So ya…. Falafel is still funny to me April 22, 2008

Falafel=icky

 

So for the past month or two I have been obsessing over the word FALAFEL.  I had never had a falafel but I thought it was a pretty cool word.  So whenever I get bored I think of that word and it kinda makes me laugh a little (in my head I’m laughing I’m not a crazy lady who starts laughing for the hell of it).  So a week or two ago I said that I bought a falafel kit from the awesome manufactures Fabulous.  Well I decided last night was the night and I was going to make me some falafels.  So I mixed my kit and broiled it and put it in a pita with lettuce and thought it was going to be totally awesome.  And it was awful!  Icky-Sicky-Never want to eat again awful!  So just an FYI, I do not like to eat falafels, but I do still like the word.

In other news.  I won!  I never win blog giveaways and I won a really super cool one!  The girl who had the giveaway has a parrot named Charlie and I truly believe that her parrot picked me because I have a bird named Charlie too.  he he! Anyways… check out the blog that I won stuff from cause it’s pretty exciting for me.  Oh and check out her ETSY store because her stuff totally rocks!

Ok that’s all for now.  I’ve gotta get to work.  My boss is out of town and that means I have a super duper lot of work to do. 

P.S. Thought it was kinda funny but my boss left a copy of his signature on my desk last night so I can replicate it.  Don’t know why that’s funny to me, but it is.  I’m a freaking dork!

 

fun stuff, ya know April 18, 2008

Sooo… I’ve order my pictures from Winkflash this morning and I keep checking to see if it has shipped!  I am such a nerd because I know that it wont ship until Monday or something.  I got 52 pictures for less than 8 bucks and that including shipping.  I didn’t get a chance to order them before now so I didnt get the awesome deal of 6 cent prints, but I did get their normal price of 8 cents per print, so I really only spent an extra buck on it.  WHAT A DEAL!

I worked on my bird project last night.  I didn’t have chipboard to cut in the size I wanted this book to be so I got creative and used cardboard from a mailing box and cut it and glued my bird cut outs on there.  Yes!  I’m not finished with it, but hopefully I’ll get some time to work on it today.  Not sure what I’m going to do with it.  I may make a little Charlie book but we will see.  Oh I also went to the Dollar Tree on Wednesday and I bought these little chipboard albums.  The come with an ugly cover BUT i took the chipboard out and put paper on it.  It’s pretty cool because the holes are already cut into it so I dont have to worry about that.  I do need to buy a hole puncher, something I really should have!  I may go buy a few more and make bigger books.  But this is pretty freaking cool! I’ll post pictures of that when I get it finished.

Extra! Extra! Read all about it…. April 17, 2008

 Got this email today from my LSS, Scrap-n-Memories and I thought it sounded like fun!  If you can go then you should because it sounds like fun!  AND who can really pass up a free cupcake?

 

Scrap’n Memories 6601 Sugar Valley Dr Suite 112 Nashville, TN 37211 615-941-7396 http://www.tnscrapnmemories.com scrapnmemories@comcast.net
CupCake Party!We have several lines out with the Cupcake name I thought we would have a party!Join us this Saturday (April 19th) for a Cupcake Party featuring Basic Grey, Creative Imaginations, Upsy Daisy and Quickutz! Quickutz has the cutest die that you will be using to make 2 cupcake dies that can be used on cards or layouts. For each 4 papers purchased in these lines you will receive 2 matching Bazzill Cardstock FREE! And of course CupCakes will be served! (as long as they last!) See you Saturday! Store Hours Saturday 10-7

So bummed April 17, 2008

National Scrapbook Day is May 3^rd and I spoke with our manager at Express and she said that she would change my schedule for 5-close that night but when the schedule was posted I was scheduled for 11-8.  It’s not a big deal; it’s just a bummer because I was really looking forward to getting to go to a big crop that day.  Oh well!

lala April 11, 2008

Just when you thought you were rid of me I remember something I wanted to write about.  Here it goes.

So last time this class was offered I was unable to take it, but now I have money and I can afford the super awesome and amazing Jessica Sprague Up and Running with Photoshop class!  YES!!!!  I have heard amazing things about her classes and I am really looking forward to this class.  For Christmas I received photoshop elements 6.0 and I’ve played around with it a little here and there but this will really help me a lot.  If you wanna join me then do it cause I dont think you’ll regret it!

