Just a little busy

Hello my blog.  I feel like the worst friend who hasn't stopped by to say HI!.
Well, I have been lucky enough to be working. Today was my 24 day in a row and I worked another 10 hours's. Yes, I am behind at everything, but I will work on Saturday and then take Sunday off to catch up.  You are probably thinking just like me, will my check be worth it?  Well, any extra cash is so welcomed. I can't wait to sit and make a card or do something in my journal book, maybe bake something, I have a new plant and I am hoping it will bloom so I can show you.
Halloween isn't as much fun with grown kids, and I live on a street where last year I only had about five kids.  I'm thinking about going to a friends house to hand out candy with her.
I had nine people stop by this blog yesterday and nothing was new so I feel really bad.  Thanks for stopping by I will get back to doing something to post.
I was reading about blogs and they are "web logs", so that is what I'm doing!hahahaha.
Time changes on Sunday so that is "fall back" I guess I have no excuse not to sit and do something.

Question of the day, If you could go to dinner with any 2 people who would they be?
You must use full sentences and more then five complete thoughts. This is what I found on a blog, now this is some homework.

Have a great week, I will be back with something fun to share.

Learning about circles with Alisa

I found this blog called Alisaburke. blogspot.com
You know me always looking for something fun and different to do.
So you start with a circle and magic will happen! 

Then you add circles around the circles.
I really lost myself in this.
Even with the washer going I was in a zone. 

Then I tried to make this amazing flower with a leaf.
I hope with some color it will pop.
The bottom is learning some new type of doodling I guess you call it.  I like it. 

I had to put a little personality into the top of the page.
Like in school, I could never just write my name in the top right corner with the date, it always needed a little more..lol

Now after I get my life chores done I will sit and color this in...the skies the limit!
Can you feel my excitement!!!
 Have a fun Sunday.

It's October already

Rabbit Rabbit
Not sure how that is to be good luck but I will take it!
What can I do this month for a challenge??
Since last month I failed at the photo taking.
I did so so on the journaling book
and how many post did I do last month...not enough
So let's not beat myself up and lets move on and move on strong.

I have a few ideas for cards and I have a storage unit that I have a big idea to make a spot in it for a craft table.  I also want to find a way to save enough money this month to move out of this sad place I call shelter. I get three pay checks this month so maybe I can do this.  When you want something bad enough you know how we can make it happen.  I just need some happiness in my life.  I feel like someone died in my life. You know that numb feeling when you have returned from a funeral, I have been feeling this way for two weeks maybe more now and I truly want it to go away. I didn't want this month to start out as a downer but sometimes you just need to let it out, this is it and I will be finding my happiness this month.

Keep smiling and make it a great month,
If you have any suggestions for me please let me know....that is if anyone is out there.

It's a Oct. 2 birthday card

This was so fun to make.  Like always I found it on you tube.
Cut a 5 x 12 piece of card stock.  Score 2 1/2" mark on the 5" side then put that mark in the groove of your cutter and the other corner at the other end of the cutting groove and it make this perfect slant. Then score at 4" & 8" and fold.

My cousin birthday is Oct. 2.  My mother always sent her a card every year on time.  Since my has been gone I have tried so hard to send her a card and most years it is always late.
But, I got my crafting groove on today. 

 This was easy, the banner is a sticker, along with the circles and the 2.  Making it easy!

I cut out the paper for the cup cake.
Its not my favorite look, it looks a little artsy for her but its cute all the same. 

I worked on this on to make the paper say all the right things in all the right spots..the things we do...crazy.  But, it did turn out the way I wanted.

I made something like this before but taller.
I found a few other things I want to try.  I took the day off and did things for me along with wash and making breakfast lunch and soon dinner!!
So happy to have this day off.  It will hurt my budget but some times you just have to go for it.


