Who Made This Mess???

I was thinking I would get some scrapping done tonight for the "Pass the Turtle Shell" game over at The Scrapping Turtle forum, but look at my scrap room.  I think I can see a small area of counter, maybe that will work!!!  Well better get started tidying it up so I can get to work, I need to get it back to Heather by tomorrow sometime.

Change.....

That is my word for 2010.  Over at the Scrapping Turtle forum, one of the members starts the new year with a word that will reflect the upcoming year.  She has challenged everyone to do the same, so I chose "Change".  I don't mean change my husband (although some days I might consider it!!) or family, I mean changes in my lifestyle (meaning I don't need the latest and greatest in scrapbook supplies, or electronic gadgets etc., this will be a tough one).  I need to change my eating habits and better handle on my health, I turned 43 on Tuesday and I need to start taking better care of myself before I begin to have age related health problems (I can not believe I just wrote that!!).  My house (inside and out) needs a good purging and refreshing.  I could do with a new hair style, it has been pretty much the same since ...... well a long time, I believe I got it cut really short when Hannah was born, almost 11 years ago.

So here is where I am starting.  I started The X-Weighted Challenge on this past Saturday and it goes for 26 weeks.  I don't need to lose a lot of weight according to the web site, but I really, really need to get in better physical shape.

I think, so far I have had a pretty good start, I have put in 2 hours of exercise this week, and feel extremely exhausted today, so I am taking my rest day today.  My eating still needs working on, I need to be better prepared when I have errands to do, and stop hitting a drive thru for coffee, or lunch, that will be my downfall.  With my birthday being on Tuesday, my friend came over with these little goodies

And of course I had to eat 1 or 2.  Restraint, I need to really practice restraint!!  I will keep you up to date on my journey

And now I am off to do a layout for a game going on at the forum called "Pass the Turtle Shell".  It is where you take a little something from the previous persons layout and make it your own, then it gets passed to the next person and so on.  This is the third month we have been doing it and it is a lot of fun.  I will post the layout I make once they are all revealed.

Have a great day!!!
Shelley

Back to Normal?

The kids have gone back to school, and John back to work, but I can't seem to get the house back to normal.  The tree is still up, although I did bring up the boxes!! Christmas gifts still need to go to their proper homes, and the laundry, well what can I say about the laundry, will it ever be caught up?

I have been trying to fight off the sneezing and sniffeling, but I think it has officially turned into a cold, because my head hurts today and I feel stuffed up now.  I feel like making some home-made chicken soup, but that would require going to the grocery store and I am not up to that right now, so I will open a can!!

I am however going to get out the crock pot and throw some left over steak, peppers, onions, and some teriyaki sauce to slow cook, so we can have fajitas for dinner.  Yummy.


I also want to show you what I did on Monday.

This is the Monthly Mystery Kit from The Scrapping Turtle.  I purchased this mystery bag of goodies, made a layout with it's contents and posted it for everyone to vote on a winner, here are the other layouts.

Thanks for looking.
Shelley

Share the Flame

This past Monday (Dec. 28), the Olympic Flame came through our little village so we had to go check it out. Monique and Hannah had already been to see it in Georgetown 2 weeks earlier, so they knew where the hand-off points were and we promptly found one so I could get some good pictures. A few minutes later the Coke and RBC entourage went by, to pump up the crowd, then the bus with the torch bearers stopped and let out the next runner. Monique quickly ran over to him and shouted at me to take a picture with the flame, I wasn't sure we were allowed to hi-jack his torch, but he handed it over to Monique and waited for me to take a picture.




I do not know who that is beside Hannah, when she saw me taking pictures, she came over and got in the shot, maybe she thought I was from the paper!!!

And here is when they were passing the flame for the next leg of its journey.


What a moving experience, if you happen to get the chance to see it happen, go, don't miss it, because we don't know when it will be happening next.

Christmas Eve, fun at Nana & Poppa's house.....

All the creature's were stirring!!!!

The annual Christmas tree photo!!

The more people taking photo's the better!!

Present's, oh yeah, that's what I'm talking about!!!

A Wii, we have been wanting that for a long time!!

All little girls need a big yellow truck!!

HEY, that is Colin's Lego, why are you guys building it!!!



A boy (my brother Kevin) and his dog Breeze. She is such a well behaved doggy, considering there were 4 kids tearing around that night!!

Only 2 More Sleeps...........

until we go to Nana & Poppa's house. This has been a tradition for a long time, even when I was younger we went to my Oma & Opa's for Christmas Eve and once we got older we started to go to my Mom & Dad's. We love it because it leaves Christmas Day free for us as a family. John's family is invited up to our place for a big Brunch on Christmas morning, and after they leave it is quiet and relaxing.

