31. March 2008 by admin.

It’s opening day for major league baseball here in the states.  The only thing that means to me is it’s just another sign of springs approach.  The other sign, April showers is going to bring new meaning this week.  Wednesday is the only day without forecasted rain.  Ah Springtime in the Midwest.

 Shannon took the dogs and went down to the camper on Friday night.  The space heater was in my car, so he didn’t freeze, but wasn’t too warm.  It did the dogs good.  I swear that Carmen goes through camper withdrawal ever winter and is depressed until April.  We’ll spend a good part of the week getting all the stuff that he didn’t take with him (most everything) ready and then spend the weekend down there.  Don’t tell Shannon, but I’ve gone through camper withdrawal too.

 Yesterday we had our “Easter” dinner at his sister’s house.  It’s always a good time with lots of good food.  She set’s a gorgeous table and I always forget to get a photo until we’ve sat down to eat.  This year there were little pails in pinks and such filled with Easter candy, cordinating placemats & runner.  Very Martha Stewart like.  It’s really funny cuz every time we do “dinner” I make green bean casarole, cuz everyone likes how I make it.  I don’t like green bean casarole, I just followed the recipe on the back of the Campbell’s can one year.  I also made a dessert.  I thought I’d try to share it with you.  It’s a Paula Deen recipe from the Food Network.

Slow Berry Cobbler

Filling:
1 (10-ounce) bag frozen strawberries
1 (10-ounce) bag frozen blueberries
1 (10-ounce) bag frozen raspberries
1/3 to 2/3 cup sugar, depending on your level of preferred sweetness
1/2 cup baking mix Topping:
2 1/4 cups baking mix
1/4 cup sugar, plus 1/4 cup
4 tablespoons butter, melted
1/2 cup milk
2 teaspoons ground cinnamonSpray the insert of a slow cooker with nonstick cooking spray. In a large mixing bowl, toss together all the frozen fruit, sugar and 1/2 cup baking mix. Transfer the fruit to the slow cooker. In another large mixing bowl, stir together 2 1/4 cups baking mix, 1/4 cup sugar, melted butter and milk with a wooden spoon. With your hands, drop bits of dough on top of the fruit in the slow cooker. In a small mixing bowl, stir together the remaining 1/4 cup sugar and ground cinnamon. Sprinkle the cinnamon sugar on top of the dough and place the lid on the slow cooker. Turn the power onto high and slow cook for 3 to 4 hours until the topping has puffed and the fruit is bubbling.Serve warm with whipped cream or ice cream.

It was really easy to make and surpisingly good.  If you need an easy, laid back dessert recipe then this is the one for you.

I did get some scrapping in this weekend.  I also worked on a few templates that I’ll be giving away throughout the week.  There’s one on yesterdays post, just scroll down.  There will be another one tomorrow. 

 Credits: Lindsay Jane Iced Berry, Miss Mint Painted Season, Lliella - Sunshine Sweets & Andrea Gold template.

Tomorrow I’ll have the new CT challenge from Heather’s girls for you.  Miss Andrea (Happy Anniversary tomorrow) outdid herself on this challenge and it’s gonna be a lot of fun.  I hope you’ll stop back by to check it out.

Until next time, scrap happy!

Diane

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30. March 2008 by admin.

Hi all~ I’m over at my new site for awhile. This one will be primarily ads until I can get approved on the other site. Please stop by over there for an update.

New Site!!!!

Visit me there and leave me some loving.

Diane

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30. March 2008 by admin.

Well  I hope you’re all enjoying your Sunday.  Welcome to the temp blog site.  For the next few weeks, all my posts will be here.  It’s a little different layout than the usual blog.  I hope you’ll like it.

Here’s a freebie for you, just for stopping by today.  I’ve been playing around with templates a bit.  This is set up in PSD only.  Sorry if you’re using another program other than photoshop, I don’t think it’ll work for you.  You can click on the preview to be taken to the download.

 Here’s a page I did with the template.  It’s also the last of my guest CT layouts for Cherie Shields.  My time is done with Kiki too, but I love her papers and they work so wonderfully with anything pertaining to my nephew,  so you’ll see lots of her stuff.

Here’s another one I did over the weekend.  I got the Shabby Princess’ freebie Promise and it’s awesome.  Hope you grabbed it too. 

Tomorrow I’ll have another template for you and a link to a template challenge at Heather’s CT site.  Andrea outdid herself on the template there.  It’s gonna be a great challenge.

