Minions,

superheroes…. but whatever the case, I always like to go with a theme. Jordan decided he wanted to be Captain America and Jalen, who insists he doesn’t want to trick or treat didn’t want to dress up, was thinking about thor because really, that hammer (however you pronounce the name) is pretty cool. I was all for it. I thought Troy could be Iron Man or Tony Stark (hello avengers) and I could be pepper or something like that…. but to my surprise Troy opted for Mr. Darcy. :) and I am going to be Elizabeth Bennett. Sadly this costume was a little out of our price range…

We visited Party City near our home and circled that ridiculous parking lot twice before opting to drive to the farther party city store out at Waikele. We easily found a costume for Jordan:

he loves it and so do i.

We searched and picked up a helmet and hammer for Thor but unfortunately the only Thor costumes they had were mens’ size XL or Plus. sadly, tooo big for Jalen. I declared, we’ll just order it online! and when we got home I was further saddened to discover that THOR costumes were just not available in Jalen’s size. so we opted for Green Lantern. oh the disgrace, he’s not an avenger. :( but I’m sure it’ll still be awesome.

We went yesterday to the fabric store so I could pick up some patterns and fabric for Mr. Darcy. I picked the patterns that were closest to what I was looking for and I’m hoping for the best out of this very ambitious project. Today I’m prewashing the linen and cottons and tonight I’m sure I’ll be ironing 8 yards of each. ha. Wish me luck!

We also picked up some products for Halloween decor projects I’ll be sharing as I finish them.

What are your Halloween plans, do you celebrate? do you dress up? I can’t wait to hear.

Thanks for stopping by!
Love Love and Blog you Later,

Joscie, rhymes with bossy

Two Peas in a Bucket Projects

You make Me Smile Hybrid Card

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• Fantastic Nesting Dolls Digital & Hybrid Stickers by Holly Brooke Jones
• Bazzill Kraft Cardstock, Hero Arts Stamp, Versafine in Sepia, Divine Twine Cotton Candy, Paper Trey Ink Banner die, American Crafts Foam adhesive, Paper Piercer, craft needle.

Get Well Soon

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• Ledger Owl and Friends Digital Stickers by Holly Brooke Jones
• childs play – the collection by Polka Dot Pixels
• Bazzill Kraft Cardstock, American Crafts Foam Adhesive, Divine Twine in Cherry, Machine stitch, glue dot.

Alien Invasion

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Jordan’s collection of aliens is growing.  He has Lego Aliens, 2 stuffed aliens and several others.  He calls them Alies (ay-lees).

• Rockets and Robots from Digital Birdhouse
• Watercolors by Jen Martakis
• Basic Stitches No1 by Mary Ann Wise

Huntsville Space and Rocket Center

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We drove up to Huntsville to see the Huntsville Space and Rocket Center.  It was much bigger than I expected and we easily could have spent a few days there. We were pleasantly surprised that Active Duty Military and their families get in free!

• Over the Moon by Scrap Originals
• Discovery Alpha by Dianne Rigdon
• Bliss Alpha by Lauren Reid
• Basic Stitches No1 by Mary Ann Wise

old school

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• Torn Alphas by Edeline Marta
• Remember Bundle by Edeline Marta

Shoot! I lovethis

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for as long as I can remember I’ve loved taking pictures.  From my very first 110 camera in 4th grade through the high school newspaper’s slr, my dad’s Minolta, my rebel 35mm, my sony mavica, sony point and shoots, canon digital rebel xt and now my canon 40D, cell phone camera, and fuji instax. I will always love capturing things and people through my lens.

• Camera Cuts v.2 by Tia Bennett
• Camera Cuts v.1 by Tia Bennett
• My Favorite Things by Gennifer Bursett

Design House Digital

Date Night

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we don’t take the opportunity to go out on dates but when Granny and Pop come to visit, we do.  This date night we had dinner at Zippys’ and caught Xmen at Dole Cannery Theater. It was opening night for Transformers 3 so it was not crowded in our theater at all.  We enjoyed the time together.

