SaraAmarie's Quiet Reflection Kit at 3Scrapateers
Virtual Photographer: Radiant Filter
Photoshop 7.0
Fonts: Susie's Hand; Century Gothic
Image Copyrighted by Meredith Cardall, 2006
Saturday, August 26, 2006
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
it's working!
Do you like my new dress??? Okay, not the dress I'm wearing, but my blog's dress. It has a little bit different feel. I need a visual change every now and then. not that i ever really look at my own blog, but you know what I mean! :) hope everyone is having a good day!
changes
i don't deal well with change! and there are just too many changes going on. people are getting pregnant, people are having babies, people are moving, people are redecorating houses. all good things, just something to get used to. and i have something of my own to announce! changes will be coming to meredith's blog soon! i know you are all so excited to see what happens here! i am redecorating my blog! i have been working on it for a few days and I am having some issues with it, but I'll try to get it up in the next few days. other than that, i have a chat at noon today and allergy shots after that. doesn't that sound like fun?! lol oh well! have a great day!
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
good morning
hannah fell asleep at 8:30 last night. imagine my surprise that when i woke up to potty at 7:30 this morning, she was still sleeping. i figured she would wake up any minute, so i grabbed a book and read. at 9:00 she finally woke up! little stinker! i should have gone back to sleep. she is in a good mood today, so that's something new! we have had a really good morning so far. when hannah got up she wanted to come sit in mommy's bed. thomas didn't have to work until late, so we just hung out in our room for 15 minutes or so. sadly, that is more time together than we usually have. but i enjoyed every minute of it!
thanks for the birthday wishes yesterday! I am another year older. I always expect to somehow feel different after a birthday, but I never do. It's kind of disappointing, but it is also quite a relief as I get older! :) i had a good day, uneventful as usual. no complaints here! i'll take uneventful day anytime. i got some scrapbooking done and had a "tea" party with hannah. then we vacuumed the house together! little munchkin cracks me up! she pushes her little corn popper around and pretends to vacuum. My mom is trying to find a little vacuum for her for her birthday. Ruthie said that Dirt Devil makes a small vacuum that runs on battery power and it really works. I'm all for that! Hannah will vacuum the house twice a day at least! sounds good to me!
Monday, August 14, 2006
It's my party!
Okay, so it really isn't so much a party as it is just another day... but it is MY DAY!
It's my BIRTHDAY!
If I were a good little girl, I would make you guys a scrapbook kit and hand it out here today, but I'm not, so happy birthday to me!
So, what am I going to do today? Well, Hannah woke me up at 7 this morning. I couldn't sleep last night. There was a documentary on Sept 11 on the History Channel that Thomas had on. I couldn't take my eyes off it. Still, almost 5 years later, the images still have such a powerful effect on me. Everyone is talking about these movies that are coming out and I just don't think I am ready to watch a movie about such a horrible life-altering day and call it entertainment. When we finally turned it off at 2am, I couldn't sleep. So, needless to say, I am exhausted again. I have already cleaned the bathrooms and done dishes. I still need to dust, vacuum & mop. Thomas is working until 9 tonight. And I have about 4 loads of laundry to keep me company. My sister, Ashley, and my sister-in-law, Amber, may come over and watch my new DVD that I got for my birthday. Thanks Amber!!! :) I have to go buy a carbon monoxide detector because we don't have one and don't want to die. The water heater closet in the main hallway of the building always smells like gas. That's never good. We may make a trip to Wal-Mart and to the dumpster to take out the garbage... Sounds like a great start to my 28th year! toilets, trash, potty-training, laundry, cooking, dusting, mopping, vacuuming, the good stuff in life! :)
So, what am I going to do today? Well, Hannah woke me up at 7 this morning. I couldn't sleep last night. There was a documentary on Sept 11 on the History Channel that Thomas had on. I couldn't take my eyes off it. Still, almost 5 years later, the images still have such a powerful effect on me. Everyone is talking about these movies that are coming out and I just don't think I am ready to watch a movie about such a horrible life-altering day and call it entertainment. When we finally turned it off at 2am, I couldn't sleep. So, needless to say, I am exhausted again. I have already cleaned the bathrooms and done dishes. I still need to dust, vacuum & mop. Thomas is working until 9 tonight. And I have about 4 loads of laundry to keep me company. My sister, Ashley, and my sister-in-law, Amber, may come over and watch my new DVD that I got for my birthday. Thanks Amber!!! :) I have to go buy a carbon monoxide detector because we don't have one and don't want to die. The water heater closet in the main hallway of the building always smells like gas. That's never good. We may make a trip to Wal-Mart and to the dumpster to take out the garbage... Sounds like a great start to my 28th year! toilets, trash, potty-training, laundry, cooking, dusting, mopping, vacuuming, the good stuff in life! :)
Sunday, August 13, 2006
Exhausted!
