Combining Blogs

Hi All---This is to let you know that I have decided to combine my two blogs. I have trouble trying to keep up with both and since I expect my life to become more hectic and not less as I try to expand my business, I have decided that this is one way to lighten my work load and my stress. If you don't already follow the other blog you can find it at www.No Time2Scarpbook.blogspot.com.

See you there!

Project 365

Yes---I am way behind again. Life got crazy, plus I got an incredible opportunity to go out of town for a scrapping event. I have been posting there every day, so if you are actually interested in what I may be doing, you can check the No Time 2 Scrap blog.

Project 365 Day 116

Today's picture is of the layout I designed for my August Calendar Class. I was working on putting another one together at the crop tonight. I have had some requests so I am offering this for sale outside of the calendar class. The information is on the No Time 2 Scrap blog if you are interested.

Project 365 Day 115

My picture for today is of my newest kit designed because of the recent Hot August Night event here in town. I must be truthful and tell you that this kit makes me yawn. My only excuse is that I really wasn't feeling well when I was designing it. Hopefully someone will be able to add some cool pictures to it and perk it up. In the meantime, I'm stifling yet another yawn. I've got to just stop looking at it.

Project 365 Day 114

I spent the better part of today recuperating. I watched some episodes of Mad Men while relaxing on the couch. I just love this show. Totally hooked on it, but don't give me any hints. I'm behind. I learned of it late and have been catching up by renting them. I was through season two and could go no farther. Season three wasn't out yet and I couldn't watch season four without watching three. My friend Cheryl to the rescue! She also loves the show and buys it. As soon as season three arrived she rushed it over to me. Now I can catch up and then watch the season four episodes I've been taping. Can't wait! I want to catch up, and yet I hate to. I went through the same experience wit 24. Discovered it late, rented it and got totally hooked. Michael and I literally could not go to bed at night until we had exhausted everything we could watch. We caught up quickly. The thing is, you get used to being able to run to Blockbuster to get your next fix, and then when you catch up, you actually have to wait a week or more to see the next episode. Torture! We're so silly aren't we? Anyway, aside from making it to church, Mad Men is about all I accomplished today, so there's your picture.

Project 365 Day 113

Well, I haven't been feeling well for the past week. I've been afraid I had an infection and turns out I was right. Today it kicked in to such an extent that it landed me in the Emergency Room. I'm back home now with two prescriptions to make me feel better. Let's hope it goes away. I don't have time to fiddle around feeling poorly!

Project 365 Day 112

Yesterday, Tracey spent the day here scrapping with me and she came back today. It was so nice having her here, we both got quite a bit done, and we both are headed to Scrapper's Paradise tomorrow to di it again. This evening Matilda came over for a while. It is so funny! Every time she comes over (and I do mean EVERY time) she always ends up watching a movie and it is ALWAYS the same one---Horton Hears a Who. The only time she watches something else is if she watches a second movie after first watching Horton. She just giggles and giggles at it every time too. Kids are so funny. With Megan it was Mary Poppins. At Matilda's age she watched that movie a minimum of two times a day, sometimes more. She just couldn't get enough of it.

Project 365 Day 111

I have for quite a while been longing to have a Travelocity gnome for my yard. At Calendar Class last night, my friend Tracey presented me with this sweet little guy. She found him at the Roseville auction over the weekend and he is, for right now, nestled in my strawberries. I have to think hard to decide where his permanent home will be.

Thanks Tracey! You are so good to me!

Project 365 Day 110

Today is filled with cleaning house and catching up. For my picture today I just have to post a picture of my clever grand daughter's way of baking some cupcakes in her little kitchen oven. Adorable! Just Adorable!

(Yes, I know some of you who are friends with me on Facebook will end up seeing this picture twice, but it's so cute that I think it's okay!)

Project 365 Day 108 and 109

Still didn't feel too well on Monday, but managed to spend the day preparing for my Calendar class and then taught it on Tuesday. Also managed on Tuesday to give Peek-A-Boo a much needed hair cut and bath. She's looking much better.

Project 365 Day 107

Sunday I was supposed to go on an easier hike with the kids, but I barely slept at all the night before and really wasn't feeling well at all. Just as soon as the kids woke up, I threw my stuff in the car and headed home. I was home by 11am and went to bed. I got myself up in time to go to church and that was my day. Pretty exciting stuff, but at least I didn't have to miss church.

