Follow Up Friday

I can't believe it is Friday already. I really would love for the kids to have a full week of school(off today for Teacher Collaboration day). I'm all off again with them home today. At least the temps have been warmer so I've been able to kick them outside to run the stink off some. And there's rumor of another major snowstorm coming our way next week. I hope not because next week is the only week we have school everyday for the next 4 weeks.


I'm almost afraid to check and see how I did on Make It Monday this week. I feel like I've done nothing, but honestly I've done a ton of decluttering, especially of the digital kind.

Here we go:

• Digital card designs. Made a couple and I'm really enjoying making them. Had a light bulb moment over the weekend and it's really made it so much more fun. Made a total of 5 so far and have a few more sketched out to do later.
• Thank you cards. I have an order I need to get out. Got 10 of the set done and another 5 all cut out, just need to get put together.
• Cards, banner, and stationary set for a school fundraiser. Might not get all of those done, I have a couple of weeks, but want to get started at least.  Didn't make anything yet, but I have paper cut for the desk set and the banner planned out.
• Curtain for a friend's room. Very simple valance really. Will probably take me longer to find where I put the fabric then to actually put it together.  Fabric is found.
• Scrapbook pages. I set a goal to do 4 a month and so far this month I've done a big fat 0. Only have a few days left in the month. Although yesterday when I was looking for a picture of something in my actual printed stuff I was really inspired and excited to scrapbook again. I haven't done an actual page in probably a year. Have done 0 pages, but I'm hoping to this evening while we chill out and watch a movie.

Guess I didn't do as bad as I thought.


I did make some head way on some other things as well, so that makes me happy. Trying out a new to-do list set up for me. I've decided that I need to see more than one day at a time and I'm so not a planner kind of girl. I'm also not a digital calendar girl. I'm a simple paper and sharpie kind of girl.

The cover to my OLW album. I have the inside pages done and all ready to be filled.

A little this and a little that

I have been working on digital cards and after spending an hour today trying to find several things I downloaded over the weekend to use on them and having to go back and re-download them because I never found them I managed to get 3 done.

Great for open house announcements. 1 big picture goes in the big black spot. 

Cool way to thank those who sent gifts for graduation. 4 small pictures

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Another open house announcement. 3 pictures

I have graduation on the brain because 1. it will be here before we know it and 2. my brother graduates this year. I can't believe it. I need to find some pictures to put in the spots. I also want to get some made for baby announcements and Valentine's Day. I have a cute idea for Audrey's Valentine's doing this.

I'm really hoping to make an actual scrapbook page tonight. It's been so long since I've done one I'm not sure I even remember how.

I've decided not having heat on one side of my car is not fun anymore. For some odd reason the heat is out on just the drivers side of the car. Which means the defrost is slow to work as well. Of course! Oh Monday when I went to brush the snow off my windshield with the windshield wipers the one on the drivers side flew off. Thankfully I was still home and it snapped right back on, but it was pretty strange. Thank goodness for seat warmers though.

Looks like the kids will actually go to school all days they are scheduled to this week. THANK YOU!!! Friday they don't have school for a teacher work day.

I'd love to know how you read my blog. Do you use a reader such as google reader, do you actually come to the blog itself, do you get reminders in your email and then come to it or what? Just wondering. I'm a huge fan of google reader! All my 250 blogs in one spot and I can decide what I want to read or what I want to mark as read. And there is no way I could keep up with 250 blogs without it.

Make it Monday....

on Tuesday! Yesterday was a crazy day. By the time I got home at 10:00 from a meeting all I wanted to do was crawl in bed. And yet it was midnight before that happened.

I don't even remember what was on my list for last week and I would imagine I didn't get much of it done because we had 2 snow days. UGH!! This week is a short week for the kids as well. I'm ready for them to be in school a full week,  but I don't think it will happen for a while. Seems like in February we never go a full week.

This week's Make it list is:

• Digital card designs. Made a couple and I'm really enjoying making them. Had a light bulb moment over the weekend and it's really made it so much more fun.
• Thank you cards. I have an order I need to get out.
• Cards, banner, and stationary set for a school fundraiser. Might not get all of those done, I have a couple of weeks, but want to get started at least.
• Curtain for a friend's room. Very simple valance really. Will probably take me longer to find where I put the fabric then to actually put it together.
• Scrapbook pages. I set a goal to do 4 a month and so far this month I've done a big fat 0. Only have a few days left in the month. Although yesterday when I was looking for a picture of something in my actual printed stuff I was really inspired and excited to scrapbook again. I haven't done an actual page in probably a year. 

