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16 weeks and counting

by Erin on March 4, 2011 in pure prattle with 2 Comments

Today marks the 24 week mark, which means I’ve got 16 weeks left if the baby sticks to her due date. Knowing full well that they very seldom due {based not only on others’ experience but also my own with the kiddo arriving 2 weeks early!} I’m shooting for about 14 weeks left. So I’d like to get everything ready in 12 weeks. {Hmmm… I’m thinking of two little words… “Fat. Chance.”}

We are doing good with baby clothes. Grammy has bought a ton of adorable outfits for the baby. She has more clothes than the kiddo, the husband and I have combined.

I picked up some cute outfits the other day, 3 mos though, but I couldn’t resist and I really, really wanted them and they didn’t have new born left.

We’re still in the process of finishing the floors and getting the walls painted. Then we can move on to the nursery and start up with that stuff.

And just to be sure there is never a dull moment, the dog has what we suspect is a UTI. So she’s going to the vet today. Of course I had to do a “first ever” which was collect a urine sample. From a dog. Yeah, not as easy as one would think, but I guarantee it was easier collecting it from her since she’s a girl. Can’t even fathom how I would have attempted to collect from a male dog. ;)

Actually, that would have been pretty fun to digiscrap. Ah, speaking of which, I have sooo many beautiful kits and so little time to actually use them. :( I have this adorable kit from SuzyQ Scraps:

I absolutely adore it, but haven’t had the chance to actually sit down and use it. :/ Hopefully one of those days. {But definitely check out her stuff if you’re in the market for some digiscrap stuff, I love it!}

Elmer’s Craft Bond & X-ACTO

by Erin on October 3, 2010 in bzzagent, geekness, photography with Comments Off

BzzKit

I got the chance to test out some fantastic scrapbooking tool through BzzAgent. I was so stoked when the package arrive. (Yep! Everything in the photo was in there!) I’ve played with scissors and glue dots before, but I’ll be honest, never have I ever used a corner rounds punch before. Well look out. Everything and anything I could get my hands on ended up with rounded corners. It is the easiest and most fantastic thing ever!

I have a lot of photos around the house—I love those photo holders/grabbers and change them through the seasons.

Not even my photos were safe! I quickly grabbed one and the end result was fantastic and oh so chic!

You can see in the photo where I scanned it in (the white triangles at each corner). It reminds me of the photos of the 70′s (from looking at my baby book!). I’m definitely going to be looking for various punches now. This was waaaay too easy. :)

School starts in 10 days

by Erin on August 23, 2010 in geekness, pure prattle with 2 Comments

Photo by edenley

Ten days. Just 10. More. Days. Woo hoo! I’ll miss him like crazy, but… I will get my peace and quiet back. And, I’m taking on online class for using the pen tool in Photoshop. I may just learn how to use that confounded option. And maybe even finally use the tablet I have! ;)

June 2nd—what the frak?!

by Erin on June 2, 2010 in holidays, pure prattle, trials & tribulations with Comments Off

Oy. How did we get to June 2nd already? I remember it was just the other day that I was planning my invites for the 4th of July party. What started as a small event has 88 people now invited. Just so you can get an idea, my house is just shy of 1200sq ft. ;) Hopefully, it will be nice so we can stay outside. Plenty of room out there, thankfully.

But seriously, time seems to be disappearing quicker and quicker. Things I plan on doing, just no time. Never any time for fun stuff. Shoot, never any time for just regular stuff. Here I sit at the old computer, when I have a brand new one sitting (and operating) right next to me. But I haven’t had the time to copy everything over to it. So yes, I’ve got TWO desktops and monitors running on one desk. Talk about multitasking! LOL

Something seriously needs to change, lol. I have digiscrap challenges I want to try (anyone who is interested, check out Scrap Orchard’s 28 Days for Free’Bees). I have pages that I want to scrap that aren’t part of a challenge. I have teacher gifts to scrap. I have Father’s Day coming up. I have soooo much to do. I need more hours!

/whine

Sorry. I’m done. Just so frustrating that there isn’t enough time (or that I’m scheduling correctly!). And on that note, I’m off for my walk. Trying to lose 10 pounds by July 4th. Would love more, but 10 would be a good start. :)

It’s nearing the birthmonth time…

by Erin on January 13, 2010 in food, geekness, trials & tribulations with 2 Comments

I love my birthday. There really isn’t much more I can say about it other than, I LOVE IT. I’m sure as I get older and older, I won’t as much, but as it stands, I love it right this moment.

Of course, I seem to be the only one enthusiastic about MY day. But that’s ok. I have enough enthusiasm to go around.

The husband has already bought me my bday present—the Barnes & Noble nook. We pre-ordered back in November, but it was suppose to arrive in January, so we trashed it as a Christmas present and made it a birthday present. It arrived on the 30th.

I cannot wait to get my hands on it. But I’m waiting. And patiently. I’m reading a book right now anyway, so I’m good. I did just order a cover for it though. I went with the Jonathan Adler Punctuation Cover. I love the whole punctuation look (although it would have been awesome had it been a & z instead) plus the inside is one of the nicer ones I’ve seen.

So now that my presents are all settled, it’s party planning time. I’m going with the normal birthday girl theme, however, I’m adding a vampire twist (since we all know how much I love vampires!).

For the invitation, I used the doodle’s from Lauren Grier’s At the Bus Stop kit and the pieces from SuzyQ’s And Many More … {Bold} kit. With the addition of some fangs and drops of blood, we have a sweet little vampire party invite:

{*Please forgve the larger invite image. I’m testing out a new auto-resizer and obviously, it doesn’t work too well}

So far I’ve got some cute labels for soda bottles (à la True Blood) and am going to make bloody mary cocktails. I’ve also decided on a red velvet cake, however I’m going to do a cherry filling and cream cheese frosting. I’m using Martha Stewart’s Red Velvet recipe and Paula Deen’s Cream Cheese Frosting recipe. Now to hunt out more vampire-ish goodies. :)