Going to try and keep this post positive...

It's amazing how I can be in an ok mood one minute and it turn to crap the next. Not going to get into it all but I am working on putting a smile back on my face.

So today is my dad's 55th birthday. Which we weren't supposed to get together but that has possibly changed. No definite yet if we are going out but I should have an answer to that within the hour. I'm hoping to get Tally down for a short nap so I can at least jump in the shower soon. Matt won't be home until around 6 but he has a few minutes before his meeting at 5 to run by and pick up my dad's present from the Target near his work. Hopefully that all works out.

I made a scrapbook page but I can't show it to you because it's for a special project I'm working on for someone and I'm not sure if she reads my blog or not.

I totally finished my mothers journal. The couple of small things I had left to do are finished. I also put my second journal entry in it. I hope I continue to write in it and make more as she grows older and eventually have one for my next child also.

I have a book I need to read since its due back to the library in a week. Haven't really even gotten into the first chapter yet. Less time on here and more time reading is my goal this week.

TaTa... hope to be in a better mood tomorrow.

Actually did something...

Ok first thing I would like to say is that things did not exactly go according to plan. I did accomplish some things on that list today though.

The List

1. Whink on light clothes- tried to do this and found out I need total concentration and Matt is going to have to be home. The phone rang while I was doing this and it's hard to get those gloves off and on. This is going to have to be a weekend project!

2. Laundry-I did 3 loads of laundry, found out that I must have another rust area in my dryer because the 1 shirt I put whink on developed another stain while in there. ARG... So other than getting a new dryer, which isn't going to happen for a while, I'm going to have to put up with this crap.

3. Straighten both rooms- HA didn't touch mine and barely touched hers so this is going to be worked on tomorrow, I do have an excuse as to why I didn't have time for these extra things so keep reading.

4. Finish coaster project- Done! Now to decide if I want to add ribbon to hang them on the wall and where! Picture will be after #5

5. Frame and letters- Decided to wait on the letters but did work on the frame! Bought the ink too! Still debating on adding some embellishments on the outside! But here is the coasters and frame on Tally's dresser!

6. Staying within points-Didn't happen, No excuses here. :(

7. Make Ham- Done (ate it too) ;)

Weight Loss

Ok tomorrow is a new day and a new day of points! So I will work on staying within points range. No plans to leave the house tomorrow and I am out of cookies, now if this will control it... only time will tell! Going to try and fit in a small workout tomorrow during one of Tallys naps. I'm thinking something easy to get my off my butt, Walk Away the Pounds maybe. If I can't fit one in we might take a walk to the park after she wakes up.

Mothers Journal Project

I worked on the mothers journal a little bit more tonight after I got the ink. So I inked the edges added a paper trim, a ribbon and white book binding tape. Put the printed out inside cover on. Still need to ink that section. So it is almost done. I am still debating adding a couple of inked papers on the back cover. So while I'm talking about inking... I've never done this! It's not to hard but it is a bit messy. Yet.. I LOVE IT! LOL Ok now onto the pictures of what I've done, remember the before from yesterday.

Poem on inside is the same one Donna Downey used in the one she made. It's very pretty!

Reason I wasn't home to finish other things on my list... was out looking for a birthday gift for my dad with my mom. I already kind of know what I am getting him, they were out at Target so Matt and I are going to go pick it up this week sometime. My mom picked him up some clothes for the summer, apparently he needed new ones. Did a little shopping for Tally while we were out. She got some new shoes and a new dress. Pictures...

Ever notice how toddlers shoes don't look new anymore after they have worn them only for maybe an hour. LOL Ok so this is all I'm going to post tonight, seeing as I've been rambling here for a while. Night and I'll see you back here tomorrow!

