For Your Listening Pleasure

Like the music? I'm behind the times, I'm sure, 'cause I just found this while checking out some blogs. I love it! I had started downloading a bunch of music to my media center the other day. What a pain! I found this and have downloaded a bunch of songs! Songs I hadn't heard in ages. Fun songs. Goo Goo Dolls songs! I'm an eclectic type of person and that follows through in my tasted in music, too. So scroll down to the bottom of the page and check out my play list. You may want to snag a few for your own playlist! :)

See the pic? This is my newest fetish. I've always like buttons. I've got a ton of them for scrapbooking. But seeing this pic--and others I've found--just made me happy! So I've been on the hunt for buttons now, and I'm about to be overloaded with them. But I couldn't help myself when Denny and I went junking the other day. One place had 4 jars of buttons for $1 each. I held back tho, and only bought 2! lol Plus Mom gave me all of hers, so I have tons to separate--because I'm a bit Monkish--and clean. And remove the threads from. So much work. But they look so nice after I'm done. After I get done cleaning, etc., I'll go through them and sell a bunch of them. Who ever buys them will be getting a deal, tho, 'cause they'll be clean!

I did good at WW Tuesday. I lost 2.2 pounds for a grand total of 22.6. Yea, me! I'm surprised I'm not tired of doing this yet. But so far, so good. We've been going to the Chinese place lately and I've been getting steamed chicken and mixed veggies. Love 'em! And it gives me another place to go to. Restaurants are limited down here and I'm just not doing the fast food thing. Exception--I can get a thin crust personal pan Hawaiian at Pizza Hut for about 7 points. I add a salad to that and have an awsome lunch! At subway I get the 6" Subway Club for about 7 points. Works for me! Tonight I'm making "fried" chicken. Here's the recipe. Brandi says it's awsome, so I'll check it out!

Have a good one and watch out for the other guy this Labor Day weekend!

Clock Class

This is the class I'm teaching tomorrow. I love how this turned out! I had to tweek a bit from what is shown here, tho. The hands wouldn't move over the huge bling that I used! lol So I just changed out the big gold bling with little pink bling. It looks cuter anyway! We used a Heidi Swapp clock and number overlay. The paper is K&Co's Berry Sweet. Brandi had clock stamp, so I stamped them on a transparency and cut them out. It's hard to see, but I've got pink bling at each number. When I get this clock back after class, I think I'm going to add bling to each second, too! I think there were only 3 or 4 openings left on this one. Maybe one day I'll have a completely full class! :)

Weigh in was good this week. I lost 1.2 pounds, for a total of 20.4. And that's in 7 weeks! The last time I joined, I only lost 15 lbs. in 13 weeks! Did I mention how much I hated that class???! I love this one! It just helps when all your friends are doing it, too!

Digi Scrappin' Made Easy

Isn't this cute? It's a digi page I did of the grandkids and me on my birthday. Kathryn Balint has a new deal out that makes digi scrapping a breeze! She emailed me with the info and I signed up and got started right away! It was so easy and fun! I'll have to find out if it's ok to start sharing this yet. As soon as I do, I'll be posting this so you all can get started digi scrapping! You know you want to! lol

WW--I forgot to tell you how I did last week. I lost .8 pounds, for a grand total of 19.2! I wasn't very good on Sat. and Sun. of this week, so I'm going to have to work my butt off for a loss. You'd think surely I can lose another .8 this week, wouldn't you? I'll let you know Tuesday!

Road Trip!

This pic has nothing to do with the road trip, but I thought it was so cute of Dakota puckering up for Katie! lol She was a chocolate-y mess! lol

As for the road trip--Brandi and I made a trip to St. Louis Friday and went to For Keeps Sake. What an amazing store! I think we spent 2 hours in there and tons of money! lol They have so many neat things that our lss doesn't carry. Like these cool Tim Holtz scissors and his retractable craft pick, which I've already used! And I got these neat Heide Swapp felt flowers that are so cute. And paper! Being the paper whore that I am, I'll have to say that I was in heaven!lol I found Graphic 45 papers, Making Memories Spellbound and Cosmo Cricket's Cogsmo. I also picked up some Kaisercraft bling. These are cool and cheap! Oh! And I also got Melissa Frances' Girly Girl kit. Adorable! All this at the first store! Then we went to Archivers! OMG! This place is awsome! They had make and take stations set up. We had to visit 4 stations and then received a free gift--a small American Crafts journal book with a slick writer! We made the first card and Brandi bought the Sakura Gelly pen. These come 2 to a pack, so we split it. It's so cool! It's a glitter pen. It's so smooth and has an amazing effect. Then she bought the Fiskars Easy Stamp Press. I wish I had gotten one. Next time! And she got the stamp we used on our card. I ended up getting more paper, some embellishments and some buttons. It was a great scrapbook shopping day. I can't wait to go back!

Hybrid Scrapping

I guess I'm a hybrid now! lol This is the digi layout I did of Dakota and finished it off with some scrap paper and buttons. I like the end result here. I did her name with my Pazzles. I just happend to find a tutorial on "you tube" on how to do shadows. Sure makes a difference, I think. I'll probably be doing shadows on all names from here on out! lol

Don't forget to check out Kathryn Balint's site. She has some of the coolest retro kits. She's my fave! :) Her mother, Velma, has a neat recipe kit, too. I think that one may show up here prety soon!

Tuesday's Weigh In

Not a huge loss this week. Just .6 pounds, but that's fine by me! I'm now 18.4 pounds lighter than I was 5 weeks ago. I knew it wasn't going to be good, tho. I did really well between Wed., and Sunday morning. Then we went to the river. I ate too many hot dogs and had pizza after we left. Who could resist, right? lol But that's fine. Next week will be better!

Time to check in, Peggie! How did you do this week? Hopefully better than I did. All I can say is, stay away from the river! lol

Digi Scrappin'

This turned out cute! I've had this kit from Kathryn Balint (love her stuff!) for ages! I haven't done any digi scrappin' for a long time--and it shows! lol But I took this pic of Dakota finishing off her Daddy's ice cream cone, and knew I had to use this kit. I was just waiting for something special that would be deserving of both! I love to digi scrap, but there's so much to learn about it. I need to take more time to learn how to really do this right. Some day! :) What I've done here is very, very basic, but it was a fun kit to practice with.

I'll be back later with results from my WW weigh in. Cross your fingers for me. The weekend was tough!