kellicrowe

RAK

Howdy folks! This is coming from KC's secretary (KD). A sweet RAK will be coming to you if you can guess how much time it took us (to drive) a drive that should have been 30 miles? With one stop at the Container Store for 30 minutes, and another stop at Carrabas for 45 minutes. 

OKAY.........start your engines!

***AHEM....KelliDarrSuperStar posted that message. Seriously people, don't give out your pass code to your blog.  It can only come back to bite you.  And force your hand to give away things.***

kellicrowe coming to you from Camp Crop Alot

the scrapbooking minimum

Ok

So I am packing to go on a scrapbooking retreat with the Nashville Stars Circle Journal girls. 

We are headed out to Camp Crop A Lot in Douglasville, GA.

I

do

not

crop.

I am cropping impaired.

I can not talk and scrapbook.

I can not chew gum and scrapbook.

I can not whistle, chew gum, pat my head and rub my tummy and scrapbook.

AND

I don't like packing up my stuff.

I need it all.

I use it all.

SO

my question is

What are your scrapbooking minimums?

What do you NEED to have to make a page work?

OK

Leave out paper cutter, adhesives, etc.

I mean

duh.

But what else?

I packed my whole cropper hopper of KI paper.

KI paper...need it.

Kraft, white and black card stock.

need it.

Paint.

Ink pad...black and brown and the white one for good measure.

I didn't pack my punches.

I feel like I need to go back and get those.

I didn't pack my Heidi tapes...

See, now I am second guessing.

I always have a basic idea about a lo...but I pull things out.

I rummage.

When I am done with a lo, there is enough stuff on my counter to have made 15 lo's.

SO.

This is why I am not a good cropper.

I am excited though.

Get to hang out with the girls.

kellidarrsuperstar will be here in a couple hours to pick me up.

That's right.

I don't even have to drive there.

Got my dry cleaned t-shirt

and my driver.

There is a computer there and I would like to have something nice to read later on tonight when I arrive...so please, tell me what are your scrapbooking minimums?

Happy Thursday!

kellicrowe

ps. Here is my entry into Victoria's Random Advice CJ. It was fun. I didn't have to be original. It was easy. But I still couldn't have chewed gum and scrapped this.

Scrapbooking TV Show!!

Jeanette Herdman is hosting

a.....

......

wait

for

it

.......

Scrapbooking

TV

Show!!

Dom Dom DOME!

A new scrapbooking show?

What?

They start shooting the pilot of the new show at the end of April.

I

am

so

excited!

She has a lot of ties to the music industry.

She has 5 kiddos.

And is so nice.

So nice & funny & tall.

You may not be able to tell the tall on the screen.  But she is.

Super excited for you Jeanette!!

Link on over to her blogie blog blog and read all about it.

(said in my best Extra Extra news kid on the corner of the street kinda voice)

Happy Wed!

kellicrowe

http://jeanetteherdman.typepad.com/my_crazy_life_and_times/

i have a secret

I have a secret.
Well, it isn't a secret anymore.
I KNOW something.
It has nothing to do with me.
Or a book.
But I know somebody
who is about to launch a
wait...
now that would be telling.
Yes, well
Lets just say
it has to do with scrapbooking.
CAN
YOU
GUESS?
Some more info to come tomorrow:)!!
kellicrowe
(with her mu-hahahaha! laugh...that sounds a little sinister but is really just the way she laughs...)

OH
And because EVERY BLOG NEEDS A PICTURE:
Dude, check me out out with my little 80's self in the 6th grade.

DW Greetings

I have been busy.
Reading my DW Greetings
And wearing my crocks.
(THERE STACEY - I posted a picture of them)
I have to say
I am addicted to both.
The crocks
I picked them up in Ca
on the recommendation of everyone.
I never would have thought these things would be comfy - but they so are
SO
ARE.
I am finally getting my 6th grade wish of wearing those duck boot shoes that were all the rage.
They started at size 6. My feet now on a swollen up pregnant and walked all around a theme park kind of day are maybe a 5 and almost a half.
Crocks are not the same as duck boots.
Crocks are way cooler.

