We're back...

Hi,
We are back from the cruise, and it was fantastic!
We did so many wonderful things, met neat people and got lots of cool stuff!
I haven't uploaded my photo's into the computer yet, and i probably won't for a few days.
Tomorrow i am going to ScrapPink at Hannah's in Antioch and then i have a baby shower in Rockford on Sunday for my niece.
I will be back next week with photo's and details.
Take care.

Really, really BAD news...

I had plan to come here tonight to post some photos of our great finds at the Renegade Craft fair on Sunday.

Problem #1: Photo's won't upload.

Problem#2: I am having a hard time caring.

My husband lost his job yesterday.

For those who don't know his work was based on the housing industry and we all know how that's going. So needless to say they fired him and 7 other people.

We've been here before. I am not looking forward to this trial in our lives, if it's not one thing it's another. The only thing i hope is that we can pull together and become closer (and that he finds another job really, really soon).

We leave on Saturday for our Disney cruise and i can't wait. When we get back...reality check.

Rain, rain go away.

Seriously, go away.

It is Sunday afternoon and Joel and i are sitting here watching the Bear's game...they are winning, but it is only the 1st quarter.

We are supposed to be downtown at the Renegade Art Fair. We keep watching the weather channel to see when the rain might stop. Hopefully in about 2-3 hours we will be rain free.

Until then, rain, rain go away!

Sushi Station! Sushi Station! Sushi Station!

Soooooo, tonight Joel and i went to one of our most favorite restaurants Sushi Station. We had just finished eating when our friend Oki (spelling) who works there comes over and asks us if we want to be in a commercial.

We agree (what were we thinking). We are escorted to the back room and a blue screen where we had to dance and say "Sushi Station, Sushi Station, Sushi Station." Then they took some shots of Joel serving me sushi and me picking it up with chop sticks.

It was fun but i am not sure i want to see myself on TV.

They are going to email us the commercial when it's done. If i find it presentable i will post it on here. Probably in October.

Glitter much...

Saturday at work i decided to glitter up a pumpkin. I bought one of those foam pumpkins at Michael's and then used the Martha Stewart Glitter set and glue that we sell at Archiver's.

I masked off the stripes with scotch tape (that was all we had) and then i glittered and glued my heart out. I love Martha's glue, it is so fine and really great quality for little cost. Her glue i had never used until this project, but now i am sold on it.

I then punched these spiders out with Martha's spider punch, i used KI glitter paper. The black wire is actually Bind-it-All wire. The spiders are glued to it and then i just pushed the wire into the top of the pumpkin. There is also a bunch of ribbon that is held in place by a couple straight pins.

Full shot of pumpkin

Monet's Frame

I was able to get another photo to upload. Here is the birthday frame i made for Monet, i also made on for Caitlin but in yellow. The number at the bottom is removable and can be replaced with each new birthday.




That is all. I will try and upload another photo later.

Finally, the blog boycott is over...

So, I've been boycotting my own blog, strange, i know. When i started this thing i had such visions of grandeur. Unfortunately, those things cannot occur because of the job i have. Non-compete, I can't be on any design teams for scrap booking or the like. Big bummer.

Then came the issues with the photo uploading. I am so frustrated with resizing all my photos and then still not having them upload on here.

Needless to say, the boycott is over and i apologize to my two readers for the delay! :)

Things have been pretty crazy around here. We've been getting ready for the holidays at the store (Halloween and Christmas). We have two weeks to the day left until we leave on our cruise. I am hoping that we won't be dealing with any hurricanes or tropical storms.

*Internetus Interuptus* (Just as i went to upload some photos i was kicked off the Internet).


Let's try this again...


SIDE NOTE: I started updating this blog at 6pm last night, it is now 11am on Sunday. Every time i try to upload a photo i get kicked off the Internet...can anyone help me.

I was able to get two photos to upload.

I made these books for the girls with Teresa Collins covers and the Bind-it-all machine which i am totally obsessed with.

I will try to get the inside photos and the matching frames i made to upload later.







Have a great Sunday. We are off to Caitlin's (our Goddaughters) 2ND birthday party and then i have to go to a meeting at work tonight. It's gonna be a long day.