Morning!!

Happy Monday to you!
Happy Monday to you!
Happy Monday Everybody!
Happy Monday to you!

Do you know why this is a happy Monday? Well, it's simple really - it's followed by a short work week and a holiday! WOO HOO! Not that I actually 'work' outside of the home and have Friday off or anything - but it's always exciting to know Jason has a day off - and more exciting when we get to do something fun with our off day!

We had a busy weekend and a busy week planned too. We went to church yesterday and it was a great message!! We enjoyed it as always. Had some friends over (Monique, Jer and the girls) for a little play date and cook out. Cole has been wanting the girls to come over forever. He loves them!! We introduced Monique and Jer to the Wii Bowling. I think it was fun but maybe a bad thing - they are a bit competitive and I'm guessing it'll be some time in 2009 before Monique stops reminding Jer that she beat him - TWICE. He won one game and by a larger score - but still two is better than one, right? It was really funny to watch. Jason kept trying to mess Monique up by talking about work, DisneyWorld - anything to break her concentration. We love our Wii but don't play it with others often enough - its a lot more fun that way! I really really really want RockStar for the Wii, but I'm not sure if I'd play in front of anyway. No one wants to hear me sing on my own - I promise. We've been working on our Wii Harry Potter game but it is so hard. I guess that's what happens when a Muggle tries magic. Last night I got some scrapping done as well - finished a layout, another one is almost done and I played with another that I'm STILL not happy with but I don't want to just trash it - I like the paper. What's a girl to do? Then we watched Superman Returns. It was pretty good. I just don't remember all the original Superman movies that well and I just don't understand why NO ONE NOTICES the resemblance between Clark and Superman. NO ONE NOTICES that the two are never in the same place at the same time??? Come on!! And have you ever noticed that DC Comics does the double letters a lot - (at least the same beginning sound) Clark Kent, Lois Lane, Lex Luther - then you have Peter Parker - ok well I can't think of anymore than that - maybe it's a coincidence. hmmmmm

Today - I MUST GO GET MY NAILS DONE - they are sad and pitiful. I just haven't made it a priority and it's been over four weeks since my last fill in. Sad news, huh? Tomorrow I'm having lunch (I think) with Carol. We've been doing this Tuesday Lunch thing for several weeks now. We meet somewhere (usually near a scrapbook store hee hee) and chill a bit, eat a bit, talk a bit. Since it's summer, the kids are involved and where ever we eat usually has a play place of some sort. Everyone's happy that way. Mommy time, kiddo time, scrapbook supplies near - as Martha would say - "It's a good thing." Carol and I are the only regulars though - we pick up a n additional mommy here or there every few weeks. It's fun!! Wednesday night our church is having a big Fourth of July celebration and we're planning to attend that. Should be fun but we may skip the very end - it's fireworks and while I love to see them, I hate to force Cole into experiencing them. So we may head out right before those start.

And Friday is the BIG DAY! Everyone in the family is coming over here for the fourth! I'm excited. I haven't had the family over - EVER. So the aunts, uncles, cousins, etc - will all be here. Jason had planned to go out of town this weekend with the guys to Atlanta for a little golfing, a little Braves action - but most of the guys have backed out sadly - so it looks like we'll have him to ourselves. :) YEAH! Not that I mind the guy time - it's just nice to have a long weekend and all of us be here.

i have a million projects in my mind right now - things i want to work on and make and just haven't made the time to start ONE of them yet. i need to get busy. summer will be over before i know it and it'll be back to subbing it looks like - darnit. i really want to be planning my classroom and decorating it instead of my home!

ok, enough rambling - later
lisa

bummed

what a bummer!! i tried out for a design team and didn't make it. rats and crappit!! i was so hoping i'd make it.

the good thing is i think my layouts have improved just since trying - well some of them have - i have a few that i still haven't posted because they aren't good enough yet. there's just something missing and i haven't figured it out yet.

anyway - i spent several hours today at Alicia's playing with her Stampin' Up stuff and WOW does she have some stamps. it was a bit overhwelming. i didn't really stamp much but i got ideas of things i could do next time - if there's a next time. she told me today they are moving to ohio. another bummer! oh i played with her cuttlebug too - and embossed tons of paper. that was lots of fun. all the girls that were there were in serious card making mode. they did some really cute stuff. gave me lots of ideas for the future.

