It's Getting Cold Here

OMG! I'm so not a cold weather person! It only makes me want to drink more coffee - is that even possible?! LOL! So, over on the Ohio Rubber Stampers group I'm in they did a Crazy Calendar Day swap. Did you know that October is chocolate lovers month? Well it is and that's the crazy holiday we celebrated this month! I knew I wanted to do two things with this month's card too! I had to use one of my beloved Changitos and I wanted to do something different then I've done before! Well, I accomplished both! I made my own little hot chocolate holder! YEAH! First, here's the pics;

Here is the outside. I used all SU paper products here, Close to Cocoa, Whisper White and Brocade blue - matching inks too! The neat punch is actually a Fiskars punch that I had to have (yep, had to! LOL!) since it matched another punch I had just gotten, and used on the inside, of snowflakes! My monkey came from Mandy, of course! The snowflakes are from a retired SU set - sorry its not available anymore!



Here's the inside - I kept it simple so that the person I sent it to could personalize it to her needs!



I hope you like my little cocoa holder! I can't wait to make more!

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Until next time....

It's a Wrap!

We actually have windows now and the Tyvek wrap on our house! YEAH! So here's this week's picture! Gotta run now, my honey is panicking since I need to get ready for church - starts in over an hour! Sheesh!

Until next time....

Busy Saturday!

What better way to end a crazy first week back to work then with a crazy busy Saturday! I didn't get to do much with WCMD but that's okay I got to spend some quality time with my family! Here are some pictures from our Saturday;

Our day started with another race - a 5K (3.1 miles). I chose to do this one since the profits go to "Children's Miracle March" of Dayton! Gotta love a place that cares about children! I wouldn't have met my little DeDe had it not been for a place like this! I'm so thankful for them!

Here I am pre-race! I don't know why I had my shirt tucked in, maybe because I was SO cold!



Aaah here's my honey! He decided that morning to run with me - just for fun! Leave it to him to actually WIN 1st place for his age group! I think he was just showing off! LOL! Nah, just kidding!



Saturday was homecoming for Breanna too! She has the prettiest silver dress and matching shoes! Not that I put biased statements on here about my youngest child or anything....! LOL! She asked me to do her hair too so I added some shots of that in there as well!



Watch out Paris! LOL!



So except for a "hot date" with my honey at a Mexican restaurant and walking through Best Buy looking for refrigerators that was our day! LOL! Sounds like a ton of fun too huh?! LOL!

Until next time....

Back To Work.....

Aaaah my days of lounging are over! That picture looks just like me except I should be holding a cup of Starbucks instead! LOL! I'm back to being a "working chump"! I got hired to work on base as administrative support. It feels good to know I have a paycheck coming in again. I'm lucky to have a supporting husband who only asks me to work if I want to - and I do! LOL! Breanna is happy too, then again I always say it's my job that keeps her in "Hollister"! LOL! So, weekdays I'll be there, weeknights and weekends I'll be "here"! LOL! Wish me luck!

Until next time....

Tag I'm "It"!

Remember that game from when we were younger?! Chasing each other around until you're so out of breath you just collapse on the ground and laugh some more! The computer version is just as much fun, okay it's funny (funny to find out who's the weirdest that is! ) just a funny minus the itchy grass feeling you get after laying in it for too long! LOL! So I've been "tagged" now and am about to reveal seven, yes, brace yourself, 7 strange facts about me! Now who did this? The person to point the blame at is none other then Dragana Skoro the "Happy Inker" herself! You have to visit her blog as this is one seriously talented lady! I'll wait for you to come back...... Okay are you back now?! Back to me! Here are those 7 treats, I mean "facts" you're dying to know about me!

Oh yeah, what's a game without rules?! Here they are;

So, the rules are:

Link your tagger and list these rules on your blog.
Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
Let them know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

Back to those "oh so fun" details about me!

1) I can't eat meat with a bone in it! Don't know why but I can't! My DH always takes the meat off the bones for me! What a guy huh?!! He's the bestest!

