Oct. Photo Hunt – The Pictures

Photo Hunt Challenges – The Blog

Well here we are again…another month flown by and another collection of pictures for the scavenger hunt! If you want to see the other entries, go here.

1. A Fall Activity
   
   Playin’ in the leaves.
   
   
2. A Fall Treat
   Okay, I couldn’t pass up any of these pics….they are so yum looking. The first two are gorgeous but the last one is my fav! MMM….BUCKEYES!
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
3. A Harvest
   
   Yep, they appear to be harvested…
   
   
4. Leaves
   
   Fake leaf decorations on the tables at the fall festival at church……
   
   
5. Fall Colors
   
   Sue me…I couldn’t decide. LOL
   
   
6. Something Orange
   
   Sallie’s killer pumpkin cake. Well, the top half of a pumpkin…;-)
   
   
7. Something Spooky
   
   An abandoned building complete with spider and web in the corner of the doorway (it’s hard to see from this angle but it was there)
   
   
8. A Cemetery
   
   Also kinda spooky…all it needs is some fog…lol
   
   
9. A Costume
   
   The K-man in the costume our neighbor gave him a few months ago. We didn’t go trick or treating or nothing, but he likes the costume. LOL!
   
   
10. A Black & White Photo
    
    Munchkin “being a bal-ewwina” when I was trying to take a picture of her.
    
    
11. A Critter
    
    Ick. A fake rubbery freaky looking critter.
    
    
12. Symmetry
    
    The gate/fence on an old southern plantation near Atlanta…thought it looked cool…
    
    
13. Contrast
    
    Oh dear. These are the Pioneer Woman’s Apple Dumplings. As she so eloquently puts it, “…the top gets delightfully crisp and flavorful, while the underneath side remains soft and mushy and more “apple dumpling-y”.” Yeah. Contrast. Hang on while I suppress the urge to run to the store right this second and buy the ingredients to make a whole ‘nother dish of them. If you have never had them, you don’t know what you’re missing. And if you ever make them, you’ll need to ask forgiveness when you ask the blessing. Moving on…
    
    
14. Texture
    
    Pigskin….hehe
    
    
15. A Logo/Mascot
    
    A…Georgia…BULLDOG?
    
    
16. Something Neon
    
    The drink sign at sonic…neon green!
    
    
17. Something Inspiring
    
    I’m not sure why I love steeples so much…I should totally have that checked.
    
    
18. Something Entertaining
    
    Watching a group of young people try to eat those yummy goodies pictured in #2…LOL! (They are going to kill me!)
    
    
19. Something Fast
    
    The car…see the blur beside the mirror of the scenery flying past?
    
    
20. Something Slow
    
    Um. A turtle. This one doesn’t even move…so it’s REALLY slow!
    

Thanks for stopping by!

My Clone

You know you’re parenting a future blogger when you hand your daughter her camera and the following conversation sounds something like this:

K-man: “Oww, I banged my head!!”
Munchkin: “Is it bleeding?  Let me take a PICTURE!”

I caught my little clone on the video camera doing a “photo shoot” only I have no idea how to get it on here, so you’ll just have to use your imagination.  But trust me, it’s hysterical!!

“Stand beside that tree, K-man!  Like this! No, not like that, like THIS!  K-man!  STAND HERE!  Oh that’s good.  Just like that.  NO!  Stand up!  Got it.  AWESOME!”  checks camera  “Oh that’s not cool!  We gotta do that again!”

She did eventually get one of his face…(which of course, I can’t post here) although I don’t think I’d call it awesome…what can I say…he’s not the most cooperative subject (trust me, I know!).  I don’t know that it’s her skills though, b/c she shows promise when she has a halfway cooperative subject.

I am only halfway cooperative.  I was too busy laughing at her because she sounded just like me. 

Then we tried to get K-man to get one of me and Munchkin….

We’ll just note that he did NOT get his momma’s mad photography skillz. 

What?  You need proof? 

I gave up after three tries and just did it myself.  That’s what ya gotta do, ya know?  If ya want somethin done right, NEVER GIVE IT TO A MAN!  Just kidding.  …Sorta.  ;-) 

So here’s me with the cute little girl.  When I get the pictures I took edited, there may be more to come….LOL!  Maybe not, too….since I just realized today that I never did finish the promised beach pictures.  YIKES. 

