Middletown Arts Celebration

A couple of weeks ago my daughter came home with an invitation to the Middletown Arts Celebration. Along with the invitation came a letter addressed to my daughter to inform her that a piece of her art would be show cased it also congratulated her for all her hard work and dedication to her art. Hellloooo how did crafty Mom not know that her daughter was an artist? She has her own scrap desk and a ton of supplies. We play with paper, we color together but I had no idea that the girl could draw!! Check out her self portrait. Anyone know whose style she copied?



I was really amazed by the quality of this Art Celebration. I'm feeling bad that I didn't take more pictures. The HS work was AMAZING with multiple award winners. I don't remember there being that many talented people when I went to HS? Looking at all that artwork really inspired me. Damn I wish I could draw. I did manage a couple of pages for The Scraproom Sketch Class. Here is sketch number one.

Then I skipped to number four. I had all these pic's from Mother's Day and thought this 2 page sketch was perfect for them. I hope I don't get an F for skipping!

ChoooChooo

All aboard for a Happy Mother's Day! I am Photo heavy today. I decided for Mother's Day this year I wanted to go to Roscoe, NY. Better known as Trout Town USA. It's a small town an hour north from our house and you guessed it, it's a fishing town. That's not why I wanted to go though. They have a Diner with the best French Toast I've ever had! Deep fried!! and I loved every calorie of it!! There goes the 20 lbs I've lost. There is also a small Railroad Museum where we had a great time goofing around. I can't wait to scrap the pic of my daughter on the "runaway train"!






To finish the day off we had my Mother and My MIL for a barbecue. We had a great day playing volley ball and going through pictures. It was one of those rare perfect days. I am thankful for both my Mom and my MIL.


Hope you all had a fabulous Mother's Day!!!!

She's Back

Sheeeeee's back! Said in my best creepy old lady voice. Yup, my princess has returned. She's tired, she's cranky, she doesn't know what she wants to eat, she doesn't want to clean her room, she doesn't want to go to school...can't say that I blame her. I would be in Florida right now if I could.
She pulled it together though and we ended up going to Applebee's (her choice) for a welcome home dinner. We went early and our meal was actually delicious. Or maybe it tasted especially good because we skipped lunch. We're winding down now and I have a feeling that bed time is going to be another head spinner. I know I always have a hard time going back to work after a vacation so I'm going to go easy on her. I'm still daydreaming about Spring Break!
I thought I would get a ton of scrapping done while she was away but only ended up with a couple of more pages. Although I didn't know how appropriate this one would be! lol


Over at The Scraproom there is a free sketch class going on. Susan has some really cool stuff planned so if you are into sketches/challenges. Be sure to check it out. There will be a total of 10 sketches. No pressure to do them all, but they are offering prizes!

Disney and Basic Grey

What do they have in common? Nothing really. But do you wanna know why Kelsey is so happy? Surprise trip to Disney. Yup 1500 miles away from me for an entire week! How did I let myself get talked into that one. I thought maybe it wouldn't be so bad, but truly? It sucks! I miss her terribly. I think I'm going through withdrawal!! The house it too quiet. There's no laundry on the bathroom floor. I'm not rushing off to the bus stop or swim practice. Eeek. I'm bored. What's a girl to do with so much free time? Clean, do laundry? Yeah right! You all know I dug out my scrap stuff and played!!
I did this page on Saturday, the day she left. sniff sniff. I submitted it to Basic Grey and WOoWoO! I got the email today, they accepted it.

I submitted this page too but they didn't accept this one. I actually thought they would have chosen this one and not the other. I thought maybe they didn't accept this one because I used a sketch but then remembered that they accepted a page I did using a Becky Fleck sketch sooo...I guess they just didn't like this one. Oh well. I LOVE the design of it. I used Inspired Blueprint #16 for it. I like the sketch so much I think I'll use it again. My hubby hates this page. He thinks she looks like a gangster and I should have used a better picture. He doesn't get that her giving the peace sign gave me the idea to use the Live Free title. Non scrap-booker's. They just don't get it!!

Happy Spring Happy Anniversary

Yay!! Spring has finally arrived and left already. At least we had one glorious week of it! Back to rainy and cold today. Anyhow I got some scrappy stuff done over spring break. I made a Spring page for the current challenge over at Noel Mignon. I say current because often, I don't finish them in time for submission. No excuses this time. The only requirement was to use Spring in the title. Easy Peasy, thanks Noel.

