so sketchy

I've been playing with cards today using a bunch of different sketches. The first one is from http://sosketchy.blogspot.com/ Ally runs the blog and the sketches rawk! This card is for the May 1st card sketch. I did a lo based off of this card sketch too. Here that is. I am seriously in LOVE with this page!

I have more cards to upload but I need to feed Sophie real quick. I'll update this post later tonight with the great cards I made using the May Addict Card Kit "Totally Amp'd" its seriously awesome!

xo

jenn

50 posts and your questions answered

This is my 50th post! How cool is that! Today has been a pretty darn good day! I got our room almost totally cleaned....I'm posting pics when I'm done cuz a few people don't believe me when I say we are all squished into one room!

I was working on the info for the DT call at Addicted Scrappers today and it's gonna be tons of fun! Keep you eyes peeled for that info! Scrap 4 Life.....Jodie is givin the DT awesomeness this month! we are getting 40% off PLUS $10 bucks to spen! How awesome is that! My wishlist should be getting smaller but everytime I buy stuff it gets big again! lol!

I've been playing with my guest designer stuff for paper popsicles and I'm having fun. I altered 2 journals, one gift card box, and have done one...almost 3 pages so far! Thanks Melissa! Speaking of Paper Popsicles check out the clearance section.....its on SALE! How awesome is that!!! Check it out at www.paperpopsicles.com Check out the half sheets section too! and my personal fave....the Stamps and Theme kits! You really can't go wrong in this store!

Ok so now to answer the big kahuna. I have gotten a ton of emails........I SERIOUSLY didn't realize anyone read my blog! lol! But people wanna know whats wrong, why am I depressed. So to answer it....It's really quite simple but I have to tell the story for you to understand. So here goes!

Last year in August my dad flew up to MD and got James and I and drove us back to Tucson. Sean had been working long horrible hours and was gone 16-18 hours a day. Going back and forth on missions and what not. So I found out I was pregnant with Sophie and the ish hit the fan! I was freaking out wondering how I was going to take care of both of them, essentially alone. Hence the reason my dad came. We were having a bit of a marital crisis at the time so that didn't help matter at all. In September Sean and I had a REAL conversation for what seemed like the first time in years. We decided that it was important to both of us to work out our issues and live a long and happy life together. So he came home in November for Sophie's birth and stayed for a month and it was wonderful. We knew that everything would be ok because we would be moving back in together in November when he changed duty stations. Well we found out last month that he wouldn't be coming home. He was told that he'd be getting deployed for 6 months. Well last week we found out that he'd be gone for a whole freaking year. Let me tell you that could send any sane woman into depression. It sucks and it's hard to deal with the fact that we will only spend about 2 months together over the span of 2 years. It kills me. Breaks my heart because I will miss him. Breaks my heart because James will miss him. But I think the biggest reason is because Sophie will be almost 2 before he gets back. Everytime I think about that I breakdown and cry and cry. I will do everything in my power to make sure she knows who he is but I am so afraid that she is going to miss out on creating that father/daughter bond. Everyone tells me that she'll be fine and she'll adjust when he gets home and she won't remember it at all. But I am so scared. Terrified really.

So thats the story. Really nothing exciting but thats whats goin on in my world. Thanks for all the emails and for the happy thoughts. Here are a few pictures to make you smile!

i only

have one thing to say today.


Depression sucks. but not knowing how to figure a way out sucks even more.

I saw a quote today that said

"I like to walk in the rain because no one can see me crying"

yup that pretty much sums it up!

xo
jenn

CHCHCHCH CHANGES!!!

LOL! Everytime I hear the word changes I think of that silly song and it makes me wanna dance! But I promise I'll spare you having to imagine that! So this is gonna be a quick post cuz it's 1 and I'm beat. But I wanted to pop in and say hey! This weekend was a super busy NSD for me. I shopped and shopped and shopped! lol! I even won for shopping! I won a $50 gc at S4L and I couldn't wait to spend it all! The box that Jodie sends me this week is gonna weigh at least 20 pounds! I'm so excited! I seriously can't wait!!! So I did the little shaped card challenge for Kandis' blog and today I got the stamps. I used them on this gift set I made, and they worked perfectly!!! I also used Sheila's build a paisley stamp. This is seriously by far the best set I've ever had!! She also sent me bling which is always welcome! Thanks KANDIS!! YOU ARE THE BEST!

Ahem I'm falling asleep while typing so I just had a really big row of wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww lol! I'm goin to bed people. I'm posting the sweet little gift set!