Anywho…and just like that, another afternoon quickly disappears. 

A Spooky Blog Train

The other CT that I design for is doing a blog train this week.  I’m not part of this one, but here’s a heads up for you readers who are interested in halloween goodies…

Here’s the Designer’s Blog (Sweet Tomato Designs) if you want to start there.

The cool thing about the kit they’ve used is that it’s super versatile, so if you don’t want to do Halloween pages, you can totally do other stuff with it.  Here are a couple I did with it, and you can go to the shops by clicking on the pages. 

They have some cool freebies…have fun riding! =)

Busy Saturday

Well, we took a drive over to TN for R & M’s wedding.  We overslept (thanks to KC taking a Benadryl at 6am and falling back to sleep…and of course, I was expecting him to wake me up, so we woke up 45 minutes before we were supposed to leave) and then everybody out on the road was in no hurry to get anywhere. 

I took pictures on the way over there and on the way back, but not one blessed picture of the wedding.  I was too busy appreciating the fact that I could go to a wedding without any of my family having any part of the stress.  LOL.  Well that and the fact that we were about 10 minutes late and slipped in to the way back corner, far out of picture zone.  I wasn’t mad about it.  I was just relieved that we made it over the gorge without getting a ticket or a wreck and that we got there in time to slip in the back before the processionals started…lol!  I won't say how fast KC was driving, but it was way faster than he allows me to drive.  A cop even came flying up behind us with his lights flashing and KC almost had a heart attack and got over in the slow lane but the cop went right on around.  What can I say?  It’s KC’s luck.  It’s like he’s got a free pass on cavities and tickets.  *sigh*

Well, the leaves were beautiful and the drive was lovely.  The wedding was very nice and it was nice to see everyone again (even if it was for a very short amount of time).  Anyway, here’s the pics (of the drive, not the wedding)… 

And then home…isn’t the house so pretty with the colorful trees behind it?  Wanna buy it?  We’re thinking of selling it.  We’re moving to Honolulu.  JUST KIDDING.  We’re not moving far away or anything.  Just need more space. 

Speakin of space, we left the girl at Mawmaw’s this weekend because mommy needed some space.  I felt so much better when we got back that I even was all nice and put her hair in curlers for church tomorrow…she LOVES doing that and I am NEVER in the mood to do it.  As a follow-up to the haircut debacle -- after her awful beginning and middle of the week, she had two really good days on Thursday and Friday which made me very happy.  I’m not sure if it had anything to do with the consequences she got for her self-inflicted haircut (and for thinking it was hilarious when mommy was talking to her about it) or if she just decided to be good.  LOL.  I’m just happy she had better days.  Hopefully they will be the start of a better trend!

And now, I’m going to hop off…I have a splitting headache and I need to get to bed.  Can’t do another late night because I’ve got the sunday school class in the morning (the 8-12’s in which I am usually the “assistant”)  Yikes.  G-night!

One Of Them Weeks

You know the weeks I’m talking about…the weeks where if it can go wrong it will.  The week in which you have mood swings that are only explained by your gender.  The week your daughter decides to hack off her entire pigtail during crafts at school…and convince two of her classmates that it’s fun and they should do it, too.  The week you’re not in the mood to do anything.  The week you scrub the main bathroom tiled floor on your hands and knees with a toothbrush (three times and the grout still isn’t clean).  The week you paint the front porch.  The week your back is killing you and you think it was just from being on your hands and knees for two days in a row and then you realize it’s all about your gender.  The week you decide to make Ranch Chicken Tacos and pull the chicken out of the freezer to find that it’s one solid mass of freezer burn.  The week you make the best of and attempt to salvage everything that’s gone wrong…and although you may be somewhat unsuccessful, at least you can say you survived. 

I’m trying to get everything caught up…unfortunately it’s just been one of them weeks.  But the house is semi-clean. =)  And the front porch is painted.  And the bathroom floor is sparkling.  And a ton of pictures still need to be edited.  Gotta get in the mood to do something and FAST!  Off to work on that.

Freezer Burn....