Another page was for a Sketch Challenge over at the Scraproom. Susie always has awesome sketches and will be hosting a 10 week sketch class starting in May.

Inspired Blueprints has also been coming up with some kick ass sketches! I did this one using some of my Noel Mignon kit.
My weekend was just awesome. Saturday was a perfect day for a bike ride. Now mind you, I haven't ridden a bike in, ok not going to say how many years but let's just say a VERY long time and oh, I don't own a bike either. There is no deterring an 8 year old though. She traded her bike in for roller blades and wasn't taking no for an answer. Now granted I'm breaking the law hear because I rode without a helmet but lemmeee tell you!? I had a blast!! I got in touch with my inner 8 year old and now am on a mission to get myself a sweet ride. I'm sure my neighbors had a blast watching a 200 pound woman careening through the neighborhood. WoooooHoooo Big Momma rides again! Oh check out my kid on adult roller blades. I swear, I wish I had half of her natural athletic ability!!

This weekend was also our anniversary. 12 whole years and can you believe it. I still like the man. Now I don't mean I just love him, I still like him. He is a genuinely good guy. Ok enough mush and on to the anniversary gongs. Yeah, I said gongs. We went to our favorite restaurant, Yobo. Had a great meal. Got ready to leave and waited an unusual amount of time for the check. Next thing I know there are about 8 men with gongs and instruments storming our table. I look at my husband and started to say what the f and I realize he's as freaked out as me. Yeah, they came to our table. Sang something in Japanese and banged gongs. You know only a couple of people were looking at us right? Then just when I thought it was over? They took out a camera and started snapping pictures. Mother of god I wanted to crawl under the table. Remember now, I use to be a size 10 and wellll since the thyroid got ripped out.. let's just say I'm NOT a size 10 and I don't do things to bring attention to myself. Men banging gongs and snapping pictures. snort I'm thinking I'm going to kill someone. What happened next though was so touching I couldn't even be mad. We were presented with our check and instead of a check it was a card from my SIL saying Happy Anniversary dinner was on her! How freakin sweet was that, we even got a little keepsake. So cheers to another 12 years!

Best Laid Plans

The big Easter plans. Travel to my SIL's in NJ. Have dinner. Have an egg hunt. Just a nice relaxing day in store for us. Nope instead, a couple hours after the below Easter pic's were taken....my girl got sick. The dreaded stomach virus on Easter day! I knew we were in for it when she went back to bed and didn't touch her candy. Of course the projectile vomiting was a pretty good hint that Easter was officially cancelled. Don't worry, I like to document every day moments but that's a little much.

Sooo that left us with a sick kid and no Easter dinner. I didn't have a thing in the house! Grandma and hubby to the rescue! I tell ya though, don't shop on a holdiay. Do you know how many stores it takes to find the makings of Easter dinner ON Easter day? FOUR. I felt bad for them but it was entertaining. They called from each store, Hannaford had ginger ale, Shop Rite has turkeys if you want one that's 24 lbs, and so on. We ended up with a ham, roast chicken, store made mashed potatoes (would love to know what they do to them to make them so good, no doubt a tub of butter!!) boxed stuffing, carrots, dinner rolls and bakery cookies!
It was after six by the time we ate but it was all good. The meal was delicious and although it wasn't what we had planned it was a good day despite the stomach virus.

I'm happy to report that is was a 24 hour bug. She is on the mend, still not much of an appetite. I really am feeling lucky to have her. All those juicy embellies are from my Noel Mignon kit, Nightingale. Not sure if she has any left, it was a great kit. The papers are mix from the Nightingale kit and a Scrapbook Circle kit.

Cagey Rabbit

Why might you ask am I am posting at 8 am Easter morning? Well because I have been up since 6 am and have already had a half a pot of coffee of course! This is the earliest my daughter has gotten up on Easter. Although, at least we did not have a repeat of Christmas. That was ohhhhhhh, I dunno 4 am!?
Kelsey spent alot of time looking for her basket this year. The Easter Bunny is a pretty cagey dude and makes it harder for her to find every year. This year, this is where it turned up!

We're still not sure how that rabbit was able to get her basket into the dryer. It was an adventure for sure to get it out! He also didn't bring her very much candy this year but the Pixo's were a big hit and of course cash always works for her. "Now I can buy that Tamagotchi I've always wanted", you know to go with the seven Tamagotchi's she already has.

Have a happy and blessed Easter!