And She's back

This past month has been crazy busy!!!! I am looking forward to a slower April...really I am.

So what was I so busy doing in March....I don't even remember..lol...I am just going to post some pics of the family and go from there...

The family out to dinner at our favorite restaurant (well not really my favorite but theirs)..this child loves her daddy!!

Danni singing her first solo in church, I was so proud!!

Dinner at Gallo's in Northeast Philly with Ladies..this was so good Blacken chicken with Penne Pasta oh so yummy!!
We also had a belated birthday cake for my mil who's birthday is in December (never you mind that it is now March) My cousin Tara makes the prettiest cakes, and they taste good. ain't this pretty??

I was a little creative this month. I made two mini albums from a class I took with Scrap in Style TV. Here are the albums I made, they are not finished on the inside yet I'll have to do that later.

That is all for now.

c.

I have really been scrapping

Friday night I sat down and watched the new Tye Tribbett DVD. If you are fan, you must watch it, it is off the chain!!! I had that playing in the background and some papers and photos in front of me, and I scrapped the night away. I used some very old KI Memories, I don't even know when I bought it but I thought let me try and use this stuff up. So here are some layouts:

Supplies: Basic Grey Boxer and Kraft Cardstock, Heidi Swap Clock

This is my daugther doing her homework with her grandmother. In journaling I mention how happy she was doing her homework with ther grandmother. When she does homework with me she is never this cooperative.
Supplies: KI Memories, Autumn Leaves Journal Stamp, Heidi Swapp Letters.

This layout is pictures from the girls trip to Dutch Wonderland, Lancaster, PA in 2007. My mom always takes them places during the summer and they always have ball.

Supplies: KI Memories Paper, Heidi Swapp, Button from Walmart, Journal card by Tiffany Tillman in most recent CK Mag., Heidi Swapp Letters.

This is Danielle at the Please Touch Musuem in Philadelphia, PA before it moved, she had a ball this was like the 3rd time she had been and I was able to go too. I could barely keep up.

On Saturday I went to the National Constitution Center in Philly to see the America I AM by Tavis Smiley If it comes to your area you really should go see it. I did not see the entire visit because I did not use wisdom and took Danielle with me and unfortunately she had to to the bathroom and with this exihibit you can't reenter after you leave....so anyway I will have to go back again!

Here are some pictures from the museum:

This Lighted Mural was so great to see it kept changing colors, do you recognize everyone? You weren't able to take pictures inside the exhibit. It is really something to see.

These last pics are of Danielle signing the Constitution....too funny, she is really concentrating...lol

If you look close she actually is writing her name.

I have one more layout to share. I really like this one. I had alot of fun with this one.

Supplies: KI Memories papers, Heidi Swapp flower

Thanks for looking.

c.

Another funny story and some layouts

So last Monday I picked Danielle and my friend Liz and her grandson from daycare. Before I dropped them off I had to go to the drugstore to pick up my husbands prescription. I left my friend Liz and the kids in the car with the car running because I didn't plan to be long. Of course it took longer than expected. I get back in the car and it stalls. The lights work, radio work everything is working except the car itself will not turn. So I am sitting there trying to figure out what's going on and my daugter says in the whinest voice I ever heard. I want to go home! Uh duh we all do is she serious, I say to myself and look at my girlfriend. As calming as I can I say to Danielle will all will go home as soon as we figure what's wrong with the car. We called my girlfriends husband he is on his way, so I fiddle around with the car some more and the car starts. I am dumbfounded and wanted to make sure that it actually was running so I sit there a few minutes, and my daughter says, Drive mommy, drive. I couldn't believe it. This child of mine is mess!!

This above layout was done using the SEI Jolie Chocolat line with some Martha Stewart Butterflies. This is also a sketch from Tiare

This is another sketch from Tiare. I am not sure of the Paper Company for these papers, they were in Classy Pak I know.

