get a life spammers.

ok, so maybe easy wasn't the best choice to have in a title either.  i would say i got around 15 spam or so on that last post.  crazy!  i mean someone is literally sitting around just sending out spam crap.  i picture them siting in their underwear eating spam out of the can with the jelly crap running down their chins...are they out of  "get a fucking life " at walmart?  is  spamming is a high paying job?  does it pay more than minimum wage?  more than welfare or do they do it to supplement their welfare windfall?  well,  i have had enough of spam.

and for the record, i do not have a penis and do not need any enlargement items.  but i could send a list of ppl i think could use a ball enlargement.  most of them reside in the government.

how much spam does the president get?  or do we pay for him to have a "spam remover"?  i wonder how much that adds to the debt.  is it a federal offense to spam the prez?

ok so obviously i am in a mood.  i hate getting up and seeing all this crap in my inbox every day.  i am even getting spam texts. scott and i have both won something in the last 2 weeks via text.  someone should probably inform them that i don't text unless i have to.  when something weird  pops up on my phone i have to go find one of the future spammers in my house to get it off.

anyway, on to the card...i made 2 of these with different sentiments for the shelter.  yesterday i broke out the glitter.  i hate glitter.  to make wedding cards.  every time i have went into the vet's office,  they say the same thing...what about those pretty glitter wedding cards you make?  we are out of those.  yeah.  yeah.  so today i must break out the vacuum and suck up the glitter escapees.  of course let's don't forget the few in my eyebrows...still. i was hoping that scott didn't notice and think i was doing something special to get his attention.  we are too old for that kind of excitement.

ok i am off to do some chores.  (that's work to all you lazy spammers.)  i need to make cookies for senior game night. vacuum.  laundry.  figure out what's for dinner.  pretend i care.

enjoy your day.

easy thank you...

so you can just imagine the amount of spam comments i received on the last post??  lol, think i'll avoid putting the word "butt" in my titles from now on.  we can put a man on the moon but we can't stop spammers.  sad.

i thought i should post before the big "unofficial"  opening to the summer season.  i've already had enough of summer and it's not even june yet.  we have had terrible humidity here in the east.  i told scott the other night that i wanted to live in a humidity-free location.  if you live in this area, please let me know.

we have our garden in the dirt.  spent all last weekend working on that job.  so glad to be farming again.  i hope to can tomatoes again this fall.  so that garden has high expectations on it.  i am still working on getting my annuals planted into pots and distributed around my yard.   i hope to get most of that done over the long weekend ahead.

i have also been working on shelter  cards.  they were out of thank yous and sympathy the last time i was out there.  two of my biggest sellers so i thought i had better get on that job.  i also got my stamp that i had made  just for the backs of these cards and i love it.

this is just a quick and easy card with great looking paper from MME.

any big plans for the weekend?  we are just hanging out here.  lots of grilled food planned, drinks and some smores and lots of doing nothing.  okay well maybe some working on the kitchen.  i am ready to paint but scott is not.  lol

enjoy your long weekend!

do you have a hole in your butt?

that title got your attention, didn't it?  this is def a story that i had to tell.  we still bring this up and i'm sure that the boy's love interests will also hear it...lol

when the boys were young they bathed together and one night brock asked this question, "did you know that quinn has a hole in his butt?"  we laughed so hard.  and we are still laughing.  so when i ran across this pic of them in the tub, i just had to do it.

i have been wanting to do this hexagon lo thing for quite some time.  i don't think i have ever used that punch from creative memories.  i dug out some very old basic grey, baby boy for this lo.

i am using my crap, people!  i don't care if it's old or not.  and neither do the boys.  lol

last night while we were eating dinner brock discovered a very large lump in gracie's ear, so of course i googled it and it said hemotoma.  blood in the ear.  from flapping.  what?  really?  she's 8.  she's been flapping her ears her whole life.  the internet said it needs to be surgically drained but my vet thought a course of steroids would help.  but she can't take her arthritis meds with the steroids, so...hopefully her legs won't bother her too much and i am grateful that the weather looks to be dry for a few days which will help. my gracie is def high maintenance but i love her and would do anything for her.

  i am def ready for the weekend!  scott has promised me a ride on the bike with  lunch and some work in the kitchen...now that's a date i can get on board with.

i hope you have a great weekend!

wordless wednesday: jump

{quinn's first year at doing the high jump.}

our piano...

