My wish for just a date.....

didn't come true. There was more to be added to my teddybear lay-out than I wanted, BUT.... It turned out pretty neat, even if I say so myself!  If I change my mind, I may take off the wire, and re-arrange the cluster, but the blended picture of Perky, is definatly there to stay.... We'll see.

Granted, I haven't done a whole lot of them, but I don't think I've done a progressive scrap that had this many twists, turns and flat-out switchbacks as this one.... Nobody got stumped to the point that they quit though and that was cool! Go take a look at: Progressive Scrap Gallery

Here's my final result.....

I'm going to look at the pictures I took Monday, and see if I can put some pages together. Maybe even practice extracting..... There's a way to include the little fuzzies in hair and such, but I don't remember where I saw the tips, so I'm just going to play, and hope I remember what I did, when I get there LOL 

There's no way this side of the universe (barring a lottery win) that I'll be printing them, but it IS a nice way to spend a wintery, cold, rainy, better stay inside day LOL. As long as I have my helper nearby, full coffee-cup and some music.... I can hibernate as good as the next bear! LOL 

If I could only have a view of our Christmas tree while I was doing it..... deep sigh!

Tomorrow is supposedly a nice dry day of 48 degrees, so we'll make a trip to storage, and see what we have that we can do without, and maybe (gasp) even find things we've been looking for to take home with us....

Stay safe, and have a VERY blessed 2011!

Life goes on.....

Well, Christmas is over (Tree is staying for a little bit longer though, don't want to lose that holiday feeling yet) and life goes on. Mike is back to work, after 1 day off. I have 2 doctors appointments and 1 test this week, and than it's 2011 already....... I pretty much lost out on 2009 and 2010.... I'm hoping I'm going to enjoy and remember 2011!

We have things we would like to do next year, wishes for each-other, and a small leftover supply of optimism that we are keeping close to our hearts. We've learned over the last 18 months, that Murphy's Law, is anything but a myth.... Anything that CAN happen, WILL happen.... and we don't want to jinks anything LOL

Did my picks for LayOut of the Week at Ivy.... tough one, and I was sooooo glad we were given extra time this week.... I keep thinking it's Monday, and I about had a heart attack! I thought I had missed it again. Than realized it was Sunday, and went in a panic, because it was after 10! (WAY after 10)   But found out that we had extra time... THANKS DENISE!!!

Just put the finishing touches on the 4th step in the progressive scrap at DigiDesignResort... I'm out of ideas! SO GLAD there's only one step left, and I hope that amounts to nothing more than putting a date in! LOL

Not sure how these work, but I'm quietly thinking that Elaine goes thru the gallery to figure out what the next step should be to keep everybody thinking LOL It's fun though. When I started, I would have liked to leave the page "as is", but now that I added things, it DOES look better..... 

Last step should be done by the 31st, and than I have to get cracking on the next MEGA from IvyScraps.... Haven't heard anything about it yet, so I'll be as surprised as you are!  The December kit was so much fun, I've been trying to take pictures to match the kit, so I can play some more LOL. That was probably not the smartest move I've made in a while, but hey..... Gotta have some fun too.

Made moms potato salad for Christmas.... well, let me rephrase that, I instructed Mike on what to do next. I tried peeling potatoes, and was about one and a half spud into 2 pounds, when my hands were cramping so bad, I couldn't even hold on to the knife, let alone work it without risking serious injury, so after that, My ROCK took over. He's soooooo cool! I didn't even have to ask. He just came in, parked my butt on a chair in the kitchen, and started! We have an agreement. I try, and if I need help, I'll ask. Sofar, it's the "I try" part onlybecause I still have a hard time asking for help. Mike knows when to let me be, and do things at my speed (A snail would beat me, most times) and when I'm so frustrated with myself, that I'm ready to cry. And than he just quietly comes in, and takes over..... Don't know what I would do without him.

Didn't send any cards this year, again..... BUT, atleast I had enough sense to send some thru email.... I KNOW I forgot a bunch of people, and I hope they'll forgive me. I tried over time, to keep reconstructing my email address book, every time my computer blows up, but..... you know how that works, right? LOL 

AND! drumroll please.....

The store at FLIGHTS OF FANCY 

is set-up, and open. The GrandOpening is not there yet, but... go take a look and sign up for the news letter, so you don't miss it! 