This child is always sucking her thumb and pulling her ear or someone elses ear if they let her. This is what she does the majority of her time at home or anywhere. She keeps telling me she is not going to suck her thumb no more but always manages to keep doing it. We have even bribed her nothing works. We soon will need to get her to stop. I'll let you know how that goes.

c.

Funny Story

Yesterday after church Danielle kept saying she was hungry. So as we are walking to the car she says I just want french fries no nuggets this time money. I say how about we go home make you a peanut better and jelly sandwich and you can have a glass a milk. She reluctantly says OK. We get home I fix the sandwich and grab a cup out of the cabinet and pour her some milk. She looks at me and says Mommy that's not a glass that's a cup, you said I could have a glass. I just look at her and say this cup will do just fine. When did she learn the difference between a cup and a glass. Some days she really amazes me.

She is also reading some words and sounding them out! Can you say Kindergarten here we come!! Say a prayer that she gets to go to in September. I think she is ready.

c.

Sharing some layouts

The first layout is from my trip to the Academy of Music to see Ruben Studdard, Frenchie Davis and Trenyce in Ain't Misbehavin. It was a great show and the cast was awesome. I was trying to find a picture of all of them on the net but no such luck. My friend Whitney treated me, it was a great treat especially because we were sitting in the front row.
Supplies: bazzil cardstock
I journaled on the bad phot0graph of Whitney touching the stage:
Journaling reads:
So one day during the first week of January Whitney and I had a passing conversation about going to see Ain’t Misbehavin since it was in town. We talked about our availability. So sunday morning I get text message from Whitney saying we are still going right, I had forgotten about it and had not realized that she bought the tickets. It was a pleasant surprise! We get to the theater and we ask the usher where are seats were, I could not believe she bought us to front row seats. I’ve been to the Academy of Music a thousand times, but have never sat in the FRONT ROW! Can you say EXCITED! This is Whitney’s hand touching the stage. It was a great show! Thanks, Whitney - I owe you one!

Supplies: bazzil cs and basic grey scarlet letter (my favorite line from them when it came out now it's Offbeat)
Above is my take on the Week 7 Sketch going on at Classycoordinates. This is a layout of the second cousins at the repast for my husbands grandmother. Laila and Danielle see each other all the time, but Moriah lives in Florida so they were all having a ball together.

Journaling Reads:
Danielle, Laila, & Moriah bonding at Grandma Lewis’ repast. They don’t get to see each other often , but when they do it’s a treat for us all. They are holding up the peace sign taught to them by Al’s niece Candace. January 2009

Thanks for looking!

c.

Scrapbooking is Cheap Therapy

Well it's only cheap therapy if you don't spend any money and i didn't spend a dime. I just used what I had on hand. The first three are for the 52 Week Skecth Challenge by Tiare.

These last two were done back in October when I went to this 12 hour Crop. My girl Stephanie gave me an older Sketch magazine by Simple Scarpbooks and I got the sketch for these two from there.

I completed the first three layout early this morning, feeling much better.

Thanks for looking!

Layouts of the cutest nephew

For Christmas I bought my sister in law and family a scrapbbok album for my nephew. I told her I would periodically do some layouts to add to the book of photos I took of him. He is the cutest boy I know. Here are two layouts I did based on sketches by Tiare. These are from the 52 Week Challenge she has going on at her blog.

Supplies are Bazzill cs and Basic Gery Archiac with little Stampin Up! grosgrain ribbon.

What is another good boy paper line to use?

In Memory of my Mother Deborah Maxine Daniels

I miss my mom so much. Today would have been her 56th birthday, she died of lung cancer when she was 43.

Here are two layouts I tribute to my mom.
The journaling is the words to Wind Beneath My Wings.

Cherish your family and your friends they are not guaranteed to be here with you forever.

Cards, Cards and more cards

As I sat watched every detail of the Inauguration I made some cards.

Thanks for looking

Cynta

Happy New Year and Happy February!

Can I still say that being it's near the end of January/beginning of February? Well anyway I pray all is well with you all. All is not perfect with me but I am pressing forward...can't dwell on too many things out of my control.

