oh where have I been..not sure but not blogging

Addie and Santa

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The Bad Girls Kit website is having their second annual Bad Girls Christmas Workshop. There will be challenges, fun and games and 22 FREE CLASSES!!! I just found this place and it looks like tons of fun..won't you come join me????

Gratitude

Amy aka Caffinated Cropper has a giveaway on her blog. In order for a chance to win you have to blog about something you are grateful for. I have been wanting to blog about this for awhile and here is the perfect opportunity.

A couple of weekends ago I was not in the best of mood. Unfortunately, I was extra hard on my daughter for her doing four year old mistakes. She spent some time in her bedroom in time out. Now mind you when she is in her bedroom she can play with her toys. It is the worse punishment for her for some reason. She likes to be were the action is I guess. I mean it can't be that bad of punishment if she can play with all her toys but just in her room. But that day she brought this....

She told me she had put the others on the table by my bed. I was only half paying attention to her and told her thank you. I didn't think any more of it. Later I went to bed. I saw the papers on my table. I remembered her telling me she put them there.

The drawings are priceless. I scanned each of them. I felt guilty about how I had been with her that day. I went back into her room where she was sleeping and gave her a kiss.

Wednesday morning was a really bad morning. I left to take Addie to preschool than me to work. As we pulled out of the drive way and started down the street I heard a strange noise coming from the rear of the car. As I turned the corning my neighbor called me on the cell phone to tell me the passenger rear tire was flat. I drove over to the service station that was a couple of blocks away. The tire was flat. I aired it back up and drove home. I told Bill what had happened. I know he is extremely busy at work and has been working long hours. I told him I was going to Wal-Mart to have it replaced. (Last oil change I had them fix the tire because there was a slow leak.) He said he would take it to the place where he got tires for his vehicle and have all the tires replaced. So I had to do the big switch-a-roo of his stuff to my car and my stuff to his. And I emptied some of the stuff in my trunk in case he had to pull the spare out. Now Addie and I are ready to go...so I go like I normally go to take her to preschool. BIG MISTAKE! It took me 5 minutes to make a left turn..lots of traffic at that time. I said a few choice words out loud and then had to tell Addie not to repeat what Momma just said. As we turned the corner in a hurry, my purse fell to the floor board. AGH! I get Addie to school. I get myself to work. I am only 10 minutes late. As I am collecting my purse contents, I find my little notebook turned to this page...

This made me smile and remember how grateful I am to have her. I am not sure when

she drew this. She goes in my purse at home so it could have been weeks ago. But it was just what I needed to make me feel better about that day. Addie is my blessing in life. She makes me laugh when I need to laugh.

*I didn't need new tires but instead they fixed the leak (again) and replaced the shocks. It was very much needed. Friday I had to have the back brakes replaced too.

bribery

The other day I was brushing out Addie's hair after I washed it. Her hair is a tangle mess. I have been threatening to cut it and she will cry. Here is the conversation:

Addie-- Momma, I will give you $3.00 to stop brushing my hair.

Me--Where are you going to get $3.00, Ad?

Addie-- From your room.

Me-- Really, you are going to bribe me with my own money??? I don't think so, silly girl!!

The tangles were completely brushed out!

Spidergirl

My boss bought Addie a Spiderman cape(yes, I know Spiderman doesn't wear a cape) when she went on vacation a couple of weeks ago. The cape has a mask on it too! My boss told me not to give it to Addie until after Halloween because she didn't want Addie to decide she wants to be Spiderman instead of Lizard Witch. I finally remembered to bring it home on Tuesday night. By the time I gave it to Addie, she had shedded her clothes so I couldn't get very good pictures of her posted because I didn't want naked pics of my daughter on the net!!

Election Day

I voted today. I was able to leave work early to go vote. Luckily there was no line but there were people voting. I think I beat the crowd by leaving early!

Now, Addie has my "I voted" sticker!

Halloween pics

Lizard Witch

Tonight we went to a Treat and Trunk party at a friend's church. Addie dressed up in her lizard witch costume.





Here are "Hannah Montana" and "Lizard Witch"

a couple of photos

Last week Addie insisted she needed to wear this "hat" to preschool.

It is a bath turban! Such a silly girl.

This is not a great shot but it is the only one I got. Here is Addie as she stopped the ball from going in the goal when she was goalie at her soccer game Saturday.

Goalie Girlie!!!!!!

Altered tin

I took an Altoid tin and altered it. I painted the sides with black paint then I covered part of the side with halloween ribbon. On the top I added some paper then embellished with Halloween stickers. I added a flower with a bat brad. The tag has a pumpkin brad attached.