Everyone take a drink when I say Random!! April 11, 2008

 

Told you I would write again……

 

I’ve been changing the look and feel of my blog like 3 or 4 times a week.  I just don’t LOVE how it looks.  So I am still trying new things.  I kinda like what I right now.  I think it’s nice and I love the colors.  I’m a big green and brown person, maybe that’s why I like trees so much.  HA!  So if you notice it changing a lot that’s why. Plus I get bored so I like change.

 

I was thinking today about all the weird random dudes that try to talk to me when I’m waiting at the light cross-before or after work.  Why do they try to talk to me.  I clearly have the “leave me the fuck alone” look on my face, yet they still try.  So I am cordial but we both know that I don’t want to talk to them.  It’s not like they are cool dudes either, it’s those guys that work at Walgreens that are walking home, which is at the cross section of Nolensville and Harding (because I desperately needed to know this) and it’s going to take them 2 hours to get home.  I don’t know if the guy is waiting for me to say “Hop right in buddy”, but I’m not.  I am the most paranoid, biggest scardy cat in the world and I would not let ANYONE that I do not know in my car.  Here are a few other funny quotes that the random dudes have said to me. “I’m not a robber, just an alcoholic who needs money to buy something to drink”, another dude said “I’m not gonna rob you I’m just a former alcoholic who needs food”.  Whats up with them not being robbers, like I’m going to give you money because you have now told me you aren’t going to rob me.  But I truly belive the best quote from a random dude came from Mr. I fell in the snow Man, he said “Can you help a man out and pay for my prescription, it’s over there at Walgreens.”  Now I don’t know about all of you but I look like I’m about 15 years old so when some dude think for some reason a 15 year old girl has money to buy him something then I think maybe he’s a little bit nuts. 

 

Okay now you all think I’m a bitch.  Well I am, but only on Fridays.  HA!

 

Oh guess what, it’s raining today so while walking across the street from the parking lot to my office, I only got splashed 4 times by cars.  I was yelling every curse word known to man.  Can’t wait to move to our new building in October. 

 

Wow!  I’m complaining a lot today!  Enough of that.  I’m super excited because I did another layout today.  I think it’s cute and I love it.  I’m kinda silly because unlike everyone else who actually eat their lunch on their lunch hour I decide to close my office door and scrapbook.  I need to remember to bring my stuff home tonight.  Of course when I’m making a page I think to myself, “Self… you should have brought this from home, that would have made this page awesome”, so I bring it the next day and that’s when you come into my office/scraproom and see 1 corner filled with scrapbook shit.  Oh well!  Better bring that home tonight!

 

K. I’m done writing for now, but I bet I’ll write again because I get randomly bored and write stuff.

 

If you can tell, today’s secret word is RANDOM!  YAAAAHOOOO!!!!

 

 

Steph

Today is Friday. TGIF! April 11, 2008

I’m going to write a lot today I can already feel it.  Oooh!

 

So I’ve been hanging out on the SIS site and I LOVE IT!  Check it out if you can because it pretty much rocks my world.  I’ve been on other scrapbook sites where I don’t feel comfortable to talk on it but I feel a-okay on there.  So yay!  I’m excited to have a new site to stare at all day.  Ha!

 

Oh here’s a picture from my daily handbag calendar.  It’s simple, neat and pretty.  I think I may put it in my inspiration notebook.  Pretty purse!

 

Ok, now I don’t feel like writing.  I swear it’s taken me like 3 hours just to write this post.  WTF!  My mind is just all over the place today with no where to go.

 

I think I’m going to make a page today.  I’m going to scraplift this page where she scraplifted from here.  Heck ya!

 

Okay, I’m done for now.  I can almost guarantee that I will write again later.

Scraplift April 10, 2008

So I did a really neat scraplift yesterday.  Check itout.

Websites that I’ve been looking at lately April 10, 2008

Okay, todays blog isn’t anything fancy or long or lengthy.  Well that’s what I’m thinking right now.  I’m kinda tired, like always. 

 

So here are a few cool websites that I have found recently.  I bet you will like them too!

