Jessica's 5!!!

Heres some pix from Jess' birthday...

Fox River

The Fox River is only2 blocks from our house and has a great bike trail that is miles and miles long.

Sweet Grace

Mom

Mom enjoying a magazine in my craft room last week....

Mexico layout

Layout I did for "Becky's Sketch" at Creative Memories Mag....its kinda boring but I stuck to the pattern she had...... If you click on it you can see the details.....

Sunday morn.

Chuck and I went to dinner at Geno's East last night....yummy! We brought the Scrabble game because it takes forever to get your pizza at this place. We had fun and the pizza was delish!

April = Snow

Woke up this morn to an inch of snow outside.....horrible!

Mom came over to visit today...she's in town spending lots of time with gramma Lu. We had a nice visit...she loved our new house.



Made this for Mary and Corey.....


Amy brought me these hydrangas for Easter....thanks seester.

Happy Easter

Nothing much new to report...off the last two days and getting ready for Easter brunch with the family at my house....the place is still kinda a wreck...I need to get my butt out of the craft room today and get busy cleaning up the rest of the house...boring!!

Happy Easter

Nothing much new to report...off the last two days and getting ready for Easter brunch with the family at my house....the place is still kinda a wreck...I need to get my butt out of the craft room today and get busy cleaning up the rest of the house...boring!!

Funny website

http://www.threadbared.com/50s/index.html

Ran across this website of old pattern packages this morn...there are funny captions below the vintage pix.

Back to work yesterday...wow, long day after being off for 2 weeks. Great to see the kids...they were all smiles for me when I got there at 630a...Good to see Jenn & Kristyn. Kristyn invited Chuck and i to her wedding in the fall which will be on the Odyssey ship downtown...fun!

Favorite Day

Sunday...

• Drink lots of coffee
• Read the paper
• Watch "Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood" (what can I say..I'm getting old...I love this show...its on at 8am...I call it my "gentle news program")
• Hang with Chuck.
• Go out to Breakfast/lunch (sometimes)
• Arts & crafts& scrapbooking & arts & crafts & scrapbooking.................................
• Quiet time
• Nice supper

What more could a girl ask for!!!
Shot this at Sweet Tomatoes last week...I brought my pix to lunch and all the kids wanted to crowd around Amy and see. Cute.

Back to work tomorrow after almost 2 weeks off. looking forward to seeing the twins...oh and Jenn and Kristyn too!!

I need to....

1. Finish unpacking.
2. Clean the kitchen.
3. Take a shower.
4. Fold the clean clothes
5. Wash more clothes.
6. Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah

I'm crafting and watching movies instead...

more fun pix from mexico...

Grace @ sunset, Jack sticking his tongue out everytime I wanted a photo,
paper balloons, Mary with the parents,
fun blue margarita...Yum! More later...

colorful....

I loved all the colors...oh, and check out the bird lady.

Home!!

Home from Mexico last night and all I wanted was a BIG pizza. Chuck and i went to Gino's East...I had 3 bites and.....I still don't feel so good...bummer. Oh well...the pizza is in the fridge for dinner tonight. Had a great time at the wedding .....here are a few photos from Marys big day.....



Love this one of the hands....

hola from mexico

....so found a computer at the new hotel I´m at until tomorrow...thought I´d give all my fans a shout-out....hahahaha...Wedding went well but everyone got sick from a neuroviris...I guess its like the bug people get on the cruise ships. The party that was at the hotel last week were sick, but it took until are party fell for the hotel to figure out what was going on...Poor Mary and Corey...alot of people were down for the count for alot of the festivities.

The wedding was super nice...Mary looked like a fairy tale princess. The weather is great sunny and 80 every day. I´m ready to get home...I miss you Chuck.

Take care all..more when I get home tomorrow, plus took a ton of pix...I know you all can´t wait for all the awesome scrapbook pages I´ll create..lol....

Mexico

Well, I'm off to Mexico for Corey & Mary's wedding tomorrow....decided at the last minute that I didn't want to miss her big day (thanks mom)....hopefully I can bunk with someone otherwise I'll be sleeping on the beach....I may bring my laptop, so look for updates and pix. Adios!

