I went to the farm yesterday and took the kids they had lots of fun!.
I ened up getting a flat of strawberries then comming home and makeing 22 jars of strawberry jam I still have strawberries left I put in the freezer. Last year I made 28 jars of jam but I use some bigger jars this time, anyway it was lot of work but fun and the kids loved it on toast this Am.
I also got up and baked banana bread this morning before my dh took the kids to the beach. yup he took all three of the kids to the beach for the day and I'm home alone! how luck could I get! plan to play on the computer and scrap! whooo hooo!

RANDOM FACTS ABOUT ME ...

1)Name one person who made you smile today? My 3 year old son he's good at that

2)What were you doing at 8:00 this morning? bakeing banana bread before it gets to hot to use the oven

3)What were you doing 30 minutes ago? helping my dh get the kids together so he could take them to the beach, i have the whole day to myself!

4)What is something that happened to you in 1998? My dh got a awsome job and we moved about 2 hours away from our home town, and I became the manager of the condo's we live at.

5)What is the last thing you said aloud? drive safe and put more sunscreen on Boo (my dh was leaveing with the kids to the beach and "Boo" is my son nick name)

6)How many different things have you drank today? two...cranberry jucie and water

7)What color is your hair brush? white and gray

8)What was the last thing you bought? Lemon jucie, yesterday i was canning strawberry jam and ran out of lemon jucie

9)What was the last gift you received? some scrappy supplies from my friend Rhonda at HTH soccer paper and i love it

10)What color is your front door? white

11)Where do you keep cell phone? my purse

12)What was the weather like today? sunny and hot

13)What is the best ice cream flavor? Udderly chocolate

14)What are you excited about? having the whole day to myself today my dh took the kids to the beach YES!!

15)Do you talk a lot? sometimes,depends on who you ask heheheh

16)Name a weird food you like? pudding and fresh banana's, toast with mushrooms slices on it

17)Cold or hot? cold... I love the cold!!!

18)What's your favorite thing to do? scrapbooking and hang out on the computer and talk on the phone it's hard to say witch one i love most.

19)Do you want to cut your hair? i just did a couple weeks ago

20: Are you over the age of 25? yah about 10 years

21)Are you ticklish? yes

22)Are you typically a jealous person? I will say not really but then again i have been so kinda..

23)Name a friend whose name starts with the letter "L" : Linda... i love this lady like my mamma

24)Name a friend whose name starts with the letter "A": Angela my friend since 7th grade

25)Do you chew on your straws? yes

26)Do you have curly hair? nope, slightly wavy

27)What is the next concert you're going to? i have no plans to go to one but if i do it will be some thing local at the park more than likely

28)Who is the crappiest person in your life? I plead the 5th, for if i were to say i'd be in deeper eheheh

29)What is your favorite color? man i like them all but I would say wine red as a top fav.

30)What is something you say a lot? i tend to call every one "darlin' and i say "sweet" alot

31)What's your room like? <strong>my scrappy room??? "A mess" my bed room boring sad i know

32)What was the last movie you saw? Underworld, god that movie is hot... heheh

33)Do you have work tomorrow? nope my day off and it's my 16th wedding anniv. and sadly nothing is planed .. i wonder if he'll even remember

34)What's your dream job? to own a crafts and gifts shop

35)When was the last time you said "I love you"? this morning as my dh and kids headed out for the beach

36)What should you be doing right now? whatever i want, i'm free for the day!!!

37)Do you have a nickname? not really my dh calls me honey and my kids call me mom hahahhaaa and well for the other nick name i got ...well all my scrappy ladies that know me well enough .... already know who i am..(wink)

38)Are you a heavy sleeper? no, not at all...

39)When is the last time you did the dishes, honestly? yesterday i made stawberry jam so i had a mess

40)What are your pet peeves? when someone doesn't put toilet paper on the roll and sets it next to the toilet, and when my kids leave the radio on when they are at school, i'm pertty easy i'd say...

Summer Fun

Dad and the kids.........

Here is what we did on fathers day, spent the day at the beach in the sun it was a windy but an Awsome day! Of course I got a sun burn pertty bad as always. The dh and kids worked on building this dift wood shelter and making sandcasles!. Hope you are enjoying the sun.

Life has been a Busy one

Well School is finely out and summer has begun!
I started my new job last week and I love it so far I only work 3 days a week, I'm now the Assistant district manager for our local new paper, the hours are short but early in the am and the pay is good what more could I ask for? HA well that's not all, my Dh also got a new job, and on top of that I was honored with the Guest Design team Spot at Scrapdoodle for July! Things are busy but I wouldn't want it any other way!
We have some New and Awsome challenges at HTH so come on by and play with us there! and don't forget to come see me at Scrapdoodle also! My 2 most favorite hang out places with tons of fun and lots of good people! (links to both HTH and scrapdoodle are on my side bar.)hope to see ya soon.

JOY

I struggle with Christmas layouts, not sure what this layout it missing but something is.
Anyway I running a challenge at HTH from June 10t to July 10 come join us there and have some fun.
OH if you have any tips to help me on my Christmas themed layouts I would totally love to here them.

Simply Amazing

here is another stab at me trying to simplify my work. I am pretty happy with this one. I had to take picture of it tho. it just wasn't scanning well.. thanks for looking. love to here any comments you have.

Krystal

I've been really working hard on simplifying my layouts, I'd like MORE simple and WOW in my work, I want it to be about the pictures and the feel. I think for awail there I was getting to hung up on over embellishing and it was becomeing more about the "STUFF" than the pictures and memories. So I'm focusing on that more and getting there I think.. what do you think?
thanks for looking and would love the any comments
Oh and I'm looking for a sweet poem to add where the journaling should be but I haven't found one that fits yet.

Silly Banana Business

Based from a sketch, and done for a recipe challenge, this is my take on it all! It was a really fun layout to make and of course my son this my most favorite topic to scrap.. thanks for looking

WHAT"S NEW

Sorry it's been a wail since I updated here, but the end of school is near and life is Full. The newest most exciting thing in my life is my Cricut Expression machine arrived at my door yesterday and WOW this the cutting machine of all time.. it's all that and more.. This baby will cut chipboard, cut as small as 1/4 and as big as 24 inches, it will cut to fill your page, yep if I want to cut multi images I just select the image and size then push the "fill page" button and it will cut as many as will fit on the page AND it figures out how many to cut all by it's self, now that is one really awsome feature. The 12x24 mat size is also pretty cool, you can put two sheets of 12x12 paper on that mat and it will cut it as a two page layout witch will come in handy. I can have one half of an image on one side and the other half of the image on the other and since it cut it side by side it will match up perfect. Not to mention the cool scalloped cuts it can do and the tags, bags, and boxes cartridge will be super fun on the Expression machine. I can make a gift bags or boxes in just about any size now. So what all this really means I think, is I will in the long run save so much money on embellishments that it will pay for itself over and over again.
I am already totally smitten with it .. it doesn't talk back or leave the toilet seat up, and it always please me what more can a girl ask for ??