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audiobook love and other shopping indiscretions

joscie — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:37:07 +0000

Did I tell you I started reading the Harry Potter series? (finally) Jalen has been reading them since last year and this past summer he read and reread them. after going to see the half blood prince I decided I’d start the series. I love it! At first I was having a hard time not picturing the movie characters and wishing I had read the stories before watching the movies. I was reading diligently at night time, which meant I couldn’t craft. no crochet, no scrappage, no blogging. It was highly frustrating because I love all of it, but could not multitask. I popped over to iTunes store to check out the audio books and the first two books were like $32 each! and then the others were all around $50! UH, no way jose. then somehow I thought of the library. You know the place where they let you borrow stuff for free?! I went and got my first library card (since elementary school) and reserved the audio books and had them sent to our local library. It’s right around the corner from our house, and the librarians are so nice. We just finished listening to the last in the series (we borrowed, loaded and listened to all in order) this past weekend. I was getting worried that I’d be disappointed in the ending of the last book, but I wasn’t. *sigh* I loved them. I highly recommend listening (or reading them). I laughed, I cried and laughed again. I am JK Rowling fan for sure!

The latest ATC swap I participated in was under the theme of books. I went with the iBook theme:

**i had a shot that was not angled, but I liked that Jordan is peeking in the back ground. ;) The cardstock is Stampin’ Up! YoYo Yellow, I used my handy dandy circle and rectangle punches in my abe lincoln book and created the ipod look. I rounded corners and added glaze with gold pearl ex. and memento ink in canteloupe. do you see that frog holding my card? I got that in the mail from my pal Chrispea. what a sweetie. She also sent lots of goodies and sweet treats for my boys and I.

and seriously, how cute are those goody boxes! The boys were so excited to see their names on the labels :) I told them aunty chris(pea) made them especially for them.

I so loved this little envelope of goodness. I mean really. the buttons and keys are so awesome. but even that envelope. sigh, it’s a sickness, this love I have for envelopes and paper. ha. There were also scrappy goodies I can’t wait to use too. Thank you so much Chris! :)

I have also been loving the Japanese Washi tape you see everywhere. I have seen these at happytape and digi versions from Danielle Thompson. I have also seen some plain colors at a local store. I had already started a collection of these and then saw these stripey and *sigh* graph paper tapes. had.to.buy. here.

Sometime in the last year, adobe offered up an upgrade to CS3 for 299. I really wanted to upgrade. really. but I also was toying with the idea of getting a mac. I did not want to buy some expensive software and then end up buying a computer that wouldn’t run it. So I didn’t buy the upgrade. I was so sad because I didn’t even end up buying the mac. Then last week I got an email from adobe offering a $299 upgrade to cs4. I jumped on that opportunity. I know I won’t be buying a new computer anytime soon, so I was so glad to have to opportunity come up again. and then I also heard about crucial.com It is a site where you can go and plug in information about your computer and it will tell you how much RAM you can upgrade to and what type to buy. So happy. I ordered more RAM and my computer is humming along so well! I can now listed to iTunes while I use CS4 and blog and all of that and it doesn’t skip anymore. yay! These pictures for the blog are the first items I have processed in CS4, nothing fancy, but I am so excited to get into it further. YAY! saying goodbye to these old sticks of 512MB ram.

Thanks for stopping by! I have been so so busy around here, and I am glad I had some time today to update. Check back next time and I’ll have stories about my van and other fascinations of our life, ha! Oh yes and two more things: I have a halloween layout in the last issue (October) of Memory Makers Magazine and a layout in the October issue of Creating Keepsakes (eeeeeeeeeee!) I haven’t seen the CK yet, no sightings in the store or mailbox just yet.

Love Love and Blog you Later!

Joscie, rhymes with bossy!

i love scrapbooking

joscie — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:12:00 +0000

I have been meeting a lot of new people lately (and through facebook reconnecting with long lost school mates) and I’m never quite sure what to say when they say what do you do? I usually say this: I am a stay at home mom with two boys. I do a little photography and I scrapbook. (insert their puzzled face). Then I add: some people watch tv, some people read or play video games or sports, I scrapbook. I take pictures of our life, I scrapbook them and share them through my blog, through online forums, and this past year I’ve actually been published a few times! Sometimes they get it, sometimes they don’t, but it’s part of me and what I do! I have made many friends through the online world of scrapbooking and for this I am thankful. There are a few people who are on the lookout for new talent to show off their fabulous products and I wanted to share my scrapbooking with them. I am a faithful, dedicated, loyal lady who loves scrapbooking.

Here are a few of my recent favorites:

I also wanted to share the latest three layouts from the June/August issue of Memory Makers

Thanks for stopping by! I have so many things to do in the next few days! If I don’t get back before then, please have a safe and happy 4th of July!

Love Love and Blog you later!
Joscie, rhymes with bossy

Publications

joscie — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:55:41 +0000

We got this issue April Issue of Creating Keepsakes at the Navy Exchange and I made Jordan pose with me at the magazine rack like Jalen did back in January ;)

Here is the layout, as seen in Creating Keepsakes, April 2009!

While we were in Alabama, my mother in law received her Simply Handmade April Issue! I was so excited to see it!

also while in Alabama, we visited a scrapbook store in Hoover called Scrap Etc. What an awesome store! I got to talk to a super sweet lady there (I forgot to ask her name!doh!) and I also picked up the May/June issue of Memory Makers Magazine! I was so excited to see my first publications in MM in the reader’s gallery. Two layouts of Jordan as a baby on pages 76 and 80. :)

In the March/April Issue of Scrapbook Dimensions I have 3 projects: My Lucky Charms-a st. paddy’s day layout, a Personalized Easter Basket and a Father’s day Brag Book. These are available to subscribers only ;)

Thanks so much for stopping by, I appreciate all of you!

Love Love & Blog You Later,

Joscie, rhymes with bossy and happy to be back home!

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do it now, the layout edition

joscie — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:30:37 +0000

I finally had a chance to get back into my paper supplies, it’s been far too long! We had a challenge at Concroption for the DT members to scrap a 2 page 12×12 layout about our dreams/goals for this year. I scrapped my phrase for the year, do it now.

Materials: Heidi Swapp- Patterned Paper (strawberry lemonade dots, hearts), Chipboard Letters (Ledger), Making Memories- Flowers, Buttons, Paper Piercer, ruler, Glue Dots, Kaiser- Self Adhesive Pearls, 7Gypsies Speech Bubble stamp, Stampin’ Up! Kraft Cardstock, scalloped circle punch, scalloped edge punch, foam squares, Bazzil mini pompom trim, corner rounder, prima flower, wrights mini flower trim. The journaling is taken directly from my blog post and printed on a piece of Kraft Stampin’ Up! cardstock.

also, one last bit of fabulous scrappy news, I got an email from Memory Makers requesting three layouts for publication in the July/August 2009 Edition! :) I am so excited! :)

Thanks for always being so supportive and sharing part of your days as you stop by here. Love Love and Blog you later! :)

Joscie, rhymes with bossy and she’s doing it NOW!

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