Bumper Sticker

"What???? Time for the school bus already???""But I've only been up for an hour and 15 minutes!!! "




Mornings are so hectic at my house, who knew an 11 year old would need so much time to get ready...eating is first thing on the list,whether its scrambled eggs,graham crackers and milk,or a cake and juice or chocolate milk....then getting those clothes on,and ususally changing her mind a couple of times....brushing teeth and hair....deciding to rearrange her backpack at the last minute....hmmm,thinking the other purse will be better today so now doing a fast purse change...and who wants to wear that jacket today?? got to grab another one!!







Now understand the purse and backpack are fixed the night before...the clothes are chosen right down to the socks and shoes....but does that matter?? Nope, cause in the mornings things always seem different.







Now lets play the "ask the hundred questions before school" contest, and get mad if I don't know the right answer....and the "why are you rushing me?" game....and of course its my fault that school bus came before she decided she was ready... now where are those car keys so we can hopefully get to school before the tardy bell rings.







Of course we all know that is a part of parenting....we all have mornings like that. And with all the interesting things to do, school work just doesn't seem to be one of the highlights of a little girls life. So I made this bumper sticker for my car, printed it out on some adhesive paper, and it just seems to go perfect with those mornings I'm pulling in the school parking lot. Thanks for looking and have a great day.

Coupon Stocking Stuffer

I thought this would be a neat idea!!
Wouldn't this be a great stocking stuffer for any little girl or boy? If you like them feel free to use them too. Click image to enlarge and then save to your computer.
The challenge this week on the alphabet challenge is G for green and gold, and I thought this would be something to make for the challenge and would also be of great use. I plan on printing out several for stocking stuffers. I made this digitally using printshop22. Thanks for looking and have a great day.

Little child....

the innocence of youth.....the joy in their eyes as they behold the glittering lights, and their temptation to grab everything on the tree....

Christmas is such a joyous time when its shared with little ones....it helps us remember the real meaning and feel the true spirit of christmas...

this is my entry for the soartful challenge....the holly background was provided and I did some digi magic with it and came up with this....thanks for looking and have a great day.

Dreams

Do you remember what made for a perfect day when you were a child? It was doing the things you loved most. As we get older our dreams may change, but whatever they are, we still want to enjoy and be inspired by the things around us.

This is my entry for the art creations friday challenge. Background image was provided and I used printshop22 to add a few things. Thanks for looking and have a great day.

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Hope everyone had a great day and feels as full as I do.

Hope

It is such an important part of our life....
When we are going through a rough patch in our lives

we have hope that tomorrow will be better....

When we look into the eyes of our children

we have hope for their future....

When we have an illness or injury to ourselves or a loved one

we have hope that tomorrow will find us all healthy again....

When money is tight and the bills keep coming

we have hope that a raise in our income will soon be near....

When a loved one is far away

we have hope for their safe return....

Hope is essential for the well being of our mind and souls. This is my entry for the art creations friday challenge this week. The lovely lady image was provided and I digitally altered it with printshop22. Thanks for looking and have a great day.

Betty Butterfly

Have you ever thought of what a blog would have looked like 100 years ago?Well, this is how I would imagine it...the lady would be constantly praising her husband and all his virtues....she would be avidly preparing his 3 hot meals a day....raising his children and thrilled when she found out another was on the way....she would talk of the best way to hand wash the clothes down at the stream and sharing her recipe for lye soap....even brag about how many eggs the hen lay or how much milk she managed to get from that old milkcow today....

but secretly she has dreams...of enlightment and freedom to express herself...of exerting some small form of independence for herself....

and so she begins to blog....she has to word things carefully so as not to upset her husband, and while the males of the land may not understand what she is saying, women like her are reading her blog and know and understand what is written between the lines....

ahh, how times have changed !!!

The lady image was provided for our challenge this week at soartful challenges, and I couldn't resist making this little mock blog page and thinking of how it would have been done back then. Hope you enjoyed it, thanks for looking and have a great week.

Witchy Wonder

my angelic witch....she has always been a princess at halloween until this year...she wanted to do something different and debated between being a cowgirl or a witch....I think she made an adorable witch.....this pic was after the trick or treating, after she loaded up her belly on candy and soda and juice....when it was way past her bedtime but she didn't want to give in to the sleepy bugs in her eyes and was about to fall asleep in the chair!! yep, I'm sure you know what I'm talking about....and when she finally falls asleep I go digging in that candy bag and munch out too!! yep, I'm way behind on things but still wanted to share this card I made for halloween....

I've done a couple of collages to remind myself of some of the good things in life....

when music fills the air and life is wonderful...this time of our life when all we see is the magic and promise of love....when all we need is to look in the eyes of our loved one to feel the bond and comfort that only a shared love can bring....

ahhh, the first bloom of love....and the honeymoon stage of marriage when we still have the stars in our eyes and when we know our lives are perfect.....

