Just a minute of my time...

How can I describe my weekend

I got a lot done, and did a lot of things.  So I would call that a good weekend.  And I think my list in the post below made a difference in getting things accomplished.

clean scraproom

complete some layouts/journaling

vacuum kitchen rugs

vacuum family room

paint nails

work out with chels

weed and plant in yard

clean garage

start garage sale pile

laundry... oh my this should count as two!

Wedding

work on Chelsea's bedroom and bath

put together things for ebay

  

Stacey, Mom, Kim, Deb and I at Katie's wedding

Ben and Chelsea before going out

We did some work in the yard, got some plants out, went for a bike ride both Saturday and Sunday, and went to a wedding Saturday night.

While working in the yard Zach helped out hauling away all the branches and in his trips back and forth across the yard he found a forgotten Easter egg that still had a dollar in it.  So it pays to help out in the yard!

List Maker

Are you a list maker?  I used to be, but not a paper one, it has to be typed out or on the computer.  I just can't write a list anymore... weird, I know?  but haven't been as good at it lately and I find I'm not getting as much accomplished, maybe its too much time on the computer doing other things... but anyhoo

My sister is a list writer, always has been and she seems to get a lot accomplished.  So while I'm not a good list writer on paper, I seem to do pretty good here when I post and get to cross things off.

So here goes my weekend plans or what I hope to accomplish:

• clean scraproom
• complete some layouts/journaling
• vacuum kitchen rugs
• vacuum family room
• paint nails
• work out with chels
• weed and plant in yard
• clean garage
• start garage sale pile
• laundry... oh my this should count as two!
• Wedding
• work on Chelsea's bedroom and bath
• put together things for ebay

check out these sites about list making  Dot moms, Psychology today,

the art of list making

Better begin to tackle my list...

Signs of summer

Looking forward to working in the yard this weekend.

We usually have to wait until at least after Memorial Weekend to begin planting in the yard without having to worry about a frost.  

So today Deb and I went over to Petitti's Garden Center so we could start picking out our plants for our yards.  I usually do red and white and this year decided to do more purple and pinks.

Summer time!

sum·mer·time (sum′ər tīm′)

noun    the season of summer

Since we have Chelsea home for the summer and Zach soon to be out, I am ready for summer to begin.  With camping trips, a family trip to the beach and just relaxing and reading by the pool to name a few of the things I'm looking forward to this summer.

Lots to celebrate this summer too, the June birthdays include Zach turning 15, my nephew turning 16 and my half way to 90 birthday... oh my! along with our 25th wedding anniversary.

And after doing some blog hopping I found some fun summer time projects I want to do, check out Tip Junkie.  And you'll find things like these Anklets - Chelsea and I are so making these!

And for some fun summer parties you have to check out this site!  Creative fun parties
anyone that knows my sister and I, knows that we love to have parties and especially parties with a theme to them.  Well this site just takes that to a whole new level!

Memorial weekend

Those holiday weekends always seem to go by so fast!  It is already back to work tomorrow and I don’t know where the weekend went.

We had a great time camping, and the weather couldn’t have been more perfect!  What more could you ask for during a weekend with family.  I got to do some reading, finished one book and started another, played some games, Joel did some fishing though all he seemed to catch were frogs and of course lots of good food and laughs.

Now tomorrow already we are back to work and I have lots to do around the house.  It sure was fun while it lasted.

It’s been a while

Wow, where does the time go, it was Mother’s Day and the next thing I know we are looking at Memorial Weekend.  This is always a fun weekend for us as a family, we plan to head out camping with several families and it usually proves to be a fun and relaxing weekend.

Since Mother’s Day a lot has happened: 

• School has ended for Chelsea

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Zach is counting down his final days of school
• A trip to Michigan with girlfriends
• A couple of track meets leading to Shawn making it to regional's
• A photo shoot with a girlfriend and her son
• A new kit from Work in Progress to play with

  

In between all that I’m taking Cathy Z’s class about facebook and twitter and trying to keep up, addicted to farming and games on Facebook (I know… really?) This weekend I will be away from the computer catching up on some reading and relaxing with family.  And of course taking plenty of pictures to document our Memorial Weekend.

Got a tissue?

I saw this on Karen Russell's blog and was moved to tears.  Such a great story about taking pictures, memories and he's an amazing photographer!

Dane Sanders

Had a wonderful Mother's day with family, and got a gift certificate for a pedicure and manicure and Chelsea made me the most adorable mini book of "20 reasons I love you" out of paint swatches.

In memory…

 

Thinking of my cousin today who always took the time to be a part of our lives no matter where he lived.  I miss him…

 

He was always sure to have his camera with him and get everyone together for a picture. 

Fun and simple project

Happy Birthday to my mom!  Today we are heading out to lunch and maybe a visit to one of our favorite stores in Medina, Perfectly Charming.

Recently while checking out some blogs I came across this blog that had so many wonderful ideas.  One that really caught my eye was the bag envelope. Taking an envelope and with some scoring you create a bag.  Simple, yet so clever I had to try.

With both my mom and mother in law celebrating birthdays in May I thought it would be a perfect holder for their gift cards.  Using the new Crate paper from my Work in Progress NSD kit  I created these!

 

Work in progress

Finally back to my old computer and using windows live writer.  I have so much more control with the post using this program and I love it.

On the first of May the gallery was updated at Work in Progress, and I thought I would share some of my work with this kit.