Another scraplift!

Here is another scraplift I did yesterday. I got my inspiration piece from "memories" on SBB. I just love her layouts!

Papers are from Shabby Princess's "Dinner Party"
and the Heart pin is from "Atomic Cupcake"
Stitches I believe are from Tracy Blankenship

They called!

Well I will be heading out soon to go take a drug screen test. Yes that right! HR from a local health care company called yesterday and offered me a job. I will be an on call RN for a local womens resource center teaching lamaze to start out. The boss is a wonderful professed Christian with great values. The other women in the department are so nice and really welcomed me at my interview. I have to say this is the longest (3 weeks) I had to wait for a call back ever. But God is good and he never ceases to amaze me! I committed to him that whatever happened I would praise his name. You "truely" can do whatever you put your mind to when he is backing you! So since I won't be on much this morning I thought I would drop a line and give a link to a "Bath Bubbles" design I just happened across this morning while checking my email. Go here to check it out.........."NursesDesigns".
So have a great day and I will catch up with you all after bit.

I am also sharing a scraplift from SBB, And darn it I can not remember where I got the inspiration piece off of. I have hunted forever it seems. So if you happen to recognize it please leave me a comment so I can give this wonderful layout proper credit! thanks!

I used the Shabby Princess "Dinner Party" kit
The inspiration piece was saved as "n_sb_DP"

Just had to post this!

I just had to post this YOUTUBE video. You see, it is my nefews parady of star wars 3. I just think they are so clever and creative! I can't remember if my son is in this one or not. I just happened to come across this on the net. I knew it was on there but didn't know where and I actually found it! so here it is take a look and I will catch up to you all in the morning!

Till then......~
here go take a look........
The Albaugh's Star Wars 3 Parody

*Yawn*

I feel so tired for some reason. I hate waking up tired. I think I am still catching up from friday night. After the scrap party Dave had gotten us a movie to watch. We watched "The Departed". Very good movie, but man I thought it was long. I ended up going to bed somewhere around 1:30 after it was over. I guess I am just no spring chick after all. Need as much beauty rest as I can get.....lol
Well I have my coffee in hand and I am sure I will be fine in about 1.5 more cups! I wanted to share some layouts I did this weekend. I am getting kinda fond of the whole "template" idea!

This first one, though, is from the "colorful kids" quick page from Michelle Underwood! One of my favorite designers. You can catch her at SBB or Cherry on top.

This winter layout was used with Andrea Gold's template and the
"All Bundled Up" kit from Michelle Underwood.

Credits: Template used from Louann's Blog.

Bluish Dream kit by lively

Happy Birthday Donna!

Well today is Sunday and as always we went to church. Then afterwards we cooked out for my Mother in laws birthday. What a treat! The smell of the grill was wonderful! We ate and hung out for awhile, just nice time relaxing together!

Have already had several people contact me wanting to know when I was going to host the next "Scrap" party! It will definitely have to be after a 14 and younger party first. lol but I do plan on having another one and even maybe one just dedicated to the digi side of things!
Amazing to watch people get hooked on something I love to do! Natalie was so hooked after Friday night she went home and scrapped 9 pages..........very cool! She is now an addict! LOL
Poor thing, but I think we warned her first.........LOL

Anyways it is time to relax before the week starts. We have at least 1-2 things going on every night so I have a feeling we will be meeting ourselves coming and going. I am sure I will hook up with a few of you on yahoo messenger and be sure to share some of your digi creations in email!!!! I look forward to seeing all the cool layouts!

Till then................~

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Great time!

Had a wonderful time and turnout last night at the scrap party! I didn't even scrap! Got to fellowship and catch up with everyone! We ended up having 4 digi scrappers! how cool is that? One of these days I will have to have just a digi scrap party.....I feel like I couldn't give my full attention to it and help teach a little better! For all you new digi scrappers here are a few links to some great tutorial sites.........

Scrapbook-bytes
Cottage Arts
Digital scrapbook place
Everyday digital scrapbooking

Well I also just finished up the last of the wonderful Creamy custard pie made by Martha! Oh my what a wonderful pie! It is now my favorite!!! (except for your pies mom). yum yum! Depending on what is going on today I might scrap some pictures from last night! Might just have to get on the treadmill to work off that pie!
so have fun scrapping if you do today don't spend too much time getting addicted and if you have any questions you can always leave me comments or email me. They all make it to the same inbox!
And Don't forget to send me pictures of what you did!
Till then..........~

Well tonight is the night of the Scrapbooking party at my house! Please if you need anything today just call the house or my cell number as I will be out and about pretty much all day! All digi scrappers are welcome to bring their laptops. I will have some neat tutorials to try out if you would like to learn something. If you have any ideas on tuts to share please let me know!
As for the paper scrappers, it has been so long since I have done it that I am not really up on the latest new things. But I dont have a couple albums to share ideas and such. Just looking forward to fellowshipping with other ladies and hoping everyone has a good time!

