I think to myself what a wonderful world

Ah life is returning to normal kind of. My desk is still a horrible, horrible mess. This weekend we are planning a trip to Reno for our anniversary. Should be fun. I am pretty excited actually. Wish me luck to win some big money ha!

Its been freakin hot here! 108 today and is suppose to be 110 tmw! BLAH!! Oh well least my ac is working a bit. Now you see why us Californians are in a energy crisis hehehe.

I don’t have any scrappiness to share *gasp* but I do have something rather strange that has to do with scrapping to share. I was featured on this blog...Not in the usual way either! WHAT? WOW! I mean I seriously was waiting for the day the vultures ripped me apart. I mean who is perfect in this scrapping world? Certainly not me. So when I seen that I was pleasantly shocked. Now don't get me wrong its not that I don't like this blog, because I do, but the comments from some of the ppl I don't like. I’m a firm believer in "people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones." With that said Iam also a big believer in free speech sooo say what you will I just wont read it lol!

Anyway I am in need of some major inspo and this just arrived in my email and let me tell ya I think it did the trick.

Main kit


Project

Yum-o! I cant wait to get this in the mail! I get both this time around so that should be fun. Go here if you want yours.

Oh and did you see these? I know I am being a Elsie whore but seriously these are great!



Ah Peter Pan one of my fav children's stories. That and Alice. I think I identify more with the peter pan one at this stage in my life. I wish i could go back and be a kid. Ah well. In my mind I do. ;)

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Dont make me take off my belt...

Yes I AM alive! LOL! Sorry if I've worried any of you. Let me explain...I went to be taught by my lovely friend Kerry Lynn and (happy happy birthday my sweet lovely!!!) stayed till almost midnight. I had a wonderful time but wasn't feeling real great. I should have left earlier. The next morning woke up with a terrible pain in my side like something was going to burst. I thought I was going to have to go to the hospital. I paced around the house for a while then laid down and prayed my heart out lol! Finally the pain went away and I fell back to sleep.


I'm TRYING to balance out this surgery with my life. Its been a struggle. It could be much worse tho. I know this, so I am thankful for all of it. The pain the struggle the frustration. Its been one month and I've lost 30 lbs. Only 500 more to go! JK!

On to other things. I made this for my dear friend C. (paint and ink chick). She had wanted a painting of a little black girl and well I tried my hand at one. Not the best I've ever seen but I think she is cute. My daughter loves her. I named her Harriet.

The new Mojo is up! Elsie Flannigan is our Guest Mojo girl. She is super fab and I am so freakin stoked she agreed to be apart of my lil challenge blog. Make sure to check it out. Here is my take on it.



I do have much more to share but Ill save it for another day. Hope you had a wonderful 4Th of July!

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Everybody come together

Wow last week was a trial let me tell ya. I could barely walk, drink, move, it was almost unbearable. Not because I was in a lot of pain but because it was frustrating. I couldn't even sit on the computer more then 5 mins without feeling like I was going to pass out. I couldn't figure out what was wrong with me. I went to the Dr yesterday and about passed out trying to walk up to the office. I finally get into the room after waiting an hour and found out I have had low blood pressure. Its been low since I got out of surgery. It was 101/54 and in the office it was 110/74. That was what was causing me feeling soooooo bad. I had to eat more protein to get it back up. Yesterday i spent the day eating pintos and cheese and actually by the end of the night felt almost 75% better. Still felt a little light headed but nothing like before. Sooo learn from my mistakes right? Today is day 12 and I have lost 20 lbs so far. They also gave me a b12 and b1 shot because of the mishap in the hosp. So today I am trying to get back into the groove of things with a clearer head and a little more energy then before. I haven't even touched my scrappin supplies. Today i will hopefully finish up my rvk pages and post those tmw. Man never thought I would be out of commission this long with this surgery. So even tho most of you said you would like to hear about my journey on this blog I decided I am going to start a private blog about it. I am going to be telling EVERYTHING that goes on with this surgery and including pics. I know there are some scrappin friends out there who maybe considering this surgery and I want them to know what i went thru but its not something i just want anyone who comes surfing on in to see. So if you would like to be able to read this blog that I speak of email me at mariescorner@myctmh.com and i will send you the link.

You know I cant post without posting some kind of eye candy. So here ya go.

