Life's Trivialities

Howdy

I have a fun lovin' layout featuring some TaDa product to share with you today!

I just love the barn stalls on the bottom with the added little horse peeking from behind his stall door! I cut the two stall doors and pop dotted them ajar for a little added "yee haw". You can see the effect better in the close up picture.

The twine title is just lasso's you right into this layout! I took one of the stickers and scanned it in. Doing so enabled be to keep the same font consistent for the title and that in the horse names above their stalls. I enlarged the scan and used transfer paper to transfer to my layout. Then I traced each letter with wet glue and laid the twine as I went.

Have you Yee Haw'ed today? If not, be sure to saddle on up and join me! This Yee Haw collection from TaDa Creative Studios is the best in the West!!

 

Sigh...

With the end of the month approaching, uncertainty wraps it's dubious arms around me...

- things are slowing down at work, being a PRN employee, my hours are being cut. Which means my scrappy budget gets cut!! BUT, lets, turn this into a positive, my ability to show up at the gym and work out will increase!! That's a good thing. A fantastic thing. Time to start working out and working on the demise of my body image and waist line...

- The Midget turns 6! I can only imagine what that age will bring with it if 5 is as it is... 'Nuff said!

- The school year is wrapping up (Nikolas is taking SOL's!!). I have yet to finalize summer plans for these children... Sure, we have some of this and some of that going on. Mostly swimming somethings. By this time, I usually have the grand master plan all laid out down to the finite details. Not so much... I am incredibly unorganized this year... Honestly, I feel, scatter brained...

That said, here's my layout for this week;

While filing layouts last night, I realized that I wrote the wrong year on this layout... Belle arrived a couple of months after this date. These pictures were taken this year!! Speaking of filing, the bookcase is full!! I have my albums on a bookcase in the "formal living room" AKA playroom, right by the front door. It's strategic, in part. God forbid anything happen, you know what's going first. You understand the cryptic speak so as not to jinx anything too, right?!

I love the color combination!! That "vintage" Girls Paperie paper has been sitting on my frame stand for months waiting for the right pictures to trot along. Well, here they are! Not what I had in mind, mind you. I distinctly remember upon first oogling this paper thinking baby Mia. Not quite!!

Allison's sketch originally called for banners below that horizontal strip. I like the way the lace doily stamp mimiced the banners and added that dark color contrast. It takes the black of Belle and draws your eye across the page.

The clothes line of layered banners! A slight variation from what the sketch calls for. Love it!! Banners are everywhere right now! In all shapes and sizes. I hope I will be as fond of them and the look on the page 10 years from now... See, more uncertainty! Not true, I like them now. I will have to believe that I'll like them 10 years from now.

If you want to download this month's 1 page sketch, be sure to pop by Sketch Support.

So, where are your albums stored? Do you have a reason for that placement?

Snippits

A few snippets of my day today...

Nikolas Manners Soiree at school today. He very politely introduced me to his teacher and escorted me to his desk. He then stood in front of the class and recited his share of a poem about coughs and sneezes and the appropriate manners. Fun!

Ms. Belle in all her glory! She is in her "teenage" years, hands down. Today I came home to find her in the kitchen sink watching a bird at the kitchen window... She loves to attack feet from under our bed or the couch.

Our harvest!! Finally! We have waited all summer for something to pluck off the tomato plants. After walking back from the bus stop this afternoon we went to the patch and filled Nikolas' lunch box with some delicious juicy goodness!

Baby Girl

We took Belle to her first vet appointment today. Poor thing isn't a very happy camper right now... She has ear mites so they put drops in her ears and she had to have two vaccinations. The vet doesn't seem to think she's as old as the adoptee family told us. As she only weighs two pounds, she is probably only about two months old! He agrees that she might be partially deaf but there is no way to verify hearing in a cat. Both kids came with me to the vet this morning. They were eager to participate in any way they could!

Poor ol' Belle continues to be harassed by the kids... In the most loving way imaginable! They love picking her up and holding her. All they want to do when they are home is play with her and love her. Nikolas stops her from running away or doing things like jump from high heights by pulling on her tail... Despite multiple chidings, he persists... She is resilient and tolerates it all! Though today, I think she just wants to be left alone! I don't blame her!

She now has full access to the house, for the most part. Bedrooms are still off limits. She comes running to the door to greet us when we come home. And tries to make a hasty exit! There is no "set" place that is hers yet, I am sure that will come with time. The beds the kids thought she would like have been used but sparingly.