenge Submission came in like crazy this weekend. I will post them in the next couple days. They are all soooooooo awesome!

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So if you are interested in joining in on the QMC or just can’t decide here are few things that might make you want to jump in. Files in the QMC come in SCUT, GSD, AI, KNK & WPC

Here are a few files I am loading to the QMC for July 1st. And I am working on these now because I will be out of town for a week over the 4th.

The first one is California Dreaming. Lots of pieces to this file that you can use on their own or use seperately.

The next one is a saying to adorn any of those pages you have with your friends and family and loved ones. I feel truly blessed more so lately with everyone around me so this file speaks to me. I hope you can use it to.

And the next is a group of star jumbles. Lots of shapes, swirlsof stars. 4th of July is here so great for that. Or your superstar in your life.
Well if that doesn’t do it for you there are 17 more possibilities to be added to the QMC. These files will be added to the store after I get back for those interested in just the file.

Thanks for looking and stopping by.

On to life… Does anyone have a list of must haves for the beach? Do you know how long it has been since I have been to the ocean? I am so excited to go. Another thing that will be fun.. I was talking to my son about going to the beach and said we should buy a sandcastle bucket so we can build sandcastles. And he says “MOM but what will it stick together with?” I said “the water”. And He says to me with his head cocked to the side…. “Are we taking water to the beach with us??” In my mind I think.. This is going to be soooo much fun. I can’t wait to walk the beach in the morning with my hubby and collect seashells and see everything again for the first time through 4 year old eyes. I can’t wait!

I am going to see what I can do about getting mobile blogging setup. To post from my phone. I think it would be fun to send some of the images. Anyone do that? is it easy? Well I better run. lots to get together.

Have a wonderful day!
Enjoy!
Chris

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I meant to add on my post that I actually used some of the negatives of the flowers on the square punchouts. Added a little bling and buttons for flowers centers. I love the coordinating files that Chris designs.

So it is late and I am working away. Trying to get some new things out of my thoughts and on to the screen. Sometimes I get so many going I can’t catch up with them all. Thanks to those with positive emails about my grandfather and life. I am blessed by all of you reading my ramblings.

IHere is a slideshow for the current Challenge. These are the entries I already I have. Awesome awesome!
Thank you for everyones hard work. I can’t wait to see the rest. You can see a larger version of the slideshow. HERE.

Have a wonderful weekend.
Enjoy!
Chris

Woohoo! We have moved everything in and are on the downward side of this hill called the office move. Next we work on the space for my hubby’s at home office which I am sure will be awesome. My husband has great taste and I look forward to helping him put it all together.

So we have two submissions for the June 08 Challenge already in. I have sent out the link almost 50 times. And I have to say these are awesome! I will be adding a page to my mainsite to load them all in. If you want to see the ones from last time. Here is the link. Anything goes for this challenge you can scrap anything! Cards, books, atc, altered pieces, Anything you can come up with. Thanks for playing!

So the first one is from Karine. The Skateboarder is from the challenge and one other file as well… Do you see it? Came out great and I love the fun colors.

Then our next entry is from Ginny Using the Apple File for a super cute Get Well Card. Love it.

If you are still interested in participating in the challenge, you can email me for the link. Two requirements for the Challenge. You follow through with a submission and you do not share the files with others or the link. ‘Tis it. I have had lots of people say this has pushed them to use their cutter and get them over the hump of not cutting. Hopefully it is fun.

So A BIG THANK YOU! to those who have joined the QMC and participated in the Sale. It made my day to see how many people signed up for the new QMC. I have sketches drawn for files already and am going to start putting them together. The current QMC members need to download download download. Get them all down as quick as you can the end of the month is coming!

On to life and my ramblings….

So last night the men in my life decided they needed to have pizza. I like to have one of my “gluten free” pizzas to, but it takes time and effort to cook and eat. So I hit Trader joes’s on the way home and got some munchies. I love Trader Joe’s. I have to say their gluten free items are becoming less of selection then my local Fry’s. However, I still love to visit there. I bought my hubby a bunch of different red wines. He likes to have a glass in the evening while we sit on the porch and relax. I am a woman with ample frontload, sideload, and backload, but I get along. I know I could stand to lose some load, but when a teeny tiny person (so teeny you can look through their arm and see the food on the shelf on the other side) looks me up and down in trader Joe’s and looks in my cart and just looks me up and down again and walks away with her fat free tofu bites with her nose in the air. I gotta just roll my eyes. Give me a break. Life would be so boring if we are all of the same size and measurements. Don’t throw your nose at me. Please. Sorry about that I had to vent for a moment.

