kellicrowe

big time

When you really hit the big time...you can send your t-shirts out to the cleaners.
Yep.
Then you have
MADE
IT.
Swimming pools
and
Movie stars...

I accidentally had my t-shirt in with the pile of dry cleaning
and
Guess what?
They will dry clean a t-shirt
Add a tiny bit of starch
Press it
And then
Charge you for it
Even if you didn't mean to take the $7 t-shirt to the cleaners in the first place.
Even when you say
OH...I so didn't mean to have this in the pile!
The added "so" for emphasis didn't seem to have any effect.

This it totally the kind of thing I try not to have hanging around when the husband comes home.

How was your day?
Great!
And you?
Good!
And did ya do anything silly today that cost us to spend extra cash with very little pay off?
Hmmmmm....?

I am married to an ironing savant.
The man has skills with the ironing.
He comes from a long line of ironers.
Me
Not
So
Much.
I have several burn marks on my arms and one on my leg...
Yes
LEG
from ironing mishaps.
I go with the whole idea that perhaps I shouldn't be allowed to iron
Ya know
For saftey issues.

I remember asking in the early days of marriage
Back when hubby needed me to iron the Military BDU's (the camo)
If he thought we would ever have enough money to send the cleaning out?
I was so bad at it.
And that day came.
AND NOW
Well, apparently I'll send just any ol' thing out to be cleaned:)

So
What is/was your making it big time luxury?
For me - it was sending out the cleaning.
Forone day, it would be to have a cook.
Happy Sunday:)
kellicrowe

Retooling Those Resolutions

Ok
So I am not doing so hot with some of my resolutions.
I am such an all or nothing kind of girl.
Any given closet in my house is either very organized and perfect...or a total disaster.
And as my closets go...so do I.
SO
I think it is time to retool those resolutions.
I'm ready to feel success.
SO
What if I just change my resolution over to a catagory I am already doing well in?
Ha-ha!
See
I have found the resolution loop hole.
Kinda like saying: This year...I will work on getting less sleep and watching more TV.
SEE
I am already rockin' the casba on that one.
(That is the second time I have used that in a sentence today...and I SO don't know what it means)
OR
I will try to drink a lot of Dr. Pepper.
I think I am going for extra credit here.
So one of my new resolutions that I was already doing well in is this:
Write down the cute, funny, etc. things the kids say.
Some of them are not funny - but just remind me that they are older than I think they are.
Every word they said used to be written on my heart.
I knew each little freckle.
Now
I am doing a great job to get their names correct.
(Hey - there are A LOT of them and they look similar)
So here is my list so far of cute things the kids said that I gleaned from last year's calendar and starting this year:

max july/05 max "Alex bited me on the finger!"
mommy "Which one?"
max "The one that hurts!"

alex aug/05 "thank you God for intestines"

alex aug/o5 mommy: (talking about nouns) "is a tree a person, place or thing?"
alex: "Well, for birds it is a place. For us it is a thing"

david aug/05 "we are going to your husband's mother's sisters house."

max dec. 27/05 "I don't want to taste the back of the green beans"

max dec 27/05 "I'm the king of the world! I'm the Max of the world!"

max dec 30/05 max: "I want something else to eat"
mommy(me): "You can eat something that is on your plate."
max: "I want soemthing else"
mommy: "eat it or not..that is what we have. and frankly, i do not want to talk about
it anymore"
max: "I'm not frankly" (the kid IS used to me never getting his name right)

david dec 30/05 "is there such a place as Singapore?"

alex & max jan/06 alex: "I have a milk mustache"
max: "I have a bacon mustache"

alex jan4/06 "how does the rain not go down the chimney?"

max jan7/06 "abcdef g hi kay day nmnop qrs tuv wsyz now we know our abc's, next time
won't you sing with meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee?"
alex jan/06 alex: "Do you have Bible study tonight?"
mommy: "If we had it tonight....I'd be there right now."
alex: "Not this tonight...like in the morning....that tonight"

I am not working out...but I am writing this stuff down.
Like I said, not all are haha funny...but just things that I didn't want to forget.
Stuff for pages.
OH
I forgot the newst one:

david yest/06 - david: "mom...."
mommy: "mom?"
david: "I want to call you mom now because I don't want to be embarrissed and
because I'm not a baby"
mommy: (not hearable to the ear but a little tiny whimper)
Oh
and the pictures
Some not so great shots I took of the kids....last week.
NO
it isn't warm enough hear for short sleeves....
but I needed some patriotic pictures for a project and....
the kids are used to this drill now.
Happy Friday!
kellicrowe