Halloween card

I made this Halloween card last weekend.

check it out

Mom's totes were featured on the fiskateer's blog yesterday. Rebecca, one of the leads, is featuring sewing projects for fiskateer's sewing week. Go check out it out!!!!
http://www.fiskateers.com/blog/2008/10/21/more-great-projects-for-fiskateer-sewing-week/

Signed,
A very proud daughter

Halloween Votives and slightly bigger candle holders

I saw this neat project on Skip to my Lou's website. http://www.skiptomylou.org/2008/10/10/halloween-votives/

Addie and I made a few on Saturday and Sunday. You need some small jars or bigger jars as we used, wrapping tissue paper or crepe paper, and some mod podge. Here is Addie putting Mod podge on the jar.



Lights on (there are 2 not pictured)



Lights off!

Jessica Sprague's Free Stories in Hand Class

I registered for Jessica Sprague's Stories in Hand Class this morning. The best part it is FREE!!! Won't you come join me in the class? http://www.jessicasprague.com/

More creativity

Yesterday was a creative day for Addie and me. I did a couple of more projects that I will post later this week. Addie decided that she wanted to paint. We painted all the paper she had balled up and put in a bag.



No, that is not paint on Addie's face and arms. She decided to use a red marker to make whiskers on her face to be a kitty cat. Later she decided to mark her whole face, belly, arms, and legs. Then I caught her putting blue marker on her butt!!! I am glad we didn't have anywhere to go last night. Of course I wouldn't have let her do it if we did have somewhere to go..but I didn't tell her it was okay to color her butt blue. GOOFY GIRL!!!

This is her self portrait. She is turning into a big picture taker.

A layout

OMG!! I haven't made a layout in almost 3 months. Today, I made this layout for a online crop challenge on the http://www.fiskateers.com/ website.

Blog candy alert

check out Lisa's blog for blog candy. http://lisafalduto.blogspot.com/2008/10/giveaway-fun.html She is giving away an adorable Heidi Grace Halloween stamp set. She will choose a winner when she has 150 comments.

Don't cha

Today Addie was singing the Pussycat Doll's song, Don't cha. While this is probably not an appropriate song for a 4 year old to sing, it was kinda of cute. Her version went something like...

"bum bum bum bum bum bum bam bum bum..HOT LIKE ME...bum bum bum bum bum bam bum bum..HOT LIKE ME, HOT LIKE ME, HOT LIKE ME. She was humming the tune and then would sing "HOT LIKE ME."

Later I called Addie my honey pie. She told me to call her "rock star." She cracks me up!!!

Bill had the camera for over 5 days and took only 20 pictures while he was out of town. Most of them were of him in the car. Addie and I have had the camera back for 48 hours and we have taken over 180. Addie and I got the rest of the pumpkins and Halloween decorations out this weekend.

"Give Your Self a Present" Challenge

I found this challenge on Stacy Julian's blog: http://stacysbigpicture.typepad.com/altogether_too_happy/

Here are the "rules":

• Snap ten or twelve photos of your life right now. Or find recent photos that you've already taken
.• Compile these photos in one of these super-cute Bazzill Mono-Mini albums or some other small album
• Keep or carry this album with you, tucked in your purse or desk drawer for one full year.
• Promise to glance through the album every time you stumble upon it or pull it out.
• On October 1st, 2009, create a scrapbook page about your experience.

I plan to do this once my husband returns on Friday with the camera. He is out of town this week for work and he took the camera. I'll post my mini album after I complete it.

soccer game and IKE

Addie had her first soccer game yesterday morning. She did well for her first time. Pop (my FIL) and Paw-paw (my dad) were both there for her game.

Last night we survived Ike. We had some more limbs fall. A couple hit the house but did not puncture the roof thank goodness. We slept in the living room because we were afraid of the tree limb coming through the roof. Needless to say we didn't get much sleep. Thank goodness we did NOT lose power this time.

This week was a busy week. We had a death in the family. My great uncle passed away early Tuesday morning. He had a heart attack. He lived in Dallas TX but he wanted to be bury here. We had lots of family from out of town. It was nice seeing my dad's first cousins but not under these circumstances.

Also, my friend's daughter had two biopsy done this week. She does have cancer and will start treatment the end of this week. Please continue to keep little Peighton in your prayers.

Lastly, don't leave your camera lying around Addie. You may end of with this. Like father, like daughter. Addie's daddy is bad about taking pictures like this too!

some recent photos

Here are some cards I made for a birthday gift for the attorney I work for.

I didn't take any pictures for a whole month..from Aug 4th to Sept 2nd I didn't take one picture.

Tree limbs from our trees in the street from the storm last week.

Tree limb hanging on the power line.

Addie took this picture of Bill and me.

First soccer practice today!