Since it was Tuesday, we headed down to Island Burger at Ala Moana Shopping Center for kids eat free.  I am a big fan of kids eat free, aren’t you?!  The server snapped a picture of all of us :)

Do you know the saying it’s a small world?  I always say it’s a small world, but Hawaii is a small(er) island.   You just can’t go anywhere without running into someone you know.    This particular night we ran into my cousin Kaui with her Hawaiian Language group, it was nice to see her.

No trip to Ala Moana is complete without picking up some rice cake for Jordan and also a trip to the Lego Store.  We were all excited to see Buzz and Woody in the window!  I asked the boys to stand next to them and to “make Lego hands”…

and the next morning was full of this:

We are all having a good time and I am about to get busy with my scrappy projects.  I have two tutorials up right now I want to share.

The first one is a Minty educational calendar I made for the boys:

see the Hybrid calendar tutorial here.

I also created a hybrid layout tutorial over at Design House Digital:

see the Hybrid Layout tutorial here.

Thanks for stopping by!  I’m going to go get scrappy now!

Love Love and Blog you Later!

Joscie, rhymes with bossy

It was finally my turn to issue a scrappy challenge over at Two Peas.  My challenge, which closes on Tuesday, is to document a day in your life.  It can be as extensive or brief as you like.  I used my pictures from last week Monday’s a week in the life to document an ordinary day in our life.  and I know, grammatically it should probably be a day in our lives, but really, it seems as though there is only one life and we all share it- but I digress.  I started with the morning coffee, followed through breakfast, lunches, drive time, my work, my lunch, pick ups, activities, dinner and ended with bedtime.  I love these coordinated bright papers by Tricia Chapman, and kept it pretty simple by using a grid pattern with frames by Jen Martakis.

you can see the close ups of the pages and complete credits here.

The next layout is from Last week’s releases by Vinnie Pearce.  Love love love these rich blues. love. and Jordan’s funny faces make me smile.

credits here.

also from last week, I whipped up a few quick and easy hybrid cards with the help of Deena Rutter’s digital die cut files and papers from Carina Gardner of DHD.

and last little scrappy bit to share, I whipped up this little layout using goodies from Miss Mint’s latest releases over at Peppermint Creative.

credits here. and yes. those are marshmallows in my coffee ;)

and I wanted to share this card that I got in the mail. I have a pal Tina, who is from Hawaii but lives in Washington.  We “met” after Noel took Flat Joscie for a visit to her LSS.  Tina came by my blog and we’ve been online pals ever since.  On her last trip home, we were able to hook up for a craft-mance, as her DH called it. hee hee! Tina, FabuLisa and I hit a few shops and enjoyed counter burgers together, it was a great estrogen-fest!  But anyway. She won a give away on my blog a while back and sent me this stunningly gorgeous card. I LOVE IT!  check it, isn’t she awesome?!

Tattered Angels is celebrating National Scrapbook Day all month long!  Check out the educator blog today where the ever fabulous Liz Hicks is sharing her project today:

Thanks so much for stopping by! Come back again soon, I’ll have more scrap to share!

Love Love and Blog You later!

Joscie, rhymes with bossy

There are so so many more goodies that I haven’t even gotten a chance to work with yet, but I wanted to share these two cards.

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I so love Jen Martakis’ April kit, especially the scratchy looking papers in yellow and gray. I used Laina’s Borderlines 5 to cut the bracket edge on Jen’s papers in my silhouette. Hybrids are so easy in 8.5×11, I printed my journaling right on my background paper.  The alphas are thickers, the corduroy brad is from stampin’ up!  and those little legos are stuck on with mini glue dots ;)

and in other exciting news, today my layout was featured over at the clubcreatingkeepsakes.com blog in the gallery :)

I picked up a few cute digital cutter files from Laina Lamb again this week, so I’ll be working with those…

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more exciting news: I’ve been invited to join the designhousedigital.com Hybrid Creative team.  I’ll be making a few hybrid projects a month and posting them over there and here.  I’m super excited to be working with those lovely creative peeps over there!  I’ll let you know when my first project(s) are up!

