Up way too Early!

Life has been crazy around here as of late trying to get so many things accomplished!
Boys apartment is looking really good and we have hung everything up and all is unpacked! Think they are really liking it! We got blackout curtains for them so they should sleep well during the day! ( they work nights) They had Jami and I over for lunch this past week! for yummy chicken vegetables and they had macaroni and cheese while I brought one of HMR meal replacements to replace the fatty stuff!

Casey my boy!

What my trade for the mac n cheese was!

went Junking and hunting for re purposing items yesterday and came across a few items! Stopped into Cottage Panache to see what was new and found some Seam binding that I was in so in need of!

 Still stressed to a degree about prep work for classes at Scrappers Boutique but so excited also!
     Have a sweet friend who is opening her studio and classes soon in Keller and soooo Excited for her!
Tracy Pounds is her name and her place is The Little Blue House check the links for her location and blog!
I wish the best to these friends on this new adventure. I know they will do great!
   Think I am gonna go see if I can get busy designing some things since I am up tooo darn early! But the weather here in Texas the last two days has been wonderful, supposed to get to low 90's today which is warmer than last two days but sure beats triple digits on the old thermometer any old time!
Well till next time here is another old item I created for my daughter a while back for her house....

With that I will close again by saying Go Create something beautiful in your life!
Till later.....
Denise

Great start to the week!

Haws Family

My grand-Dad and his twin

past metalized project for family

Well you guys this week has really started better than last! Thank goodness for that!

Sunday went to my first meeting of designers and teachers of my local scrapbook store Scrappers Boutique as one of their newest teachers in the near future teaching Metal classes and other things! I am excited as well as freaked out but in a good way! So to Terri my Lil sis I am doing what you said I needed to do! will be posting pics as soon as camera is up and running again! I love Ten Seconds Studio Metal and really love that I will be teaching with it! Cheryl and Megan rock with their Metals and molds! I have been a fan and student for a long time!

Monday went to weigh in and lost 3.5 lbs. Yippee! and while at class found out I won Harry and Davids Fruit of the month club drawing for 6 months.

Tuesday went and met up with friends at Scrapper's Boutique to work on class stuff and visit and so excited with ideas abounding! And actually got some things accomplished!

Got a call before got home to get home to go somewhere with hubby and wound up at Toyota dealership for the night for a car ! You might say I bought my hubby a car! LOL There is inside joke her that if you are a friend ask next time see ya or I will probably spill the beans to ya!

old sign letter metalized for my boys!

Wednesday I am invited to Casey and Matt's new apartment for lunch with them they are fixing me chicken and asparagus yummy! And have a feeling will be helping hang some things for them! We will see what the rest of the week brings!

Have a great day tomorrow and keep creating something good!

Denise

MAN I am soo Behind!

Well Life has been kicking at my door again and things just have not been posted in last two Months! Yes indeedy 2 big months that is sooooo terrible!

Life has been changing so fast around here and just trying to keep up with it and it is winning the race.

Here is short version: (not sure there is one)

Had a great time at Paper Cowgirls and learned so much but got all wound up in making 10 swaps! Yes ten which I say I will never do again but had some amazing things given to me from them!

My DH's Insulin Pump started reacting to the Texas Heat this year! They think insulin was going bad in heat and adhesives were NOT Working to hold with his bicycling but close to 100.00 dollars spent in several adhesives we found one that is working! In fact this week-end was the HHH Rally in Wichita Falls and he did great in the back of his truck to sleep and to do 65 miles that morning!

Most of our attacks by nature have been remedied and just trying to keep house cool !

Still attempting to loose more of my obese body but it is slow going right now! Need to get my but in gear and work out at fitness center again!

Grand kids started there school year. TJ is 5th last year of elementary , Toby started his first year of middle school and Dear Tyler is in first year of High School.......Where has time gone!

The boys moved out with a friend from work then moved out this week into their own apartment which I really like the inside and helped them get all their things moved in last couple of days ....boy do I ache!!

Sooo I am an empty nester again! and have been trying to organize and change the studio over to the bigger bedroom and have been doing so for weeks and it is still in progress. I have gotta get her done so I can create in it!

My nephew Wesley is having probs again and still need prayers for him! He turned 18 this past June...Boy I am feeling old! He is a senior this year! Where does time go as you get older ?

I am also fixing to teach for the first time at a local scrapbook store and will start posting more on that in next couple of weeks!

Well really did not have any pics ready to post but updated and change things and honestly am gonna be posting more...

But its 12am and my bed is calling...

Till later

keep creating

Denise

Time Time Time? Where does it go?

