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It’s me! With a blog entry longer than three to five lines!
YaY!

I do apologize once more for being such a horrific blog hostess. As much as I try to keep up, sometimes life just gets too busy. These past two weeks have been a whirlwind of enjoyment, camaraderie, delight and utter exhaustion. It’s been grand although it’s seemed to suck all the energy from my already depleted body. Have you ever been so drained you simply yearn to crawl back under the covers and sob? I’m long past that. I would love nothing more than to grab a Diet Pepsi, load myself up with ibuprofen, grab my pup-pup and lock myself in my room with my book until Sunday. I’d probably need another book though, I’ll take ‘The Fountainhead” and “Handle with Care” as well. Would hate to be without reading material during my quiescence.

So, it’s time for a post and a quality post at that. Two weeks ago my darling daughter came up for the weekend; we hadn’t seen each other since Christmas. Our longest separation ever! We started our time together by heading over for a bit of color and clip at our favorite hair joint. Our hair person is the best ever. It’s always a blast spending time with Debbie (ours) and the ‘girls’. We laugh, we gossip, we emote. It’s everything a stop at the salon should be. Then off to ‘Pick Up Stix’ for lunch. If you haven’t dropped in to PUS (ewwwwwwww, such a bad abbreviation), make a point to. The cream cheese wontons are to die for. Seriously yum. We strolled along the outdoor mall, stopping off at Borders to browse. I love that store. I could spend an entire week or two there easily. Love it. We headed off to the hotel, (I decided we needed to spend a little ‘girl time’ so we spent the night at a hotel). Just as we were about to nap, it was time to head off to dinner. After dinner, which was fun, it was time to see Joel McHale LIVE!!! It was so unbelievably awesome. I love Joel McHale, I watch The Soup religiously and he was even better, and cuter, live. We went back to the hotel, a little chitchat and then both of us passed out. Hit this wonderful café for breakfast with my dad and Lauren’s father. It was a beautiful restaurant and the food was fabulous. I loved it. Plus, since I take my camera EVERYWHERE I go, the owner offered to buy my photos. Crazy, huh? Considering he hasn’t seen any of my ‘work’. Who knows, this could be my big break. Another Grandma Moses in the making.

After the nosh, my baby girl met her fiancé and trekked down to Santa Barbara to peek at a wedding location. Finally, after a few years (yes, YEARS) of looking, they have decided on a place and date. June 20th. I’m not in a hurry to see her married off and I am glad she has waited. We’ve already purchased her wedding gown, which is absolutely breathtaking so all we really need to do is have it fitted. I’m thankful she’s going for a small ceremony and a simple dinner or I don’t know what I’d do. This wedding I can afford, too much bigger and I’d be on the corner with a cup.

It took me all week to get over the time spent with my only girl child when Steven, my youngest, called for a road trip down to Riverside County to see Lauren. Wow, to see my dd back to back weekends. Awesome. Saturday morning we hit the highway for two plus hours and it was delightful. I relish spending time with my children. Even in the car. In Traffic. For three hours. It’s a wonderful experience to have access to their thoughts, feelings, dreams. I am so lucky to have such fantastic offspring. I absolutely adore them.

Once there, Lauren dragged me to the market, to Target and to an auto parts store. After lunch, she coerced me into taking the dogs for a walk and it was a wonderful/horrendous experience. She lives in a gorgeous house up on a hill surrounded by magnificent scenery. It’s enormously glorious. That’s the wonderful part; we were engulfed in splendid colors in the form of flowers and trees. The horrendous part, we walked down and up hills and hills and hills. My knees were on fire. My legs were trembling and I was a humongous sweaty mess. Yuck. But, I did it. Of course, I haven’t been able to walk since but I definitely did something I didn’t think I would be able to do. Go me!

It was so much fun. I had the best time. Now I’m trying to regulate myself back to a little normalcy but I am pooped. I would love to spend the day in bed but someone’s gotta clean this dump. And someone is me.

I did get a few layouts finished I haven’t posted, so here they are. Also, I do have a new kit coming out this Friday, inspired by Jo’s challenge over at Digital Freebies and I do apologize to her for not getting her participation goodie out yet. I’m sorry. Soon.







BTW, I have a freebie for you all for being so patient with me, just a little word art.

Enjoy.



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Okay, I’m off for a bit.
Lots of love
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Three Days To Go..

