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!!
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Saturday, July 12, 2008
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!
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, July 10, 2008
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!!
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!!
Monday, June 30, 2008
It's Monday Again!
Happy Monday!! I guess I just need to admit that I'm probably not going to post more than once a week! I've tried to do better, but don't think it's going to happy sadly enough.
Had a very busy and wonderful weekend this past weekend. We rarely have plans to do anything, but this weekend was a busy one. First we went to Galt to visit my mom and Anthony. Had a really nice visit with both of them for a short period of time. Then went down the street to see my brother for his birthday, which was yesterday, the 29th. We had stopped on the way and bought a peach pie and some ice cream to celebrate his birthday since we weren't going to be there on his actual birthday. Visited with them for a couple of hours and then went back to my moms for a while longer. Once we left there we had a graduation party to go to and didn't get home until around 10:30. It was a fun, but long day.
While I was at my mom's I decided I wanted to go through all of her old pictures to see if I could find any of myself for the explosion box that I finished except for pictures. I decided I wanted to make it about me through the years, but didn't have any pictures of myself!! OMG!! I hate having my picture taken, that's why I have none. Well, I had such a good time going through her 2 boxes of pictures and was pulling out pictures that I wanted to take and make copies of. I have had only 1 picture of myself that I loved and hadn't been able to find it in years. Well guess what, I found it!! The picture is probably at least 20 years old, but it's actually a picture of me that I like. I do not photograph well at all and for some reason who ever took this picture didn't make me look totally stupid! Maybe because it's in black and white, I don't know, but was happy that I found it. It's not in the best shape though, kind of wrinkled and a tad beat up, but I didn't care. lol
Here is the picture, but like I said, it's at least 20 years old. I had it take where I used to work when I was running for the employees club and it was hanging on the wall with all the other people that were running. Yes, I did win!! lol
Sunday was kind of a lazy day. I'm not used to being outside so much and my asthma really kicked up. I'm better today, but still a little on the lazy side! lol Slept through 90% of the race and woke up to it being called for rain. Richard's driver did luck out and was in 1st place when it was red flagged, so he won the race!! Sadler came in 5th and I was happy with that!
Not much going on this week. Not working so far, but have been doing all kinds of stuff around the house. Getting ready for a garage sale, so going through and trying to get rid of some stuff. Need to tackle the garage, but don't have that kind of energy! It's going to take a couple days to do that job!!
Hope you have a great week and I'll try to post later in the week with more of my picture treasures that I'm scanning.
Talk to you soon!!
Had a very busy and wonderful weekend this past weekend. We rarely have plans to do anything, but this weekend was a busy one. First we went to Galt to visit my mom and Anthony. Had a really nice visit with both of them for a short period of time. Then went down the street to see my brother for his birthday, which was yesterday, the 29th. We had stopped on the way and bought a peach pie and some ice cream to celebrate his birthday since we weren't going to be there on his actual birthday. Visited with them for a couple of hours and then went back to my moms for a while longer. Once we left there we had a graduation party to go to and didn't get home until around 10:30. It was a fun, but long day.
While I was at my mom's I decided I wanted to go through all of her old pictures to see if I could find any of myself for the explosion box that I finished except for pictures. I decided I wanted to make it about me through the years, but didn't have any pictures of myself!! OMG!! I hate having my picture taken, that's why I have none. Well, I had such a good time going through her 2 boxes of pictures and was pulling out pictures that I wanted to take and make copies of. I have had only 1 picture of myself that I loved and hadn't been able to find it in years. Well guess what, I found it!! The picture is probably at least 20 years old, but it's actually a picture of me that I like. I do not photograph well at all and for some reason who ever took this picture didn't make me look totally stupid! Maybe because it's in black and white, I don't know, but was happy that I found it. It's not in the best shape though, kind of wrinkled and a tad beat up, but I didn't care. lol
Here is the picture, but like I said, it's at least 20 years old. I had it take where I used to work when I was running for the employees club and it was hanging on the wall with all the other people that were running. Yes, I did win!! lol
Sunday was kind of a lazy day. I'm not used to being outside so much and my asthma really kicked up. I'm better today, but still a little on the lazy side! lol Slept through 90% of the race and woke up to it being called for rain. Richard's driver did luck out and was in 1st place when it was red flagged, so he won the race!! Sadler came in 5th and I was happy with that!