And DW Greetings.
So everyone else got their copy of it months ago when it came out.
I
Did
Not.
(looser)
So
I spied it with my little eye
(not the one that gets all scrunchie in photos...the full size little eye)
at my LSS
the other day.
I jogged all 8.5 steps
grabbed it
and jumped back in line.
I totally grazed a lady when in my haste.
She seemed to understand.
I mean
she is a scrapbooker too.
Even my hubby looked at this book.
It
is
that
good.
So YES
I am biased.
I am so biased towards DW books.
The DW Paper and DW Photos and DW Simplicity have been my faves.
And now
DW Greetings.
I am like so inspired...I could totally see myself never buying another card again.
I make all my own now.
OR
just finding a new hobby 'cause
NOW
all the ideas are truely gone.
Maybe I will takeup wood working...
yeah
power tools
THERE
is
a
great
idea
for
me:)
So tell me your fave (like published int he past year) idea book.
OR
Tell me the fashion moment YOU missed out on in 6th grade.
OR both.
Happy Sunday
kellicrowe

congrat Elizabeth Dillow!

Elizabeth
Congrats on winning HOF!
(Hall of Fame in Creating Keepsakes Magazine)
I didn't make the montage of pics.
But so happy to be included in it.
You
KNOW
how
I
hate
to
have
my
picture
taken
;)
But anything for Elizabeth.
Hope you have a super duper day!
kellicrowe

playful

Kaleidoscope makes these cool stars and such.
Bought me some.
Bought me more than some.
I mean if 4 stars are good on a page...then 48 must be
SUPER.
They are 40 cents each.
Well, at my LSS they are.
And dude.
40 cents isn't that much...
until you get as many as I did.
SO
in an effort to be a good steward of these items
I am looking for ways to make them multifunctional.
You can put them on a page
OR
In your hair.
Stacey Kingman asked me to blog.
She missed me while I was off sleuthing.
Understandable.
So Stace.
It took me 121 pictures to get these two.
You heard me.
It is dark out
No natural light.
Big ol flash in the mirror.
I missed me in most of the shots and got the dirty towels piled on the edge of the tub.
Stace, I made a little photo album over there of out takes.
Go look.
It isn't going to be in the sidebar for long.

Ya know what these stars are -
right?
DIE
CUTS
Like
I wanna rip out all the pages I did 4 years ago.
OK
2.5 years ago
because all I used were
DIE
CUTS
and stickers.
OH
and I matted my pictures like 5 times.
Dude.
I was so proud of that stuff.
So
die cuts are coming back
newer
hipper
What else is coming back that faded away?
Anyone?
Anyone?
kellicrowe

a mystery

I have a mystery on my hands, people.
A
mystery.

See,
I got these flowers about 2...maybe 3 weeks ago.
Aren't they pretty?
They came via UPS
Ordered thru Hallmark.
Came in a pretty box.

The card was so sweet.
It mentioned the two books coming out.
It said they thought I was fantastic.
Signed
T.

T.
Oh, T!
T?
Hmmmmm.

Someone who knows my address
KNows about the books
and thinks I am fantastic.
And has the initial T.

I mean
that has to be a short list
right?

(I had some ideas that were illiminated because of the fantastic part)

So I sent off and e-mail to Tracy Kyle.
(My scrapbooking fairy godmother)
Thanking her.

Got e-mail back.
Not her.

Sent one to Tara Whitney.
ya know, since we are so tight now.
She had just done the headshots for me
(as seen in the second book...KelliDarrSuperstar took the headshot in Freestyle)

e-mail back.
Not from Tara.

Tracy Claiborne....who really I owe so much to.
Tia Bennett......who was in the books with me.
Tiffany Smith.....who is just sweet enough that she would do soemthing like that.
Nope
Nope
and
Nope.

So
what I was doing
was sending e-mails and making people
feel kinda bad for not sending the flowers.

I asked my husband at one point
Are you just messing with me?
Did you send them?
He was like
Would I send you flowers?

Good point.
(Smiley face balloon....I refer you to the smiley face balloon)

These flowers have looked so pretty for like 2 or 3 weeks in my kitchen.
I mean
If you wanna send someone daisies...
You should send them thru Hallmark.
We are talking some fresh stuff.

