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Weekend in Review!!

Good Monday morning peeps! I hope you all had a great weekend. We were suppose to hit the mall, but we all woke up late Saturday and just decided to veg at home. DH will take a vacation day sometime this week and we'll all head to the mall then. Speaking of vacation, just two weeks until DH has a couple weeks off! To say I am excited would be an under statement! LOL

I have a bit of sad scrapping news, I decided to step down from all my creative team spots, with it being summer, my mojo at an all time low and an opportunity awaiting me starting in August, it was time to step aside and let someone fresh and new have my spot. I am totally bummed though and will miss all the girls like crazy! :(

We also were able to see two new movies this past weekend...

First up was BRUNO



Words cannot describe how in love I am with Sacha Baron Cohen, the man is just brilliant! This movie is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended, not even sure it is for the medium offended, but we laughed our asses off the whole time! So funny, though I will admit I think Borat was a tad bit better overall. Still Bruno gets two thumbs up from us!!

The second movie was THE SOLOIST



Really, Really liked this one a lot! Jamie Foxx was amazing in it and I just love anything Robert Downey Jr. does. It is a very powerful film that I believe makes a very powerful statement. Another two thumbs up for this one!

With that I will wrap things up for today, have a good one and until next time..TATA!!

Save yourself....

That is what I told DH as headed out the door this morning! LOL My daughter has been back to school the past couple days, but this morning woke up, threw a fit, which was a good indication she wasn't feeling good, so I checked her temp and she is again running a low grade fever, so home she is again today. Yesterday the little man was sporting a 39 degree fever and basically spent the day sleeping on the sofa, his fever is slightly lower today, so that is good. There of course there is me, low grade fever, stuffy..sigh..like I said to DH "save yourself" as he appears to still be healthy! LOL

I finished a couple LO's in the past couple weeks, my mojo has gogoed, which sucks, but what can you do! I have a major decision to make and am actually just waiting to hear from someone, what they say will effectively make the decision for me. Anyways, here are the two latest scrapbook pages, you can see the credits at my gallery!







With that I will wrap things up for today! I have to snuggle with sick children, plus make our weekly menu and shopping list...until next time...TATA!!

Weekend Update and a Couple new LO's!!

Good Monday morning peeps! I hope you all enjoyed a lovely weekend, ours was pretty layed back. All last week was environment week at my daughters school so they learned about alternative energies, picked up trash, visited a windmill farm and a bunch of other fun things and then Saturday we were all invited to the school to see the crafts they made from recycled materials and she was part of a little dance, so that took up part of the day. It was raining and kind of "blah" so we just hung out at home the rest of the day and cleaned a little, read a little etc. Saturday night I snuggled up on the sofa with my snacks and watched Eurovision. It was actually decidedly less cheesy then previous years and I have to say there were quite a few good songs this year!

Sunday the weather was much improved so we spent the day out in our courtyard. I can't tell you how much I enjoy living in this building, we have great friendly neighbors who always say "Hej" when they see us and there are a lot of kids always playing around for mine to play along with. In fact I pretty much adore this whole neighborhood and have threatened DH's life if he ever thinks about moving us from it! LOL That brings us to today, this week is actually a short week as Thursday is a holiday here and pretty much every one takes the Friday off also, so my daughter and DH have both of them off. You have to love May in Denmark, there is pretty much a holiday every week of the month! lol

In other news I have a couple new LO's to show off! The first is from Cre Bisontine, she has a new kit coming out tomorrow at Shabby Pickle called DELIGHTFUL COUNTRYSIDE...



The second is with Libby's new BLUE EYED BEAUTY kit available over at Sweet Shoppe Designs!



So with that I will wrap things up for today! I hope you have a good one and until next time..TATA!!

Not that scintillating lately??

I guess my blog hasn't been very scintillating lately if the comments are anything to go by..where is everyone anyways? On vacation and forgot to let me know?? LOL

Anyways, how excited am I!!?? I just received an email from Amazon that Dan Brown's new novel THE LOST SYMBOL (finally, been waiting FOREVER) is available for pre order!! You know I am all over that like white on rice. LOL

I also made a new layout today, you can see the full credits HERE The journaling is an Oscar Wilde poem that I just adore...



That is it for today, have a good one and until next time..TATA!!

Thoughts of the day....

