FORGOT TO ADD...

PLEASE give credit where credit is due (for those of you who use my kit) thanks!

i did it!

here is my first kit!
let me know if you like it, download it here for FREE for the next 7 days! please let me know if you use it, i would LOVE to see your LO!

creeping towards 30...

so yesterday was my bday, thanks everyone, you made it great! we had brunch with the g'rents and warren, bernadette & aidan. great food and lots of fun. tim REALLY surprised me and got me a new golf bag & clubs!
later in the day i went to a possible client's house to get measurements to paint a mural for her sons' play room. super hero theme.
alyson made this super cute LO, thanks!
tim made dinner and i went to bed fairly early (I am working again for a bit)


new Quinn-ese:
appen? - what happened?!
touch it - well, you get the drift

a day in th life of

5:15 quinn starts talking, i sigh deeply.
5:45 quinn starts crying, i lay him back down and tell him that it is still night-night time
6:20 quinn starts talking, and screaming (in a playfull way), i sigh deeply and get up
6:25 change a stinky diaper, put the binkies away, and warm up soy milk
6:45 sit on the couch, turn on the news and cuddle with quinn as he drinks his milk
6:55 quinn wants moor (which is really a ploy to get me to sit him on the counter again as i pour more milk)
7:05 we go to see dada in the master bedroom getting ready, i make myself a cup of tea
7:15 i get in the shower, quinn FREAKS out because he isn;t in there with me
7:30 we walk tim to the garage and wave bye bye as he drives to work
7:40 make quinn ofeel (oatmeal)
8:00 clean up the ofeel mess
8:10-8:25 i get dressed and do hair and makeup, dress quinn, and do quinn's fair (his hair)
8:30 watch the garbage men come and go
9:00 we head to the post office
9:25 we head to grandma's house
9:35-11:00 play with aidan, i get grown up conversation with grandpa
11:10 return home, "play" in the garage for a bit
11:45 make lunch (chicken, corn, peas)
12:25 watch oobi, quinn enjoys some soymilk, we do a puzzle and read a book
1:05 change a diaper, get in comfy clothes, read our story GOODNIGHT MOON and go night night
1:07 gather my water, phone, percy and a chew bone, head to the master bedroom and turn on the computer to design and scrap
1:30-ish have my daily dose of aly g
3:55 quinn begins to wake up
4:00 change another stinky diaper, cuddle with quinn
4:15 quinn has ogurt (yogurt)
4:25-5:55 juggle quinn, making dinner, catch a little oprah & local news
6:15 tim comes home, we all have dinner
6:40-8:00 play, play play with dada! they get the mail, rough house, play ball and turn on some b-ball game while mama cleans up the kitchen and sighs deeply
8:10 put quinn to bed
8:25-9:58 search for some info on the web, blog this and now i am signing off

ohd it

sooooo ... we have a new name. ah a clean fresh sober (hee hee) start!

1) i am working on a kit. a spring kit. i am thinking "fresh" rather than "cutsie". i create my first elements, they are metal accents ... like 'em, don't love 'em. but it IS a start.

2) the girs left. tim and i got quinn a new toy while they were here. FYI, if you would like to purchase this, don't go to this website, you can get it at target fot $20! but he LOVES it! he had EVERYONE playing an instrument and singing Old MacDonald

3) LOST is a repeat tonight (the bastards!)

4) went to the DMV and got my license renewed (ug-lee)

5) BTW, last night was the last night of core training, totoally kicked my tooshie, i mean B-A-D. but that is good, yeah?

new quinn-ese:
ohdit - hold it
uchit - touch it
isee - means he wants to see something (or everything)

ugh

i get so caught up in my ideas and excited about what i want to create that i get frustrated when my art doesn't turn out they way i envision it in my mind. i am experiencing this with creating digital elements right now. i want so badly for them to look wonderful and professional, but right now they don't. but i should just count to 10and breath right (or have a Mommies lil' Helper), right? it will take some time for me to get the hang of it, i wasn't able to draw overnight, duh christine.

any advice people?

if i had a flip top head

if i had a flip top head you could see how crazy i am! i am hoping that it really isn't craziness, but just an "artist's mind". (sure, go with that christine!) i am saying this, because everytime i get inspired, it is like the flood gates open. i think i mentioned that i am going to try my hand at designing digital scrapbooking kits. pull your pant legs up, here comes the flow!

just a FEW ideas for "themed kits" that are bubbling over (please feel free to let me know if they suck or are fab ideas!):
spring, construction (thank you muse aidan!), frogs snails & puppy dogs tails, a percy inspired paper set (colors, not behavior). it goes on and on. but i don't want to get ahead of myself.

so if i write it down (or type it), then i will be more apt to make it happen, right? like a contract with myself? well, i hope so. wish me luck!

if you have NO idea what i am talking about, check out these links, might helpyou "see" it better!