So I had to toss them out today.
If I didn't have this picture
and the card still....
I might start to wonder

did I really get flowers at all?

I mean
I don't want to ignore this really nice
actually
way bigger than nice
thing that someone did for me.

I mean
it is tough though.
With all my admirers.
(cough...haha)

The flowers I got from Q were easy to figure out.
Queen.
The band...not the matriarch.

The flowers from W.
The President, of course.

The flowers from M.
From James Bond's boss.

The flowers from H.
Han Solo.

I mean
some were
easy to figure out.

But T
whoever you are
I think you are fantastic too.
I really do.
And I am sorry I havent' figured it out yet.
But I am on the case.

I
am
on
it.

However.
Just me being on a case doens't appear to solve it.
So
I need your help.

I mean
I tried going into my LSS and just kinda
half coughing
half yelling

saying
T!

I got some looks...but none of those panned out.

So I am going to do it here.
Cough/T!

T/Cough!

I have really enjoyed the mystery for the past few weeks.
Thank you.
Really
Thank you.
kellicrowe

***Yes...it did seem that I was maybe soliciting flowers from the world of scrapbooking T's at some point./  And maybe...just maybe....when Tiffany Smith said she didn't send them....I asked her why not?  She posted about it today:)***

http://tifsmith.typepad.com/tifsmith/

Mr. Roboto

Domo arrigato Mr. Roboto.

Domo.

Let me guess
You made a robot with Jenni Bowlin's March kit too?

I made this with her kit, and the packaging from the heidi products she sent ....and some kraft.
I made if for David...my Mr. Roboto.
I almost never make thngs for my kids.
I need to better with that.
Be more Stacey Kingman about it.
So David
He is always asking me questions.
Good ones.
He really wants to build a robot in homeschool.
Wait.
He wants to buid it to clean his room.
See.
Neccessity is the mother of invention.
And I am the mother of an inventor.
Sometimes I think he thinks that if he went to "real school"
(as he calls it)
that he could have built a real robot to clean his room by now.
I
am
so
holding
him
back.
We are looking into the lego robot stuffs.
Hubby gets pretty into those type of things.

Speaking of the husband.
He read my blog again last night.
He read every responSe to the shelter entry.
And some others.
He kept laughing.
So ya know I HAD to know what funny thing I had written he was laughing about.
He looks at me and says
like with tears in his eyes
babe
responce has a S in it.

Back at the ranch
So David's thing now is asking how long from now will be a million minutes
or do people "get" to live 118 years

Welp
I am learning some stuff in answerting these question.

I learned this at church on Sunday:
How long ago was 1 million seconds ago?
Think.
I was guessing like earlier that day or something.
NOPE.
1 million seconds ago was 12 days ago.
WHAT?
Ok.
How long ago was 1 billion seconds ago?
July
1974.
HUH?! 32 years ago.
Ok
are you ready for this one?
A trillion seconds ago?
When was that?
31,710 years ago.
(that would have been 29,703 BC)
I can't wrap my brain around these numbers...so I am having trouble expressing them to my kid.
I didnt do the math
therefore
it is likely to be correct.

Crazy.
So
what kinds of questions are your kids asking
or did you seem to ask when you were a kid?
Total extra point here for humor.
Woohoo
it's Friday!
kellicrowe

Do you know Jack?

OK.
I don't like forwarded e-mails.
I hardly ever
EVER
read them.
Hey
Why don't we pass around the same piece of gum to chew on too?
I think forwarded e-mails are ways to get scuzz in your computer.
And then there is the whole impersonal thing.
Hey, this e-mail made me think of you....and 58 other people.
OH
and the sad ones. Man.
Or the "pass it on for good fortune" ones.
If my life really were effected by those chain letterie things...an huge anvil would have fallen on my head when I was in the 8th grade....back when I started breaking the chain.
I do
just every now an then
look up
when walking out of tall buildings
to see if a piano is hanging overhead....

Oh
and I am against stealing.

Having said all that....
if you like the TV show 24....
READ THIS!

OK
I swiped it from Kendra McKraken's blog.
She is a super duper Junkitz scrapbooker.
Way talented.
(like praising her will some how lessen the stealing from her factor)

Yes
it is like a stolen
forwarded thing.
I *** the bad word.
If you don't watch 24...this isn't gonna be funny at all.
See you tomorrow.