I have been in such a funky mood lately...I suffer from SAD and the winter months are bad for me....I try to get as much sun as I can,that is supposed to help...so my posts may not be as often as usual...I've not even been on the blogs for a 2 or 3 weeks and have some catching up to do on reading some of the wonderful posts out there....but trying to get my self together and hopefully I can get back to crafting soon....

ok,blah,blah,blah, enough of my moaning and complaining....lets get to some good things to blog about!!

Krissa is crafting with bits and pieces....there is a little bit of everything in these...including some nails!! she loves using odd items in her crafts...a true trash to treasure little artist in the making.....




the horse is from a broken trophy....she made this one for poppa....they share a love of horses....not me tho, I got to admit I'm scared of them....I think they are beautiful and love seeing them in the field eating and running and playing...but I don't want any contact with them...

pipe cleaners and a little ball off of an old toy...

foam she has colored with markers....

I'm sure you've noticed her table....she has drawn and wrote things all over it...but its hers and it is a work of art in itself....

the young ones have such imagination....don't you just love when they get creative and surprise you with little gifts....she is always giving me little drawings...I'll share some of them soon...

suzy in her favorite spot......

she thinks the bed is hers!!

We've also had a birthday here, Krissa turned 11 and she had a birthday party and sleepover....I'll share pics of them soon too...haven't loaded them on the puter yet but will get to them soon...

Thanks for stopping in and listening to all my blather(hmmm,did I spell that right, or is it even a word??)....got to get in bed, six o'clock comes early....Hagd and hugs to all!

Remembering the 60's

Do you remember the 60's....when peace and love was the chant of many songs across the radio?? when flower power was flaunted as the way to a better tomorrow? I found this adorable little girl's pic in the public domain, (its posted here on my blog along with some other images I came across and wanted to share with you all)....and this little girl with her garland of flowers reminded me immediately of those days. When I seen the background image for the challenge at artcreationsfriday this week it just seemed as if they belonged together...

so that is how I came up with my entry for this week. I cropped and softened the edges of the photo, added it to the background and then added a few words and some daisies. I like how it came out, hope you enjoy it as well. Thanks for stopping in and have a great day!!

B is for Blue...

The theme at the alphabet challenge blog this week is B is for Blue..... and decided my "B" needed a Bouncing Baby Boy to go with it!! This was all done digitally with images provided with my printshop22. Thanks for looking, have a great day!!

Free Images

thought I'd share a few more pics with you...I found these in the public domain at the library of congress and thought they were so adorable...

isn't this little girl so sweet....like a little mini hippie chick!!

and look at this precious little pair.....love how they are going 50/50 on that drink!!

Have a great day everyone, hope these are some pics you can use.

Thank You.......

There are so many generous and creative bloggers out there, I'm still finding new blogs everyday to enjoy and get inspiration from....this week cora at digital2fortuesday has given us 2 more images to play around with and I chose this image below to do some digi magic with.....and this is what I came up with....cora, this card is for you....for your generosity in sharing so many wonderful images with us.....
and is my way of saying thank you for sharing....

Have a great day everyone and a big thanks to all you creative souls out there.

An Award and Some Challenge Entries

What a wonderful surprise!! The creative and talented Mizmollye at shezadoozy has given me an award!! My first one too!! The Splash Award....I hope you go check out molly's blog, she writes the most wonderful tales and is so inspirational in her crafting, I don't think there is much ,if anything, that she cant do!! Dolls,jewelry,crochet, that is just a few of the amazing things she does and shows us. And she writes the most awesome stories that she shares with us. I love logging on and seeing that she has a new post...if you haven't checked out her blog please take a moment and go look,you'll be glad you did!!

The Splash Award is given to "Alluring...Amusing...Inspiring...Bewitching and Impressive" Blogs...

The only rules are 1. To choose nine blogs to forward the award to 2. Post the award and the links on your blog and 3. Link back to my blog. I read so many wonderful blogs that it is hard to pick but this time I have chosen these blogs to pass the award to:

1)Sharon at: http://shardonexclusives.blogspot.com/

2)Terry Lee at:http://allthingsterrylee.blogspot.com/

3)Elaine at:http://misselaineous-love2junk.blogspot.com/

4)Sue at:http://junkinlady.blogspot.com/

5)June at:http://artfreebies.blogspot.com/

6:Cheryl at:http://cheryl-cherylscreativeatcscards.blogspot.com/

7)Peggy at:http://wwwpeggysamusement.blogspot.com/

8)Libby at:http://simpletosublimepapernapkinpoetry.blogspot.com/

9)Dawn at:http://the-feathered-nest.blogspot.com/

so please stop by and visit these amazing blogs by some very creative and talented ladies,and get some inspiration to jumpstart the day!!