Project 365 Day 106

The next day camping I really didn't feel to well. The kids all went off camping and I stayed behind in the campground with Peek-A-Boo and Matilda. I read and played with her until the kids returned. I was feeling pretty poorly, but joined in a card game with them. While we were playing, two deer wandered in right next to our camp site and I got a couple of photos. I just think they are so beautiful!

Project 365 Day 100 through 105

Okay, there's my huge gap of skipped days. I can tell you that nothing noteworthy happened to report, so I will pick up on Day 105, Friday, when I left to go camping for the weekend with my kids. We went to Manzanita Lake in Lassen National Forest. We didn't get there until 9 or 9:30 at night so the main thing I can report is that my sleeping arrangements did not work out well for me. I slept in my car to avoid having to pay for an additional site and it DID NOT work out well. I slept fitfully that first night, spending much of the time awake and reading. This picture was taken out of my car window as I laid awake inside.

Project 365---Day 97, 98, 99

Okay---My computer stopped working again and it finally got to me. I just gave up on my project for a bit until I solved the problem. It was back to Best Buy AGAIN. Turns out I needed a new power cord, so I bought it and got my computer back up and running, but by that time I was very behind on Project 365 and had not been faithful to taking even imaginary pictures. I suppose I should give up, but I'm going to post the only pics I took during that time and pick it back up. I'm bound and determined to make this work!

The last post I got in was on July 28th. On the next day I cleaned up my little yard and hosted a BBQ at my house to say good-bye to Micheal's daughter Rochelle and her husband who were moving to Washington. There were so many people here and so many dogs that it was chaotic enough that I did not think to take one single picture.

The next morning I was up bright and early to host a scrapbooking yard sale. Some of you came and shopped with us and got some bargains. Be watching---There will be another one coming up.

When the yard sale was over and cleaned up Tracey and I joined Megan, Mikey and a lot of his family to attend a Bingo tournament at the Peppermill. None of us won anything--darn it, but it was fun. One lady won the biggest prize of $10,000 all by herself. Can you imagine!

Project 365 Day 96

Was going to pop over and scrap with a friend today, but that didn't work out so I stopped by to visit a bit with my grand baby. She has learned to do somersaults! I had my camera out (of course) to snap pictures and she wanted to take some, which is where my pics for today come from. The photo gallery of a three year old.

Project 365 Day 95

Today I was back in the saddle getting some work done. I ran a few errands and while scrapping at Scrapper's Paradise I finished making this sample for my new fishing kit. I will be adding it to the blog for sale tomorrow.

Project 365 Day 94----Hot, Hot , Hot!

Today, aside from picking up Peek-A-Boo, this tired old woman did nothing but rest from her party weekend. My picture should be a hint about how lively my day was. It is a picture of the fan that kept me cool as I relaxed.

Project 365 Day 93-----Broken branches

Left Yerrington bright and early this morning to beat the heat. After a welcome shower and a brief nap I was back at church which turned out to be a HUGE evening for me. I need to back track a little..............
Several weeks ago my pastor quite accidentally heard me sing and said I needed to be up there singing with the worship team. Now I LOVE to sing, especially while worshiping my Lord and Savior, but although it has been a hidden deep desire of mine, it has also been too scary for me. I don't sing in front of people and I DON'T sing in front of a mike, so I ignored him. I have been praying that I would find my place in this new church body, then last week at church he called me up after service along with the only other female in the band. He said he wanted us to start working on singing together and I gulped down my fear and said yes. They rehearse every Sunday at 5pm before our 6:30 service and today I was to join them in rehearsing. I was already nervous about rehearsing and when I got there Daryll Ann said I was singing with them in service tonight. Well, she wouldn't let me sneak out of it, so after 45 minutes of rehearsal including one song that I had never song before, I performed with the band tonight in church and made it through without missing a note or choking. All praise goes to the Lord. I just made it between Him and me and sang in worship. God is so good and I thank Him for bringing me through my fear to use my voice in His service. The band has been together for a long time and called themselves the Crazy Eights. Our church is called Branches, and so lately they have begun to refer to themselves as the Broken Branches. This old twig is definitely broken, so maybe I'll fit right in.

Pastor Jim was gone this week to perform a wedding, so we had a guest performance from "Thou Art." They mix music with art and while his wife and others perform singing, and artist paints a picture. It was a very moving performance. I have intended on posting a couple of pictures from that performance here, but apparently I took the photos with no sim card in my camera---Oops!

What a day!

Project 365 Day 92----Night in the Country Day 2

It was HOT today! Spent the whole day chasing what little shade I could find in our dusty camping spot trying to stay cool and hide from the sun. I made it though, and attended the concert tonight to see Chuck Wicks and Blake Shelton. Let me tell you, those country music fans get down and PARTY!

