Day 1-  Transportation

Joscie:

Jalen:

Jordan:

Troy:

Day 2- Neighborhood

Joscie:

Troy:

Jordan:

Jalen:

Tomorrow’s prompt: seat.

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Joscie, rhymes with bossy

looking down

Troy and I on our driveway, me in the green, troy in the brown.

every day. check my computer and sip my coffee before getting started on the boys’ homeschooling activities.

morning. administer 3x daily.

in the kitchen

the closest thing to a kitchen we saw on the plane.

black and white

a snowman ornament in downtown disney.

many

many wands in olivander’s wand shop.

someone i love

Jalen on the carousel.

the weather

it was a beautiful day in the Magic Kingdom.

favorite something

The boys’ favorite character, stitch.

close up

one of my favorite disney treats. mickey ice cream.

animal

giraffe in the animal kingdom.

a stranger

the girl at the Kim Possible station.

food

funnel cake at Animal Kingdom.

where i slept

Caribbean Beach resort. Trinidad North.

old

an old camera i bought on ebay for TTV (through the viewfinder) shots.

special (meal after coming home)

door our front door.

a tradition. i make pies, lots of pies, for thanksgiving.

happy. so happy Alabama beat Auburn.

pop culture. standups. it was either Edward or Beiber. I vote Edward.

purchased Butter cake dessert at CPK

my shoes- new herringbone cons from Journey’s. LOVE!

flowers- ohai ali’i from my front yard.

in the car- i keep my reusable bags in the car. always handy!

Thanks for stopping by!  I’m playing again in December! If you’d like to participate, here are our prompts:

if you’d like to be added to our facebook group, let me know, I’ll add you in!

I’ve got so many stories to share and I finally feel like I’ve caught up enough with household stuff that I can start sharing. I can’t wait!

Love Love and Blog you Later,

Joscie, rhymes with bossy! :)

Here are a few more shots from home depot and during the building at home.  I’ve used some more super cute goodies from Vol. 25  sketched templates to share them.  I am super excited about these templates and I am planning a printed book of our 365 project, I can’t wait!

Yesterday’s pic was snapped in Old Navy.  As we walked in the store I was struck by this display of Superman lunchboxes and I asked Jordan to stand in front and give me a little muscle.  Too bad we didn’t have our scientist glasses with us. ;)

We picked up some plain tshirts at Old Navy to screen print on the YUDU.  I have made this journey before.  We picked up one shirt each to screen print with the camp halfblood design, but I didn’t take into account the possibility of making a mistake (dOH! what was i thinking?!)  SO we picked up some shirts that were thankfully on sale for $6 each.  and to top it off, ON had some special deal for 10% off for military so we got our tshirts for $5.40!  and as we were checking out the cashier made a comment about that boy. I glanced over my shoulder and saw a boy about Jordan’s age pushing a store shopping cart/stroller thing repeatedly into a pillar with no parents around.  As we walked to the exit, I could see the boy in the window and I was joking , hmm, should I take a picture of this kid and post it on facebook?  nah. and then he turned his cart from the front of the store, through the check out line and right into a big bin of bouncy balls and knocked it over, balls everywhere. and it was at that point I sent out this status: To the parents who left their lil boy unsupervised in old navy crashing the store shopping cart/stroller against the pillar and then into a bin of bouncy balls until they fell over….. thanks for making my bickering boys look like angels.

Today’s potd, a stack of camp halfblood shirts in the making.  The top one was a successful print from the first run, the others are to be printed.

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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!

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!

Love Love and Blog you Later!
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!

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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!

so.  The pictures of the day.

Last year I made this brilliant offer to make something for some people. and not so surprisingly, I never got to it in time.  So I finally started.  This will be an apron for one of my gift recipients…. I just eyeballed it, cut and started sewing. and I love it!

wide angle fun at the preschool.

and yes, again.

I’m hoping to finish up rereading  breaking dawn soon, get some digi scrap in and fix my desktop computer.  so, thanks for stopping by, and I’ll blog you again real soon!

Love Love,

Joscie, rhymes with bossy!

