Getting it back a little

Well I finally got a few layouts done. No where near as many as I would have liked to have gotten done but its a start right? 

We got some snow here and I know a lot of others got it as well, but my kids loved it. They got snow days and got to stay home and play in it. The first time it snowed here it wasnt really snow, it was hard and more icy than anything so not a lot of fun. But the second time it snowed it was so nice and fluffy! We got the kids up in the middle of the night to just show them out the window and tell them that they were getting to stay home again and play in it this time. Of course they were jazzed lol. So the next morning me and my hubby got our munchkins up and dressed and headed out on a walk about in the snow. It was really the first time our youngest had seen the snow. Shes two but its never done anything for her to see before and she was amazed by it. It didnt matter how cold she got, she didnt wanna go inside. It was so much fun. I have so many more pics from our snow days to scrap and this definitely made me wanna scrap them. 

I scrapped some of the older kids game time, this was a little different for me though because I decided that I wasn't using any papers other than my back ground paper and the project life kind of cards. These were by We R Memory Keepers, albums made easy. I've had them for a good while and haven't touched them so I figured it was time to get them out and use them. I ended up happy with my layout though.

Now this layout of my youngest I'm just not that happy with. It looks lacking to me. I love the little area with her pics and I love the title, I really do like it all, maybe its because I didnt get a great picture of it?? Not sure. It was also my first time ever using my gelatos. I have sooo much to learn!! lol.

lost the umf

So I've been sick this past week maybe a little more, (guess that comes with the weather and having four kids!) and haven't really had the want or any kind of creative anything and its just killin me! I just recently subscribed to the Hip Kit Club and am patiently awaiting my first kit and I'm just hoping I get my want to or umf back before it gets here. My hubby even got a Silhouette Cameo the beginning of this last week and I've only made one cut on it! And anyone who knows me knows thats INSANE!!

As today is the 1st of March and my kit will be heading my way soon, I figured I'd get in my scrappy room and try and do something. So I decided to find some sketches that I liked off my pintrest, grab some of my photos and start pulling papers and embellishments and see what I could actually do. So I've already gotten about 10 page kits put together, I'm thinking its about time to stop and actually do a page. So hopefully I'll have something to show for it here in the next couple days!

My Computer is fixed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So looks like my computer is finally fixed and I'm soooo happy!! I can actually get back to doing my blog on a regular basis, get in involved in challenges and more!!! So happy!!! Well just because I wasn't able to keep up with my blog doesn't mean I wasn't around, I've had my phone so I've been on my instagram and facebook, but so so happy to have this back! *big warm hug* Well here are some of my LO's since I've been MIA, its not everything but thats ok lol,

Well hope you enjoy them, and now off to scrap some more!!

just a little mini...

Just thought id pop in and post a pic f the mini i made for this past weekends hip kit club online crop....i didnt use a hip kit for this mini or the lod i posted yesterday, you didnt have to be a member to participate this weekend. Well Amélie Cousin posted a challange for a mini and it was really fun to do!! I piced the main items out Sunday night before i called it a night and then the next day it took me about an hour to do start to finnish. Hope you like it!!

busy weekend!

I know ive been MIA for a while, but summer was here and we were in play mode. It gave me lots of pics to scrap though!! And yes again weve been sick lol, seems to be over but not going to hold my breath since fall/winter is starting. Anyways....

So this past weekend the Hip kit club had an online crop, you didnt have to be a member to join in on the fun, so that was nice. Well my hubby was working Saturday so i didnt get to scrap much on Saturday, but that night i got into it! Sunday i scrapped some, we usually have a family day Sunday's, so we went to the park and played on the equipment there and the older guys threw the football around, it was fun and i got more pics to scrap lol Then we watched the game, unfortunately the razorbacks lost, to be honest my hubby is the razorback fan, were a divided home, im and auburn fan! But i did get scrapping done this weekend and i was so happy to participate in the challenges and get to know.all the awesome people better.  So here are some of my LOs from the hip kip online crop, hope you like them!!

I have the last challenge to take pictures of and its a mini album. I just have to say i had tons of fun and hope there are more of these online crops in the near future!!

Now to go and catch up on watching my youtube subscriptions lol! Happy Monday everyone!!

Scrap Purging....