Can frozen chicken that wasnt sealed good (brand new bag...) be recovered if its frozen in one huge chunk and completely white and iced over??? i was gonna have ranch chicken tacos but now i guess its plan b....

Blue Monday

Wow.  Creative block, moody, depressed…so much fun stuff and it wasn’t even raining.  Bummer.  Just one of them days, I guess.  Hey, I’m still alive.  Laundry is half done.  Could be worse.  Could ALWAYS be worse. 

Finally shoved through the block on this page…i created the page and then didn’t know what to do with it…nothing fit right, was just kinda “eh” about it and still am to some degree, but it’s finished, and one less thing I need to scrapbook so I’m going to shrug off my perfectionism and just go with it. 

That said, here’s the page credits:
All papers/elements: Simply Susan Godfrey's Harvest Blessings Kit
Brushes: House of 3 (from Jessica Sprague photo editing class)
Fonts: karabine, daunPenh

Thanks for dropping by…I’ve got a better mood on order, so stop by again soon and hopefully it will have arrived.  ;-)

WOOOTTT!

The good news is – no cavities.  The bad news is I’m terrible at flossing so my teeth are now KILLING me from the intense poking and scraping of the pearly whites.  At one point I was dozing off in the chair (couldn’t help it…they play sleepy music and it was raining) as the hygienist was scraping my teeth, when she hit a particularly sensitive part of my gums…and my eyes flew open ---- when I finally got focused on her gloves, I started feeling around my mouth with my tongue to make sure my teeth were all still in my head because her gloves were…um…splattered….  Then I wondered if she was grossed out – because I was…and it was MY blood!  Are you nauseated yet?  Sorry.

Anyway, isn’t this lovely?  I post twice in one day and I talk about gross-ness.  LOL.  My bad. 

In non-gross stuff, my friend, Jules, at Directed Paths, is having a blog giveaway from some of her scrapbooking stash that she’s cleaning out….go comment for a chance to pick up some goodies.  ;-)  I probably should take a page from her book and clean mine out and give it away…lol.  I keep thinking I’ll need it.  I’m such a packrat!  =(  Oh well.  There are worse things one could packrat.  For instance, I have vivid memories from my childhood when my great grandma passed away and my brother and I were subjected to tag along for the great house cleaning.  My most vivid memory was climbing up into the old attic and seeing the enormous pile of empty mayonnaise jars…if I recall correctly, they had yellow lids (Duke’s, perhaps?).  And she also had a penchant for used tin foil…quite a few kitchen shelves dedicated to carefully folded sheets of used tinfoil. 

Whoa.  How did I get on that?  AnYwaY…I guess packrat characteristics could possibly be genetics at work, huh?  So I wonder where I get my tendencies to wander off topic so easily?  Probably dad…hey dad, do you still start singing one song and end up on a completely different song?  I did that the other day.  Yep….must have got it from my dad.  Lord, deliver us from genetics….especially those we’re fighting against in our kids….but that’s a totally different topic altogether.  LOL!

Well, I’m off here.  I need to work on more wedding edits and design stuff. 

Later!

Another Round

Of playing catch up on the blog. LOL.  I have been a busy little chick and haven’t had much time to do any blogging or even facebooking here lately.  That’s not good because if I don’t write my life down, I have a bad feeling that I won’t remember it.  Then again, that could be a good thing.  Haha. 

Like yesterday when I was on my hands and knees in the master bathroom floor with a bottle of Kaboom and a toothbrush, scrubbing all the grout and tile, and baseboards, and yes, even the outside icky-ness of the porcelain throne.  Bathrooms are NOT my favorite thing in the world.  Wait, I mean, CLEANING them….I have to say I would be pretty unhappy if we didn’t have one.  Anyway, at least this time I wasn’t painting the wall…just the baseboard trim after I cleaned it.  And the doors, but that’s not near the toilet, so I can handle that.  (teehehe)  Next project is the main bathroom, which needs the same treatment to the floors and baseboards.  I’m not looking forward to it…will probably put it off for a few more days…it’s the bigger bathroom…and we have a four year old boy (PEEE-EWWW) (lol).  Yeah, that’s not really something I want to remember…too bad I just wrote it all down…LOL!

