Sharing my work...

I am going to try to share my pages as I create them. I will be sharing both digital creations and paper creations. I try to get all the terms of use and previews of all the kits and stuff I download, but sometimes there aren't any included in the zip file and since I don't unzip as soon as I download sometimes I unzip something and find I have no idea where I got it. As I post my creations I will give credit under the pages as to where I got the different elements. If you don't see anything listed for a certain part of it that means it was one of those items that I don't have the information for.

Here is my first attempt at digital scrapbooking using Photoshop Elements 7.

I used paper and embellishments from a kit called "Summer Vacations" by Jaelop Designs.
Be sure to check out her stuff! :) The text was a font called "Socially Akward" that I found at kevinandamanda.com

Here is my first attempt at using selections to remove a portion of a picture and place it into another.
Here is the original picture...
I will have to find the original picture and reupload it. I must have deleted it from whereever I had it stored online at.

Here is the finished product.

The word art on the left is from the "Cherish Kit" by The Scrappin Sisters (it was originally all black) and the font is called "Digs My Hart". and I found it at kevinandamanda.com

Still surviving...

I haven't had a lot of time to post on here. I have been keeping pretty busy with the daycare and just every day things. I will try to get on here more often. Nothing too exciting going on...my iron is up to 10 and looks like in a couple weeks I will hopefully be back to normal. I am not bleeding anymore and I am on my second week of birth control pills. The dr. is hoping the pills will restart my system and I won't have any more long periods. I am going this Friday for an ultrasound to check for endometriosis and they are going to do labs to check my thyroid as well. While hearing that everything is normal is a great feeling, it is leaves me to wonder what is causing my problems too. So I am almost wishing something isn't normal...as long as they can treat it.

Xavier is still potty training well, peeing accidents are pretty much non-existant and he wakes up dry basically every morning. But pooping is still not going so well. But we keep working on it. Right now he has a cold so we got woke up at 1:30 am to him puking...in our bed! Drainage upsets his stomach and so he pukes, always has. It's not surprising he is sick...it seems like all the daycare kids are too!

Where did my weekend go??

I am sitting here going...it's Monday?!?! The weekend went by so fast! Friday night I babysit til 8 pm so wasn't really anything we could do after that. Saturday I spent all day scrapbooking! Well I spent the whole day at a scrapbook event...but I spent a lot of it eating, talking, and checking out stuff from the vendors. But I did get two pages done in Xavier's First Year Snapshot book. I was hoping my Tigger paper I ordered off of Ebay would have arrived in time so I could have finished his First Year Professional Pics book. All I have left to do in that book is make the intro page to his Tigger pics and mount them. It said it shipped Thursday...so hopefully it will arrive today. So that took most of Saturday. We had supper and game night with a friend.

Sunday is mostly wrapped up in Church. We go to church in the morning, have lunch with friends, and then have about 3 hours before having to jump on the church van to pick up kids for evening services. I spent yesterdays three hours trying to rid our house of fleas! We only have one dog in the house...but we have enough fleas for a dozen at least! I don't know where they are coming from!! We have bathed the dog, put a flea collar on her, used flea powder, kept her bedding washed, sprayed a indoor spray on the carpet and furniture, and on her bedding. We have also sprayed a bug spray that keeps all bugs from coming inside...all around the foundation of the house and the windows. But we still have a flea problem! Today I am only finding little tiny ones...so maybe if we can get them killed before they reproduce we can finally beat them! Anyone have any remedies for flea problems that I might not heard of?

Well going to close for now. I will try to take pictures of my paper layouts I have done in Xavier's books and post them! :)

Nervous...

Tomorrow I have to go see another dr. (Gynocologist). I went to one last week and she didn't know what to do for me. So I am trying another one before I have to go to Iowa City. My last period lasted for 33 days! And I have been spotting off and on every since the actual flow stopped. I don't have any pain during it, but it has dropped my iron to a point that I am severly anemic. I was on iron supplements for three weeks and when I went back to the dr. last week my iron count was only 8. So now I am taking three iron supplements a day, along with prenatal pills...all taken with a glass of orange to help absorb the iron. If I sit down during the day at any point for more than a few minutes I nod off. Try feeding an infant his bottle and stay awake...I mean they are cuddly enough without being so tired! I am afraid of what they might say is wrong and what I might have to do to fix it. We really want another baby and we knew it was going to be hard enough to get pregnant again (over three years to get pregnant with Xavier!) but we didn't need any additional problems added to the ones we already have between us as far as fertility goes. I am praying they don't say it is something else that will make getting pregnant harder or that it is something they can't do anything about. I doubt I sleep well tonight....

We are having a potty training backslide. Xavier has not wanted to go to the bathroom today...he has done worse today than the first day he was doing it. He just keeps peeing in his underwear, so I took his computer privileges away. He is old enough to understand why he can't play on the computer, and he understands the potty training. I mean for the last two days he had been stopping whatever he was doing and going to the bathroom all by his self. I know how much he loves his computer games, so I know he will get back on track quickly.

Hooray! Xavier took a bath a while ago and when he got out of the tub he said he wanted to go pee and so he got up on his step stool and went pee!! It's exciting cuz he could have just peed in his water and he didn't he waited til he got out!! :) That's my big boy!!

Well off to bed! :)

So Proud!

I am so proud of Xavier. We just finished day four of wearing underwear and not only is he doing well (on peeing...pooping is another story), he has now started going on his own without being reminded or asked if he needs to. And he wants to do it himself. He goes upstairs, pulls the step stool over to the toilet, pulls down his pants and pees, and pulls them back up...all by himself! He batting 0 for pooping though...all four days he has done it in his pants...none in the toilet yet. But I just can't believe he went from diapers 24/7 one day and then next went right into underwear (not pullups!). I am putting a pullup on him at bed time...but he has been waking up dry. I can't believe my baby is a big boy.

