Month: September 2009
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Templates = fast pages
I am loving digital templates right now! Our schedule is very full with school, volunteering, horsebacking riding lessons, volleyball games, speech team and more. Templates make it so easy for me to get photos scrapped quickly and I love that. I find that I often forget what I want to journal if I don't get… Read more
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Eating healthy is too expensive
For the past month, I've been waging war on our grocery bill. About eighteen months ago, we switched to organic foods, as well as environmentally-friendly detergents and cleaners. And our grocery bill went through the roof. We endured it for a few months, priding ourselves on having healthier meals for our kids and helping the… Read more
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Wonky Monday
I'm feeling wonky today! This is one of the squares for my first wonky log cabin quilt. This is for Elizabeth's room – she wanted one to match her bed and this is the fabric she chose. Most of it is Amy Butler fabric – she's got good taste. LOL! And the pattern is called… Read more
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Good things
This was a good week. And much needed after the last couple of weeks. The highlights include: volunteering at school as a coach and judge for the speech team – i miss teaching and especially miss teaching oral advocacy, so this is just fun for me loving our new library – they tore down ours… Read more
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Layout share
It's been awhile since I've talked a lot about scrapbooking. Besides recently leaving Creative Memories, one of the reasons I haven't shared too much about digital scrapbooking is because I've spent most of the summer scrapping almost around the clock for a huge project that I can't yet talk about. I'm very excited about it… Read more
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A happy day
Thanks so very much for the comments on the quilt yesterday. Totally made my day. 🙂 And, for the record, this week is a great week and I'm feeling wonderful! Back to my normal self and ready to kick menopause's butt. LOL! I spent part of yesterday coaching the middle school's speech team and, OMG,… Read more
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Burnt orange + quilt
My hubby is now the happy owner of a one-of-a-kind University of Texas quilt. This was very tricky to make, although looking back now, it was quite simple. But, I had never made up my own pattern and I simply went into it blind, so it took some figuring to get it to work and… Read more
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News Flash: Woman Loses Her Mind
Yeah, that woman would be me. I know I posted a bit about it last week but let me tell you: perimenopause is NOT for wimps. Whew. I wasn't sure I was going to make it last week for awhile. Shaunte posted about it at the same time I was going through it and her… Read more
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Just keep swimming
We love "Finding Nemo" at our house. LOVE it! One of our most often used phrases is Dory's mantra, "Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming." Whenever life gets rough or the kids don't want to do something or something feels too hard, we all chime in with "Just keep swimming…" It's a little… Read more
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Finally
I am breathing a sigh of relief this morning. The weekend is here. This has been a very eventful week and I am glad that this weekend is finally here. A couple of days to breathe in and out, catch up mentally, get the house clean again, re-stock the fridge, and get ready for a… Read more