A quick shout out!

Just wanted to pop on to say a huge congrats to those selected to be Guest Designers with PRISM! Check out their amazing work here. :)

Winners!

Okay. I couldn't do it. I couldn't pick just one. :) I wish I could send something to everyone but will have to settle for three of you. Yup, decided to go with three giveaways instead of just one (don't worry, doesn't mean you'll get less...just means I really had more that I was hoarding to giveaway later, LOL)...I let each of my boys pick a name from the hat (where I'd printed all these out and cut them into little strips). So, without further ado, here are the winners:

I didn't even realize it was NSD. That shows you how long it's been since I've scrapped. Maybe some new supplies could get me going! :)

May 2, 2009 | Kodi

Happy NSD to you too! You were behind my alltime favorite column in CK -- the month by month page column last year -- I love my 2008 book!

May 2, 2009 | Heather

Happy NSD Amanda! I too did not get to celebrate the day in style as we were in the midst of soccer games and dance recital pictures and getting ready for sweet son's 1st Communion and Confirmation Celebration tomorrow. But, I'm thinking of scrapping if that counts . . . Hope you had a super day just the same!

May 2, 2009 | Erika

Please email me with your mailing info and I'll get these out this week!

Oh, and for the record, the rain decided to hold off yesterday until the late afternoon, so we made it through both games dry...Yay! (Unfortunately, Nathan and Noah ended up soaked at Noah's practice later in the day, but at least I was warm at home with the youngest two, lol.) I took 383 pictures at the two games. Yes, even though this is our fourth season, I still take the camera to every game. I haven't yet scrapped a single soccer layout, but the boys have a fit if I don't bring the camera. ;) I do take pictures of everyone on the team, though, and give them to parents at the end of the season, along with the team and individual shots I do up on 8x10 sheets (hence my asking earlier).

And, now, I must go because we have makeup games today. (Normally, the soccer league doesn't make up missed games, but since we'd already missed 3 of the total 8 games of the season due to weather, they're making up one...today.) I'm totally stoked because the sun is actually shining! Seriously. You have no idea how happy that makes me. By some weird stroke of wackiness this entire soccer season has been plagued by bad Saturday weather. The few games we've managed to play have been overcast and cold, if not also drizzly, despite the beautiful weather we generally have all week. Saturdays, it would seem, are cursed. :) (Now that I've said that, of course, next Saturday will be fine and Noah won't get to play his game due to his 1st Communion.)

Okay, really must get going now! Happy (sunny) Sunday to you all!

Happy NSD!

Yup, today's National Scrapbooking Day!! Hooray! Course, I'll be spending it at two soccer games and an extra soccer practice (and did I mention that it's drizzly right now and due to rain later?), plus getting groceries and other various errands to get ready for our company in the coming two weeks (Nathan's mom will be here tomorrow for a week and then his cousin will be staying with us the week after that...rather excited about both visits!).

So. Since I'm unlikely to get any scrappy time in today, here's hoping that at least some of you do! :) And, because I recently did some more purging, I'll do a little giveaway of miscellaneous supplies (some older, some newer, but all fun...sorry I don't have a picture but, to be honest, I haven't decided what all will go in the box just yet, lol).

Just post here and I'll pick a winner around midnight. Oh, and if you happen to be feeling generous and happen to know of any digital templates for 8x10 sports sheets (with a larger team photo and a smaller individual photo that aren't the ugly standard ones you can get at the photo processing places), please let me know. :) Thanks!

Happy May Day!

Okay, so I've never really been one to celebrate May Day, per say, but why not? ;) Hmmm. Don't actually have much to report, though, since it's really just late April 30th to me...still awake as usual. (Besides, that tooth fairy *cannot* forget again tonight and the boys only just went to bed (finally), LOL!) Anyhow, just thought I'd wish you a happy day...and remind you that today's the last day to get your schtuff in for Prism's first guest designer call...and say "dude, I so cannot believe that it's May already." There. :)

Yesterday...

Busy, busy. :) So, yesterday Asher had to have two more teeth pulled...this time to make room for the permanent teeth already coming through, so at least he won't have this gap for as long as the other two he currently has (for teeth pulled on account of decay and infection). Unfortunately, though the tooth fairy did remember to get everything ready and have cash on hand, the tooth fairy got very tired last night and forgot to make the exchange. Drat. Poor Asher was so sad this morning, but he and Noah have decided that perhaps the tooth fairy was confused because Asher, unable to find his own little tooth box last night, borrowed Noah's. But they found Asher's box this morning and will set things straight tonight. And hopefully the tooth fairy will manage to make things right. ;)

Getting up early yesterday to go to the dentist did at least get us off to an early start to a productive day. I had this grand plan to make terrariums on Earth Day last week, but the week got too full. I don't think the Earth will mind that we celebrated a week late. :) The boys and I picked out little plants at a local greenhouse and had a blast making little terrariums...about 19 of them. Here's what we did:

After various researching online, this is the route I opted to go...

- layer of gravel/rocks for drainage,
- layer of activated charcoal to keep things smelling okay (prevent rot) (got this at a local pet store with the aquarium stuff),
- layer of sphagnum moss to prevent the soil from getting into the drainage area,
- layer of soil because plants like that, and, finally...
- little plants, preferably slow growing, moisture-loving plants (we ended up with some Baby Tears and a variety of stepables designed for walkway crevices).

I found a great deal on the glass jars online (complete with lids) since we wanted to do so many (if you're one of the boys' teachers, don't look). Here's a sample of our finished product:

Aren't they pretty? The boys and I are debating adding a few little things to them still but are pretty happy with how things turned out. Oh, and while we were doing all this, we also picked up a couple of "sensitive plants" that the boys fell in love with at the greenhouse...just for fun. It's been years since we've had live plants in the house...looking forward to it! (Once upon a time, I had many plants. Then I had children who liked to put things in their mouths and a shortage of shelf space. Now they finally know not to put things in their mouths. Course, I'm still wary since they've not quite learned the "don't throw balls or other things in the house" rule, LOL!)

Btw, that lovely burned edge action is FREE from the Pioneer Woman. I think hers might be my new favorite blog to read. She's awesome!

After all of that, the boys had music class as usual, where Micah's starting to learn pre-piano stuff and was so proud of himself and the music alphabet worksheet he filled out during class (writing the letters A-G a few times and coloring them). It's amazing to me how easily young kids grasp this stuff!

And speaking of Micah, my little sweetie has said some very quotable stuff lately. My two favorites were when, for reasons unknown, his big brothers were talking about who each of them was going to marry...Micah rejected their recommendations for him and declared "Mommy, you're my favorite girl!" and then was devastated to learn that I was already married. What a kid. :)

The other heart-wrenching line came yesterday at Arby's. Totally out of the blue Micah got all sad and looked at me in the middle of drinking his Jamocha shake. "(sniff) I don't want you to get old!" he said. "Because then you'll die." Obviously, I assured him that he was still stuck with me for a good while...but, man, this kid is growing up too fast for me. Sigh.

Okay, this has gotten long enough for now...how's your week going?