and a few last bits on the personal front.  I have been wanting to get my hair cut for quite a while now.  It’s been long and quite a hassle. I swear it would take me atleast 20 minutes to wash, condition and rinse all that hair. Not to mention all the hair I have to vacuum up around here.  I was also inspired by Megan to just get it done and donate it to Locks of Love.  You’ve probably heard of the organization, they accept donations of hair to make hair pieces for children who have lost their hair whether through alopecia or cancer or whatever situation.  I took the boys to the Navy Exchange to get their hair cut today and I thought I’d stop by and make an appointment to get my hair cut tomorrow while they are at school.  When I walked into the salon, they had an appointment, so i let the boys watch Veggie Tales Jonah on the touch while I got my hair cut.  Who knew I could take them with me?! Atleast now I know I’ll be able to get my hair cut during the summer (no school usually means no appointments for me).  So the girl that cut my hair was super super sweet and she measured the hair to make sure it was long enough… and it was. She cut off 12″ and then proceeded to give me a new look.

Thanks for stopping by! Come back again next time when I’ll have more scrap to share and some pictures from the preschool fieldtrip series ;)

Love Love and Blog You Later,

Joscie, rhymes with bossy

I have two tutorials up right now, the first is over at Peppermint Creative on Miss Mint’s Blog, a project seen in Simply Handmade last year:design your own reusable shopping bag.

I also have a Glimmery Card tutorial up at Tattered Angels’ Educator Blog: Recycled Security Envelope flower card.

More news from Tattered Angels, This month marks the launch of Tattered Angels “Glimmer of Hope” Philanthropic effort. Glimmer of Hope will feature causes that are dear to our staff, designers, educators and customers. Tattered Angels will take these causes into consideration for product development and philanthropic efforts.  Product released for such promotions will be available for limited release and portion of the proceeds will go towards research or non-profit organizations supporting this cause.  This month’s effort for Autism Awareness comes with the Special Edition Glimmer Mist: Piece of Heart is a limited edition color that sells for $5 and is only be available on the Tattered Angels site.

and one last nugget for Tattered Angels fans in Australia, or those who want to travel to Australia:

Now for some digi and hybrid goodies to share:

a layout of my mom and me at my cousin’s wedding a few weeks ago.  I love Michelle Underwood’s girly kits. makes me wish for a little girl to scrap….

It’s the little things page kit by Michelle Underwood

I took these pictures of Jordan as we waited to eat a birthday lunch.  Outside the restaurant, I asked him to smile and he just made funny faces. always a comedian. Shelley Castillo’s (soda pop) colors just make me happy and reminded me of my silly boy. Elements are gorgeous and from Michelle Underwood. background paper, kraft from Jen Martakis, with a white wash. ever fave, white curled frames by MaryAnn Wise

Some Fun by Shelley Castillo It’s the little things page kit by Michelle Underwood Basic Kraft by Jen Martakis Curled Photo Frames White by Mary Ann Wise

I absolutely love wilna’s coffee cup album, and you don’t even need a coffee cup, because a digital one is included. Its easy to put together and you can add as many or as few extra embellishments as you like. i’m sending this one with some easter pics to Troy :)

CoffeeCupAlbum: My Garden by Wilna Furstenberg

I fell instantly in love with Michelle Underwood’s stickers from the Best Days of our life… I recolored this little mushroom and used Kerry’s curly mats *love* to create this hybrid thank you card :)

Curvalicious Clipping Masks by Kerry Stewart, The best days of our life Extras , The best days of our life Page kit , The best days of our life Solids by Michelle Underwood

I have lots of scrap to get working on, and a little bit of news coming up that I’m excited to share with you soon. Thanks for stopping by, I appreciate it!
Love Love and Blog You Later,
Joscie, rhymes with bossy

Miss Mint’s Chocolate Bunny Papers, Miss Mint’s Chocolate Bunny Elements, Miss Mint’s Bingo Cards-Easter

