Scrap Palace

We had a good Thanksgiving. We had enough food to feed an army. Amit & Aman (AC) cooked and the food was great.

On Friday I went to the Scrap Palace for my scrapbooking weekend. I met a bunch of cool people and had a good time.

I got 3 12x12 2-page layouts and 5 12x12 1 page layouts completed! That is great for me. I also left on Saturday night around 10 pm. I am glad I went and had the experience, but I don't think it was worth the money. I would rather spend that money on scrapbook supplies and attend local crops for way less money.

Here is tiger wishing I would lose my camera...

Tim & Tracy

My BFF got engaged this weekend...

Tim surprised Tracy with an engagement ring this past weekend in Frankenmuth. We are so happy for them and wish them the best in everything. Congratulations!!

Happy Thanksgiving!

May you have a happy, healthy and safe holiday!

Tagged!

I was tagged by Toni...

To complete the tag, you go to the photos folder on your computer, open the 4th folder and post the 4th picture to your blog....
My 4th picture is of my good friends Anita and Jason. This photo was taken at Stacy's Birthday party last month. I only keep the current year of photos on my computer, so it is a recent one.

I also received this blog award from Benita...
Here are the rules:
1. Write seven strange things about yourself. They interest us all!
2. Tag six other people at the end of your post.

My 7 strange things:

• I could eat Taco Bell everyday
• In the winter I sleep in socks
• I hate leftovers
• I put ice in my milk
• I don't like my food to touch on my plate
• I sing while driving
• I usually take the Christmas tree down on December 26th

I think everyone has been tagged already, if not consider yourself tagged:)

Cakes & Trees

I am a little behind here...

We went to my Dad & Denise's house this past Sunday to celebrate birthday's. It was Jacob's 9th Birthday...

and Josh's 12th Birthday...
As you can see, Denise makes the coolest cakes ever! I got to see my grandma, who is living with my Dad now.
On Monday after work I decided to put the Christmas tree up. I bought a new tree last year on December 26th.

We have the room for a tall tree, but I really didn't think about decorating a tall tree. I didn't decorate it on Monday, I waited until last night (Wednesday). AC was playing poker, so what better time to get some decorations out. You can even see Cupcake sitting under the tree. This is her first Christmas tree experience. Last year I think she would have ruined it, so we decided to wait another year.

Sump Pump & Book Sale

Last night AC found this...

That would be our sump-pump hole filled with water too the top! AC went to Lowe's and bought two different sump-pumps to use as replacements. We are keeping the one with the motor up and not in the water. This gave AC something to worry about and fix last night. I went down to the basement and took a few pictures...

I took some photos of our basement and could not believe what a mess it is!! I always put stuff down there and don't really pay attention. It is not a finished basement and we do not entertain there, so I forget about it and it is not a priority. I can not post the photos here, they are to embarrassing!

My Mom called me on Sunday because she is cleaning out her basement and wanted to know if I wanted a few items. We took this for the cats:

They are enjoying it now, but soon it will also be in the basement.

She was also getting rid of a couple scrapbook items...

Two of these 12x12 paper racks:

And this rack with the little hooks to hang items on.

This is the bottom and it spins.

I will be using these soon. It was nice of her to call me and give them to me. I have a few scrapbooking books that I am going to try to sell. Anyone have any luck with Amazon selling books?

I am up in the air about the Becky Sketches book...

Your Own Font!

I have been participating in the "Stories at Hand" class by Jessica Sprague this past week. Jessica is a brilliant Photoshop/Computer Chick. She makes very cool stuff. See her blog: http://spraguelab.squarespace.com/

While visiting the forum for the class, someone posted a cool website! At this website you can make your own font in minutes. Just print the form, scan it, upload it and presto chango your handwriting is a font!! Check it out here: http://www.yourfonts.com/ I made my font and it looked like a second grader wrote it, so you won't find me using it!

I really like the idea of your own handwriting font, so that you can preserve your handwriting and years from now people can see how you wrote, but if your like me, you don't want them to see!

We had a good weekend. AC & Amit went to see the new James Bond movie - they were both disappointed, no cool gadgets, more questions raised without any answers.

AC's mom makes food for AC's brother that is in college and takes it to him, so he doesn't have to cook too much. Yesterday she called us and wanted us to come and get some food, because there is no way they could eat it all. We picked up lasagna, fettuccini alfredo w/ chicken, Orzo pasta, and butter chicken. She spent all afternoon on Saturday and early Sunday morning cooking. Since I love cooking, this works out great for us:)

Have a great week!