Howdy and Hello.
Well it is Tuesday. My little one is home with me today. I have decided to do house stuff and work on new files for the QMC today and run to town tomorrow and spend all day finishing my long list of errands. Do it in one day and save gas or not. I think in the middle of all the stops we will hit the mall so my little one can play for a bit and get a break. I am looking forward to it.

So I havebeen working on my craft room/office space. I did some last weekend and can’t decide what form of organization I want for my things. I have been doing some research and found a very helpful blog (link) Mostly for sewing room organization, but the ideas and links were just awesome. So I will be looking further into it. I really think I will put up a sheet of thin metal and use some form of magnetic tins and pockets. Especially since school is gonna start and alot of the “for your school lockers” products have magnets on them. We shall see. Still working it out. Slowly but surely. I also am purging and pitching and donating items left and right. Today I will be loading up the back of the truck with more goodwill items so I can plan to hit the drop off stop on my way tomorrow. I am ready for it to just be organized so I can get back to scrapping and creating. Right now I crawl over everything and run test cuts and thats it. Will be nice to have it together, but I won’t have it done I am sure for a bit.

Also, looking at some track spotlighting. I have an overhead light in my craft room so when standing there everything seems to have a shadow on it and that shadow is me. So I am going to put some tracklight above my head and shine right down where I am working. Something else I am researcing.

Well I better run. Have a wonderful day!
Enjoy!
Chris

Hello to everyone! Made it through the weekend and can I say you guys are awesome. I have gotten some of the nicest emails regarding my upcoming surgery. Truly I am blessed. Thank you.
Did everyone have a great weekend? We did. Not as much accomplished as we would have liked, but still a nice weekend. This weekend we have friends coming over Friday night to play Poker and Saturday night my Sister’s birthday is coming up.Should be lots and lots of fun! Sunday I will be organizing organizing for surgery and being unavailable. And this coming weekend I am running a sale. My friend Lori is celebrating Christmas in July. So i thought I would join her in celebrating the downward slide of the year and the need to get to the holidays gifts underway. In the process of moving the craft room around I realized I have alot of things I could use as gifts. I should start taking photos of things and posting and see if your awesome creative minds can help me come up with some things. Lori is also offering coupons and files so check out her blog. You’ll be happy.

Okay so this was mentioned by Terina (HEY TERINA!!) on one of the groups so I had to go check it out. I am a gizmo girl. And I love Printers! Love them.

So I am wondering how well this works, but I love its portable size. I will be checking into it further to see what it has to offer. I have a portable printer for my digital camera by epson. Which I love, but thought this might be an interesting addition. It is called the Polaroid Pogo. If I get one I’ll review it for you. Right now I am saving for Photoshop CS3. It is time to upgrade so I am pinching pennies to get it. But it will be so nice when I have it.

Also Scrapbooking.com is having a Vacation Layout Contest.. Here is the link. We are winding down the summer and I am sure you have some awesome scrapbooking pictures you could put in a layout. This contest ends July 31st. So it is a quick one, but thought I would put it there for those who have a free weekend.

I better run. Still files left to upload for the sale.

Have a wonderful day!
Thank you again!
Enjoy!
Chris

Well it’s Friday. Yeah!! My son is having a couple friends come over to play this evening. He is very excited. He even picked up most of his room because I told him it was the contigency for them to come over. He got it picked up and is happily taking a nap so he can stay up late.

I have been working on files and descriptions. Those winners of the descriptions( and they were all wonderful) will be receiving a copy of the file and I hope to get them all loaded up to the store for the sale. Awesome awesome. So I will get the emails through and I had alot of entries to choose from. Thank you for that!

Next I have uploaded files to the QMC. 2 more. So we are at 7 out of the 20 and I am still working away on it.

