Let's take a tour around Betsy's room Part 1

It's been awhile, so let's go around my room again. Ok, so the pics loaded funny, and I am challenged to get them in a different order. So this is a row of my card catalog (those that know me, know that I am obsessed with them and have 4). This is the punch row.

This is the second row of punches

This is my second row of ribbon. Not quite as pretty as my first row, but still pretty. Did I mention I love ribbon?


Here are the flowers and glitter/stickles.


This is a row of embellishments. The valentine embellishments and the felt.



More embellishments


More embellishments


My paper shelf, which will disappear when the new cabinet comes in


the biggest of the card catalogs. This houses all of the drawers you are looking at

Top of the card catalog


What I did with an old frame bought at a yard sale


The prettiest of all the drawers!



Thats it (for now at least, lol!)

(cut and paste) Friday feast

Appetizer

What does the color dark green make you think of?
the box of crayons, you know the big box. So the color evergreen from that box

Soup

How many cousins do you have?
Seriously? 3? My mom's sister has 3, Chip/Kelly/Robin. Wish I knew how they were


Salad

On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being highest, how honest are you?
I think about an 8. Or maybe even a 9. I can't play a good poker hand though. Just don't look at me


Main Course

Name something that is truly free.

tough one.

Dessert

Using the letters in the word SPRING, write a sentence.

She played roughly in ninth grade.

(sing with me) this almost is mine

this almost is paradise, lalalala (south pacific maybe?)
Ok, so hubby found this in neighbor's barn. We asked if we could buy it, he said no. So today, stop and talk to him, he said it's been in that barn for over 30 years. MAYBE they would sell it. Would I give 100 bucks for it? um, hello, yes!

I mean, it's beautiful. Only drawback, I have to give up my paper cabinet. not a big deal. I can already see where I can go with my paper. Look at the potential. I am thinking for my stamp storage! TV on top of it. SWEET! Scott said he would clean it up for me. I think it will take a forklift to get it in here. I am excited.

Almost ran out of time

Naked eggs. not quite though. Had to make everyone sit down to dye eggs. Bites to have family "discussions" right before we dyed eggs. It's not as fun. Not fun to realize that the kids are growing up. How much longer will they do this?




Had to break out the crayons to "spice" up the eggs. Love crayons. Love color.





Not sure if you can see the bling I added to a few eggs. And what's with putting grey in the color palette? Who thinks thats attractive? There is one egg in the bunch that is just peeled and sitting there. Max was going to write "egg" on it, but decided to peel it instead. We won't eat the eggs and we aren't even going to hide them. I am glad we got to do this, that means we were together for one more year.

pretty huh?

I think so. Got to stop at a not so lss on Friday. Love the store. Wish it was a tad closer. Gas is expensive, ya know, less to spend on the goodies. I guess I will start my next obsession. Copic markers. I am told they are the best. So out with the old and in with the new. There are 144 of them. How long before I get them all? Anyone want to take a guess?
Right now I don't have time to scrap. Max had wanted his room moved around over spring break. So not only is it moved around, it is trashed. I could have another week to get it done and still not be done. Right now we are just waiting to get dressers and it will be just ok.
Decided it's time to get rid of the vhs/vcr movies. I have them all spread out on the couch.
Tomorrow is Easter. Hope the bunny is good to you and yours.

3 things that

3 things that....

Fascinate me:
1. reality tv
2. my children
3. how come I put 1.5 pounds of food in me, but gain 6?

Inspire me:
1. my kids, family, friends
2. magazines (corny, but true)
3. my boss (he's so smart!)


Anger me:
1. people who can't drive
2. stupidity
3. Child abuse (have to agree here)


Delights Me:
1. My kids/husband/family
2. Comments on my blog (agree here also)
3. where I live

Frighten me:
1. that my kids will hate me
2. depression
3. being alone (long term)

Relax me:
1. playing online
2. sleep
3. quiet conversations with my loved ones

I'm so UBER excited

Ok, so last weekend I went to Ikea and HAD to have the boxes that everyone is altering. But, what am I going to do with them? So I asked Scott (the wonderful, glorius hubby he is) to go to Lowe's and have them cut me 5.5x5.5 acrylic sheets. Here's the results (so far, I have oodles and oodles of acrylic stamps to move to these and we only had one sheet cut. I guess I will need about 5 or 6 more sheets cut. I think I am going to love it!
And here is a layout I am doing for ebay. I will include 4 photo mats to go with it.