In much less discusting happenings, I was accepted to another creative team on Tuesday and yesterday I completed the homework that one must do to get going on that…(one of the homework assignments being that “scrap a photo of yourself and your user name” over there to the right).  I’m now creating with Sweet Tomato Designs as well as the team I was already on for Simply Susan Godfrey Designs.  I won’t be joining any more creative teams right now, since this brings my page count per month up to around eight or so pages.  I just couldn’t resist applying for Sweet Tomato Designs team because I have been eying her designs for months now.  But this will keep me hopping so I’m going to settle back and just work with these.  *grin* 

Speaking of those design teams, don’t forget the blog train for freebies.  It’s at Amanda’s blog today…click on the image to go get your freebies.  If you missed the other stops, here’s the list again:

SSG (DAY ONE)
HEATHER (DAY TWO)
ME (DAY THREE)
LOVELY (DAY FOUR)

(Click on the image for day five)
Tomorrow
Saturday

Also, don’t forget Simply Susan is having a great sale until Oct. 31st and you can get everything in her store for $25.  That’s enough digital goodness to keep you creating for a LONG time!  Click on the image to the right to check it out !

And this is totally random, but in case you are walking through your house and see a “leaf” laying on the floor next to the trash can, you should turn a light on and make sure it’s a leaf before grabbing it to throw it in the trash can.  Because when you grab it, feel the cold slimy-icky-ness and instantly realize you just picked up a slug, you will throw it down while screaming like a girl, and run wash your hands…shuddering the whole way.  And then you can calmly pick up a napkin and without touching it, remove said slug from your house.  Just sayin’.

And now I have satisfied the neglected blog and I must get moving.  I don’t feel like I have accomplished much this morning.  Oh, and I have a dentist appt this afternoon…ya’ll pray for my mouth, okay?  Wait, let me be more specific…pray that I don’t have any cavities and that KC does.  LOL.  Just kidding about the second part – although I have to admit to momentary frustration over the fact that I always have cavities and he never does (no exaggeration!)  *sigh* 

Later!

Blog Train Goodness!

Do you like freebies?  Here’s a couple goodies for ya! 

Click on the image to go to the download link!

And here’s the entire blog train schedule in case you missed any…

Sunday 10/11 - Susan - http://simplysusangodfrey.blogspot.com
Monday 10/12 - Heather - http://everything-digital-scrapbooking.blogspot.com/
Tuesday 10/13 - Always.Faith - http://alwaysfaith.blogspot.com/
Wednesday 10/14 - Lovely - http://lovely-creations.blogspot.com/
Thursday 10/15 - Artful Pioneer Amanda - http://circleoflifescraps.blogspot.com/
Friday 10/16 - Damsel Designs - http://www.damseldesigns.blogspot.com/
Saturday 10/17 - Tanya - http://scrapinfaye.blogspot.com

Want Some Freebies?

It starts soon…

October 11 – that’s tomorrow (or today if you’re reading this on Sunday) go to the first stop on the blog train…. Simply Susan’s Blog

Ya Can’t Win

For losin. 

Least that’s what my mom always said.  I think it was mom that said it.  Well, it’s true, anyhow.  I’m still kinda creaky and although my mental state feels like I’m better, my body is still mildly protesting.  Only now, what little sick time I might have had is gone…KC’s got it.  And now I’m the only one left to take care of little people AND big people. 

It sure helped his case, though, that I just got over it because I am currently FULL of empathy.  As I took the 19th reheated rice pack to him in bed for his achy chilling body, he moaned, “Bless you, child.”  A few trips later, he said, “Oh honey, now I know exactly what to do when YOU’RE sick like this!” 

I smiled.  I couldn’t help it. 

And then I sat in the living room with no adult company on a Friday night and felt slightly sorry for myself.  Until I remembered that I really needed to get back on top of my computer world after being sick myself all week.  So I turned on some background noise and started working on picture edits again.  One of them is over to the right and the rest are posted here.

I put that one over there because the feeling I get from that photo just says exactly what I feel like right now.  And that was a totally candid shot.  I love it when that happens.

And now….I’m off to bed.  Or to find a snack.  Whichever hits me when I get up.

Later!