hairbrained schemes

skater boy

Okay, I know to stay true to my title from song theme, that should actually be Sk8r Boi, but I have a deep rooted hatred of all things spelled wrong just to be cool.

Gorgeous George tortures me with the "Westside Boyz" atv club he formed a couple of years ago. 

That is what I have to live with on a regular basis, my friends.  (and while wearing things like cut-offs no less, I'm a freakin' saint if you haven't already figured that out).

Now back to what this post is really about.

Now that the house is off the market (for today anyway) we (I) have decided to decorate the boys' rooms.

Jacob chose Star Wars which we are working on finding stuff for. 

We bought one of those nifty word wall vinyl quotey things from a friend and put it up under a shelf that houses all the "DON'T TOUCH UPON THREAT OF GREAT BODILY HARM THAT MEANS YOU LUCAS" Star Wars lego.

Coveted (mostly by me) at the moment:

And Lucas chose skateboarding/snowboarding/surfing (this child has decision making problems)

So in trying to stay within the budget that we've set for ourselves since February, I made this:

I made the picture part in PSE and the frame is a cupboard door that I spraypainted with aluminum (have you ever heard a British person say aluminum?  It's fun!  If you meet someone from there I highly suggest you try to trick them into saying it. I have a new friend from the UK and could listen to her talk all day long) and then roughed it up with sandpaper.

and this:

I was lucky enough to find a font that has all the skate brands and used a couple of background papers from my supertalented friend, Libby's, digital kits.

Naturally, nothing is up yet because I'm waiting to find him a new bed (and I'm an awesome procrastinator).

I will share photos when it all comes together. 

I'm thinking maybe September.

 

and you can be my cowgirl...

Bye-bye Simple Scrapbooks - thanks to everyone who participated in our little bloghop.  I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.  Here is our winner of the lovely Making Memories prize pack:

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

7	

Timestamp: 2009-05-04 23:37:52 UTC

Congratulations Jenn!  Email me ([email protected]) and let me know where to send it!

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Oh and with all the scrapbooking excitement I forgot to post the photo I promised of Gorgeous George.

But before I do that, as per usual with GG's antics, I think you might need a little background.

A couple of weeks ago some very good friends of ours invited us out to a country bar to see a band of a guy that she went to school with.

Initially, I thought "how fun!" (forgetting the whole "country music makes me feel rage" thing GG has going on).

Then my parents, who are just back from Mexico, thought they might come visit us that weekend.

And lastly, we've been trying to stick to a budget lately and had used up all our "fun" money on beer and pogos (I kid.   

...sort of)

So we opted out and ended up having an impromptu get together with a couple of other friends.

GG was working slightly later but had asked me to get out his cowboy boots (I need to explain that these are cowboy boots purchased a couple of years ago for a Halloween costume, lest you think GG moonlights as a bronc rider) before I left.

As you may know, we are always up for a theme party and if the theme has any kind of costume involved, we are in. 

And sometimes, we like to create a theme party when it is not really necessary and some may say, even inappropriate.

And with that, I present to you, Gorgeous George's "I Hate Country Music" costume.

 

 

The sad part?

His legs look better than mine do in shorts.

And the next day, not to be outdone, one of his friends came over to help him work on our deck in even shorter shorts, a wife-beater tank and a tool belt.

I think this is just a preview of what this summer is going to be like.

lucky to be where i have been

So, I finally got the Scrapbook Play with Photos magazine and for the first time, it really hit me.

This is the last issue of Simple. 

As I flipped through it (back to front, looking at the pictures first, and then front to back reading everything - you know, the way normal people read magazines) it really slammed home that this is the last time I'll be seeing all my friends and scrapbook heroes in print.

I'm not much of a crier about stuff like that, but I kind of welled up a bit.  Weird.

I want to say thank you - to Angie, Wendy, Rachel, Stacy, Carolyn, all the Jennys/Jennifers/Jennafers ;), Megan and all my Editorial board girls, the Simple Gals and everyone else that I've had the great pleasure of working with - you all rock (and you know who you are!)

Who knew that this little hobby that started with this page:

(please pay close attention to the totally unrelated photos and the random wagon full of hearts - creativity at it's best)

at my friend, Dawn's, Creative Memory party that she dragged little ol' uncrafty me to almost 10 years ago would have turned into a passion that actually gave me the opportunity to not only see my stuff in print, but to also make me a little money to help support my habit and make friends all over North America.

Who knew.

And without further ado, here are the winners of the little prizey gifts from the other day:

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

13	14	

Congratulations, Betty and Scrapperkaren! Please email me with 
your addresses!

And here is a bigger prizey gift, gotta love Making Memories(and 
I will count any comments from the last post 
towards this and will post the winner on Monday).

 

Have a fabulous weekend and make sure you've been to these blogs 
for even more fabulous prizes!

Cathy

Wendy

Angie

yesterday

I was supposed to post links to these

Celeste Smith - 

Celeste's blog is full of amazing little bits of eyecandy.  She finds and posts the best of the crafty little fun stuffs to be found on the internet. 

Plus her adorable boys give her some of the best scrapbook material I've seen. I've been admiring her layouts for years now and was thrilled at the opportunity to work with her.

Beth Proudfoot

Beth is amazing.  So imagine my excitement when she started up a blog last year.  One of the first assignments I received was for the fun "recipe tester" chapter for the Album Shortcuts issue.  And I got to "test" on of Beth's designs.  

Now imagine how intimidated I was...(remember, I'm the dork who has held on to emails from Wendy, Angie and some of the other gals, who I won't wax poetic about because frankly, I don't need anymore restraining orders).

Margaret Scarbrough

What can one say about Margaret?  She is funny.  Hilariously so. Her boys are funny.  Hilariously so (I think they get it from their dad)

And have you seen her photos? 
And her layouts?

I know, right?

I love her blog, it's one of my favourites (and that is my little passive-aggressive way of letting her know I hope she'll update more often.)

Rachel Gainer

I had the pleasure of working with Rachel quite a few times.  She is one of the sweetest people that worked at Simple.  One of the other Editorial Team members had posted on their blog how intimidating is was to be talking or emailing with an EDITOR (see, I bolded and redded that to show how scary it was).  People like Rachel kind of made people like me (freaks) take and breath and think, "Hey, they're nice!"

Here are a couple of assignments I did for Rachel:

(true story!)

Now I have to make a couple of very important phone calls.

So I'll be back later with the winners to the little prizey gifts from two days ago and with another "GRAND PRIZE" (that I just received in the mail from Angie to give away!)