It's a Dogs Day Everyday!

At our house the dogs rules roost, there's 4 of them and only two of us! Cozad is the old man and gets up and walks like us anymore these days. Jack is the crazy one! Richard always says that his mom and dad were brother and sister. He's different, but he's so sweet and such a nice dog. Then there's Max and she is soooo daddy's girl! She is a rather large dog and Anthony always says she's a barrel with legs, which isn't nice of him at all!! hehehehe And last but not least is Ms. M&M and she is mama's girl! She's a little stinker some of the time, but she's my little stinker and wouldn't change a thing about her!! She's the baby (think she'll be 4 this year) and wants to play and all the rest of them don't want to be bothered with her. It's funny that the girls only play with each other and the boys only play with each other. M&M tries to play with the boys sometimes, but they don't want anything to do with her. Have never had so many dogs and not sure if that's the way they are or if my dogs are just strange, which wouldn't surprise me at all!!

Below is a picture of Ms. Max sleeping. The chair she's sleeping in is one of those big chair and a halfs. She is probably a little bit bigger, but she's a really pretty dog. She has like 3 layers of hair and all the layers a different colors. Her coat is just beautiful, but she sheds like you wouldn't believe!




This is Jack and M&M taking a nap with dad. Didn't think Richard wanted his picture on the internet of him sleeping, so he got cropped out of this one. It's always hard to see M&M because she's so dark and I can't seem to get any good pictures of her. She is not photogenic at all!! lol Jack on the other hand is black, but he's so photogenic and has such a sweet face!




Couldn't find a picture on the computer of Cozad that wasn't in a layout! He's the oldest of the 4 and he's my boy and dad's. He's the dog that is always under foot and wants to be involved in everything you're doing. When dad is outside doing something, Cozad is always right by his side. When I'm doing laundry or something in the kitchen, he's right there helping. Cozad is around 13 or 14 and is starting to really slow down a lot and getting so white faced!! His face is more than half white anymore. If feel bad sometimes because he's the ball boy and loves to play ball, but with the other 3 in the picture it's just too hard sometimes and he gets run right over since he's the smallest of the 4 and don't want him to get hurt!






I'm doing good, second day in a row!! Am looking for pictures for tomorrow and trying to find some layouts on one of the computers, but think I've deleted most of them. I don't take really good pictures and probably wouldn't have put them on here anyways is why I probably deleted them!

There is a slideshow of the paperbag book I did of the dogs on the bottom of my blog if you're never seen it before! The above pictures of Cozad are from that book!

Talk to you tomorrow hopefully!!

The Face That I Love!!

I found a picture of Anthony at my mom's when I was going through her pictures and it was torn and battered and I was so upset, so I took it. I figure with all the digital stuff out now a days that I could fix it and make it good again!! Well, if you know me you know I have no clue how to do it, but one of these days very soon I'm going to spend one week just learning some of the great programs that are on my computer!! I did scan the picture and haven't done anything else but crop out the ripped parts of it. It was his 3 month picture and now I need to see if I can find a smaller one maybe somewhere, because this was the 8x10 size. They took a lot of different shots that day, but this one was my favorite and that's why it was the 8x10.

This is the picture that makes me smile and the face that I love and miss. He is a fine man now, but these were the times that I miss and cherish still! If they could only stay small forever!! Don't get to see him as often as I'd like, but we talk a few times a week, but I still miss his face, then and now!!

So Glad It's Friday!!

I'm still no better at blogging, but still trying to get better at doing it more often. Have been working on pictures, but I think my Photoshop Elements is acting up. I've been trying to do some things to my pictures and it's just not working out!! I've used tutorials and did exactly what it said to do, but still no go!! I have been so frustrated with it, but hoping that when I see Sara tomorrow she can help me and I'll know if it's my Photoshop or me!! lol

Going to visit my mom, Anthony and Sara this weekend. Anthony is leaving for Burning Man on the 22nd and I want to see him before he leaves, plus we have some goodies we're taking him.