Project 365 Day 91---Night in the Country!

Today found me on the road with two girlfriends to camp out for the weekend in Yerrington to attend two nights of concerts at Night in the Country. We set up camp and headed over this first night to see Terri Clark and Diamond Rio. Casey and I started off the evening with double fists of Strawberry Margaritas. Later we asked a gal to take our picture all together and two good ol' boys who were sitting in front of us (with their wives) jumped up and planted themselves in the picture. Had a great time!

Project 365 Day 90

Three months girls!! Can you believe it? I'm really doing it!

Today after teaching my card class, Matilda came over for a while. We played out in the yard and she took this picture of me mowing my little lawn That's right everyone---I mow my lawn on my hands and knees with hand held shears.

Project 365 Day 89

Today was Calendar Class day so I thought I'd share a picture of the card we made in class.
Turned out pretty cute I think.

Project 365 Day 88

I spent today working hard to finish prepping for Calendar Class tomorrow night. Here is a picture of the layout I designed for the class. Some friends have encouraged me to make some more, so I will be offering a few for sale. I love the colors.

Project 365 Day 87

I was so glad to be back in town in time to be able to attend church. I really enjoy going to my new church and I've made a HUGE move for me. I LOVE to sing. Always have, but I always been frightened to death of actually doing it in front of people without being in a larger group. My pastor heard me sing during service a while ago and commented on it---Well, after service tonight he pulled me aside and asked me to begin singing with the worship team. I don't know what came over me, but I said yes. I go to my first rehearsal next Sunday at 5pm. I will be extremely nervous, so cross your fingers for me. I just really believe that God has called me to be a part of this church and I have been praying that God would help me find my place there. So when Pastor Jim asked, I just felt that it was what God wanted me to do. Singing with a band like this is like a secret hidden desire of my heart, so I hope it works out well. I have shown a picture of my pastor during worship earlier. Here is a picture of some more of the members----They are really good!

Project 365 Day 86

Today I finished the samples for two more kits to be offered for sale. Here a peek at the purrrfectly cute cat page. It is offered for sale on the other site for $8.00 each.

Project 365 Day 85

Today I left for another weekend of scrapping at Donna Jean's store in Carson City.One of the first things I accomplished today was finishing the sample and kits for this girlie birthday layout. It is offered for sale on the "No Time to Scrap" blog for $7.00 each.

Project 365 Day 85

This evening I taught My evening July Card Class so I thought I'd share a picture of another one of the cards we did in class----the cupcake card I shared earlier was also one. We completed 5 cards in class. I have extra kits and soon I will be offering kits that include everything to make 4 of the cards for $10.

Project 365 Day 84

Worked all day today preparing for the card class I'm teaching tomorrow night. That's pretty much all I did, so here is a picture of one of the cards. The top of the cupcake pulls out. Look girls! I added stickles! If I have extra kits left over they will be for sale. If so, I will send out pictures and info on the No Time 2 Scrap blog.

Project 365 Day 83

Don't remember too much about today since it was the day I got my tooth pulled. I do have a picture for the day. It's very attractive I'm sure, since it's of me when they put the mask on me to administer the sweet gas that gets me through these things, but it's on Debbi's camera so I can't share it with you as yet. I'll add it to the post when I have it----I'm sure you can all hardly wait!

Here you go girls---Here I am as I wave goodbye. It was off to dreamland for me.

Project 365 day 82

I spent the whole day and night at home today preparing for the card class I'm teaching on Thursday night. My friend Bev stopped by after work to pick up a couple of kits she wanted to purchase. She hadn't been here in some time and she commented on my yard. I have to pat myself on the back a bit for what I've done out there. When I moved in, it was all dirt. Then when spring hit it was nothing but a mass of weeds. I dug in and started working, and although there are things I still want to accomplish, I'm lovin' it. I went out and took a couple of pictures of the flowers that are blooming to share with you for today.

Project 365 Day 81

Well, it's Sunday and that means I get to go to church. Today's picture is of my pastor, taken while he was leading us in worship. Our worship team is really awesome! Our church is very new and very small. It's called Branches and we meet at 6:30 each Sunday evening at Multnomah University on Kietzke Lane. If any of you are looking for a great place to worship, learn and get to know a great group of people, I invite you to join me. Next Saturday we're having our first church picnic! How fun!

Project 365 Day 80---Sugarland!

