Its March!

Yipee! I feel like spring is in sight.

Karen from Go Scrapping has asked me to be the guest design Team member for this month. I'm honored and was delighted with the fun goodies she sent me to work with.

This is Luke and Lucy hand washing the dishes (which we rarely do since we have a dishwasher). I thought it was so funny how they kept giving each other instructions. Its kind of amazing how life changes from one generation to the next. I washed dishes everyday growing up and for my kids its a fun treat of an activity. :D

Happy Leap Day!

Happy Leap Day! Our weather has been beautiful lately but I thought I'd show you what it looked like a few weeks ago. we had LOTS of snow (as I know a lot of people did). It was quite fun for the kids but the novelty has worn off and we are embracing the spring-like sunshine we've had the past couple of days.

Tommorow I should be able to post some fun Layouts I did for my guest design team spot at Go scrapping.

ETA: I deleted the other LO because...IT WAS PICKED UP FOR PUBLICATION!!! yes I'm yelling but with delight not anger...WoooHooo!

Here are a couple more pages. I love both of these ones (still :D ) Also a couple of pics of the lunar eclipse from last night. I broke my favorite lens yesterday :( So now I only have a fully manual one. I guess its time to actually learn how to use my DSLR huh? Maybe I should practice with some still lifes in Lucy's room. Her entire carpet is covered with Pet Shop City. I swear the giant-eyed-plastic-bobble-headed-critters are actually reproducing!

I am able to post my January Inque Boutique design team stuff today! Now that it has been a few weeks, I'm looking back and not loving the Toy Box LO anymore. I think it is too plain. does that ever happen to you? You make something and really like it but then look back and think I wish I'd done it differently? I really love the others so maybe its a style thing. I like the clean graphic look on other people's pages but not my own? (Or maybe I'm just not good at it :D ) . In anycase it is now a part of our family chronicles so its staying as is. :D

I've got a few more but I think I'll save them until tommorow. ;)

These photos make it look kind of orangey but Katie now has a layer of permanently pink hair. She has been asking for a while to do this and I decided that it may be a good time to let her experiment with different looks. After all she's a straight A student, in the choir and strings, and she's on the safety patrol (a crossing gaurd). I can't really complain or even give her a good reason why not to do it (as far as I know dyeing your hair pink has no major moral ramifications :D ). She really loves it and I secretly wish I could get away with dying my hair pink ;) .

My Word

I wasn't going to have an official "word" for the year (though I am a huge Ali Edwards fan http://www.aliedwards.typepad.com/ ) because I tend to get all ambitious then be completely turned off after a while and I didn't want to ruin any words for myself. weird, huh? Well I changed my mind. I'm doing "order" and approaching it with a slow-and-steady-wins-the-race attitude. My home, my finnances, my time...I really need this. On the creative side of things though I just did a layout that was fun and free and not ordered (having a way to rebel might help me apply order where I need it ;) ). It's for this my guest design team spot over at Go Scrapping http://www.goscrapping.ca so I can't show you just yet. Have a wonderful wednesday and hopefully I can implement some order to the frequency of my blogging. :D

I've been up to something...

Really I have, I havn't been just sitting around here ignoring blogdom. I moved my studio (kicked poor dh out of his office) and I've been busy painting and organizing. I still need to find a good (attractive) lamp and a narrow two drawer fileing cabinet and to put together some inspiring stuff for my walls but I'm almost done. Here's a small sneak peek.