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*Yay for short work weeks, I have Friday off.  Sweet!  Even better on Friday morning my sister and I will be driving up to Houghton Lake area for a scrapbook weekender.  This is a new place for us, we are looking forward to something new.  Best part its only $90....and you know how pricey these weekenders can be.  We look for cheaper ones, and we've come across this one.  The theme is Spring Bling, we bought feather boa's (Friday night contest), lots of bling and we are excited for a great time.  Check them out on fb, Scrap-tastic Events. 

 

*I met with a friend yesterday for lunch, we haven't seen each other in almost 4 years.  We had a falling out and it was time to bury the hatchet and move on.  We've been friends since high school. We shared some laughs and caught up on everything.  It was good to laugh with her again.

That is definetely back in the day. 

*The news is simply depressing.

 

*That darn alarm clock that my "non-husband" has is killing me.  For 8 years I've listened to this thing go off starting at 430am, every weekday.  He doesn't start work until 715am so why have that thing set up so early.  What kills me he doesn't get up until 620am.  So I have to hear that thing, loud as can be, it drives me nuts.  Whomever invented snooze deserves a punch in the head. 

 

*Moving is in my near future, well within the next 6 months.  Gotta get busy, searching to buy our first home is nerve wrecking, but its time, and definetely needed.  Looking forward to the change, we've been in this rental for 8 years.  Not going to be sad to leave in the least.  We are going to start packing up stuff now.  Let's move it yo!

Flashback Friday

Its a little later then normal, usually I post FF in the a.m.  Today I had such the hard time waking up.  I just couldn't get it together this morning.  So here I am, the boy is asleep and I am on the couch just chillin' bloggin' and facebookin'. 

I'm goin' WAY BACK this week.  This particular page was done w/in the first year ('04) of scrapbooking.  In an album that I don't share w/ my son, the album is titled Party Central.  Yep!  Mostly its just alot of beer drinkin' w/ my buddies.  All that drinkin' and I've managed to fill a Creative Memories album w/ 45 pages of refills in that one album.  That is 90 pages of good times!  WOW!  Anyways.....some of my bestest times were w/ my good friend Bandit. 

So there you have it, as I sit here and post this I wonder if my sister over at Scrappy Lo's is posting her first Flashback Friday.  We'll see........ its only 2 hours till Saturday.  I was excited when she told me last week that she liked this idea.  Jump on board if you want to as well.  Its fun to share your old work

Miss Bandit is part of the 2011 Yearly Ten, you may not have remembered it but its to meet up w/ an old friend each month. 

Tomorrow I am able to meet up w/ another friend, and possibly one other mutual friend for breakfast.  Maybe February I'll arrange something w/ Bandit.  

Well hope everyone has a good weekend!  

Beginning and End

Well, well its a sunny day here in lower Michigan.  I'd love to be out and about but just not feeling like it. 

Let me just tell you about yesterday, had a wonderful day with my mom and Lucas just hanging out at her house for about 3 hours.  Then it was time to meet up w/ one of teammates/greatest friend ever for the Fight for Air Climb in March.  We went to my work which happens to be the place they do this.  This week I started climbing on my lunches and did fairly well.  She goes with me and I'm thinking ok we might do as many as I did, but its her first time maybe not.  Um, are you ready for this......

*~40 FLOORS~*

So there it is, we rocked and we rolled!  The Ren Cen consists of 7 towers total.  The center tower is the largest and it has 72 floors.  We did one of the business towers and it has 39 floors, however we started on A level so 40 floors is what we completed and it was rough a couple of times.  We did it, and we are proud, and we took a photo to show our pure excitement.  We drove around to the tower that we tackled and took a snapshot.  We'll be taking photos of this very unique situation for both of us, its NOT everyday we push ourselves into such a workout.  We are very serious about taking this on and we are looking into other challenges to do.  We aren't looking for great fabulous times, we just want to push and see what we are really capable of.  Yesterday proved to us that we can.  I'm still excited! 

On our drive home we were discussing it and she said, "once I put my mind to something I don't stop".  I had to admit I will stop.  We soon realized that we are good for each other because in the BEGINNING I'm ready to go, go, go let's get to it, then will give up after some time.  She needs to be pushed to start, but she always makes it to the END!

BTW all photos naturally will be scrapbooked by me, and probably put on fb by her.

