I am so excited to tell you, I got an email today inviting me to be a member of the Two Peas in a Bucket Digital Creative team! :)  Of course, I jumped at the opportunity!

I am committing to the 2010 project 365.  I tried a few years ago, but fell off the wagon.  This year, I am committing to get it done.  It is such a fun way to look back and remember daily activities, to share with our family and it also provides lots of great pictures to scrap!  Are you planning to tackle 365? or 52?

I am also trying to decide on a word for the year, guess I better hurry up and choose!

On Christmas night, Troy and I watched Twilight on iTunes.  I was enthralled.    we both really enjoyed it.  I mean, yes, there were some corny bits- i didn’t like how he ran and climbed the trees- but I really enjoyed it.  I mentioned that New Moon might be available on iTunes soon, but actually, it was still in the theater!  We went on the 26th to see New Moon.  sigh. I loved that too.  So we went back to his mom’s house and I downloaded Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn on the iTouch Kindle App.  I read twilight on Sunday, New Moon on Monday, and on Tuesday while we flew I read Breaking Dawn.  Yep, that’s right. I read book 4 by accident before book 3.  Anyway, I’m currently working my way through Eclipse, and loving it.

I guess that’s about it for now, I must get to work on some scrap, yay!  Thanks for stopping by and I wish you and yours a safe and Happy New Year!

Love Love and blog you again real soon,

Joscie, rhymes with bossy

and the shop area:

ps. that building in the background is a bank. it was robbed on Monday, isn’t that crazy? They arrested the guy already!

Troy and I like this truck.  It’s been parked up here but no for sale sign or anything.

do you know what this is?

it’s cotton.  with hearty bokeh! :)

the holtville cotton gin

I hope you’ve enjoyed your tour of Slapout… Tune in next time where you’ll see me meeting a fellow mint chick IRL. ;)

Love Love and Blog you again real soon!
Joscie, rhymes with bossy

Love Love,

Joscie, rhymes with bossy, Troy, Jalen and Jordan

My super handsome hubby, driving to the concert **sigh** :)

and when we got there, we sat about 2/3 of the way back, just in case Jordan didn’t do well in the chapel.  He did pretty well, although he asks a lot of questions like why does the king want to get rid of Jesus? What is that red thing? Is that Jalen’s Class? Where is William? Wow, you guys were awesome! Mom, I tell them they were awesome! funny kid.  thankfully the people right in front of us were amused and not irritated by his running commentary.

Jalen and his class sang 2 songs and they were just awesome!

Can you spot our cutie? (back row, third from the right) shot with my 50mm 1.4 as I didn’t want to bust out the huge zoom!

here’s a little better view of him in the Jumbotron (hee hee, I’m sure they call it something else…)

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Love Love and Merry Christmas!

Blog you again real soon!

Joscie, rhymes with bossy!

I sat with the crayons thinking it’d be easy to peel off the paper.  after all, the little does it all the time (to my dismay).  But do you know what? That paper was a hassle.  Troy suggested soaking the crayons and I just decided to use my xacto knife to put a slice down the paper.  It worked like a charm!

I knew I wanted marbled crayons in similar color families, so I went through layering bits of crayons… and then I realized that I was supposed to spray the pan first, D’Oh!  I was really wishing we had more white crayons. like if they sold a pack of white, I totally would have bought them!

I baked them and then cooled them in our freezer.

We made another batch!

We packed them two to a package and made treat toppers with Kraft Paper, Sizzix die, Stampin’ Up! Stamp and Punch.

Today we delivered them to Jordan’s classmates :) Happy!

We also got all our cards printed, stuffed, addressed, stamped and off in the mail.  I am so relieved to have that done!

Thanks for stopping by, come back later for pictures from Jalen’s Christmas Concert and some exciting scrappy news!

Love Love and Blog you real soon!

Joscie, rhymes with bossy

this was just around sunset.  then as it got darker, they turn lights on the building:

We walked out the side gate, where they were offering horse carriage rides for $60 for a few blocks.  (We did not ride) I caught this shot through the gate  of the lights with my super high tech bokeh shaper, heeee.

Every year, Santa and Mrs. Claus are sitting in front of Honolulu Hale (City Hall) and Santa offers up a friendly smile and a shaka.

The tree in front of the building

We walked around inside the building where they have themed trees decorated by different city departments.  My two favorites were the Super Mario Tree, which included all our friends: Mario, Luigi, Bowser, Bowser Jr., Yoshi, Bullet Bill, a piranha plant, mushrooms and Donkey Kong.  The other favorite was a made in the eighties tree which had 45s and record cover replicas all over the tree.  Some of the ones that made me laugh: George Michael, Samantha Fox, The New Kids on the Block…   We made our way to the back hall where every year wreath decorating contest entries are posted.  Here were a few of the ones that caught my eye.