Caardvarks card

I did this sweet little card for 3 diff purposes, Caardvarks blog, paper popsicles challenge and it was all based on a sketch made by Kazan for Scrap4Life! I love bein able to multi-use! lol! so here's the card, check back later for an nsd challenge!

bad blogger bad!

Yeah it's been awhile since I've posted, I know! I keep meaning to do it and then get side tracked (this happens EASILY!) So what have I been up to? The normal stuff.....chasing kids, baking, and scrappin. Mostly baking and scrapping though! lol! James and I made snickerdoodles a few days ago and man they were great! I have a picture to share of them....they were totally perfect! This was the first time I've ever made them so I was dang proud of myself!

Scrappin-I have been playing with the NSD kit for Scrap4Life and OMG! This kit is awesome and I seriously think I'm gonna have to buy one to play with! It is rockin!! The papers are so fun and the embellies, as always are great! Sean let me go pick up a printer yesterday because the one that my mother in law has prints really crappy pictures and I'm a bit ocd about pics looking good! I also just placed an order at S4L to get this croppers companinon thingy, basically it's a scoring tool and like an envelope maker thingy. Mostly I didn't really read about it I just bought it because I need something for scoring and this seemed cool! lol!

My big news is that I tried out for the Guest Designer position for June at Paper Popsicles and won! I am so darn excited! The challenge was to make at least 4 coordinating cards and I actually won!! I've always been card challenged but I seem to be breaking them out like a rockstar lately! I'll have to wait to show you the cards til the NSD kit is posted though!!

Well James is trying to suffocate Sophie under the sheets so I've gotta run. But I'll be back tomorrow sometime to share pics!

xo
jenn

The Anthem.......I've been tagged!

Haha Brandi is the first person to ever tag me! lol! This otta be fun!

1. Put your iTunes, Windows Media Player, Real Player, etc. on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. You must write that song name down, no matter what.
4. Title this post the answer to your last question.
5. Tag some friends. Good luck and have fun!

IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY? Luv me Luv me (Shaggy)
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF? Whatever it takes (Lifehouse)
WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY? Superman (Five for Fighting)
HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY? With you (Chris Brown)
WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE? It's my life (No doubt)
WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU? Take me home tonight (Eddie Money)
WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU? Learning how to bend (Gary Allen)
WHAT DO YOU OFTEN THINK ABOUT? The pleasure principal (Janet Jackson) HAHA!
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE? Take me in your arms (Doobie Bro's)
WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY? Friday I'm in love (the cure)
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP? Teardrops on my guitar (Taylor Swift)
WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE? Suddenly I see (KT Tunstall)
WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING? If I had eyes (Jack Johnson)
WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL? No air (Jordin Sparks ft. Chris Brown)
WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR? Mysterious ways (U2)
WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET? Free your mind (En Vogue)
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS? Firecracker (Josh Turner)
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO NAME THIS? The Anthem (good charlotte)

Ok so I dunno who I'm tagging......cuz there's not like a huge group of people that read my blog! And well 2 of the like 4 have either been tagged or done the tagging........i'll need to consult my google reader and get back to ya on who I'm tagging!

xo
jenn

I am a cupcake DIVA!!

Ok so I have no clue what's gotten into me. I've made cupcakes 2 days this week. I dunno if it hormones or what! lol! However these things are being devoured! First I made red velvet jumbo cupcakes with cream cheese frosting. Now I used to be an outta the box kinda girl.....I know holy crap....nightmare! LOL! But I have started making everything from scratch and wow! Things taste so much better! I have total control over what the flavors are and what frosting I wanna use, its so much fun and doesn't take much longer!!!! I'm having a blast. So much so that I think that I'm going to start taking orders from people. Ya know MIL and I do the farmers market on the weekends but we haven't really talked about taking orders for parties and since I am a SAHM and all I figured why not?! Oh yeah and today I made a butter vanilla with a sweet cream frosting, and I must say they are heavenly and totally adorable!!!! So here are pictures of them. I have to go feed Sophie....but I'll post again cuz I got more to talk about!! =)

how cute is this????

ah its a new week

hooray for the new week!!! I'm excited that the weekend is over. It was a long one. I was not especially fond of it! I got hurt in a car accident but I'm doing ok. Shaken up but totally ok. Luckily there were no kiddos with me but it still sucked!

I scrapped today and got a few things made. I got another lo done with the Glitz papers that are being featured this month at Scrap4Life and they are also on sale!! Check them out here I also made a card for Kandis.....the oober talented card makers blog......Shoot I forgot to link that to her blog......must do that now!!!! Ok so thats gonna be my post for the night! Be back tomorrow with some great pics that I got!!