Basic Truths About 24's Jack Bauer

Killing Jack Bauer doesn't make him dead. It just makes him angry.

If Jack Bauer was in a room with Hitler, Stalin, and Nina Meyers, and he had a gun with 2 bullets, he'd shoot Nina twice.

If you wake up in the morning, it's because Jack Bauer spared your life.

Superman wears Jack Bauer pajamas.

If it tastes like chicken, looks like chicken, and feels like chicken, but Jack Bauer says its beef. Then you better believe it's beef.

Jack Bauer once forgot where he put his keys. He then spent the next half-hour torturing himself until he gave up the location of the keys.

Let's get one thing straight: the only reason you are conscious right now is because Jack Bauer does not feel like carrying you.

Jack Bauer played Russian Roulette with a fully loaded gun and won.

When life gave Jack Bauer lemons, he used them to kill terrorists. Jack Bauer hates lemonade.

Jack Bauer once won a game of Connect 4 in 3 moves.

Osama bin Laden's recent proposal for truce is a direct result of him finding out that Jack Bauer is, in fact, still alive.

Jack Bauer doesn't miss. If he didn't hit you it's because he was shooting at another terrorist twelve miles away.

When Jack Bauer was a child, he made his mother finish his vegetables.

Simon Says should be renamed to Jack Bauer Says because if Jack Bauer says something then you better do it.

Jack Bauer's favorite color is severe terror alert red. His second favorite color is violet, but just because it sounds like violent.

When you open a can of whoop-***, Jack Bauer jumps out.

When Google can't find something, it asks Jack Bauer for help.

You can lead a horse to water. Jack Bauer can make him drink.

Jack Bauer can get McDonald's breakfast after 10:30.

When the boogie man goes to sleep, he checks his closet for Jack Bauer.

Every mathematical inequality officially ends with "< Jack Bauer".

In 96 hours, Jack Bauer has killed 93 people and saved the world 4 times. What have you done with your life?

Jack Bauer killed so many terrorists that at one point, the #5 CIA Most Wanted fugitive was an 18-year-old teenager in Malaysia who downloaded the movie Dodgeball.

In kindergarten, Jack Bauer killed a terrorist for Show and Tell.

What color is Jack Bauer's blood? Trick question. Jack Bauer does not bleed.

Guns dont kill people, Jack Bauer kills people.

If Jack and MacGyver were locked in a room together, Jack would make a bomb out of MacGyver and get out.

People with amnesia still remember Jack Bauer.

Sun Tzu once wrote, "If your enemy is weaker, conquer him. If he is stronger, join him. If he is Jack Bauer, you're dead."

Jack Bauer literally died for his country, and lived to tell about it.

Superman's only weakness is Kryptonite. Jack Bauer laughs at Superman for having a weakness.

When Batman is in trouble, he turns on the Jack Bauer signal.

It took Jack Bauer two minutes to beat a confession out of OJ.

Jack Bauer was conceived by torturing the other sperm until they gave up the location of the egg.

Jack Bauer's family threw him a surprise birthday party when he was a child. Once.

Happy Thursday!
kellicrowe
criminal

a banner day

warning
there is a lot about me in this
(shock
and
awe)

ok
so the banner is up over at 2 peas for the freestyle book!
i
am
so
excited!

should start shipping soon:)
i know it hasn't started yet
however
i still check a couple times a day to make sure the book isn't on my porch
like ups
just quietly drove up
and left it for me
and i didn't notice
yes
i took a picture of the banner
i am a goober
hear me goob

next
finally got to see this
flower in bhg
i was just scrapping in the right place at the right time and they asked me to make this
with peach
and purple
and pink

ok
i had pink
but the rest of the colors....
you know i didn't have any purple
my lss had no peach
it was right before Christmas and i saw someone receive a gift in a peach bag
it was at a get together at my house
the guy wasn't even planning on opening it yet
and i asked for the bag
i was like
i
need
that
peach
bag

he handed it over
but i got some looks
glad to see the flower here
because now i can show it to that group and say
seeeeeeeeeee
none of them scrapbook
so they still won't get it

and happy birthday lisa..a little alte
aka gluestickgirl over at the pub
(blog link to the left)
she was the first person to link my blog to hers
awwwww
and she is so so nice
and classy
and just has a style of scrapbooking and journaling i love
go look at her blog and see her left behind lo from a few days ago
you'll never guess what it is about
totally funny
so that is my new haircut in the picture
look at me showing some forhead
this was suppossed to be a tag
it turned into a 12x12 lo
she scraps 8 x 11
what
is
she
going
to
do
with
this?