Lucky. lucky me! I got the chance to go with Tracey to the Sugarland concert in Lake Tahoe last night and it was GREAT! What a show they put on! It could have gone on and on and I would have stayed to listen. Today's picture is one of Tracey and I all smiles to be there. Next stop--ITunes to download some of their music for my IPod.

Project 365 Day 79

Another busy day today. Matilda and I, along with her new friend Taylor and family went to the Sierra Safari Zoo. All the years I've lived here and I had never been there. Although it was pretty hot, we had a good time visiting the animals, then just as we were about to leave we got to see a peacock in his full glory and witness the mating ritual as he tried to attract a female he had his eye on. It was magnificent! The female however, was not at all impressed and completely ignored him. It was as if she were saying, "Yeah, yeah---I've seen it all before."

I put M's hair in pigtails for the day, and her hair just looked so healthy and beautiful as I braided it that I just had to take a picture. Don't you wish those kinds of things lasted as we grew older? I think we should go through the natural aging process until we turn 21, and then we should just stay the same as far as looks go until we die. What a good plan! I'm going to put that in the suggestion box and of course add that it should be put into effect retroactively. I wouldn't mind looking like I did at 21. How bout you?

I have also included a picture of the peacocks. I'm sure Cheryl or her husband got a better one than I, but this will do for now.

Finally, we ended the day at Wingfield Park to watch the movie "Some Like It Hot" outdoors. What a turnout! There were over 1,000 people there! The last picture I've included for the day was taken there at the park while Taylor was tickling Matilda. Can you tell that they had a great time together? New friends---What fun!

Project 365 Day 78

Matilda and I went with friends to the children's museum in Carson City today. She was such a good girl and she really enjoyed it. My picture of the day was taken there. The toy we were playing with looked like a canon and when you flipped a switch, air came out of the canon barrel. While Matilda was playing, it was sending her hair flying. What a great picture and what a fun day!

Project 365 Day 77

My new fountain was delivered today. It has to have a new pump installed tomorrow, so I am saving that picture until it's finished. While out there messing with it, I replanted a couple of plants in my yard and pulled some weeds. I fell while pulling one, so I'm done for the day. Time to sit in front of the fan and watch some TV. I also had lunch with a friend today and got a little work done on my kits. I put a couple of finishing touches on this layout which I am offering for sale. Info is on the No Time 2 Scrap blog.

Project 365 Day 76

Today was a normal Tuesday for me which usually finds me scrapping at Scrapper's Paradise for the evening. I finished up a couple of two page layouts that I'm going to offer for sale, so that will be my pic for today. If you are interested, the info can be found on the No Time 2 Scrap blog.

Project 365 Day 75

Believe it ladies---There is an actual picture on my blog today which means that I have my computer back, and even better---IT'S WORKING!! It's be a long and frustrating trip and it ended up costing me some money, so this thing better work and work well for a long time!
After picking the computer up today, I went to my friend Cheryl's house for dinner. She loaned me a few movies from her collection to watch and that is my picture for today. The one on top is one I've been wanting to rent for some time. Because of my love for Bonnie, I want to watch "Return to Me." I hear it's really good. Cheryl said it's one of her very favorites. I'm sure it will be one of mine as well. May have to end up searching Ebay for a copy.

Project 365 Day 74 Happy Fourth!

Happy Fourth to everyone! I hope you are all doing something fun to celebrate! One of my very favorite things to do on the Fourth is to go to Lake Tahoe for their fireworks show. It is the best I've ever seen and spening the day at Tahoe isn't bad either. Tracy and family decided to go at the last minute, but I decided to pass this year. Megan and Mikey are having a BBQ at thier house and I am going to stop by there later, then go to church. By the time I get out of church there should be fireworks in the sky. Wish I could see them from my little yard. It would be so pleasant to watch them there. Sometime I would love to go to the Aces game on the Fourth and see the fireworks show they put on after the game. That sounds like fun. For today imagine several pics of the BBQ with the kids. They are so photogenic---Don't you agree?

Project 365 Day 73

What a busy day I had today. I was supposed to go scrapping, but got sidetracked. I found a leaf blower on Craig's List, but had to go to Wal Mart to buy a cord for it, so that turned into a shopping trip. When I finished there, I had to go home and try it out, which turned into yard work. Matilda came over to play with me for a while and then I ended the day with scrapping after all up at TMI with some buds.

Now for my picture of the day. It has to be one of me with the leaf blower, so I had my imaginary boyfriend take an imaginary picture of me being so self sufficient. He's really hot by the way and he was so proud of me! I'm sure you all would have gotten quite a kick out of me out there with the thing. Boy, is it noisy! Anyway it does the trick and my yard now looks better then ever!