Blackberry Buckets January Kit & my dorky marrow

Blackberry Buckets January Kit...and ME:)
Here is the kit I received mid Jan.
There was a sneak peek of it on the site...so i knew what was coming.
Purple.
PURPLE.
I think I gasped when I saw it.
I
Um
Am not a fan of purple.
BUT
I learned SO much from this gig
And
I am willing to share that info
(free of charge)

1. I like kits. I had never ever used a kit before. It was a fun little packet of things just begging to be used NOW. In the month of January. And there was a good bit of stuff in there.

2. Blackberry Buckets is a super site. Totally great people. Rhoda is a sweetie. Her blog is really entertaining. (Links to both sites in the left column)

3. working with kits is great practice for working with a company who may also send you items and ask you to use mostly or only those in lo's.

4. The kit idea is fun because it kinds is like a challenge issued. "Lets all make cool things and inspire each other with our cleverosity this month." Instead of a theme - there is the same product.

5. I got to have products that I had never seen before in person.

6. Even a color like purple...that I do not like...can be very inspirational. I did a lo about why I do not like purple:) The two lo's and two cards are up at the BlackBerry Buckets site now.

7. Good friends will rush over to check out a new site and ask you silly questions that they already know the answers to, when asked. Thanks for the questions. The answers are posted:) You can go ahead and leave questions for Rhonna who is next month's guest designer.

8. IF I have a cool bone in my body...it is filled with dorky marrow.
YES...I took a picture of the web site with my name on it.
YES...I am going to print it out to keep forever.

Was it Walt Whitman that wanted to "suck the marrow out of life?"
Well, the marrow I got a hold of is dorkified.
And that is ok.
I should have known by the broken seal on the container....
Happy Thurs
kellicrowe

why are things so hard?

But first...for Stace....my new haircut:)
With a clip (lets face it...that is how it is gonna look most of the time)
As an ace reporter (glasses atop head)
With the dramatic look of "I'm not buying the story you are selling, ya wanna revise and try again?"
And
ever so importantly
in pig tails.
Ya know
for sock hops and such.
Ok
So why is figuring out how to register for CHA so hard....
for me?
Why are computerie things so hard...
for me?
Why is figuring out the simplest things with my camera hard....
for me?
And threading my sewing machine...even with the pictures in the manual...hard...
for me?
AND
what is with the pass word thingies on these blogs???
Like ya know - the ones to protect against spam?
(NOW - ther are quite a few blogs that I adore that have this...so feel free to keep out the riff raff...and occassionally me:)
They give you wavey gibberish to type back in.
7KhLq
I am ok with that.
But sometimes I get the super-cala-fragilistic version of the code on crack.
PqpbLuNopqszxeeKGo
I have dyslexia (for real)
AND my sweet little Mac likes to try and guess to fill in blanks as I type.
SO
I usually have to try to fill these in a couple of times.
This is also hard...
for me.
I am noticing the commonality here.
ME.
Do I make things harder than they need to be or do I expect them to be easier than they are?
Remember in When Harry Met Sally and she is all upset and going thru tissues like ...well, tissues....and she says "I'm difficult!" And Harry says "Yes, but in a good way."
Sigh.
Ok
OH!
The team that was here last week painting all the trim onthe house....
Um
They were working on the window right where I was taking these pics of myself!
DUH.
Totally busted.
Dorkosity to the 3rd power!
Have a super day!
kellicrowe
ps.GLAD to know I am not the ONLY one with crop issues!!

me on crop

Well....
doesn't it look like I'm on
SOMETHING?
I think Stacey Kingman took this picture of me at the crop last weekend.
When my CJ girlies were in town, I signed us up for a crop at Memories.
DUDE
I stink at the crop scene.
I have gone to 1 CKU.
That was fun.
An now I have been to 1 crop.
I
um
am not a very productive cropper.
I can't seem to make something without ignoring my fellow croppers.
And I can't seem to talk to my fellow croppers without ignoring the project I am working on.
Somewhere
someone
or
something
is gonna get ignored.
Now,
the idea of buying scrap supplies at like 10:30 pm makes me happy.
I'm shallow like that.
Some lighter bits of superficial happiness
can
in fact
be bought.
There ya go.
And here your thoughts of me being ever so deep are shattered.
(Meanwhile...back at the Ranch)
Someone told me you have to be organized
(first issue to deal with)
and plan out you lo completely
(yikes....mine start with an idea but grow as I put it together)
and then precut/ prepackage everything for the page.
DUDE
If I did all that
why not just glue it down and call it done?
And
another thing
I like to scrap all alone.
I like having my stuff all around me.
However
I think the late night shopping and the chit chat is fun.
So there ya go.
Show of hands: who goes to crops?
Do you get anything done?
If you don't raise your hand....I'm just gonna call on you.
Remember
I taught High School for 12 whole days.
I KNOW the tricks.
kellicrowe

