My Life, One Day at a Time

Name Banner for my Baby Girl :)

2010-08-29T15:01:00.001-07:00

Ive been wanting to make something like this since we moved into the new house in the end of June. I had lots of trouble finding the chipboard pieces I wanted for it so lastnight I decided to just make my own. I'm relatively happy, I saved myself at least $10 in doing it myself and Grace looked pretty happy when I hung it on her wall! I also incorporated the ScrapFIT workout #26 and added lots of bling and stickles on there!

A Mommy "oops"

2010-05-24T10:55:00.000-07:00

I will admit that my photo taking skills on doubles really suck - this is honest to god straight IRL. Combined the lovely sketch at Sketchy Thursdays and Mission to Create - Mission 17.

The challenge at Mission to Create was to use : the color Brown, Distressing, Decorative Edge Paper (hand cut scallops? hope these "count"), a vintage item. I don't own any beads so could only do 4/5.

Anyway - this is what happens when you don't have child safety locks on your cupboards - exploration heh

I signed on the dotted line!

2010-05-11T07:58:00.001-07:00

After putting an offer in last week, discovering foundation issues and having things fall through on that house we decided to go into a higher price bracket and found ourselves a gorgeous 2400 square foot 5 bedroom house with double garage and a fully fenced yard (double lot!). We've got a conditional offer so just need to get our financing sorted out officially and get the inspection. Im nervous that it won't work out even though I know that it should as my dad said he would co-sign for us. Our life is going to change so much that whenever I think about it I have tears come to my eyes, it's going to be so great for the kids and us!

Scrapping however may be taking a fair bit of a back seat for a while between us moving, me working, school and us having to finish the house we are in and get it on the market and/or rented out. Yikes!!

Just thought I would share.. And I keep thinking of all of the new and wonderful photo ops I will have in having such an awesome yard for my kids!

Holy smokes the scrap muse strikes again!

2010-05-08T22:01:00.000-07:00

Every time I "see" an opportunity to scrap I keep trying to plan it out to maximize my time seeing as it's so hard to find these days between work, school and now the house hunting we've added to the mix. I don't know what happened this evening but Sketchy Thursdays sure helped me kill my evening of free time! I even managed to watch Grey's AND Private Practice while doing all the fussy cutting on this page! Ahhh I love it though :)

Sketchy Thursdays 4.29

2010-05-02T11:56:00.000-07:00

I was thrilled to win this kit from Life Preservers (thanks ScrapFit!) It figures that it was the only kit from March that I hadn't ordered from LPS and it's the first one I dug into after receiving them. Im being rushed by the hubs but this is based on the 4.29 sketch at Sketchy Thursdays. Hope everyone had a lovely NSD yesterday!!

It's been a while.

2010-04-29T10:09:00.000-07:00

Ive been so busy between work and school (wrote finals last week). My boss decided on trying me working part time which is awesome for me as I don't really *need* to be working full time. This way I get the joys of working ($$) and still get to be home with the kids and have time to do the extra stuff that I want to do without giving up on my sleep.

I posted a VERY similar mini a few weeks ago which I gave to my mom as a birthday/Mother's day gift. I was waiting on the same album to come in (basic grey eclectic) so that I could do one for my mother in law. I did basically the same layout as I loved how the pictures worked out on this one. So here is her mini :)

Im so in love with the little crochet flowers and lace trim I got from the creative scrapper's blog hop and they went perfectly with the papers. Im hoping she likes this and was thinking last night that maybe I can inherit both of the albums back some day for my kids, how perfect would that be??

Hoping to get some scrapping in over the next few days as I don't work until Wednesday but school work is looming too so we shall see! Ive got FOUR kits to dig into from Life Preservers as well.. something tells me school work may get pushed aside a bit lol

Ooey Gooey

2010-04-07T14:12:00.000-07:00

This was my daughter the other day investigating in my bins of scrapbooking stuff. Needless to say she was pretty excited about all of it until I took it and put it away.. Future scrapper? Maybe :)

I really wanted to use up some of my lime rickey stash so I pulled it all out... and barely used any.. lol Figures right? Anyway this is based on the weekly sketch at Sketchy Thursdays and I threw in the challenge from Scrap your Crap.

