Middle of Nov.?!

I cannot even believe it is the middle of Nov. already!  I feel like from here on out we speed thru the rest of the year.  Before we know it we will be ringing in 2011!!!  Personally I am kind of glad that this past week is coming to an end!  It’s been a doozey.  It’s been one for the books.  Why not throw 2 house showings, starting a new job, 5 salon appts., being a single parent all week because Hubby is off hunting, cleaning, and putting out dramatic fires between 3 lively little girls all into one week.  Until next year!

 

It’s a busy but fun week ahead!  I love thanksgiving!  My kids all get to be home this week with no school!  I love weeks off that we don’t have to pack lunch, drop off and pick  up at preschool, and that we can all be home together!  We have our annual friends dinner the night before Thanksgiving!  Always something to look forward to!  I think the tradition is like at least 7 years in the making!  Our group of friends (along with all our families) gets together  over dinner out - I love traditions!  And Thanksgiving Day…of course full of traditions!  And Black Friday – well not so full of tradition – looks different for us every year I think!  Not a Black Friday shopper at all.  Occasionally we have gone out later afternoon to see what kind of deals are still left, but we don’t do the crazy early morning shopping.  And so far I haven’t seen any deals that I just have to have this year, so I think I’ll sleep in!

 

So I’ve done a little blogging over at The-Lilypad!  If you have ever wondered how to easily mat your photos in Photoshop CS or Photoshop Elements, then go learn a little bit from my Tips & Tricks: Digital Matting tutorial!

That’s it for tonight.  For some reason I am up yet at 1:00am, and I really should be sleeping (I may have actually dozed off a few times during writing this post)!  I actually have no LO’s to share because I haven’t really worked on anything since last weekend scrapbook weekend.  Unusual, I know!

MandaKay

Whataya want from me…

I’m channeling my inner “Adam Lambert” tonight.  I’m not even sure why that title popped up in my mind.  Maybe it’s because I sometimes view blogging as a chore.  Not very often, but sometimes.  Now, I fully realize I don’t HAVE to blog.  It’s totally up to me if I write my thoughts down or not.  98% of the time I enjoy blogging.  My friend asked me the other night if I had a new blog post up recently, and I said “no, I think it’s been a little over a week”.  I then had to explain to the girls I was with that I actually have had many an instance over the last week where I thought to myself “I’ve got to blog about this”, but then when it comes down to it I don’t.  Some of the things I have wanted to blog about I don’t because of the fear of offending someone.  How dumb is that though, because this is my blog, my journal.  Some things I forgot that I was going to blog about.  Some things I just can’t blog about quite yet, so there you have it, that is why I haven’t blogged in over a week!  So, without further ado…here is my new blog post!

 

I had such a great Fri. and Sat. this weekend!  I went with some friends to a local hotel, for a scrapbook weekend!  After a great lunch with a friend we got all set up and started scrapping!  The dinner Fri. night was great, and I think we scrapped until about 1:00am!  Sat. morning we were right back at it after breakfast, had a great buffet lunch, and then scrapped until about 4:30.  By that time I had to get the girls from my in-laws!  It was a great weekend, so needed for this Mama, and I felt like I got a lot of things done!

The week ahead is rather daunting to me and I am trying to remain calm about all that is going on over here!  Any prayers for me would be appreciated as I delve into a new job and back into that mode again, after 5 months of being unemployed!  I am excited and I think it will be a great opportunity!  Lot’s of other busyness on top of that too of course!

 

And of course I have scrapping pages to share – seems like I always do!

Here are two new LO’s with some newer Lilypad goodies.  I started this first LO of my Dad on Veterans Day and finished it up this weekend – love documenting history for my family!  The second is of course another LO for my Disney album…it is slowly but surely getting done!

This next group of LO’s are all done for the new journaling challenge going on at The-Lilypad.  The point of the challenges is to finish a 20 page book with your heart into the journaling.  For this album I chose to do it largely on me and my thoughts/likes/etc…

And finally this set of LO’s will be done to put together a book with a lot of journaling and something that I hope my girls will LOVE reading and looking at someday!  The whole book/template/journaling prompts can be bought actually over at The-Lilypad is called Grow With Love:Kids by Sara Gleason and Crystal Livesay.  They are currently doing a 2 a week blog post with a new journal prompt each of those 2 days.  Join in…I dare you!  You will not be sorry you did!

That’s all I have for now.  Have a great week everyone!

MandaKay

Scrappers Give Thanks 2010

What to make a sick child’s day?!  Who wouldn’t?!  I am participating in the 2010 2nd Annual Scrappers Give Thanks project, and I want you to as well!

The 2nd annual Scrappers Give Thanks project has a goal of assembling 2000 participant-created 4×6 pages into 100 ten page (double-sided) mini albums to be delivered to 10 children’s hospitals across the country. Submitted pages should be scrapbook-style mini artworks containing positive words, happy images, jokes etc. and may be in digital or tangible formats.

Create a 4 x 6 vertical composition card (digitally or paper scrapping), and submit it using the Scrappers Give Thanks submission form.  Easy as that!  What a great way to brighten a little child's day!

 

And don’t forget to join me today in the The-Lilypad chat room at 2:00 EST today!  That’s less than 2 hrs from now!!!

MandaKay