Projest 365 Day 72

Today I went with my friend Janice on an errand to Gordon's Photo. I helped her go through all the pictures on the cards from two different cameras. We chose and edited the ones she wanted to print. My imaginary picture for today is of the photo viewing machine we used at the store. I mastered it and Janice will soon have pictures in hand.

Project 365 Day 71

Well the joureny towarda age 60 continues. Today was much like every Thursday except that I babysat my grand dog Chloe for a few hours this evenig. She will be my imaginary picture for today. She is SO BIG, SO STRONG, and HAS SO MUCH ENERGY!!!

Project 365 Day 70

Well girls, the computer saga continues. Went to pick it up today to be told that there it has a virus that could be causing the problem. They are going to remove the virus at no charge for the inconvenience but that requires backing up everything onto an external hard drive for which there is a charge. Luckily I had a rather spunky friend along who got most of that charge taken care of----Thanks Girlfriend, and Happy Birthday! Anyway, now I should have the computer back good as new by Sunday morning at the latest. Stay tuned for the next installment.

My imaginary picture for the day is of the Geek Squad Service Manager since I looked at him for way too long today. Enjoy the picture---I drew little horns on it. Ha Ha Ha!

Project 365 Day 69

Today was filled with my normal Tuesday stuff except that the Direct TV guy had to come back to fix something he did wrong. This time he ame with a partner who happened to recognize Megan's husband Mike from one of the pictures on my shelf. Turned out he went to grace school, middle school, and high school with Megan. He will be my picture for today----Small World.

Here's a news flash for all of you---Hold on to your socks! I am supposed to get my computer back tomorrow! Cross your fingers and toes. I'll let you all know. There may actually be a real picture attached to my Project 365 project tomorrow.

Project 365 Day 68

Today is Monday and for some reason Monday's often are tough for me (rather like the song). This Monday was no exception. Except for having an instalation guy here to change me from Dish Network to Direct TV, I accomplished zilch. My imaginary picture for today is of the Direct TV guy. What excitement!

Project 365 Day 67

Today was another day spent with Matilda. What a cutie! Just imagine another cute picture of her playing in my yard. She doesn't have a yard to play in at home and she just loves it. She got to stay and go to church with me tonight and afterward I took her to Dickies for dinner. Then it was home to give her back to her parents---sob, sob. I can console myself with the fact that I get to take her with me on a camping trip in a couple of weeks thought---YEAH!

Project 365 Day 66

Busy, busy day! Went to a class this morning and then Matilda and I left straight from there to go to Wingfield Park and hear Christian bands. Megan and Mikey stopped by as well. My church's worship team is a band we call "Broken Branches" and they were the second to the last ROCKED!! I was so proud and they are my imaginary picture for the day. After that M and I took at trip to Toys R Us and WalMart then home to collapse in the living room in front of the TV. Whew!

Project 365 Day 65

I had Matilda here with me for the day and then went to dinner with my friend Cheryl. What a lovely day! Even better---Matilda will be back tomorrow and will be spending the remainder of the weekend with me! Cheryl and I ate at Los Compadres on 4th Street and today's picture is of the Mariachi Band, snapped as they sang a happy, happy song at our table. Thanks guys! I enjoyed it!
Oh! And while I'm doing imaginary pictures, I should include one of Cheryl in her new haircut! I think she would prefer that it be imaginary since it is VERY short. She did a little snipping of her own at home last night and had to go out and get emergency hairstylist help. Her little pixie cut is going to be perfect for summer. Wash and go! I'm feeling a little jealous.

Project 365 Day 64

Today I worked for a while at TMI. My friend Linda came in for a bit and I met her mother who has come to live with her. Imagine a picture of there smiling faces for today.

Project 365 Day 63

Today I spent a productive day with a friend, so imagine a picture of Janice here. She would probably prefer the imaginary picture to a real one being posted here anyway.

Project 365 Day 62

Since I am still doing imaginary pictures (GRRRR!), today's imaginary picture is of my therapist. I see him every Tuesday and will never have the nerve to ask for a real picture. So---Just imagine a picture of a real life saver here. It is only with his help and God's that I have survived the last couple of years. Thanks so much to my heavenly Father for carrying me in His arms and----Thanks Jim!

Project 365 Day 61

For some reason I am down in the dumps this evening, so today's imaginary picture is a self portrait of me with a frown on my face----lovely!