Im still alive here somewhere.. just busy with the kids and school. Ill probably get some scrapping done with my new LPS kits when they come in which should be ANY day now!

MME Life Stories & Ooh La La = one lovely mini!

2010-03-30T12:42:00.000-07:00

So here it is, Im still in love with it.. my Mom is lucky I love her as much as I do or she would NEVER see this.. lol! I am so happy with how it turned out and LOVE how the Ooh La La papers go with the Life Stories line. Perfection :)

Isn't that wooden brand just the cutest? Im not sure the brand - chatterbox maybe? Some cardboard and bling.. ahhh love!
I'm not sure if its just the paper combination or the pictures as well.. So much inking on this project, I think I inked almost everything that went onto it!
I love how these pages turned out, one boyish one for Cameron and a more girly one for Grace. I normally can't stand skulls but for some reason am loving it on here.
And the last pages with the whole family as I know for my mom it's more about the KIDS than it is about John and I. I used distress crackle paint in rock candy on the three squares on the right hand side, hard to see in the photo but adds a bit of texture to the page.

Oh and the album is from Basic Grey, I made one a few months ago with the same album for a friend of mine and just love it!

I need a scrapping breather.. lol

2010-03-29T23:11:00.001-07:00

After spending the last few days glued to this project - and this project almost literally glued to my kitchen table I am finally done! At midnight no less! I love this mini SO much that I think I will have a hard time giving it to my mom.. As much as I love her.. I almost love this more! Figured I would post a "sneak" as I don't have the time or lighting to really take full photos right now.

Scrappy shopping rocks!

2010-03-27T19:11:00.000-07:00

When we got our professional photos done and back I decided I would do mini's for Mother's day, one for each Gramma. So after much online browsing at projects and paper lines I had pretty much decided I would get some Lush. I took the kids today to visit my parents and my dad was nice enough to babysit while my mom and I went over to the LSS. Go figure she had some Lush but not in the blue that I wanted so I ended up checking into other options.

I thought Basic Grey would be a great choice being that I could just buy all the lovely extras that coordinate and go to town but she didn't have any origins and I wasn't sold on any of the other lines.. So more browsing and I found MME Life Stories.. I don't know why I didnt think of it before but it is perfect and my table is already covered in paper and random other things. I haven't even printed photos yet but have done the cover for my first album and am in love!

Can't help but love it when things just fall in to place like that!

Aren't they so cute? Ahhhh perfection, Im going to make some happy Gramma's this year!

Last minute scrapping - MME Challenge #9

2010-03-18T17:05:00.000-07:00

I finished my school work at about 3 this afternoon and was killing some time before having to pick up the kids at daycare when I realized I hadn't done this month's challenge for MME. I got right down to business and even DH made fun of me when he called and asked what the weird noise was (distressing lol). Anyway this is what I came up with!

Frosty the snowman.

2010-03-16T22:01:00.001-07:00

Ill be the first to admit this.. my photo taking skills suck right now but it's late and Im sure that if I don't get it done now I might never being that DH is at the hospital with his father and Im playing "single mom" for who knows how long.

Anyway.. this is for ScrapFIT's WO #16 as well as Scrap Your Crap.

For ScrapFIT I had to use 4 circles, multiple fonts, distressing and 2 photos.. as for Scrap your crap it was a 20/10 challenge.. so I have 20 uhh.. letters? (did I mention its late- oh god! lol) and 10 buttons. Im glad for the buttons cuz seriously I have NO winter type embellishments and this LO is looking sad enough as is.. ahh well.