My thought of the day today....adult women who act catty and like they are still in high school should be taken out back, slapped around a little and locked away together, forced to endure each other for all eternity. I wonder how long it would take before they turned on each other?? Not long I wager! LOL

In other news I had the worst indigestion attack last night! Ever since I had that bad stomach bug over the Easter holidays I have been having problems with my stomach. Last night was the worst though, felt like steel bands where being tightened around my ribs. I wonder if this is connected to the stomach bug or something else??

Lastly for today, I have a new layout to show off! I used the new cool The Birds And The Bees kit from Robin and Manda over at Sweet Shoppe Designs. I love the way it turned out!



That will wrap things up for this Tuesday, I hope you have a good one and until next time..TATA!!

Back to regular programing!!

Woot! I am back and ready to blog again! It was so nice to have ten days with everyone together here at home (well minus the part where I almost died from a stomach bug LOL) The weather was just gorgeous the whole ten days and we got a lot of the things off our "to do" list finished! We washed all the windows inside and out, cleaned and straightened and de cluttered. Aired out the bed mattresses and I did about three million loads of laundry.

We also had nice visits from family and friends, took long walks and played outside. I even finished a few more books, and a few LO's and cooked some yummy foods. So all in all it was a fabulous vacation!

Now though we are back to regular programming and Sophia was back to school and DH off to work today. Sophia actually has a busy week, she has a trip to a nature center on Wednesday and Thursday and Friday I don't have to pack a lunch because they are breaking up into groups and doing some cooking classes. Excitement at it's best! lol

Since I mentioned I did a few LO's I might as well show those off before I say good bye. ;)

The first LO I used their High Flying kit by Misty Cato available at Sweet Shoppe Designs..



The second I made with the new 2scoops kit Life Is A Highway by Mandabean & Eva Kipler..



and lastly I finished up the following one for Cre using her new "Retro Spring" kit!



That will wrap things up for today, I will be back tomorrow with a few more book reviews, so until next time..TATA!!

New LO for a good cause!!

I have a new LO to show off today, it is created with the new WORLD OF WONDER (<--LINK) fundraising kit available over at Oscraps. It is really a very cool kit. It is only available for the month of April (Autism Awareness Month) and all proceeds from the kit will be donated to a friend of Kitty's whose son was recently diagnosed with PDD-NOS and they are unable to afford the therapies. You can read the full story up on Kitty's BLOG (<--LINK).

So without further ado...my LO! ;)



That will wrap things up for today, have a great one and until next time..TATA!!

A movie review, A couple book reviews, A new LO and a Weekend update!!

Where to begin...we had a pretty nice weekend this past weekend, we did the weekly grocery shopping on Saturday and then had a family thing later in the day. Of course later on at night we took part in Earth Hour 2009, the kids loved going "lights out" and we used the opportunity to talk about energy conservation and the Earth. We also were able to see a new movie, which I will be reviewing in a bit and I also finished up two books (go me) and scrapped a new layout! Saturday night was also the night that we sprung our clocks ahead an hour and we are enjoying the extra light at night.

Sunday we had to do a bunch of cleaning, laundry etc. I noticed all day though that Sophia was just lying around, wasn't hungry, just didn't seem herself. She has been sick with a cold all the previous week, but it seemed to be getting better, anyways, shortly after she went to bed she started throwing up, so I kept her home today for observation. She seems fine now though and ate a carrot, apple and granola bar for her breakfast, so back to school she will go tomorrow! Since the inlaws came home and we had to give up the car, dh headed down to our basement to get his bike ready for taking back and forth to work. He came back up and told me someone had picked his lock and stole his back tire! Can you believe that?? In our LOCKED basement, so anyways, he went looking around the buildings basements to see if he could find it and what do you know, he found it on another bike. He contacted the caretaker of the building who is majorly pissed off since these basement are suppose to be were we can store stuff safely. So he is going to consult the police today and keep an eye on the person he suspects. DH just wants his bike tire back! lol

Ok, so as I said we got to see a sneak peek of a new movie coming out here soon on Saturday..

KNOWING

"A teacher opens a time capsule that has been dug up at his son's elementary school; in it are some chilling predictions -- some that have already occurred and others that are about to -- that lead him to believe his family plays a role in the events that are about to unfold."