If you have any left over swap items you would want to donate or share please feel free to do that. I have a few (very few) items anyone is welcome to along with some paper I haven't used in years!

So bring a friend and lets hvae a great time!

Till then........~

The Wreck

Just thought I would post a snippet from the Mt. Vernon News for my family to see.

here is the article with some names taken out....

A young woman was killed when she ran a stop sign south of Martinsburg on Wednesday morning. The Ohio State Highway Patrol said Miss Yoder, 16, was southbound on Cullison Road. She drove her 2002 Pontiac Grand Am onto rt 586 into the path of a car driven by William , 39, . Yoder’s address was not given.

The Yoder car was struck broadside by Williams 1992 Ford Thunderbird. Yoder was taken to the Community Hospital by EMS, then transferred to Grant Medical. She died of her injuries at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday.

William was taken to KCH by the EMS. The patrol said William was not wearing his seat belt. Whether Yoder was belted in is still under investigation. Alcohol is not considered a factor, according to the patrol. Restraint usage, speed and the role of the weather is still under investigation by troopers.

Yahoo!

Just wanted to let you all know that even if you don't have a yahoo messenger program you can still chat with me real time if I am online. down my blog page on the right hand side it will have a little button that will say either "I'm online" or "not online" if it has a yellow smiley face with the words "I'm online" just simple click on that and it will take you through sending me a message!
Just thought I would let you know!
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Ok ok I just couldn't let this wonderful quickpage sit on a folder all by its lonesome for too long!! LOL I just had to scrap it and had an older picture that I thought fit. You can still get this QP on Misty's blog I believe. You have to scroll down about half way down the front page. Here it mine............

What a morning!

It wasn't a bad night at all, just something out of routine. My brother in law was in a car accident yesterday on his way to work. Nothing major we thought. He ended up getting 14 stitches in his head and lost consciousness at one point. He is very sore and bruised up but will be ok in a few days. He was just worried about some pain and decided to spend the night with us. This morning though was a different story altogether! As we were making calls to find out what Dr.'s worked on him and where the cars were towed we got some bad news. The girl that pulled out in front of him was 16 years old an did not make it to the hospital alive. What devestation her family must be going through. My brother in law is so heart broken and upset as you can imagine. I would like to ask you all to pray for not only him but this girls family. I am sure God is at work and knows what they need!
I am at a loss for words but know many of you would be wondering what was going on. I will keep it posted if anything else is found out!
till then...................~
~*~God is good~*~

My oh my what a night! Sometime after Jake and I left to pick Jessie up from school our power went out. The power co. said that it was a fuse down the road and that they would be on there way to fix it asap. We didn't even realize it till we got home and the garage door wouldn't open. Still I thought maybe the battery in the remote was dead. (Dave just had to replace his) I ended up making a Burger King run for supper and Thank goodness we had small group at the Kimpels! But in the short time we were with out power it was kinda cool not having tv, computer and phone. We sat at the dining room table with oil lamps and talked about our days! I am so used to having grown up with a water well I kept telling the kids not to flush the toilets.................LOL Well we went to small group and figured it would be back on when we got back but we were greated by the huge AEP trucks as we drove up. I guess it was probably another 1-2 hours before it came back on. Anyways I really feel God has been showing me lately how much time we spend doing things to feed out flesh more than we feed the spirits! Humbling to say the least!

As for this morning we are on a 2 hour delay from school. Dave called and said the roads were slippery and that I should check the schools out for delays. Sure enough they are all listed! Thank goodness for that too cause they kids got to bed so late last night.
Well today is a busy one...I have errands to run and medical bills to sort out so I don't think I will have time to scrap today. I think instead I will be getting ready for this Friday night "Scrapfest" at my house!
oh by the way if you need something to pray about be praying for my quick recovery! It is taking longer than I thought! ARGH!
Oh yes I almost forgot I did indeed scrap another page yesterday! I scraplifted from a gal on SBB. Her ID name is "memories" you can see her page here!
I think her page was actually an 8x10 page but I just did mine on a 10x10 format. Here is my version..............



Well I am off to hunt for purple checks! Wonder who that might be for??? LOL
Till Later.........~

I scrapped!

