Picklelicious

Rusty Pickle is one of my favorites. This morning I threw together this with fathers day in mind.

At the scrapbook expo Rusty Pickle was selling books of corigated cardboard!!! Hmmm cutting up a cardboard box is easy enough... so out came the razor blade and straightedge from my husband collection of tools.... and I cut up 4 pieces and started ripping and inking and .....

yes thats newpaper you see.. I should have inked that too.. oh well next time...

Its not a style that everyone likes but its different and fun to PLAY with different styles and I think the black ink looks like grease ;)

Daffodil Hill

Friday I had the day off and we enjoyed it by taking a drive to Daffodill Hill.

The drive up highway 88 was beautiful with the green hills ( that only happen a month or so in the spring out here in Cal). Spring was in the air and the sun was shining.

The daffodills were everywhere. It was so pretty. A new photographer was born that day.

Kailtyn took over my digital and was looking like a natural. Its a little erry to think that she learns all this from mimicing me!!! She was focusing and sizing up the shoot and telling her subjects even what to do! I guess I'm going to have to look into getting her her own camera.. digital because this girl is shutter happy.

My first class back at school is wrapping up and I need to get ready for Easter and the boys 16th birthday the same weekend. We also are looking forward to a visit from our close friend Jim from New Hampshire.

Hope you enjoy the daffodill pics

Busy, busy bee

I have been so busy with school back in the picture now, I was nervous how I was going to fit it in even though I am at home all day.....however Kailtyn has begun to out grow her nap, so the hour + I thought I'd have to jump on line and get some work done for school just isn't there sometimes. I try to get her involved in a creative project so I can work but then I get interupted by her to see or help with this or that.. so I have resorted to night times to get the main parts done and that is so hard for me because I am such a morning person.

I am excited to be getting a new super computer soon. Thanks to Sean's company. Its not ordered yet but hopefully soon so scheduling coputer time with the boys won't be a factor anymore. Soon I hope the three computer users will have access soon.

Had a great weekend! The scrapbook expo was close by and I drove the mustang over rockin out to some cool tunes with the top down in some AWESOME march weather. The wind and the great music can't help but put you in a great mood.
THe expo was okay.. went a little overboard at the Rusty Pickle booth.. just love all that distressed stuff!
Sunday I wrote my school paper in the am and the three of us Sean Kaitlyn and I went golfing!!!
Kaitlyn was so cute and she could really hit the ball, it must be her grandfathers genes in there.
I need to call him today .. almost did at the golf course. It was beautiful weather and she REALLY enjoyed it. We drove the cart around the whole 18 hole. I was a great family fun.
The real bummer was I brought my camera and I pulled it out and went to take some pics and the battery was dead.... and the one time I don't bring my purse... I don't have a spare battery!!
So I used my phone... now I need to figure out how to down load them off my camera.

My blog feels and looks naked without pics, need to get my camera cd to upload this computer with the software so I can fix that!!

Hope this week slows down a bit!

Spring Fever

I don't mean to brag or rub it in to those of you in the north east corner of my world but the weather out here in Cal has been unbelieveable!!!
Its been so great I have been drivng the convertiable every chance I get!!!
We all as a family got our first sunburns of the season!!! We created an RC racing track out back for Matt and his friend to race on. Sean brought home a Bobcat and spent the day creating the track... now of course he "NEEDS" an RC car.... hmmmm who's the kid here?
However I will admit the cars are pretty cool and the flicker of getting one for Kailtyn and I flashed before my eyes... then left.. thankfully.

The weather has not been good for my studies. I had to spend every spare moment cranking out a paper for class. No cooking or laundry for this gal today... infact I have spent every free second on this key board.. I forgot how time consuming writing papers for classes are!!!
Well its done and I'm free for tomrrow to enjoy the spring sun!! Horray!!

Black Hole

I feel like I have been in the black hole since saturday.
My main desktop died without warning .. I was panicking because I am taking classes online so I didn't want to get behind and I had things due for grading... ugh...
My lap top was lacking security and the desktop we bought for Kaitlyn last March had to be connected.... so swapping those out and setting up the internet wasn't enough of a delay....
I soon realized that Kaitlyn desktop had no word processing,spreadsheet or powerpoint UGH!
So figuring the work around has been time consuming everyday.....
typing on one desktop , burning and uploading to the internet to get the assignment in on time has not been fun or efficent.

Yesterday I took the time to talk to the Dell gurius and got a price for a new system... gosh wish I had my taxes done sooner... as it was more expensive than I thought to include all the software... remember when computers came with software and security?
Guess with prices going down on technoloigy they have to make a buck somewhere.

Good news I have been able to retrieve this years pics off my harddrive.. I had already backed up prior years....

well gotta get going on the class work.....
hope to get some me time this weekend.. to scrap book or escape .... ahhhh

My version of Ali's Maya Roads Mini Album

This is my version of Ali's Class Kit. It was alot of fun to put together and I have started a couple for upcoming birthday gift for friends and family this month because I loved putting them together. Its so fast and fun and most of all PLAYFUL. I got the photos amd the journalling all done in one sitting!!!!

Its made out of a Maya Roads 4x4 mini raw binder, that comes with 8 inner pages.

The kit used transparency and stickers to create the extra pages.

The options are enless... hope this inspires some of you.