So little bit of Vikings vs Packers rivalry happens in our household every football season. Well I jsut went through my son’s room and drawers and took out a ton of clothes that didn’t fit.

He decided this is what he wanted to wear outside to help Dad this afternoon.

Hahaha

My hubby is gonna get me…

Lovin’ life!
Enjoy!

Chris Durnan, designer
GSD KNK WPC AI SCUT files for your personal digital cutters for use with scrapbooking, cardmaking and other hobbies. Whatever your creative mind can come up with!
www.visualdesignsbychris.com

Been super busy and out of the loop. Also, had some followup doc visits and hopefully back into it by tomorrow. My apologies for being out of it for now.

Enjoy!

Chris Durnan, designer
GSD KNK WPC AI SCUT files for your personal digital cutters for use with scrapbooking, cardmaking and other hobbies. Whatever your creative mind can come up with!
www.visualdesignsbychris.com

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Well it’s that time again. I have started going through the list of people I would like to get gifts for this holiday season. You may think I am crazy because it is August, but Christmas in July theories had to start with crafters. I am searching the web and finding interesting ideas and thoughts that I can apply to my holiday gift giving ideas. If you find any ideas you think are fun and unique send them my way and I will post them here. I like unique ideas and gifts.

This year for the holidays I think I am going to approach my female family members and see if they would like to do a “favorite things” gift bags. Where we can place out gift bags with each of our names on it Christmas Day and when we all get together we can put our favorite things from this year in the bag for the others. Favorite things being a book, cd, lip gloss, recipe, a kitchen tool, anything that they have found is wonderful to have in their lives. I think this would be a fun way to keep the cost of the holidays down and share something of ourselves with the other ladies in the family. We shall see what they think about this. I probably won’t approach them until later in august about it or they will think I am nutz. I could be. 🙂 If you have a favorite thing from this year, post it in my CBOX on the right hand side of my blog, email me or post a comment. I am curious as to what everyone enjoys the most in their life. I know our Cutters our Craft Robos our Silhouettes, but just in general what could you not live without and it doesn’t have to be a scrappy thing. Could be anything.

I went to Wally World and purchased a canning set last week and went online and order the blue book of preserving from Ball and I think I am ready for next weekends trip to the Peach Farm and to get veggies. My garden itself could never fit all of these things in. So I can buy them in bulk and preserve them. I am excited and nervous they will be any good. But I thought what a great holiday gift to give as well. Peach Jam with a pretty ribbon on it. Hopefully not to many relatives will be reading this or they will know what their gifts will contain. Oh well hopefully they will forget by December. :0)

I didn’t get much crafting time in this weekend. But I did spends lots of time with my family. Got to see my beautiful niece she is getting to be so much fun and my sister. It was nice to hang out and chat. something we find harder to do in person, but with modern technology we can email, text, phone and get in the car to meet up if we need to. My hubby understands the girl talk moments and scidaddled for a bit so we could just chat. My son was so excited his cousin was coming over he started going through his toys mid day and asking will this be to small for her? Will this be okay? etc. it was cute.

Today was my little ones first day of Pre-K. I was so nervous for him. I had dreams all night that I didn’t pack his lunch right. I didn’t remember to put socks on him with his tennies. I didn’t give him a bottle of water with water in it. Weird, but my hubby called and said he got there and took off and was trying to go play with his backpack on before he went into class to put it away. He was very excited. He is in the bigger kids building now for the Pre-K and he reminds me daily how he is bigger now and can do things without my help. So wonderful, but pulls on the heart strings a little. I got some cute pics. I will share them as soon as I get them off the camera.

Okay I have errands to run in town and then I have about 5 files to convert and get moving. I am feeling the creative bug. Woooohooo!!

Thanks for listening to my ramblings.

Hope you have a wonderful Monday!
Enjoy!

Chris Durnan, designer
GSD KNK WPC AI SCUT files for your personal digital cutters for use with scrapbooking, cardmaking and other hobbies. Whatever your creative mind can come up with!
www.visualdesignsbychris.com

From Karen (to see more of her layouts visit HERE)