(Yours truly puts the NewsLetter together, so I'll let you know when it's available on the site, but... it never hurts to get an advance copy in your email! Am I right?

Gotta run, maybe I'll catch up with you before years end, if not 

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Did you ever.....

Google for blog-trains?
I hadn't, until today! MAN O MAN did I NOT know what I got into LOL

I had on the calendar that on the 15th, a blog-train would start, but in  my foggy state of mind, never bothered to add where.... so, since google is pretty much my best friend, I did a search, figuring "how many can there be?

i should have smelled trouble when it came up with a possible list of extra searches, but no, I just HAD to hit enter.... 478 and 6 zero's!!!!

I quietly closed the search window and started going thru the blogs I look at on a regular bases....

I found the one I was looking for, (the one at bits and bobs) and while going thru it, and catching up, I found 3 more, so.... I'm, going to make my goal this week...Staying out of trouble, more or less LOL

Got some train travel to take care of but just in case I'm not coming up for air before Saturday.....

Have a great Christmas every one!!!

Hugs,

Pauli

I should have been

trying if I could use the vacuum-cleaner, without crying, do dishes, even if it is one cup at a time, maybe even, fold clothes, but............. I didn't.
Honestly, who didn't see that one coming!?!? LOL

I was checking email, and saw that the progressive scrap at Digital Design Resort started yesterday. Tomorrow, we'll be traipsing into Chicago for my passport and some other stuff we need to do at the Embassy, and the deadline for the first step of the scrap is tomorrow midnight, so .... I HAD to do it today.......

I started with the picture. I've been wanting to scrap that puppy for a long time, and this just seemed the right time. I didn't have any word-art to go with it, like the instructions said, so I made my own, by putting a rust style on Baskerville alpha, and using a couple of letters of the cat-silhouette font.... The bad thing is, I like the page just as it is, and don't want to put anything else on it..... and there's 5 steps in the scrap. I'm going to be in SOOOOO MUCH TROUBLE!!!!!

Now that I have that out of my system, I'm going to see if I can get interested in those dishes! LOL

Dishes are done, and I checked on "my" sites... Guess what? The voting started for Lay-out of the month at Ivy Scraps. Go take a look, and vote for your favorite. And the new vote for Lay-out of the week is up too...  Couldn't believe my eyes.......

gotta get some sleep, alarm will go off at 2.30  EEK!

please do not open hallmark cards......

Hi,  I try not to be an alarmist, but this one is bugging me!!!  I just got an email from my sister, so it's in Dutch, however, here's the geste of if.....

There's a really nasty virus out there, attached to Hallmark E-Card!  Because of more people sending cards around the holiday, somebody thought it would be fun to attach a virus to e-cards....... SO, DO NOT OPEN ANY HALLMARK CARDS !

The virus was discovered by McAfee, and made  CNN as the most destructive virus yet! There is no remedy for it, and it WILL destroy the core sector of your harddrive!
SO PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE be careful and do not open!

Forward this message to as many people as you possibly can, so the destructions will stay to a minimum...

Hugs,
Pauli

I just found the COOLEST thing!

I was surfing, and I came across this cool idea!

Mind you, I'm a geek, and my hubby loves old cars and taught me to love them also, so this is a VERY logical "must have someday" item LOL

Feast your eyes!

It's a 500 gig Delorean flashdrive!

Is that cool or what!?!

It's on preview at MacWorld.com  There's no price for it yet, but you can bet your shirt, that I've bookmarked it!    Mike would probably use it for time-machine system back-up, but I KNOW he would love it!

New monthly Mega at IVYSCRAPS

IvyScraps  has a new Mega. It's full of wintry/Chrismassy stuff. Don't take my word for it though....Go have a look here.

I was supposed to try and get some housework done, so I can start setting up the Christmas tree tomorrow, but I opted to play, while I could. It took me a long time to put these together, not because the kit doesn't have anything, but between the awesome amount of stuff to sort thru and having to take breaks because my hands didn't want to work...... I started Sunday! My hands are killing me right now, but I wanted to share and I'm taking the rest of the day off LOL.  I'll put the required links and such in tomorrow, or when my hands will let me. Meantime, go check the the kit at WWW.IVYSCRAP.COM

My sister supplied (unintentionally I may add, LOL) the snow pictures. The tree is ours, from last year.

Talk to you soon!