Today.. I am happy

2010-03-14T15:13:00.000-07:00

This is for ScrapFIT's workout #15 "A day in my life". I based this on sketch 94 from Creative Scrappers and used some lovely MME Ooh La La.

Journalling reads - "is just another day. Each one is different yet they all seem to be the same. Cameron is up at seven, then Grace shortly after. We have breakfast, watch some cartoons and play. Sometimes we go to playgroup or the kids go to daycare and I do school work or sometimes go to work. There are days when the kids drive me crazy and days that I love every minute of it. Most days I obsess over what I'm eating because I am scared I will get fat again. Regardless of what each day is like, I love them all and know that days like these won't last for long."

Yummy Cupcakes!

2010-03-13T20:18:00.001-08:00

This is based off of the Sketchy Thursdays weekly sketch using my lovely LPS February kit - It's BG Sugar Rush if anyone is curious. I also played along with Aphra and the Paper Poppy Kit Co's Thrifty Thursday challenge - to alter alphas. I misted up my "birthday" letters with some homemade spray and then rubbed it for a smoother look as the ink was just sitting on them, I like how they turned out (they were pink to start).

Journalling reads "For Grace's birthday, Cameron and I made these yummy cupcakes. Cameron thought they were too girly, so he decorated one with dinosaurs for himself!"

Some MME love right here

2010-03-03T14:58:00.000-08:00

I ordered MME Ooh La La a few weeks ago and it came in on Monday.. Well I promptly got to work and created this lovely page of my son blowing dandelions at the lake this summer. I can't get over how long the stitching took me but I am so happy with the results! This is my page for the LPS "scrap bachelor" competition this week, there are five of us left and three will be eliminated on Sunday. Fingers crossed that I get to stay for another week!

Prima has a secret...

2010-02-26T19:47:00.000-08:00

Prima has something really big coming our way…. but they can’t reveal it just yet! There is a fabulous prize basket worth $100 up for grabs while we wait for the news! Check out the Prima site for your chance to win!

Another Sketchy Thursdays!

2010-02-25T19:26:00.000-08:00

Supplies - Bo Bunny Kitchen spice, Dream Street "Sam", Bazzil cardstock, Bazzil brads, AC Thickers, Making Memories alpha's, Bo bunny silk flowers and stickers, button is basic grey and ribbon is unknown from my stash.

This is based off of the sketch for the week at Sketchy Thursdays, Im not sure Ive ever completed a sketch ON a Thursday which is kind of cool but I knew I wanted to scrap this photo with these papers so it worked out pretty well when I saw the sketch this morning :)

Some Farm Fresh goodness!

2010-02-23T16:54:00.000-08:00

I am in LOVE with this line from October Afternoon, I got it in my kit from Life Preservers last month and still have tons of paper left even after making two LOs and six cards! I have to earn myself six "points" this week at LPS for "The Scrap Bachelor" contest and have been busy busy making cards (I get 1/2 point for each one). Only three more cards and Ill be done for the week so Ill probably be posting more in the near future!

Mojo Monday - 2 Cards

2010-02-23T16:50:00.001-08:00

Both of these were based off of this week's "square" sketch at Mojo Monday.

Other random projects Ive been working on..

2010-02-16T08:11:00.001-08:00

This card is one of the projects for "The Scrap Bachelor" at Life Preservers Scrapbook Club this week - we've been divided into two groups and one entire group will be eliminated this week - hopefully not mine!

Another LPS challenge - This was a one hour sketch challenge, I was pretty happy with how it turned out, probably helps that it's one of my favourite pictures of Cameron as a baby :)

Yet another LPS Challenge - This one was to scrap valentine colors (pink/red) with your eye color.