 

Winkflash- I used them for my Christmas cards and loved them.  Right now they have a great deal going on, 6 cent 4×6 prints, 8 cent 5×7 prints, and 99 cent 8×10 prints.  I figured that with shipping if I ordered 100 4×6 prints and 10 5×7 prints that it would cost my 15 bucks to have them sent here.   GOTTA LOVE IT!  I really like the quality too!  This sale is going on until April 17^th so get on it!   I think I spent 13 bucks for 40 pictures that I sent to Walgreens.  Boo!

 

Scrap in Style TV-  I’ve been a member for a few months but did not post anything until recently and I have to say that their community is great!  The women are super nice and friendly and it’s nice to see that for a change.  They sell merchandise there as well, Sassafrass Lass to be exact, one of my new favorite lines!

 

Maya Road-I really like their merchandise.  I used one of their little book things at one of my classes and loved it.  While looking at the site I noticed that they have other little templates that you can use.  One is a little day planner.  I think it will be nice to make once I get the shipboard book to put it in.  YES!

 

Lazy Girl Blog-She makes things that are easy and that I can totally make using a needle and thread.  I’m going to make this bad to store my MM Trimmer.  I need something to carry it that will have enough cushioning in it so I may add a layer of pillow top-thingy on the inside- can’t remember what its called.

 

I think that’s it for now.  I will probably write more later because that’s what I do.

 

Steph

Layout I made today April 8, 2008

I made this page on my lunch today.  I feel like it’s missing something but I’m not sure what so I’m going to stop messing with it and hope that it comes to me!

I’m back from my trip April 8, 2008

Sometimes I feel overwhelmed when I haven’t written on here in a while.  Not sure why.  I guess it could be because I have a lot to say and I don’t want to write a long ass blog.  But I am going to do it today.  Yahoo!!!!!!!!

 

Okay, so onto our trip to St. Louis and the awesome convention that we went to.  It started off with us driving out there.  We had a lovely-that’s sarcasm- drive through a lightning storm for 2 hours and it was super duper scary.  AHHH!!! I hate lightning so this was one of the scariest things I’ve ever been in.  Once we got there we checked in and went to sleep pretty quickly.  Oh ya, for those who don’t know, I went with one of my best buddies Amanda, and we had an awesome time.  Anyways… On Friday we had 3 classes and a crop plus lots of time to shop. 

Our first class was Acrylic Craze.  I would have to say that this was a good class to start with as I would have been disappointed with it if it had been in our later classes.  We had a lot of fun and learned about what you can do with acrylic.  Since I’m a very new scrap booker this is great because I would have felt funny asking someone how to do use this.  I didn’t actually finish a layout, I did get to use different shapes of acrylic and I used stamps and all kinds of fun stuff.  I will be working on a page with this pretty soon, I hope. 

Our second class was My Heart Belongs to Daddy.  I really enjoyed this class because I felt like I learned a lot of different things.  It did feel a bit rushed, but as the instructor said this is usually a 2 hour class that was crammed into 1 hour.  I only have a little bit to work on from that project but it looks really awesome.  I can’t wait to finish it and put pictures in it.  I’m not sure what I should do with it, keep it or send it to my dad for Fathers Day.  I’ll have to think about it.

 

Our last class that day was Home Tour.  I LOVED this class.  It turned out great.  We used a chipboard flip album and I actually finished this.  It was fairly simple to do which is nice because I will be able to take what I learned and put it to good use.  YAY!  What is funny is that earlier that day I bought the exact same album we used so at least I will be able to use it.

 

The crop was great.  It was a bit cramped but I really feel like it was well worth the $25 fee to attend.  We got a goodie bag and lots of free stuff.  I bought two stamp sets from Technique Tuesday for 50% off and was very happy.  I didn’t have an alpha set yet so I got one and I LOVE IT!  I also bought a kit from SEI-I think- for $5 bucks.  It looks really nice.  It is the 2 page layout of me and Amanda.  I worked on a few pages that night.  I lost a picture and couldn’t find it, seriously for like an hour I was saying “where the F is my picture”.  The lady sitting next to me took over my side so that sucked so I started putting my stuff on hers.  I have to say that we sat with a great group of ladies.  They didn’t seam to mind my offensive language or my lame jokes so that was nice.  I would hate to have been sitting by a bunch of super Christians because I would have offended them and I wouldn’t want that.  I know the person I am and when I’m scrappin all I think is “Fuck I put that picture in the wrong spot”, but without thinking I say it outloud and it’s not the most appropriate thing.  Anyways..  Thank you nice ladies who sat with us that work in Hospice, you guys were nice and sweet and I could never do your job, I just don’t have a sympathetic bone in my body.