this is a story that i have been wanting to tell for some time now.  our piano.

you see we are only the 4th owners of this house and this piano has been passed along to each new owner from the previous owner.  it's original to the house.  we also have the original blueprints hand drawn by the first owner.  i had them framed and they will with the piano move to the next  owners after us.  none of us play the paino.  quinn banged on it when we first moved in and we did offer to get him lessons but he didn't want them.  oh and the plumber that helped with our bathroom reno played it.

in the beginning, scott wanted to sell it, but i told him no way.  it's bad ju-ju to get rid of it.  besides it's just so cool!  henry is also very fond of the piano, and i am so glad that it has a cover for the keys for this reason.

i used basic grey picadilly papers.

hope everyone had a fabulous mother's day weekend!

our day...

i hope everyone had a great weekend!  i spent NSD scrapping and got 5 lo's done, 3 of which go into quinn's book.  i used quinn's fave paper for his lo's, BG lime rickey.  i did all the lo work and i made him do the journaling.  i figured he was the one who was there, he should write the story.

 this lo was made for my book.  a photo of me and scott taken by quinn on our anniversary last year.  i can hardly believe that this year will be our 20th year together.  it went by so fast.

i used  portrait by crate paper.  

i am off to find something to do.  i dug out pictures from quinn's cross country season last year so i am hoping to get that lo done today.  i am thinking spaghetti and bread for dinner.  i also need to get my menu and lists done.   and there's always that dusting job i keep ignoring....

enjoy your day!

another s-crap card...

hello thursday!

one more day til the weekend....one more day til sleeping in and scott making my breakfast.  it's the little things that make me happy.

i made this card with some BG oliver s-craps a few weeks ago.  it's been long delivered to the shelter and has hopefully sold by now.  i am looking into having a stamp made for the back of the shelter cards that states, "this card was handmade and all proceeds went to help homeless animals."  what do you think?

  i am planning a cinco de mayo dinner for saturday and maybe just a couple of margaritas... tequila is good for the soul.

enjoy your weekend.

a sketchbook lo ali style...

wow.  may 1st.  already.

 my least favorite time of the year is around the corner.  summer.  i am already dreading it.  there is just nothing good about summer for me.  but today it's raining and cold, my absolute favorite kind of day.  so i am thinking i should hang out in my pj's and do something creative.. now if i could only find someone to make me lunch....

update on gracie: i have decided to wait a bit on the xray.  she isn't showing any other symptoms of being sick and she has went down to pain meds just once a day vice twice.   she has always had issues with her legs and feet.  so i am going to wait the 4-6 weeks to see if it heals like the vet originally suggested.  she's old  and big, so she is slowing down.  i just hate to see it happening to my girl.

here's another lo from that sketchbook class i took.  the original sketch had 3 panels where the big pic of brock is, but i had these 12 x 12 shots of brock made from perskickety .  i have never ordered a big photo like this, but i do like it.  very ali edward's style, i think.  i did 2 of these, one for me and for brock.  brock's lo has a letter written on it.  something for him to find later on.  cuz right now mom's scrapbooking is so not cool.  that pp paper is old MME.  very old, but i still love it.  and it's so "brock".

enjoy your day.

it's track time...

i did this lo for the sketchbook class.  this was last year's track season.  quinn just started track for this year.  he is our first track star.  the rest of us are not runners or jumpers.  lol  i used basic grey, oliver for the papers.

wednesday already.  tomorrow is commissary for me a day early cuz friday i am meeting my friend, tina, in NH for the scrapbooking convention.  by the very small list of vendors, i think this might be my last year to go.  the list of vendors is not very enticing and gas is too dam expensive to waste it on non-fun things.  but i am looking forward to hanging out with tina.

my gracie is having issues right now.  she can barely walk on her right leg and is on pain meds twice a day.  the vet thought she might have twisted it and it needs to heal, but we aren't seeing any improvements, so we need to make a decision about exraying it to see if there might be something more, like bone cancer.  which is not something i am ready to deal with right now, but not something i need to wait long on.

sometimes life really sucks, ya know...

welcome to our neighborhood...

happy monday, peeps!

it's finally raining here in maine and i am so very happy for the rainy day today!  i am still in my pj's, already had my oatmeal and have laundry going.  i am very productive when the weather is crappy.

