Lazy Sunday

Well its 3:oopm I have not done a dog gone thing but surf the net. I did find some really cool Etsy shops if you are into fabrics.

Riley Blake- Just Dreamy

Owls and More from the Timless Treasures collection

Riley Blake -All Star

Michael Miller's Lava collection

and My favorite Heather Baliey's Nicey Jane collection all 40.

FABRICBYTHEYARD

Piper's Girls

Fabricworm also has a web store as well as a brick and mortar which I plan to visit the next time I'm California. As you can tell this was my favorite. The owner even has a cute video too.




The Blog lead me here to The long thread which has more cool Christmas stuff...100 Holiday Crafts

Well its time to start dinner hoped you enjoyed your weekend and started on your Christmas Crafts.

COOL FIND: HOLIDAYS CRAFTS

A DIY HOLIDAY





Best buy for the holidays...
Have you started on your Christmas crafts? If not this class is for you, most of the ideas are under $5.00. They are easy and you can do them with your kids. There are a bunch of useful downloads, cute holiday decorations and great stocking stuffers. The class cost $20.00 and runs until December 31.

LOVE THIS CLASS!

Just thought I would share. Happy Saturday!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

YEAH

I can officially say Happy Holidays. Well our tree is up thanks to my family. I could not have done it without them. The inside of my home is very festive. My old man says he will start on the outside today. I would normally help him but after my knee surgery the ladder is not an option for a while.

We take pride that our Christmas holiday light display is one of the best on the block. I believe lights should look as if you had a plan or design for them. They should be hung neat and should not look like you just threw them up. If on a timer they should come on at the same time not 5 or 10 minutes apart. And most of all, the family should have fun putting the lights up.

My sister that challenged me to a crafty Christmas chuckled when she saw my last post about her. I'm still working to completing my homemade gifts. I hope you have started sis-ter! The clock is ticking...

My dad will be here in 15 days it’s always a pleasure to see that OLD MAN...he gets funnier with age. I guess I should explain the old man thing... it’s really a term of endearment. I call my dad OLD MAN, he calls me Old Girl. I don't really know how it started. He is no spring chick and I'll be forty next year. When I call him and say "hey OLD MAN" he knows it’s me.

I sometimes call my boyfriend.... my old man. I fell I'm to O L D to use the term boyfriend... and I guess I like to see the reaction when other people hear me say it. Their reactions are really funny. Once a man heard me call my boyfriend old man and asked my boyfriend "you’re going to let her call you old?" he just laughed and said "that’s me". He's a bit older then I am, I like my men seasoned.

I wanted to post pics of my sisters new babes but she said she wanted them to look pretty for their first post. They were spayed and can't take a bath for ten days...stinky. I'll tell you this they are cute and I helped pick their names Bianca, TEA, and Chloe'. Her boyfriend says they act like us, the three sisters and they should be named after us, I didn't care but we figured my little sister may not be too happy. They are Pomeranians she saved from a pet shelter, all from the same home. Never in a millions years did I think my sister would have three dogs at one time. It must be the Christmas spirit.

Enough ramblings...It’s the first day of December... so it’s time to Journal Your Christmas or December Daily or BOTH.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

STILL THANKFUL

I didn't post on Thanksgiving day but the family had a laid back day. I spoke with alot of friends and family. We ate dinner about 7Pm my daughter inform me that was early this year. we all stated what we were gratefull for this past year and we watched a movie together.

Friday was another kick back day worked on my Christmas presents. here a little look.

Today I hope to start up Christmas decorations and visit my sister later she is getting new babes. I"ll post later.

Grateful

It’s November a month of giving and being grateful for what we are blessed to have. So many people are losing jobs, homes and are hungry this year. I thought I would remind myself how lucky and blessed I am.

So here my list of what I’m grateful for:
1. That I wake up.
2. That God love Me
3. Chantel
4. Jarron
5. Sweets
6. The rest of my family
7. I spend more time with my family
8. Learning to live simpler
9. Edonna
10. Raquel
11. All my other friends
12. IBEW
13. JATC
14. MonaVie
15. I’m going Diamond in 2010
16. My home
17. My health
18. Scrapbooking
19. My December daily/Journal my Christmas album is finished
20. Quilting –something new
21. My blog is holiday cute
22. Thanksgiving is coming
23. We will have a great Thanksgiving dinner
24. I won’t be shopping on black Friday
25. Thanksgiving weekend we put up Christmas decorations
26. My Christmas gifts are close to being finished
27. I’m cutting back my holiday spending this year
28. My dad will be here for the holidays
29. Quel’s PJ Christmas breakfast is coming up
30. That I’m looking forward to the new year

What are you grateful 4?

