Jalen made me a treasure box in school.  They painted and added gemstones to the top.  He filled it with gold coins (they are studying Treasure Island in school) and a kit kat (his favorite candy) and a bag of arare (one of my favorite snacks).  *aww, happy sigh, again*

I got a card in the mail last week or the week before from Troy. :)  A big surprise from my pal FabuLisa and her daughter Savannah.  They stopped by in the afternoon to bring me a gorgeous flowering plant (kalanchoes, so pretty!). and a bag of bite sized cookies too! :)

I’ve been continuing my research on the homeschool front.  I picked up a few kindle books on how to choose your curriculum and styles of homeschooling and I’m pretty excited.  I hear that Hawaii is a homeschool friendly state.  I am going to file a form with the local school to let them know we’re homeschooling.  We have to show our accomplishments and Jalen has to participate in testing, either with the local school (for free) or by private tester (at our cost).  Not decided which way we’ll go on that yet.  There are local homeschool groups here that I am looking forward to meeting with and a conference next month.  I am very excited about our prospects.  Although taking on their schooling is a great responsibility, really, so is parenting.

We are winding down in our current schools, Jordan has 2 more weeks and Jalen has 3 more weeks.  Because I am a SAHM, I get to go to most field trips and class activities.  I am at the school with my camera quite a bit and like to share my pictures with other parents.  So for the end of the year, I am compiling pictures on DVDs and giving them out to fellow parents.  I’ve created a tutorial on how to create personalized cd envelopes over at DHD: tutorial. I created this cd envelope template.  It *just* fits on an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper.  I have a .jpg and a .gsd if you’d like it: cdenvelope

This past week I got to work with a few cute items from two peas.  Click on the titles for full credits:

Glass Bottomed Boat

journaling: Jordan’s Preschool class took a field trip to the Glass Bottomed Boat in Kaneohe Bay.  It was a beautiful day, bright sun and calm seas.  The guide told us about different types of coral and fish that we might see.  We looked through the Plexiglas windows in the bottom of the boat.  We also had the opportunity to feed the fish some bread crumbs.   We also saw a few sea turtles.  It was a beautiful trip.  No one got sick, no one got hurt and no one fell overboard.  Success! April 2010

speedy

journaling: Jordan learned how to ride his tricycle like a pro! He loves to zoom down the sidewalk! (this is a 2 year old picture)

I was excited to see my fish face layout in the Club Creating Keepsakes Blog last week too! :)

Also, have you been keeping up with the posts over at tattered angels? The educators are celebrating all month long with special blog posts:
Last week’s participants:

1st- Liz Hicks Fusing Fabric Flowers

4th- Joscelyne Cutchens Recycled Instax Frame

5th- Tammy Tutterow Custom Colored Book Binding

6th- Sally Lynn Macdonald Tattered Jewelry

8th- Candy Rosenberg Tattered Techniques on Canvas

This week’s participants:
10th- Cheryl Mcadam create your own transparency

11th- Stayce Dewid

15th- Tattered Angels

16th- Nathalie Kalbach

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Joscie, rhymes with bossy!

on January 30th, I finally took the time to take down the Christmas tree and all the other decorations.  The living room looks so plain and sparse.  I need to add more art.

January 31, the boys reading at bedtime, in my room :)

On Monday Feb 1, I finally got to meet an online friend IRL.  Tina grew up here in Hawaii and was home visiting, so we got together for what her husband called a craftmance.  I thought that was funny.  FabuLisa, Tina and I hit up Fisher, J’s Knicknacks and a quick lunch at the counter burger.

one of the 2 pictures I took on Tuesday Feb 2.  Groundhogs day ;)  Jordan was reading a book on picking apples.

Okay. so i usually go grocery shopping on Mondays but this week due to the craftmance on monday, I had to adjust to a commissary trip on Wed.  Jordan has a short day, so i had to hurry to put away the groceries before picking him up.  Obviously I hadn’t put everything away by the time I brought him home.  I walked out of the kitchen for a minute and came back to this:

Thursday, Feb 3, Jalen had an assignment to bring in 4 pictures of his favorite items on a usb flash drive, so we set up a shoot with the macro in the living room.   Jordan picked out his favorite marble to show me:

Friday February 5, I participated in my first online crop at twopeasinabucket.  I created this layout for Jen Jockish’s challenge.  Use paint, cardboard, bling, lots of pictures.

Today, Saturday February 6, We spent the day indoors, avoiding the vog.  Jordan and Jalen played a little ds, wii and watched some veggie tales today while i created the labels for Jordan’s valentine’s treats.  I still need to make a label for Jalen’s treats.

It’s been voggy around here and this past week I’ve felt a little loopy, coughy, sniffly, headachy and lost my voice.  Thankfully it’s bearable, no fever or any other yuckiness.  But I have minimized my outside time as much as possible.

So, if you follow me on twitter or are my friend on facebook, (and if you’re reading my blog, surely you should be both of the aforementioned…) you probably know I use another social media game called foursquare.  It is a locational game where you “check in” at different locations.  Each time you visit a venue you can either check in publically or “off the grid”.  If you check in the most times you are called “the mayor” of a location.  Currently I am the mayor of Hickam Commissary, the post office, the NEX, the NEX minimart, J’s, Aiea UMC, Bubba Gump, Burger King at Hickam, Fisher Hawaii, and Old Navy at Waikele.  I was also the Mayor of Target Salt Lake and Hickam AFB and the Navy Commissary, but I got messages from foursquare letting me know that others have replaced me as mayor.  I have to tell you, it’s a fun little game, but boy my competetive side has me thinking, hmmm, maybe I need to head over to hickam for something and target too while I’m at it…

Have you checked out http://clubcreatingkeepsakes.com ?  It’s a new community with an option for a premium or free membership, a gallery, a forum and a social networking community.  I have signed up and have been enjoying finding my way around over there.  And let me just say, i LOVE the new gallery over there, it is so so much easier to upload. yay!

and Did I tell you? I’m taking the pen tablet basics class over at JessicaSprague.com.  I’m enjoying it so far, and can’t wait to learn something fabulous as I know I will.  I already love the downloads we got with the first lesson.  Here’s the first layout we did for the first week’s lesson:

It’s getting late, but be on the lookout.  I have some minty projects and some pea projects to share in the next few days. and I’ll be hosting a giveaway on Valentine’s day to celebrate my 3rd blogoversary.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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Joscie, rhymes with bossy

Tricia Chapman’s Posh Baby Girl Papers
MaryAnn Wise’s Basic Stitches No1
Curled White Frames
Text Drops Brushes
Kate Teague’s Life in 365
Jen Martakis’ Text Paths

and right now, MaryAnn Wise’s goodies are on sale at two peas. I love those curled frames, those text drop brushes, basic stitches… she also has some really cool grungy brushes and titles. check it out!

Thanks for stopping by, Love Love and I’ll blog you again real soon! :)

Joscie, rhymes with bossy~