Wandering and Wondering Wednesday

January 18, 2012 By Chris Durnan

Okay folks. My mind is wandering and wondering. My hubby got this little wine sampler set for the holidays. He finished one and threw away the bottle. I saw one sitting there and thought hmm what could I do with it? They are so little and dainty. So I rescued the three remaining. Yes storage ideas for little things comes to mind. But I wonder could I use it for a message in the bottle valentine? Or a treasure hunt something.. or?? Any little ideas? I took a photo with a dry eraser marker so you could better see the size. Oh I just thought of another. Have my son write a note for teacher appreciation week and put it in the bottle with a tag that says… We didn't need a map to know you were the treasure… Hmm something hokey like that which will make my son roll his eyes at me and giggle all at once. Your ideas are welcome please leave me a comment here or in the forum. Stop by tomorrow for this weeks freebie.
Enjoy! Chris

Resolutions….I have the answer to 1…. woohoo!

January 17, 2012 By Chris Durnan

Well I have the answer for one Resolution… to get more of my photos scrapped. .. participate in the monthly sketch challenges. I would have at least 12 done this year. and if I can work it for double layouts then 24. I could dream, but I better just do it.

So of course like many of the crafters out there …. we are all trying to keep up on our own projects putting together memories. I really want to get those albums together I am missing. This year I decided my goal was to just not get lost in this year and not get this year done to. We have albums I have done and my son just pours over them page by page. He shows them to visitors. He just loves to see the old pics. So this year my answer is the Sketch Challenges in the forum. Ileana and Lori are running the January Sketch Challenge and Ileana is offering up files for digital scrapbooking and for digital cutter. What couldn’t be better for scrapping folks who want to be versatile. So this is my first of my goal. I took photos I posted the other day and put them into a layout using Ileana’s file. So here we go! I look forward to having an album to show for this year. and ahhhh.. well I better remember to print it out. If you want to join in… Visit the forum here. and if you wanna catch up there are older layouts and files as well. Just dive right in and post them in our gallery.
Enjoy!
Chris

Have a wonderful day!

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Oh the weekend…Love it

January 16, 2012 By Chris Durnan

I hope you had a wonderful weekend. We were busy busy, but we spent lots of time together so in my world that works. We bowled at a birthday party for a friend’s son. D did awesome. He loves to bowl. Worked on the screen porch off the patio of the hobby barn. I am way excited about this. An area to sit during the summer without the horse flys bugging us and Dalen can move and stretch around. Even where he can build his legos maybe and leave them setup for a bit. So thinking about different table ideas etc. Just looking forward to it.

D Adventures.

So today is a day off school. My son has a really sore throat and bad cough. hoping it goes away as he has awesome next weekend plans and I would hate for him to miss it. So he is hanging out and decided since he can’t sing to his karaoke cd to play the “drums”. He is banging and beating dish lids in his room and comes out and says “MOM? Why didn’t I get a drum set for Christmas? I am so good.” I smiled, hiding my panic because I have already considering calling the hubby to find out where the ear plugs for the shooting range are, my response was… “because your room doesn’t stay clean enough to make the room for it. So when I see that happen we’ll talk.” Big groan. “Mom I am sick. geesh. you could help me dream about having a set”.. .and a way he walked. yes I am a big bad crusher of dreams. or hey .. novel idea… pick up your room. haha. what a silly boy.

Cody Adventures
Cody loves love to fetch things from my son’s room. If he can, nerf gun bullets, are the perfect grab. So if the gate is down he will rush in their and snag one and bring it out. So I had left him in the house and run out to the barn real quick. I came back in and here he sits. he looks just perfect. No worries. So pretty I even took a picture. And then I tried to call him over. He wouldn’t move. Like he was frozen. I sat and thought then

I said “Cody…. what do you have?”

and this look below is the one I got in response…

HA! Caught him. he was trying to hard to hide it. I had to laugh.

There is the tell a tale orange nerf bullet. So funny he tried to hide it and not move.

And then looked away when I started to talk to him. It still makes me giggle

Did you see the cowbell around his neck. Yeah the stinker took off to the big dog yard and we couldn’t find him. So we found him! and then tada. Time for the cowbell. He ran around like a crazy bat whose lost his sonar for about 30 minutes after I added it to his collar. Perfect. Now I can hear where he is while we are outside. He has gotten over it but gets mad and barked at his chest this morning when he was trying to eat and it kept hitting his bowl.

Hubby Adventures ..

It is cold and yuck and football game is on and he is working on the screen porch for me. He is just the bestest. He came in to watch the sad sad Packer’s game. his logic after the game was… Hey I rooted for the Packers and they lost. I root for the Vikings and they lost. maybe we should both try rooting for the Vikings next year and they would win.. I smiled… rolled my eyes… and politely said. Lets Grill the BRATS! hahah. 😉 love him but his football logic is not workin’ for me. I have to many cheeseheads, shirts, hats etc to switch teams and purple is notttt my color. So that means.. most likely on Super Bowl.. we will be riding horse. woohoo! Even better. Love my life!

So just had to share some stories.

This weekend I posted a freebie. if you missed it and are a current QMC member you can download it the perks section. next QMC is coming! Enjoy!

Chris

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Valentine’s Day Card

January 14, 2012 By Chris Durnan

Update: Zenita sent in another use of the file. CUTE! Here it is.. Thanks Zenita

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Welcome to the Card A Day Blog Followers. Today is my day on Card A Day.

So here is the Valentine’s Day Project Provided to me by Zenita.

Thank you Zenita!!!

Here is what she had to offer as the recipe for the card

Recipe for card:
Bazzill cardstock
background paper–DCWV The Mariposa Stack
Versa Color–Pink
Shimmer Spray that I made

And for those who like the border I am offering it in the forum free for a few days. Stop by here and enter the password newyeariagreetou and download. You must login to the forum to download. While there stop by the Sketch Challenge and get your first project of the year done!.

And for the QMC members this file as always is in the Perks section for current members of the QMC.

New QMC coming in February. You’re gonna LOVE it!!

Are you looking for some Valentine’s Projects… here are some files I have to offer in the store. Enjoy! Chris