So were a 6 member family home, and at the moment that means I don’t have a ton of room for scrapping. Crossing my fingers that our new place will have more room designated for my scrapping, (were in the process of finding a new place since our family has grown again). So for others out there with this same issue, the small scrappy space, How often do you purge your stash??

Do you purge paper?? Embellishments? Or a bit of everything?? If you do purge, do you do it at certain times?? Like when new releases come out and are available??

I think that sometimes I buy to much of one thing, as many of us scrappers/craters do, and then once I’ve used some of it, or when I buy multiple papers, once I’ve used it a few times I kind of get burnt out on it I guess you could say. If I keep it long enough I usually use it again but then all the new stuff comes out and I’m so ready to play with it, so that’s when I usually end up purging.

I’m kind of in that place right now…..I get new stuff from my Scraptastic kits every month, always so excited about that, but I like to shop the new collection that some out too. I have noticed that if I don’t purge every once in a while I stop shopping, I have an issue with clutter ,lol, and that’s funny with 6 of us in a house!

So I’m in the process of trying to decide what to purge and what to do with what I purge…..Maybe give it away??? We will have to see I guess….

If you purge your stash off and on to make room and have a special way of doing it, Id love if you’d share, and what you do with it?

summers already over 😞 and the school lost my kid ugh...

We've kept busy these last few weeks before school started again. Man it seems like school just got out, felt like we had plenty of time to do things, but WOW it flew by and school started here Monday, so sad.

 Our older 2 were back and forth between there dads and here, in 3 week increments, so that cut our time with them a lot. But with all the kids we played outside and in the water a lot! Water balloons, pools, sprinklers....they all seemed to be a dayly thing lol. Especially when its crazy as all get out and i dont blame them at all. We went and climbed a mountain on one of our parks here and the kids loved it. I still have to scrap those pics, lol I'm a little behind, but its summer and we had fun. I really thought we'd do more this summer and it seemed like the time just wasnt there or the kids weren't here when we could do it, so we've already started planning for next summer,lol. And keeping our fingers crossed that itll actually work out!

So the last few days of summer and a few more things that need to be done, like school supplies and school clothes. So me and the boys (thats our older 2) decided to make a day out of it. We went from store to store and picked out there school supplies, and unfortunately it seems i grabbed another countys school supplies list so had to get some more supplies for our oldes...opppss. Anyways.... we had fun and they picked out the stuff, we had to go to another town to do at least 95% of our shopping becuase our Wal-Mart disnt have all the school supplies the kiddos needed and of course the kids wanted the cool notebooks with the characters they love on them. Eitherway it was fun. After we got the supplies out of the way we headed to lunch and then to get clothes!  So taking 2 young boys shopping and having them try stuff on, not the most amazing afternoon.lol. The picking out of clothes was fun, there both very set in what they like so that was fun, then me saying ok time to try them on and they looked at me like i was crazy! But they've both grown so muchthat i figured it was a good idea and so glad i did . It did turn fun though, so that was nice. And by the time we got home they had ice cream all over. Thank god for leather seats.
 
Ok so now the 1st day of school and we have all our new stuff and lunch in our bag and they take off. I sit here waiting to hear about there awesome 1st day, but when the door opens and our oldest walks in hes extremely upset and almost in tears. I automatically asked what was wrong and he tells me that his brother never got on the bus, that he asked the bus driver to wait and he was then told that if he wasnt there he was tarty and that the bus driver doesn't wait. And then they left. So i call the school amd there like well he got on a wrong bus, well have to find him. I told them i was told he would be told what bus to get on and that they would make sure that it happened and now they've lost at least one of our kids AGAIN! And yes i did say AGAIN!! Happened last year 3 times and i was sooooo mad!!! The lady on the phone told me to calm down and i was like are you serious? YOu lose my kid and you want me to be calm? Are you nuts?!? Well they did find him and bring him home, but i talked to the principal and she assured me this wont happen again, i was told that last year too and it happened again so wr shall see.....we've actually looked at polulling the kids out and doing home school but i dont know if i could do it all on my own, i could always try though. But we've also looked at moving to be closer to other school. The last few days with school have been great and the kids love being with there friends and they both love there teachers so that good.

So ready for this weekend though!!