Whimsical Winter QP

Jenni aka Chaos Lounge gave me permission to make a quick page with her latest kit Whimsical Winter. I used the basic page that I posted last night, but you can do a quick page with the mirror effect I had used, ( I least I don't know how ), so I put a frame in. I can't wait for winter so I can get some new winter pictures to use with this kit. You can see lot's of other LO's with this kit on Jenni's page and get the kit too. You can download the quick page here.

I'm not the only one...

School is rolling right along. I'm already stressed and notice I'm up late doing homework. Seems I was just saying that I thought this quarter would be very doable *sigh* Only 9 more weeks after this one though :) We spend this clinical week going over skills and getting signed off on dosage comp tests. I found out that I'm getting an OR rotation week 3 too! I am very excited about that. I will get to observe at least one surgery! I can't wait. I was not the only one in my household to start college this week. My little Alex is carrying 9 units this quarter too. His year of working at Mcky D's and Burger King has convinced him something better must be out there. Here's a picture of him leaving for his first day of college. I'm hoping I can find his first day of kindergarten picture so I can scrap these together. He didn't want to smile so he looked away because I was trying to get him too.


Here is a picture of Lucy and her friend Celeste after they got ready for Homecoming dance at Celestes house last week. I'm hoping I'll be able to scrap these soon.
I did scrap a page last night. This is my little Wynter Rose. She is enjoying 1st grade this year and is in the GATE program. She is such a little doll and so smart! I used Chaos Lounge's Candy Jar 24 to do this page. You can find it on her page here.
She was nice enough to let me make a quick page as a freebie too! You can download it here. I'm off to bed, school tomorrow!

Canning

Today I spent most of the day canning tomatoes! I'll be doing more tomorrow too :) It's feeling so fall like now I had to get my decorations out and do some fall/halloween scrapping. I just got this kit called Spooky Town by Julia Makotinsky of Little Dreamers and pulled up these pictures of Lucy last Halloween when she was working as a" scarey clown" at the Haunted House. This was her first job. Unfortunately I don't think we're having a haunted house this year, they tore down the building they used and are just putting the finishing touches on a Walgreens. The leaves are from Julia's "One Fine Day" kit. You can get both kits and check all Julia's other kits at Little Dreamers here.
This is another page I did with Julia's kit. That's my little Wynter Rose in 2005 when we first moved here. I took her to the pumpking patch at Shady Oaks. I wish I could get her here again this fall and take her again.

Julia was nice enough to let me make a quick page with her kit. If you like you can download here.

Weekend Events

I use to think that when my kids were teenagers I won't be as busy with them. WRONG! but it's good :) Lucy had an all day volleyball tournament on Saturday. At least this time it was here in CG at her high school. She had to be there at 8am and didn't get done until 6pm! I was back and forth between the house and school. I'd go watch her play, then back to the house to play with them dogs and make sure they weren't destroying the house! The Lady Lions did good in the their tournament. Lucy's had a cold and lost her voice. Poor thing was sound asleep on the sofa before 9! Not how she would have said she wanted to spend her Saturday night, but with 2 games a week, tournaments almost every Saturday, school work and of course Friday night football games, I was surprised she made it past 8:30 at all. This coming week is Homecoming, that means lot's of school events, parades, football and of course the DANCE! Hopefully I'll get lot's of pictures.
Today I spent the day canning pears and picking tomatoes. I'm thinking of trying to can them myself tomorrow since I have to have my car at the dealer after I drop Lucy off and they'll have it most the day. Sounds like a good day for touching up my roots :), canning and cleaning. Look, I got her to smile for this picture!

She played in every game, only sat out 1 play of one game and slide for several plays. Thank goodness for knee pads.

Lucy has lot's of school spirit and painted her face with school colors for last Fridays game. All the animals had to check her out when she got home.

I did manage to scrap a bit. This is my grandfather, grandmother(that I saw in Seattle in Aug), my dad and aunts and uncles as kids. I wanted to scrap this picture in a vintage, fall theme. I like the way it turned out. I used parts of my Oregon Fall kit and made a few new things using Kim B's CU grab bag. It's a great grab bag and so full of stuff I will be playing with it all for months to come. You can find it on her page here. I made a quick page out of this page. You can download it here.


I also uploaded the 2nd QP I made with Jenni's End of Summer kit. You can download the page here. You can also find the whole kit at Digital Candy.

Well I started getting ready for school today. I printed off the syllabus for the up coming quarter. I hope I'm not speaking too soon, but it seems like a totally doable quarter! Last year for the last 2 quarters we had 3 classes plus 2 days of clinicals in the hospital. I will just have 1 class this quarter: Monday and Friday from 10am - 12pm and clinical on Tuesday and Wednesday from 7am - 1:30. There will be lot's of reading and studying of course. Clinical seems like it will be more intense, no more holding our hands through procedures, but I'm feeling pretty good about it. ( Notice I say this now, hopefully I won't be whining in a couple weeks) The worst part will be having to be at the hospital by 7am. That means I'll be up at 5am and on the road a few minutes after 6am. I was spoiled this summer getting to do my co-op at the hospital here in CG. It took me less then 10 minutes to get there.

This weekend is going to be busy. Lucy has a tournament tomorrow and my mom should be back from vacation ( her and my stepdad took a cruise to Alaska). We have TONS! of tomatoes to can! I did make a quick page today though :) Jenni (Chaoslounge) said I could give the layouts I did with her Summers End kit away as quick pages. You can find the whole kit at Digital Candy or visit her blog Chaoslounge. You can download my quick page here.