Project 365 Day 60

Today I had Megan, Mikey, Rochelle, Mike and Matilda over to the house to have a BBQ. That's right---I now have a BBQ! First a patio set and now a BBQ---as soon as I find myself a little leaf blower I'm going to be such a happy camper. Anyway, we had a great time and Megan made us homemade ice cream for the first time in the ice cream freezer they got as a wedding gift. I took quite a few cute pictures today, so just imagine pics of Matilda playing in her swimming pool, watering her strawberries, playing with a pill bug and enjoying her yummy ice cream.

Project 365 Day 59

This morning I went out to a few yard sales and then I was supposed to scrap until 10pm. Once there I really didn't feel so hot, so I didn't stay long. I then came home and curled up on the couch to watch Avatar. Really liked it, but would have loved to see it in 3D on the big screen. Although I didn't scrap long, I did manage to finish the next kit I will be offering for sale. That is my picture for today. The kit has a graduation theme and the picture will be uploaded to the No Time 2 Scrap blog as soon as I get my computer back. I bet you are all getting sick of hearing my say that! Believe me, I'm not thrilled about it either!

Project 365 Day 58

My friend Cheryl come over today with her grandaughter Taylor. We scrapped while Taylor watched the movie Aladdin, and then Cheryl and I watched the movie Valentine's Day. I loved it and I knew she would too. My imaginary picture for today is of that movie which I have added to my small collection right next to Love Actually. I now have a favorite for Christmas time and one for Valentine's Day.

Project 365 Day 57

Hello Everyone!
This evening I taught my evening card class for the month. My imaginary pictures for today are of the cards I taught. As soon as I can add real pictures intead of imaginary ones, I will be adding the pics to my blog and offering the left over kits for four of the five cards for sale. I had a lovely class tonight and got to stay afterward to visit with two of my dearest friends. If I haven't said so lately, I have been blessed with some of the best. I hope each and every one of you have friends in your life as great as the ones I have in mine. I truly could not get by without them!

Project 365 Day 56

Taught my daytime June card class today so imagine a picture of my students diligently working on their cards for today. I hope they all liked them. I am all ready for my class tomorrow night and I have watered my yard, done some more weeding and laid the six new paving stones I bought. I have another project I should work on tonight, but instead I've got a date with my couch, a heating pad, a movie and a little white dog. Ahh..indulgence! I think I'll have a bite of chocolate as well!

Project 365 Day 55

Today was spent getting ready for my card class tommorow. I was in quite a state without my computer to print out the greetings that I needed so today's imaginary picture is of my friend's Mac computer. She was kind enough to let me come over to print the things I needed, but her beautiful Mac is new to her, so I had to figure out where the word processing program was and how to use it. Well I figured it out, learned a bit nad was able to finish my prep for class tomorrow. Whew! Sometimes I just make it by the skin of my teeth and I don't like it that way! I am a planner and like everything neatly organized, ready and planned. Maybe next month...

Project 365 Day 54

Today I slept in way too late. The girls and I scrapped the night away until quite late last night, so I indulged myself. My daughter Megan and her hubby Mike celebrated their first anniversay today. Can't believe it---My kidlets are real adults. Doesn't seem possible. Anyway, the traditional gift for the first anniversary is paper. Perfect opportunity for a scrapping mom to make her kids a scrapbook! I finished it up today and took it by to them after church tonight. They spent the weekend in Tahoe together, and the paper bag album I made them is meant for their pictures from the weekend. It turned out pretty cute and since I have extra materials, I am going to offer it as a small class in my home. I took pictures of it which are my pictures for today. When my computer comes home I will be posting them on the "No Time 2 Scrap" blog with information about the class.

Hope that will be soon! Cross your fingers!

Project 365 Day 53

Today was filled with more errands and more scrapping. Debbi came over to scrap with me and then Cheryl called and came over as well. She came bearing gifts. She brought these yummy, yummy things she makes with biscuits and they are my imaginary picture for today. She brought them to Donna Jean's weekend made with cherries and they were SO good! This time she made them with peaches which I really loved as well. I'd share the recipe with you, but I have forgotten it already. I plan on getting it from her though. Yummy and easy---That's for me!

Project 365 Day 52

I'm scrapping the day and evening away today, but this morning I ran a couple of errands which included a stop at Home Depot to purchase the three more rolls of sod I needed to complete the little grass area I've made in my yard. I got it all laid and I've taken a picture which, of course, you can't see. My lawn is 18 square feet which might sound like a lot (at least it does to me), but it is really just enough for grandbabies to have picnics and swimming pools. Just a note to any of you running out to buy sod---Get a man! Those suckers are heavy! It may take the whole weekend for my back to recover.