Well I am starting to organize my digital scrapbook stuff. I am torn between just sorting by categories based on the style of embellishment, color of paper, etc...or if I should sort it by theme. Any thoughts or suggestions on the easiest way??

I am really excited to get making layouts so I really want to get it sorted somehow. I know until I sort it I don't really want to make any layouts. I think it will be easier to sort first. I am going to try to add some more blinkies of the sites I frequent for freebies...so keep watching!

Great Weekend!

It's been an awesome weekend! Dad came and took me out to have a pedicure and a manicure yesterday! I have never had a pedicure before and have only had one manicure before. So it was so nice. I really needed that! With the health problems I have been having (super low iron count and hard times with female issues) it was really relaxing to have done! :) Dad's are awesome even when you aren't a little kid anymore! :)

I am so proud of my little guy! He went all day yesterday in underwear and only had one accident (he pooped)! And we even took him out for supper and some shopping and he had on underwear the whole time with no accidents! And so far today he has only had one peeing accident...and it was while he was playing computer games. I am guessing he got caught up in the game and forgot he his wearing undies. We took him to Walmart last night and bought him undies just like Daddy's. He was thrilled! :)

I watch Xavier everyday and I can't believe how much he is growing up. It seems like he was just this little tiny person that relied on me for everything and now he can walk, talk, and use the toilet! :) At least he is still my little snuggler! The day he quits asking me to snuggle him I will be heartbroken. :( I know that no matter what I have done before or have yet to come...nothing will be more special than being his Mommy...nothing will be more fullfilling than being his Mommy.

On the scrapbooking front...I have decided I really need to quit freebie searching and get making layouts! I am going to place the blinkie of any sites I download several freebies from. So I am in the process of that. So be sure to check out those sites for great stuff! :) These ladies deserve praise for their work! :)

Okay that's it for now...be sure to log off of here and go hug your kids! :)

So much to do...

I can't believe how much stuff I have to do! I really want to digiscrap a page from each month since Xavier was born. But so far all I have done is find stuff to use to digiscrap and try to organize it on my memory stick!

With Halloween next month I have to find him a costume! I really wanted to find him a Wow! Wow! Wubbzy costume since he absolutely loves him...but the only ones I have found are on Ebay for $30 and they aren't the right size! Plus his 3rd Birthday is in November and I throw him huge parties! This year's theme of course is...Wow! Wow! Wubbzy...and luckily I have found an over abundance of websites with party supplies to fit the theme! Now I just have to see which is the best deal! And I have to decide if I am going to buy the matching invitations or make my own! And if I make my own I have to get the stuff and get working on them!

I plan on sharing some of the great freebies I have found online, I am hoping I can find the exact URL I found them at in order to share them...some of them I went pretty far back in people's blogs to find! But they were worth it! :) Plus I am going to get more links to Blogs, that have great stuff, over in my links section! I am in total awe of the talent there is for making papers and elements for digital scrapping! These ladies are awesome! :)

Well I best get to making supper! Have a great night! :)

Football Time!

I am so excited that it is football season! :) As a life long Nebraska Husker fan I get very excited this time of year. I would however be more excited if I could actually catch more games on TV. We have satellite and the only games we can catch on our satellite is the ones on ESPN or on Fox Sports Pay Per View. And while I love watching games...it's not in the budget to pay the high price for all the ones on PPV. So we get to actually watch very few games. We do however get to listen to them at huskers.com. And that is what I am doing as I type this. And I am happy to say they are kicking butt tonight. :)

I would love to create a football themed page...but so far Xavier seems to be far more interested in baseball and soccer. And luckily I have found many baseball and soccer freebies. Maybe we can get him some new Huskers apparel and get him to do some pics with his Husker footballs he has. But finding Huskers digital scrapbook papers and embellishments might be tough. :(

I have decided that while I am anxious to create digital scrapbook pages and learn all I can about Photoshop Elements 7, I don't think I am wanting to design....well other than some quick pages. So I am going to dedicate the scrapbook part of this blog to sharing my creations and sharing the great sites I find my supplies on. I am okay with creating quick pages for people to use but I am not sure I have the creativity to create the beautiful kits and pieces I have found online. I can however take those beautiful creations and make some awesome pages. :) So thanks to all that can create the things I need to make my pages! :) I am in awe of your talent!

As soon as the game is over it is off to grocery shop for the week. And I am hoping my grouchy gus child gets happy by the time we leave. He crashed on the couch at about 6 pm and slept for 2 hours so he shouldn't be grouchy now...but man is he! He is sitting on the couch with Daddy, and they are eating popsicles and listening to the game. I can see Daddy envisioning sitting and listening/watching Xavier play. :) The dreams Dads have for their sons are so precious! Well I suppose I will get off of here and get ready to go shopping....grocery shopping is the only kind of shopping I am not fond of....

Getting Started.

I would think that having a myspace (that is severly neglected) and having a facebook I would have enough stuff to keep up with. But yet here I am starting a blog. I blame it on my addiction for searching for digital scrapbook freebies. I mean I have cruised so many blogs in the last week that how could I not want one for myself! So I signed up and here I am. Now the big thing is the customization of it. That is my favorite thing about myspace...being able to customize. So I have been browsing blogger templates and skins to find the perfect one. And I have found several that I liked...until I actually placed them on here. Then they aren't quite what I pictured. So while I am searching for the perfect one I will go ahead and start filling in the other aspects of the blogger...a post, a profile, some pics, some links...etc. I have decided since I am dedicating a huge portion of this blogger to scrapbooking that I do want a scrapbook type skin...so that is what I am on a mission to find. Crying kid...got to go!