***I SO didn't mean for the picture to be THAT big. I'm gonna leave it. It is a nice screen full of humility for me.***

smiley balloon

This smiley balloon
freaks
me
out.
Hubby brought it home Dec. 5th.
DEC 5th PEOPLE.
It was for his 7 year anniversary working with the company.
(it is ok to think that is funny...I did a whole stand up routine when he brought it home about "keep your gold watch....I'll take the balloon. Yes...it was a fun gesture from the social staff to brighten his day.)
Ok
So he walks in and hands me this balloon on Dec. 5th.
"Here, this is for you"
he says with a smile.
We've been married for 12 years folks.
So I said,
"This is sweet of you to bring this to me....
and I know you love me enough to buy me a balloon.
But I know you didn't
So where did it come from?"
(stick in my monologue here)

Then we let our boys play with the balloon.
Sharp kiddos.
They recognized right away that there were 3 of them and 1 balloon.
Skirmish ensues.
Balloon becomes unattatched to the ribbon and floats to the top of the family room ceiling.
Fortunatly for us, everything that the kids fight over does not float to the ceiling...otherwise it would be pretty crowded up there.
So...there it stayed.
All during Christmas.
All thru New Years.
Right there.
Smiling at us.
Until Wednesday.
You heard me.
This past yesterday.
We were putting the kids to bed and there it was in David's room.
This morning it followed me around the laundry room.
Seriously.
It has to stop.
My 3 babies/c-section squashed out bladder can not take the giant smiley face surprises in each and every room.
Personally
I think there is more than 1.
Now
I am not violent
normally
but all I am saying is that if I happened to
run with scissors
and the balloon was in the way
well....you get he picture.
Oh
and here is the balloon and me
and my new hair cut.
I am no longer letting it grow out.
What
was
I
thinking?
That color...
no that it my natural color.
I will use it in a sentence:
That is the color hair I had naturally when I was 7.
SO naturally
it is my real hair color.
Yes.
Allison Kimball had a great, thought provoking blog on Monday.
This one
not on the thought provoking side.
You should read hers though.
Me.
I have a scissor emergency in the next room
wink
wink
kellicrowe

CHA-CHA-CHA

left
together
CHA CHA CHA
right
together
CHA CHA CHA

These are some LO's for Li'l Davis
to use at CHA

Pretty much everything on them is Li'l Davis
AND The lo of Max with those cool flowers (aren't those so great?)
has a ribbon twisted and stitched at the corner. I got that idea from the amazing Tia Bennet. On a lo a few months ago she used a green ribbon and kinda had it ruffeled and twisted on the page. It totally changed the way I thought about ribbon on a page. Seriously.
Skills
people
Skills

I am loving these clips too (Hot Tub Hotties)
They have words like joy or snow on 1 side (depending on the theme) and a pattern on the back.
The stamps...dude...I am so digging the foam stamps.
1. I make less of a mess with these.
2. way easy to clean....ahem...when I clean my stamps
3. um...they are just cool.

and yes - that IS the way Maxwell says the ABC's.
And I so don't want to correct him.

OH
My fave lo is on the one wiht the Christmas tree using the new Urban line.
(camo AND cute)
I saw that idea in a store window with sheet music around the holidays.

See
I got nothing original
I just remember to write down other people's cool ideas.

Hope you have a super day!
They are painting the window trim to our house today...so all windows are open.
UM
it is COLD outside
and inside
actually...it may be warmer outside since all our previously warm inside air is now out there.