Project 365 Day 51

I worked at Treasured Memories today and my imaginary picture is of my friends Debbi, Robyn and Linda who were there scrapping and keeping me company.

Project 365 Day 50

MONTHS ago in the dead of winter, my car's battery gave up the ghost and I had to have a new one installed. That engaged the radio's anti-theft thingy and my radio stopped working, It took me a long while to figure out what was going on, but finally discovered that I had to enter a secret code into the radio to make it work again. The secret code was supposedly on a card in the owner's manual---not so for me. Without the code, it said that you had to do a certain little trick to make the radio tell you what its serial number was and then call the Honda dealership, give them the serial number, and they would give you the secret code to turn your radio back on. This was all too much for me to bear, so I have been riding around with no radio ever since. These are the types of things for which I depend on a man and as you all know, I haven't had one for quite some time. I was to pick up my computer today (another horrifying story) so I got up determined to get some things taken care of that I have put off doing. I got in the car and tried to do the little trick with the radio so that it would give up its serial number to me to no avail. I decided that while out I would go to the dealer and see if they could help me. I took off, made a return at Michaels, picked up my computer at Best Buy (snarl), went through the drive through at Taco bell and headed down Kietzke hoping that's where the Honda dealer would be. It was and I headed into the service department with my tale of woe. The nice gentleman told me to pull my car right in and in less than 10 minutes my car radio was working and I was on my way. WHAT A DORK I AM! It has been months and months! Oh well, at least the radio is working again. Wish I could say the same for my computer! Now that I have made this post, I am headed back to Best Buy to find out why my USB port still doesn't work.

Project 365 Day 49

Have I mentioned what great friends I have? Today's picture is of my new patio set. My friend Tracey found it for me at a yard sale this past weekend and it is fabulous! I'm sure you will see it in future posts when I get my computer back. I spent several hours in my yard yesterday and have nearly completed all my weeding. It's looking great so I took some pictures this morning.

Project 365 Day 48

Today's imaginary picture is of the next kit I have completed for sale. It is another one with a western theme---great for rodeo time. It's titled "Rough and Ready." Scrapper's Paradise got in some wonderful flocked paper in that I just had to use. It will be posted on the No Time 2 Scrap blog as soon as I get my computer back. It is going to sell for $7 and since some are already spoken for, there is a very limited supply available.

Project 365 Day 47

Today I was able to get nearly all the pieces cut for the layout for Tuesday's Calendar Class. My imaginary picture is of that layout. It's entitled "It's a Guy Thing." If all goes well during class, I will have enough paper left over to make two extra kits for the layout only which I will be offering for sale. If that happens a real picture will be posted on the new blog I have started---www.notimetoscrapbook.blogspot.com. In the evening it was off to church for a potluck before services. I love my new church!

Project 365 Day 46

Finally got out of the house today. I was even up bright and early! I was scheduled to go to a friends house to scrap for the day and was ready too early to go so I went to a few yard sales. My imaginary picture of the day is a a sweet little Longaberger basket I picked up for only $5. After that I had a day and night full of---What else?---Scrapbooking!

Project 365 Day 45

My imaginary picture for today is of my car. It was left with the valet service at the emergency room on Wednesday night and I only just got it back tonight. It is amazing how much we take our cars for granted when we are used to having them right there at our service. I hope you all will join me in welcoming my Honda CRV back home where she belongs.
Welcome home______! Oh my goodness! She needs a name! Maybe you can all help me come up with one. I welcome all suggestions.

Project 365 Day 44

I have guardian angels in my life disguised as good friends. One of them was there for me all day today. My imaginary picture for today is of the Hawk Clinic which is where I spent nearly the whole day. My dear frind Julie was with me for every step. They have fixed me up temporarily and I have to go back soon and have the remaining part of the tooth pulled. Sounds like fun, huh? Would any of you like to do it for me? I'm taking volunteers.

Project 365 Day43

Today will not go down as one of my favorite days. My imaginary picture is of the emergency room at Renown. I was relaxing, watching TV and enjoying a snack of Crunch N Munch when I bit down and heard a loud crack. It was my bottom back tooth on the left side cracking right in two. I ended up in the emergency room where they patched me up temporarily as best they could and sent me home with good drugs. It's off to the Hawk Clinic tomorrow to deal with my latest disaster.