Oregon Fall PT 2

I have a couple pages that I did with my little fall kit I made :) I did this kit just in time, the weather is turning here. Today it was only about 70 degrees. I love fall! I need to get my butt in gear though and get ready for school to start for me. I think this year will be very manageable. I should still have time to scrap now and again, walk the dogs, run Lucy around and even clean the house! This first page is a picture of Wynter and Audrey from their trip to California. Aren't they just the cutest! Most of this page is in part 2.

This is a page Meg did with part 1 of my kit. I think Meg is so talented and should do more pages.

I did this page with a picture of Alex chopping wood last fall, before I got the electric log splitter. Fall seems so outdoorsy to me.

Here is the preview for part 2. You can download it here. Enjoy!

Shopping

School is back in full swing and Homecoming is the 27th of this month. This of course means that I had to take Lucy shopping for a homecoming dress and shoes. She was worried that maybe I had things around the house to do, so she did volunteered to just go with some friends if I gave her my credit card. Personally I think there was a better chance I'd pull my finger nails out with pliers! We went Sunday and had a good mom and Lucy outing. I'm not one who enjoys spending the whole day shopping. I got lucky and Lucy found her dress and shoe's at the same store. Notice the shoes! I can't remember the last time I walked around in heels like that! Lucy is hoping she won't fall and break her ankle at the dance. It would totally put an end to her volleyball season!

It is beginning to feel like fall here even though it's been really hot. Too hot! I'm getting eager for cool crisp morning and cooler evenings. It was pointed out to me that I didn't give Jeff credit for stacking the Oak in my previous post :). Anyone who knows me knows I didn't stack the Oak. It is stacked way to perfectly!I think it would stay up in a huricaine! You have to be a pro to stack like that! I did stack the other wood all by my little ole self! It is stack pretty darn good, but not like the oak. I did have time to scrap after stacking mine though :):) Speaking of scraping. Here is a page I did with a picture of my dad at his marina. The kit is by Trish Heffner.

I know I said I wasn't going to do much designing recently, but let's face it, it's a little addicting and apparently I'm not ready to give up yet. Soooooo.... I have started a little scrap kit for fall. It will come in a couple parts. You can get part 1 here. I'm calling it Oregon Fall, mostly because I live in Oregon and the name Fall Surprise was already taken, a couple of times!! Part 2 will be posted in a day or two. ( I do have to make myself stop playing with my PSP and wacom tablet and do more housework ).

Just a quickie

Just a quick post to say I am completely done with my co-op now! I think working at the hospital here in town was a great experience. I'm thinking that I will probably try to work at both the big hospital in Eugene and here in Cottage Grove when I'm done with school. Now just to get through one more year!!! School will start for me on the 29th. In away I'm excited but I've also enjoyed my leisurely summer :) It will be great to finish school and be able to work as a nurse! Lucy had a volleyball tournament all day in Junction City (about 45 minutes from here) and I spent the morning there. Tomorrow we're going to the mall to look for homecoming dresses. I think someone needs to open up a dress swap shop for these girls. They have to have new dresses for these things, so they end up with all these dresses only worn once! Anyway I'm off to get some shut eye for the big shopping day tomorrow. Here are some frames I made the other day. There is a fall paper included too. You can get them here.

I doodled a freebie!

Yesterday afternoon Lucy wasn't feeling good. She didn't have a fever but she was clammy and pale and slept most of the day. Today she is feeling much better. We even went to Eugene and did a little back to school shopping. I've felt so bad for her that she been ill (and that I didn't realize how ill she was) that I bought her a pair of converse that wasn't on sale! Shows you what *mother guilt* does. I never buy things that aren't on sale. I did spend time playing with my Wacom tablet while Lucy was sleeping on the sofa :) I need to take art classes now. I love doodle scrap kits, so I ended up making one! It's very simplistic but I learned a lot doing it! Mostly I learned that I have a lot to learn about making digital scrapbooking kits. I have found some great tutorials on line and I figure I'll learn more as I have time ( school will be starting for me soon). The layout above I did with MY first kit! I actually made EVERYTHING in it. The cute little girls are my friend Sok's twin daughters who will be 2 the end of October. Below is a preview of what's in my first doodle kit. I called it Playing in the Garden! It can be downloaded here. If you use it I would love to see what you did.


I also downloaded a couple of kits from Chaos Lounge, Renae and Digital Candy that I'm dying to scrap with, so tomorrow after I split a bunch of wood (about 1/2 a cord) I'm hoping to scrap some layout's with some of those kits.

Quick Page Freebie and Layouts

Yesterday was a rainy lazy day. I didn't do too much. I walked Haley and Maddie (Maddie is short for Madeline) for the first time by myself in the rain. It went really well. Haley usually walks like we're on a mission with sudden stops to sniff things. I had visions of me tangled up in 2 leashes, but Maddie pretty much follows Haleys lead, so there wasn't too much trouble. It is definitely harder to talk on the cell phone while walking 2 dogs though. I also did some scrapping and decided to give making a quick page a try. I used Renae's Bold Summer kit to make this page. I know most people do their pages 12x12 inchs but I do mine 8.5x11 since I print mine off and put them in albums. That way I can use standard photo paper and I don't have to have a special printer. I also find the 12x12 albums kind of big to have out. You can download the quick page here.

You can find Bold Summer and other kits free on Renae's blog Here is the page I made the quick page from. It's from when Lucy and I were in Cour d' Alene.

I also did this page yesterday of Sam and Nate from when we were in cour d' alene. They were acting goofy because I wanted a picture of them. The paper is by Jackie Eckles of Little Dreamers and the elements are also by Jackie Eckles from a kit called The Hip Girl! That will curl Sam and Nates toes! Hopefully the sun will come out later and I can get some pictures of Haley and Maddie.