Maudlin Mama

My sweet baby turned five today. He is growing up way too fast for my liking! It seems like yesterday we were bringing him home from the hospital. He has been the absolute joy of my life and I really look forward to every new milestone and achievement. But, I sure would be okay with slowing time down a little bit. Not him though, the first words out of his mouth after we wished him happy birthday this morning were, "Next year, when I am six..." Heavy sigh! :)

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I am participating in a challenge called Project 365. The goal is to take one picture a day for the entire year. It will give me lots of material to scrap, but more importantly I am really looking to improve my photography skills. If you care to check it out here is the link! Project 365

Putting on Ears

My husband is the consummate deal finder. The man never pays full price for anything. He has literally bought something on sale with a coupon for more money off than the cost of the item and the grocery store actually had to give him money to buy it. So, when he found a primo deal on a Sony MP3 player I was game. After all, everyone else on the planet has one so shouldn't I jump on the bandwagon too? I rarely listen to music anymore; the radio is permanently dialed into NPR. But I miss cleaning house or driving along with a great tune playing. So, off he goes to the Sony store and buys me one. He brings it home and I dig into my rather meager CD collection to begin ripping CD's to download. I get them all synced to the MP3 and eagerly put on my headphones. It sounds great and I am really enjoying songs that I have missed like a good friend that I have not spoken too for a long time. I am jamming along (or as close to jamming as someone my age gets) and should be having a great time. But, I feel vaguely unsettled and can not put my finger on the reason why. Then it hits me like a bolt, I am missing "having ears." It has literally been years since I have been able to drown out the world. It is a mother's job to have ears at all times. At first it was to make sure my baby was not crying, then it was to make sure my toddler was not destroying the house, now it is to guard against monsters and other scary things that invade my preschoolers dreams. I had completely forgotten the luxury of oblivion, sweet oblivion. It was decision time, do I keep the earplugs in and get some much needed solitude or do I succumb to the responsibilities of motherhood and resume my sentry duties? Well, God bless my deal seeking husband... five years ago he got a great deal on a baby monitor that lights up when junior in in distress. I placed it smack dab in front on my keyboard, put on the headphones, cranked the tunes, and have been free to do gloriously mundane tasks like update my blog. Thanks honey.

Doin' a little holiday decorating...

I got sick of looking at the same ol', same ol' around here. So, I did a little redecorating for the holidays. We are going to see the world's best Santa and Mrs. Claus on Saturday so I will be back soon with some pics. Here is a little walk down memory lane until then.....

Holiday Wishes and More New Lo's!

Hope everyone had a wonderful and restful Thanksgiving. Now it is time to gear up for the Christmas season. I was bound and determined to have my shopping done early this year. Much to my delight (and surprise), I stuck with my goal and am almost finished and it is not even December yet!! Leaves me more time to scrap and here are my latest creations!


This one is scrapped with my good friend Julie's new kit Industrial Elf. Check it out here at Plain Digital Wrapper.



















I love this picture and was so excited to get an opportunity to work with the new kit by Gypsy Couture, Colorful Curiosity. You can find it here at PDW. This LO was also done for a challenge over at PDW called Three Things by Courtney Wilson. The three things challenges are rapidly becoming my faves and I think you will like them too. You can find the forum thread here.

Finally here to update!!

My whole family, me included, have been sicker than dogs. We are all finally on the mend thank in no small part to the miracle of the Z-Pack! I have busily been working to get caught up with scrapping and to unveil my first group of Creative Wonder LO's!!! Here are my creations and the links to the amazing kits I was so lucky to be able to use!

This is from Winter Wonderland by Shawnery Mathis



















This LO of my darling niece is from RazMaTazz by Julie. Itis.





















This LO, also of my darling niece, is from Wild Thang by TammyKat Dezigns.




















This LO of DS is from How Does Your Garden Grow by Kaylek.




















This one is from Hooty by Designs by Shelle!

I'm a Creative Wonder!!!

I've been accepted as a creative team member, also know as Creative Wonder, for Plain Digital Wrapper. My digi-scrapping friends know exactly what this is all about. But for those of you unfamiliar with the world of digi-scrapping, this simply means that I have been chosen to represent the designers that sell their work at PDW and I get to scrap with all of their amazing designs and show them off to others! I am so excited to be given this opprtunity and will be posting about it often! If you get a second, run over to Plain Digital Wrapper and check out all of the amazing things they have to offer!