Chaffeur

Mainly posting about this for posterity's sake. I'm sure at some point it will end up in a layout. My day was crazy busy. I had to take the day off from work first because it would be impossible to drive around this much and try and get back to work in between. Basically I needed to act as chaffeur to get to 2 ortho appts, 3 dentist appts, 1 kid to and from school twice, 1 kid to and from school once, 2 kids to and from volleyball and 1 to and from soccer.
8:50 Drive C to Orthodontist, (write scrapsahoy article while in waiting room)
9:45 drop-off C, pickup S & I
10:00 S & I to dentist
11:20 lunch
11:30 S to school
11:40 home to get C
11:50 C to dentist
12:20 C to school
12:30 Grocery run
1:00 home to drop-off groceries
1:30 pickup S
1:50 S to Ortho
2:30 S to volleyball
3:00 C to volleyball
5:00 pick up C
6:00 I to soccer
6:05 pickup S, pickup dinner
7:00 do layout for article
8:00 finish article
9:00 DQ!
9:30 try not to pay attention to "Cry Wolf" (scary movie DJ and S are watching in same room as me)

What's SO nice about this is despite all the running around, Wenatchee is small enough that it was only 32 miles on my car. What's BAD about that is in my car that was about 5 gals. of gas. I get horrible gas mileage, but sadly high-gas prices are still much cheaper than having a car payment.

"One of these things...

... is not like the others...", I totally heard that song when I saw this little guy! How cute is he?? A little spotlighting to give him the, well, spotlight, he deserves. Did he fnd his way home in my suitcase? Sadly, no, I had already needed to buy another suitcase just to carry home all the books I got (and bought.) How come everything looks so much more "must-have" when it's somewhere out of town?
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Sin City, redux

Back again from Sin City. LOL, I just love to call it that. Haven't had much chance to go through my photos yet. Needed to play catch-up all day with laundry, kitchen, unpacking, etc, you know the drill. This is the first and only pic I've gotten my hands on and thought I'd share as I loved how it came out. The NAPP Photoshop World conference was as awesome and inspiring as I had hoped. If you ever get a chance to attend this (and, of course, you're into PS and photography) then by any means do so. My favorites are Joe McNally and Jay Maisel - two of the world's top photographers with portfolios that were so incredible they brought me to tears. Check them out.

3 more for the count: 6 down, 14 to go

The purse I made for Stephanie needed a little something, some color, so I made these little appliques to add on. Now she seems "done." I'm counting them as 1 of my projects, as I have never made an applique before and it was a learning experience. And they did use a small part of my stash!
The yellow and black purse I made last night for myself. I love the contrast of the vintage flour-sack fabric with the graphic and whimsical polka dots! Made a wider strap for comfort and 4 extra pockets to keep me organized.

I found this old pic of Indy on her very first birthday! This was way back when before I scrapbooked, so I was thrilled to find this little morsel 'o' goodness! The layout is called "Eat cake" (wait all year, after 365 days eat cake!)

3 down, 17 to go

OK, I already forgot I was on a "no buy" spell until I've completed 10 projects. I didn't violate on purpose, I forgot! SO as penance, I've upped my project list to TWENTY. I have to complete 20 projects using existing supplies before I can buy anything (other than adhesive) again. The purse below counts as 1 and these 2 layouts make 2 and 3. I made the previews here small though because if you want to see more you'll have to visit their other homes, my Prima Gallery and the brand spankin' new Prima blog where they will be making their debuts later this week.

On another note, I'm sad to say I had to turn on comment moderation as I was starting to get spam comments. DO spammers seriously think anyone in their right mind is going to think "hmmm, I feel like gambling and/or ordering viagra right this minute and this potentially dangerous link is exactly the one I should recklessly click on to do so...". fidiots!

On the remodeling home front, we have been "taped" and "darby-ed"! Our wall guy (ie: my super father-in-law) has to leave for a week tomorrow, thus quashing my hopes of being done this weekend. Ah well, what's one more week, right?

Happy 1/2 hour from officially being Thursday!

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