 

Okay, onto day 2, Saturday.

 

Our first class was 4 Velvet Paper Techniques by SEI.  This I have to say was my FAVORITE class.  I had so much fun making this album and I had almost finished the whole thing in class.  I learned about embossing velvet, stamping on velvet, using rub-ons on velvet and inking on velvet.  They had the best directions by far.  I am one of those “If I see it I can replicate it” types of people so even though I didn’t finish it in the classroom I went back to my hotel room and finished with no problem!  The instructor was great.  She was helpful, informative and gave away prizes.  All of which are good in my book.  I have pictures for this that I posted at the bottom of this post.  This class was by far my favorite.  Amanda and I are going to take more of the SEI classes next year because we loved them.

 

Our last class for Sat was Thinking Outside of the Box.  When I saw what were making I wasn’t really impressed, that was until I actually made it.  It turned out freaking awesome.  I’d love to make one of these of each of my nephews.  Now, I didn’t learn a lot from this class, but I did make a really nice looking exploding box.  Amanda and I didn’t really like the paper that came with the class so we took the liberty of using some of the free SEI paper we had gotten the night before at the crop.  I chalked the hell out of my box and made it look like it was wood and not so much paper.  I’ll post a picture tomorrow.  I didn’t take it with me to work and that is where I am writing this.

 

We went back to the hotel after our last class, and shopping at like 2 on Saturday and went back at 6 for the crop.  Which we got more free stuff and we got to take up a whole table just for ourselves.  We actually got to sing a song for the Cuttlebug prize, which we didn’t win.  Boo!  I think we were too young and not pregnant enough to win.  Oh well!  We did get some fun pictures so that’s worth it to me!  Oh and I bought a silent eyelet setter for like 12 bucks.  I’ve been researching it a little online and it looks like it was a pretty good deal, especially because I’d never used an eyelet in my entire life and its super easy to use.  At the very end they put out all the left over goodie bags and we were able to take what we wanted, which was glue sticks for me and Amanda.  You can never have too many of those, oh and I took another set of papers.  Lots of fun!

 

We had a lot of fun shopping on Friday and Saturday.  I know it was a bit cramped on Sat but I still enjoyed myself.  I spent tons of money and bought a lot of stuff that I am actually using.  YAY!!!!!!!!  We only did 2 make-n-takes.  The SEI make-n-take was awesome.  I made the Christmas one and it turned out beautifully.  I purchased the make-n-take from Storytellers, but these two women were taking forever to do their layouts so I took it with me and messed with at the crop on Saturday night.  I have to say that I found 3 places to be my favorite places.  Of course the dollar store, who doesn’t love a dollar store dedicated to scrapbooking,  the Scrap-Mart store- I really liked all the paper that they had and the 20 page for 5 bucks deal that I got, and the SEI store- although things were quite pricey and I was trying to not buy anymore paper I really loved this store.  I bought a mini album with my 40% off coupon so I could have a little book to put all of our fun pictures from this trip in it.

 

My overall opinion of this convention.  This was my first convention that I took classes and was able to buy a lot of things and I thought it was great.  We will be going again next year, and hopefully every year until we have kids-but that shouldn’t be for quite a while.  The only things that we have made a mental note to do differently would be to not work on Thursday and head down there in the morning and go to the Thursday night crop.  The drive doesn’t seem so bad during the day and we heard that the preview crop had better goodie bags.  Ummm oh and we would take the following Monday off so we could spend the day scrapbooking because we were so amped up to scrapbook that we wished that we had been able to do more the next day.

 

Okay, so that’s my review of this trip.  It was great, especially for a beginner like me.

 

I might write more later.  Not sure, as this was a super long post.  I’m planning on spending my lunch scrapbooking again so I may post a picture from that.

 

Steph

 

P.S. Here are some pictures from our trip.  Amanda has a lot of the pics from Sat as I thought it was silly to ask people to take duplicates of the same pic.

Yay April 7, 2008

 

I made this on my lunch today.  I’m really excited for the pages that I have been making.  I really feel like I have been learning alot.