• Jopke van Dongen’s Beauty Queen

Pinterest Inspired Wall Hanging

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I created this wall hanging based on an idea I got from Pinterest.  Check out the post here: blog tutorial

also, i’ve been taking pictures and notes this past week to create a week in the life album. I am excited about that projects as the last time I did it, it came out so cute!  I’ve got a few new projects to get working on so I’ll leave you for now.  Thanks for stopping by!
Love Love and Blog you Later,

Joscie, rhymes with bossy! :)

Scientist Jordan or Look Mom Chronicles, vol 2

I loved all the little bits and papers in the sincerely kit. I had a hard time deciding what to use, so full! So Jordan came to me and said, Mom, I want to wear my scientist shirt… and then we popped the lenses out of the 3d glasses and voila, my little scientist. He wore this all day long even out of the house. completely serious. love that kid!

sincerely – kit by Polka Dot Pixels

Lava

journaling:  it was a pretty hot day out on the lava field and truthfully, if i had known it was a hike across the lava field and not a paved walkway, I probably would not have brought the boys on this hike.  However, it was beautiful and I am glad we did it.  I also loved seeing my happy green cons on the lava.  aug 2010

Floriade ~ Papier Selection 1 Floriade ~ Embellishment Set by Design by Anita

Thank you hybrid

Circle Page Pieces by Laina Lamb

Thinking of you Hybrid

Cupcake Birthday by Laina LambSweet Serenity Papers by Michelle Underwood

I was lucky enough to be one of the CT members to work with the featured kit this week and my cards were on the Digital Designer’s blog for Erica’s Kit Smitten post.

You Suck

I could not resist the elements in Edeline’s Scary Boo kit and came up with a few hybrid Halloween cards. This one is my very favorite. Nothing like a little tongue in cheek passive aggressive vampire humor to make me smile ;)
peppermint glimmer mist on white chipboard thickers, granite glimmer mist on Maya Road Caroline chipboard letters, versamark, UTEE, notebook paper die from paper trey ink, tiny attacher.

Happy Free Candy Day*

a hybrid using Edeline Marta’s Scary Boo Kit.  I figured, why not call it like it is, right?
cardstock + thickers + print/cut element via silhouette= easy peasy hybrid cards :)

still Batty 4 u

hybrid halloween card using Edeline Marta’s Scary Boo elements, print and cut on the silhouette, thickers, maya road chipboard alphas, glimmer mist, versamark, UTEE, martha border punches and machine stitch. :)

last bit of news, I also have a tutorial up at the design house digital blog here.

Thanks for stopping by! Love Love and Blog you Later!

Joscie, rhymes with bossy!

From Two Peas in a Bucket:

I used Erica Hernandez’s Happy Paper Pack and Wonky Photo Frames, Katherine  Teague’s Life in 365, Jen Martakis’ Snow Days Alpha and Journal Shapes.  I was so excited to see this layout featured in the Two Peas in a Bucket Newsletter!

From Peppermint Creative:

I cut out Tay’s Love one Another commercial vector on my Silhouette in black vinyl.  I mounted on the wall and added two little gems.  Just right!

Thursday’s Picture of the day, Jordan trying to blow bubbles.  This poor boy makes the FFFFFF sound when he’s blowing and can’t figure out why he never makes more than one bubble. I makes me giggle though.

Friday: haircuts for the boys at the Navy Exchange Barber Shop.  Jordan always always always giggles when they are shaving his neck.  The barber tells him, “one more time”, “one more time” and he says, you always say ‘one more time’ but you keep doing it again!  She got a good laugh out of that one.  I told him it would have been just one more time if he could be as still as a statue.

Saturday morning we woke up and made our way towards Kaneohe to have breakfast at Ihop with my mom.  Before we could get out of our neighborhood, however, I had to stop and take a snap of this beautiful sunrise.

We were lucky enough to get to skype with Troy yesterday because his ship was in port and he was able to get to a hotspot and log on with his laptop.  It was so nice to laugh and talk and see his (handsome) face!

I have to get back to my sewing, those aprons are just about done.  I will be doing a giveaway for one of the aprons, so stay tuned for that!  My yudu order came in last week and then this past week the L Letterpress kit came in so I’m looking forward to playing with those goodies too…

Thanks for stopping by, Love Love and Blog you again real soon,

Joscie, rhymes with bossy!

Here are my pictures from the past few days…some sweet fresh strawberries over vanilla ice cream. YUM!

we made some cards to send to Troy.  For some reason, Jordan wanted to make a stop sign, sky, clouds… Martha Stewart glitter in action!

