Latest Project
By Nicole | September 29, 2008
If you’re looking for one of my latest projects, you can go to my new URL to see. I am dropping my blog over here and putting it on the main site. Please update your bookmarks and links and come visit me at www.scribblesnscraps.com for more creative ideas, layouts, cards and more.
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My Favorite Personal Organizational Item in My Scrapbooking Room
By Nicole | August 12, 2008
Today’s 2 peas blog challenge is: Share a picture of an organizational item you have in any room of your house that you absolutely love.
I thought, well I can do that. I have a load of things that are working well for me and that I truly enjoy in my personal scrap space.
My ink pad storage is an obviously borrowed piece. This former tape cassette holder (among its three brothers that are just not pictured) has been a wonderful addition to my scrap area.
It’s now totally full and I have three others. They have been painted all white, but I am eyeing some new ones that are about to be released from CTMH so I might be retiring these guys and trying to find another use. Hmm…
So what’s your favorite storage item that you have?
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It’s Finally Here….
By Nicole | August 11, 2008
You would totally think I won the lottery and was waiting for my check this morning as excited as I was. Today as the day that we finally get Uverse installed. We’ve been without cable/DirectTV/etc. since later Winter and it has been seriously agonizing.
As I type this, Matt, my U-verse guy is running all over my house like mad installing and unpacking all sorts of goodies. Ahhh….I cannot wait to have the luxury of sitting back in my bed tonight and enjoying a quiet night of television after the kids are in bed. (Mike works nights so this is great!)
Well, off to go track Matt down and see if he needs anymore furniture moved.
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Update on Kids
By Nicole | August 1, 2008
Well, the three little rugrats arrived home earlier today. Actually I had to make the long trek up there to get them. I’m so happy they are home. Apparently, and this part just sucks - they seriously did not enjoy it and don’t want to ever go back. Hmmm….
First, I should mention it was a church camp, and it is NOT a denomination that we are. I knew already that could be a problem and I had spoken to the kids before that to get them ready for that possibility.
However, apparently - they all three asked to call home several times (they are allowed) and never once were actually able to. They always had an excuse.
The big kicker? They had three story high bunk beds for them to sleep in. Okay fine. BUT - there was only a rail on ONE side of each bunk bed and there was no ladder. My daughter fell out of the top bunk (three high) and landed on her back. Did anyone call me? No. Did she see the nurse on site? No. They picked her up (uhm….excuse me?) and cradled her, rocking her while she was crying. Then they put her to bed - RIGHT BACK UP ON THE TOP OF THAT THIRD BUNK BED! We stopped at the pediatrician on the way back today to get her checked out. He felt she was fine, and only had a brief muscle spasm while he was checking her out. Nothing to be alarmed about and that’s a good thing since she’s a horseback rider and that could have just been so much worse!
I’m so completely frustrated and disgusted, I’m almost happy they didn’t have a good time because I could not in good conscience send them back there ever again.
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My Babies Come Home
By Nicole | July 31, 2008
Tomorrow my kiddos come home from camp and I am so excited to see them. This was the younger ones this time that went, the three of them. I miss them so much. I was supposed to live up my time with them being gone and instead we wound up spending the past few days emptying out our storage unit (which I was happy to do because I am irritated that we have been paying that bill all these months!) It just didn’t prove to be as much of a break as I had intended because seeing all these things just reminded me of them.
On a good note, I found an entire box of various scrap things that had been inadvertently packed up and apparently stored. Most if it is old stuff I didn’t want or need anyway, but there were a few idea books in there that it was nice to see again.
So we ended our last night away with a nice dinner out just my two oldest and I (Mike was at work). Oh wait, my two oldest and I and well, my ex husband joined us so he could spend some time with my son. He is in town for work, so he tagged along and I have to say it was a rather interesting and fun evening.
Which is rare.
We aren’t complaining.
We all enjoyed ourselves and now we’re home and I am so ready to crash. So tomorrow my lil ones will be in a van on their way home and I am afraid I won’t sleep a wink between worrying about them and just being generally excited to have them back home. The two youngest are back in school already so they got this time off to go to camp. The middle girl is going into middle school this year, so we have some preparing to do. It will be nice to have them home.
Well, I’m off to sleep land. I can barely keep my eyes open.
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Scrapbooking Rut
By Nicole | July 25, 2008
What in the world is going on with me? I hate to call it a scrapbooking rut, but I just am never motivated anymore to do any scrapbooking. What the heck is up? I know I will be back in the game soon, after all it is my business, but yeesh.
I’ve been trying to complete some more organizing to get me more motivated again - that usually works. I’m still trying to get there. I know it would help to get some recent photos printed, so that is on my list of things to do. 
In the meantime - this is the newest addition to our already totally full household. We’re crazy, I know.
Hey, maybe it’s a new scrap subject? Yeah - getting pics of him/her is kinda hard. LOL
Anyway, I have a few projects to show off, and I will do so later on.
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A&E Interventions
By Nicole | July 24, 2008
I just discovered this show. I have no clue what rock I’ve been hiding under, but I actually found it on youtube.