I am so exhausted today. Why, I have no clue. I slept well, I think, had odd dreams though. But then, I always have weird dreams. My dreams are not unlike a movie. Large cast, someone's always after me wanting to do away with me, there's usually a love interest (Thank God for that. Once it was Robert Downey Jr)and quite often a happy ending. Hmmmmmmm, that sounds a bit odd, I mean, like in 'they lived happily ever after' happy ending, not the other kind. Anyway..

I feel like crawling back to bed and spending the rest of the day/evening/night there BUT, I really want to finish this kit entitled 'RD You Broke MY Heart'. It's nearly completed, a few more things to do. Thought I'd share a peek with you..



Drop by tomorrow and it's yours.
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Ciao

A Scrappers Work Is Never Done..

Brrrrrr, it’s cold this morning. The weatherman is threatening us with rain which is totally cool with me because I love nothing better than to climb back into bed on a wet afternoon snuggle under my comforter with a cup of hot chocolate, a few cookies and my book. Maybe I should bake some chocolate peanut butter cookies just in case. I know the boys will be thrilled with the goodies seeing as it’s been awhile since I’ve baked anything other than chicken. I need to be in the mood for baking and I just haven’t been in that place lately. Perhaps it’s because I have both boys living back at home, not to mention their father, and these boys are so messy. After a constant influx of testosterone and wading through hip high trash (okay, perhaps I’m embellishing a tad), one of the very last things I feel like doing is breaking out the bowls and get to baking. We’ll see, I guess I could toss in a pan of brownies. Chocolate sounds so yum right now.

I’ve spent the morning fixing my goodies. Revamping my kit, fixing the LO I finished yesterday. I was so unhappy with the LO, that it weighed on my mind until I finally redid it. Part of my problem in life stems from the fact I am a perfectionist. It truly drives me nuts. The simplest task takes me at least twice as long as it should because everything needs to be exactly right. I bet I have 6 nearly finished kits just waiting for the final touch. They weren’t ‘right’ enough. And to think I’m better now, hard to believe I was so much worse. But, I did fix the LO and the kit. I’ll try to upload the links today. And a super duper thank you for Jo and Cassie and Spooky for all your wonderful feedback and help. You’re da bomb. ::muah:: (I so used to hate that kissy thing back when I actually did chatrooms, long long ago).



This is the first one I did but I just didn't like it. So I did this one..



I like this one much better.

And Because I love ya'll so very much, I have another free goodie for you.



It matches my 'Heard It In A Love Song' Kit (if I ever get that re-uploaded). Hope you can use it.
Download HERE

I'm going to try to load the kit back and my 365 photos.
Wish me luck.
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Have A Little Cheese With Your Whine..

Yes, I know, I am a bad, bad, BAD blogger. I'm trying but, so far, I'm just not much of a poster. I think about it, I go to do it, then, something else comes up and I am completely sidetracked. This blog has been up for months. I post regularly for awhile then decide I don't like it, delete every thing and start over. That's where I am now, starting all over again, again.

I hate to say 'I told you so' but 'I told you so'. I am sick. Not 'pneumonia-on-my-deathbed-last-rights' sick, more like 'headachey-ears-plugged-nose-runny-eyes-watery-Vicks-me-up-and-let-me-sleep' sick. Of course, staying in bed all day with a book doesn't happen on a normal day let alone 6 days before Christmas. Since we're all trekking up to my beautiful daughter's new home for the holiday, I don't need to worry about food shopping or over cleaning the house for company (Hallelujah!) but I still have wrapping and baking and packing (oh my) to do. So, I'm dosing myself up on ibuprofen and Benadryl hoping I can finish a few things up. ::fingers-crossed::

One of my favorite pastimes, (besides reading, scrappin' and, well, every thing else) is website hopping, following a link from one site to another. I am so awed at the all the amazingly talented people out there in digi-world. The creative-fairy has definitely beat the crap out of them with her wand. I am completely flabbergasted. Here are just a couple links to some super duper sites.

Day To Day
Britt-ish Designs Scoot on down to the Dec 18th post and check out the adorable necklaces she made for her book club members. I gotta join a book club.

Okie dokie, it's bout time to toss some dinner in the oven, I need to work on my Christmas kit I promise to post by Monday and I have a scrap LO to complete. Here's a quick little goodie for ya'll just cause ya'll are just so darned special.
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Happy Holidays,
Tula



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