Crazy weekend weather

Warm & rainy yesterday+ tornado warnings. Today cold, blustery and a flurry or two. Yesterdays weather cancelled the rec soccer games ...so I didn't get wet. Today was our last traveling game and it was COLD.

So with the cancellation of yesterday's game I went up to the Cafe and picked up the acrylic album I want to use for my December Daily album. That's as close to creating as I got this weekend. We went to see High School Musical 3 yesterday, did a few errands, then picked up Chinese on the way home.

Other than that I've spent my weekend devouring a book....The Red Scarf by Kate Furnivall.
It's a story about a girl who escapes from a Labor Camp in Siberia circa 1933. Loved it! I read a little Thursday night while waiting for Becca at dance. Then picked it up again Friday night and have been hard pressed to put it down. Now it's done...I can get back to my regulary scheduled life. Hopefully this week I can sort thru my stash and pull out stuff so I can start assembling my December Daily album.

So inspired by this...

this is a preview of the "Gum Drops" kit over at Coordinates Collections . It is one of the December monthly kits available for pre-order now. Lots of AmericanCrafts and some Basic Grey Urban Prairie. This arrived at my house yesterday afternoon. Seriously YUMMY and oh so inspiring!

How inspiring you might ask???

Well I knocked out 2 layouts this afternoon and have a few more ideas brewing.
(Gotta love a holiday, when the kids are in school:wink:)
Anyway here's a peek for you...

Peek#1



and here's peek #2...




Well I think it was a fairly productive day. The morning consisted of the grocery store, some laundry and dinner was started in the crockpot. Did 2 layouts, worked on some ideas for a Make-n-Take day at the Cafe. Now I'm just waiting for the bus...have to take the kids for a checkup at the dentist.


Hope you all enjoyed your day. I certainly have enjoyed mine so far. Tomorrow it's back to work..bleh!

2 days in a row...

....I'm on a blogging roll!

Seriously, it seems I've just been too busy to be hanging on the computer and I haven't really had much to share.

I forgot to tell you that I extended my vacation into this week. I took today off and then tomorrow is a holiday. To top it off...the kids are in school and DH is working(shh... don't tell anyone I was that excited okay?)

Well today after putting the kids on the bus, I came in enjoyed some coffee and a little morning news show. Then I headed out for a massage and to do a few errands. Came home was going to do a little housework, but decided to head up to the scraproom. I've had a picture of Fritz playing soccer sitting on my desk since the middle of September that needed to be scrapped. In my mind I had already figured out that I wanted to use some of my Fancy Pants-"Daily Grind" papers. So this is what I came up with:





in addition to the PP from Fancy Pants I also used FP chipboard letters, a felt star and a scalloped tag. The buttons are MM, Maya Road Office sheer, and soccerball is a piece of Q&Co felt border. It was a quick simple layout, but it was fun just to scrap something for me.

Speaking of creating...I think I have pretty much talked myself into doing Ali Edwards' December Daily album. Just need to collect my stuff and put it together. I think I want to start with one of the cool acrylic albums Angela has up at the Scrapbook Cafe. From there I can add in some fun chipboard and stuff, but I'm just not sure which Xmas line to use. Hmmm decisions, decisions.

Well that's all I've got for now.

Got home yesterday

actually right around dinner time. Just chilled out last night. This morning we had a soccer game, thankfully we got it in before the rain. (Speaking of...I heard it rained here all week. Made the cloudy days in Florida not so bad) So yes we had a great time even though all the days were not brilliant sunshine, but we did manage a few which allowed the kids to get in a few hours at the pool.


We had a great time spent most of our time divided between the Magic Kingdom, Epcot, and Disney's Hollywood Studios...with a few trips over to Dowtown Disney for a couple of meals (we could walk there from Saratoga Springs) Got quite a few rides in on Soarin (my fave ride). New this year is a ride at Hollywood Studios...Toy Story Mania(only got 2 rides on it...the lines were SO long, but it is very cool) it is now on my MUST DO list when I return. Caught a couple of parades....




this is a shot from the one at Disney's Hollywood Studios...loved all the fun bright colors. It was filled with all the characters from the Pixar productions.

