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.