Pages that I made :) April 7, 2008

So I made these pages while I was at the crops at the scrapbook convention.  I am pretty proud of how they turned out, especially because I’m not very good.  2 pages are from kits, but whatever I still put everything on them and made it look nice.

Catch Up! April 2, 2008

Psha Psha Psha……  I have a lot of random things to write about today.

I had a great day on Monday.  It was my darling DAVE’S 3-0 th birthday.  WOW!  That’s old, but I’ll be up there in 5 years.  Isn’t that crazy!  Well our day started off awesome!  Then we went to Fido.  I got my spuds mc-cheesy with a coffee and Dave had a bagel and a million dollar orange juice, oh and we shared a rockin PC Muffin.  Yummy!  After that we went downtown and walked around for a few hours, then went to Ru-Sans for all you can eat sushi buffet.  Yum!!!!  Then we went back downtown and walked around some more.  Oh and we went shopping at American Apparel, I bought a plain t-shirt and Dave got 3 shirts.  They look super great on him!  I’m happy he got to buy clothes because he always lets me instead of him so I’m just happy for him.  While walking around we went to a few bars and had a few beers.  Yes, we did have beers at 2 in the afternoon.  I really felt like maybe I am an alcoholic as I was drinking during the day AND not at work.  But it was a fun day.  We also went to Legends, which is pretty cool.  I love the way it looks and feels when you are inside.  What I didn’t like was that there weren’t any specials and they charged $3.75 per beer.  Whatever!  I’m going to Joes Crab Shack from now on, 2 for 1’s there all day everyday.  Heck ya!  We met Megan and Seth and went to dinner and then got ice cream!  It was the best Ice cream that I’ve had in quite a while, but the cone was icky!  I’ll just get it in a cup next time!   But I think that Dave had a great day for his birthday.  He was able to go wherever he wanted and to do whatever he wanted and that makes him happy, which in turn makes me happy!

So I was working at Express last night and I heard some dude tell his girlfriend that our jeans are for male-erexic men.  That phrase doesn’t even make sense; I can understand man-erexic but not male-erexic.  LAME!  AND it’s not like our pants are small, we carry up to a 38 inch waist so stop wearing your pants down to your ankles and you will be fine or go to Big and Tall, that’s why the made that store and it does have nice things (I used them for a fashion show in High School so I know they do).  I’m not being mean about big people, I understand that’s how you are and I used to be heavier too, but this guy was not, he just liked his pants to hang to his ankles.  So there you have MALE-EREXIC!  Use it everyday!  What a word!

So I’m a little sad because Creation Station, one of the local scrapbook stores in my area, will be closing soon.  They sent out an email.  It makes me a little sad.  I never bought anything there because they closed early and I’m not THAT into scrapbooking.  But I was hoping that I would be once I got back from the convention.  Sooo Boo!!!!!  They said in their email that they aren’t planning on a big sale…..yet as they are hoping that someone will want to buy the store and keep it going.  I’d love to do this.  I emailed Dave and told him but I didn’t get a response.  I’m assuming that means NO, which is understandable because he knows I’m not very creative.  But I would love to own my own business and to spend all day doing that.  That would be neat!  So if any of you feel like it, please send them an email wishing them happy thoughts and positive things.

A few more things and then I think I will be done for the day, I know it’s horrible how much I write, isn’t it.  But Dave is happy I put it here so instead of emailing him he can look when he wants.  HA!!!!!!!

Amanda and I had a fun day on Saturday.  We went out for coffee and then scrapbooked.  That was fun!  Went to the Frothy Monkey.  They have the best freaking coffee ever!  Please Please Please go there when you come to Nashville, I don’t think you will be disappointed, unless you buy a muffin, I’m iffy about those.  Anyways.. We leave tomorrow for our awesome scrapbooking weekend.  Hell YA!  We are heading to St Louis for our scrapbooking convention and it’s going to be so much fun.  We are staying at an awesome hotel, I think, and here are some cool amenities that it has, free breakfast with waffles and sausage and eggs, 3 free alcoholic beverages at night, workout room, free popcorn and soda from 3pm-10pm and a business center.  I’m just excited for the breakfast part!  Yay!

On a side note, I’m not sure how much I will be posting while I’m gone but hopefully I’ll be able to get on here for a little bit to post about the classes and all my other randomness.

Ok that is enough for now.  I’m going to head over to Walgreens to pick up my pictures for the trip!  Woo Hoo!!