Not much going on this week. Not working so far, but have been doing all kinds of stuff around the house. Getting ready for a garage sale, so going through and trying to get rid of some stuff. Need to tackle the garage, but don't have that kind of energy! It's going to take a couple days to do that job!!
Hope you have a great week and I'll try to post later in the week with more of my picture treasures that I'm scanning.
Talk to you soon!!
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
A Smokey Tuesday!!
It has been so smokey around here with all the fires all around us, it's hard to see the sun. You can't smell the smoke, but you can see it in the air and it makes the day look muggy and kind of overcast. To bad we didn't get much rain with the lightening strikes that caused all the fires!!
I haven't been working this week, but have been cleaning my behind off!! Have a feeling work is going to be sparser than normal for a while, so I'm getting things done around the house. I'm also going to be making some items to sell on Etsy.com and when I'm ready I'll let everyone know. I even figured out what I'm going to make and sell there, which is going to surprise everyone!! It's not even scrapbook related.
Since I've not been working I've been spending too much time thinking, which is never good!! It's pretty much been happy thoughts, but sometimes they turn into sad ones too.
So I just wanted to share a picture of 2 of my favorite people! I took the picture off the wall and scanned it, because it's my favorite picture and they're together. The lighting sucks, but I don't care. This was taken a few years ago when they went out to dinner with a bunch of friends and it surprised me when I saw this picture and had to have it.
These are our kids, Sara and Anthony. I miss them both since they're both grown and gone from home. Anthony now is living in San Francisco and is now working at a job he seems to love. Sara is in Walnut Creek now and also loves her job at ERM. I am so proud of both of them and the wonderful adults that they have become. I sometimes forget to tell them that and want to make sure they know it. I love them both very much and wouldn't trade or change them for the world!!
Thanks for reading and talk to you soon!!
I haven't been working this week, but have been cleaning my behind off!! Have a feeling work is going to be sparser than normal for a while, so I'm getting things done around the house. I'm also going to be making some items to sell on Etsy.com and when I'm ready I'll let everyone know. I even figured out what I'm going to make and sell there, which is going to surprise everyone!! It's not even scrapbook related.
Since I've not been working I've been spending too much time thinking, which is never good!! It's pretty much been happy thoughts, but sometimes they turn into sad ones too.
So I just wanted to share a picture of 2 of my favorite people! I took the picture off the wall and scanned it, because it's my favorite picture and they're together. The lighting sucks, but I don't care. This was taken a few years ago when they went out to dinner with a bunch of friends and it surprised me when I saw this picture and had to have it.
These are our kids, Sara and Anthony. I miss them both since they're both grown and gone from home. Anthony now is living in San Francisco and is now working at a job he seems to love. Sara is in Walnut Creek now and also loves her job at ERM. I am so proud of both of them and the wonderful adults that they have become. I sometimes forget to tell them that and want to make sure they know it. I love them both very much and wouldn't trade or change them for the world!!
Thanks for reading and talk to you soon!!
Friday, June 20, 2008
I Know, It's Been A Week
I thought I was getting better, but here it is and it's been a week since I last posted. I have nothing to blame it on other than procrastination (and maybe www.plurk.com ) I can't believe how addicting it is and I've made some wonderful friends there. If you've heard of Twitter, it's basically the same idea, just so much better! If you decide to check it out, as usual I'm SusieScrapper. I can't think of anywhere that I'm not though, so keep your eyes open!! lol
Am back to work, but it's been slow. Have done some parole hearings, but this week I've been doing internal affair investigation work, which is kind of interesting. I prefer the parole hearings, but think it's going to be slow for a while and glad I've been getting other work instead. I'm easy and typing is typing!!
As for the race this weekend at Infineon, we did get tickets and really good ones for Sunday, but are giving them to Sara. We tried to get tickets for Saturday, but they didn't have any and it's too much for us to go on Sunday. Richard's hours are such that we always have to leave pretty much after the race starts, so it's dumb to go. I do enjoy walking around and checking everything out though and that's why we tried to get Saturday tickets instead. Sara and Adam will enjoy the tickets, so it's not a waste.