I did this for debbee's challenge over at sis. It is a very personal layout. Probably one of the most personal ones I've done. I love this song by Ben folds 5 (that's who it was back in the day) and when i heard it on the radio I knew I had to use it on a page. It took on the meaning of me singing it to me. I know crazy but sometimes I feel like i have two sides. One the happy go lucky everything is gonna be alright side...and the other very depressed gloomy we are all doomed side. That side tends to try to drown the other. Sooo that is what this page is saying. I actually won the challenge and am suppose to be getting a prize! This made the catwalk the week before. WOOT!


This is one that was inspired by my cousin. She kept drilling it into my head that in 100 yrs who is gonna care what we "looked" like. Fat skinny ugly beautiful they just wanna know who and what we were made of. This also made it to the catwalk last week! WOOT woot!


This one was for a challenge I did over at scrap for a cure. It was to use 5 of something on your layout. Its my daughter and her best friend. They are super silly.


My hubby took this pic with my new camera trying it out and i printed it and scrapped. Should never leave them on there if you don't want them shown lol! My hubby is very smart and I know he could do anything he wants to do. I also know he doesn't see that. So that is what inspired this page.

I don't have really anything else to report because I've done nothing but lay on the couch and feel miserable. Thank you all for coming in and wishing me well! It really kept my spirits up! Love you guys!

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make my job a big vacation

Hello! This is going to be real short and sweet. I am home from the hosp. Came home sunday (yesterday). I do have to say my stay was not to great lol! It began kinda sucky since they couldn't find a vein in my arm to do the iv in. I was poked 5 times before they finally found one to use. My arm is black and blue from that. Then when i came out of surgery my iv was in a different place for some reason. They didn't tell me why. Found out a day later it wasn't even going in my vein just basically filling my arm up with fluids. My hand became numb and it stung. I kept telling them there was something wrong. They couldn't figure out why I wasn't going to the bathroom enough and decided I needed to have a sono of my bladder. That was not fun at all. I have 6 incisions on my stomach. Your bladder is down by your pelvis and just happened to be right where my c-section scar is. It doesn't feel good to push this plastic thing into the scar to find ur bladder let me tell ya. I almost cried. They were also pushing on my stomach where my incisions were. Needless to say I was not a happy camper. SO when they finally listened to me about the iv they took it out and decided to put it in the other arm. I told her she had one chance if she didn't get it I wasn't going to be poked again. She claimed she got it but about 5 hours later my hand was stinging and became numb and swollen. Thank god it was a different nurse and she took it out all together. Soooo now my arms hurt very badly. I'm trying to get back in to the swing of things but I think its gonna take longer then I expected. I was thinking of starting a blog just for this journey I am taking...I didn't know if i wanted to clutter up this blog with all my personal issues when a lot of the ppl who come by don't really wanna know about it lol! So leave me a comment and tell me what you think.

I want to thank you all for your well wishes! It means a lot to me. I'm not gonna lie I was very scared. I have mixed feelings right now about this choice I have made but I know in a few weeks when I feel better and can eat something other then broth and water Ill feel differently.

I will hopefully be returning tmw to post my rvk layouts because I started them before i left for surgery and didn't finish them. I thought i would finish them when I came home but man that has been difficult. So I will leave you with the scrap for a cure layouts. That kit was fabulous and if you didn't get your hands on it you really need to sign up for a sub lol!

I promise i will be catching up on blogs soon. Hopefully within the next couple days! xoxoxo
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Blue birds fly

Well girls the Red Velvet Kit is up and ready for you to buy! I got mine and immediately started playing!

I devised a little tutorial for ya. It is simple and sweet. I hope you like it.



Supplies you will need (not in kit):
Scissors
Sharpie
hot glue gun
paint
small alpha stickers

Supplies from kit:
Love Elsie fabric paper
chipboard frame of your choice
Strip from bottom of sass paper (any one you like)
One of the buttons

1. I picked this planner up from Target in the clearance isle for a whole 2.00. You can also get them at the dollar store or any drug store. Paint chipboard frame to match fabric paper. Set aside to dry.


2. Cut your fabric paper to fit your planner. You can trace around it with the sharpie on the paper side or you can roughly cut stick it on and then cut around it to finish it up...That's what I did. Very simple and easy.



3. Cut 2- 1/2 inch wide and 2 in long strips from your left overs for the pen holder. Wrap them around the pen and cut only the paper from where it is going to stick to each other. Leave the paper where the pen goes thru.