I hope you have a wonderful weekend. I am gonna make this short and run because I have to get a few more things done. Like season the chicken for the grill. hmm.. homemade gourmet seasoning mix the Cilantro Citrus one I think it is. I love it and GLUTEN FREE. Yeahhh! Baby!
Here is the ladies site that I buy from. Yum Yum. I love the Cilantro Lime Chicken Salad. It is so light for summer. Not a heavy taste at all.

Well thats my food rant.

After the 28th I won’t be able to eat for 2 weeks. Did I tell you what that was all about. Here goes I have a hiatal hernia. And of course cause I like to do things over the top.. instead of being able to take a pill and make it better. I have officially somehow pushed the majority of my stomach up through my diaphragm muscle and into my chest cavity. To compete with hmm my lungs.. throat etc everything else you have beating in your chest. So because the majority of my stomach is in the wrong spot they have to put it back. Yeah! So the tests to get this done are like torture tests. Let me stick a tube down your nose and see how your esophagus is doing, oh wait better yet lets put a transmittor in your throat you carry around a little pager looking thing for two days and try to choke food down an already constricted throat. Wow I sound bitter. Not really. When I left the place with the tube thing down the nose I told her I was I headed to Disneyland. She did the infamous commercials… Oh heyy.. now that you’ve had a tube pulled out your nose what are you gonna do?? “I’m going to Disneyland” I said. The people in the waiting room thought I was nutz! But hey I was done with the test and I failed, but passed in a bizarre way in order to prove I need surgery. And when the lady who was putting me under for the ph bravo test (transmitter choke your throat test) told me I couldn’t do an MRI for 30 days because the transmitter pops off your throat from its little suction cup thingy and then has to pass through your system and they want to make sure it doesn’t get pulled out by an MRI. I smiled at her and said. hmmm.. lets see CT scan with pukey liquid and sick for two days, tube down nose to stomach test, and transmitter in throat test. Yeah I don’t think MRI is on my schedule of torture. She laughed and said well at least I had a good attitude. So how is that for some details you don’t care to know.
My goals out of all this..
1) To be able to breathe normal
2) to not feel like I am choking all the time
3) to be able to laugh again without worrying about coughing and hurting . I just realized I am doing this the other night. Trying to not laugh because I cough so hard I feel like I might cough up my stomach.
4) to be ableto lay down and sleep withouth worrying if I will gag
5) to make it past the 30 day mark without having to walk by a high powered magnet and have that transmitter pulled right out my skin because it hasn’t passed yet. That would be something like the Matrix where they pull something out of the guys stomach. yuck.
6) And to lose some weight because I will be only able to eat slimfast or ensure for two weeks and then very minimal small meals after that. So why not take full use of losing half my stomach.
7) And get it all over.

Lofty goals but I am excited to get it all over with and maybe head to the lake sometime in September. Okay now.. don’t you wish you had quit reading? hahah. I am a rambler. I will be fine and you guys are awesome so I know I’ll get some emails about taking care of myself. I so appreciate all the positive thoughts and prayers. And I look forward to being on the road to a new adventure without so many twisty weird torture tests involved.

Enjoy your weekend!
Chris

PS I know I said I’d make this short, but yowser.. I am not sure I know what that means.

And why am I telling you all this because I am sure when you read this blog for the next few weeks you will here how I hate the taste of slimfast it is to thick and the gluten free ones taste like chalky and other random items of grossness .. or how about the story of the fighting Berium Xray Techs while I was waiting in the machine… yeah great!! Love you guys.. thanks for stopping by..

Not sure which of these is going to the QMC. but they all need descriptions for the store.. If you don’t know what I mean scrol back a few posts from today.
🙂 Hope you can help.
Enjoy! Chris
one is A birthday card front that definitely could easily work for the man in the life.
A card front with two titles for more use. and the party one could be used on any project for fun! together or using the elements seperately.

if you need details please scroll down to the previous post.
The “You Make My Heart Sing” fie will be loaded to the QMC. This isn’t important to the description. Just wanted those who are part of the QMC to see it and know what is coming.
Email me HERE.. and the winning description gets the file.