The return of Flashback Friday

Happy Friday everyone!  So glad the weekend is almost here.
So, I took a break from blogging the last quarter of 2010.  This morning I am getting back to something I enjoyed doing every Friday.  Something I like to call Flashback Friday (FF)....it allows me to share some LO's that were done early on in my scrappin' days.  It showcases how my own style has changed and its fun to take a look back at how simple those pages are.  So every Friday I'll be sharing, anything that was prior to LoveLeigh Scraps born on date.

The below LO comes from a 7x7 album that I created for our best friends and Ex-Door Neighbors.  Since they don't live next door we don't see them enough.  They moved temporarily to Minnesota, and I made this album for them when they came to their senses and moved back to Michigan.  This is my favorite of all.  Recently I nabbed the album to update it, to put the most recent pics in it.  Our time together isn't often but when we do get together its always guaranteed to a blast! 




These are some of my best memories!

 I have to giggle thinking back on when I created this page, I would guess about 3 years ago.  On the left page at the bottom, hard to read in the photo but it says Best Friends.  When I used that embellishment.....dang what is it called?  Well you lay it done and its pinkish in color, peel the overlay off and then you add glitter to it.  Either way I thought this is cool, and happy to be doing something so different.  Funny because now I do some things that are way cooler and to be honest I think I used those things on other 3 other pages and haven't used again.  See changes throughout my scrapbooking history.

Into the 8th Day

Well here we are on the 8th day of the new year. I haven't been around much, taking care of family stuff and trying not to pull my hair out, so far I haven't.

I'm wide awake and its just after midnight, I typically am in bed around 830 or 9 at night. Tonight though I thought I would blog a bit. Its been since October since my last post. I want to get back to blogging again. I really enjoy it and shouldn't let the things that I like slip by the way side. I'm a dork I know but its fun. I've done that too many times in the past 8 1/2 years. Your probably like wow, you can really determine when things started to change. Well sure, it's simple I fell in love!

So tonight I've changed my layout and created a new banner so its new and fresh.

Mostly I wanted to share some things that I did in 2010. I've got photo's too :O) because you know my camera stays in my purse; you never know what might happen or c'mon my son turned 6 and he still experiences the first time he ever_______.
So my pictures may have been posted before but who cares right, if they're reposted it must of been pretty special or just a fav.

I started blogging in January 2010 to give some inspiration to other scrapbookers, but found that I was GETTING lots of inspiration from my fellow crafters. I even make cards now.
This post might be long, but I don't have anything else going on at the moment. Like I said, I'm wide awake the boy is sleeping and the "non-husband" isn't home, he's out with some friends. Speak of the devil he just walked in the door.
This past year delivered some good & bad and it gave me some answers.

I hadn't had a car pmt since 2008, unfortunetely I was also going on being w/out a car for 2 years. Dumb! Why? It broke down and the rest is too long to explain. I did not enjoy being driven by Bill's mother each morning and sometimes driven home too. It wasn't cool at all, helpful and thankful however. Not that I'm concerned w/ being cool, but that was just very uncool. I did finally get a car in October, I'm sportin' a '06 Ford Fusion.
Life has been so much better since having a car again. Having that freedom to drive off on my own is wonderful, oh I forgot to mention that Bill has a stick shift and I couldn't drive it, and he wouldn't teach me, not cool again.

Let's see I went to Key West with my sisters, mom and aunt in April and it was awesome to say the very least.
Good times were had of course, lots of laughs, gettin' on each other nerves, many cold, cold beers and plenty of food, and layin' by the pool. I started an album of that trip that I've gotten probably 85% of it done.
When I thought I was done I realized I didn't have some pictures and was totally bummed because I thought I was going to get to complete an entire album on a scrap weekend trip. That was another trip I took w/ my sister and our friend Corrina. That trip is always a must at least once a year. It's in northern Michigan its at a place called Harold's Resort in Traverse City off of Spider Lake.
We have a blast each time, just scrapping away. Kathy is the lady that runs the resort and does these weekenders in the off season and she is just wonderful and I would consider a friend now. I think that I've done the trip at least 5 times. She feeds us well too, its amazing the food she has, especially the stuft french toast. Oh man I start looking forward to that weeks before its time to go. Its that good!
Another small trip we took was in May to the Tulip Festival in Holland, Mi.
I've always wanted to go and finally I made it there. It was unfortunetely cold and the tulips weren't doing so well. Bill wasn't impressed, Lucas was mildly impressed. He was all about the hotel and pool.
His first time at a hotel.....see the first are always there. On our way home we stopped in Marshall, Mi for a visit to Turkeyville USA. We had heard about this place like 7 yrs ago and we finally made it. We came home a different route so that we could hit it up. It was really good, Bill was satisfied with this.
When he describes it to people he always says, " you know in Forrest Gump when they are talking about all the different shrimp? Shrimp scampi, shrimp kabobs, shrimp salad etc, well thats how it is at Turkeyville.....turkey dinner, turkey corndogs, turkey hamburgers!" Its so funny.
I made many and plenty of trips to Kentucky another long story, only thing tellin' about that is that I've done that trip (5 hrs down & 5 hrs back up) there and back in one day at least 3 times. That doesn't count the times I stayed for a weekend. Or my other family members did the trip there and back. Yikes! I'll just say it involved my neice Shelby and she is very loved by us. lol
I almost forgot about the dreaded annual canoe trip. It is and will always be hell for me.
Photo above bad canoe trip, photo below good canoe trip (its for the day only :O)


