Ok, am posting just for posting's sake.

The weather has taken a turn for the worst. What the???? Snow, driving winds, cold air. This is not spring like. My tulips were coming up for goodness sake? Now what's to become of them? They'd better still be there when this is all said and done.

Anyone know how to deter wrascally wrabbits from eating new spring growth...ie tulips and said new greenery in my garden? I wondered if I placed a bit of doggie doo around them if that would stop them. Someone told me that rabbits fear to tred where doggies do their business. Now how to get a doggie to pee on command. Not sure. Or perhaps mark the x'd spot. Still not sure. Maybe if I strategically placed doggie doos around the garden it might help the 'stop rabbit. don't go there!' program. And it would blend into the colours of the dirt. Am I weird to think that? Maybe.

We're leaving for a week to go to Vegas. I'm worried for my spring greenery.

When a house is quiet.......

And the toddler is NOT sleeping.....

What do you think she's doing?

Yes.....do you think she wants to do what mommy does? I was busy sorting laundry or something like that, upstairs, and Lil' Missy had made her way downstairs to get into some sort of trouble....of course. But then I noticed that the house was awfully quiet. When I went downstairs, this was what I found. She had climbed on the couch, pulled my laptop off of the side table, and sat herself down on the couch with the laptop and was busy pushing buttons. Thinking that she was the greatest thing ever (which of course she is!) Then she pushed the blue shiny button that turns the laptop off. This is what happened next...

She's actually starting to get mad here because the screen has gone blank. Then she started pounding on the keyboard and I had to take the laptop away.

I tried to participate in another My Mind's Eye layout contest. But the layout I made didn't feel inspired enough to send in...so I didn't. Instead I'll post it here because the picture I used is pretty cute. The title says "Sweet like sugar" but the one thing I really dislike about acetate embellishments is that sometimes the colours they use on the acetate do not show up against anything (cardstock) put underneath. And My Mind's Eye does a lot of acetate embellishments unfortuneately. Anyhow.....I'm still plugging away on scrapbooking our Arizona trip we took last year at the end of April. I'm beginning to wonder if I'll get it finished before the end of April this year. I really hope so.............

I've got 2! Count 'em....2! More halloween layouts. I just have to photograph them. So instead I'll show my solution to putting multiple pictures on a 12x12 page. I like this solution as it's quick and easy and gives the ability to just fill the scrapbook with necessary pictures.

So the first picture is one side, and the next picture is the flip side. I had 7 pictures that I didn't feel like devoting layouts too, yet I really wanted them in my scrapbook. So this was my solution. I'm rather proud of myself and I think they turned out great.

Some random thoughts: 1.) I think blogger has a mind of it's own. Kind of sucks. 2.) Yes...I'm ready for spring. 3.) My days fly by way too fast. 4.) Right now I have a thousand projects flipping through my head....and no time to actually accomplish them. 5.) I'm going to work on my masterpieces for submission to Canadian Scrapbooker.....now!

I have a layout to post! Halloween 2009. Ellie was a pink leopard. And a darn cute one. Anyhow....

I have a couple more halloween layouts in the works....but I'm struggling to get them done. The pictures are cute, but the halloween inspiration just isn't there. I also had intended to use a totally different set of scrapbook papers to do these layouts...and it just wasn't speaking to me. So I changed. And found some really old stuff to use instead. Well, that is one of my plans for this year. Start using up the older paper that still appeals to me. Hopefully there will be a couple more pages forthcoming here shortly.

And for those interested in seeing what CHA had to offer this year for new scrappin stuff, check out this link. I found it pretty interesting. And tons of photos...which I like!

http://balzerdesigns.typepad.com/balzer_designs/

New Layout!

But,..... you have to go to the My Mind's Eye blog to see it. Of course it didn't win. But if you go to the album that says Blog challenge 7; three pictures, in that album somewhere you will see my favorite girl. Hint....it was a birthday layout.
I do have a few layouts that I want to post. But I'm trying to choose a few to send into Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine. Of course they won't get published....but I'm sending them anyhow. What I don't send in I will post here in the next couple of days.

Okay....here's the link non-scrapbooking sister!!
http://mymindseye.typepad.com/blog/

Ok, new pictures for the aunties. You asked, you get.
Oh mom! Look what I found!

Wait a second....just a little comment from the peanut gallery here!

What? You talking to me?????

I'm just darn cute. No if's and's or but's.

I just tried to upload some cute pictures on Facebook and failed miserably. A lot of things on FB lately are just not working and it's frustrating. Perhaps I spend too much time there and should just ignore it for awhile. Good thought. So I'm going to post some pics here instead. That way EVERYBODY gets to see them.I bundled little miss up on saturday to take her out and help me shovel the two tonnes of snow that fell in 6 hours. First thing she did was faceplant. Didn't have my camera. So I rescued her instead and wiped the melting snow off her face. After she stopped crying she didn't really want to move, but I think she was quite interested in the white stuff falling from the sky. All I kept hearing was "whoooo, whooo". It was pretty cute. So she finally got up enough courage to walk in her marshmellow suit and she followed me up the sidewalk as I shovelled. She last about 30 minutes outside which was just long enough for me to shovel all the walkways around our house and our neighbors (my random act of kindness for the day). Then it was lunchtime and we don't mess with lunchtime in our house.

Miss E and I took a trip outside today, after supper. It was dark out, but the christmas lights already up in our neighborhood brightened things up. Miss E couldn't stop staring at the lights. We walked up the sidewalk, then back down again, then back up again. We looked at lights, Miss E pointed at lights, then she would talk to herself as she walked back down the sidewalk. I would love to know what she was saying. What does her baby gibberish mean? What is she trying to say? It was so neat, I could tell she loved the christmas lights. When one just stands in the middle of the sidewalk pointing and gibbering away, I would say she loved the chrismas lights.
I know this picture is blurry, but I still kind of like it. And Miss E doesn't stay in one spot long enough to take a good picture anyhow. She's fast!