In my basket of atrocities were dried apple rings which I bought to see what my little one thought. He tried one this morning asked me what they were again. And then tried another. Wrinkled his nose up and said. Are you sure these aren’t Horse treats? Great my child thinks I am feeding him horse food. We’ll see if he finishes the bag or they sit there for a while. hmm.. if they sit there maybe I will see if the horses like them. haha. Then he really won’t trust me when I say. Just try it.. would I feed you dog or horse food? Just try it. We shall see.

So yesterday getting out of the house was a back and forth journey. I keep running back in the house for one more thing. Even got out the front gate and had to come back to get keys to the trailer with all our things in it for moving. My son pipes up from the backseat. MOM Do you think we will ever get to summer camp? I shoulda just said No! I don’t think so. But I said Yes of course we will. Mom will get it all together. Didn’t matter anyways when I picked him up he was happy to see me, but mad at the teachers because two called in sick and they didn’t have enough teachers plus lifeguard per student ratio to go swimming. I am glad they dealt with a bunch of 4-6 year olds in swimsuits mad as could be because they can’t go swimming. I so appreciate there attention to my child and the other childrens safety.

I am still rambling… But I haven’t posted in a while so I have lots on my mind…

My hubby got me a digital picture frame for my bday. I have been researching them left and right for about 4 months now waiting for the best deal and my hubby decided this one and enough searching. We have this relationship where I look at something for forever and then when I decide to get it my hubby says YES PLEASE GET IT. Tis how I got my craft robo. I researched it for about a year. Started out looking for a Wishblade. When I had the funds saved and had decided to make the plunge my husband was happy to have it here. Then I think he thought I was crazy as my sister and I cut a bunch of the files I had downloaded in preparation. And said look It’s a cowboy hat. Look it’s a paper purse. Look It’s a paper alligator. I have burned in my memory the smile of pure puzzlement as he agreed with me it was cool. But anyways. I love the digital frame. I popped in a card from my camera about a year ago. (I keep the cards because for me it is another form of backup. Computer, Card and Online Backup. I would hate to lose my family pictures.) The slideshow of pictures of a year ago are full of smiles and happiness and some of them tear my heart out. I realize whenever I see a pic of my grandfather that my heart is in my throat and my eyes are “spilling” as my little one calls it. I just miss him so. I miss not sitting with him at family functions. I miss listening to my hubby chat business with him. I have lost many people in life and yet I haven’t felt this dull thud like this in my heart when I think about him. He gave me my first job at his business. When we were little and here from Wisconsin he would come in from work and sit down in the middle of the couch so we could crawl all around him, my brother sister and I. On the weekends we would walk out in the mornings, hair all over the place and in our pjs and he would sing.. “Here she is miss america” . He would take us all to 31 flavors. We went to see Annie in a “real theatre” when he visited us in Wisconsin. In fact, he pushed me to continue to date my boyfriend at the time which is now my awesome husband. And the list goes on. Well I just had to get it out a little. I still miss him so. I have scrapped a page for him, but haven’t finished it as I would like to show more of him and not so much heart ache. So I will continue to notate all these thoughts I have about him and add a page in the future.

So have you made it this far??? Wow just ful of emotion and ramblings today. I better run. Tomorrow I have some stories about our auction trip this time around and my deals I purchased. (No new horses wew) I just better run now and get the house picked up some since we haven’t been here.

Thank you to everyone. Have a wonderful day!
Enjoy!

Chris

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So today the carpet is supposed to be in. My hubby and I finished the painting last night. Got hay for the horses. Came home and just sat here in an exhausted state. Then poured ourselves a glass of red wine and sat on the front porch and watched the horses be crazy in a zoned and exhausted state. Well no rest for the weary or the wicked however you prefer the saying. Today is moving day. So I am posting quickly and then heading in to take the kiddo to school. Hit the library probably and then go to the new office and pray for carpeting. If it’s there we’ll start the mass move and hopefully make it home in time to breathe and then next week I should have some time to get back to designing. I have a sketch pad in my purse with a bunch of ideas in it. And now that sketch pad has paint on it. wew. I better run so I can get everyone dressed and ready to go. Thank you to everyone who posted me so many Happy Birthdays in the last few days! Thank you. Also, if you didn’t get a challenge link and want it. Email me again. I think I have sent them all out. But I might have missed one with all the painting and paint fumes floating around. Have a wonderful day!
Enjoy!
Chris