This one was another 1hr sketch challenge at LPS, I will probably add some journalling to this at some point but who knows when ;)

Love Grows - MME Challenge #8

2010-02-14T16:04:00.001-08:00

This LO was really a pain for me, I LOVE these papers (whats not to love about MME) but I couldn't find the *right* photos.. and obviously without photos things don't work well. After having the base for this sit on my table for a few days I finally decided and have been working away at this all day. I am quite happy with the result and enjoyed making my first "handmade" flower and stepped out of my regular comfort zone by doing some "doodling".

Brand spankin new - Sketchy Thursdays & Mission Create

2010-02-07T22:15:00.001-08:00

My son just after bringing him home from the hospital, hard to believe that was over four years ago - Used Sketchy Thursdays sketch for the week and Mission 0010 (cardboard, turquoise and at least 5 hearts).

I want my SONGS!

2010-02-02T22:24:00.000-08:00

Another challenge for "The Scrap Bachelor" at Life Preservers Scrapbook Club, this one was to be about music in our lives and well.. EVERY night I get to sing the same three songs to this little guy so I figured this was more than scrap worthy considering its the main music in my life every day lol. Based this on the lovely sketch for the week at The Scrappiest (love their sketches!)

It's a special day!

2010-02-01T10:25:00.000-08:00

It's hard to believe that after 18 months of trying to get pregnant, 9 months of being pregnant and 12 months of sweet enjoyment my little girl is one today!! We are so blessed to have her in our lives, she is the sweetest most easy going little girl I have ever met! I just finished decorating some cupcakes with Cameron that we can have later before she opens her gifts!

Yummy!!

Yet another for Sketchy Thursdays

2010-01-30T13:54:00.001-08:00

Once I saw the sketch for the week at Sketchy Thursdays I KNEW what photos I wanted to use but it seems that my page took its own direction after I chose papers and knew I couldnt cut do squares with them.. this is what I ended up with, I like it I think, Im really into bright fun colors right now for some reason.

Oh Happy Day - LPS Scrap Bachelor & Creative Scrappers

2010-01-29T12:31:00.001-08:00

Made this with MME Love me do for LPS's Scrap Bachelor challenge - had to have two photos and use the color blue, easy peasy! And grabbed the sketch (and some inspiration) from Creative Scrappers #86!

Bakers man - Creative scrappers/LPSC

2010-01-21T20:24:00.001-08:00

Combined a sketch from Creative Scrappers and the prompt from Life Preservers Scrapbook Club - The Bachelor Contest (scrap something your family enjoys doing together) and came up with this. I didn't know it until after the fact but I think I love the nook and pantry line from Basic Grey! This is also the first layout I have ever doodled on and it is true that once you start it is hard to stop.. it's nothing major but hey, its still pen on paper!

Painting Pumpkins

2010-01-16T21:58:00.000-08:00

When I saw the challenge on MME Blog I knew what I wanted to do and after all is said and done Im slightly depressed that I don't have much paper left to do anymore pages with but I LOVE the pages I did do with this stuff. Cameron was so funny, I got him to paint this mini pumpkin and he LOST it afterwards because he was so dirty.

Another Scrappy Thursday..

2010-01-16T21:56:00.001-08:00

I don't know what it was about this photo of Cameron decorating our tree last year but I just had to scrap it, I few edits with iphoto and it looked WAY better too (it was super dark before). He got up this morning and commented on how much he liked it hehe, guess I did good!

2010-01-16T21:55:00.001-08:00

The Scrappiest/Mission Create

2010-01-15T22:34:00.000-08:00

First off I need to say, I LOVE how this turned out. I started out planning on scrapping some '08 photos of my son and this is what I ended up with thanks to Mission Create and their color scheme. Once I found these papers I HAD to use them!

Sketch is from The Scrappiest and I did Mission 008 using rub-ons, stitching and the color scheme.

I am excited.. !

2010-01-14T17:43:00.000-08:00

Ive been on my weight loss journey for almost a year now - and that somewhat makes me sad because that means my sweet baby girl will be one soon.. Anyway that is beside the point, I am continually baffled by my scale, I met with the 160's this morning which hasnt happened since 2003! That means my totals are at over 75lbs (not including my pregnancy weight)!!