We then went outside to the area where the trees were lit up so beautifully and got a few (not so great, but I still love ‘em shots) of the family.

and here are some random hearty shots of the trees. sigh, all those hearts make me happy :)

I hope you are all doing well and enjoying the season with those you love and those who love you!

Merry Christmas and Happy Hannukah! :)

Love lOve and Blog You later,

Joscie, rhymes with bossy!

I’m so in love with these polka dots. so.in.love.

Digital Girl:  Peppermint Creative’s Soopa Sunburst Papers Her, Autumn Splendor Mini Kit, Miso Funky Element Pack, Tickets – Blank, Messy Stitches v2
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I hope you have enjoyed these digi goodies. I love the birthday kit, those polka dots and stripes make me happy. you’ll have to check out the birthday doodles too. super cute. and the Christmas Kit- you can tell I’m all over that red paper. it matches perfectly with the boys christmas sweaters ;) (we went with Alabama colors, ROLL TIDE!) and lastly, don’t forget to pick up the new freebie over at Peppermint Creative. You’ll have to check out through the shop, but it is free! Miss Mint’s Techno Geek. I love that yellow graph paper, sigh** ;)

I also got all my calendars put together and photographed. that tutorial will be coming soon. it takes me a long time to type that stuff up. I really need to figure out a video tutorial. so much easier! and faster. Do you have any ?s about digital or hybrid stuff?

Thanks for stopping by!

Love Love and Blog you later,

Joscie, rhymes with bossy

I can’t believe it’s November. NOVEMBER! It was just september wasn’t it?  We had a great Halloween, all of us in our wizard wear, and we got a lot of cute, oh look, it’s the Harry Potter Family comments.  Dressing up is so much fun!  I had a thought that we should institute a all celebrations should be dress up events… but then we don’t really throw parties in our family.  Maybe I should change that too. ha. we had so much fun.  I am not happy with the rushed pictures we got on Halloween Night, so you know, I’ll be dragging the costumes out for more,  hopefully better picture taking later.  Our pumpkins were fun. Troy’s is the one on the left, mine is the polka dot one (of course) and Jalen’s is on the right.  Jordan’s is sitting up just out of frame, a clone trooper.

Last week I was knocked down in our wintery Hawaii weather, aka rainy, and my throat decided to get mutinous on me.  No fever, so I just held out and tried not to complain too much. (ha, as if) I did have to battle a little woe is me I want to cry like a baby for a little bit, but gave it some thought and figured I know people who are dealing with more than a sore throat out there. perspective is a good thing.

We are lucky enough to have twice a week trash pick up in our neighborhood and last week the city people dropped off recycling bins and information on our new schedule.  Since our housing area has a yard service that takes care of our green waste, we are only adding recyclable bins to our schedule. (i know you are fascinated, aren’t you.  on the edge of your seat? ;) )  I loved the look of these brand new cans lining the street.

so every other week they will pick up our #1,#2 plastics, glass, aluminum cans, corrugated cardboard and newspaper (minus glossy inserts) in these blue bins. I was very excited to drop two pieces of plastic in our bin this week.  We don’t subscribe to the newspaper, we read our news online or watch TV… but we do get the twice a week local interest type paper along with a Hawaii Military Newspaper once a week that will find their way to our blue bin.  I find it strange that they ask us not to bundle, bind, or bag our materials, just to throw them all mixed in the bin…but whatever.  We will still be carrying our HI-5 deposit bottles to the recycling center to get our $1.15 or whatever back.

Jordan’s class took a field trip to the firehouse and Troy and I were lucky enough to go as chaperones.  It was a fun trip. Hey, it was hot. and humid. but fun, fun.  Are you surprised to hear, my child went up to the front row and engaged the firefighter giving the presentation? Yeah, me neither. ha.

It was super cool that they set up a little hose for the kids to spray a cone and knock it over. Jordan about jumped on the nozzle to get it going, it was so funny.

One of Jordan’s friends at school has a Dad who is in the army and just returned home last week from deployment. I was so excited to see him home (he probably thought I was nuts) I was saying welcome home and we’re so glad to see you home… when he brought his son to school.  This week Wednesday is Veteran’s day.  I am going to celebrate it by making cards for Operation Write home.  There are so many family members that would love to get cards from their deployed service members, I want to be  a part of it.  check it out here.  I’ll also be participating in a blog hop on Nov 14. Do you want to join in on that too? check the blog hop.

So that’s what has been up with me lately. What’s going on with you?

materials: Karla Dudley Designs Lora Patterned Papers, Digi Essentials 1 and Digi Essentials 2, Halloween 09 Brushes. Font: american typewriter, creature. Totally Rad Actions.

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Joscie, rhymes with bossy

and my little cutie, also looking grown up:

and one last look at these two cute wizards in training…

Thanks for stopping by!  I am hoping to get back into the swing of more regular blogging. my life has been so crazy, this was one of the first days I’ve picked up my camera in too long!

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Joscie, rhymes with bossy.