HAPPY 15th BIRTHDAY CHANTEL!

To my growing Princess I hope your coming days are always filled with joy and peace.

May all your dreams come true. I hope you know you can achieve anything your set mind to do.

My daughter went to work with me one Saturday to see want I do at the Nevada JATC.

She got to hang out and join some journeyman upgrade classes. She enjoyed welding the most. Now she wants a welder.LOL

This is my daughter extraordinary!

LOVE YOU MOM.

COMING SOON THE HOLIDAY CRAZE!

I always wanted to have my blog festive for the holidays. So this year I'm all in. After my injury I'm learning to see things much different. Little things mean so much more to me now. Not to mention I have more free time.



So speaking of the holidays... I thought I would kick it off with a few cool finds...

For holiday planning...



Simplify 101 has a great workshop...

GET ORGANIZED FOR THE HOLIDAYS

I'm signed up for this workshop and have downloaded the first lesson which has a great to-do lists which are made up as a planner to be used for many years to come. After the holiday there will be organizing tip for storage. We all need help with that.



Big picture scrapbooking.com just finished cut the crazy out of Christmas but... you can still buy the planner at adornitscrapbook.com

This planner was fun to make and I will use it again. I also give it as my first Christmas gift of the year to my friend Quel she is crazy for christmas like me so I knew she needed it.



If you are wanting to journal and or scrapbook your Christmas holidays try...



Journal your Christmas at Shimelle.com

I took this class last year. You are given a prompt to journal, holiday photo ideas and scrapbook layout ideas everyday December1st through January6th.



or



December Daliy 2009 atAli Edwards blog.

With Ali you prepare your scrapbook in advance and each day you journal the happening of the day and add pictures & etc... (anything you want to remember) .



Suggestion you really want to start this early so you won't get behind with the construction of it and have to play catch up. THAT IS NO FUN! I did that last year very stressful.

This year I started when she started now I'm finished all I have to do is journal and finishing touches. I kept it super simple.



I do December Daily and Journal your Christmas together.



If your money is funny or you just like FREE try...



Holidays in Hand with Jessica Spague

I have not taken this class but if it is anything like her Stories at Hand class it's something not to be missed.



I hope this gives you ideas of how to keep your holidays simple, stressfree, journaled and creative.

Where's Trina...I'm back

Wow can’t believe my last post was in May.


Here is my the top ten list….


10. A lot has happened I had knee surgery.
9. I am Now LABLED Handicapped. I should get a sticker
8. I’ve been laid off my job. Like most people. But still loving every day
7. I will be going back to school.
6. I cut my hair. SHORT!
5. I walk every day. And enjoy it.
4. I was in Orlando Florida. Had a ball.
3. Still TRING to Garden. I’m no quitter
2. I’m a Distributor of the top selling Acai berry juice in the Word! And making MONEY.
1. I AM SO BLESSED and doing just fine… for all the haters!

Catching up on scrapbooking

I'm very happy with myself this weekend. I scrapbooked more than I surfed the net. YEAH! Here are a few layouts.

My sister, Bonita- Love her new hair sytle...
KIT:MAY MINI/BROWNIESCRAPS.COM
DESIGNER:MARNI DESIGNS
FONT: OCCIDENTAL

My Best friend Edonna- Miss you E!

Kit: First Kiss of Spring

Designer: Nicole Seitler- SugarplumPaperie.com

Font:Pristina

The little lady...Mackinzie

KIT: HAPPY HIPPO

DESIGNER:Snuggle Berry Pie Designs/browniescraps.com

FONT:PAPYRUS

Amber a homeless woman I met....I Will write her story at a later date.
KIT: Persimmon
Designer: Zoe Pearn/sweetshoppedesigns.com
Font: teen

Each month I design a desktop layout for my laptop.

KIT: MY HAPPY GARDEN

DESIGNER: K. CRONIN-BARROW/sweetshoppedesigns.com
Calander: Mixed Media/peppermint creative.com

I have built and planted a raised bed garden. which you can see in the layout above. Post with pictures coming soon.