Im super motivated and can't wait to see if I can meet my goal for the one year mark (which is February 1st)!

Now to get my kids off to bed so I can go find some paper to play with ;)

Yet another for Sketchy Thursdays

2010-01-07T22:34:00.001-08:00

Both of these are based off of the sketch this week at Sketchy Thursdays, Im much more fond of the one of Grace but such is life right? Hopefully I can get some more stuff done tomorrow, I have so many Christmas photos to work on and just no drive to do any of them. Sucks.

Second Chance Challenge - Sketchy Thursdays

2009-12-31T11:32:00.000-08:00

I loved this card sketch over at Sketchy Thursdays so I knew I HAD to do it. Lastnight after FINALLY getting some stuff cleaned up and organized from the holiday chaos I spent some time making this card with the papers I got from scrapbooksteals.com. Can't wait to get in some decent time to scrap my Christmas photos as well, SO much to do!!!

Sketchy Thursdays and a few other projects

2009-12-10T21:22:00.001-08:00

"Bundled up" is my LO for Sketchy Thursdays, Ive wanted to work with this picture since I took it.. then again I want to work with almost every picture I take of my sweet little girl! Still so in love with the bobunny kitchen spice and dream street papers. It was also nice to take a bit of a break from all of the Christmas cards and pages Ive got brewing!

These two were for Simply Scrapping - I was their guest designer for the week so these are both based off of their sketches.

Christmas is coming people and Im excited!! In ONE week I will be free of school for a whole 2.5 weeks and *hopefully* will get lots of scrapbooking done. Ive also got a lot of goodies coming in the mail to play with so that should help motivate me!

Sketchy Thursdays - Second chance challenge

2009-11-30T21:20:00.000-08:00

Not only did this sketch rock but the prize - oh my god! I did a Copic class at the begining of November and am really hoping Santa is nice this year!

Sketchy Thursdays

2009-11-15T17:48:00.000-08:00

This didn't turn out how I envisioned but I do like it, didn't think Id be scrapping these photos either but Im glad I did. John and I spent a couple of summers in Nunavut when we were first together and it really was beautiful but sadly we don't have a whole lot of pictures. Used Bo Bunny Kitchen spice for this and sketch from Sketchy Thursdays.

The Halloween stuff

2009-11-13T21:38:00.000-08:00

I am so thankful that after the week prior to Halloween and us all being sick with the flu (minus the baby) we were well enough to get out for some trick or treating. John stayed home with Grace who only wore her hand me down costume for a matter of about five minutes (while I snapped pictures). As usual it was impossible to get decent pictures of the two kids together and generally I was unimpressed with the Halloween photos as a whole but I am quite happy with how everything looks now that Ive gotten it scrapbooked. Love this paper line as well, good purchase for sure!

What I've been up to..

2009-11-13T21:21:00.000-08:00

Ive been rather bad at posting but Ive been busy with challenges so Ive got to get to posting those so.. here goes!
Loved this card sketch from the Bo Bunny blog so I figured I'd try my hand at their challenge, so here's what I came up with. Check the challenge out on their blog http://bobunny.blogspot.com/

C4C3 - Card challenge

2009-09-20T14:24:00.000-07:00

Another C4C3 challenge, loving these sketches and my son insisted we make a halloween card for his Granny so that's what we did!

Another card challenge

2009-09-15T20:11:00.000-07:00

This one is for Simply Scrapping, really like how it turned out too.

C4C2 - Card challenge

2009-09-14T18:23:00.000-07:00

Just found this card challenge blog and figured Id give it a shot. Here is what I came up with.

Figure I will add sentiment later, hoping one of my cousins has a baby boy. We will find out soon!

Who knew.