Jordan played on his DS while I continued to work on the Windows 7 install….

I finished the apron!  I love how it turned out, so I’m making more.

Today I had my regular Tuesday with FabuLisa.  We hit the post office, Fisher Hawaii (no date stamps, can you believe it?!) and then had lunch at Island Burgers (we shared a burger and a cobb salad- so yum!)  on our way back to the car I spied these Guava Macaroons. super yum.

and here’s a digi layout I did this past week with some 2Peas Goodies…

Click on layout to see it in the 2peas gallery.  my Valentine uses Shelley Castillo’s  Digi Kit Winter Walk Solids,Holly Brooke Jones’  Digi Kit Romantic Love Frames, Jen Martakis’ Digi Kit Little Bit of Pretty, MaryAnn Wise’s Digi Kit Curled Photo Frames Deckle Edge, and Brandi Buffington’s Digi Kit Destination Anywhere.

Thanks for stopping by! I’ll be back later to show the other aprons, some more digi scrap and all that goodness.

Love Love and Blog you later!

Joscie, rhymes with bossy

While we were down in China town, we took a walk around the block for our very favorite Chinese treat, manapua (aka char siu bao).  My very favorite place to go is Char Hung Sut.  It’s the kind of place where you walk in and order from one person, another person runs and fills your order and the girl at the register scribbles the math on a stack of scratch paper. it’s just so good.

I know you’re going to find this hard to believe, but I procrastinated a little bit on making the welcome home banner.  I toyed with the idea of ordering a sign, Noel even sent me a link, but of course I waited too long.  I also entertained the idea of cutting vinyl and making a banner, if I could just stop off at a sign making shop and get a banner to apply my vinyl to… but in the end I decided to cut and sew a banner, on Sunday.

Jalen commented that our coconut tree did not have any coconuts and did we have to wait 3 days? (that’s a facebook my farm joke, btw)

We expected the ship to be pulling in around 830am-ish so we arrived around 8.  We had to park a good distance and I wanted to be sure we had enough time.  I let Jordan ride the umbrella stroller so i could load our goods on the handles.  There was a cool tent and seats set up for us to lounge while we waited for the ship.

I loved the reflection in Jalen’s glasses, you can see me right in the middle.

We watched as the ship pulled up.  Troy was not manning the rails, he said he had something to do inside the ship, I didn’t even ask what it was.  When the ships pull in from a deployment to Pearl Harbor, they tie a lei to the front of the ship.  It’s made out of plastic (i think it’s trashbags).

the boys held their umbrella signs, even though dad wasn’t on the outside of the ship…

Then we waited and waited, and Troy showed up, checked out on leave in his Tshirt and shorts with all his goodies.  Jordan got to give the first lei:

Jalen the second (and me last)

The boys went back to school on Tuesday and Troy fell in with our daily routine.  I got my new id card that I have been waiting for. I was so excited to see that the camera was mounted up high on the counter, at a flatteringly higher angle than the chair.  It’s the little things that help a girl out, ya know?!  Of course i can’t show you the id card, but it does look like me, so I’m happy.  Today’s errands included a trip to the pumpkin patch…

ha ha, just kidding. you know on the Wednesday before Halloween, the pumpkin patch is closed. and evidently the Navy Commissary is also sold out of pumpkins.  So we took a trip to Sam’s Club and picked out 4 non rotten pumpkins. ha ha.

and  have I told you, I love this man?

pumping my gas. **swoon** what a man.  and do you know what I did on Monday night? I was able to run out and pick up steaks for dinner, by.my.self! and I was able to come home and cook dinner while he bathed the little. **sigh** it is so good to be a family of four again.  We are enjoying and being thankful for all our many blessings.  I want to thank all of you who prayed for us and him while he was gone, I really really appreciate it!  Tomorrow’s excitement? I’m getting a long over due eye exam. and I’m not only buying new glasses, but I’m also getting sunglasses. prescription sunglasses. eeeeeeee! You lucky ladies who wear contacts or have been blessed with good eyesight have no idea.  For people like me, sunglasses require so much effort. I am such a lucky girl.  I’ll check in with my new eyewear when they come in, I can’t wait! SUNGLASSES! yay!

