kellicrowe

book give away!

i swiped this image from simple scrapbooks
because i am too lazy to take a picture of the
3 copies they sent me
to
give
away

ok
so monday evening
probably about 1o pm EST
i'll give them away
drawing style
to 3 people
just post and tell me something random about you
(i love random)

wait
does it seem odd to talk about random
and give away a book on organization
at the same time?

have you seen this?
i don't know if it is still going on
but here is a contest by simple scrapbooks:

Funnest Scrapbooker Ever (for 2007) Contest
Are you the kind of scrapbooker who loves to take challenges, try new color combinations, play with products, and have FUN scrapbooking? Then you’re the kind of scrapbooker we’re looking for! Enter our Funnest Scrapbooker Ever (for 2007) Contest, and you could be crowned the funnest scrapbooker of the year (a title any scrapper should be proud to have). This contest is all about kicking off your shoes, letting loose, and having more FUN with your hobby. Relax! It’s easy and FUN.
Here’s what you have to do:
1. Tell us a joke.
2. Tell us in 100 words why you should be crowned Funnest Scrapbooker Ever (for 2007).
3. Send a picture of yourself in costume.
4. Send a picture of your funniest layout ever.
5. Complete three prompts from our Scrapbook Play special issue, and send us pictures of your layouts

YOU KNOW WHAT IS SO FUNNY?
the (2007) part

it cracks me up
i mean
i can hear the booming announcer voice
"THE FUNNIEST SCRAPBOOKER EVER!"
then in a hurried
fine print sort of voice
2007
void where prohibited
not to be used as a floatation device
etc.

do they take the sash away from you in 2008?
because there are some great prizes...but really
don't we all want the sash?

happy weekend!!

a few more memory trends photos

it is great walking around with your own professional photographer
the word on the wall actually read "modern"
i turned to becky novacek and said
"hey - can you take a picture of me jumping under that?"

Manhatten by Autumn Leaves

the colors are better in person
i am totally digging those cute owls
and the browns

DW calendar 2008
seriously...i got to see it at the show and it looks super
i'm biased
i know
but i can still recognize super when i see it
AND
i totally forgot that a winner from one of the challenges is in it this year too
how cool is that?!

i'm not sure if this is new...but love it

ok, crummy photo
but i loove these rub ons of trees

ok...this was TOTALLY cool
these 12x12 sheets of clear plastic
that you can cut into shapes, etc
and make clear albums out of it
how cute is this little album there?

ok, i took this photo from our booth
making memories was next to us
this was the pretty sight i got to see on my breaks
and
the folks in the booth were so so nice
i mean
most people at MT are nice
but not every booth likes for you to look around if you are there with another company
personallly
i like to take pics so i can remember what i liked once i get home
still
the whole booth was so great
and just so cute
and so nice

well, there hasn't been a picture of me in a while
me
outside of sephora
where they do not let you take photos inside
like the way i forgot to take of my badge when i left the show?
yeah, i wore it all the way to security at the airport
dork.

Designing with Recipes
ok, so you have 3 photos
whether you have been scrapping for 2 months or 10 years
we all have one thing in commen...we look at the those 3 photos and think
"how can we make these pics look different this time?"
go to chapter 3
all lo's and sketches in ch. 3 are 3 photo lo's
ch.1 = 1 photo lo's
ch. 2 = 2 photo lo's
all the way up till 10 +
i know
i'm biased...again....but i love the idea of this book

Rhonna's new book
i think it will ship in Jan
has a spiral
special pocket pages and vellum
very cool
takes you and lots of different kinds of scrapbookers
through Rhonna's steps of creativity
super great for a new person who asks
"where do you get your ideas"
and for someone who has been scrapping for a while
and just hasn't "wowed" themselves in a bit
i know...i soldsoldsold for 3 days
it is hard to turn it off:)

lots of new stamps - but these stitches are my faves

tracy, becky and me reflected in the elevator panel

new Whirley Gig from Mod
the colors are so great
once again
i need better photography skills

really, the show was very relaxed and pretty small
there will be tons more new at cha winter in feb

happy monday
kellicrowe

phoning it in from vegas

1. what happens in vegas stays in vegas....unless you invite me
2. getting ready for day 2 of 3 of memory trends
3. oj. nice one.
4. the show itself is a lot smaller than i expected.
5. however, a lot of the people seem to like the more laid back feeling.
6. if the pilot says, "ladies and gentleman...it looks like we have an excellent view of the grand canyon
out of the right side of the plane...that i am on the left.
7. i can't find my cell phone this morning. nice one.
8. there are some great new things here from Autumn Leaves and Making Memories. I need to take some pics today. i need to wonder around a little bit too during my lunch break.

one of my fave lo's i've seen
erica hernandez using Foofala's new Indian Summer paper

happy day..i think it is wed....
but i'm a little bit foggy on times and days
kellicrowe

organization

1. i am packing for memory trends. the calvery of grandmas and a daddy are preparing to take the kiddos. max keeps asking when i am leaving...a little too cheerfully if you ask me.