and
just so no one thinks i am too full of myself today
this is me
1st thing this morning
i stayed up until 4:15 am two nights ago
scrapbooking
the scrapbooking hangover never hits me until the day after the day after
and
i went to bed with my hair wet
never a good idea
i mean
that clip ain't big enough to do the job
and guess what
i have looked like that all day
a friend came by to drop off her son
i was like
do not look directly at my hair
it may hurt your eyes
happy wed
kellicrowe

hoop of fire

This kid is clearly up to no good.
Doesn't he have that look?
All 3 of my boys are at that stage where they think they can hold something behind their back and tap dance sideways while grinning at me and I will never know that they have something they shouldn't.

Mommy
is
just
so
smart.

So my husband says he would like to put up a zip line in the back yard.
Ya know
for the kids.
We have a trampoline.
Which
really
freaks other non trampoline owning parents out.
We have done our research...no horror stories, please.
So.
Trampoline = great sensory input for the kiddos.
Kinda our at home OT.
But
Trampoline also = danger
Will Robinson
Danger.
Then the grandparents got the kiddos a fort.
Fort America.
I didn't realize just how small Max still was until I saw him on the upper level of Fort America.
Look at that
We just made outside even more dangerous.
Great.
Maybe a pack of wild boars next.

Now
there is a zip line.

Um
hubby was in the Army for 6 years.
He jumped out of air planes.
He repelled from very high things.
He can do a lot
So being all he could be was really a kick for him most days.

So we can't have a whimpy zip line for our young lads.
Nooooooooooo.
To get to the zip line
you must climb up the
extension
ladder
to the platform
where you attatch your saftey line to the wire
and wear the harness Daddy/Eagle Scout fashioned for you.

Can I say that again
extension
ladder.

Now hang on as you
ZIP
very quickly
lift your legs over that smallish tree that we need to cut down because it really is in the way
(only 1 injury so far from that tree)
and then put you feet out fast
because you are going to hit the very big tree the zipline is tied to
and then
you will dangle
dan
gle
because the zip line is still high even at its lowest point

hubby is working on platform #2 now

He saw this thing on the Discoverty Channel about installing a pully system up high in the trees for climbing and repelling.

Um
all 3 of our kids are still in car seats/ booster seats.
At their current weight gaining curve...they may be allowed to sit int he front seat for their driver's test.

And we want a pully system in the trees?

So I say to the hubby
WOW
this is great.
But where are you going to put the hoop of fire?

In other news.
Jenni Bowlin sent ME a package today.
Yep.
I got her March kits.
LOVE them.
Go check out her site and see the cool stuffs she and Ali Edwards made.
Dude.
There is a LOT in this kit:)

kellicrowe
2 am Tuesday

blue skies & pug-a-licious forhead rolls

Blue skies.
78 degrees.
And sweet tea at every dinner.
Ahhhh, Ga in March.
Oh
winter isn't over.
We'll get just enough of this to be really shocked when it gets cold again.
But until then
dude
it is some good livin here.

1. Totally didn't check the blog and then saw today
EGADS - like so many responces about the shelter.
I am still reading thru them.
I am slow because I always click on everyone's name to see if they have a blog and see their picture and what they are talking about.
WOW
Thanks for all the responce:)
I am a researcher by nature.
I was the one kid in the back of the room going
"YES!"
when a research paper was announced.
And I totally love to people study.
SO
reading the comments is super interesting to me:)

2. The pic of Max...taken from inside the Suburban up thru the sunroof.
Not the best angle...but totally great sky behind him.