eclectic scraps
designer digitals
scrapbookbytes

my soapbox

if you have an eyelash curler that is over 3 years old, please throw it away and buy a new one. i have had mine for at least that long, and this morning, it passed away, in an unpleaseant manner.

i was curling my lashes (because that IS what you do with these things) and it broke. but it didn't just fall apart. no. it pretty much exploded and snaped. yes, while connected to my lashes. damn that stung!

please, do not fret. my sight is fine. i will still be able to create masterpices that will (with my luck) be much more valuable after i pass. call it the van gogh syndrome.

heart day

i used to hate pink. but i like it now, probably thanks to aly g. but i still don't like the pink and red combo. blachky!

tim and i left quinn with the g'rents and played 9 holes at a little par 3 in town. i got 2 pars wooohooo! let's not discuss the other holes!

i started one of my new year's resolutions (yes, i KNOW it is Feb. 14!). i am starting to read the "classics". as in novels. i check out from the library (it's my new favorite place to go on my "day off") The Sacrlet Letter and Animal Farm. i am reading animal farm first, and have onlu gotten as far as the introduction, ihad no idea!!!!

what else is going on??? quinn slip his lip yesterday (on dad's watch, not mine) i will post a pic, kinda ugly. with that and his spiked hair he looks like a hellion!

i am thinking of trying my hand at designing kits for digital scrapbooking. because i don't have enough i want to work on, right????

we don't need no stinkin' matlock!

So. friday and saturday i was out of commision, the flu i think. achey, too hard to walk, low grade fever, felt like poo. MUCH better now.

the great mystery has been solved!
on the last day we watched aidan, we did laundry. i washed quinn's bedding, including his puppy, which BTW he calls puppy and his bear which BTW he calls bear. crazy huh? anyway, we were folding these linens in our room. aidan and quinn were running around and aidan runs off with the puppy ( FYI quinn really prefers the puppy to the bear) but i don't think anything of it, what is he gonna do, lose it? so a while later we are feeding the boys lunch, i slip away to put the puppy and the bear back in the crib for nap time. i notice that the puppy is gone. i look around. nothing. i walk back to the kitchen and ask aidan, "where did you put the puppy, aidan?" he stares at me blankly. great, this is gonna be good if he has to create something to say. he replies' "i put it where the clothes go." and he continues to eat his chicken nuggets (not from mickey d's, that would be icky) so tim and i decide that it has to be in our closet 1) becaue that is where the clothes go and 2) becasue we both think we saw him go in there. so we look, and look and look. for days. i even get down on my knees (tim was impressed by my thinking like a 2 year old - is that an insult???) and focus on what would be aidan's eye level. nada. no puppy.

just so you don't worry, quinn slept fine without it, but he was asking for it.

so, friday night tim was getting his clothes together for work on saturday since he has to get up early and didn't want to wake me (awe! shucks, whataguy!) and says, "you won't believe this, there is a puppy in the closet."

WWWWHHHHHHAAAAAATTTTT??

how can that be, we've torn that closet apart! he said that he took out a shirt (hanging up) and pants and took them into our room, laying them on the ironing board. whe went back in and the puppy was lying on his shoes. being the super sleuths that we are, we reconstructed the scene. we believe that the suspect (aidan) ran into the closet, shoved the victim (the puppy) up into tims hanging dress shirts. luckily, when tim pulled out the shirt, the puppy fell to the safety of tim's shoes. if tim hadn't have picked that shirt, the puppy may not have lasted much longer, but lets not go there.


quinn's new phrases/words:
esgo! (lets go!)
urndweel (turn the wheel)
choo choo train

SUPER-bowl

1 margarita machine - 3 flavors!
2 much food
4 quarters
100 squares
$400 won by Kim
21 years (happy day tessa!)
25 +/- people
2 cakes

pitures to follow soon!

here we go!

all the things long promised!

so i am listening to world talk radio ( HeartsArt) and updating this FINALLY. we had aidan again mon and tues and were wiped out, then tues/wed i had a migrane and didn;t feel like posting. so here are all of the pics i have promised:

1)Just a cute new picture of quinn

2)"AND: used to connect"

3) new bathroom decor

4) new bathroom decor

5) quinn's new do: baby curls gone, top is short to spike, i just can't bear to do the part with a comb-over, sorry kids.

ah, that feels better!

promises, promises

so i was going to insert pictures here of quinn's new hair cut, but the ones i took that i thought were good were blurry and the picture i took of my newest work didn't show enough detail, so alas, all shall wait to see thine pictures. (is that even remotely correct?????)

i am off to wash sheets and mat & frame tim's jersey's so they are hung before the par-tay.

wiped out!

so we are getting ready for super bowl, man am i pooped. we had aidan for two days, man i was wiped out. i dunno how people do it, i man i know they do, but how do they have enough energy and time to have hanky panky to get that third one???????? *whew*

i am done with "and". i will post a pic of it (and the long promised pic of q's haircut) soon, i swear.

gotta go!