I think that's a good list for this week, especially since I lost a day yesterday.

 If you scroll down you will see a picture of a digital card I did. I am telling you this because it does contain a picture that might make some people a bit uneasy. It's a picture of my brother's heart, the picture is very small, but I thought I'd put the warning here anyway.

Pic of my brother and the surgeon. The other pic is of his actual heart. He went back to school today!!

7 on Sunday

1. Decided instead of reposting all my pictures for the week I'm just going to post a link. I think it will be easier on me. Shuttercal

2. The kids go back to school tomorrow! THANK GOD! I love them, but we are all ready for them to go back to school.

3. This weekend I made a new background for my twitter page, new banner heading for my Etsy shop and a new avatar for facebook and etsy shop. I really like them all. Very simple and clean.

4. My brother gets to go back to school this week. Was supposed to go tomorrow, but they have a snow day, so Tuesday will be his day! He goes for a stress test on the 22nd of Feb and hopefully all will go well and he will be cleared to run.

5. Did some major decluttering of some papers today. Now if I could just get the rest of my family on board with decluttering.

6. Looking forward to the Super Bowl in 2 weeks. Excited that Mizzou has a former player playing. Will be cheering for Ziggy Hood to have a good game.

7. Worked hard on one of my 34 before 35 goals this weekend. Did lots of playing in photoshop and I am loving every second of it. Will be working on lots of digital card designs to add to my etsy shop this week. So much fun!

I like the clean and simple design. Can't wait to make lots more. Great for birthday invites, cards to family and more.

AAAHHH!!

I will get my pictures for the week uploaded in the morning. Seriously having 2 snow days each week for the last 2 weeks has me all out of sorts. I did get out of the house today for a booster meeting for Dart's baseball team. Also got to see Kansas lose while at said meeting. That made the day wonderful and then when my Tigers beat Iowa State the day was perfect. Felt like I was gone forever though.

We are expecting more snow this evening, calling for 4-6 inches. WE NEED TO GO TO SCHOOL MONDAY!! Sorry for yelling, but holy cow, they need to be back in school. Audrey even asked me today when she could go to school again.

I have a few posts writing in my head. I also have been spending some time playing with some digital stuff. Never realized how much I loved it.

Not at all happy that I have not been able to get Twitter to load on my computer all evening. Yes, I have an addiction to twitter. But also I created a new twitter background for myself this evening and I want to see how it looks and can't. Boo!!

Back tomorrow with more.

Okay, I know it looks pixelated here but that's because I increased the size to make it easier to see. My new avatar for Etsy and facebook. I kind of like the new look. A little less "cutesy" than my old one.

Snow Day 2

Nothing like spending more days off school in a week then in school. With MLK Day Monday and the kids being out and Thursday and Friday being snow days this week we had school 2 days. All of this means a CRAZY mommy.

I did manage to get a few things done. Got a banner listed in etsy and have 2 card sets to get listed sometime today. I was also featured in another treasury. Talk about a boost to the confidence when someone likes your stuff, especially enough to feature it in their treasury.

Will be back later to post some pictures of our latest snow storm. They are saying we could get a little more today and then another good storm possibly Sunday/Monday. We only have school 4 days next week so more snow days might send people over the edge.

Thank You cards. 5 cards in the set, 5 different colors. Simple and Sweet.

Words can be hard when life is hard

Yesterday was the 6th anniversary of Dakota becoming an angel. I'm not going to lie, it was a LOT harder than I thought it would be. I figured with the 5th out of the way, the 6th would be rough, but I wasn't ready for it to be as hard on me as it was. I really don't know why it was so rough. I had good intentions of blogging yesterday, but just couldn't find anything I wanted to say and then I had a PTA meeting to attend last night as well.

I did have a good Etsy day yesterday. I dropped an order off in the morning to a repeat customer(Thanks Amy!!!) and then later in the day I got an email saying 3 things had sold. YAY!! That did make my day a little better. I am also realizing that all the suggestions of having more items for sale means more sales. Gotta get busy getting more stuff made. It is such a high to get that email that pops up saying "Etsy Order Confirmation". Some days it's those 3 words that can be a huge boost to the self-esteem.

We are supposed to get 5-7 inches of snow starting this evening. Wonder if tomorrow will be another snow day?

Made this for one of the secretaries at the kids school, whose father passed away last week.