ok - i'm pooped. i spent all day yesterday getting cole's toys in order. he's had a mess lately - half upstairs, half down - a few things actually ON the stairs :) so now everything is back in it's place. it's always good times when we do this - he helps me and he always finds toys he's been 'missing' and get excited to see them again. it's almost like they're new.

hope you have a wonderful Sunday. we're heading to church in the AM and then having some friends over for a little cooking out. fun times!! hopefully they'll be some board games involved, or some Wii bowling maybe? i don't know - all i do know is i'm a bit tired of seeing tiger woods golfing on the Wii. it's time for a new game.

later, lisa

A Flashback

I was checking blogs this morning and Carol had posted a picture of herself from 1985 and 1989. We're the same age, graduated the same year - which basically means we had big hair at the same time :)

I wanted to post a few pics of way back then but I only have a few scanned - I'll have to do some digging to see if I can find some really big hair pictures. Most of what I have is actually a little after high school for some reason, did I not take many pictures during high school? hmmm

so here's some big hair for you and I know you can't see all of me - but I was so skinny here - my prom dress was a size 5!!!! WOW - that was little!!! And this is my cousin with me - who's hair was even bigger than mine!
and this is me with a friend in about 1992 i think - hard to remember - in another shirt i made - is this one better than the butterfly? i think NOT!! Notice the acid wash jeans? Hot right?

Oh the good ole' days!

later,
l

a busy day.............

So yesterday I ended up making three tshirts. They are pretty cute - if I can say so myself. Well, one I'm not crazy about but the other two - cute cute!! I did a red star on a blue shirt with some little firework-ish details around it (this is the one I'm not crazy about) with another small star on the back. Then I did a black shirt with a cool design I drew out with a heart and ribbon behind it and a smaller heart off to the side. I want to add an "E" to it somewhere - ya know - for Edward from Twilight. This one was the hardest one to do - I drew the pattern out on paper and pinned it to the shirt and stitched through the paper. It didn't seem like a bad idea, but it was hard - and my thread was a little too loose. So if I did that again, I'll need to pay more attention as I go.

THEN i got really brave and took a butterfly i'd cut out with the accucut machine at Scrap Etc, some fabric that came in the first Scripts kit, a tshirt and some embrodiery thread. so now i have a green tee with a cute butterfly reverse applique!! Now i'm thinking of about 400 other things i want to do. i wish i had about twenty other plain tshirts to play with now. I would love to take another one and do a KC (Kenny Chesney) and use old of my older Kenny shirts as the backing - that way I would have an original Kenny shirt for the show in a few weeks. So here's a close up of the butterfly::



I'll take pictures of my other shirts and post soon. I'm sure this will be a short lived obsession - I tend to do that a lot. Get all crazy about what I want to make and make it a bunch and then get burned out. So, a handful of shirts will probably be enough. I may try to do something for Cole though - out of some older shirts that I just can't get rid of - maybe a little blanket or some throw pillows or a wall hanging. I don't know. There are always so many cute kid clothes you just can't bare to part with, ya know? What do you do with them??

So what are you making right now?

lisa

creating and ignoring laundry

well my title isn't entirely true - i washed some tshirts before i did some creating with them :)

but the rest of the laundry is still staring at me - waiting for me to throw it in the machine. i did a layout yesterday but didn't finish it completely - well i did, but i'm not happy with the end result so i think it needs some tweaking. what i'm really tempted to do is take it apart and do it over.

i did some reverse applique on two tshirts today. tried to take pictures but it didn't really work - maybe tomorrow i'll try again. i needed to take pictures of the front of our house this evening and when i went out to do it - it was raining - but only in the FRONT yard. crazy. so i'll try again in a bit. or do it in the morning. (sorry michelle - they're coming though) :)

i've got some bracelets half made. i need to work on them too. i have all the beads sorted out for each one, all the pieces and parts are ready - i just need to sit still long enough to put them all together.

i can't believe July is almost here. WOW!! We don't have very long until school will start again. and i STILL don't have a job.

wow - started out on a happy post and it just got blah - sorry for that!
more upbeat tomorrow :)

lisa