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Yeah!! It’s almost the weekend. I won’t get much scrapbook done, but I will be spending alot of time with the hubby and little one. I am definitely looking forward to it.
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Okay if you have joined the QMC you should have been added. If the link above doesn’t work, please email me your order number and forum name. There are a few out there that I couldn’t get a match with your email address and have tried to get a hold of you, but couldn’t. Everything is filed by the order number so please send that with your requests. I met my goal to keep the membership alive. So THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH to everyone who joined! Now lets have fun…
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Have you visited my Creative Teams blog. Sussann uploaded an awesome layout using 3 of my files. I like that she took apart one of the files and just used the title. I always hope that users will pull them apart and use the pieces for many things. I, also, have more as well that I will upload later today if I get a chance before Meet your teacher
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Challenge – I have a bunch of emails from folks asking when will the next challenge be. I am thinking Sept/Oct. I have to take a break in between to offer the 10 or so files to give away. I offer them in SCUT GSD KNK AI WPC format and you can scrap anything you want with them. So check back closer to then or join my yahoo group and I usually send an email out when I do it. The link is on the side
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On to life…
Yesterday was a very long day. I had a docs appt and a ton of errands to run and at the end of it all I was driving and tire went flat. so I pulled into a chevron, filled it with air and sat there and watched it deflate in two minutes. Luckily, the young one was with Grandma so he didn’t have to wait with me in the heat. I called my hubby because I can’t really bend and twist yet and putting air in it just caused a cramp in my side. So the hubby ran over and changed the tire for me and even took the quickly leaking one to the tire store for me this morning. When I go in to Meet the Teacher this afternoon we will stop and have it put back on my truck. The bummer is I will have kept my track record of being there at least once a month with one of our vehicles. I almost almost had the track record beat. So nice when the Tire Shop guys know you by name when you walk in and say Hey how ya doing Chris? Well something to be said for friendly service and then again not a great saying for my track record.

So I have plans for the weekend and part of them are to keep up my walking every day. I started Mon & Tues with a half mile and Weds with a mile and yesterday I did a mile and a quarter. So hopefuly by next week I will be at two miles and stick to that. I hope to get this in every morning. I got a copy of my reports at the docs of all my Scans and Tests and so now because I have a copy of my CT Scan I know exactly which organs are inflating correctly or not or are showing signs of anything. So guess what… couldn’t be more motivating then have it in black and white the possibilities. Could be the best preventative medicine ever. And as for my doc… Well the first thing out of his mouth when he walked into the room was… “You know there were a few things I would have done different” I was like WHAT> HUH> WHAT> I had quick visions of lieing on the operating table again. OH GREAT. So I just smiled sweetly and said… “Oh really” and he smiled and said yeah. “I wish I woulda gotten a clear picture or two of the gaping hole you had in your diaphragm muscle.” I just smiled and again and said “that’s okay. I can get an idea from these pictures that show all the internal permanent stitches” Wew. He is a great surgeon and calm I like that. I like calm. His other comment as he ripped off all the little steri-strips from my Belly was… “Who the heck poked all these holes in you? You’d leak like a sieve if we pored in water” I think it was a diversionary tactic while he ripped those little suckers off just like I use with my son. The docs Mom must be very proud as I am sure he learned those tactics from her. The wonderful things we give to our children so they can carry them on and use them in life.

Well my son just walked by with a full gallon of milk. I better go look. Have a great weekend and Enjoy!

Chris Durnan, designer
GSD KNK WPC AI SCUT files for your personal digital cutters for use with scrapbooking, cardmaking and other hobbies. Whatever your creative mind can come up with!
www.visualdesignsbychris.com

Hello to everyone!

Well I am almost back in the swing of things. I have uploaded a file to the QMC from our recent poll.

Good Morning to all. What a wonderful weekend! I did not alot of heavy activity, but got to attend a Farmer’s Market out by us on Saturday a.m. for a little bit. And my son played on the swing set they had and I got to buy some handmade soap. I love handmade soap. I have to be careful because alot of them have wheat germ in them and make me itchy itchy, but I bought two. One smells like chamomile and pretty, but the other smells like cocoa butter and the island beach. I am using the cocoa butter one. Hmmm.. smells awesome. I think I might go back to the lady in October and buy a few bars and use them for in Christmas gifts. I wonder if homemade soap has a shelf life or if I should buy it closer to the holiday. does anyone know?
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And this morning I went for a walk. Yeah! I had enough energy and went out while my hubby was feeding the herd and fly spraying and fly masking them etc. So I walked our circle drive about 4 times and felt wobbly so made it my last and came in side. yeah! So happy to get moving again.
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and it seems in the membership there was a winner for the mousey poll so I will be posting this file this week. I will take down the button on the top right of my blog when it doesn’t work anymore. There is a little more time ’til the link gets pulled from the store at Paperthreads. So take advantage of the window of opportunity to still join.
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On to life… My little ones last week of vacation is starting today. He is watching sesame street as I type this. School starts next Monday. He is in Pre-K, but he already has his backpack and we will go this weekend and pick up some clothes and new tennies. He will be going 5 days a week. I am bummed about this because I enjoy our Thursday Fridays together to do different things, butttt I am excited for him because I know he really likes to keep busy and do new things. I am searching the mail for his new school year packet. Hopefully it will be here today so I know his teacher. Well the Legos are out. I am gonna go help build a tower and then get those files converted for the QMC.

Have a wonderful day!
Enjoy!
Chris