I am sooo excited to get to go to Paper Cow Girls Art Retreat in June and get to spend some time with some really cool artists and teachers such as my blog buddy Cindy Mayfield! She has tried to get me to go before and sadly did not have the funds but this year I am going for a Rootin' Tootin' Boot Scootin time! In June I will post after all the goodies and what I will be making for the swaps I am in! Things such as a bloom swap , Napkin swap, Cuff swap, ATC swap and more in classes and vendors and shopping so it will be picture overload time I hope! Be sure and check it out and all the links on the page, Cindy is the Yapping Cat Link she has a really cool blog also as well as an Etsy shop!

Well I changed part of my journey in weight loss two weeks ago !

Instead of just Harris Fast food or HMR I have now added Fruits and veggies into my world! It is so hard not having them and doing this for 28 weeks I was assured by my educator Stacy that I could still loose the weight and last week I lost 1.8 lbs where the week before I gained .8lbs, so I think that was my confirmation that this can work! just had or have to be more optimistic 36 lbs to my next goal to be under 200, so we will see . Here is October compared to 2 weeks ago in April crop! The Ole hips are shrinking....Hip Hip hooray!

October 2009 April 2010

It is finally sunny outside after 3 days if rain and Gee is in the window sleeping in it!

Went shopping on payday Friday! and found some sales and coupon goodies now to go and play!

Just did some Cards for the troops again two Sundays ago and this is one that one of the other girls did in baby girl mode! Way to go Terri!

Here is some of the finished cards...I did 86 this time!

Terri's baby boy card!

I will show close ups next post of my cards but they were Fathers day and thinking of you cards!

LeeAnn's fab work of a shirt and tie card and part of one of my shirt cards is laying next to hers!

We have to much fun doing this at the Scrappers Boutique once a month to send to the troops !

Well gotta get back to housework then hopefully the studio for some down time!

Keep creating!

Denise

Bad Blogging!

Well boys and girls I have been a pretty bad blogger this year so far with all that has been going on around here. But her goes a long one! first of all last month I designed my first cards for "The Cards For the Troops" at Scrappers boutique! I had a phobia for card making till now....Made and prepped 66 cards for last month! And I am working on that and some more for this coming Sunday! two will be Father's Day again and two common like Thinking of you and maybe another Birthday! Still working on those tonight!

My first Father's day card!

Happy Birthday!

Second Father's Day card!

We have had a crazy spring thus far with invasions of nature itself in the form of Bees, Squirrels, Rats and others.......Needless to say I have not been a happy camper in my house!....MONEY MONEY MONEY! MMOOONNNEY!

Bee's were coming into our bedroom wall outside through the mortar next to the window and along the brick , these are pics after he dosed them with something to make them go away for a bit to be able to get them out of the wall.

To be kinder to my house they came into the house to get them , which means they tore at part of the sheet rock to get them, I thought that they would have to take more but wound up to be less! Whew!

The squirrels no more than an hour after cable guy came and fixed this they had it chewed again! even after metal applied over their holes that they were getting in the attic from! UGH!

Below is the wall before bees removed! All nice and intact! Also with sheet rock and paint!

Casey and I had to cover everything we thought might get sticky or that the bees might fall into!

Casey was wonderful in helping shorty me out!

This is my wonderful wall after they removed honeycomb and bees and my poor wall!

Oh by the way forgot to say Jeff my DH is deathly allergic to bee stings, The grand kids came to watch all the activity although they were closed out of the room during the capture in the BIG vacuum they had!

After most bees gone they let the boys help with some clean up and finishing of all of it! They thought that was cool , but their mom is the one that wants to get into the suit and do this! Crazy daughter of mine!

The guys telling the boys what they had been doing in the closed room!

One of the bags of honeycomb that came out of the wall.....It went from floor to ceiling but only top half was juicy with honey thank goodness!

Showing and retrieving some of the honeycomb for show and tell!

The wildlife truck portion of Orkin! and Toby and TJ!

Viewing my room from outside! The safe view! Tee Hee!

Toby showing me that they were missing the ones behind the blinds! And scaring me with his pose on top of the fence!

Honey comb in jar with some bees that were still in the honeycomb! one lived without any air in there for four days protecting the stuff!

To another topic when we got the channels and cable back Jeff was very intense with his sports and Gee decided she needed attention, getting into his lap wasn't working so......

She climbed on his shoulder and verbally started letting him know....LOL!

And decided she liked the view out the window from there much to my husbands dismay!
Well I finally had another pic taken and I am now 60 lbs lighter but still have so much more to loose! Was hoping to make one of my goals by summer but.......

Not sure the 37lbs is realistic at this point, but we will See gotta get to working out again at fitness center more regularly like I was doing in past! Just have not been as motivated before allergies started driving me crazy in our wonderful Texas spring wind and pollen season amongst other things....Well time to get into the studio and finish prepping some cards, Hope you get time to create something wonderful too!

Denise

PS...... down 5 pants sizes since starting! 30 to 20!