2009-08-04T10:19:00.000-07:00

A year ago I was still getting used to the idea of being pregnant, being that it took so long to get to that point I had some trouble getting used to it. It's wierd to think back now to the points before we finally managed to get pregnant and realize how I was trying to shut myself off from the world, I really was very depressed.

In the past six months I cannot get over how much I have changed, Ive lost weight, I go out and I CARE about what I look like. The days of sitting in my pjs (maybe because thats all that fit?) are over! I love being outside and going and DOING things with my kids. I feel bad a bit about this but I attribute all of these changes to Grace. She is the perfect baby and she just melted away all the nastiness I had brewing from the years since Cameron was born.

I just went into work and asked for more shifts so that we can hopefully buy a new house and rent out ours sometime next year. I am hoping to start some courses to get a degree in October (money permitting), I am actually DOING things! I feel like I fell into a black hole after Cameron was born and it just got worse and worse, don't get me wrong I love the kid but I just wasn't in a good place and Grace has made all of that go away.

Another giveaway (in PINK!!)

2009-07-23T13:39:00.000-07:00

Check out Bona's blog here http://keeponscrappin.blogspot.com/2009/07/my-first-pink-blog-candy.html for this awesome PINK giveaway. Who doesn't love pink??

2009-07-23T13:10:00.001-07:00

Another scrap page

2009-07-20T09:19:00.000-07:00

Made with the July kit from JustCre8, lots of Cosmo Cricket Early Bird, Bazzil cardstock and brads.

Journalling reads :

They say that the first birthday is a celebration for the parents making it through the first year. For us that seems very fitting! A lot has changed in the last twelve months, you've grown, learned to crawl, walk and talk (a little) and you have tons of teeth! You have quite the personality, demanding yet oh so loveable and busy, busy busy! Some days it is a chellenge just to get you to sit long enough to eat. We have been through a lot of sleepless or sleep deprived nights but they are all worth it when you give us slobbery baby kisses, hugs and cuddles!

- Mom XOXO

Win $1,000 at TheCuttlebugSpot.com!

2009-07-12T06:59:00.000-07:00

I have just discovered that The Cuttlebug Spot is having a contest - "The Journey to 1,000"! They are trying to reach 1,000 followers by the end of July and need your help. To enter all you have to do is go to their site, sign up as follower and complete a few easy steps and you could win a $1,000 gift certificate to Custom Crops (www.CustomCrops.com)! GO NOW and check it out at www.TheCuttlebugSpot.com

A recent favorite

2009-07-11T18:14:00.001-07:00

I just love how this layout turned out. Did this for a challenge at lets scrap after finding some photos of the hubby on our wedding day that were taken by some close friends. So shows his personality.. lol

I don't post enough.

2009-07-11T09:46:00.001-07:00

Clearly I don't post often and I want to get into the habit of posting more. I'm not sure what all that will consist of but I know I want to start posting some of my scrapbooking stuff. We shall see how things go as Im still trying to figure out this blogging stuff.

Blog Candy!

2009-07-05T08:11:00.000-07:00

Yet another awesome giveaway, I mean WOW.. this is awesome. Check out Nicole's blog here http://pinknickels.blogspot.com/2009/07/blog-candy-alert.html for this giveaway!

Glimmer mist giveaway!

2009-07-03T13:10:00.000-07:00

Glimmer Mist is the same great product with a Fabulous NEW Look!

Check out their website at www.mytatteredangels.com to check it out!

I don't know how people live like this.

2009-05-27T09:59:00.000-07:00

Over six months ago I took my maternity leave. Seemed like a good idea at the time, now six months later I'm not so sure. Canada boasts wonderful parental benefits which my husband and I were gladly going to take advantage of for some much needed family time.
Sadly our much needed family time is now consisting of spending nothing because we are two months behind on bills because I have yet to receive my benefits (which would pay the bills and then some). Now we sit at home and wonder what to cook and what bill to pay this month so we don't get shut off.