3. I think I hate some bad salmon for dinner.......

4. I have been a scrappin fiend this weekend.
Made some cards.
Did 3 lo's.
ALTERED something.
Altering...that is BIG for me.
HUGE.
Generally I am too practicle to alter things.
If it isn't a 12x12 page lo...it isn't going to fit into my matching Scrapworks albums.

5. Got my picture CD from Tara! HAPPY DAY!
There were 174 pics on the cd...so more than what she posted on her blog.
That was exciting to see.

6. Yes... there was something very wrong with the salmon.....

7. Who has the new KI?
Not me and that is buggin me.

8. I have nothing funny to report.
We had a super weekend.
The kind that when the kids are grown...I am so going to look back at and miss. I took pictures of the weekend to kinda document what we did.

Me and the Tara CD.
She put our picture on it.
Check out my pug-a-licious forhead rolls.
Nice.
Happy Monday
(OK...Sunday night:)
kellicrowe

ps.I now rue the day I ate that salmon. That would be today. Well I rue it.

shelter

This picture isn't really related to shelter....except I have been cleaning out my shelter lately.
A
Lot
.
My closet and the garage this week.
Now, a lot of that trash is there because I forgot to take it out
two
weeks
in
a
row.
Woops.
Still
I was pretty proud of my trash pile.
My out box.
The neighbors were impressed as well with the amount
and
commented
as
such.

Shelter.
Ok, had a question about shelter and the homeschooling thing.
Yes.
I shelter my kids.
There you go.
Next question:)

I grew up very sheltered.

And I wasn't homeschooled - so this isn't just about home vs. public vs. private education.
A lot of things surprise me.
I see things sometimes and I get instant red flags.
(Going to Vegas...lotsa red flags in my head)
I like that.
I like that there are things around me I never got used to because I wasn't exposed to it very much.
It didn't make me weirder or less prepared for life than I would have been.  I mean...I was gonna be like this anyway:)
It strikes me as odd
(and keep in mind here my tone is lighthearted and pleasant)
that we shelter ourselves from storms
from weather
from harm
and that shelter is a good thing
until people relate it to sheltering your kids.
I wouldn't not shelter them from society.

I wouldn't not shelter them from a thunderstorm.

Shelter from a storm doesn't mean you don't know it exists.
You know how to handle it (seek shelter)
You wouldn't freak out that it is all around you.
Yet, you are not in it on purpose.

I do prepare them for thunderstorms.

I teach them what it is.

Give them an umbrella.

But they don't play in it.

They are in it from time to time but not a part of it.

Now fill in the blank of storms with whatever elements of the world you want: from simple conficlt to drugs.  I don't have to let them haphazardly encounter something in order to be prepared for it.  I am very into giving a child tools for something and information before he needs it.  And I am not going to think of everything.  I know that.  But the unbrella can = scripture, social skills, information, etc.

It isn't a perfect parallel.
But it isn't just semantics either.
It is a paradigm shift of thinking.
We have been led to believe that sheltering our kids is bad.
Except from society...not sheltering my kids is illegal.
We shelter our kids in so many ways.
We don't want them to learn about certain things until we feel the time is right.
We check out their teaches and the environments our children are in.
I just get the question about the kids being sheltered because my kids are home schooled.
It is like #3.
#1 is about socialization.
#2 is about what to teach.
Anyway
I think shelter rocks.
I like shelter.
Says the sheltered girl who really doesn't know any different.
Not sure if this answers the question.
I am putting this with the other homeschool stuff on the left sidebar.

So - do you think the "sheltering your kids" usually has a good or bad connotation to it?
I really do want to know what other people think.
Remember : happy tones. I can tell if you type angry.
ALTHOUGH...typing angry is a great release of frustration and emotion.
I just try to remember to delete it after I type:)

giant pandas drink coke

I think when you can get an endorsement from giant pandas for your product
dude
You can get anyone.
Pic of my guys at the zoo in San Diego.
Ya know...a few days before we had our photo shoot with Tara Whitney.
(Yes....I CAN work it into any conversation)

I got nothing.

I just ate 1/2 a bag of salt and vinegar chips.

I typed up 2 other blogs and then deleted them.

I

got

nothing.

Except the season finale to Project Runway is tonight!