2. photo by kellidarr....we visited her family 2 weeks ago in nashville. had the best time. i, uh, fell off the dr. pepper wagon....big time. i am not happy with my hair here. and i actually thought it looked cute at the time. sigh.

3. organization. in preparing for the The Organized and Inspired Scrapbooker, what is you fave organizing tip?

4. do you have an orgainzing idea that crashed and burned for you? like totally didn't work.

5. me? my tip: i write it all down. ALL DOWN in my calendar where i can see the whole month at one time.
(shall i pause for you to write that down? yeah, i am remedial when it comes to this stuff)

what DIDN'T work
by kellicrowe

so i thought
i just need more lists
i likes the lists
and marking stuff off the list
i figured
if i just got like 5 or 6 legal tablets
and kept a diff list going for all the areas of my life
then i could stay on top of...or even ahead of...my life
so i had this stack of tablets and a family friend walks in the hose
says
"hey, what is with all the tablets?"
(still unlisted upon)
and i told him how this was going to organize my life
he said
"this paper is kinda cheapie on the tablets...
i just don't see cheap paper revolutionizing your life"

i never used those tablets
i thought
cheap paper whenever i saw them

happy day
kellicrowe

Patriot's Day

a photo from our NY trip this year
the flag on the back of the truck says it all for me

Happy Patriot's Day
kellicrowe

happy products

made this watching the Friends episode
where joey has a
man
bag

can a lo be too simple to be called a lo?
scan isn't clear because the frames are bumpy
these elsie frames (big and small)
are sooo fun
got them yest
totally inspired me

thanks for all the super super sweet comments on the last post
:):):)
dude...i almost cried reading them

enough with the serious
what is your current fave product?

happy Sunday
kellicrowe

homeschooling david

so CC asked if i could share how i home school my kiddos
specifically, how i homeschool kids on differnt levels with different learning issues

david is 10 with asperger's syndrome
(very high functioning autism)
alex is 8 with dyslexia
(i also have dyslexia)
and max is 5
with so much enthusiasm....i'm not sure my house is going to make it

for years we tried to cram david into the pre-school mold
worked and worked on it

because he had to learn to handle preschool
so that he could one day handle kindergarten
so that he could handle elementry school
so he could handle middle and high school
because if you can't do that then you can't go to college
and if you go to college you can have a job
and be a productive member of society

and that works for so many people
worked for me

but not my kid

the schools, the teachers, the therapists were all about making him fit into this mold
and in a moment of clarity one day
i realized
there is more than one road to the "becoming a productive member of society"

so we started to homeschool
(there are some others times i have talked about this on the right, under catagories)

david didn't talk until he was 4...so i was ok with learning to read in second grade instead of kindergarten
i just looked at what i wanted him to learn each grade level and tried to focus on the most important things

i didn't try to re-create school and all the things david would have learned there
i tried to create an education just for him

the same goes for alex

they are both behind their peer group in reading
but not a lot
it stessed me out for a while
but i try to remember
it isn't a race
it is a quality of life

i did modify the following curriculum:

Susan Wise Bauer's The History of the World
Math You Can See
Bob Jones Science
Drawing on the right side of the brain for children (or is it left...i always forget)
i used Family Fun & Matha Stewart Kids mags to devolpe my own art/crafts ideas
Teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons (not flasy but the best i have found)
and then anything the kiddos are into: robots, lizards, cartooning, computers...
david is currently reading the Calvin and Hobbes treasury to me....hey, as long as he is reading...

penmanship if really hard for david
so we work on it a little bit each day
but if i push it too much - then he gets frustrated and the day is shot

i make a list at the beginning of the week
kinda a chart
of what all we need to do on each day
each of the kids attend some homeschool "classes" with other kids
i factor those in along with orthodontists visits, etc.
on those days, we do lots less work because of the sensory stress on david
then i see what can overlap for each child
david and alex do the same history and math
they all do their math at the same time and i just move around the table helping them
reading is seperate
max is included in any science stuff he can understand
they all have a Bible verse to memorize
etc
etc
etc

i get asked all the time if we are going to keep homeschooling
i'd love to
the cool thing is
i don't have to figure it all out right now
i just need to figure out this year
and even that
i can re-vise

CC, i don't know if that was helpful at all
feel free to ask me specific questions
i'll try to blog in the next few days about how we handle the therapy side of things

oh
the picture
a twist tie mummy emerging from a sarcophigus
david really liked that egypt study we did 2 years ago:)

happy thurs!
kellicrowe

so i forgot i had a blog

small boy
on big rock
with stick

i seem to have lots of this type of photo.....

so i forgot that i had a blog
after a long weekend
a trip to nashville, tn
several big projects
and not enough sleep...

this morning
i checked my e-mail
checked two peas
and then thought
hmm, it seems like i usually check 3 places in the morning
and i really didn't remember
the third place
is my blog.....
until like 4 hours later

in other news
lessons for all 3 kiddos is kicking my tail right now

happy Tuesday!
kellicrowe