Have a great day!

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27. March 2008 by admin.

Another short, nothing to say post. Yesterday’s weather was gorgeous. The sun shone all day and it hit 60. Today it’s raining and will struggle to make it to 40. Springtine in the Midwest. Fun, fun, fun. I feel it in my bones.

I ordered my laptop yesterday. Dude, I got a Dell. Actually it’s from the outlet store. It’s pink (not my fave color, but it had everything I wanted with a low price). It should be here in about 5 days. Then maybe I can scrap at work. I’ve never had a desktop so it could be interesting watching me learn how to use it. Shannon doens’t know. He’ll flip I already know this. But who cares. It’s my money, actually my little gift from Georgie B is gonna help pay for it.

I’m working on getting another blog site up. Once I do, for a short time, this one will have the ads back. I really need to work on getting myself back on track for that. Not only does that revenue fund my shopping sprees in the digistores, it’s helped pay a credit card bill or two. So keep an eye out for the temporary change.

Ok, gotta run to work. Hope you all have a great day.

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26. March 2008 by admin.

Another NSBR post today cuz I didn’t have any time to A)scrap, B)find out if anything new is going on in my part of the scrapping world. I’m sure there is, but I’m being a baaaad CT. I want to thank you all for commiserating with me yesterday about my lack of internet access at work. Once again, if you have some great NSBR sites that you think I may enjoy, leave me the address in comments. Barb gave me a great one, but it’s blocked at work, which is a bummer cuz there are some BEAUTIFUL photos on it.

Wanta know why I didn’t scrap last night? TV. Yep I said it, TV. One of these days the Biggest Loser is going to inspire me so much to get up off the couch and start working out. One of these days. lol. At least I’ve stopped watching it with a pint of ice cream. Actually, it’s been tivo’d because American Idol is gettin HAWT as Randy would say. What, you didn’t see it. Well, watch this video. IMO the best preformance of the night and most likely the season.

I liked David Cook from his first audition, when he said that he watched what Chris Daughtry did during his season. Chris is the only AI artist that I’ve bought music from. I have said a few times that David has out Daughtry’d Daughtry. That preformance was AMAZING!!! As was Elenor Rigby. I think that David will go the same route as Chris. So seeing that Chris was so successful as the loser of AI, I’m really kinda hoping that David doesn’t win and has a bit more control over his future. As long as he keeps singing this way, he’ll continue to be on stage each week. I thought that Brooke did well, even with her small goof, but like Randy wished she would have either stayed with just the piano or really had the band rock it out and her get up away from the piano to rock with them. (even though she showed she doesn’t do that well). I’m really not enjoying Michael Johns as much as I did during Hollywood weeks. Didn’t get David A’s song at all. Thought that Carly was much better than the judges said she was, but I’m not a fan really. The rest were just ok, not really all that memorable.

So there’s my American Idol recap for you. Maybe tonight I’ll be able to scrap some. I’m trying to figure out what on earth I’m gonna do when camping season starts. As much as I’m looking forward to it, when am I gonna find time to scrap? Thinking long and hard about a laptop. lol.
Have a great day!

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25. March 2008 by admin.

Welcome to my new blog site.  I’ve had this site for about 2 months now and haven’t done anything with it.  Bad blogger.  I really wanted a chance to do more with the various ppp companies I’ve been doing business with and havent been able to since they took away my access at work to blogs.  So for the next 30 days this site will mirror the Blogger site, but there may be a few more ads there then there have been.  I really need to get back into the swing of things with my ads.  So watch for some changes to this site and maybe some freebies along the way too.

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25. March 2008 by admin.

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25. March 2008 by admin.

As a many of you know, I have a boring customer service job with lots of down time. The IT dept. has made some pretty major restrictions over the last nine months, which is understandable. So I am always looking for ways to fill the downtime. When I started this job, almost 2 years ago, I spent the majority of my time on Pogo.com playing games. I used to be a Pogo addict. Then for awhile I got in to the SAHM sales games. See how many internet based small companies you can sell from. I think that lasted about 3 months. I had 8 different affiliations for stuffed animals, bath & body products, dog treats, candles, Watkins & it all started with Tupperware. That’s how I got introduced to chats. Now the IT guys have them blocked.

