Fall Freebie

Fall Freebie - Clementine

Here is a great freebie for you today from Tickled Pink Studio - Click here Clementine or the preview. I love that it is direct link download from the site - Enjoy!

Red-Hot and Blue

Summer is def here and so is the heat! Time to bring out the grills, barbecue, swimsuits and fireworks. We always celebrate all of our holidays with LOTS of famiy and friends at my moms. This year we had close to 50 people, children included with tons of tasty traditional July 4th food - especially my mom's mustard potato salad!

A photo of  my niece, Passion, cooling off with an nice, frozen, orange, popsicle.

For your celebration projects, I have a  link to a cute little July 4th banner from Pumpkin's n Posies. They have lots of other great freebies on their site.
Hope upi had a  great and safe holiday!

First of all - It's my birthday! "Happy birthday to me...!"  I've had lots of birthday wishes from family and friends on Facebook. Funny how modern day social media has replaced old fashioned telephone calls and snail mail birthday greetings. I'm not complaining mind you, because without Facebook I would probably not have gotten as many as I did! And it was great hearing from soooo many people - THANK YOU TO EVERYONE who posted!! It really made my day!

I went totally outside of my little box I live in and.... Got a Tattoo for my birthday!

Don't think I will doing this again anytime too soon! But, I do love my little birdies.

Oh my - it has been a few days since my last post! Life does get busy and I have been busy getting summer in check. The temps are already climbing here in Texas and very little rain in site :-( We live  on Lake Tawakoni and this drought has devested the area. Below i s a picture of our now Beach Front. In the distance  you can  see our fishing doc.  It looks to be a long, hot, dry summer.

These  old tree stumps are  normally under water and make for great fishing in the part of the  lake we  live on. When the sun is going down it is really eerie...

Summer Beginnigs

The first week of June- the beginning of summer, came in blazing here in N. Texas. Already so many activities! Graduations, cookouts, church rummage sales and sleepovers!

My son has decided he is going to become more responsible this summer and help out around the house more :D ...sounds good to me! And true to his word he has really made an effort his first week at home. So very proud of him and hope it continues! Being that his dad and I are both away from the house nearly 8 hours a day (him running his own vape shop, and me working p-t 3 days a week and then working at our family owned store the other 3 days) housework get a little overlooked at home! And Nick is finally realizing how much he can contribute with his chores and leave a little more room for family time.


To get you started on your summer scrap adventure- here is a great Summer Blog Train by some great deigners over at Digi Shop Talk for Summer Blog Fun! – June 2014 Blog Train.

Summer Fun! – June 2014 Blog Train

Summer Fun! – June 2014 Blog Train

Summer Fun! – June 2014 Blog Train

Summer Fun! – June 2014 Blog Train

Summer Fun! – June 2014 Blog Train

Hop on over and start your downloading adventure! BTW- don't forget to leave some Blog Love :)

Thanks Mom!

What a BUSY weekend! Spent Friday preparing for our BIG parking lot sale at our store Quinlan Market Place - it was exhausting.We were hoping to add more awareness and exposure for our business, but with the threat of rain all morning it seemed to get a slow start. By the early afternoon  more people started to flow through and it seemed we might make back what we invested to promote the event and the possibiilty to add a couple more vendors. It started at 9am and ended at 5pm - a long day, plus the cleanup!

After 2 days of non-stop work, I barely made it out of bed this morning and had to be back at the shop by 12pm - ugh! But finally got going and made it there by 12:05 and of course it ended up being a slow day. We pay our vendors 2x a month and today being the 1st it was a nice day to get all of the sales from the last 2 weeks entered, printed and ready for payouts. My son was a big help in getting this task completed and I was thankful he decided to come with us today. Our store hours are 12-4pm on Sundays so it is a short day and we were home at a decent hour.

Have I mentioned that I have the worlds best mom?! She had extra porkchops she grilled today and had them ready for me to pickup as we drove by her house this afternoon - I live across the street from her :D... All we had to do was heat up some veggies, add some leftover bread sticks from last nights' Pizza Hut "Dinner in a Box" and dinner was complete! THANKS Mom!!...P.S., I Love YOU to the moon and back!

Speaking of my mom, she loves butterflies. Everytime she sees one, she says "Hi momma" referring to her beloved mother, my beloved granny who passed on in 2004 (after 10 years, I still miss her everyday). In honor of her I leave with you a link to a sweet kit found on the Hybrid Chicks by Etc. by Danyale - Enjoy!

Rest In Peace Maya Angelou

Global Renaissance Woman

Dr. Maya Angelou is one of the most renowned and influential voices of our time. Hailed as a global renaissance woman, Dr. Angelou is a celebrated poet, memoirist, novelist, educator, dramatist, producer, actress, historian, filmmaker, and civil rights activist.She leaves beehind a great legacy and many, many voices to the past. Rest In Peace Maya Angelou.  1928 to 2014.

Voices to the past brings us back to scrapping. We cut, we paste, we print, we journal, we save, we collect, we pass on all the voices to our past memories and hope they remember. For the beginner digi scrapper here is a link to Pumpkins and Posies to start you on the road to keeping those voices and memoreis alive.

 These are very simplistic so as not to be too overwhelming -  Enjoy!

Happy Hump Day!