This was a pretty good movie, suitably creepy, good acting, pretty good storyline. The ending was a bit dubious for me, but I can't say more without giving it away. LOL Oh and it did have some kick butt special effects!! One thumb up from me, wort the watch! :)

On to my book reviews...

The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein by Peter Ackroyd

rating: 4 of 5 stars
What can I say, this was a cracking good read! A very interesting take on the Frankenstein story. I really enjoyed this one!


The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl

rating: 3 of 5 stars
I was intrigued by the use of Edgar A Poe's death as a plot for a fictional story and found it to be quite fascinating! There is a lot of detail and plot twists, and a plethora of characters to this novel that sometimes can become tedious and confusing in some parts. The entire story is told through the eyes of Quentin Clark, a lawyer and to be honest a somewhat lackluster character, but none the less the book held my interest and kept me interested enough to want to finish and find out how the mystery ended! I look forward to reading more from this author. :)

And finally, last but not least I finished a new layout. I used the new rawking 2Scoop kit from Dani and Libby over at Sweet Shoppe Designs. It is called THAT'S HOW WE ROLL and is very cool kit, so be sure to check it out!

Holy long winded much huh? With that I will wrap things up for today, I hope you have a good one and until next time..TATA!!

Top of the morning to ya!!

First I want to start with wishing all my Irish friends a Happy St. Patrick's Day! I am not in the least bit Irish, but the crazy thing is, a Leprechaun kept hiding things all over the apartment this morning, go figure!!?? ;)

So, a weekend update, what can I say about this weekend, it sucked, or better yet, it spewed, maybe a more apt description! LOL Oh and on Saturday my daughter and son were roughhousing on my bed, to which I told them to stop before someone ended up hurt and guess what? Someone, namely my daughter, banged her mouth off my headboard and basically split open her top gums. A scene straight from a gory slasher movie ensued and off to the ER she went! nothing was torn and she just had to be careful and eat softish foods for a few days...fun times..

Over the weekend I did finish up reading The Pillars Of The Earth and you can read my review here...

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

My review

rating: 4 of 5 stars

I'll start off by saying that I am a sucker for a good historical fiction and this book did no disappoint! It sucked me in from page one and kept me hooked (for the most past) all the way through the 900+ pages. My favorite characters by far were Ellen, Jack and Aliena. I just felt most connected to their story and therefore most invested in what happened to them. I also enjoyed the Prior Phillip character and to a lesser extent Tom. I just found myself liking and being annoyed equally with Tom and just could never connect with the character, if that makes sense! I loathed William, which I suppose was the point of the character, but I found him to be a little to much of a characatcher by the end. I wish perhaps the author had done something more with the character then just the typical one dimensional "bad guy" thing.

When I read a historical fiction novel I love to have a lot of details, what they ate, describe their clothes, buildings and things of that nature. There was a lot of that is this book and I just loved that, but I also found there was a little to much sometimes about the cathedral, a little TO much description that went on for page after page and after awhile I found myself sort of skimming over all that to get back to the dialogue between characters, but that is just a small criticism! Overall I really enjoyed the novel and will most definitely be reading World Without End and would recommend Pillars to anyone who loves historical fiction.

 I also have a LO to show off, finished this one last week and I LOVE it (if I do say so myself lol) I used the new and very cool kit Chic Spring by Bisontine and Catherine Designs. It's available today at Shabby Pickle Designs and Thursday at After 5 Designs! This is a must have kit!!

AND, if that wasn't enough info..I am also hosting this month's AD Challenge at Sweet Shoppe Designs...you can check it out HERE (<---link) along with many other challenges and earn some sweet reward points for a discount!

Ok, enough business for today! I hope you have a fabulous day and until next time..TATA!!

A New Layout To Show Off!!

It's all about scrapbooking here today! I have a new LO to show off and a sale you won't want to miss, to let you know about! ;)

First the LO! I used the *NEW* very cool kit It's Child's Play by Cre Bisontine that will be available for JUST 2 dollars tomorrow at Shabby Pickle Designs!!



Ok onto the sale news!



Is that not a great sale or what!

That is it for today folks, short and sweet! I have to put together our weekly shopping list today, fold and wash more laundry, clean the bathroom and oh so many wonderful domestic pleasures! LOL Have a great day and until next time..TATA!!