Every time I contact EI about my benefits they tell me it will be three more weeks, they cannot speed up the process because it's not fair to the other people who are waiting for EI and sometimes they tell me I do not qualify (we know I do and my employer has sent correct numbers to them two months ago). I am beyond frustrated and really at this point want to lock myself in the bathroom and cry. Tomorrow with lack of other options I will have to go to work and tell them I will pick up shifts because I can't stand waiting with no gauranteed end in sight.
So at this point I feel completely robbed of the time I should be enjoying.. seriously, what did I do to deserve this?

Icing on the cake is that I EBF so.. What do I do for my daughter while I am at work, I have to find 60$ to buy a pump or fork out the cash to feed her formula and enjoy being engorged while Im not home. Seriously beyond frustrated, I don't even want to deal with any of it.

My cat is insane.

2009-05-16T07:58:00.000-07:00

Of all the thoughts I have to possibly blog about, this one just can't escape me. I suppose it doesn't help that my cat (Katie) is currently trying to break into my son's room as he sleeps. Last night I woke to my daughter at 5:30 to be fed (wow an 8+ hr night, not bad!), shortly after that my son came to my bed complaining of nightmares. The nightmare thing is nothing new and I would have been fine with him sleeping in our bed but when he came in the room so did the cat and I couldn't catch her to try to kick her out.

I grabbed Cameron and we went to sleep in his bed because there was NO way he would get back to sleep with the cat trying to play with him and pouncing off the dresser right onto his head (did I mention she was insane?) So I get him in bed and all is well, he is drifting off to sleep and Katie starts trying to break into his room! All we can hear is the handle being jiggled and scratching at the door.. I'm starting to wonder if this is where part of the nightmare issue comes from.

So not only does she try her darnedest to get the door open, sometimes she succeeds. I was in the bathroom lastnight and she was literally dive bombing the door handle from the tall shelf next to the bathroom door. Thankfully I locked the door, my god it's bad enough that I have kids to open the doors on me but now I have to worry about the cat too??

I've only owned two cats in my life, one was antisocial and only wanted to be near us when we were in bed (which was fine, she just cuddled at the foot of the bed) but Katie, wow. Hopefully she grows out of some of this insanity.

Blog Candy Alert x3!!

2009-05-05T08:51:00.000-07:00

Have a few of these to mention..

http://singem1.blogspot.com/2009/05/blog-candy.html This is a fellow Cafemomer and member of simply scrapping, she does beautiful work! Love her!

http://jillofallcrafttradez.blogspot.com/2009/05/blog-candy.html Another Cafemomer and member of simply scrapping. She's got 2 sweet little girls and claims to be a craft-o-holic. She's got some awesome work posted too, definitely a must see.

http://simplyscrapping.blogspot.com/2009/05/blog-candy-giveawayso-yummy.html This site is awesome, I joined the community last month and LOVE it! There are tons of talented ladies there with great ideas and some awesome sketches.

And so it begins

2009-05-04T21:10:00.000-07:00

Another night of exhaustion. Clearly I should be in bed but as normal I am not, there's always time for sleep tomorrow right? Yea we all know that isn't true.

Not sure what all this blog will consist of but for now perhaps a slight introduction. I am Erica, mom to two. Cameron who is three, stubborn, loud, busy and very VERY testing. In all fairness he is a very sweet boy but he certainly wants things his way and when they don't go down the way he wants we are WELL aware. Grace is my other babe, just over three months old and the sweetest thing I've had the pleasure of meeting, she sleeps well, and is just superbly content 90% of the time.

I'm generally a stay at home mom although I will likely be picking up a few short shifts every now and then working in the dietary department of my local hospital. I went to school to be a chef and as much as I love cooking I don't have a whole lot of love for most of the jobs I've had in the industry. Some day Id love to open a little coffee shop/ bakery but who knows if that will ever happen.