In The Pink

Jacquie's blog challenge update!

How much yellow do you see? What about the flowers and photomat??

What would you use as a title???? I have orange chipboard letters to match...

Hummmm.....

{a room with a view} ?

{window seat} ?   

Here is a closer look:  Amanda

Jacquie's Blog challenge

OK Jacquie, I see your crackle paint and I raise you one butterfly mirror.  

You may notice that this layout includes among other things: a picture of me, an image stamped directly onto the layout, my own handwriting, and lots of stickles and bling!  Oh yeah and not one stitch of patterned paper can be found!!!       

Amanda

Can you say 1am???? I was so exhausted when I finally crawled into bed!!  SE was so much fun! I will post a full update and pics when I get all unpacked.

Amanda

The heavens will shine a little brighter tonight

My sweet baby boy has gone to live among the stars today. I got Rowdy as a puppy of only 6 weeks old. He crawled across the breeder's kitchen floor onto my lap and into my heart. I have had him for 15 happyyears. 

I made this frame with instructions from Janna Wilson's online class. I thought it was the perfect way to honor his memory.

Thanks Janna for the inspiration!

So if you look at the sky tonight and find a small bright star that may not have been there last night, give him a little love.

Amanda

Adventures in crafting...

I am taking a class online from Janna Wilson called Adventures in Crafting. This is week one and I have completed project 2. Here is what it looks like:

 

I cut out three hearts and added a sweet picture of each of my 3 cats. Of course Janna's garland looks different than mine, but I LOVE the way it turned out. We still have 2 more weeks of projects. I bought a frame today at Michael's for the next one. If I get the first one completed I will post it here for you to see as well. Thanks for looking!!!

Amanda

Have a blessed Easter

I have been playing the Easter Bunny already today. It is about 1:30am. Hopefully Zac is going to be thrilled when he opens the front door later on today to find this:           I gave him lots of yellow stuff since it is his favorite color. (my least) I placed the basket at the front door and hid all the eggs in the front yard. I am so glad that I didn't get busted by the neighborhood watch!!!   ;)

Ok, I have to confess that I have a little problem! I am addicted to peeps! I keep buying them and eating them all by myself!! I discovered the new coco peeps the other day at Target and I have almost gone through 3 packages in 3 weeks. Really! I need help!!!                                                                                             

Of course I have been doing some Easter decorating also.                                                                              Ann, Jacquie and I went shopping a few weeks ago when I was just out of surgery and picked up the cute little bunny basket with glitter eggs to go in it. It just makes me smile when I walk past it in the living room!  :)  The egg wreath I have had for a couple of years, but I think it is perfect for the back door.

I call these my Irish eggs. Mom left me two poatoes when she went home to Victoria. I had the basket out and decided that they looked a lot like eggs all snuggled in the Easter grass. Jeremy doesn't agree.

Well, this bunny has got to get some sleep. My boy bunny is already snoring...

Amanda

It's that Magical Time of Year Again...

 

Happy St Paddy's Day!!!

Here is a little something I have been working on for the past few days. Everything is Making Memories except the rubon around the 5 cents and the buttons and bling. I like the dimension that the buttons give to the flowers.                               

You can click the pictures to make them bigger.

                              

J and I got up EARLY about 4:45am to start the celebration. We were at Fado  by 6:30am eating breakfast and drinking a Guinness. Kathleen joined us just like every year a little later.

She showed up and we started drinking Irish Coffees with Bailey's and Jameson's .  

Yummy! I had to leave for a dr apointment at 9:30, but we were back by 11:30. Just in time for the The Tea Merchantsto go on stage. We listened till about 2:15 or so when we had to go to another Dr appointment this time for J. I have to point out that the port a pottys were even color coded pink for girls and blue for boys:

Last year we had a blast as well. You can read all about it Here. It was a Saturday so we had a lot more people off of work and able to come down and celebrate with us. I like all the people, but it is kinda fun just the 3 of us. 

Turns out our waitress is studying to be a nurse. She happened to be one of the nurse's aids at Seton when I had my surgery. I was so much happier to see her at her second job!! Don't get me wrong, she is great at both, but I like Fado much better than Seton.  :)

Amanda

So I have a friend...

named Jacquie who is an amazing designer... She has been offered this incredible opportunity to design for a kit site called Label Tulip. She got her first kit this week and she has some sneak peeks on her blog.... So go check them out and give her some love cuz they are really cool designes. Her blog is http://www.thebigreveal.typepad.com/

OH yeah, It is also my Baby Boy Baxter's Birthday today so wish him happy birthday when you get to her blog. Here is a layout she did of Baxter a while back. Isn't he a doll??? You can click the pic so you can see him better!

Amanda

Edited to add:

The gallery is up! Check out all the cool layouts at:

Label Tulip Gallery

I've been tagged...

So my friend Jacquiehas tagged me with a 7 Random Facts Challenge... So here goes...

1. I used to shovel horse poop! I worked at a stable that had 10-20 horses at a time. I worked from the time I was 9 till I was 17 for  free riding lessons.

2. I don't make digital layouts.

Except this one:    

I got a wild hair and made one today. I am NOT a genius when it comes to photoshop, but I am learning.

3. I stand on one leg like a stork when I brush my teeth. Usually with my right leg up on my left.

4. When I drive past cows in a field I hold my hand up and moo at them to say hello!

5. I ride a motorcyle. I have a Honda Shadow Spirit. It is a 750. Much to my surgeon's dismay.

6. I am related to John Wesley Hardin. Famous outlaw. Shot 44 men, one of them for snoring too loud. 

Isin't he handsome??? LOL!

7. I am deathly scared of clowns! Stephen King's IT is the scariest movie ever made as far as I am concerned.

So there you have it! My 7. Now I tag.... Heather, Kath, and Jen. Lets see what ya got!

Amanda

Not for the weak at heart

Well, here is where we are one week later:I am tired of being trapped at home. My parents left today so I am truly stuck here. I have tried to scrapbook, but I am not able to get much done. I am not wobbly any more when I walk. For anyone who doesn't know what I am talking about: I had a herniated disk surgically replaced with this:

It is the new Prestige Cervical Disk made by Medtronic. It looks large here, but it is actually relatively small. Here is an x-ray of what it looks like in the body.

These are not my x-rays, but mine look very similar.

Hopefully, I will be back to work soon! Here is a news clip you can watch if you want some more info:

http://www.myfoxaustin.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=5700269&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=3.5.1

Amanda