Your Mother Should Know ...

I won, I won!

I won a free spot in Jenni Bowlin's Re-Purpose, Re-Think, Re-Invent class at Big Picture Scrapbooking!  I'm so excited!  I really wanted to take the class, and I'm looking forward to beginning.  I find myself being drawn to her products, and I want to learn MORE!  Woohoo!  Class starts Thursday, and there's still room to sign up.  :) Thank you, Big Picture Scrapbooking!  I love my prize!

I'm feeling pretty blessed right now.  I have a great husband and wonderful kids; I have the best grandson in the whole world.  I have a wonderful family, good friends, a good job, a roof over my head, a car that runs (even if it does seem to attract other car bumpers this summer), and I've got stuff to challenge me!  And, on top of that, I win a prize.  Blessed.

Does anyone know where they sell lotto tickets in my area?  LOL

TypePad is not behaving well ...

Can't seem to post to my blog tonight. I've tried several times to get to the typepad.com site with no luck. Lucky for me I set up the ability to post to the blog via email!

I'll be back tomorrow, I hope! Have a great Tuesday everyone.

My husband has a new girlfriend!

Yep, it's true.  Her name is Karen, and she has an Australian accent.  And he listens when she speaks!  I know he does, because he does what she tells him to do!  Wow!  Can you imagine?  And he seems to enjoy it!  She speaks to him from here:

 

I'm not sure why he prefers to take directions from a female -- he definitely does not fit the male stereotype there -- but he selected the voice and accent.  Hmmm... maybe I can pick up a few pointers from her, like saying "remp" instead of "ramp"!  HE totally got it; I couldn't figure out what she was saying.  LOL

PS22 Chorus!

My friend shared this with me today and told me to go check it out!  Wow!  I am impressed and love what "Mr. B" is doing.  There are teachers out there who care and who make a difference.  Here's one of them.  And students?  Great job!

Can't seem to embed it, but I can link you to it!     PS22 (Public School 22 on Staten Island) sings Coldplay's Viva la Vida

Everyday fella!

Here's a layout I finished for the one-word title challenge at Dixie Pieces kit club for this month.  All product came from the June kit!  I loved the way it turned out, and I think it may just become one of my all-time favorites.

My cutie patooties!

I signed up for Jessica Sprague's Free photo editing class.  If you have Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, are interested in learning how to edit your photos, and haven't already signed up, there's still time.  Just follow the link above.

Anyway, when I signed up, I was reminded that she had two free tutorials I'd wanted to try -- one on hybrid and one on digital scrapbooking.  I played a little last night with the hybrid, and here's my take.  If I do the digital one, I'll share it, too.  This one is my husband's anniversary card!  :)

This photo was taken on Father's Day.  The shirt DH is wearing was a Father's Day gift from our dear grandson and was designed by our elder daughter!  She designed three, and each one was custom designed for the recipient.  They are remarkable!

Thumpin' Thursday

If you lived through or love 60s music, you might enjoy this post.  Music has always been a part of my life, like a thread running through it.  I can still remember the song that played on the radio when I had morning sickness with my first child -- and even today it tends to make my stomach knot up!  I'd play it here, but hey!  Even I don't want to hear it again! 

Today I'm pulling some Neil Diamond out of the archives and dusting it off a bit.  Look at the length of that hair!  I can remember our elders' horror at the length of the Beatles' hair.  Ha!  If they only knew they would soon consider the Beatles "well groomed"  LOL.  After nearly 40 years I got to go see Neil Diamond in concert last year.  He did not disappoint!

Enjoy!

I'm caught up on my blog reading!!!

I don't know about you, but I use Google Reader to keep track of the blogs I like to follow.  I no longer need to go to each blog; I just subscribe to them in Google Reader, and the blog posts come to me.  Unfortunately time got away with me sometime in early 2009, and the unread blog posts continue to rise until I had over 800 posts unread.  I'll plug away at them but could never get them below 250 ... until this week!  I got them all down to ZERO!  Yesterday's numbers and today's are current!  I read most every post; some I had to skim.

It may seem silly, but it's a relief for me.  I feel like I can keep up; I just don't have time to "catch up"!

Yeah!  Now I think I"ll go off and read today's postings.  Maybe I'll even have time to tweet!

I wish we'd gotten a picture

Gracie had a mishap with the dishwasher last night.  I wish we'd gotten a picture but we had three worried adults and one terrorized dog -- no time for a photo.

In the last few months Ms. Gracie has been trying to lick the dirty dishes on the bottom tray of the dishwasher.  Most of us have tried to teach her no, but Robert's attention wanders.  LIke it did last night.  He shoo'd her away and turned his back without closing the dishwasher door.  Gracie's collar got caught on the lower tray somehow.  In her desire to get away, she pulled the tray out of the dishwasher, it clattered and crashed onto the floor, and then she really wanted to get away.  Unfortunately she was still caught on the tray.  She managed to drag it out of the kitchen, and down the hallway before we could get her to stop.  Poor thing. 

Once we freed Gracie, she headed into my office and stayed under my desk.  Then we had clean up to do.  I think we lost 2-3 plates and a couple bowls.  I guess it might be time to pick out  some new dinnerware!  These are 25 years old, made it through three kids and four moves.  I can replace them without guilt!  LOL

I like the look of the Sophie Conran Celadon and the Fiestaware, too.  And the Fiestaware comes in all those great mix and match colors!  Love that!  And the cobalt and scarlet would go with what I have left of my Dansk patterns.  Hmmm.  I'll think about that tomorrow ... or next year!

Today

I say this on Ali Edwards' blog and thought it would be great fodder for a blog post.  Then I read Cathy Zielski's blog, and she did the same thing.  So it must be true, and I didn't pass up an opportunity:

Outside my window... Are pink peonies and white calla lillies struggling to hold on to the last few blooms.

I am thinking... about the long list of things I have to do, classes I need to design, classes I want to take, layouts I want to do.  So much to do and so little time. 

I am thankful for...  good friends and family.

From the kitchen... broiled some coho salmon last night; burgers off the grill tonight.

I am wearing... white capris, black t-shirt, and house slippers.  Standard casual summer wardrobe

I am creating... layouts with the DixiePieces July kit!  

I am going... for a walk with hubby and dog tonight -- I didn't get my walk in at lunch so gotta do it tonight.  One more thing on my to do list. 

I am reading... The Lion's Game by Nelson DeMille.  It will take me forever at 30 minutes or less a week.  Also listening to The Shack on my iPod.  I'll be done with that much sooner!

I am hoping... that my mom still recognizes her oldest daughter's voice when I call her this weekend -- it's been three or four weeks since I called.  Kidding.  She will recognize me.  But she may be worried.

I am hearing... the rotation noise of the fan above my head.  I'm thankful for that ceiling fan but sure which it didn't hum. 

Around the house... it's quiet tonight. 

One of my favorite things... the long days of summer.  I love the light!

A few plans for the rest of the week... go to work Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.  Prepare for the July kit release at Dixie Pieces.  Decide if I'm going to CKU Provo.  Decide if and where we're going this weekend to celebrate our anniversary.