So where do I start....Ok I did a December Daily I will have to take pics and post them. My December Daily was for the entire month of December and I just have like the last four days to finish. Christmas was good. Danielle got a big girl bike and a kids digital camera (which she hasn't look at since Christmas. I made a few Christmas cards, would have made more but the spirit of procrastination took over.

Here are the cards I made:

I used some basic grey wassail and basic grey dasher and Stampin Up! Christ is Born Stamp set

My job moved closer to my house! Can we say 12-15 minute commute! It is really doing alot for my gas tank. I use to drive 45 - an hour to and from work.

I am trying to spruce up my office a bit so I made desk calendar. I was inspired by Tiare she put this calendar from the KI memories blog in her most recent newsletter.

Here it is isn't it cute?

I promise to upload some pics of the December Daily this evening. The year is going. I don't usually complain about the weather but Philadelphia has been getting some snow and some cold. It has been freezing. But I was finally able to get some pics of Danielle playing in the snow!!

So this post is getting pretty long and didn't want to end without mentioning anything about the Inauguration. I scheduled to take off the day of the event back in November. Our offices moved January 15 and 16. I was out a few days prior to this due to my husband's grandmother passing. Do you know one of my supervisors asked was I still taking off the day of the Inauguration and I said I sure am! But our boss decided to close the office anyway so everyone would have the opportunity to watch. I watched every little detail, with such happiness, proudness can't really explain it. Our country has seen a new day indeed and I am proud to be apart of it.

Christmas Greeting from Danielle

Here is Danielle singing Jingle Bells.....

A Season to be Thankful

I know I haven't been around in a while, time has been short, but wanted to post about this wondeful holiday that just passed. I made the trip to visit my sister in Columbus, OH and my two brothers, one from Mansfield, Oh and the other from Oklahoma City, OK. We decided back in October that it was time to come together again. I haven't seen my sibling since August 2005. So on Wedenesday around 3 PM, my husband, Danielle and I packed the car up and headed to Ohio. I arrived in Ohio aroung 11:40 PM, exhausted, and happy to be there safely.

Here are some pictures of food:

Be back tomorrow to post the rest of the pictures.

TTYL

Cynta

WE DID IT!

Happy Birthday to me!!!

I am 34 today! Wooohooo! So naturally the celebration started this weekend. I attended a crop in Easton, PA as a birthday gift from my sister and friend Doreen. It was a 12 hour crop and I completed 7 pages. I also tied for first place in the layout contest, for completing a layout with materials they handed out and we added our own embellishments. I had a great time, if I planned better I could have gotten more done, but I didn't, but that was really fine with me. The ladies were very nice and the food was good. i can't wait to do something like this again soon. Here are a few of the layouts I created i'll have to take pictures of the others tomorrow during the day:
The layout below is the one that won the contest:

So let me continue my celebration be back tomorrow.

Happy Birthday Danielle!

The little princess enjoyed herself today and yesterday! So much yesterday that she actually hurt herself. So Steph no photo shoot just yet. Here are some pictures of the days festivites:

The little one fell on Friday at school and she now has a bruise under left nostril and her bottlon lip is bruised too. Of course this would happen the day before her birthday, things like this add so much to the story of her turning 4.

Thanks for looking, pictures coming to a mini album soon. I am tired now and the Princess went to bed this evening without a fight, very unheard of, and when I went to check on her not even five minutes after I tucked her in she was knocked out. I believe it is safe to say the little princess had a great time.

TTYL,

Cynta

It's so hard to believe

This little girl will be 4 tomorrow. This is her posing at the steps. oops mommy forgot the cupcakes.

I'll get them mommy!

This is what happens when she arrives at day care. Anybody know the Disney birthday song? At 7:45 am the Disney Birthday song is played for my baby and this is what happens. Children and daycare provider go crazy. Look how Danielle is still making eye contact with the camera. She is a MESS!!


This party will continue tomorrow, more pictures and fun times the rest of the weekend.

Cards and more cards

So over the past couple of weeks I have been working on perfecting my card making. Here a few that I have been working on. What do you think?