I think it is gonna be Santino.

What is your fave TV show?

I have SO many.

Embarrassingly many.

Monk

24

Guiding Light

How I met your mother

Project Runway

Apprentice

kellicrowe

TV connoisseur

** gretchen left that first comment before I erased my last rantie post**

illin' prom dress

Remember that song
You Be Illin'?
Well
I
Be
Illin'

So I wrote down all the things coming up on my calendar.
B-days, trips, kid's stuff, scrapbooking stuff, stuff I need to do to the house.
Here is my advice.
Don't do it.
Not a good idea....if you are illin like me.
So I have a bazillion things calling my attention and what do I do?
Pull everything out of my closet and re-organize it.
Took me a couple days because I have this family that has all these "needs" and I couldn't just work non stop. I got rid of a lot of stuff.
A
Lot.
However, there are a few items I kept around.
Like this.
My
prom
dress.
You are looking for the joke here.
Nope.
None.
I wore that in 1991 to the prom.
No
I do not know what I was thinking.
Actually...
It fit.
That was a rare thing for me when looking for clothes when I was a kid.
I know
cry me a river.
The skinny don't get a lot of sympathy.
But I wasn't skinny.
Honey
I was scrawny.
Scraw-neee.
I called this my Pepto Bismal dress.
Because if Pepto Bismal were blue...that is the color of this dress.
It has a big stain on the skirt now.
My sister wore it for a play or something.
Yes
As costuming.
She also wore it to a wedding shower given for me.
And ugly bridesmaid's dress themed shower.
Hey - no one at my prom had on the same dress.
Whew.
Averted that horrible fashion misstep.
Can I just tell you how much I wanted to be there standing on the beach
Wearing THIS when I met Tara Whitney for the photo shoot?
It was kinda bulkie to add to the luggage...but MAN, I wanted to do that.

So I put on the dress yest and walk into the room where Abbie was sitting.
I had my camera.
She didn't ask any questions.
She just hopped up and asked where I wanted to stand while she took the pictures.
What a sport.
It is like I dress oddly and ask her to take pictures often or something.
Oh
And
yes.
I gots a new hair cut.
Figured my hair is always sticking out somewhere....might as well go with that.

Happy Tuesday.
kellicrowe

J Crew Jeans

{Did you get your Jenni Bowlin kits ordered?! I did! Woohoo for me and that new shopping carton her site!}

1. I am cleaning up that side bar a bit.
Over are now catagories:

Homeschool (snippets of info as I wrote it about our Homsechool expereience)
Books (apparently I do not read a lot...not a lot in this catagory:)
Random (a few posts...if ya need to get to know me fast)
Kid Art Ideas (a few ideas that went really well with the kiddos)

I am going to sub-divide the homschool info more.
I am starting to get some ?'s about homeschool. That normally happens this time of year.
I am super happy to answer any ?'s.

2. I am so loving Radio Disney on XM radio. Our TV music channels just went XM and it is in the rental 'Burban I am using. Like pop songs... ( I like boys band, bubble gum made for 11 year old music..OK?!) a little cleaned up. Disney AND no cartoon mommies were killed off. That is worth raising the roof about. Have you heard Axel F by the Crazy Frogs!? (Yes, Axel F from Beverly Hills Cop but with synthesized frogs)

3. I jumped up into the Suburban with Target bags in my hands yest and then proceeded to slide right back out of the car (TRUCK....forgot it is a truck) and ended right back on the curb.

4. Got me some yum-o fabric. Little snippets of fun fabric. I saw these jeans in J.Crew year ago Christmas.

I liked them.
$300 bucks.
Whaaaa-aat?
So
Some of my jeans just got good and holed up from wearing them for 3 years...non stop.
Got me $9 of fabric.

I think I may try to make my own version of these.
I like them.
But I am not so sure it is me.
But that is ok.
I may start wearing hats too.
OH
Or cute scarves around my neck.
You never know.
But probably not with these jeans.

5. I totally liked the last guy who sang on AI last night the best.
How about you?
Who is going to win it all?
We are getting hit with lots of Paris & Kinniek coverage because they are from Atlanta.

Happy Thursday!
kellicrowe