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
kellicrowe

the cul-de-sac girls

Here we are.
The last picture of the weekend turned out to be my fave.
Abbie...who lives here
Patricia - Michigan
Stacey - Texas
me - here
Mar - BC, Canada
Kristy - NC

They all flew/drove in.
We had fun.
It was so normal to have them here.
I met Kristy once in NC.
I met Patricia at CKU.
But mostly - we just know each other on line.
E-mails, chats and a circle journal.
Dude.
I totally forgot many times that we had never all met before.
We got together as part of a secret pals group for a Christmas exchange a year and a half ago.
After that, these ladies along with Tiff, Angel and Shelley stayed together for a CJ.

This weekend.
I so wanted it to fantastic for them.
I wanted to have one of those moments where we all laughed so hard it hurt.
Where we started those new inside jokes that would send us into giggles and annoy others.
They had traveled so far and with expense to visit.
I wanted it to feel worth it.
For me, it so was....(says the girl who flew no where:)
I love regular.
i love normal.
I will trade spectacular for comfortable any time.
Really.
And I am so comfortable with these ladies.
My girlies.
And I loved that about the weekend.
So no one wet their pants with laughter.
(I was close to it on the way to the airport...)
We ate lunch at the Sundail. (One of those revolving resturaunts at the top of a tall hotel)
So they got to see Atlanta without feeling like they got Atlanta all over them.
We went to a crop at Memories.
We found a Mexican candy store that Patricia toured us thru.
We all know the airport very well.
We shopped.
We talked.
We ate.
And now I am a little bummed that our long awaited weekend it over.
But I am not sad.
I know I will see them all again and again.
These girls are for keeps.
Happy Tuesday!
kellicrowe

learning

I am learning.

Do you ever feel like if you could live your life on delay...like have a good 12 hours to mull things over.....you'd always know the right thing to say?  Let hope I don't feel that way at 8 pm tonight:)

First

Thank you Tracie Claiborne.

I met her at Scrapit! in Tn when I went to CKU there last June.  I got to know her thru KelliDarr and her blog.  Well, she started a sweet thread about me on the GS board at 2peas.  Now, I am a girl who likes affirmations.  But I am also a girl who once she gets a little spotlight on her....quickly doesn't know what to do. 

Tap dance?

Tell a joke?

Sing?

(NO...for me the answer is never sing....)

Reading what she wrote along with some of my friends was overwhelming and humbling.  (The humbling part is ironic...ya know?  You'd think it would work the other way around)

Within a week of that sweet thread....I got a call from Tracie Kyle about working on Freestyle - a new AL book.  Then I got invited to work on the DW Type book (I really thought there had been a HUGE mistake at this point...but I just tried to keep my head down so no one would notice.)

That same week Jenni Bowlin invited me to be on a  design team for Li'L Davis.

I got a few other lovely e-mails about upcoming things and opportunities.

Now...I do think there were a few other ladies that said some nice things about me behind my back....which is just a wonderful place to say nice things about someone...that helped me out.

So here is what I learned:

1.You never know how far your kind words will go.

2. There is a lot of spot light out there in the scrapping world.  I am sure it can seem small and focused...but really, there is a bit to go around.

3. There are a lot of people with manufacturers, DT, magazines etc that watch the boards...especially at 2 peas.

4. Tracy Kyle should write a book called  DW Tracy Kyle.  She has so much knowledge to share.  (AND did you see that thread last night where she was telling everyone that there are more than 2 new AL books coming out?  "No, there is another"   Did anyone else think Yoda from Return of the Jedi?)

5. I don't have a 5...but it seemed like I needed one.  5 makes a nice size list.  Like certainly I have learned 5 things.  Right?  Keep my mouth shut and learn from people much wiser than me.  There you go.

If that a 5 or just a continuation of 4? 

keeping my mouth shut now

kellicrowe

(ps - STACEY...I figured out how to spell check this!  AND I learned how to do this!  )

(pps - April...the Homeschooling links...I am working on them.  I want to get back to talking about that a little bit more anyway)

I have a secret....

Hi

I have a share

AL is coming out with a new design book in Feb.

Freestyle

I am so excited about this new book

1. because I mean - it is AL and their books are amazing

2. Freestyle - sounds SO super fun and exciting

3. Here is the list of people involved.  I am not 100% that this is a complete list.  I lifted it from Tia's blog.  Read the list.

Ashley Calder

Ashley Wren

Brenda-Mae Ong

Chris Ford

Danielle Thompson

Emily Falconbridge

Genevive Simmonds

Jenn Bertsch

Kelli Crowe

Linda Albrecht

Marilyn Healy

Rhonna Farrer

Severine Decosterd Di Giacomo

Tia Bennett

Zina Wright

:):):):):):):):):):):):):)

Dude.