I hope to post a bunch of pics tomorrow of files I want to the load in the store over the weekend. And I am looking for the best description and if yours is the picked one you can have the file. These are all files that I have had on my computer for the last couple weeks and just can’t write the text files so I am putting it out to you… AND WHY??? Because I need them in the store for next weekend because I will be putting my whole section on sale. So keep an eye out of for the pics tomorrow and let me know what you have for thoughts. AND THE OTHER REASON WHY?? Because you guys have sent in some awesome descriptions in the past. And I love to read them.

I will need them in as soon as I can get ’em because I have to get them all up this weekend. So think quick and send me your thoughts.

Descriptions are for the Paperthreads store so people can read it and find out about the file and give them possible ideas for the use of the file.

For now I need to get some laundry flipped. WOOHOO! Home tomorrow Yeah!! I have plants to plant. Wash to do. Cleaning. Craft room stuff and files. woohoo!!

Have a wonderful evening!
Enjoy!
Chris

The end of a long day… Well here I am my son and hubby are laying on the couch and the latter is snoring. Our tv is off so it is nice and quiet and I am posting finally for today. I have thought about it all day, but kept getting sidetracked. I added two new files to the QMC alot of you have downloaded them already so you know they are there. I am in the midst of working on more. I have surgery at the end of the month so I am trying to pack the membership a little full right now. Thank you for everyone who has joined. I am adding people in the mornings so I keep consistent. So if you aren’t added and I missed you let me know with your order number and forum name.

On to life..
So my little one is going to the same school during the summer, but they call it summer camp. I went in to pick him up yesterday and he said “I need to learn spanish”. I smiled and said awesome. I am all for learning. Well I went in to pick him up today and there he sits with a little boy and girl that I know only speak spanish. He is trying hard to repeat what they are saying. And they are smiling at him puzzled as he answers there questions in his own version of spanish. All his teachers speak spanish and so there are some children over summer who visit that speak spanish only. I like his school because they teach everything in Spanish, English and Technology. In preschool they didn’t do it so much, but I have sat in on a Pre-K class and they ran through the days of the week in spanish and english and read a book also both ways. Excellent for his brain to capture on to. We have participated in the technology part. We have donated some computers so there are extras in each room for the children to work on. I am just rambling because my son just came up to me and said a bunch of ramblings and smiled and walked away saying thats spanish for I am not ready for bed yet. If you have any suggestions on a childs learning spanish dvd let me know, please. I’d like to know what he is saying so I will listen in to. I have a hand at spanish and can understand bits and pieces. However, my husbands spanish gets better with Corona and lime. haha.
Well I better get everyone to bed.
Have a wonderful Wednesday!
Enjoy!
Chris

Here is a slideshow of our pictures from the trip with family. We first went to Prescott and then to San Clemente where we hit Disneyland while in California and spent lots of time on the beach.

And here is the slideshow for all the challenge entries I have thus far.

Also, I have added everyone to the QMC that has joined. If you can’t get into this link HERE. and have joined, please email me your order number & forum name and I will get it handled.

I will pick some of my favorite moments this week from the pictures and post about them. So many great moments and tales. So I am sure you will see more of the photos if you don’t have time to sit through the slides.

Have a wonderful rest of the day!
Enjoy!
Chris

I am here working on catching up on emails, downloading great trip pictures, adding members to the membership, uploading challenge file pictures. Keep them coming!! The ones I have so far are just awesome! And I had a ph bravo test so I have this little pager looking thing traveling along with me in my journeys. Apparently I keep walking to far away from it so it beeps at me. woops! As you can tell I couldn’t get the mobile blogger to work. I kept trying to send pics from the ocean, but they didn’t come through. I will have to try and play with that again. So if I get a chance I will upload more pictures for everyone to see and the challenge pictures as well.

Have a wonderful day!!!!
Thank you to those who joined the QMC while I was away. You won’t be unhappy I have more files in the works already!

Enjoy!
Chris