Whew!

Thanks for all the positive comments (ie: emails) regarding my first little freebie. I know Blogger was down for a couple of days.
Things have been crazy hectic around here... still working on potty training the devil.. er.. the dog. Headaches, stomachaches... blech.. but such is life in my body!
On good days, I have been working on giving the main floor powder room a little paint job, from boring painters beige to a nice dark grey-blue slate colour. Once the trim is painted out a creamy white (from the dark taupe the painter's did.. what they were thinking I don't know).. I will post some pics!
Hard to believe the school year is almost over... then I will have two busy boys to contend with. Hopefully the summer will be all we hope for (more on that another day). Mom is coming up June 30, and I am so excited... I always love when she takes the time to come for my birthday. Yeah, I know... she mostly gets to visit her grandsons.. lol. But, we're close.. so I like to think it's a little about us (her and I) too! She just finished laying down laminate flooring in her house and it looks spankin'!
Oh, a most wonderful update. Dad is doing chemo, and aside from the typical side effects (some nausea, mouth sores..) he is doing WONDERFULLY. He has had his Harley (gulp) on the road for nearly a month and has a completely renewed outlook on life. He's lost about 60 pounds and I can hear the happiness and faith in his voice.
Before I sign off, I wanted to leave you with another little freebie.. just a barnred fun chipboard alpha! I hope you can give it a good home on some of your LO's.. and feel free to leave a comment or email me with your LO! I love to see them.
(special thanks to Atomic Cupcake)
Til' Next Time!

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Little freebie for you!

Thought I might share a little freebie for you, should you so feel like taking...
and if you do, leave a comment or two as I'd love to know if it was worth your while!
It's a beautiful day here.. and I couldn't help myself!
Have a FAB one guys... ciao!
Preview:


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Rainy, Busy Days.....

It has continued to be so rainy here, but the sun has peeked through again and apparently it's here to stay for a while now. YAY!
The mallards out back hatched 6 beautiful ducklings and the heron is currently fishing for (what I call) goldfish in the back pond. Huge, honkin' giant gold fish. What a beautiful place we live in.
Cole is standing here and he wants to say that he still likes Thomas and he *needs* a new train, Molly I think... I think that's one of the few he still doesn't have. In fact, he's trying to push me off my computer to go onto thomasthetankengine.com since Blake got their computer privileges taken away yesterday. LOL...
This past weekend the boys had a birthday party at a Gymnastics place on Saturday and then on Sunday they spent the afternoon at the Valley Zoo learning how to be a Zookeeper with the Beaver's troop. Fun! This coming weekend, Blake is off on a 3-day camping trip with the Beaver's year-end Beaveree.. so it will just be Cole, Eric and I. It will be shockingly quiet.. wow. What will Cole do without someone to make bodily-function noises with, fight with and joke around with?!
Anyways, before I sign off, I am going to post a recent layout, change the music and let Cole play Thomas the Tank Engine since Blake is at school :) Ciao!
Credits Black BG paper, blue bow (recoloured) and silver eyelets freebies from Atomic Cupcake, Coloured papers from Michelle Coleman's Art Papers collection, Green bow (recoloured) from ACOT's Circle of Friend's kit, Sequins from Tandika Star, Hanging tags and black swirl stamp from ScrapArtist's Summer Whimsy Kit, All Boy button from Ali Folendore, Alphas from Kelly Mize (freebie at DD), Messy stitches from Katie Pertiet, Font is Charyn.