Nothing really new here. Did get sick again and so tired of being sick it's really pissing me off!! Finally feel good again and haven't been overdoing it just in case this bug comes back!

Setting up my Etsy store and did pick a name finally!! Hopefully it will have stuff on it this week when I get Photoshop to work or I figure it out.

I'm taking my new ITouch with me this weekend also and Anthony is going to download some music for me!! I have a lot of music, but I have cassette tapes and albums!! lol I do have cd's, but he has so much more than me and he knows who I like and what songs. Anthony has more music than anyone I know, it's amazing how much he has!! We used to like exactly the same music, but he's branched out in more directions than me and it's not all the same anymore.

When I get the Photoshop issues worked out I'll be posting some pictures and projects that I've been working on.

So I'll talk to you again real soon!!

I'm In Love!!

HaHa! Made you look. I'm in love with my almost new ITouch!! I just got it on Saturday and don't know what I did before I got it. A friend on Plurk was talking about selling it because she wanted a different one and I got a great deal! Thank you Andie!! lol Now all I do is look for music to put on it and nag Anthony to death, because I have no idea who sings what or what the name of the songs I like are. Good think he loves me or he'd probably kill me, but that's what happens when you're into music as much as he is. He knows what music I like and so he's going to make a cd because he has everything. Bet he misses Tower Records for that reason, he could get anything there and that was one of the perks I bet he misses.

I'm still not working and currently still working on stuff for my etsy store. I have such a mess in my craft room that it's taking me days to clean it up. I've been looking for some patterns I had and have everything out of a couple cabinets and spread out all over the room. No, I haven't found what I was looking for yet, but did find some things that I forgot about, so it's not a total waste of time. Can't wait to have everything ready and up and going. I think I finally picked out a name for the store, but want to make sure I can get it before I give it out. My same Plurk friend Andie is going to make me a watermark for the photos that I put on there and can't wait to see what she comes up with!!

Speaking of Plurk, if you haven't heard of it, it's www.Plurk.com and I'm of course susiescrapper on there. I'm pretty much susiescrapper everywhere. Plurk is basically a social network site and it's tons of fun. I've met some great people on there and we all share the same interests and just basically plurk about what we're doing and sharing things we're currently working on. I have friends all over the world and hope to meet a few of them one day!! I do have a few that are fairly local too and have a better chance of meeting one of them. Most of my friends are into crafts, scrapbooking, nascar and animals. You start off with a few friends from other sites and then you kind of pick up their friends and so on and so on! It's really fun, you should go over and check it out. Twitter is kind of the same, but not as social, it's www.Twitter.com and I'm susiescrapper over there too.

Have lots still to do today, but just wanted to share my new toy with you all and my new home! lol Hope to see you there!!

Talk to you later!

I'm So Bad At Blogging!!

I thought I would get better at blogging, but I've just gotten worse! I was trying to blog every other day, but that didn't work out, so I was doing once a week. We all see how that's worked out! lol I'm going to try really hard to do it every other day, but we'll see.

Have had a very busy couple of weeks. Anthony and Richard both had birthdays, Anthony on the 20th and Richard on the 24th. We had a party in Galt for them on the 19th and it was a lot of fun. We made the usual pizza and italian cream cake, both turned out great! I love the pizza that we make with the endive, but Richard wanted meat on his, so I made him a combination. Had a nice visit with everyone and saw a few people I hadn't seen in a while.

This past week Richard was on vacation and we had such a nice time. We didn't do much at the beginning of the week, but on Thursday we met a couple of my cousins at a 1000 Trails campground. We ended up having a wonderful time. It had been so long since I had seen them and we had a great visit. Just as we were leaving there as a deer in their campsite and she let me feed her some crackers. I've never been that close to a deer and it was such a treat!! She wouldn't let me get too close, but we were within a few feet of one another. Tried to get closer, but if I took a step forward, she would take a step back. I didn't want to scare her off, so I stopped trying to get any closer.