Stephy

Umm April 1, 2008

I dont have anything cool to write right now. 

I want to leave work so I can go to Joanns and buy scrapbook stuff that I will need for the convention and then I work at Express. 

Steph

p.s. I hate April Fool’s Day.  Its one of those things where you just cant trust anyone and that sucks ass!

I made a page April 1, 2008

 

Amanda was over on Saturday and we scrapbooked-er…. well sorta. We talked a lot, planned our trip to St Louis this weekend and I made like 1 page.  I still totally suck, but I was proud of this page so I’m going to post it.  Please dont judge my bad page, because I’m telling you up front that I suck.  But here’s my sistors page.  My sister and I have always called ourselves Sistors instead of sisters so I named my page that.  I know I need to get into journaling, I left a little below the picture so that when I do start journaling that I have a section to add it. 

Neat Quote March 27, 2008

Thought this was a neat quote.  I think I will put it in my Inspiration notebook.  Maybe I wont be so hard on myself regarding my  lack of creativity.

It’s not what you are that holds you back,
it’s what you think you are not.

Denis Waitley
American Author and Motivational Speaker

My little book March 26, 2008

Okay, so I really wanted this Inspiration book to look pretty but to tell you the truth it looks pretty shitty!  Oh well!  I had fun while I made it.  I told Dave that I’m afraid that I’m not very creative when it comes to making things and that I might just stick to digital everything.  Boo!!  Anyways.. Here are some pics of it.  It’s not anything special but what I put in it will be!

Weekly catch up Monday March 24, 2008

I had a lovely weekend. I worked on Friday; it was a long and late night. BOO!!!! But on Sat I only worked 1-6, a nice mid shift. So I was able to go to the gym in the morning and then I went to work and then out with my lovely friends. It was my dear Katie’s birthday on Saturday so we all went out to dinner at Azteca and it was quite unfortunate that the food was bad, the service was bad and the liquor was bad, well Allison’s drink was bad. So just as an FYI, don’t eat there because it isn’t good. After that Dave, Anthony and I went and met up with the lovely Megan and Seth and their great group of friends at the Brewhouse and got our drink on. Unfortunately I did not drink enough to get my pepper on! But maybe next time! HA! After that we dropped Anthony off at his car and on our way back home we got a flat tire! YES! Nothin better than being F-A-Rozen, having a flat tire AND being a little tipsy while we are on the side of the freeway changing my tire. Did I mention that it was F-A-REEZING? Man am I a baby? HA!

Sunday was nice though. We slept in! YES! My favorite thing to do. Then we went to Fido and had coffee and potatoes. It was my first time there and it was really nice. I like the coffee. YUM! BUT I think that I like going to Zach and Joey’s (Sam and Zoes) has a much better atmosphere. Although I do like the coffee better at Fido’s, I think I’d rather go to Z & J’s. My luck Fido has the same coffee as Z & J’s, just like Seth’s Pitcher of Miller Lite tasted better than my pitcher of Miller Lite. I swear there was a difference! I swear! Oh back to my day. Then we went grocery shopping! Heck ya! We went to Whole foods, cause white people love whole foods, and they had free samples of sushi! HOW AWESOME ARE THEY?! YUM! Then we went home and just hung out for the rest of the day. It was a very nice and relaxing day. I feel like I never get days like that anymore. This next weekend will be like that, I hope. I took the weekend off for Dave’s birthday so I’m hoping we can relax and that I can get together with Amanda to scrapbook. Oh and Dave made an awesome pasta dinner. I couldn’t tell you how he made it but I do know that it rocked my socks!

Here’s what on the agenda for this week. I know you are all excited. Leaving early today because I have to go to Costco to fix my tire. Then to Express to work. YAY! Tomorrow I’m supposed to go out shopping with Megan after work for Dave’s birthday before we meet up with Dave and Seth at the hockey game. I told Dave that we should go get drinks at somewhere for Happy hour so we don’t go to the arena and pay $8.00 for a 24 ounce beer. So maybe I’ll get my pepper on when we go out tomorrow. Wednesday and Thursday I work both nights and will be training a bit on my Sales Leader position so that I can be signed off and ready for tax free weekend. YAY for training, YUCK for tax free weekend! Then I’m off Friday through Monday of next week.