Project 365 Day 42

I sort of checked out today. I completely forgot an appointment I had at 1:00. I cancelled my standing appointment I have every Tuesday (something I NEVER, NEVER do), and I didn't go to Tuesday night scrapping. I really felt crummy and for most of the day could not even keep my eyes open. For my picture today you can imagine a boring picture of me with my eyes closed.

Project 365 Day 41

Today was Memorial Day and both scrapbook stores were closed for the day. That means there were scrappers out there needing a place to scrap on their holiday. I selflessly took two of those scrappers of the street and gave them scrapping space. Julie, Debbi and I had a good time scrapping the day away.

Project 365 Day 40

Day I ran a bunch of errands until it was time to head to Bible Study and church, all the while being very jealous of my friends Tracey and Casey and my daughter Megan who got to attend the Tim McGraw concert tonight. Just imagine a picture of Tim here while I imagine that I got to go to the concert.

Project 265 Day 39

Today I headed out to scrap for the day, but I stopped at a few yard sales on the way. Didn't find much but I did buy a set of turquoise rings that I really like. Would love to show you. Just imagine a picture of my hand on this post.

Project 365 Day 38

There were no crops to attend at the stores today. What horror! Well, we just had to scrap, so we did it at my house. What a surprise! Completed the sample layout for my next kit. It's theme is Smores. Hope you will like it. A picture will be on its way soon.

Project 365 Day 37

I am not giving up on my project, but I had to take my computer in for repair and won't be able to upload my pictures for a while. So--no pictures, but I worked a few hours at TMI today and then had friends over to scrap the night away. If I had a picture to post it would have been of the very cute layout I completed. I'm sure you would have loved it!

Project 365 Day 36

After returning from my fun scrapping weekend I had two full days of stuff to do and hadn't even had time to unpack my stuff, so this morning when it was time to tackle it I got hit with the Spring Cleaning Bug. I started in the bedroom and bathroom and began moving through the rest of the house. I'm not finished yet and will work on it again on Friday. Daisies are my favorite flower and they are so bright and cheerful that they just say "Spring" to me. I know that I have already included a picture of these daisies in my project, but I was so happy about how beautiful they still were when I cleaned this area that I just had to show them again. These are the flowers Megan and Mikey gave me for Mother's Day! Look how beautiful they still are! They bought them at Costco, so here's a big shout out to them for selling flowers of such good quality and beauty.

Rodeo Time!

This post will seem a bit redundant since I posted the picture of this kit for my Project 365, but bear with me.

After becoming aware of the success and popularity of the page kits from Out On A Limb, I have decided to design and sell a line of less expensive kits. They will not be as involved as many of my past kits have been and they will be easier and quicker to put together.

In addition to the cheaper prices, those of you in the Reno area will be able to pick them up with no shipping charges. Those of you outside of the area can earn free shipping by ordering a minimum of ten kits. You can contact me to order and pay for kits as they come out, and if you like, I will hold your order here and ship it out to you when you reach ten. If you can't wait and need them now, the shipping charge will be $3.50 for the first kit and $2 for each additional kit. I have included the sales tax in the prices so there will be no extra charges there.

I will be designing the kits and getting them out for sale as often as I can so check back often. I have added a search bar at the top of my blog. If you put "kits" in that search line, it will pull up all blog entries where kits are offered for sale.

Everything needed to complete the layouts will be included in the kits along with a picture of the completed layout and brief instructions. If you need to see a bigger picture, or be able to zoom in for a closer look, you need only email me and I will send you out a picture that you can look at on your computer.

Here in Reno rodeo time is coming up, so I have chosen that as the theme for the first of these new simpler kits. Hope you like it! There are a limited number of these kits available. They will be sold on a first come first served so contact me soon if you want one.

I still have "Lil' Buckaroo" kits available and since they have similar theme, I have included a picture of that layout as well. This kit includes much more and is more involved and is priced at $12 each.

Project 365 Day 35

Today I taught a card class and then scrapped with friends at Scrapper's Paradise as I do most Tuesday. I have decided to begin designing a line of page kits that will be simpler and therefore less expensive. I finished designing my first one over the weekend and tonight at the crop I was able to get the kits made. This first kit is going to be offered for sale on my blog site for $7.00. There will be more to come.

Project 365 Day 34

Today after teaching a Sketches Class in my home I was off to Lemon Valley to pick Peek-A-Boo up from Aunt Vicki's. I always come in and sit down on this chair in their living room and Peek-A-Boo immediately jumps up and excitedly showers me with kisses. Today after Peek-A-Boo jumped all the way up to my chest, one of their dogs named Peaches jumped up to join her on my lap. Here I am being welcomed home by the puppies.