I just posted a link to some layouts I have thrown together over the last week. I have been so busy that I have just done them as I can and I think they turned out pretty well for the most part. I am determined to use every kit I have at least once, so I have been going back through all my old kits and trying to find things to use. I have found some beautiful stuff that I completely forgot I had. I hadn't ever used my Dana Zarling kit before Friday. How could I have forgotten about that??? And Amanda Rockwell's Watermelon Patch kit... what was I thinking??? I did get some cute new kits this week. There is an AMAZING sale at SweetShoppeDesigns until tomorrow. I love it when they retire kits because you can get them dirtcheap. And on my scrapbooking budget that is WONDERFUL! And I also went to PlainDigitalWrapper's blog and found some coupon codes to use in their store. I got a Holly McCaig kit for $3!!! Oh! And I got Fee Jardine's Wild Animals stamps & brushes set for 40% off from the DST newsletter. I spent less than $25 and got 15+ products. Pretty good if you ask me. Now I can't shop again until Christmas. I have new kits coming out of my ears right now! Tracy Blankenship, Sue Bond & Doris Castle are all sponsors for RAKScraps in September! They gave us AMAZING kits to work with! I got the new Laura Burger kit, Too Hot, to work with as well. I am so excited for that one! The colors are so bright! I also have a Melissa Goerke kit and a Rachel Dickson kit, too! AND I am a Guest CT for an amazing designer in the month of September, but I can't announce that until after she does. So, that's a surprise for now!
and on top of all the scrapbook news, I am turning TWENTY-SEVEN tomorrow. I deserve a break just for making it this far in life! lol I am soooo tired! That is really pathetic isn't it?! :) We had a carnival at church yesterday. I got to the church at 7am and didn't leave until after 2pm. It was HOT! I was dripping with sweat before 8am. Gross! I don't like to sweat. We had a good time. We were planning for 300 people, but hoping for about 150. We probably had 100-125. We were so busy we didn't have time to count. We ordered 50 pizzas from Dominos and also had hotdogs. We were giving away pizzas & hotdogs yesterday to anyone who would take them. After church today we were still trying to get rid of those dang hotdogs. At least they were BallPark all beef hotdogs. I wanted to use Nathan's, but they were too expensive at Costco & BJs & Sams, so we went with BallPark. Then, after I bought all the hotdogs, I ran to the grocery store and they had Nathan's on sale for the same price as BallPark. So we made nasty hotdogs for no reason. But they got eaten. We had a lot of support from the parents of the kids who came, but there wasn't much support outside of that. Most of our teachers didn't show up. Three of our little nursery teachers came and three of our other teachers came. In all fairness, 3 of our teachers were out of town, one had to work, and one was sick. It turned out rather well and everyone had a good time. Next time I think we will do more of the big activities like the dunk tank & moon bounce and less of the little booths. The younger kids really liked the little games, so maybe we would just do fewer of them. The cotton candy machine was a bust. It was way too humid here to make cotton candy. We are getting popcorn next time. We are also going to try to get a giant slide or a climbing wall or something. We'll have more than 2 weeks notice for that hopefully! There was a 70% chance of severe thunderstorms all day yesterday. Literally, as I was putting the helium tank in my car to return to the party store, it started raining and storming like crazy. It was like God waited until I put the last thing in my trunk and then just let it come down. I was so thankful that it waited to rain. And by the way, helium tanks are very very VERY heavy. After the carnival I was exhausted, but I decided to put the helium tank in my trunk by myself. I almost died trying to lift that thing. I thought my insides were going to come out. I feel better today, just tired. So, Hannah is finally napping, I'm going to go, too! later...
Amanda Rockwell's Watermelon Patch Kit
Priscilla Halliday's Big Flower Layered Template on her Priscilla's Thoughts Blog*
Atomic Cupcake's Pristine Chipboard Action
Photoshop 7.0
Fonts: Pharmacy; CK Handprint
*I altered the template to fit an 11x8.5 layout and then I added additional photos to the template.
Image Copyrighted by Meredith Cardall, 2006
Monday, August 07, 2006
photos from last summer... Scrapartist's Splash Kit
Floral Bkgrd by Sarah Batdorf
Photo corner by Jomi
staple by donna doherty
stitching by donna doherty
stamped alpha by donna doherty
Inked Edges Action by Atomic Cupcake
Virtual Photographer: Reminiscing
Photoshop 7.0
Fonts: A&S Black Swan
Image Copyrighted by Meredith Cardall, 2006
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okay... good news! I was accepted to Laura Burger's creative team! Yea! She sells at 3Scrapateers and TheScrappingGarden. I am so excited about this! No more Creative Teams for me! I have 5 teams now and that is just perfect! :)
i am totally stressing out over this carnival we are having at church on saturday. the whole thing just feels so unorganized. i am sure it will come together fine on saturday, but it doesn't seem that way now. we were going to have hotdogs and hamburgers, but that is going to be so expensive. so i think we are going to switch to pizza now. i have to call dominoes to see if they can do it for us. We are going to order 100 pizzas. it is supposed to be 96 degrees plus humidity on saturday. way too hot to be sitting outside for 3 hours. so i think we are going to try to do it inside now. that's my vote at least... i should get to work on it...
Thursday, August 03, 2006
oh my gosh!
the internet is so slow here today... i have had to load every page at least 3 times... almost not worth being online this morning, maybe i'll have to go scrapbook. hannah and i went to the beach last night and took pictures of her. she is so cute. i took about 100 photos and got several cute ones, but a few great ones. i am so excited! i need to doctor them up a bit and then post them. if you take digital photos and want them to look like portraits, you need to check out this website. It is basically a plug-in filter for digital editing programs. See if your program supports .vph filters. It is called Virtual Photographer. Very very cool.
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