Less than 2 weeks till Amanda and I go on our trip to St. Louis. I’m super excited and getting ansy! I can’t wait to scrapbook and have fun with other people like me. I know I totally suck at it but it’s just inspiring to be around people who don’t suck and who do really great work! People joke with me about how I am a 100 year old grandma, they also will then ask me if I knit too, to which I reply with “No but I do crochet!” Which they always laugh and say that their grandma crochets. I just laugh it off, because I don’t care if I’m like an old lady. This is what I enjoy and they will be sad when they lose their memory and don’t have their pictures in order or on a pretty piece of paper.

So I was looking at pictures of me back when I was heavier. I am happy that I am not like that anymore. It’s weird to think that was me, but it really was. I am a little bit disappointed because I have gained like 12 pounds of the 60 that I lost back. I look in the mirror and I know that I look great compared to what I looked like but now I don’t look AS good as I was looking so I feel a little bit frustrated. But I’m really going to have to kick my ass into gear otherwise I’m going to gain all my weight back and then I’ll be really sad!

These are 2 pics from back before I lost my weight. The first is when Dave and I stared dating, the second is when we went to the mountains, I know scary! The third is me now. Know I know I’ve lost a lot of weight but I dont look nearly as good as I did last March. Hopefully I can fix that soon!

Okay, I’m going to get back to my work that is piling up. I will probably write later once I see the twopeas challenge question. Hope everyone had a great Easter!

Steph

P.S. Here is a purse from my daily calendar. I thought it was pretty!

La De Da March 13, 2008

Yesterday I received an email newsletter from my LSS, Scrap-n-Memories, and it said to reply and if you are one of the first 5 to email back you get a prize. I’m proud to say that I was #4. That proves two things, 1. I freaking rock 2. I seriously need to not check my email every 5 seconds. HA! So I have to go back there by Sunday and pick up my prize. Yippy! Skippy! I’m super excited. Anything free from a scrapbooking store is great!

I had my hair done yesterday at the Paul Mitchell School by a Phase II student named Shellie. She was great, super friendly and fun. I love the way it turned out. I added brown to my hair because I really wanted a change to my hair. I love it! I always like dying my hair brown because it really makes my green eyes stand out A LOT! So I’m very happy about that.

Nothing else really going on right now. So I’m gonna go. OH Wait.. There is only 21 days until the Amanda and Stephanie’s Super Awesome CKC Scrapbooking Convention Trip. Woo Hoo!!!

Feels like a Monday March 12, 2008

I went through my Flickr yesterday and delete about 180 pictures. I don’t have the Pro account and I really shouldn’t pay the money for it right now while I’m planning my St Louis trip in 3 weeks so maybe after I get back then I will buy the Pro account. Anyways I deleted all of my pics from my heavier days in CA and it was nice to see all the room I had available to add pictures. YAY! I’m excited!

Oh I have checked my saved money for the trip and with my next check that I will get this weekend my St Louis Scrapbook trip is paid for! YAYAYAYAYAY! I’m so happy! I think Amanda and I are going to get together next week or the following weekend to scrapbook again just so we can get into the groove again. I still suck at it. I brought some scrapbook supplies with me to work so I could mess around with them on my lunch but I didn’t really feel like doing it. I think I’m just not a very good scrapbooker. Hopefully I’m not, hopefully I’m just stuck in a rut. That’s what I hope at least.

Dave and I went into American Apparel yesterday. I had never been to that store and I loved it. I can’t wait to get some money to spend so I can buy some clothes there. Its everything that I like. Plain. Simple. Colorful. Inexpensive. I love that store. I blame Laurel for telling Dave that there was one in Nashville. It’s all her fault! HA! But I love her for telling him. YES!

There’s a website that I totally love and will be adding to my link on my sidebars. Its called Stuff White People Like. It is so funny and soooo true. I have briefly looked through that list but from what I have read it is 100% true. I am white and I love Whole Foods, T-Shirts (American Apparel), Bad Memories of High School, Musical Comedy and Water Bottles. This people are dead on!

Oh here’s my 365 picture of the day. Not very exciting. Just a picture of me working, like I always am! I hate that almost every picture is always taken from my office, but that’s where I spend all of my time so that’s where I have to take it.