recently the house across from me finally sold.  it had been empty for quite awhile.  the grandkids let the pipes freeze and it had some serious damage to the inside.  many ppl looked at it but no one wanted to take on the work until now.  sara ( the only neighbor i like on my end)  and i have been wishing for good neighbors.  i don't think either one of us could have handled another batch of white trash idiots.  so being the nosy ppl we are, wandered over to introduce ourselves and they are good.  YAY!  i was so happy to know that they are normal. you know misery loves company.  lol  so sara and i then took over some baked goods and i made this welcome card to really welcome them to the neighborhood.

most of these supplies were laying on my table discarded form other projects.  the house is a chipboard from maya road, i think.  don't quote me on that one.  i do know that it came  from a studio calico kit.

i realized yesterday that mother's day is around the corner.  where in the hell is this year going...so i have been frantically making mother's day cards for the shelter.

and we have big college news...we have officially paid the money to hold brock's spot at a college.  he is most excited but i haven't really processed my feelings on this yet.  weird to think that i won't see him everyday and when scott is traveling it will only be quinn and i here.  it's going to be a transition that's for sure. oh well, life goes on.

have a super week! 

sketchbook lo...

so i think i mentioned in the last couple of posts or so that i signed up for an online class given by kelly purkey, from studio calico.  sketchbook 4.  and i love it!  i have to tell you that i have never paid for a class, but i am bored out of my mind.  i wanted to do something different, i wanted to have something to look forward to, i wanted to feel challenged.  i'm not saying that i am bored with my family.  i'm bored with my own personal existence.  i have the best husband and the best kids, i could never ask for anything better than what i have...but my life is boring.  i went from being the ombudsman of a submarine to being a retired navy wife living next to assholes.  i have no connection to anyone in this town.  i don't hang around with anyone.  i have "friends" but i don't have a "partner in crime".  if that makes any sense to you.  i get up, get the boys off, walk the dogs, check email....blah blah...vacuum, scrape shit off the toilets, make dinner and pass out.  that's it.  every. day.  i am bored.

so this class in some weird sense has given me something else to do and today stacy challenged me to do 30 lo's by july 4th with her, so that will fill another void.  thank god stacy has stayed my friend cuz i think i would have went totally crazy by now without her.  she will always be my most important partner in crime.

this class not only gives you a new sketch 3 times a week, but you get 3 lo examples done by random studio calico DT members with that sketch + a card done with the very same lo, so i also get some shelter cards done too.  which is always good.  some one told the vet techs the other day that she hopes i don't quit making cards cuz she quit buying cards from stores...pretty cool.  to me that means more than being published.  any.day.

so this is my first lo for the very first sketch.  on a very cold windy day in january we wandered to the beach to run the dogs and remember why we moved to maine in the first place.  i love the beach.  i wish i could live on the beach, but it's only for rich bastards.  so until i win the lottery, i must only visit the beach.  i never go on nice sunny days either.   i always go on crappy weather days, cuz the pretty people are never at the beach when it's crappy.  only dog ppl.  lol

ok, i must go lay down now.  i have had a sinus headache this whole week from tree pollen.  this warm weather has made everything bloom at once and i am paying for it.  i grew up on the plains of colorado, we didn't have trees and now i live in the fricken woods....  

shelter card...

you know what's scary and happy all at once?

watching your oldest drive off by himself.  yes, brock is finally driving.  scary for me.  happy for him.  scott took the day off to take him to get his license today.  he almost failed the eye exam cuz brock has a bad eye.  he has a contact to help it, but he refuses to wear it.  too much work to put in in the morning so i quit paying for them, well that decision almost bit him in the ass today.  so once again i am right ( i so love being right).  he should have been wearing it this whole time, but i just gave up the battle.  he has no peripheral vision in that eye.  so i called the eye doc and ordered a shiny new box of contacts today.  tomorrow he will drive quinn and himself to school ( quinn is a little scared.)  but i am so excited not to have to do that chore or pick him in the afternoon.  have you driven in the HS parking lot lately?  those kids scare the crap out of me!

so anyway, that's our big family news for the day.  anything good from your house?

i made this card awhile ago for the shelter.  the pp is MME "fine and dandy".  i just added a sentiment and let the paper do all the work.  super easy.

have a super friday!  tomorrow is my commissary day.  my menu and lists are done.  i am ready and you know the best part about tomorrow?  i don't have to be back to pick up brock from school.  i can screw off as long as i want, anyone want to meet me for lunch?