March better come in like a Lamb

cuz I've had all the lion I want for a while LOL. Hi everybody....I'm back, for a few nights anyway. This week is district basketball so we have a game tomorrow night. If they win, then we have a game Thursday. If they win, we have a game on Saturday....and so on! It's March Madness in Missouri!

I did get to do some scrapping last night though. I did 4 pages in a little over 2 hours. I love layout kits. I also had one more simple layout I finished for Zane's album that I hadn't posted anywhere yet so I'll post it up here tonight.

Thanks for looking and hang in there........baseball games don't start hot and heavy until the first of April so maybe I can get some scrappin' done between now and then.

:sigh:

I'm tired, I'm cranky...........can I whine a little??

Life has been crazy with ballgames lately and I would love to just go home and sleep a few minutes and put my pj's on for about 3 days.

I'm behind on my blog, I haven't been on Scrappy Chic or sb.com in days, I miss my friends and I want some scrap time to destress and rejuvenate! We don't have ballgames for the next two nights but the house is a mess and laundry is behind again..........they tell me I'll look back in a few years and miss these days..........I'll miss some things but not the general upheaval of not being able to keep up with the little things in life.....like sweeping the floor.

Okay, whine and vent is over........back to work........spring is near - I hope!

I'm on a scrap high

31 pages in 2 days...yup yup...I'm on a scrap high!! My niece is caught up on everything that is printed. Already called my SIL and told her to get to printing. Only 24 layout kits in nephew's album and I'll need more to scrap..........if we have another blizzard................... (okay, not gonna go there)!

Blizzard 2011 - Perfect Scrap Weather!

The Great Blizzard of 2011 - I found the silver lining to that cloud. I had ALL DAY to scrap since the bossman texted at 5:30 a.m. and said they were closing down today!! I did 22 pages in 12 hours - gotta love sketches. I won't hit you with all of them, just a few of my favorites for the day. I'm happy to report that I'm less than 6 months behind on my niece now and if they close down again tomorrow which is a realistic expectation at this point, I'll have her caught up to what is printed. I already told my SIL to start sorting through pics and get ready to print again! I may actually have her caught up for her birthday this year!

snow UHG!

The only good thing about snow is that hubby will probably put my counter up this weekend. Yes, I'm doing a little changing in the scraproom again.....the big table in there is just not working for me. I really love that table....it is the old table top from mom and dad's house when I was a kid, but it just isn't working for me...I've tried everything to make it work out and yes, I'm a little crazy and OCD but the counter I had looking out through the window into the living room just worked so much better but..................

I do have an idea to preserve the "feeling" that table gives off. I have to get some additional help from hubby to make it work but stay tuned....if it works like I want it to, I'll post the results LOL.

I hope to get to do some scrapping this weekend but it is already filling up pretty fast so we'll see. We are on hold over the basketball games tonight at this point because it is snowing again. If they get cancelled, the counter top will go up tonight so I might actually get to work in there while doing laundry tomorrow....cross your fingers for me.

Finished a two pager and did two one pagers!

It's been a productive night....it helped that we were supposed to have a basketball game tonight which was called off and supper was finished in the crockpot when I got home. Everybody elected to use paper plates and I had a liner in the crock pot so NO DISHES. I didn't do any laundry tonight but who cares......got a lot of scrappin' done

I realized something this morning.

I'm never going to make a design team....ever. Why? Two reasons actually.

1. I don't scrap by manufacturer. I probably can't tell you two manufacturers in my whole scraproom unless the paper is still in a pack and possibly a couple of tools. I don't care who makes it, I care if the colors highlight my pictures.

2. I'm too simple a scrapper. I don't like to have to look through all the embellishments to find my pictures...yes, my pictureS. I seldom do a one picture layout unless it is for my niece or nephew and there is only one picture........which since I've preached to my SIL about getting good shots, there is ALWAYS more than one. I occassionally get a one picture opportunity when it is a picture of one of the kids with somebody special in their life but when I do get those, I like to keep the layout simple and the picture big.

I would so love to be on a design team somewhere or even just featured but I've come to accept that will never happen. I'm not a marketable scrapper since it doesn't cost $10 per page for one of my layouts so I'll never be accepted to a design team. Oh well, such is life. My kids love their books, my 4-H kids love to learn, and my 4-H moms love me because I'm not breaking the bank getting their kids involved in such a wonderful hobby....................