Claudine, Oui c'est Francais

outside the box

I tried doing a little scrapbooking in a different style then I normally do this weekend. I am more "ali" then "elsie" but I sometimes like the "freestyle" look. So I found a layout by Elsie and scrapjacked it, well it's a first step.... Now I am not about to start doodling all over my layouts, lets not get to crazy now. But I did use buttons, stitched some and even used some of the Heidi Swapp tape that I think I own everyone of, not much of a surprise there though....

And now for the mess surrounding it, which I need to clean up so I can do some real work....

Shut up...

I bought this movie and watched it today! It was so great! It will make you sick, cry and then stand up and cheer. (I sound like a movie poster)

I love the Dixie Chicks and always have, I think burning there cd's is ridiculous and archaic. But we do live in a free country and people can express there freedom of speech.... We'll you can if you are saying what everybody else is. 

You Rock On Natalie!

Circle Journal Elizabeth W's & Samanthas

So I am a late posting Samantha's but I have 2 for the price of 1 for you....

First Elizabeth's theme was the Five Senses... I decided to do it on our family beach house...

Side 1

Side 2

And the just finished and on it's way to Michelle tomorrow.....Samantha's journal. Her theme was "Brought to you by the letter C" I wanted to do something really crazy like Corn or Cantaloupe but instead I went with Collect, which I do a lot of collecting so it wasn't too hard. The picture on the right opens to reveal more pictures and then the flap folds down for one more picture..... I seem to be into movement these days...

Well that's it for now, it's time for Stage 2 of the Tour of California.... Andrea I am sure would love me to post some daily updates of the Discovery channel boys, but I don't have time....I am sure you are all broken hearted as well.....

Valentine's Day

Hope you all had a good Valentine's Day....I sure did....

John surprised me with flowers. We have had some pretty bad luck with flowers that he has ordered before they have either come early, late or not at all. But this year he took matters into his own hands by doing them himself..... now my husband isn't know for his craftiness but he did a really good job.

He saw in the paper a few days ago that a local florist was doing classes on making a bouquet on Valentine's day so he signed up. I knew nothing about any of it until after the fact.... There were 4 other guys with him and they got to select all of their own flowers and put them together, with the help of the florist. He even instructed one guy when he tried to pick out carnations. John told him that you never give a girl carnations especially after seeing Sex and the City....I have taught him well!

here they are:

And for dinner I made steak with Gorgonzola sauce, homemade Pomme Frites and creamed spinach.... the picture isn't very good but it was nummy

  Hope you all had a good Valentine's day.....

12 of 12 February

It's month number two for me for being a part of the 12 of 12 started by Chad Darnell. It's so much fun to be a part of it and to look at everybody that participates sites from all over the world. You can see all of them here .

7:45am: I had to work on Saturday so I took today off so I got to sleep in. Normally I have to make a stop at Starbucks, but I really didn't want to have to leave the house so a visit to the Cuisinart. Why is it so slow. What do they say? The watch pot never boils. I better make a English muffin, then the coffee will be done

10:15am: time for The View. I never watched this show before Rosie was on it, but now that she is I tivo it everyday. I love Rosie and love that she speaks out for what she believes in. And Elisabeth drives me nuts and I love it when Joy and Rosie get into it with her on her views of politics, etc. And a bonus is that I can't stand Donald Trump, ever since he was mean to Martha so I side with Rosie.

11:30am How cute are my new shoes. Nike Mary Janes.... thanks Mom. Although they did give me a blister but like Grandma says "suffer for beauty"

12:10 Pretty red tulips. I love tulips, I am so excited when I see them for the first time at the store. My favorite are the white ones. Every other year we make a visit to the Woodburn tulip festival, acres and acres of tulips in every single color

1:16pm Yippeee the mail is here and it is a huge package day! I love getting packages in the mail, I should just send empty boxes to myself just for the excitement of getting them. It would probably be cheaper....

1:45pm here is the bounty of the packages. I get 4 different scrapbook kits each month so 2 of them came today.... that means two more.... yipee more packages

2:30pm John making brownies, he wouldn't let me lick the spatula though.... meany

2:45pm Because I am nuts, I decided to reorganize my scrapbook paint. Ever since I worked in retail I have to colorize everything. But the colors are pretty

3:15 Time to check the mail and see if there are any other exciting prizes. The new Food & Wine, I'll add that to the other pile of magazines I still haven't looked at

5:15pm Curry Chicken Salad, the way my grandma makes it. lots of toasted almonds. So good! And even better tomorrow

5:45pm getting dark out, but more importantly if you saw last months pictures there was a lot more trees than the one we have left. We lost 4 back in December during a big wind storm because of some clear cutting they did and 3 days ago they took 10 more down.

   

6:15pm working on the circle journal. It is smaller than I am use to so I am having a creative block.

Bonus picture "Love": How can you not love this little one. I call her Budda when she SITS like this. She really does sit, it is so funny and she will sit like that for 30 minutes.

Shelly's pages

For Shelly's journal her theme was "your favorite photo" wasn't to hard for me, since I have had the same favorite photo forever...... of me and papa with my 3 year old hand in his at the beach.

The "smile baby" tag is tied to the spiral rings but for photo sake I left it as is for the scan.....

It's will be all your Michelle tomorrow.... good thing she is only 2 miles away

Super Sunday

I have my Tennessee hat on (in honor of Payton and Kenny) and it is time for the super Sunday run down....

The staple for any football watching is the chicken wings. As spicy as I can get them without killing John. I really shouldn't be the one to judge the heat factor though. It won't taste spicy to me, but will kill John and his head starts to sweat and then he usually says "feel this, my heads all sweaty" The answer is always "No way you sicko"

Anyway I like making only the drumettes, no actual wings. Through them right into the fryer, no breading or anything else. Meanwhile warm 1 stick of butter on the stove and then stir in 1 large bottle of Frank's hot sauce. Toss the finished drumettes into a bowl and pour in the sauce, as simple as that! And of course serve it with the celery, carrots and you HAVE to use Marie's Blue cheese dressing......

Also I will make the homemade Jalapeno Poppers, courtesy of Martha of course.... You can find that recipe here.  So nummy...

I have a few hours before it starts so I better get to work on the Circle Journal.....