4.Hot glue one strip to front inside over. Hot glue second strip to back inside cover making sure to stagger them. This is going to keep your planner closed with the pen.


Seen in this photo.


5. Hot glue painted frame to cover.( I distressed mine with a nail file then outlined it with my brown sharpie.) Thread button, knot, and hot glue to bottom right corner of planner. Hot glue paper scallop strip under frame.


6.Name and date your planner. I glued my alphas down because this is going with me.


Viola you are done!!!I hope you enjoyed this and if you end up making one pls leave me a link so I can see it!

Also the new Mojo is up! Go check it out! We have a super fab sponsor and the pages are out of this world. Here is mine.


I know San Fran is actually a place not a thing but hey that's ok its still a good thing to take pics of the place. HEHEHEHE! Ill get around it somehow right? Just for the record I ♥ Martha!

My surgery is set for tmw at 7:30 am. I wont be back till Sunday. I have lots to share when I get back so please check in on Monday or so. Wish me luck and if you pray pls do so for me! Thanks for all your support!

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I dont give a hoot about what you think

How was your weekend? What fun things did you do? I went to Nikki's class on sat. Oh man we had a blast. My cousin Crystal went. We rarely get to scrap together. She had this cute dress on that i loved. I wish I had her legs so I could wear cute dresses lol! Anyway so I actually scrapped all 4 pages! Usually I go to these things and don't finish because I talk way to much but Nikki had everything in little bags and she was chugging along and we all were really into it. I was so proud that I finished! Here are those pages...

I really like the pages they were fun! Ginger and Diana were there from Scrap for a Cure. We all laughed and talked and I actually talked Diana into giving up her Elsie Recipe book to me...Hehehe for a price of course! I love it! I need to send Rachel all her cards so she can sign them for me! She is a Rock Star!

Cousin has me hooked on glimmer mist now...Anyone use it? Its been out for a while but I just didn't think it was that cool...Until I tried it lol! Its beautiful! I love it. All my pages coming up have it on there somewhere. You know me and the shabby chicness well this just adds an even more lovely vintage feel to it.

I cleaned my desk yesterday! YAY! It was a mess! OH MAN! I couldn't even scrap without knocking something down lol! Its not all the way clean but its mostly clean. I still have a stack of papers that I need to go thru. The stack is like 3 ft tall, no lie. I'm itching to get over there and mess it up lol! Well scrap anyway.

Sunday we went to my Mom's and had a BBQ and the kids and hubby went and swam! OMG it was cold and the pool was only 70! I was not about to get in. They had fun tho. They did admit it was cold after they all got out. All I could think of the whole time watching them swim was those old men who go up to Alaska and ice swim. YIKES!

Only 2 more weeks till my surgery! I'm so excited and scared and ready. Just keep praying for me.

Ill leave you with my fav video of the moment.


Make sure to the music off at the bottom of my page so you can hear this. :)

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Its ok if you cant stand to let her dance

Well girls I am in a blah lazy mood. I just "cleaned" my house. Picked up really. Hubby has gotten the house pretty clean (which is very cool and much appreciated) and i have been going behind the kids and picking up messes. Cant find the broom to sweep the kitchen floor and it really really needs it. GRRR! Must be the troll that steals our socks. It has been hella windy here! I mean insane! Trees breaking, falling down....Man! Like 3 days ago it was in the 100's! I tell ya the weather gets weirder and weirder.

I received my Scrapperie kit in the mail the other day...OH my goodness it was soo pretty! I love that kit club because i would probably never get to play with the papers that Sandy picks. I wouldn't pick them for myself. Man tho I'm so glad that that is the case. Sadly this was my last month to dt for her. She is holding a dt call so EVERYONE go try out! She is soooo awesome to dt for. Anyway here are the pages I made with this months kit.

See I told you those papers were beautiful! I hardly added anything from my stash to these pages. I like a lot of stuff on my pages and this came with a lot of stuff lol!

Mojo is up! Are you playing along? I hope so! Here is my take on this challenge.

My daughter Aria jumpin on our trampoline. I love how it looks like she is just floating in mid air.

Well girls I need to vacuum and clean my really messy desk and then get ready for Nikki Peterson's class on sat! YAY! My cousin Crystal is coming with me! I'm so happy because her and I don't get to scrap together very much and honestly we are all we have around these parts. I'm so excited! Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a lovely Memorial Day weekend!

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