I got all my work done last night and am planning on spending the whole weekend scrapbooking! I found a great sale last weekend at the Green Tangerine in Rocklin and Joanne's was having a sale this week and found so many treasures!! lol I didn't need a thing and that's what made it fun I guess. So I'm hoping to have time to actually get some stuff done.
Am thinking about making a bunch of stuff and putting it up on Etsy.com. Have been hearing so much about it and some people actually do well. It's a site that you can sell only handmade items on and there is no bidding, just selling and I like that much better than Ebay and the whole bidding thing. So we'll see what I come up with this weekend and wish me luck!!
Hope you all have a great weekend and Talk to you soon!!
Am back to work, but it's been slow. Have done some parole hearings, but this week I've been doing internal affair investigation work, which is kind of interesting. I prefer the parole hearings, but think it's going to be slow for a while and glad I've been getting other work instead. I'm easy and typing is typing!!
As for the race this weekend at Infineon, we did get tickets and really good ones for Sunday, but are giving them to Sara. We tried to get tickets for Saturday, but they didn't have any and it's too much for us to go on Sunday. Richard's hours are such that we always have to leave pretty much after the race starts, so it's dumb to go. I do enjoy walking around and checking everything out though and that's why we tried to get Saturday tickets instead. Sara and Adam will enjoy the tickets, so it's not a waste.
I got all my work done last night and am planning on spending the whole weekend scrapbooking! I found a great sale last weekend at the Green Tangerine in Rocklin and Joanne's was having a sale this week and found so many treasures!! lol I didn't need a thing and that's what made it fun I guess. So I'm hoping to have time to actually get some stuff done.
Am thinking about making a bunch of stuff and putting it up on Etsy.com. Have been hearing so much about it and some people actually do well. It's a site that you can sell only handmade items on and there is no bidding, just selling and I like that much better than Ebay and the whole bidding thing. So we'll see what I come up with this weekend and wish me luck!!
Hope you all have a great weekend and Talk to you soon!!
Friday, June 13, 2008
Happy Friday the 13th!!
I can't believe I haven't posted in a week, thought I was getting better. NOT!!
Been working some this week, but have been playing more I think. I've gotten back into the groove of scrapbooking, but that's all I want to do. I did have to clean up before I could start doing anything, but it's worth it.
I've been on www.cr8everydaycrafts.com a lot lately and just love it. It's not just scrapbooking, it's all crafts, which I love about it. Most of the sites that I go to are strictly scrapbooking, but cr8everydaycrafts is also knitting, sewing, crocheting, and so much more! I'm excited about it and it's pretty new, so I'm like on the ground floor so to speak. There are also quite a few men and I love that it's not just all woman, that the men get into crafts also.
I did do a new slideshow for my blog on the website and thought I would put it here also (at the bottom, couldn't put it in the post for some reason). It's mainly a few things that I've made, some things that I'm currently working on, a few of my favorite afghans, and my boxes and jars in my scrap/craft room. I always call it my scraproom, but I do all kinds of crafts, not just scrapbooking. I have 'stuff' everywhere, trust me.
So hope you're all having a great Friday the 13th and also have a great weekend!
Been working some this week, but have been playing more I think. I've gotten back into the groove of scrapbooking, but that's all I want to do. I did have to clean up before I could start doing anything, but it's worth it.
I've been on www.cr8everydaycrafts.com a lot lately and just love it. It's not just scrapbooking, it's all crafts, which I love about it. Most of the sites that I go to are strictly scrapbooking, but cr8everydaycrafts is also knitting, sewing, crocheting, and so much more! I'm excited about it and it's pretty new, so I'm like on the ground floor so to speak. There are also quite a few men and I love that it's not just all woman, that the men get into crafts also.
I did do a new slideshow for my blog on the website and thought I would put it here also (at the bottom, couldn't put it in the post for some reason). It's mainly a few things that I've made, some things that I'm currently working on, a few of my favorite afghans, and my boxes and jars in my scrap/craft room. I always call it my scraproom, but I do all kinds of crafts, not just scrapbooking. I have 'stuff' everywhere, trust me.
So hope you're all having a great Friday the 13th and also have a great weekend!
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