Creativity is a drug I can't live without.

I love this saying....might paint it on the wall in the craft room...


Up at 6am today(I know, a little late) and straight to the craft room..with coffee of course. Chuck has been awesome....getting up before me every day and making the coffee...thanks, honey! keep up the good work!!!


.... a couple of pages i've been working on...actually the pink one I did a while ago but wanted to post it....its one of my faves.


Just going to hang with Chuck and my stuff today...maybe do a little thrifting....there are 2 thrift stores nearby....altho they are kinda grubby, you can sometimes find some treasures.


Went to my new library last week....its HUGE!!!yea!! Tons of books all for my reading pleasure.

my mad computer scientist ....

...trying to get the entire house wired!!!

Hi Amy Van Sickle

Aim....I got nothin to report and i'm going to work so quit checkin the blog.....you crack me up girl....have a great day!

MFA

Just want to give a shout out to MFA (my friend Amy)....hey girl. Had a nice time at lunch today....couldn't stop eating as usual.....this is a cute pic of you. Things are going well in the Kells/Bachman household....had a day off today...took 2 naps..Yum. My friend Kathy in the hospital since yesterday with high blood pressure...had an angiogram today and has no blockages...thank god. So why the HBP, Kath?....get well soon...hopefully we can get together soon.


Here's a pic of our new couch....its huge! Chuck lays on one end and I'm on the other...and we don't even touch!!(unless we want to of course)








Bubba kitty curled up in our new quilt....wanted to show ya that too...

meltdown + random thoughts

all is well today altho yesterday had a total a complete crying tantrum meltdown on the driveway....I'm sure the neighbors were impressed with the new people....had to go thru all my crap in the garage so Chuck could fit his crap in there. it felt so overwhelming. it was overwhelming!! After a good sob, I was able to get almost everything in the house or sorted....feel alot better today...now I just have to go thru all the boxes....some of the stuff is from when I moved from EP 3 years ago....is that bad?...YES

...feels like spring today...its so warm...about50...lots of sunshine.

I'm enjoying having Chuck's cats here....they're sweet....hopefully it will stay that way...Bubba likes to lick plastic which is kinda funny to watch.

My craft room is looking smaller and smaller with each thing I bring up here.

Loving our new house...

acrafting we will go...

1st full weekend in new house....things are starting to come together...played with my stuff a little this morn...I love our house. Its a big mess but thats ok....sooner or later things will get put away....

Simple scrapbook page i put together from the day Chuck and I got engaged....

Pix from the move & step-kitties

Here are a few pix from moving day and the next day. Chuck was very happy to his has cats with him....very happy in new house altho its a big mess. We both have a lot of stuff.

...cats

....well, the cats are here..Bubba and Spooky.....pix to follow of my new step-kitties. Visited my new Wal-mart yesterday...that was fun....its right across the street from the old Santas Village..which has been shut down for years...it looks kinda scary...all the rides and stuff are all decrepit and falling apart. I want to go over there and take some pix when the snow melts. Back to work today to take care of the twins....

....home!...

...well, its almost 8p and we just finished moving...what a day. Chuck and I just took showers....the one upstairs works really good...yay...we are going to eat and go to bed...the house is a wreck but its home.....
my boys....E&D....were a HUGE help altho eric kinda a crabby guy due to still not feeling good....we were calling them the E&D moving company...thanks boys...love ya....

...yay...

...oh goody, the weather is going to SUCK again this weekend....We sure got UNlucky with the moving weather....oh well. Looking forward to Sunday when all is moved to Elgin house. Planning on taking 2 loads over with my car this morn. furniture to be delivered and cable hooked up this afternoon.....I know we need furniture, but do we really need the cable hooked up this fast...Chuck?.....god forbid honey misses one of his Stargate rerun episodes that MUST be downloaded and archived for eternity...wink, wink, baby i heart you.....well i need to get to work packing stuff...

....it's March

I was going thru all of my photos I have stored on my computer today...wanted to post some pix from my Design Originals Book....I wrote to the editor of Scrapbooks Etc to check out the book.... they have posted that one of the trends for 2007 is felt embellishments....hello I'm a trendsetter...and before my time even...book was published in '05.