2) I'm really not 29 - ha ha ha! I love that little kids at the school where I worked as a registrar used to totally believe me since that's "old" to them! I blow out the candles Oct 27 but I won't say how much experience I have at it!

3) I don't like stuffed animals! I know, what's wrong with me?! I used to pay my kids to get rid of them at yard sales! LOL! They liked that I pointed out the monetary value in them if they sold them! LOL!

4) I ran my first half marathon when I had 13 years of experience at being 29 and my second one a week ago! He he he I see you counting on your toes!

5) I've moved over 29 times in my life (twice overseas)! First as a child with my parents! My Dad climbed the corporate escalator and it moved us up the country! Then as an adult while military and now as a dependent spouse - still on the move!

6) I can wiggle my nose and my ears and pinch with my toes! Breanna can too, she's just working on the toe thing! Just wish it didn't happen in Church - I do admit it's funny to watch my DH try not to laugh when he's the victim of choice!

7) When I go grocery shopping I have to put things in the buggy neatly - like a puzzle. I also have to unload it to the belt myself! My poor family get funny looks because they don't help - I'll just fix it and tell them to let me do it! LOL! It has to be done a certain way... Needless to say I go alone a LOT!

Okay that's me in a nutshell! Now I get to choose my 7 victims, I mean other bloggers! So I choose.....

Kela - my good friend who loves me a lot!! Maybe not after this tag but....
Mandy - my favorite Changito monkey enabler!!

You know who else I'm tagging?! I am on the new Design Team for "The Rubber Cafe" and have some extremely talented team mates! I think I need to know more about them! He he he! I Tag them "ALL"!! Don't hate me girls!! Can't wait to see your interesting facts! LOL!

Okay I'm off to let my team mates know I tagged them!!

Enjoy!

Until next time....

More of Bon Appetit!

I couldn't leave well enough alone! I had to play with my set from "The Rubber Cafe" a little more! My set of stamps called "Bon Appetit" just sat there begging for more attention so, I caved! I did it! LOL! One year we were given this book on wines. Great gift for someone who likes wines right?! My DH drinks wine, I don't drink at all! Don't get me wrong here it is a great gift but, what if you wanted to make something to go with it..... something to mark the place of the next wine you wanted to try perhaps?! That's what I was thinking when I made the book mark below!

I used scraps from all my other projects with this set but I used StazOn brown ink to put the leaves on the cork.



I had gone to an Italian Festival with a friend a few weeks ago. While we were walking around I found the cork I used here and thought "I should keep this since you never know when you might need one"! I wasn't wrong! LOL! I needed it shortly afterwards! YEAH!

The next picture is using that same set "Bon Appetit" from "The Rubber Cafe" but this time I used it for accents on a scrapbook page! I had some pictures taken a few years ago (don't know who that fat chick is in the picture.....oh wait...it's me!) of when my family came to California (I was due any day if you can't tell!). We went to a few wineries in Napa Valley and my parents took this picture of me and my two younger brothers! The brother on the right (in the picture) is the same brother who was just up here to run the 10K at the USAF marathon and the other is the one who just got back from Iraq a month ago!


This is a shot of the whole layout. You can barely see them since they're on black but the bare spaces actually have dew drops in them! I used scraps from my other projects for this layout. The solid is from The Paper Company and the DP is from Bo Bunny Press! I used SU Purely Pomegranate ink for the stamped images.



This is a close up so you can see how the grapes look and totally tie in the wine/grape theme of the layout! The journaling for the page was written in the "frame".



Well, I hope you like my projects! I have one more to do and then it will be on to a new set with all sorts of new ideas I've already got going! LOL!

Until next time....

Newest Blog Header Photo

Do you like my new blog header photo?! My daughter took this picture last weekend at the marathon! Kind of gives you an idea of how early we had to get up that day but that's besides the point! LOL! I love the warm colors of the horizon as the sun rose over Wright Patterson AFB! She has such a good eye for pictures, JMHO of course as a biased Mom! LOL!

Enjoy,

Until next time....