It

is

a

secret

no

more.

Tracy Kyle and AL...you guys rock!

You have made wishes I was never brave enough to dream come true.

HAPPY THURDSAY!!!

kellicrowe

**edit - I realize the irony in the fact just a few posts ago I said how I don't like to "toot" at 2 peas and then I did about this.  When we found out it wasn't a secret anymore - they were like you post it...no you post it...no you post it.  So I did:)** 

...and speaking of me....

I was tagged by MZ. Jenni Bowlin.  SO here ya go...things about me...in 4's no less....'cause I just don't talk about ME enough;)

Four jobs I have had:

1.I pulled orders in my Dad's surgerical supply company's warehouse.  It was hard work.  1 case of Depends undergarments weighed 60 lbs.  Have you SEEN me?

2. I taught High School English for 12 days.  You read that right.  Nice use of the degree - ya think?

3. I worked as a receptionist at a temp agency...but only temporarily.

4. I set up Christmas trees and other displays at Walmarts and K-marts for outside companies.  I know where all the bathrooms are in the Wal-marts and K-marts in southern Ga.

5. I "retired" when I got pregnant with David.  I really haven't been suitable for any sort of formal employment since. 

4 movies I watch over and over again:

1. Pride and Prejudice...the BBC version

2. The Princess Bride

3. When Harry Met Sally

4. You've Got Mail....seriously, Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks can just keep remaking the same movie with diff names and occupations and I will keep going to see them

4 places I have lived:

1. Charlotte, NC (Davidson really)

2.Hinesville, Ga (had baby 1 there) Army Base

3. right outside Richmond, VA (had baby 2 there) Army Base

4. right outside Atlanta, Ga (had baby 3 here) Civilian life

4 TV shows I watch (ONLY 4?)

1.Guiding Light (don't judge me...I been watching it since I was 12 and I am a loyal girl)

2. American Idol

3. Monk - on USA...starts this FRi...DUDE...I am turning into him

4. 24....YOU GOTTA WATCH IT

5. Boston Leagal

6. Rock Star INXS this past summer

7....oh...that was more than 4....I love me some TV

4 places you have been on vacation

1. Pensicola FL....LOVE it in the fall

2. Disneyworld this year....not always the happiest place on Earth as it turns out

3. Puerta Viarta, Mexico ( I am sure I messed up the spelling there)

4.getting ready to go to Vegas, San Diego & Puerto Rico:)

4 website I vist daily

1. Dude...this one because it totally rocks (Haaaaaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa)

2. Jenni Bowlin's (link on the left) to hear about her new super cool kit coming up

3. Blackberry Buckets (left) because they were nuts enough to ask me to guest design for them this month

4. 2 peas

5. (because the first one doesn't count) all the blogs to the left at least once a week

4 fave foods

1. a good sandwish that someone else made for me

2. a great salad that someone else made for me

3. my husband's grilled salmon

4. a huge steak med rare OR I have been craving sushi lately...I like me some meat with my TV (and of course...someone else would hav made these for me)

4 places you'd like to be right now

1. DUDE  - I like to be at home

2. all the time

3. it is my fave place in the world

4. filled with my fave people and my fave stuff and my doiley collection....( I am SO 80...get this...I don't like to drive either....)

4 bloggers I am tagging:

1. Allison Kimball (I fixed the link over there....now it really does take you to her blog now)

2. Stacey Kingman (her Junkitz blog)...YES...she has TWO blogs now...fame is killer

3. Gluestickgirl (because she is just so nice)

4. KelliDarrSuperstar (for all her hard work on my blog;)

5. Tracie Claiborne (because I SO owe her)

6. I was never good at math

OK - that is it for the questions.

My Cul-De-Sac's Girls (CJ group) are coming in like 24 hours!!

WOOOHOOOOO! A whole long weekend with them here!  I am so pumped!!

Happy Thurs!

kellicrowe

**edit - I pick EVERONE! If you read this blog, first of all just bless your heart, but I pick you to get tagged and talk about yourself in 4's.  I was cleaning up and just remembered that wonderful moment of not getting picked...everyday...until last...to play kick ball.  Except for that one day when I caught the ball and got Camille out and then I got picked 3rd then next day.  But they soon figured out it had just been a fluke..**

it isn't personal...

It isn't personal
Really
It is just what they are looking for....