It's HUMP DAY! Time to get this camel loaded and finish off the week with a good productive project. Mine is purging - the church where I work is having a rummage sale in 2 weeks and I was able to go through my closets and donate 3 bags of clothes (I am a bit of a clothes horse)! Tonight I will go through my 'junk room' and see what needs to be purged in there as well.We live in a 1964 Blue Moon Trailer that has been somewhat converted into a trailer house - LOL. It does get crowded sometimes, especially with all of my crafting adventures!

And one of the areas that takes up the most is my Cricut obsession. I LOVE my Cricut. I have had several and have bought them all from eBay with great success. I never seem to have enough room to spread out! It's usually the dining room table and stays there for several days until I get my 'fix' and then I'm on to something else...

Here is a link to the top 40 great Cricut Blogs.

Happy Hump Day,

Memorial Day

Memorial Day Blessings to all today!

Barbecues, picnics, american flags waving proudly...this is the day we say 'Thanks' to all who have served our country and sacrificed so that we may have everyday freedoms. I beleive so many lose the specialness of this day and only look forward to a day off from work or school. I don't believe enough of our children and family and friends realize the true meaning behind the Memorial Day and celebrate what our American Veterans have endured just so we can 'have a day off'... anyway I proudly say thank you to our fallen soldiers and say thank you to their famlies for letting us have this day off to remember, acknowledge and honor those who have gone on.



I share with you free printable from Sweetly Scrapped - I hope you like it.































Peace, Love and Joy in Jesus,
Missie

TGIF

What a week - Thank Goodness It's Friday! Have put in my 3 days of working at my p-t time job and now the next 4 days will be dedicated at our shop, Quinlann Market Place. Lots to do there today as we are getting ready for a big sale on May 31st. It will be to celebrate our 1 year anniversary with a live band, food concessions, face painter, and local people coming to set up for the day like a mini-flea market. So we have a tons of spring cleaning to do in the store to get ready for this event!

I have a Freebie I found for you - a quickpage I snagged at Marie H Designs.
I love the colors, they all remind me of early summer flowers, fresh and vibrant. If you go to her home page, there are some blog links with lots of goodies to be had!

 

Enjoy your weekend! ~Missie

Blog Hop - Amazing Woman

Who loves Blog Hops? I do! Here is a link to a wonderful Blog Hop called Amazing Woman.

I love the rich, vibrant colors chosen and the title! Who has some Amazing Women they are sounded by? I have several, but there is no one more amazing than my Mom  and she loves the color yellow and butterflies. I immediately thought of her when I came across this Blog Hop.  I know it is late in the month and hopefully the downloads will not expire until June. So hop aboard for a great ride and lots of freebies - and as always don't forget to leave some love!

A quote to help me get through my day - Be Happy...
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.  When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.  I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." -John Lennon
and a Happy Song...

Ramblings

It's a beautiful day here in North Texas, a bit windy, but non the less an overall  beautiful day in May! At work early and ready to get my day started. I work as a Parish Secretary and absolutely love it. I am so blessed to be around a great group of people.

I had been commuting to Dallas 3 days a week as a secretary for a non-profit ministry and was getting tired of driving 2.5 hours a day. Though I loved the work and ministry dearly, I was just spending too much time driving and with traffic to boot, I was exhausted when I returned home. Also having a young pre-teen boy at  home who needed my time and energy as well was really starting to play on my motherly heart strings. So I started looking in 2011 for something closer to home. Finally after 9 months of sending out endless resumes and reviewing job postings, I received a call for a Parish Secretary for an Episcopal Church 14 miles from my home. I was so excited and thought I had interviewed well, but they passed me over. So the search continued. And exactly 1 year later I received an email from the church asking if I was still looking for work! Of course I was  and  went through the process again  and started working May 22, 2012. The job is a perfect fit for me and them. It works wonderful with my commute, more family time and an overall feeling of being well balanced in my work and family life.

I now also have more time to do the things I love the most! Scrap booking, card making, cooking, etc.  and TIME with my family.

Speaking of,  here is a layout of my son and his first semi-serious mishap. He had been playing around with some kids waiting for after school bus runs, when one of the girls bent his pinky back. He said,  "That didn't  hurt" and she said, "Oh yeah, I bet this will" and proceeded to bend it all the way back! Needless to say, we got an apology letter from the girl and her parents. Kids will be kids!

Here is a cute FREEBIE from ***Ooh la la, Artsy! Not!*** by Heather T.  She has a a global 50% sale going on both at the Commercial Use store, and the Personal Use store.

This and That

A  layout I created of my sister and her partner. It took me a week to finish because I kept going back and changing it - I tend to be a bit of a perfectionist, which is difficult for a scrapper! I think I kept going back to it because I wanted to make sure it reflected the relationship I see with in them and the strength and love that holds them together.  Overall I think it turned out well...

This blog thing

Finally - trying to figure this blog thing out! I have some working knowledge of html and have been able to find a template (that reflects my creative side) and get it to work!

I have always wanted start a blog, but things would always get in the way. I hope I can record a little bit of my everyday life and that people will enjoy it and be encouraged to do the same.

Now for some creative relief - here is a page I created this weekend. It is a wedding layout created to reflect the brides colors. They were recently married and it was a most joyous occasion as they have been promising to tie that  knot and finally made good on it.