Thanks for stopping by, Love Love and Blog you later!

Joscie, rhymes with bossy!

We came home, washed the fabric and I started ironing. I measured his height and added some and cut the fabric.  I started sewing it and then for some reason went to look at the old “too short” sleeping bag. what?! they are like the same size!  Jordan, please come here. I lay the old one down again and ask him to please climb in it again.  He does. I say, please scoot all the way in until your feet are at the bottom. THAT sleeping bag fit him perfectly. aw, man! I figure, oh, well, it’s already sewing, I might as well complete the second one.  So here it is, sleeping bag, v2.

my first attempt at creating my own bias tape! :) not too bad.

and as for that other fabric?  take a peek and see if you can guess who it reminded me of?

I sewed up an apron for my pal and mailed it off on Monday.  I’m hoping it’ll arrive to her soon! (surprise!) my first try at sewing with piping.

sometimes I see something and can’t help but think of friends. :)

Thanks for stopping by! Love Love and Blog you later!

Joscie, rhymes with bossy

do you see that young lady on the left? that’s Aunty Chris, his teacher. she’s soo sweet!

here’s my monkey hanging around!

This week we also took a trip to Fabric Mart to buy some fabric to make a sleeping bag/mat for nap-time at school.  I ended up not buying quite enough fabric.  I originally had envisioned a lined sleeping bag with flannel on the inside and cool car/surfboard print on the outside.  I thought if I folded it in half it would be a good size, but when I got it home, I thought it might be too narrow. anyway, I ended up using some blue chambray that I have had forever.  (originally bought it to make slip covers for our old couch)  I like the final result, even though I was somewhat of a bone head and had to rip the seam one time.

I also had a strip of left over fabric, so I stitched up some simple drawstring bags, one wide and two narrow.  The boys are enjoying those, and I’m wanting to make some of my own :)

This morning we had fried rice for breakfast.  Flat dad is hanging with the bananas in the bottom right side of the picture and Jordan is doing his new found thing, trying to dodge the camera.

Today I’ll be working on a few projects! Thanks for stopping by!

oh, and a quick question, do you use Google reader? I use it to follow all the gazillion blogs that I find interesting.  Now there are features like “like” where you can like a post, like on facebook or share to share a post you think others might like as well.  If you are a friend of mine, you can view all items I share, and I can view items you share.  IF you’re using Google reader let me know, I’d love to follow your suggestions.  also, be sure to add my blog to your reader, so you don’t miss anything. i mean, really the world of preschool sleeping bags is pretty riveting stuff, don’t you think? ha!  If you want to follow my reader, here is a link to my Google Profile and my Google Reader.

Love Love and Blog you Later,

Joscie, rhymes with bossy

the card is made on a pink hounds-tooth Making Memories Paper.   The flower is prima and the book paper is actual paper from an old book I bought at last year’s book sale.

The other girls cards:

and here are the pet peeve cards from the previous month:

my pet peeve card:

This past month’s card theme was movie quotes. You know I’ve been obsessed with balloons since we saw UP… and though I wanted to quote Dug, that oh so lovable dog, it didn’t quite fit in my mind with the balloon pics I wanted to use. So i used a quote from Ellie’s scrapbook to Mr Fredrickson.

and I made a card for the hostess Allie:

I love this Japanese Paper tape I got here… so cute!

I hope you enjoyed these ATCs. I really enjoy trading these with the girls, swaps are so much fun when you know no one is going to flake out!

Love Love and blog you later!

Joscie, rhymes with Bossy!

Kraft Paper- Stampin’ Up!, Studio Calico: Patterned Paper (crate paper) American Crafts Thickers letters, Chatterbox chipboard button, butterfly, bird, yellow ribbon, woodgrain ribbon, Studio Calico coffee ring stamp, alpha stamps.

Originally I was thinking I’ll get right on that tomorrow but thanks to the pack of thickers having only 3 ts… I rewrote to I will get on that tomorrow.  still funny I think.  also the journaling underneath says procrastination… it’s a way of life! (insert giggles here).  I am going to get back to scrapping now, because I am enjoying it! :)

Thanks for stopping by and I’ll scrap and blog you later!

Joscie, rhymes with bossy!

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