I normally don't tell people when I submit something.
I didn't tell many people I was thinking about entering HOF.
(I am not now...a super fun thing came along and I am WAY excited about focusing on that:)
That way...rejection just happens here.
At the computer screen.
NOT
on the pub board at 2 peas.
I don't "toot" either.
I love to hear about others.
I TOTALLY DO.
I simply don't like the word.
And my wierdness continues...I know.
And it isn't like I have been published very much either.
But here is what I have learned.
It isn't personal.
It is just what they...the manufacturer, the DT, the magazine...are looking for.
And it does not hurt my feelings.
I am not kidding.
That is why I like scrapping my own stuff and then sending it in when a call happens to coincide with a recent lo I have done. That is fun.
I do get a little more wrapped up in it when I make something just for a call.
I did that some these past few weeks.
I don't enjoy that as much.
This lo didn't get picked up.
(it is a little messy)
Some of my cards didn't either.
They did take my cake card....but they asked me to chop off the words at the bottom.
Funny.
The published thing isn't what my hobby is about.
Gotta remember that.
It is just a pretty sideshow that sometimes draws my attention with it's glitter and funness.
And can I tell you something?
The times when I am most in balance with my life is when I produce the best scrapbook pages by my standards. Then...it is personal. Because it is all about me, my family and my memories.
And
those are some of the lo's that have gotten me the little tiny bit of attention I have been blessed to receive. Yep.
Wierd, huh.
kellicrowe

style-less

Apparently...there was some sort of Match Box monster truck rally in my kitchen yest.
'cause here they are...all lined up at the mat in front of the sink.
Ready.

Hi to Becca who e-mailed me today. Becca was homeschooled. I just love to meet people who turned out normal after homeschooling. It settles whatever little tiny voice that lingers and asks if this is a good idea. (Not that I hear voices. Just my voice. Sometimes it has a bad British accent...but still my voice.)

Becca said something to me about personal style.
I don't think I have one really.
And
that
is
ok.
I like variety.
When I think of some of my fave scrapbookers, I think of an emotion or a tone that thier pages, overall, represent to me.
Stacey Kingman - Comfort food for my eyes (think wrapping a warm qult around your shoulders)
Jenni Bowlin - elegant simplicity
Heidi - fun energy
I could go on and on and on. I have like 38 faves.
No
wait
42
No
wait
56
Dude
I like it all.
Maybe that is why I do not have a consistant scrapping pattern or approach that I follow.
Somtimes I start with the journaling.
Somtimes the picture.
Sometimes the background.
I know
Sounds weird.
But the more graphic ones I do the page and then try to figure out how and which photo to incorporate.
Lately...I have actually taken pictures to fit into some lo ideas I have.
Talk about contrived.
I've never even had a personal style when it comes to clothes.
Or home decor.
I like it all.
OK
NOT
ALL
(burgandy and floral soaps...ahem)
But I like a lot.
I love a room that is monochromatic. OR I love a room that is full of vibrant colors.
Maybe that is what keeps me from getting bored.
So I guess I am style-less (no surprise to anyone who saw me dress in Jr. high)
Or maybe just style-light
Style - lite?
Ok
ENOUGH about me.
What do you think of me?
HAHAHAHA.
JUST kidding and so stealing the line from Bette Middler in Beaches.

kellicrowe

Princess Kelli:)

 Oh my gosh.

This is so much fun!

Having Kelli's passwords that is.

Look at our Princess Kelli here.

Isn't Photoshop so fun?

And isn't she so cute?

Yes. Cute and talented.

Whatever. Good thing

she is so sweet.

Okay. She posted today. See below.

And thanks for letting me play, KelliJ

Friday...and i spellchecked that

I looked and only found 2 errors in that last post.
thier
and
Flannigan.
Please tell me - are there a lot more?

Ok
I am having fun with making cards.
This one - my fave shade of green
KI - Envy
some AL
and some Li'l Davis "o" letters.
I know
I can no longer spell
oodles
school
or poodle
Which is a shame
since I was all set to do that LO called:
"My oodles of poodles go to schoodles"

Ok - I answer questions at Blackberry Buckets on the 15th.
I know.
Mark the calenders.
(It is obvious I am kidding when I say stuff like that - right?)
The whole boxes or briefs thing will be found out for sure.