Join me

This weekend at Scrap4Life for my very first cyber crop! I am so excited to be hosting!! There are going to be tons of great challenges and prizes to be won!! So get on over and register and check out the PARTAY!!!!!



How cute is this ad??? Yeah thats right that was all me!! lol! Oh and the cool little blinkie I have up now....oh yeah baby that was all me too!!

ok i know it's late but well

I don't have much for now because I am busy playing with my camera!! I will show ya some pics I got with it though!

geez 2 posts in one day.....must be a good day!

Ok so yes it has been a pretty darn good day! Aside from cranky children and a cranky MIL that is. I didn't get to scrap like I wanted to but I did make a blinkie for the S4L dt! It was my first try at making one and it was so much fun! Thanks Audge!! NOW here is the most awesome news I got today.........here's the scene

I am sitting on the couch feeding Sophie, the doorbell rings. Jack (the HUGE dog) runs to the door and starts barking like no ones business. I hop up real quick because Sean has forwarned me that he bought something on Ebay and it was being sent to me because I have the paypal account and my address is the confirmed one. So I wanted to get to the door before the UPS guy left without leaving the package. So poor Sophie was interrupted mid-meal but darn it I got the package! LOL! So anyways. I opened the box, he didn't tell me not to open it......and HOLY MOTHER of ALL mothers! I could NOT believe my eyes. Wanna know what was in it?? Nah I'm not tellin! LOL! I'm totally kidding I'm too excited to not share. So it was my birthday present and it's a new Canon Digital Rebel Xti. This is SOOOO way better than what I asked for! So I called Sean up screaming my brains out, all the while Sophie is looking at me like I am possessed, and Sean is like geez babe calm down! I couldn't contain myself I was so friggin happy! He says why did you open that? I said well because you didn't tell me not to, duh! Of course I'm gonna open it! Silly goose! So he got me a whole package and there were so many accessories included and i dunno what to do with half of them! lol! but man I am excited to learn! So there ya have it folks it's totally official I am SPOILED SPOILED SPOILED! But luckily I'm not a spoiled brat! Gotta run. Hope you are takin part in today's challenge! I'll be posting tomorrow's in the morning when I get up!

xo
jenn

She DID it!!!!

She sat up yesterday! It was so darn cool! I am a dork and didn't have my video camera charged or my camera. But luckily my camera had enough juice in it to get these three shots. The first one is when she made it up, the second one she started falling to the side and then the third one was the landing! She looks so cute sittin up!!!



I'll be posting again in a little bit. I am getting ready to go to a picnic right now so I need to go get dressed!

xo
jenn

It's party time!!!

These were all made for Scrap 4 Life using *Glitz Designs* who is our manufacturer for the month of April. Hurry over to the http://www.scrap4life.com/ Shoppe and get Glitz at a discount! The paper rocks and it's so much fun to play with! The April kit is AWESOME AWESOME too. I am working on mini right now using that fabo kit. Check it out before it sells out, it's featuring the teresa collins SUPER hard to find papers. They sell out pretty quick so go get yours!! Ok ok here are the lo's......











xo
jenn

it's happening

I got a call from my doctor's office yesterday....Tricare approved me to go to the surgeon!! I am so stinkin excited I can't believe it! I go for a consulation on the 10th and then I am sure that there's a whole slew of things I have to have done before I can have the surgery done, but man I am happy. I thought for sure that Tricare wasn't going to approve me so I am really stoked!!

I just finished up a lo. I had fun making this one. I used papers from the spring fling kit from http://www.addictedscrappers.com/

i have to go feed my piglet princess so thats all ya get for now!!!

xo

jenn

here they are....

Here are the pages that I submitted during the DT competition at scrap4life.

The first week our challenge was to use glitter and this is what I did

week 2 was use clear embellies. I love the colors on this one!

week 3 was use a combo of b/w and color pics and create a handmade embellie. i made the oreo and added the glitter crumbs below it.

week 4 was the final week and we had to use blue, orange, red, green, and yellow on our lo and focus on our journaling. this is one of my very favorite pages this year.

I also forgot to post that last month during the c'mon get lucky cyber crop I was the overall winner! I also won the february contest by making these cards

Thats all I have time to post for now. Sophie is screaming her little brains out, so I must attend to the princess!

what the...it's April already??