Lucas started 1st grade and at a new school.
Its been rough, but things are looking up. He has been labeled ADHD. I have accepted that and want to do what I can to make him wanted and accepted by family, friends and just everyday people that come into contact with him. He's adorable, smart and just fun. He deserves good things and things are looking up. His dad wasn't for medication but sometimes dammit you need to try something new to see if it will help. It has and his dad is thankful now on the route that we've chosen. My boy's therapist is wonderful, she really helps him learn new ways to focus, and helps us understand what he's going through. Yea, and my son has a crush on her too. Amazing!
We are still learning and making way to a better life for him, but there are still some bridges we need to cross. We'll get there, I've learned about patience the past 6 months.

OOh, my mom turned 60, haha! That's bogus isn't it not her age, but me laughing about it. We through her a party and it was Detroit Tigers themed.
She loves them and it was fun to dress in that gear and all guest did too.

This is all so random and scattered....we met up with some wonderful neighbors from the old neighborhood where I grew up.
Mom still lives there. Lots of reuniting on this past year with old neighbors/friends. I even got to join a "book club" haha the Black Dagger Brotherhood, and again haha.
Even though I've only made it through book 2. I <3 Rhage! I have a crazy feeling that I just might love Zsadist!!!! What book is he again?




Damn, I've hit that post button twice. Guess I should add the pics and stop talking about 2010 and move on cuz 2011 is here and I've got another 357 days to go. Have a wonderful year and keep blogging and following, I look forward to seeing what you've created. I love comments!

Blog at'cha later!

P.S. The pic below could have, wait did make the top 3 best things of 2010! The return of Roka Blue!!!!

Monday already?

So where did my weekend go? It's Monday already and I haven't a clue how it came along so fast. I didn't even create a Movie Monday LO. I still have time after work, I already have the movie picked out. After dinner I will rise to my very own challenge.

My weekend was what I would call a perfect weekend. Did some of my favorite things (except scrapbooking, what the...?), tried some new stuff too. Last year at some point I said that I would like to try and do new things, and not be afraid or embarassed by what I may look like.

So in April I went to Key West and did parasailing. Weeeeeee! That was awesome, I am not into anything adventure. I was so proud of myself for doing this, and some may say really, you think that's adventureous? Yes, my family doesn't do stuff like that or anything really. So yes it was BIG time for me.

Anyways, on Saturday I went w/ a friend of mine to try out yoga. I always felt like I'd look weird doing it. Loved it! I'm so glad that I did it and that I liked it. It is a non-profit organization so you donate what you'd like each visit. So not only am I going to be working my way to a better fit me, I am helping create peace in this world. The place was very earthy and the studio that we were in was w/out lights; the only hint of light we saw was through the bamboo window treatments. Very relaxing and look forward to next weekend so that I can go again. So another something to try scratched off my list!!!!

I was lazy most of the weekend. My sister's son came to spend the night on Saturday and the boys had a blast. I watched Back to the Future all weekend long. They had each movie on each evening. Love those movies. I took my son to see Cats & Dogs: Revenge of Kitty Galore. Cute, my son was so well behaved all weekend, I thought I would treat him to that. Plus, I wanted to have some popcorn. The work week is a long week until my next weigh in at WW. Love going and I and looking forward to some good results this Thursday. I did 10 minute thighs & buns this morning too. What's 10 minutes? Right on it worked me good. I can take the time to that each morning. Whatever helps me get healthy. Well I've written enough its all starting to blend together.