Last summer I started scrapping. I had a trial copy of PSE5 on my work computer and was doing pages in my downtime. Well I guess the downloading of design files is what alerted the IT dept and games that were downloaded were against company policy and could end up in termination. My direct supervisor didn’t think that my PSE was included, cuz it wasn’t a game, but I wasn’t taking any chances. So I took it off.

Now I look for ways to fill that time. I used to spend most of the day on different scraping boards. But it seems that things have slowed somewhat in the community. So I found some other interesting sites. I thought I’d share some of them with you. They are mostly blogs, but not on blogging sites. I can however read blogs again, I just can’t leave comments on most of them. So that helps kill some time too.

The new season of Top Chef just started back up two weeks ago. Bravo TV has a great website that includes all their shows, but the only one I really watch is Top Chef. After I’ve watched the episode, I go to this site Top Chef blogs and read over the opinions of not only the judges, but also chefs from past seasons like Harold, Casey, Dale and a new power ranking from Brian Malarkey. There is also recipes from all the seasons. Great site!!

How I Met Your Mother ~ Barney’s Blog is a comedic blast. Have loved this show since the very begining. At first is was hard to see Barney not Doogie Howser, but he changed and grew on me. The blog will make no sense whatsoever if you don’t watch the show. But if you do, it’s hysterical.

Grey’s Anatomy; Grey Matter by the writters, The Emerald City Bar blog by Joe the Bartender & Nurses Station blog by Nurse Debbie. Another great way to kill an hour or so. Or catch up on what you’ve missed or forgotten since the writter’s strike started. With new episodes starting back up in a month, this is great place. I really like the writter’s blog, often explains what’s going on in their mind as they were writting the show.

LOST is my number one favorite obsession. Have loved it since day one. Have a million questions that still haven’t been answered. As a matter of fact, I’ve found that I’ve forgotten a lot of my questions. This is a wikipedia page. Gives basic info on the show and lists episode recaps from all 4 of the seasons. I’ve started back with season 1 and reliving my love of LOST.

What are some of your non scrapping sites that you love to visit. Share a good one with me, if I fall in love with a site, I’ll share a little lovin with you in the form of a GC. Just leave me the site addy in comments.

Well, it’s getting closer to that never popular time of leaving for work. And as always it’s later than I thought. Have a good day all!

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24. March 2008 by admin.

Hope you enjoyed your Easter weekend. It was a quite one here. Mostly lazed around the house. I did manage to get a few lo’s done. Sat. was SBB’s monthly chat and challenge day. So most of them are for that. Mojo not quite working right, so yesterday I spent time cleaning and purging. Didn’t help much. I really need to do a MAJOR purge, but can’t. I have 32 GB in my download area (but that also includes photos which got transfered there somehow on my last computer error time). I guess that’s not really a lot. I’d say that I need to move all my layouts. I’ll bet that’s what’s eating up my drive space.

Anyway, not a lot going on in my world regarding scrapping. My guest spots are coming to an end shortly. I still have 1 more page I need to do for Cherie, it’s in progress. So here’s what I got done this weekend.

Credits: Beautiful Soul by Cherie Shields. Flower & Word Art Templates by Birgit Kerr.
Everything by Jofia Designs.

This one was for an ad challenge at SBB. Paper by Cherie Shields, flower sprays by Kim DeSmet & alpha by Birgit Kerr (recolored)

And this one is the last one and probably my favorite. My nephew so hates it when I try to take photos of him. So these are the typical shots I get. Papers by Kiki Halbert, page curl template by Melgen designs & frames by Doreen Stolz.

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21. March 2008 by admin.

So glad it’s Friday, even if I do have to work tomorrow. Once again, a short post today. It’s been a week since I’ve done a layout. Between having the kids here, mom staying on an extra day and being sick, I just haven’t had the time or energy. I need to find some motivation cuz I’ve got at least 2 CT layouts to do. I’m waiting for the pics from my SIL from the weekend and the links from SBB. I picked up Ztampf! Liquid kit to scrap those with, with a little help from Amanda who gave me a GC a few weeks ago as a rak. I’ve been in mega shopping mode instead lately. Last week I got some fab things from the Oscraps sale, the CT appreciation kit and misc. other purchases along with 2 kits from my CT obligiations. Hope Shannon leaves me alone this weekend. Feeling a bit more human. It’s progressing from throat to nose to chest, which means it’s about run it’s course. I hope that everyone else suffering can kick it soon too.

If you celebrate Easter this weekend, happy Easter to you all. May all you photos turn out stunning. Enjoy your weekend.

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