Birthday Girl

Ellie's birthday is over. It spread out from the last week in october (we celebrated with gramma and auntie B!)All the way to yesterday, which was the 'shared' birthday party with our cute little boy neighbor, baby T!
So she is now offically one year old. Where did that time go?????

Halloween pumpkins!

The house is ready for Halloween. Got decorations up inside and outside the house. And today we completed the required pumpkins. Very exciting. What was even neater was that an Auntie was here to help with the pumpkins!This year the pumpkins are faces. They will look fantastic on my stoop. Pictures coming soon of pumpkins on the stoop of the house decorated for Halloween.

Hee hee! New post! So I think most of the people I scrapbook with know that I'm not much of an actual 'paper crafts' person. I don't like to make knick knacks or albums from paper....I really just prefer to scrapbook memories. I just don't know what to do with those cute little albums and knicker knacks that I would potentially make. They'd probably just pile up in my scraproom and I would be afraid to toss them because 1.) they're so cute 2.) they're made with my cute patterned paper and embellishments 3.) I put lots of effort into them. So I stick to the good old traditional scrapbooking thingy. Anyhow, having said that, I've been reading the My Mind's Eye blog lately and noticing that they do paper challenges over there. They did a 'spooooooky' challenge over there this month and I gave in and gave it a try.

I made a wall hanging that I'm going to hang on my wall for Halloween!! And it's made from paper! I guess you could consider it a knicker knack. But I'll just pack this one up after Halloween is over and then pull it out again next year to once again hang on my wall. BUT. I didn't just make one....I made TWO!! See, the one I submitted to contest won't be shown until Oct.28. Much too long to wait. So I've got this other one that I'm going to post here!

This is a big thing for me. I don't normally make knicker knackers people!!!!!

You'll have to wait until Oct.28 to see the other one. Cackle cackle cackle!!1

Snow. That's really all I've got to say. Snow. It's still snowing out there right now, but apparently we're to get up to +15 or something like that on Saturday. Here is my theory. Late September we got B-lasted with a heat wave. I do believe we made it up to +30 degrees. Abnormal for September, or any September that I've experienced anywhere. So now we're facing the extreme opposite. Some -10 degrees and such (with winds) (the such being snow snow snow...but that snow isn't really accumulating, just a small skiff on the ground). So after this week, we should be able to settle into some regular October weather. I'm hoping for the +5 mark. Nothing extravagant. I would like some nice weather for Halloween. Then come November 1, I'll be expecting the cooler winterness again. So now that I've given my theory on the weather, let's end off with a happy note!!! Scrub scrub people!! Scrub scrub!

Oh yes. And a quick addendum. Go the the 'My Mind's Eye' Blog (just google it) and check under their challenge #3 album. Somewhere in there you'll see Missy Magoo strutting her stuff in a fabulous layout using only my mind's eye product. And now I think I should get free product for mentioning this in my blog.

Woooo! New post! So for the past two weekends I've been trying to get published in Canadian Scrapbooker. I've been denied now for both weekends. So guess I'll just have to live with being published on my own blog. So here is some cuteness people!!!
The two green layouts are a double layout. Not really great pictures of the layouts, but just done on the fly for your viewing pleasure.

Hello? Hello? HELLO?????

Is anybody there????

I've posted a few jolly jumping videos, now I'm posting some stills. I think these are hilarious. So if you need a dose of cuteness, here it is.She' getting pretty good at this jumping thing.

Oh yes. I'm back with yet another jolly jumper video. But how can one resist a baby in a jolly jumper. They're just so cute. She's getting a little more air on this one than the rest. She had quite a session on this particular day. I could almost say the jolly jumping was getting out of hand.

Here is something for all those aunties that cannot access Facebook. I'm only posting this particular video here. And it is a special video. The baby bean has been doing this for the past 40 minutes straight. And getting stuck is odd positions (as she gets hung up on the jungle mat posts). It's kind of comical.

Oooh video!! I tried uploading onto facebook but it either didn't work or else I just wasn't patient enough. Perhaps patience was the issue as I see it's taking forever to upload here too. Anyhow, at least sister B gets to see it now too (non-facebookian). I love the way her leggies move. I like to compare Baby E's legs to a cartoon. You know how in cartoons the body always stands still but the legs are moving like mad. Well this is Baby E in the jolly jumper. It just makes me laugh. And she loves the dogs. She'll smile and laugh at them when she's jumping. Before she really could care less. I guess it must have something to do with her being on their level when she's in the jumper. Anyhow. I really hope this works. Ok, sorry, but you'll have to watch this on your head because I can't get it to right itself! Darn it!

OK, be prepared for some cuteness!!!!!

I love this beanie and I'm glad it still fits her noggin. It's nice and stretchy and just grows with her. Thanks auntie S!!!!!!Don't worry Gramma, no babies were harmed during this photo shoot! Ellie was a calm, cool and collected baby. I think she's got the 'blue steel' going on here.

And I love that we can still wear this cute little jacket. It's actually a 3-6 month jacket although She's been wearing this since she was born basically. There must be something really interesting about her fist here.....A little tummy time happening here. Tummy time doesn't really last all that long...but I would venture to say that she is getting better at it. At least most of the time she's on her tummy she's happy now. The break-downs and complaining don't start until well into tummy time now instead of right at the beginning. Ok, that's all for now!!