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February already...

Yes it is and we've had 2 snows this month - lol. First one was just a dusting but school still got cancelled. The one this week was much better. It barely stuck to the roads which meant ice in the morning, but stuck great to everything else. Here are some pictures I took. The ones at night were taken from my son's bedroom window. I thought they turned out so cool!

Yes...

I've been gone a while again. We stayed busy over the Christmas holidays with travel and projects. I painted J's room and it looks pretty cool if I say so myself :). This is how he wanted it. Work is extremely busy right now but that is good. I like being busy. I'm still doing my part-time schedule with one day off a week but I may have to start working 5 days as the project progresses.

Well I was going to post a picture of J's room but apparently I haven't taken any since I finished - lol - so later maybe.

I'm finally back here again...

We had a blast at the ACP convention even though we have nicknamed it the "red cross" convention. Our hostess had strep throat, two ladies slipped down the steps and bruised their bums and arms and legs, and the worse... another missed a step and strained her ankle **EEKKK**. That made for 2 trips to the ER in one day. We all have had several good laughs over it though. We also hope that is our first and last "red cross" convention ;-).

I'm at work eating my lunch right now. Have a 1:00 meeting and as soon as it is over - I'm out of here for the rest of the week! My parent's are on their way now and we are hosting my MIL's side of the family for Thanksgiving dinner! so after visiting with my folks this afternoon, I'll be cleaning and preparing for Thursday evening. Mom will do as much as she can to help but she's not as able. I'm hoping Dad will just be lazy and rest. He is in a lot of pain with a bad knee and hip. Both will be replaced at the first of next year.

Hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving!!!

Where does the time go?

I know the answer to that question. Work and home! I'm very busy at work now and I usually post here while I'm at work. So I'm not getting here as often.

I'm really excited this week. Getting ready for my girl's weekend with my "charming friends". I leave early Thursday morning and get home Monday afternoon. It will be fun. I need to keep focusing on "it will be fun" while I stress over meeting a deadline at work and getting packed at home.

Hope you all had a great weekend.

WOW - 6 days sure go by fast...

Seems like I just posted all my creations yesterday. Not much happening here. Just daily life. OH - Happy Halloween! My son is too old for TorTing now so he has 2 friends spending the night and they are planning to hide and scare the TorTers that come to our house. I've told them they cannot scare the young kids.

My son has another cold that is turning into a sinus infection so will be taking him to the doctor next week. Speaking of insurance, got the details of my company insurance this month and the one I use will be paying 100% of preventive well physicals next year so I've cancelled mine and my son's and will reschedule for January - lol.

I'm going to a Scrap Pink crop all day tomorrow and plan to make my Christmas cards! I'm excited about it! I'll have time to play with some things I've never used. I can't believe all the Christmas stuff I've collected and not used. I keep finding more and more. I thought by making cards I wouldn't be toting as much stuff as I would doing pages... WRONG!!! LOL I have just as much to take. I plan to load the car tonight so I'll be ready to roll as soon as I can drag myself out of bed tomorrow.

Hope everyone has a safe and happy weekend!

Here are 2 more cards I created as part of the 13 days of October challenges at startascrapbook.

This first one we had to alter/embellish black or regular chipboard. I painted regular chipboard letters black then I mixed up some homemade glimmer mist with my emerald green perfect pearls and used a stencil on the letters and sprayed them. I think you can see the design but not the glimmer too well. I also sprayed the card and I won't do that again. Makes it curl up and you really can't tell. well, the black paint kept smuging the card even though it was dry so when I was looking for some ribbon to tie around the Y saw the wide green ribbon and decided to add it . Stick and hang holly charms from ACP and wa la - JOY Card. This was a lot of fun to make once I got the letters ready.

The second one we had the sketch to use. I love how my card turned out! I used Figgy Pudding papers, a piece of ribbon from a Christmas ribbon swap, a Jolee's leather poinsettia and two swirl charms (which are now my favorites) from ACP.