Saturday I got to take a trip to Boomtown! Sara and Adam were heading to Cabelas and invited Richard and I to go along. Sara and I headed to Boomtown and Richard and Adam went to Cabelas. Neither of us won any money, but we had a good time. On the way home we stopped and ate lunch a cute little bbq place in Truckee. I love it when people go to Cabelas and invite us!! lol I hate it that I love to gamble, good thing we don't do it too often though.

This week I'm hoping to get so much done craft wise. Got everything together to start making stuff for my Etsy store and even got the examples ready. My craftroom is a total wreck though since I couldn't find the books that I was looking for. Still didn't find the books and 2 cabinets are emptied all over the place. Need to put everything away tomorrow and hopefully the books will show up and maybe I just missed them. Fingers crossed on that one!

Will hopefully be back tomorrow or Tuesday. Been trying to fix some photos that I want to put on here, but haven't figured it all out yet. I'm still not any better with PhotoShop, but still trying my hardest! It's not easy being so computer challenged.

Talk to you soon!!

Great Saturday!

We have had a great day today! We first went to breakfast at our favorite restaurant (Granite Rock) and then went shopping. I finally got Richard to take me to Trader Joe's and had fun shopping there. We also hit the Ace Hardware store, because that's the only place I knew that carried the Webster Duster. Found a few $1 items there, which was good. The dogs got tennis balls, but they're pretty much gone now and pieces of ball insides are all over the floor! Then we hit the Dollar Tree, which was next door to Ace. Had a good time in there also and of course found a few treasures. lol I pretty much wore Richard out at that point, so we just headed back home.

It's been a while since we've had such a nice day though. We talked about a lot of things and he even encouraged me to start the Etsy store! I'm glad he's good with it and thinks that I can actually make some money at it. I told him all my ideas and he's been telling me what he's liked most that I've made over the 15 years since we've been together. So tomorrow we're going to get all my hidden treasures out of the garage and shed to get me going. I'm very excited now and feel very confident that maybe I'll be able to sell some stuff!

I did take some pictures of what I've made that I still have, but they came out really dark and not very good at all. I'll try again on Monday when I'm alone and can just spread everything all over the house! lol

So the rest of the weekend I'll be clearing some space in my craft room for non-scrapbooking stuff! I will be leaving my scrapbooking stuff out, because I'm still planning on working on what I have going already and maybe even selling it!!

So I'll probably be back on Monday with pictures and maybe even a link to my new Etsy Store!!

Talk to you soon!

Thursday Already!!

I wish time would stand still for a while so I can catch up. It seems to just fly by and I wonder where it's all going and why it's going so fast!!

The 4th of July was wonderful!! We had the yearly neighborhood bbq and of course the traditional water fight! We didn't do the balloon launcher this year and people were disappointed, but we'll work on it for next year! They did have the water balloon sling-shot across the street though and that sucker sure shoots those balloons far! Richard and I managed to stay dry and out of the water. There was a lot of people getting thrown in the pools, but we stayed out of sight this year! All the food was great and the neighbors were there. Everyone had bought fireworks and it seemed to take hours to go through them. Of course all my dogs were scared to death, but we took M&M with us for a while and she really good. She got lots of pets from the kids, but hated all the noise the fireworks made.

It's been so hot and smokey here that I haven't been doing much. My craft room is an oven, so have been staying out of there! Tried to move some things in the living room to work on, but with all the dogs it was impossible. Way too many noses poking around and hate snarf on my paper!

Decided today was the day to try and scan pictures and take some pictures. Hope it works out!! lol For some reason I hate scanning stuff and I have a wonderful scanner!!

It also looks like I'll be off work all month!! I can't believe work has been so slow this year. I need to find something else to do to make money. I think I've decided to open an Etsy store online at www.etsy.com. I'm pretty sure that's the address. It's a website where you have your own store, but everything has to be handcrafted. I've been working on some stuff, but won't tell what!! lol Don't want anyone to steal my idea that took me so long to come up with. Hopefully it'll work out and people will buy my wares! Will keep you up to date and when I finally open the store will post the address for everyone to check out.

Hopefully I'll be back later to post some pictures! If not today, then for sure tomorrow.

Talk to you late!!