Journaling: the boys got dressed up in their shirts, ties and shorts to celebrate the Children’s Easter Party at the Church.  Jalen helped hide eggs for the hunt while Jordan moved up in age groups to hunt eggs with the 5 and up group.  He came in second place finding 15, barely being nudged out by a 7 year old who found 17.  It was a fun time and they both looked so stylish.  March 2010.

a Hybrid Easter Card :)
Miss Mint’s Chocolate Bunny Papers, Miss Mint’s Chocolate Bunny Elements, Miss Mint’s Bingo Cards-Easter

Thanks for stopping by!

Love Love and Blog You Later,

Joscie, rhymes with bossy

We are big drinkers

journaling: of diet coke and coffee! In our beautiful state of Hawaii, we have a bottle deposit. That means with every can or bottle of soda there is a
5 cent charge at the store when you purchase (sometimes there is a 6 cent charge) and there is only a 5 cent refund when you bring it back. The bottles must be clean, empty and still have the label attached and you have to take it to a redemption center. When the law first started up, I stopped buying 12 packs of diet coke and switched to two liter bottles. It just seemed silly to pay for all those bottle deposits because at the time 2 liters were exempt from the deposit… so we simply made the switch to two liter bottles. We would still recycle the 2 liter bottles and any of the few other bottles or cans that we had. The 2 liter bottles are now a part of the deposit system and Saturday was the day we finally packed all those plastic bags into the van and down to the recycling truck.  The truck has “reverse vending” machines where you put a bottle or can in and it gives you a ticket worth money. Our redemption center gives tickets for the Navy Exchange.

blue bin recycling

journaling: the city dropped off our blue recycling bins today.  We can now recycle #1 + #2 plastics, cardboard, and aluminum cans curbside.  I am so thrilled to do our part to help reduce waste!

sh, it’s a surprise party!

love love love the bingo cards.  Fiskars and Martha Stewart border punches on birthday boogie papers, some thickers, letter stickers, other punches and glimmer mist in Iridescent Gold.

birthday bingo cards, Miss Mint’s Birthday Boogie Papers

and I as I was making this card, I couldn’t help but think, hmmm maybe I should have bought the orange bakers twine too… ha.

birthday bingo cards, Miss Mint’s Birthday Boogie Papers

Thanks for stopping by!  I’ll have more digi/hybrid goodies to share soon!

Love lOve and Blog You Later!

Joscie, rhymes with bossy

and in other good news, I got an email from the lens repair company and they say my 50mm is repaired and on it’s way back to me, yay! I’ve missed you my sweet little lens!  I took all these shots with my 105mm macro, so I’m standing about 6 feet away from these projects to photograph! crazy, isn’t it!  and my other sweet new lens is on it’s way too, I can hardly wait!

The pen tablet class that I am taking over at JessicaSprague.com is in it’s final week.  I’m sad to see it coming to an end, especially since with all the sickness and busy-ness going on around here, I only finished the first week.  I am hoping to catch up on my lessons soon and hoping to figure out why my wacom intuos 3 does not play well with CS4 on my laptop.  works well with the desktop, but not the laptop. Anyway, Jessica is encouraging us to participate in the pentablet contest over at wacom, so I’m hoping to get in on that action.

Tuesday is new Digi Kit Release day over at Two Peas in a Bucket and there is a new designer named Vinnie Pearce and she’s brought a SLEW of new digi goodies to the store.  Can I just say, I seriously picked up a bunch of new kits today. Jen Martakis, Wilna Furstenburg, Tricia Chapman, Vinnie Pearce. now that it’s all downloaded, unzipped, backed up on all the drives and I’ve blogged these cards I can get my digiscrap on.

on a personal note, we got news last week that Troy’s deployment is being extended a month, boo!  The boys are crushed.  The good news, the ship was in port so we got a chance to skype with Troy.  It is such a blessing to see his handsome face and hear him laugh (and make him laugh).  We read books, we showed off new items/school work. so many kinds of awesome.  Troy’s birthday is coming up in a few days and I encouraged him to pick up a birthday present for himself at the exchange.  I had wanted to get him something good, but didn’t really want to trust it to the mail, no offense USPS, you know I love you- see the title of this post? anyway, he got an iTouch so he can now watch all the movies/listen to music/read books via Kindle app, so we’re stoked about that too.