I will post later my MM LO. Have a great day!

Flashback Fridays (FF)

Oh this has to be one of the ugliest pages I've ever done. This LO was done I'd guess about 6 years ago. When I was first starting out. Hello Creative Memories! This is so boring and I love me some CM, mostly the albums and papers. Glad that I've learned a few great things since these days. Sad isn't it! Oh well that is why I like FF it allows me to look back and giggle at what I used to do as a scrapbooker.

Another sad thing, other then my 2 sisters in the photos, I don't get to see these other people at all. Lost touch or I get to do lunch or talk on fb once in a great while. As ugly as this LO is I am happy to have the moments w/ these friends scrapped. Great memories!

Well I do have a busy weekend ahead and wanted to make sure FF was posted and I probably won't get to post again until MM.

Have a super great day!

Babbling Brook

Well its just after midnight here in Michigan. I had a busy day, I woke very early got right to it. Left the house to get a small amount of shopping done for my friends bridal shower. Got her gift, easy in and out. Went to a craft store that I'm not to fond of, but thought its been 6 months since my first visit there, let's see if things have improved. I like what their scrapbook selection is, quite huge actually but they are just weird. I'd rather not say the name of the store, they don't deserve any bit of advertising. It's just a strange store, w/ they're non computer ways, they're even closed on Sunday's, good grief. So then I'm off to visit with my mom for awhile and do some stuff for her church. I do all the signage for her church, certificates too occasionally. She asked the other day if I could do calligraphy on a baptisism certificate. Sure, I forgot that I have the skill. I don't do it very often, couldn't even tell you where my ink and nibs are. So I bought one of those quick marker type calligrapher pens. Yea, not so much. So I went off to a very good craft store Joann's, I don't mind being an advertiser for them, because they are wonderful :O) So I got a better set of the markers there and it was better, but still love the old school way of writing w/ dipping the ink. I took calligraphy in high school and my teacher had ran into my mom at the office and she told my mom that it wasn't too often that a student was better at calligraphy then her, the teacher. That made my day when my mom told me that. I haven't done it in years, and liked doing it again. When you don't do something for awhile it usually always comes right back.

Finished that for her, went to the bridal shower, and I was very impressed and very happy for my friends. They have been together 8 years as my man and I have been as well. Maybe our day is coming soon. Only God knows.

After the shower I called my brother and visited him for an hour, had some good talk. The shower at the Masonic Temple just off the road near my brothers house so I thought I'd call, and it was nice he was home alone. We don't see each other often. We shared some business ideas, and he made it seem like it was very possible for me to get started and that it will take time but it can happen. I love encouragement! Who doesn't?

I came home spent some time w/ the boy and putzed around on blogger and fb. For whatever reason there are lots of giveaways today. Love that, you should check out my 3 previous post, they have links to those blog giveaways.

Anyways, I'm feeling quite chatty right now. The boy is asleep, man is out w/ an old roommate and I'm wide awake. So last weekend I had entered a challenge and you had to take a movie prior to '85 and make a layout. That was fun, and I did a LO on Star Wars. It gave me the idea to create an album geared around movie titles. We all have that random photo we don't use or a grouping of photo's your just not sure what to do with. Or I like to have an album for only certain types of themes. ie.\School album, Love album, My family album, friend albums, etc. So I thought you don't know sometimes where to fit those photos. My thought was it would be cool to have an album and take a title and find a photo that matches the title. I have a bunch of empty albums and this theme just seems to be fun.

Another thing I like reading blogs that have creative post and consistancy. Here are some ideas I came up with:

1st/LoveLeigh Polls, this started last month. These will last the whole month and it will be polls on scrapbooking. Check it out at the top of the sidebar.
2nd/Movie Mondays, I will post a new layout w/ a movie name as my title for LO.
3rd/Flashback Fridays, a posting of old LO's will go up. I often look at my scrapbooks and think wow, my style has changed so much. It changes often as I learn new techniques.

I figure thats a good start and a bit of fun! Hopefully I can keep up w/ the postings. Well I've babbled long enough and think that I will lay in bed and watch hopefully something good and entertaining on TV.

After reading this make sure to take the August LoveLeigh Poll. Have a great day, and keep being creative!

I made it through another canoe trip!

Well I survived yet another canoe trip. Look I don't really like it the camping, the canoeing is sort of fun. This year was by far better then last year. The others that went w/ us was a better crowd. Not showering, nothing other then the woods for a bathroom break, is so not cool. I am glad to be home and below you can see the photos that I will enjoy scrapping at some point. That makes the trip worth it I guess.