I also want to post some challenge entries, my internet is working at the moment but who knows how long that will last....

this is my entry for the artcreations friday challenge, the girl image was provided with the challenge and the background is from june at art freebies

this is my entry for the soartful saturday challenge, the background was provided, the lady was one of the images from the public domain that I posted on my blog

and this is another journal page, all images are from my stash that I have clipped out over the years from books and such,with a touch of lace added to it...oh wow, long post I know....oh, I also recievcd my package from artsnarks, I won the drawing there a couple of weeks ago and got my beautiful piece of art in the mail over the weekend....but I forgot to take a pic so will show you that in the next post!!

Thanks again molly for the award!! And thanks everyone for stopping in, have a great day!

Moody Blues!!

I've got the Moody Blues!!

The Internet Moody Blues!!background,ribbon flowers used for hat are from June at dezinaworld, lady is from public domain,created digitally with printshop22....

I want to disown my internet!! But I'd be lost without it!


It is giving me fits here!!


I can hardly get on anymore, and when I do it seems to go right back down!!

I understand that everyone is going to have problems once and a while, but this is getting to be a daily thing...and since I cant be on here just when ever I want to (you know what I mean: family,life, housework,life,errands,and did I mention life?) then it seems to be my fortune of late that every I get on here that it goes down again...sigh....blah,blah,blah...sob,sob,sob...

okay, enough of that,gotta hurry and try to post this while I can....have a lot more to share with you but its to late tonite...will try to crank this thang up again in the morning and see if I can get caught up....I am behind on the reading of your great blogs too and cant wait to see what everyone has been up to....take care and hugs to all my blog friends!

Beauty Hints

I seem to be in a journal page mode, with lace!!
This is my entry for the digital2fortuesday challenge, this was such a great image to play with....I'd love to embroider it and hope to do so in the near future....hmmm.....if I get the time!

also did a couple more pages with some images from past challenges on digital2for tuesday and wanted to share them too

the weather is cooling off here and the sweaters are pulled out and worn so I can only dream of the warm weather and swimming and the beach....sigh... but at least I can play around with this journal of mine and pretend its beach time and fun....and pretend I've got the curves like these lovely ladies!! LOL!!
hey why not?? If I'm gonna dream then it may as well be the whole shabang!!(is that a word? and if it is did I spell it right?) But the reality is that it is raining and somewhere around 50 degrees out and I've got a sweater on this so out of shape body of mine...and Krissa is in school and I hear my pillow yelling my name so I'm thinking it must be nap time!

Thanks for looking and have a great everyone!!

Dancing Beauties

This is my entry for the mixedmediamonday challenge, the theme this week is pink. I got the image from the public domain and used it to digitally create this piece.

Thanks for looking and have a great week.

Fantasy and Hope

This is my entry for artcreationsfriday...they provided this beautiful lady's image this week and I have digital altered it to create what I imagined her thoughts to be...
Thanks for looking and have a great week.

Free Images

I've been surfing the web tonight and found some awesome images, all in the public domain....

and wanted to share a few with you. Maybe you can find some inspiration in one of them and use them...isn't this little girl adorable with the turkey!! she would be great to use on a thanksgiving themed collage.....

I love this one...the lady and the moon seem so magical...

and maybe you need a gent to add to your piece of art....these would be great in a collage of some sort....

and these little girls must be sharing a secret!!

and a native american girl ....seems like I hardly ever come across one of these

Hope you can use one of these, and if you do if you have time let me know...I'd love to see what you create with them. Thanks for looking, and have a great week everyone.

Life is a Highway

How's that cold,cough for me please,lets take your temperature..... We've had a little bit of sickness around here this week, not the flu but still a bad cold with a slight fever, causing krissa to miss a couple of days of school....and since she loves to share I got it too! Ahh, you know what I'm talking about, huh....so anyway, we kind of took care of each other, and if you have little ones you know what I'm talking about!LOL...so not much time for blogging this week.....

so much to do,so little time..... The challenge this week at mixed media monday was maps. So had fun with a journal page and this is what I came up with. The image is a digital from cora at digital2fortuesday that I colored in, the papers are from some of my scrapbooking stash.

Did a few other things this week that I'll try to get posted this weekend, but falling asleep as I sit here typing so best find that bed and pillow before I conk out here....ok, am I the only one or has anyone else fell asleep while sitting at the puter desk? and I'm not sitting in a recliner or nothing like that, but I can get comfy enough in this chair here that I doze off....but I have to admit, I think I could sleep just about anywhere, should have seen me yesterday almost asleep on the floor in the playroom while Krissa played nearby...what can I say, my head felt like it weighed a ton,she couldn't go to school because she was still a little bit sick and at least I'm no more that 2 feet away so I can still keep an eye on her....

Enjoy the weekend everyone and thanks for stopping in.

Mistletoe

Mr. and Mrs. Claus

the challenge this week at Digital Ink. Co. was color,so I made this cute card to enter.

Thanks for looking, Have a great week!