A visit to the Clearwater Marine Aquarium.

http://www.cmaquarium.org/cms/

I'm here!

I have had visitors at my home for the last 3.5 weeks! First, friends of my boarder were here for about a week... luckily I got along great with them, and showed them the sights... but it was tiring since I was also still working midnight shift!

When they left on a Friday, the following Monday Jamie, and her babies Alli and Jack (ages 4 and 6) arrived for a week! I was so happy to see my surrogate daughter and grandbabies! I worked the first couple of days in the week, but then took off to enjoy my time with them... pictures to follow! When Jamie left, 4 days later her sister Katie and HER 2 babes (ages 3 and 5) came down from Thursday through Sunday night! WHEW! Talk about wearing out an old woman!!! I loved every minute of it though!

This weekend, however, I am staying home and chillin' and SCRAPPING!!!!!! I have had the new Cosmo Cricket line sitting on my desk begging to be played with...and also a kit I bought that I want to work on from this very talented designer... http://withthislifeiwilllive.blogspot.com/
I have also decided to go to CHA...so Jeannie Towle and I will be having an adventure! Yeah!

Well, I've just gotten home from work, so it's time to go to bed... I hope it's rainy today for a good days sleep!

Here's some photos of the kids' visits!

Jack and Alli

Gracie

Jack and Alli skinnydippin'!

Jack and Alli...they just about had their goggles on before they were out of bed!
Gracie Bug ... Honeymoon Island Beach
Jamie...finally getting a chance to scrap! Jack "schwimmin' "
Jack...watchin' the 'toons... what a cutie patootie!

Gracie Bug and Aiden ... all smiles in the pool!

Jack and Alli at Clearwater Beach

Rain, Rain go away!

The kids were sleepin' so the cats were having a little respite!


Boo (on the right) "how I spent my summer vacation"!

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THIS IS OCTOBER AFTERNOON'S NEW LINE ..."ROAD TRIP"

It makes me think of when I was a kid, and mom and dad would pile all 5 kids into the VW camper van (red and white) with a pop-up camper top, and we would take a ROAD TRIP vacation!!!!
I LOVE IT!

MY BABIES ARE COMING FOR A VISIT

I am so excited for two reasons...

... Jamie and the kids are coming for a visit for a whole week! We'll even have time to scrap!

...and I'm thinking, since I've been on the Ten Second Studio site, watching videos and learning cool stuff...that maybe I'll break out the TSS stuff and we'll learn some new techniques while she's here... I've been dying to use the stuff...bought it right before the "the incident" ... and haven't really had the umph to use it....

so.... this week is the week...

So, thanks to Megan and Cheryl of TSS for inspiring me... Cheryl for helping me get over my "feeling sorry for myself" mode.... Megan for confirming that I'm not the only one out there that drives people crazy with my antics.

...and and thanks for a chance to win a weekend at the retreat!!! BRA-FREE weekend~ which for me is every weekend!!

Oh...and here's what happens when you pass out after working too many hours all week and forget to spit out your gum.....

Just Doing My Part To Save the Planet...(um... forget about the wood used on the mounts, tho..ok?!)

Remember when I said I was putting all of my wood-mounted stamps into the microwave? Each for about 10-12 seconds, just to loosen the adhesive, so that I could remove the rubber from the wood? Seriously? Really? What was I thinking?! Did I NOT remember the SHEER NUMBER of rubber stamps that I owned (and this is AFTER I sold ALOT at my pre-moving sale!)?

That's the first load!

SOLAR POWER, BABY!

So after I spent ALL DAY on this project, my trash bins looked like this:

Now my next task is putting the rubber to cling vinyl.

REORGANIZING. REMOUNTING.

TODAY... I ordered cling vinyl to remount all of my rubber stamps. My whole-day project will now be removing all of the rubber stamps from their wood mounts. I "googled" the best way to do this, and violia, found out that if you zap the stamp in the microwave for about 10-12 seconds, the glue loosens and the stamp and foam come right off! I LOVE GOOGLE.
So TODAY my quest for an organized studio continues.... and I'm actually making progress!

TONIGHT .... dinner with friends.

I CAVED...

I readily admit it. There's no denying it. I'm an addict. I fell off the wagon. I used money that I was saving to buy grass plugs for my yard....

With that said..... LOOK AT THIS STUFF!!!! IT'S GORGEOUS!!!! I CAN'T WAIT TO GET MY HANDS ON IT..ROLL IN IT...CUT IT, BEND IT, FOLD IT, SCRAP IT.

See? You can't blame me! And the CHIPBOARD! OH THE CHIPBOARD!

** Sigh ..... **

Well...I'm glad I got that out in the open. Now I'm going to go sit on the front porch for the next few days and wait for my package to arrive!