Seriously where did the time go?! Well in this post you will find 2 things. 1 good 1 crap. So because I always like to end on a good note, I'll give ya the crap first! Be prepared I fear this is going to get long!



So as if the last 2 weeks weren't crappy enough with all the sickness we were dealing with, DH called me with the worst news EVER. A little backstory first. DH is stationed in MD, in a crap hole place that's not worthy of raising children at all, so in August I moved back home and I am living with my wonderful in-laws. Well Sean is up for new orders in November of this year, so we thought that we'd be ok with having to live apart for a little over a year because we'd be able to see eachother throughout the year and then move back in together the end of the year. However he found out that he's going to be deployed. Because his current location is considered land duty he has to go on sea duty and there are only 2 ways to do that and 1 of those he's not eligible for. So he's gonna be deployed. They told him it's going to be a one year deployment unless there is some random act of God and he may be able to slip into a 6 month. When he told me I thought he was totally kidding. I kinda laughed a little and then he said no babe I'm serious. Then it hit me and I had to hang up the phone. I cried and cried and cried and cried some more (you get the point!) I just have no clue how I am going to deal with this. He is my balancing act and these months without him have totally sucked. So for now I am going to wallow in my sorrow. I will be happier about it at one point but for now I grieve! Ok well I just thought how am I going to be happier about this? The answer is simple....more moolah! Which will mean more scrappy stuff!!!! Which will lead me to my next bit of news..



I made the team at www.scrap4life.com !!!!! I am so out of my mind excited! I can't believe I made their team and I am seriously totally grateful about it! I was reading the post this morning and I had to stop mid scroll and breathe. My heart was beating so fast and I felt sick to my tummy. But I scrolled on and I read my name!! I had to go back a few times and read it to make sure that my name was really there!! LOL! I am honored to have gotten to know all the girls that were trying out and all the regulars on the boards. Jodie, Angela, and Nancy are the coolest chicks around and I am so friggin happy to be workin with them! Jodie's kits are ALWAYS packed to the brim with stuff! I LOVE them! I need to go look and see if I am allowed to post my pages now. So I'll be back later to post some work! Thanks for reading and listening to my whiny butt.

xo
jenn

i love mondays.....

I freaking woke up sick this morning....and not only me but Sophie too. I can deal with being sick. I hate it but I can deal with it, but my poor tiny little 4 month old baby girl can not. I really think it's not right that babies this young can get sick. It's frustrating and irritating because I can't give her anything and it breaks my heart. I am cranky and tired and this will be a short post...but I do have good news today.

Today begins the last challenge for the DT call at http://www.scrap4life.com/ and I actually made it!! I am in the running with 10 other women and I have never been so nervous. Seriously I wasn't this nervous when I had kids, got married, had to have gall bladder surgery...none of that was a nerve racking as this. I really want to be a part of this DT because I totally LOVE the site which makes it even harder for me. Ok so thats the only bit of happiness you get from me today. I'll come back asap and post some more stuff. Thanks for reading!

xo
jenn

a big huge yuck and a great big WA-friggin-HOO!!

Ok so first off I haven't posted in days because James has been sick. Took him to urgent care and he's got strep. UGH! He's 2.5 for crying out loud! I seriously hope that this doesn't become chronic for him like it did for me. He really doesn't seem to be getting better yet and it's killin me. He's not sleeping well, he keeps puking (and for those that don't know me I can't deal with puke, it makes me wanna do the same) and I have yet to throw up....thank heavens! Sophie has been doin ok but everytime James wakes up in the night it wakes her up, a major setback to sharing a room but we'll survive! So if you are the praying type keep him in your prayers and for that matter throw my sanity in there too! I know that every time I pray I beg Heavenly Father to send mine back to me! lol!



And for the big wahoo.....I made it onto round 3!!! I was so stinking excited. The challenge this week at http://www.scrap4life.com/ 's design team call was to create a page using 4-5 photos (b/w and color mix) and create a handmade embellie. The last part threw me for a loop. I was totally overthinking it and killing myself! But I got the page done today and I think it turned out great!!! It's below for your viewing pleasure!! (well at least I hope you like it!) Notice the crumbs under my "cookie?" I love it!! =)



Short post it is because I have children waking up..........try to be back sooner than later!



xo

jenn

wish me luck

So I just found out that I could post my entries for the DT contest call over at S4L. So below you will find my round one entry and my round two entry. I will find out tomorrow if I will be moving onto round three!! Keep your fingers crossed!!! Week 1 we had to use glitter. Week 2 we had to use transparent items. I'll make a real post tomorrow!

Week 1

Week 2