Here are some pictures of Hannah and Colin decorating cookies today. Tomorrow Hannah's friend will be here and we are making gingerbread houses and chocolate goodies.

Triangle Santa Box .......plus a free file

Check out this little cutie, I designed him with the Silhouette. It took me a few tries to get the triangle box right, but I did it. You can download it on the bottom right under Silhouette Files. When you click on it, it will take you to my file sharing site, there are actually 3 files for the box. One is the box itself, which can be used for anything, then the Santa is done in 2 files, 1 for the white parts, and 1 for the red and flesh coloured parts. Have fun, let me know how it works for you.

Shelley

Bad Blogger, Bad, Bad Blogger!!

Things have been so crazy around here, I have neglected my blogging. There is to much to catch up on so I will give you an update !!

Final week of school and the Family Christmas and Craft Night at the school, what a blast that was, each teacher was hosting a craft in their classroom for the first hour and a half, then everyone congregated in the gym for some caroling accompanied by 2 guitar playing teachers and 1 piano playing one, it was so much fun. After the caroling, Santa arrived for the kids visit with and talk to him about whether they have been naughty or nice, I couldn't get all 3 kids to sit with him at once so here are the pics of each of them!!




Here are the little Teacher's Gifts I made with my Cricut. They had some chocolate covered coffee beans and a Chapter's gift card in them. I got the .cut file from this very talented lady's blog, so head on over if you want it too.



Oh, goodness you can see my mess in the background!! Oh well, all is fine when creating!! I think that will be my new Mantra!!!

And last but not least, this happened almost 2 weeks ago. John hit a dear (actually a large buck) on his way into work at about 6:00 am. We are still waiting for the insurance company to settle, they want to give us so little for the car, there is no way we can get a replacement for the amount they want to give us, so we are disputing.


So if I don't post again before Christmas, I would like to wish everyone a Safe and Merry Christmas.

Shelley

Win a L Letterpress Combo Kit

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My Latest Work

I wanted to share with you some of the scrapbook pages I have made for the Scraptacular On-line Crop over at the Scrapping Turtle Forum. It has been a lot of fun. The Design Team came up with some really fun challenges and games and these are the pages I have done so far:








If I happen to get any more of the challenges done I will share them with you.

Thanks for looking

My Baby is 5 Today

Happy 5th Birthday Colin

Lest We Forget

I took these photos of the ceremony at the kids school. What a moving ceremony, the kids did a fantastic job, I think it is great that they are learning about Remembrance Day and everything it stands for.

Playing with my Silhouette & a Freebie

I really haven't had much time to play with my Silhouette, but yesterday I attended a class over at The Scrapping Turtle with Lori. She taught us the basics like grouping, un-grouping, welding, and showed us a website with some free die cut files. One of the ladies in the class, had this really cute purse card, so this morning I was playing and designing and came up with this pretty close duplicate.



So I have decided that any files I will create, I will share. Go here to download the file.

I will also try to keep links to all my files here on my Blog, just as soon as I figure out how to do it!!!

Enjoy

My First Real Post!

Well here I am, in the blogging world, so now what? I post something, that's what. But what do I post, well I have decided to post little snippets of my life, however mundane they may be, hence the title of my Blog.

...so without further ado

This past weekend was absolutely gorgeous, the weather was in the high teens, sunny and warm, a great change from the cold, rain, and snow.

The girls went to Toronto with their Nana B to stay at their Aunt's house. While there they took in some sights like the CN Tower, Harbourfront Centre, but there main reason for going to the city was to see Cirque du Soleil's Ovo. I have seen two different Cirque shows, and they are fantastic, and I am told that this one is by far their best ever, if you ever have the opportunity to see one, I highly recommend it.

John was down in Turkey Point at the trailer this past weekend to finish more of the deck, so Colin & I decided to join him on Saturday. It was so warm there yesterday, in the low 20's, who would of thought to go to the beach in November. It was so peaceful and quiet, most of the seasonal cottages are closed as well as the seasonal restaurants, the lake was calm and beautiful in the morning. I managed a couple of pictures.

The Beach in November



Yes it is a bit foggy over the water, because the air was so warm and the water freezing!!

The new deck partly finished



and Colin in the park, they have the best playground there.

Spooktacular On-line Crop

The Scrapping Turtle Forum, is having a "Spooktacular On-Line Crop" beginning Nov. 13. There will be fabulous challenges and ballots given out to participants to win some awesome prizes, If you are new to the forum, go and register, tell them I sent you, complete at least 2 of the challenges from the on-line crop and we will each win some ballots.