Grocery list

Ok so, every Sunday morning I sit down and make out my grocery list. When I went to Walmart the other morning, I stopped into McDonalds to get a drink and the lady made a comment about my list (thus the topic).
I had to dig in my purse to even find an old list to use. I sort my list by departments in the store. Or even aisles. I take last weeks menu, turn it over and that's what I use for my list. Doesn't it make sense to sort the list? And I am anal (I know, can you believe it?), about how I go through the store. I have to go in the nonfood side (we really only have walmart here as our decent priced grocery store). Do the h&b first, then pets. Then back past electronics (stopping to see what's on clearance), then past crafts. THen to cleaning if I need anything. Then to dairy, around the cheese/lunchmeat. Then to the aisles. Get everything by aisles done. Then frozen/meat/bakery/produce last. Then I go to the checkout. I look for a certain checker, while avoiding several of them. I still don't know if one is male/female yet. Then comes time to load it on the belt. If I take the time to put it on the belt in an organized fashion, I expect it to be bagged the same way. I want a checker that is a shopper herself. Not some teenage kid. Now my daughter (and son too) works at the local grocery store (higher priced, but I do go there to get some meats and toilet paper/another story). She understands how to bag groceries when she checks. She learned from the bitch, I mean the best. The family doesn't like to go with me because of this. (I swear, I am "if you give a moose a muffin", I started out talking about my grocery list and have gone on a tangent).
Then when all the groceries are bagged (and the checker better put the rest of them in, I want to put the heavy stuff in) I head out of the same door I came in.
Now my menu. You don't see Sunday's dinner on it. SInce I make my list on Sunday, I don't put it on there. Now Monday nights will be a little more extensive of a meal. Just like Wednesday's. Tuesday/Thursday's are simpler. Those are clinic days, and I am not sure what time I will get out of work. Love crock pot meals. Saturday's, I don't cook, these are musgo days (this must go, this must go). I like to ask for input from the family, but sometimes don't get much help. The days can vary, but we will have the meals on the menu for the week. Tough when I don't know when Kacey will be home. I think it is VERY important to sit down as a family when we are all together. I refuse to have the tv on while we eat. I really enjoy this time with the family. The kids have heard "has anyone offered you drugs today?" since they were young. Funny that now they turn it back on us!.








Love to hear how other's do their meals!

Pics?

12 hours in the car, trip to Ikea, numerous gas stations, lots of food

we are home safe and sound. After leaving at 530am, we got home about 1115 last night. We were Dallas bound. No hotel reservations, no real agenda, except having Max to Texas stadium by 1. The directions I printed off, sucked. We got there in plenty of time to find the place. I mean come on, it's a stadium, shouldn't be hard to find right? WRONG! We finally got there about noon. Max checked in and we went to sit in the cold stadium. We sat in the sun for awhile and then roasted. He didn't do all that great, but not horrible either. Nike put on this SPARQ training camp. Just the thrill of getting to spend 12 hours in the car with your parents should be enough! No really, getting to stand on the field that the Dallas cowboys play on, was the highlight.
Then, the trip to Ikea. Of course Scott and Max didn't understand my excitement. I think they liked being able to push the cart on the concrete floor, sideways. It was fun. We ate there. Kind of interesting. Found what Cyndi wanted, then picked up a few for myself (hope you only wanted one of each Cyndi, but we can make a road trip huh?). Then the trip back. We started out just driving and when we got tired we were going to stop. We did stop. To eat. To pee. To eat. To get gas. To eat. To take our picture on the star when you first get into texas. To eat again. To get gas. To get out of the car. What fun we had. I am glad to be home. I am glad to have had the opportunity to make this trip with the guys.
I have tried now to load the pics 3x. Not loading so I will close this and then try to load the pics.
today is laundry, shopping, relaxing. (and trying to talk scott into painting my ikea finds)!

Snow storm, shmow storm!

LOL! What a great disappointment. It sucked to drive on the ice to work this morning. Took me almost an hour and a half to get there. And then just like that, it's gone. Drove home to NO snow anywhere! At least I got my Sonic diet coke before I got there. Can you see I am obsessed with Diet Coke? I just wish I could drink water like I drink diet coke.
Very productive evening. I got some things loaded for ebay that I should have had on there right after Christmas. Oh well.
After seeing something similiar over at 2peas, I asked Scott to make me one of these pen holders. Now these are just miscellaneous pens. I have the zigs stored in the holders. I suppose next I should be collecting Copic markers, I mean all the cool kids collect them (ie Cyndi and Julie). I wanted to sort them by ROY G BIV, but you know I don't have any orange! Just like my ribbon, I don't have alot of orange and yellow, but overloaded with blue and green. Look at all the white pens! WHY?
I guess I had better get off of here and get to the treadmill, been putting it off for the last 2 hours, so better get my butt walking.
Have a great night!

Bracing for a snow storm

YIPPEE! Can't wait. Scott and Max just went to the store, for last minute items. I know I wouldn't run out of anything, but you never can tell. They are supposed to get 1) a case of diet coke (even though the machine is full) 2) a gallon of milk (even though there are 2 full ones in the fridge) 3) a loaf of bread (cause I didn't get any yesterday and the one I thought would make it through the week is bad) 4) something for max to have for lunch tomorrow (in case it's a snow day). 5) gas for Max's truck (cause his gas gauge doesn't work).
They are predicting 4-6 inches, maybe even more. This will be our first really measureable and hopefully last snow of the winter. I would like the opportunity to stay home and sleep, scrap, sleep some more, etc. BUT I don't think I will.
Ok enough from me. What's up with you?