I am rambling today March 11, 2008

I got my pictures back yesterday from Walgreens. I have to say they aren’t the most amazing quality but they will certainly work for my layout. I am getting really excited for the convention in 3 1/2 weeks. In the class we learned about how important it is to use products that are acid free. I’ve always heard that but was never sure why. Now I know why and will only use products that are safe for my pictures and will have a long life span. I learned about trimmers and about all of the different kinds that are out there. I really like this oneIt’s super nice and travel friendly, I would like to have it for the convention too. The thing that was super interesting was something that she didn’t even really teach us about. I guess there is a product called chalk, it’s not your normal chalk that you write on the concrete but rather ink that you use to weather your pictures, make them look more antique. I cant wait to buy some of these things at the convention, or if they are too much there then I will buy them at my LSS, Scrap-n-Memories.

When I at Scrap-n-Memories this weekend I was talking to the store owner, Tina (I think), she is super sweet and really helpful. I was asking about birthday parties that they have for adults and I’m really excited because I want to do this. She said that they find out how much you, or your guests, are willing to pay for the project and they give you a few options for your guests to pick out. She also said that they take pictures during the event and that you can scrapbook the birthday party or you can scrapbook whatever you want but that they will print out the pictures for you that day so you can use them right there. It’s really cool and I’m SUPER DUPER excited. I’m not really sure that anyone else will be as excited as I am, well other than Amanda, but whatever they are my friends and will at least amuse me on my birthday, right? I hope they will at least. So that is my plan for my 25th birthday. Watch out my girlfriends you should be getting an invite soon. HE! HE!

Here’s a picture from my daily calendar. It’s the first one that I have actually really liked. What a neat purse!

Oh and here is today’s 365 picture, wells there is two right now because I’mnot sure which one I want to use. I am so freaking tired today and this obviously proves it! I look dead!

I have my hair appointment tomorrow. YES! I can’t wait. My hair looks so fried on the ends and my roots are showing really bad. I still want to dye my hair dark but I’m going to wait and see how I feel in a few months and if I still want it dark then I will do it.

Monday Morning Catch Up… March 10, 2008

Today is a day where I kinda feel down. It sucks, I know why, but I’m not going to post it right now because I don’t really want to talk about it or deal with it. What I am going to do is talk about my weekend. YAY!

So Friday night Dave and I went to the gym and then the mall afterwards, when we left there was tons and tons of snow everywhere. I guess being from California we aren’t used to it so we were super excited. It took us about an hour to get home because it seems that most people weren’t prepared for it to be snowing. Saturday comes around and I look out the window and see that everything is covered with snow, and lots of it. It was so pretty. I had a hair appointment scheduled that day and it was obviously cancelled because of the snow. Dave and I got up, got dressed and went and played in the snow, I made my first snow angel ever, which I would like to add that I am not very good at. Then we walked to Hill Center and got me coffee at Whole Foods and then walked back home and made a snowman-Dave did, I watched.

We noticed that the roads were pretty clear so we decided to go to Percy Warner Park, which is this freaking awesome park, and walk around in the snow again. We had a blast! I took so many pictures that I could not put all of them on here. BUT here are a few of my favorites. I believe I took all of these pictures, but Dave did take my camera from me a few times, but I think these are all mine. YAY! Then I went to work at Express and that was the end of that day.

On Sunday I went to a beginning scrapbooking class at my LSS and it was so much fun! I learned a lot and got to play a lot. This has really gotten me excited and revved up for our convention we are going to in 3 weeks. I am just so excited now! I learned that I am not very good at using a paper trimmer but that I have a lot of fun playing around. My friend Megan made an awesome Layout, and get this she doesn’t even scrapbook. Amanda was having fun too with her Cinco De Mayo pictures we took last year. That was soo much fun. I really like the colors she chose, very bright and bold. Love it! I did not finish my layout as Walgreens hadn’t printed my freakin pictures. So I started a layout and I really like how it’s turning out. I realized that I am not very creative and that I see things and want to make things like that but I cannot put that onto paper. I think that’s why I’m much better at Digital Scrapbooking. Because I don’t have to use that trimmer that I cant work and I don’t have to buy lots and lots of things that I won’t use because most things are freebies anyways. I’m not saying I can digital scrapbook very well but what I am saying is that I see more creatively through my computer.

Oh I also took my 365 pictures. Check them out.

3/8/08-

3/9/08-

Okay, going to get back into my reality now. Have a great day!

Steph