We have nothing planned for this weekend.
You heard me.
Nothin.
I am so excited about that.
The boys (hubby included) are putting up a zip line in the back yard. Now I have a whole new level of fear about them playing outside.
I am finishing up some lo's for Li'l Davis for CHA.

Oh
and three cheers for kellidarrsuperstar who is working on resizing my banner and fixing my smeared face avitar over at 2 peas. She now has the pass codes to everything. Ahem. And she likes to "decorate" pictures in photoshop. Ahem. Ahem.

So - whatcha doing this weekend?
kellicrowe

blackberrybuckets

Egads!
I was asked to be the guest designer over at Blackberry Buckets this month!
(this is the part where is would be sooo cool if I were computerie enough to link something)
http://blackberrybuckets.com/
http://blackberrybuckets.typepad.com/everyday/
If you scroll down on the left - the links are under
"DUDE - Check this out!"

I looked at thier Jan kit.
I am super excited to get to work with it!
The site is easy and fun.
I have never worked with a kit at all - so it was fun to see what they offered in the past months.
Any kit that has Heidi stuff in it must be pretty cool:)

Here is the list of the guest designers before and after me.
Tell me if you notice something.

Donna Downey
Christy Tomlinson
Wendi Special
kellicrowe
Rhonna Farrer
Elsie Flannigan

Did you see it?
The moment when you wanted to say...WHO?
I know.
I thought it too.
"Who is that kellicrowe?"
Weeeeeelllllll, we are going to find out.
Beeeeeeeecauuuuuuuse....you, yes YOU can ask the guest designer questions.
Yes.
I am encouraging this highly so that I don't look like a big ol' dork-o-potimus.
So.
Ahem.
Go check out the web site.
Create and account.
Ask away.
Making me not look like a dork is a tall task.
I know.
I live it.
Day
in
Day
out.
;)kellicrowe

clean livin'

Clean livin'
Organized livin'
Plenty of sleep.

it ain't for me
apparently

Tuesday - I was on fire.
I had the day planned out.
Did laundry, chores.
Taught the kiddos.
Scrapped.
Made dinner.
Hung out with hubby in the evening.
And on Wednesday....
I was draggin.
MAN
was I draggin.
So apparently this organized, well fed and plenty of sleep thing isn't for me.
Maybe my body was in shock or something.
OH
and if you see my avitar at 2 peas today.....
well, lets just say that is looks fuzzy.
Like the first pics we got back from the Hubble telescope fuzzy.

I'm better today.
Got the laundry going.
Kids doing math right now.
(not happily...but whatever)
AND
I got a some new product today.
JOY.

OH
the card....
I am likeing making the cards.
That is more of the Li'l Davis rickrack
and their chipboard words.
I need to link the new blog they have over here.
Will work on that.

kellicrowe
ps. the comments cracked me up
totally made me laugh out loud
those of you who were funny - and you know who you are - thanks:)

just a tuesday

Here is a little card I made.
chicken pox
the inside reads:
bummer

That is some new Li'l Davis rickrack.
Is it wrong that I like that chicken?
A Lot.

So we started back up with the homeschool today.
Yep - the kiddos were not super excited about it.
David was determined not to participate.
On the dry erase board I saw that he was writing something.
I am a big fat gint supid hed
I was like
David - if you are going to write I am a big fat stupid head...at least spell is correctly.
We practiced it a few times.
I know
This could be the turning point....
Of either really getting him back into his work
Or teaching him to be disrespectful in a written sort of way.
We did break out the CSI fingerprint kit that Alex got for Christmas.
I gotta say - it is a pretty cool kit.
We are using it for experiments all week in science.
Does it have anything to do with space?
Nope.
Anything to do with earth science?
Not really.
Ya know what it has to do with?
What made my boys interested in doing their lessons today.
And
That
Is
A
Good
Thing:)
kellicrowe

happy new year

There are so many days where I flop down in bed at night and think
DUDE
I
SO
coulda
done
that
one
better.
I have had this on my bulliten board for a year.
I think it is from Real Simple last Jan.
I wanna do just a few things this year
But I wanna do them better
I am not talking about running a marathon
I mean like doing the laundry in a timely fashion
I mean like actually considering and planning meals for these guys of mine
I mean like really paying attention to someone when they talk to me
I mean like writing notes to people to say thank you
I mean like excelling at this fantastic life I have
I mean like letting my washing dishes (ok...putting them into the dish washer)
be a praise to God for picking me for this place where I am
Right Now
Right Here
Happy New Year
kellicrowe