Suprise Storm

Yesterday I came home from work and the sun was shining. it was beautiful out! As I took the pups out for their routine walk I do everyday when I get home, the wind started picking up. And by picking up I mean blowing like crazy! Clouds came out of no where along with lightening and thunder! I looked over and saw this sight. It looked so odd with the clouds swirly above it. I ran inside and took this pic from my balcony right before it dumped rain on us! I was a bit worried it would rain too much for the Balloon Fest, but it only rained for about two hours then it stopped and the sun came back out. Gotta love Texas weather!

Introducing Rylie!

So we have been looking for a playmate for Bailey. She's seemed really lonely since our neighbor dog Zoey moved away. So Chuck talked me into another dog. I was really hesitant at first, but I still thought it was a good idea. We decided to get a dog from the West Side Animal Leeague in Fort Worth, which is where we got Bailey. We found a cute little collie mix and drove all the way to see her at one of their adoption clinics. Its over an hour drive one way for us! Well turned out she wasn't at the clinic. Her foster mom agreed to meet us, but we couldn't take her home because she had ringworm and was being treated. Which was totally fine, but that was about 4 months ago. We had trouble contacting the lady to check on the dog, and when we did get ahold of her she gave us attitude. So we decided to just look around.

Then I saw an add on Craig's List for Denton Animal Shelter about there puppies that were in danger of euthenasiau. The pretty puppy was one of them. She can't be but 2 months old! She's super cute! They called her Cherry, but we didn't really like that. Even though she is so young she shows just some small signs of abuse. She is scared to death when you hook her to a leash or if you raise your hand just right. But I think since she is so young, we might be able to make her forget about all those bad times. Rylie is some sort of terrier mix according to the vet.

Bailey gets along with her great. Sometimes she seems a little stand offish about her, but I think that is because she is used to being the playful puppy, when now she is the one being pounced on! The play tug of war with BoBo which is awesome, except they have already destroyed it! Bailey seems a little jealous at times, but I think she'll get used to having another dog around soon. They play nonstop. I'm so glad we got Rylie. I love them both so much!

Lovin' Distressin'

I made this LO for one of my Anything Goes Challenge daily challenges. The challenge was to use the colors black, purple, orange, and green, use a picture with a small child, distress, two different fonts, and to hand cut an embellishment. That just screamed Halloween to me!

So I looked through all kinds of Halloween pics I have hoping to find some cute ones of my nephew or nieces. Well turns out I don't have any Halloween pictures of them! So I settled on this adorable photo of myself and my brother. He was the cat, and I was the mouse. It was my first Halloween! Aren't we a pair of cuties!

I settled on the papers right away. The are My Mind's Eye and I had recently purchased them from Hobby Lobby. I don't usually use too much purple which is suprising for me, since it is my favorite color! So I really didn't know where to go from there, I just kinda stared at the papers for an evening. Then last night I decided I would try burning the edges of some of the green. I really like how that turned out! Although Chuck thought I was burning the house down! I inked the entire border after I stitched the papers together, and then I glimmer misted all over, doing some masking as well. Now, up until last night I wasn't real impressed by Glimmer Mists. Everyone's always talking about how wonderful they are, and how the love them. Well I just had this one color, Lavender Fields. I had won it back on National Scrapbooking Day from scrapbook.com. Everytime I used it I didn't really see the shimmer I thought I would, and I just didn't care for it. So this time, I took a little more time with it. I made sure I shook it up real well and just took my time and went with it. I liked how it looked so much I just ordered some nuetral colors to play with!

I hand cut all the flowers and then inked them. I had mixed some stickles in the ink on my craft sheet first, to give them some sparkle. I really love how they look. Its hard to see in the picture, but in real life they really have a pretty shimmer to them. I love how this LO turned out! It's totally not my normal style and outta my scrappy box, but I love it so much! I'm super proud!

New Inks!

So recently I purchased some new Tim Holtz distress inks, and I was really excited to try them out. Among the colors I got were Broken China, Spiced Marmalade, and Shabby Shutters. I used an awesome sketch I found here http://sketchsavvy.blogspot.com.

I decided each square I used I was going to try a different inking tecnique of some sort. The first one I simple put ink on my craft sheet, and then sprayed it with water. Then I placed my square on the ink and got a neat water color effect. On two of the squares I did some embossing over the inks, as I had also just bought my first heat gun and embossing powder. The light green square I inked with the Shabby Shutters, then I used a Hero Arts stamp with embossing ink to hold water on it. I then stamped the square. My favorite of the squares is the one I used stickles with. I placed ink on my craft sheet and also some stickles. I used my heat gun to dry it and it slightly melted. And the very last one I did some masking.

This layout I made for two challenges on scrapbook.com. The Anything Goes Challenge weekly which was mega challenging for me this week, and then the Use Your Supplies challenge week #4, Something Blue. I used only blue and white to meet the twist requirements for the Use Your Supplies. For the AGC I had to have certain things on my LO, atleast 10 out of 14. I did the bare minimum of 10. I spent all night on this layout! I really love how it turned out though. I love the banner, and I usually don't ever make banners!

Birthday Pics

Chuck and I finally had his birthday dinner with his family last weekend. The dinner itself didn't go to great,but it was a beautiful day out. As we left the steak house the sun was setting so I took the opportunity to grab a few "birthday" pictures. I wish there weren't all those ugly cars in the sunset picture, but what can ya do!

Hello mojo!

This is my first page in almost 4 weeks. I was so excited to finally have some time to scrap! But I sat and stared at the picture for what seemed like hours. Then I finally picked out some paper, and stared some more. It took me forever to finish this page...but it was worth it. I really like how it turned out, and I finally feel like my scrappin' mojo is coming back! I'm getting really into distressing and inking. I think I'm going to buy some more of the Tim Holtz inks to work with, as I only have 4 currently. I did 3 different types of distressing here. The journaling block talks about our experience in Jamaica when our cruise ship stopped there. It was awful! Giant bugs...broken down buses...storms...almost missing the boat! But I guess we have a story to tell right?

Soul Searching

I've recently slumped back into my funk. I had a fabulous vacation with the hubs...and now 4 weeks later I'm mopey and depressed as all get out. So I've decided to stop being a negative Nancy and change my views of life and things. I've decided to make some goals for my lifestyle and my life in general. I'm going to work on a bucket list so to speak as well. So I have things to work towards, to let me know that I'm moving in life, and not just standing still while everyone passes me by. But First I'm going to work on me, and change a few things that I've been wanting to change, and maybe become the person I want to be. Starting with...

Loose the weight I put on after having Kaylie.
- Exercise daily
- Take Bailey for one extra long walk a day
- No more take out!

That is a huge daunting task for me...so hopefully I can at least get in a routine of exercise and eating healthy.

Work on my photography.
-Take pictures of something at least once a week.
- Get to know my camera better.
- Look into classes you could take.

Spend more time with my husband.
-this ones pretty self explanatory.

Well thats it, those are my goals for now. It's time I started enjoying life, and moving forward, instead of dwelling in the past and letting it drown me.