I hope you’re having a blessed day, I know I am.

Love Love and blog you again soon,

Joscie, rhymes with bossy.

I also created candy wrappers for each of the teachers, one for Jalen and two for Jordan’s teachers.  I am so pleased with the way they turned out.

my picture of the day for yesterday:

Here is a quick recap of what we’ve been up to:

monarch butterfly cocoons in Jordan’s preschool class.

a McLunch date.  plain cheeseburger, apple dippers and fruit punch @ the navy exchange food court.

parent teacher conference day, mango tree in the playground @ school. yumm!

a quick self portrait.

Do you subscribe to the Two Peas in a Bucket digi newsletter?  My layout was featured there this week, eeee! :)

(click the layout to see it in the 2peas gallery)

Digi Kit by Jen Martakis, Love One Another.  You know I love that red/aqua/polka dot/scalloped frame combo.  :)

okay, so that is it for now. As I was telling FabuLisa, I am trying to get those aprons finished up and sent out, but just willing it done while I work on other hybrid scrappy stuff is not working out for me! hee hee.  imagine that?! with that being said, I need to get back to work.  I’ll see you again real soon, check back on Valentine’s day for my 3rd Blogoversary giveaway! I’ll be giving out 3 love packs of goodies, you don’t want to miss it!

Love Love,

Joscie, rhymes with bossy!

I’ve already sent off my valentines to Troy in the mail a while back, so I’ll be packing up these love cards along with a few others and sending them to Operation Write Home.  Do you have cards waiting for an occaision? are you willing to whip up some non glittery cards?  They are always in need of more cards at http://www.operationwritehome.org .

I’ve also used this kit to make labels for Jordan’s preschool valentines.  His school discourages candy goody bags, encouraging good dental health and eating habits.  I created this label, printed it in multiples and die cut with nestabilities, xyroned and adhered to the lid of these super cute mini playdoh containers from target. sigh. so happy with the way they turned out! :)

aren’t they so so sweet?! I’m packaging them two to a package and tying a ribbon :)

Thanks for stopping by!

Love Love and Blog you later! I still have to whip up some labels and packaging for Jalen’s treats (candy all the way!) and some goodies for the teachers.  Check back for those. and some more digi goodies.

Joscie, rhymes with bossy

she has also release some super cute iPhone/iTouch wall papers. I thought it would be cute to make a little slideshow to put on my iTouch and on my cell phone (you can use it on other phones too!) here’s one frame I did… I emailed it and loaded it onto my cell phone and my iTouch.  The camera polarized filter is causing Jordan’s head to look blue in the cell phone shot, but I will get a better picture later.  Cute, no?!

here are two of my latest Picture of the Day shots…  On Sunday I asked the boys where they wanted to have lunch after church and Jalen shouted out Bubba Gumps!  and Jordan said, yes, I’ll have some blue Jello with my pizza. Okay, I was sold.  I love the accidental fish and shrimp… and it was also a great excuse to get more macaro(o)ns. mmm. so good.  Here’s my big boy:

I have to say, on Monday when I was at the commissary, I grabbed a bag of coffee thinking, I think I’ll send a bag to my pal Chrispea… No reason, just because.  and on my way home from the store, i stopped off at the mailbox.  When I opened it the aroma of roasted coffee hit me. it was so yummy and i thought who is sending me coffee?!  and it was from Chrispea. How sweet is that? and along with the coffee these milk caps in a super cute little envelope and this wood block J. how awesome?! love that girl. ps. Chris is almost done with her Chemo, so if you’d like to pray or think a positive thought for her that would be awesome!

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

Joscie, rhymes with bossy!