A bit of fishing once we set up camp
Sittin' around the campfire is my favorite part
My man so happy to be out in nature
Coming to the end of our trip

Weekend Fun!

Let's see I guess I'll start with a challenge card. Over at Allsorts this week their theme was "Spring is in the Air!" Love it! Then SPCC had a great color combo that worked so well with Allsorts challenge.

http://www.allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/

http://www.spcolorcombos.blogspot.com/

I had alot of fun creating this card. We've had great weather the past couple weeks, however the weekends haven't been as nice, strange wouldn't you say? So it was nice to create a springy card while it was quite chilly and gloomy outside yesterday.

I had Friday off so that I could go to the boy's kindergarten class for a "Beach Party!" Lovely weather I must say. Both Dad and I got to go and particpate. We had so much fun, dressing the part in our summer wear. I got so many awesome pics to scrapbook. Yay! I can't wait! Anyways, we had a great lunch of sand (vanilla pudding w/ finely ground graham crackers), seaweed (salad), octopus (hot dogs) and gold fish crackers & sea water. Very clever that teacher is....she shared a story that after 20 years of teaching and after 20 years of having beach parties, her and her husband have been slicing the hot dogs to have 8 legs to look like octopus, 100 total. She was watching Leno and they were sharing silly gadgets. They had a octopus maker for hot dogs. She said its takes her about an hour now, before it took them so much longer to cut each by hand. LOL! At one of the tables there was a real octopus....um....gross! It wasn't alive my boy wasn't completely grossed out, but a bit nervous. I decided to face my fears of any creatures and put the gloves on and held it and I was completely creeped out but happy that I could share that totally gross moment with him.

Friday evening Lucas got to spend the night at my mom's, first time ever! He loved it and said he would want to go there again soon. The bf and I went to Wyandotte for 3rd Friday. That city holds this all year, you walk around the shops stay open late, and there usually is a theme each month. Afterwards we went to a friends house for a bonfire. Perfect weather!

Saturday was just lazy!

Sunday my sister and I went to a GREAT! Scrapbook Event, sort of a expo....got the best deal and was so happy! I love my Creative Memories albums. Well some of you may know that they discontinued the very short lived landscape album (10x12). I have 2 of these and have needed refill pages for quite some time. They had 2 refills & pg protectors for 50% off. Woot! Woot!

So I've babbled enough, sorry if I went on for too long, but when you have such a great weekend its easy to babble. Have a excellent week my fellow creative bloggers!

BTW....check out my sister's new blog she is new to the blog world and has only posted once so far, and really its an introduction.....at www.scrappylos.blogspot.com

Bright sunny days!

Good Morning everyone!

Bright sunny days here in Michigan, we needed it. We've already had like 3 days of sunshine. The weather reports for 7 more days of sun and in the 40's all week. Love it! Let's hope its true. I woke up super early this morning and was able to make a card for a friend. She contacted me last week through text and as it would have been great to talk with her, texting is what I got. So I made a card for her this morning, letting her know that its time to go have lunch. Plus, I was able to use the card for challenges this week. While at home making the card I had ran out of tape runner, really how could I let this happen, no refills on hand. Then my ribbon adhesive maker ran out. Really? So I do complete the card and then I look at the card on the way to work in this super sun shiny day and the ribbon is more of green then baby blue. Yea so I need some better lighting at home. lol....well I have to get busy, I'll be posting soon! Hope your having
BRIGHT SUNNY DAYS TOO!


So I am bummed that the ribbon is slightly off color, even more bummed that in the photo it really looks off. I still like the card though, thanks for the challenges at over at PPC-CC #2 & Carols Sketch Fun #21. Their links to their blogs are:
http://www.ppc-challenges.blogspot.com/
http://www.carolssketchfun.blogspot.com/

TGIF

Good Morning! It's Friday and I am thrilled to pieces. I have to finish this workday and then I'll go home to my family make dinner. I'll need to freshen up then I'm going to have a couple of drinks with my neighbor. She needs someone to listen to her, her relationship just ended with her boyfriend. The rest of the weekend is up in the air, I hope its all good fun. I might come up with an idea to do something fun with the boy. Some sort of project, or game even. I don't really have much to say right now. Here's to a great weekend!

Wii Fit is going good.....11/86