A few friends at Church who are also military spouses asked me how I was doing so far… and I couldn’t help but think, I can’t believe he only left last week. It seems like each day is soooo long.  But so far, we are all doing well. :)

Today was a good day.  The first Monday where both boys were back in school.  We woke up early, ate breakfast and were ready to leave the house on time.  Nothing forgotten.  Traffic pretty light.  Both boys delivered safely into the care of their teachers.  Time for me to quick shop at the commissary, mail out Troy’s first care package, and come home and clean up.  I mean nitty gritty, vacuuming the floor boards, wiping down doors and light switches, cleaning bathrooms, sweeping, washing dishes, putting things away. ahhh. no craftiness happened today, but I am so happy to have had the undisturbed time to clean up.  all the while listening to the Twilight and New Moon soundtracks on the iTouch.  gotta love it.  I also upgraded the laptop to Windows 7 this weekend and am currently upgrading my desktop to windows 7.   We had our dinner at 4:30, I had Jalen’s lunch packed for tomorrow and dinner dishes washed up and coffee set for tomorrow.  Tomorrow I get to hang out with my friend FabuLisa and I am excited!  We always have so much fun chatting, shopping, eating, chatting, eating, and sometimes we craft too. ha. :)

Today’s picture of the day came from this morning’s writing assignment at Jordan’s school.  For the first part of the year, they’ve been working on writing their first names.  We are now moving on to last names.  I must say, I’ve always thought we had a longish last name, after all Cutchens has 9 letters… but today I saw so so many kids with hyphenated last names, i told Jordan we had nothing to complain about there!

Tomorrow is new digi kit release day at Two Peas in a Bucket, I can’t wait to see what’s new!  I just got the cutest school kit this weekend, I can’t wait to get to work on it.

This weekend I started reading Twilight again. I am really hooked on this love story. sigh.  I finished it up today.I am going to curl up with the iTouch Kindle App and continue reading New Moon again for a bit before bed.  I love love stories.   Stories that have happy endings. or fair endings. I really liked the time traveler’s wife.  I loved the Harry Potter stories.  I have sworn off that picoult woman.  She is awesome at writing, I just don’t like those twisted endings.  do you have any recommendations for good books?

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Joscie, rhymes with bossy!

and how cute is that valentine’s cake plate I got at target?! I saw a cute red scalloped one at Christmas time but didn’t pick it up the first time I saw it, and of course, when I went back, there were no more left. So last week when I spied this one at Target, I scooped it up quickly!

Yesterday’s picture of the day:

lunch

and today’s picture of the day:

(Roll Tide!)

New goodies from Tattered Angels:

<from the Tattered Angels Educator Blog>

Glimmer Glaze will offer the same beautiful color and AMAZING glimmer as Glimmer Mist, but will now offer you the versatility to use on any surface. This product will be a translucent to a semi-opaque depending on how much of an application is used. Glimmer Glaze will also be a matte finished product if used in a fine application, yet as you build up the product the application will build up to a semi gloss or high gloss finish. This gives you an amazingly versatile product that can be used on any surface, offer any finish (matte, eggshell, semi-gloss or high gloss) as well as a variety of depth of color depending on how much you apply. Glimmer Glaze will come equipped with a paint brush insert for easy application. The container will also have a nice sized opening making it easy to pour out for large project.

Glimmer Glam will offer a similar base of Glimmer Glaze but with a slight more of a transparent color base, still have an AMAZINGLY GLIMMERY base, yet now we are adding custom glitters to add to the depth of the glimmery crafting experience! Using a ridiculous variety of glitters, we are not only customizing the glimmer in the product, we are now customizing the glitters too! This will give crafters a multi-faceted and unique art medium to work with. Glimmer Glam will come equipped with a pom like dauber for application. The container as well has a wide enough opening to allow crafters to use the product in larger amounts if needed.

Both products are easily manipulated with Glimmer Mist, so they blend very nicely if needed. These products were created to act as a companion to Glimmer Mist to give additional depth to crafters Glimmer Misting experience.

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

Joscie, rhymes with bossy!