I didn't do to good on the Photo a Day project.  I really need to get out the direction for the camera and maybe the pictures will turn out better for me.
It's already another month gone by.  I'm going to get a few things done this month that make me happy.  I already started today by taking the day off.  I have some sleep in me and more then a peanut butter and jelly sandwich..those are really getting old.
Keep smiling. It takes time to grow an amazing friend like you!

Concertina Fold birthday card

Just a little something I found to make a birthday card just a little different.
This wasn't that hard to make.
12 X 12 card stock cut into three pieces. Cut at 4" then score at 21/2, 5, 71/2 & 10. Then one of the stripes cut it at the 10" line.
You now have two 4 X 12 and one 4" X 10.
Make mounthains and valley and put them together in a long line. 

I cut out a Martha S. punch and put it on the front & back too.
I should have matted this first page and second pages..oops!
I love how I put 22 with rhinestones, love the look.

I started with the "A", really didn't know where I was going with this project. How do you make this cute little book look good for someone who is 22.
She loves purple and orange so that was a must have.
The sunglasses are so her along with the sandals.
The orange rhinestones might be a little to much but that is how I went.

This is where I got stuck with an idea.
The one candle looks out of place but it needed a birthday page I thought.
I love the "X" with the one rose.

These are my favorite two panels.
The "I" is a little lost in with the butterflies but, I loved it.
The "S", what can I say, love the fuzzy flowers.

This page was a work of love, that is all I'm going to say.
You know those art pieces that you think are going to work out and then they stick to your finger, then to the table. And when you get it the way you think you like it, it looks slanted, or just a little off.
I worked to make the date around the presents, I guess it's okay.
Love the back page with the birthday punch. I'm going to play with it some more to master that punch.



All so pretty.
When you give a girl a pretty name you must do it right.
I named both of my daughters the right names.  I made the best choice and I have fun making things to see those letters come to life, just like them.
This daughter is full of fun and speaks her mind, stepping on feeling isn't what she worries about.
Gotta love a red head!!

This is how it looks all folded up.
You can see the size better and my wood floor and the sofa..haha..really need to work on where to take pictures.

This was a fun project.
I can see myself making more and then making then more of a photo album.

I talked to my daughter and she loved it, that always makes you feel good.

All this from "You Tube", from the crafty Owl UK.  She's amazing.

TWENTY TWO

It's so hard to believe that twenty two ppl came to read my blog today! 22 
That's a big wow for me.  Who know that it was possible.  I know I love to go blog hopping on Sunday morning when everyone is still sleeping.  Its the best reading I do all week long. The most interesting things that ppl put on their blog I find on a quiet Sunday morning. People tell the greatest stories, show the best pictures and have the best hobbies all over the world. I feel like I go on a journey with them and they don't even know I'm there. I just need to remember to write down their blog name so I can go back and see what they have done the next week.  I'm sure there is a way of going back but, I just haven't found it.  But maybe thats a good thing to keep moving on and don't go back.
That would be another thing I could put on here, what I learned from another blog and write the blog so you could go read it too.
That is one thing I don't have in my life is someone who is into blogs. I have nobody to tell these stories too.
It's way past my bed time.
Have the greatest week and I will find some pictures to take for the Photo a Day project I'm lacking on.

My journaling page

A little journaling of  "MY" name. 
So this was the start of taking three colors and then making it your own.  SO the markers I used where yellow, blue and pink.  Then when you mark over them, you find a new color.
This isn't where I was going with this page but how I wrote my name in different ways made it all better, well, maybe I just like how I write my name.  The many personalities of me...lol
This book is showing some signs of learning new things.
The more I look at it the more it looks like a badly made quilt.
I was blog hopping today and found a blog of a lady who makes the best quilts and she has three small kids. When does she have time to cut out pieces and put them together without kids walking out the door and getting into the street?
I just remember sewing when my kids where in bed, I didn't miss out on the things they were doing and the guilt didn't get to me.
Guilt, something I really need to learn to move on.