Well nothing much new today, I have felt different the past couple days though! I finally realized why I was so awake and ready to do something.......................THE SUN!!! It was so nice yesterday having the sun come in the windows. The only bad thing is it uncovered my eyes to all the spots in the house that were dirty. yes I said "were"!...LOL So you can guess where I was yeterday. Home cleaning! Felt good though, this "cold" weather has had me feeling like quite a SLUG!

Well this morning I took some time for me and scrapped a few pages! Here! Check them out!

Credits: "De-lish" Quickpage by Sharon.

You can get it here at her blog.

Also butterfly doodle by Patti you can get it here.

Credits: "Johnny Boy" quickpage by Bren

You can get it here at her blog.

Help! I am addicted!

I am a severe "Fontaholic" and I can't stop....LOL I thought I was cured but the thought of someone handing out 100's of font for free just really makes me giddy. I have to have them! I am not sure why! I had at one time over 10000 on my hard drive and I categorized most of them. Why you ask? well not really sure. I guess as a scrapper you just never know when you might need one. Not that you could find any particular one if you needed it. like I said, it is an ADDICTION........LOL
( I have since lost most to several hard drive crashes)

Well guess what I found in my email box this morning? I was so excited I dont even know who sent it to me. All I saw was "free fonts" It is a yahoo group that gives out 100 or more fonts per week in a zip file. So I dashed on over, signed up and now am awaiting my first email notification.............LOL (I told you I was addicted)

For all you scrappers that just love fonts here it is...............
It is called "Fontpacks" and this is the link to their yahoo group.
Click here "Fontpacks group"

And this is the discription to the group on the home page.......
This is an announcement list where members receive a zipfile each week with lots of fonts! No longer do you need to download hundreds of fonts one by one. Simply join Fontpacks, sit back and receive packs of fonts each week!

If you would like a free software download that will help you keep organized and easily view all your crazy fonts click on this link for the program I use.............
The Font thing!

Have fun! Till later.........~

A timely Gift!

Just how awesome is God? I am always suprised at continually being amazed at just how much he loves us! I just spent the last 6 hours with a friend in the hospital ER. (She is fine) And yes what a blessing it was. I am just not sure as to who for! I am inclined to think it was for me! He keeps showing himself to me here recently and I feel blessed and humbled at the thought of him chasing me down. We have been dwelling alot lately on just how much God takes care of us and I can't help but to ask why. We don't deserve it by any stretch of the mind. I always feel like I have so much to learn and so many lessons waiting for us to go through, and I never feel adequate for the things he puts before me! He always puts the words in my mouth when someone needs His love and mercy through me. I always feel like I fail. I guess I sometimes still feel that I have to be the one to make things happen the way they are supposed to and I always forget that it is not me but Him through me! Oh how quick we are to get off track and not realize it till we are just about to crash or worse off have already crashed! Praise Him for loving us so much! I continue to ask you Lord to pour your blessings out on this family despite ourselves! Thank you for showing me your face today! Thank you Lord that my friend is ok.
Not only did God use this for me but bunched up so many treasures in this incident that I will be a few days relishing in them and I am sure he will show me more as the days go on. What a joy it is to hear your kids pray for someone that was in need even when you didn't ask them too!

"For I consider that the sufferings of this present time [in this life]

are not worthy to be compared with the glory

which shall be revealed in us [in Heaven]."

(Rom 8:18)

Well here I am I managed to get in one page....LOL I wanted to try to use a new concept (well new to me) the "Template". What a stroke of genius! Whoever came up with this idea deserves a huge Kiss! A template is a layered image mostly in grey tones. Someone makes it to the design of their creative ability then all you have to do is plugin the pictures and papers and tada! Its a scrap page. Just about as quick as using an already made page! Take a look here at the one I did of Jessie and the cats!

~This template came from Andrea Gold~ You can visit her site by click here... Andrea's Blog
I also used papers from SandeKrieger_WorldTraveler_FreeKit, which I think I downloaded from the free section of the "Two peas in a Bucket" site!

So there I got a page done like I wanted now it is nap time!!!!

Till later..........~

SNOW! SNOW! SNOW!

ok I know it hasn't been long since we got some snow, but I am really ready for it to be gone! But I did hear rumors that it might be up around 40 degrees on Monday and then it will be a muddy mess. Oh well I guess I should be glad that we don't have 5 feet of snow like I heard some places up north got! I will admit I drempt that the kids got on the bus last night..............LOL (Not joking)
Well the Movie yesterday was good! I had tears well up in my eyes at one point! Jess said she really liked it also. Was very imaginative. I would go see it again if Dave wanted to see it.
We spent the night at home last night. Was nice just hanging out. Jess and I played a boardgame while Dave surfed the internet then Dave and I watched a movie. Was just discussing with him and a friend about how much of a homebody I have become. I used to have to have at least something planned for the weekend just so I knew I had something to look forward to. But the older I get the more I am content in what I have at home and find myself just basking in it's safeness. A refuge from the outside world sometimes. Great place to be!
Well I plan on relaxing today and getting things ready for the week. I might scrap today I have some great pictures of the cats I could use. Maybe I will post something alittle later! Leave some comments I will check back later! Till then.....~

Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever.
Psalm 107:1

Goodmorning everyone! Hope you all have great plans for the weekend! We spent last night watching a movie with friends in their new home! Had a good time and their house, of course, is beautiful! We are so happy for them!
The guys are at a "Guy Shoot" thing out at the Elliots farm this morning, not sure all what they do there but they always come back home pumped and recharged!

Since they are gone I thought about taking Jess to go see the bridge to Terabithia. It is on at the theater and you can view the trailer here...........

Other than that we don't have a lot planned! The house is cleaned and laundry is done but I am sure Jess and I will find something "Girly" to do!

I wanted to share with you one of my favorite magazines. Dave used to buy it for me as a little suprise sometimes when I was least expecting it and I always loved it. so I ended up buying a subscription to it. It is Real Simple. Looks like this........



I am not real sure why this magazine has become my favorite. I think it might have something to do with it feeding my many sides!!!! It is great for my "Homebody" side, stuffs my "techie internet" side and even has a ton for my "do it your self" sides! It has so much more than that but too much to mention. That and maybe it is usually the thickest and cheapest at the magazine isle.....LOL Anyways if click here you can see what they have to offer from the magazine online!
~Real Simple Magazine Online~

Well I need to get ready if Jess and I want to make it to the theater in time so I will catch you all alittle later! ~ till then..........

Oh my I guess it is just going to be one of those days! So much for scrappin, now I dont feel like it.....LOL No actually I took Jess to a friends house to play and I got stuck in the driveway of their place!! So to make a long story short, my friend brought me home and I guess I will be staying home till Dave gets home! So anyways I wanted to do at least one page so I went on over to Ikea Goddess's page and grabbed a freebie from Miss Tiina and quickly put a photo in it. So here it is! Got to love the quick free ones!

My oh my yet another SNOW DAY! Well not really I guess, this was a regular scheduled day off. But the kids have been off from school since this past Tuesday. And don't get me wrong, I love having them home. But when I don't feel the greatest it is hard to keep them entertained. They are doing quite well though. I actually slept in till 9am. Which if you know me, you know I dont usually make it past 6:30am. I am reading the temp. and it is looking like a heatwave at a whopping 14 degrees this morning. LOL Nothing really new today so far but I was surfing some other blogs and came across this really cute video, I ended up getting a good laugh out of it! Here is it for you to see..................

Well I haven't done much scrapping lately so I might dig out some pictures today and share one with you all later! Till then.................

Ok just a little quickie post for the evening, Just added a very special clock to the blog for my friend MARTHA! I know she will just love it! Martha? do you know what time it is? That's right it's PURPLE time!!!!!!! Love ya!

Ok well as you can see I have been playing around with the layout of the page. That is why there is a date of Feb 15th for yesterdays posting...........LOL I am actually having fun trying to figure out the webpage building again. Hasnt' been too bad but I forgot how much time it takes!!

The one thing I have added that you might not see right away is that when you hover over any link on my page you now get a preview before actually clicking on that said link. Go ahead give it a try!

As for the weather?....ARGH!!!! I am so ready for summer! I often use the line "I'm solar powered" that Dave heard a women at work say! And it is true in my case. Don't get me wrong I love the 4 seasons but I would definately split them up a little different is I was in charge!

Well I don't mean to cut things short but I am feeling alittle under the weather today. I guess I am still recovering from surgery!
Talk to you all later!
(ppsssttt! for those of you who left me great comments I couldn't figure out how to move them with the new layout~ sorry)

And if you weren't aware Jasper is home!

Ok here I am posting for the very first time! Woohooo not as bad as I had thought! I figured this would be a great way to share photos and life happenings with friends and family! I am taking advantage of the weather I guess! Everything outside is now a blanket of ice so going anywhere today in the minivan is pretty much out of the question! The kids are starting to get a little stir crazy but it is nice to have them home! I heard we are in a level 3 which means no one should be on the roads except for emergency crews but Dave made it to work fine! What a trooper! Driven to the bone he is! I took some photos of the kids last night sleding on the road so I thought I would share! (yes I said roads.......LOL)

Special HAPPY BIRTHDAY! to Bill D Sr.! It's his birthday today!!! We love you!