I’ve spent half the day watching them and fighting off tears and sadness for these people. I wish they would do a follow-up show so we could truly see them now opposed to later. So does everyone know about this show? Am I just totally behind the times? Caylee about broke my heart.
Ok, back to your regularly scheduled scrapbooking day.
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Flowers
By Nicole | July 13, 2008
After attending the funeral of my friends father, I started to get all sentimental about all the people I have lost. My great grandmother, who’s memory mostly unfortunately comes solely from other people talking about her and lots of pictures is one of those people.
Ever since I can remember, I’ve known that I was obviously quite close to her. I do remember seeing her in the hospital once or twice, and I remember knowing she was gone. When my daughter was born, I wanted to incorporate my great grandmothers name in there somewhere, and so one of my daughter’s middle names is from her.
I wanted to detail this memory for my daughter on a sb page and so I was playing around and decided to make some paper flowers. For some reason I think of flowers when I think of her. She wore them a alot. Lots of pictures I have of her she has a corsage on her.
These are the paper flowers:
This is what they looked like on the mat:
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Cup of Sorrow…
By Nicole | July 9, 2008
Today is going to be a hard day. My bff (since high school) called me the other day and told me that her father passed away the night before. While it was pretty much expected, for whatever reason it rendered me speechless. I can actually remember making the same call to her our senior year of high school - again expected. And she was there for me.
Dialysis quit working for him about two weeks ago, and it was a matter of time. We’ve known how sick he was for awhile, but I guess I expected her to have more time with him.
So today is the memorial and funeral, and I am looking forward to being her rock today. However, I am full of fear and worrying about how I will do. I have avoided as many funerals as I could since my father died. Of course there were the ones I was expected to attend, and I did - though I tried to detach myself for the day. It never actually worked. I know today will be no different.
She feels at peace with her father’s death, knowing he is without pain and suffering and once again reunited and safe in the arms of our Lord. That gives me comfort for her.
I made her a card, but tried desperately to avoid making it a sympathy type card. She did the same for me during that hard time over a decade and a half ago, and I wanted to do the same for her.
Here it is in all it’s glory. Sorry it isn’t done in my “normal” pretty style of photography - but I wanted to snap a photo before we left. Now, for the hour drive to his hometown. See y’all later.
Oh, and I came to a realization while making this. I need more “word” and “phrase” stamps.
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Missing in Action
By Nicole | July 8, 2008
Life happened. As it usually seems to. I am so sorry I disappeared. I started a new writing project, with a new company and kind of just devoted all my time to it (thinking there was a place for advancement, and there simply isn’t yet). I need to figure out time management - ya know?
Here are a few updates since I last posted:
Trainer
It seems like so long ago, but I posted about the sad state we were all in about my daughter’s trainer leaving. You would think she was family with the way we’ve been carrying on and mourning the loss of her. We have had exactly two lessons with the new trainer. The first ten minutes of the first lesson, I absolutely hated her. I was having trouble finding even one thing to like about her. Except then I had to tell myself, she isn’t Jacque. She never will be. And then I began to see things I truly like about her. So we are progressing at a very rapid rate. My daughter is experiencing the “no pain no gain” deal as she resumes hard excercise and different riding techniques than she was originally acustomed to. At the rate we are going (two lessons under our belt) we will be competing by Winter in the show ring. Hurrah for her! (my daughter still isn’t thrilled with said trainer, but I asked if she would hold out for an 8 lesson package and see at the end - I have high hopes)
Scrapbooking
Well, my last post was about learning to use the sewing machine for my layouts. Uhm. Well. I tried on a card. Does that count? It didn’t turn out terrible, but I still don’t get how to set the whole machine up. (Mike set it up, I simply played). I think I need to know the whole kit ‘n kaboodle so I can enjoy using it. Actually, I have been working on several projects, mostly pages - and have not been compelled to pick it back up. C’est la vie.
Blogging
I came to a realization the other day. I have too many blogs. A few are actually article sites I write for, and those are part of my paycheck. But, the ones that don’t matter - are probably going to the wayside. This is NOT one of them. I plan to incorporate a few everyday posts in this blog as well, that way I don’t need to hold onto my other blog. I’m just tired of coming up with new material when really it could all go in one place.
Life, Kids and Camp
If you check out my other blog (and only if you want to) there are a couple of posts from a few weeks back detailing a camp experience my oldest kiddos had. They had a blast. The younger three leave in three weeks (last week of July). I’m getting excited for them. We also did a short stint at VBS and wound up finding a new church through that. It was wonderful, and finally we feel “at home” in a church again.
On another kid related note, are you ready? School starts again a week from tomorrow. What? Yes. You heard that right. My two youngest are on a year-round school calendar and they resume school on the 17th. Am I ready? NO! I absolutely hate year-round school and feel strongly that our kids are robbed of the normal childhood summer that I remember. I hate it. They are however getting a reprieve because we are pulling them out to go to camp the last week of July. Why should they suffer because our dumb schools have a different agenda. The other three resume school the middle of August. *sigh*
Summer’s almost over for us.
Anyway, I promise to try to get back here a lot more often. I have projects, pages and cards to share and well, actually I just miss you guys.
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