It's called.....



they threw out a bunch of these balls towards the end of the parade. Luckily we were able to catch a few. :wink:

Here's a couple of twilight pictures I took at Hollywood Studios.




Later that night we attended the "Fantasmic" show. AWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME...it's the 3rd time we've seen it. It's hard to explain, but it involves some cool effects with water. They somehow project movies thru a wall of water as they tell this story.

Here's a picture of Mickey after he pulled the sword out of the stone....






So on Thursday while waiting for the bus at the Magic Kingdom....guess who I run into?

Angela & Belle. Yep, teachers convention in New Jersey so everyone heads to Disney!


Well since we headed down on Nov. 1st when we got there the parks were all still decorated for Halloween by the time we left Christmas decorations were up.

Here's the lightpost in the Magic Kingdom......



So that's our vacation in a nutshell. Like I said had soccer today, picked up the dog from the kennel, have soccer again tomorrow, did some laundry....back to the everyday.

Hoping to do some creating soon. (especially now that I have some fun new pictures) Got my box of goodies from Fancy Pants right before I left and I got a box of stuff coming from Coordinates Collections.

Happy Halloween & I'm outta here!

Had a fun filled day of parades (halloween & watching the Phillies), class parties, trick-or-treating, and packing (well not so fun). We're outta here bright and early for sunny Florida...some fun times in Disney World. We'll talk when I get back

Bad, bad blogger

Yes that's me. I've been SO busy this month. Lot's of soccer, some creating, more soccer and this weekend family is visiting. And to top it off this month has been busy at night watching baseball playoffs( listening to the game now as I type this) Go Phillies!!!!!

Had a fun Soccer Shocker Tournament yesterday...got some cool pictures I'll have to scrap. (They wore costumes and played 3v3 games) Today I had a family dinner, a game and finished up my DT stuff forCC. (Not in that order)

Can't wait until next Saturday...off to visit with the MOUSE for a whole week!!!!
After this month I'd love a week in the Florida sunshine having fun with the family.

Somethings to share

So after soccer today (which bytheway was damp, windy, and cold(compared to the 80 degree temps earlier this week lol)) I bribed the kids with McD's for lunch...so long as they'd behave while I went up to the Grand Opening of One Little Spark the Shop . So off we went...when we got there people were milling about, Pat was manning the Make-and-Take table while Lee manned the register. I quickly picked up some of the goodies I had spied in earlier visits and then made my way t o Mickey D's. No time for much chatter...I briefly poked my head into the Cafe to say "Hi" to Angela (a scrapbook & a stamp store were not high in the list of "must-do's" for a 10yr old boy :wink:)


Returning home with everyone fed and content off I went to start some laundry and head to the scraproom. I got both of these in the mail on Thursday:


This is called "Lot's of Laugh's" and this is the one I got as my DT assignment for Novemeber.




and this equally FAB kit is called "What a Hoot" ( I had to buy this one just to play with...with all the free-time I have :wink:) Both kits contain some PinkPaislee goodness. The LOL kit has some gorgeous sparkly MME papers and the What a Hoot has OctoberAfternoon! Now do you understand why I had to get both??? If you are interested check them out over at Coordinates Collections. They are available for pre-order in the CC Store.

And besides these 2 kits I had some stuff I picked up at the Cafe last week for my October DT project.


Well all said and done I completed 2 layouts this afternoon and manged to get 3 loads of laundry done.

Here is my layout I did for the Scrapbook Cafe:



Pattern Paper is from CosmoCricket "Just Campy"; Bazzill Cardstock; "Autumn" is a metal accent by Pressed Petals; and the rubons are from Heidi Grace Designs. All these products are currently in stock at the Cafe.

Now I can't show you the whole thing but I can give you a little sneek of the next layout....



Well that's probably all I'm going to get done this weekend...tomorrow we'll be travelling to a soccer game. Talk later.