My favorites are the three cards above. The first is using some old Crate Paper from 2006. The second card is using the new Basic Grey Off Beat The last card one is a wedding card for some friends that are getting married tomorrow. The brown and white paper is American Crafts.

Be back soon.

Cynta

Funny Story

So a couple of weeks ago my daughter, my husband and I were watching TBN just seeing who was on their Praise the Lord program. I was explaining to my husband our daughters interpretations of our complexions. She says my husband is black, I am white and she is brown. Okay I wanted to make sure she wasn't just saying I was white, so there was a singer on the program named Vicki Yohe, who is white, so I turn to my daughter and ask her what color was the lady singing on the TV, she says...Mommy she's white just like you. LOL. As you all can tell from my previous posts my daughter and I are very much the same complexion, but can you tell me why she thinks I'm white and she's brown??? Kids! Here's proof.

Engaged!!!

I found our engagement photos from 2001 and scrapped a page using a sketch by Tiare. I used the Making Memories Noteworthy Line and Bazzill CardStock. ya like? Still have to add some journaling, but wanted to share it nonetheless.
I'll be back soon with a real update.

I'm HOME!!

and all is well, the only thing I am doing tomorrow is taking my ring to the jeweler...
PEACE!!

Warning: Pity Party Below

Okay so I left on last Thursday for the ELCA Communicators Conference. It was a great conference. I met some great people, hey Nikki. I was scheduled to leave Chicago yesterday afternoon. My flight was rescheduled 3 times and then eventually cancelled. I get a hotel room at the Hyatt Regency for 69.99, the airline rate. After eating dinner I eventually dose off, around 3:30am the fire alarm goes off....I get dressed and get down stairs via the steps which wasn't so bad going down. I get outside and it's a false alarm. I reenter the hotel and due to the long lines at the Elevator I walk the seven flights to my room, which were murder. I can't seem to fall back to sleep so I have been on the computer since I got back to my room.

I just noticed one of my diamonds is missing out of my ring, and my cellphone refuses to work. I haven't seen my daughter and husband since Thursday and my flight today does not leave until 8:00 pm which means I still won't get home until 11:30 pm. I am doing okay, but say a prayer for me cause I am trying not to be too upset about all of this, knowing that there must be some type of God moment in all of this...

Cynta

CKC and other ramblings

I went to CKC Valley Forge for the first time. I was excited nervous and overwhelmed all at the same time. My tour guide for this event, Stephanie was the best! She scoped out the place before I got there and we managed to get come great deals. As she mentions in this post
Heidi Swapp's company Advantus was having a serious close out! Here is what I scored for just $20 bucks.

I volunteered also and got a $30 credit for my service, with that I bought two books the Scrapbookers Almanac by Elizabeth Dillow and The Organized and Inspired Scrapbooker by Aby Garvey and Wendy Smedley.

I also purchased an 8x8 book of SEI's Jolie Chocolat and 5 12X12 sheets from the some collection. I also bought 3 chipboard mini albums from Gifted memories. The owner Shere has be in business for year now, check her out she has some nice premade pages too.

i stopped off at the Memory Lane PA, which is kind of a lss. I got one of the Making Memories 4X6 journaling books i didn't have and I also picked up Simple Scrapbooks mini albums in an evening mag.

All and all I had a great time. When Stepanie and I finally made up our minds about lunch Ruby's diner sure hit the spot.

I managed to score some deals at Sears in the King of Prussia Mall for My duaghter and sister Aisha.

Last week I was on vacation from work, attending our Youth Convention. Can you believe my three year old sang in the children's choir everyday and sung a solo. I was floored when I saw this and I had nothing to do with it.

I am home today nursing a sick child with a fever...and it's onto Chicago on Thursday for work. I am hoping to get to Windy City Scrapbooking or Archivers. The schedule for the conference I am attending seems a bit tight so I may not be able to get to them, but hopefully I can.

I need to fix Danielle something to eat so I will talk to you all later.

Cynta