Cool Finds April 19th

Hello everyone,

My cool site for today is Brownie Scraps its a digital website. Brownie scraps has a forum, gallery, a store and a blog. Unlike other digi sites brownie scraps gallery has no rules about posting layouts with other designers kits and encourage you to post links to designer stores. I have been looking for ONE PLACE for all my layouts. I joined yesterday and posted my introduction today. Everyone has been super nice and they are a very active site with many challenges(over 10). I have never tired to speed scrap but I plan to try it. If your thinking about starting to design kits you may want to try there Six Week Designer Challenge! The site store is small but if you are like me you enjoy variety so that's not a problem. Any way check them out!

Happy Easter to all

How Ever you celebrate!

I was at my doctor's office and over heard a young couple talking about how Easter came to be. The young man said "I wonder how Easter started". The young lady stated "it's always been Easter silly". I giggled thinking to myself I know what my beliefs are, but what's the detailed story of Easter. There are always two stories of most holidays religious and pagan (commercial). I believe the religious….. I also have children so we celebrate the commercial too. So I thought the cool finds site
today should give you information about Easter and fun things to do.

I also found few other cute sites for kids…

http://www.easterhumor.com/

http://www.freekidcrafts.com/kid_easter_craft_ideas.html

I hope everyone has a great day.

I hope everyone has a great day.

Images above credit: webweaver

Missing in action March

March was a busy and crazy month. It was hard to do everything so my blog was odd man out. I decided to just give a glimpse of what was going on in March.

I still have a job. Du bi world and MGM made there payments. Safe for a few more weeks.


My workers comp. finally approved Physical Therapy, did that 3x a week for two weeks. My knee feels 60 % better.

Just everyday stuff

Sometimes you just have to love yourself. I saw a man selling flowers on the side of the road so I bought ME some!

My brother-in- laws TV remote. I giggle every time I see it.

Its HUGE!

Home Improvement family style.

We added ceiling boxes for a light and fan in the kids room.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY OLD MAN!
My dad came to Las Vegas and we celebrated his 74Th birthday

BBQ in the Park

The first warm weekend. All you need is good friends, food and fun.

Cool Finds

Surfin the Internet I find cool sites. Not all are useful to my family but still pretty cool. Since I'm surfing anyway I thought I would post them to my blog, in hopes that it may help a few passing by. I'd like to post one site a week on Saturday or Sunday.
So here the first cool find.

Cool Finds

This is for the Families with young childern, SAHM and or Home Schoolers....

So I'm surfing the net and I come across this site that offers a themed monthly activity guide with recipes, experiments and a recommended reading list for children ages 3-12. My kids are all over 12 years old, but I love idea. So if you are a family with young childern, SAHM or Home school your kids the Book of Days maybe a helpful resource of great activities for your children. I think it could make a great gift also, you could also include one of the books on the reading list.

There blog is pretty cool too.

P.S. I downloaded a copy to review and I think I'll give a gift to someone special and see how she likes it. I'll let you know the out come.

A long couple of weeks

I fell two weeks ago at work. It's called a contusion- a bruised knee.
sometimes it hurts like hell. Especially when my workers comp. doctor twist and turns it! I'm told it could take 4-6 weeks to heal. LESSON LEARNED don't WAIT. If you get hurt at work report it right away. I reported it but thought I would be OK. I didn't get medical treatment right away. Less than a week later I was in so much pain I was crying like a baby. Now I need physical therapy, but I have to wait to be approved. I have medical insurance if I could have gone to my doctor, I would be in treatment right now.

Which leads to my next statement.... What about those people who have no jobs or worse a job but no medical insurance. I don't get into politics on my blog often but I pray President Obama can get some cooperation from congress to help the masses and no just the wealthy.

My brace I don't know if it helps or not. The white thing-- Icy hot pain patch - that works.

Documented boredom.. thank goodness for project 365. I toke a lot of different pictures while waiting to be seen.

I'm on light duty- LOL there is no light duty in construction!

No paid time off. We make good money because on any given day I could get hurt worse than I was and not home at all. I'm thankful my injury was not severe.

Below are the reasons for my knee injury:

I did the right thing reported holes as soon a I saw them, I reported them numerous times to different safety people and not until after my fall did they cover the holes.

Nascar is Here!

Today While I was working I heard what sounded like a train, I turn to look and it was a convoy of trucks blowing their horns as they where escorted by metro traveling to the speedway down Las Vegas BLVD. I'm Not a big race fan but it was cool to see and broke up the workday.

Back At Work

I have return to work at the City Center Project. Before Christmas my daughter became ill and I took time off. I returned last week and nothing has changed. I love that I build things. I hate the port a potties. The only other thing that I would change are the men who believe that women can't do this job. LOL.

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY

This is what I woke up too.

Hope your day is filled with love!