A normal lazy Sunday

It's been one of those Sundays that planned tons of things to accomplish but didn't get half of them started much less finished. Laundry was on my list and I didn't start one load. Working on Tallys room... didn't even start. My room... HA... didn't start. I did put another coat of spray paint on my projects, but only 2 have at least 1 more to do. I started on my Mothers Journal, not totally satisfied with it but it needs some inked edges and I don't have any ink at the moment. So I may be making a trip to the store tomorrow for some. Trying not to be to harsh on myself since this is the first one I've done. Not really liking the cranberry colored binding so I am thinking about changing that to the white. I am also needing to find a matching ribbon to add along the binding on front. I have already made my first entry to Tally. On the cover is one of my favorite photos of Tally that Matt took of her in the hospital. Such tiny little fingers she had. Here is what I have so far..

Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day for finishing what I planned on doing. Before I start my light load of clothes I need to put Whink on the ones with rust marks on them. Should probably do that while Tally is napping, since it's poison and very dangerous if gets on skin or in the eyes. When the last coat of spray paint is on the frame and coasters I will get my LO's on the coaster and decide what the exact plan is with the frame. On the way to my parents house Saturday night we stopped by Garden Ridge to see if they had wood letters for Talesia, last time we went each size was missing at least one letter to complete Talesia or Tally. So I am happy to say that I was able to pick up the 9" letters for Talesia! While picking up ink tomorrow, I am going to looks at some papers and decide what colors I want to go with. Something pink, I am sure. I'm all about pink for her, something soft and girly.

We are wanting to paint her room pink to so it will have to blend! The yellow in her room right now just isn't cutting it. We had different plans last year when I was pregnant and now it's time for a change. We were going to move her into here (the office/playroom) when I become pregnant again but I think she is fine where she is at and the baby will be put in here. Matt swears there isn't a difference in size, just layout of the room. I can't believe I am already thinking about being pregnant again, which we aren't seriously going to start trying until August/September. Tally's room will be free'd up of baby type furniture, so her toys will be moved into her room and her baby toys will be transfered into the babys room. The office will be moved into our bedroom next to my scrap area. I think it will all come together nicely in the end or at least in my dreams. LOL

Ok enough about the future addition to the family in over a year. LOL So I didn't make my ham tonight that I bought, to late by the time I remembered I was going to bake it. So we ended up with Taco Soup. I need someone to kick my butt back onto Weight Watchers. Not sure if it's the stress or what but I have been craving sweets. I have got to get control over my body. I'm never going to get anywhere if I keep letting my taste buds get what they want. I CAN DO THIS!!!

So to-do list for tomorrow...

1. Apply Whink to rust marked light clothing
2. Laundry
3. Straighten both rooms
4. Finish coaster project
5. Make a plan for frame and letter project, buy supplies for both, plus ink.
6. Control food intake tomorrow (stay with-in points for the day)
7. Make ham (refer back up to #5) ;)

I'll post tomorrow to let you know if I did any of the above! HA!

Lazy spring day!

It's beautiful outside, yet a little nippy. I'm inside though being lazy ;) Tally stayed at my moms house last night and is still there. I didn't wake up until around 10:30-11. Been pretty lazy ever since. It's almost 5'clock and I'm still in my jammies. LOL Supposed to by at my moms for dinner around 6pm so after I post this, I'm jumping in the shower real quick.

My Scrapbooking Made Easy book came in today as well as my book binding tape. Such exciting stuff! Tomorrow will be filled with crafting.... I hope! I already gave that ugly frame a coat of cream spray paint and the coasters too. Give it one more coat before we head to my parents house. Then tomorrow I'll get busy altering them! So on scrapbook pages, I actually did 2 digital pages. One is for Mindys new mini kit and the other is for one of Michelle Colemans mini "gifts". Check out of of my 5 galleries for credits.

So the recipe journal is coming along great. We are finishing up soups today and I just saw that this week is Salads. Hopefully I can get the jpegs for Soups up on Winkflash by tomorrow evening so I can get them ordered and shipped on Monday. Still haven't found an album to display them in but I am working on it. I want something cute and alterable.

Time for that shower and then off to my moms! Enjoy your Saturday and I'll be back tomorrow for more of my boring life ;)

New hair, tornado sirens and a beautiful day so far...

Well I got my hair trimmed, he took off about 1 1/2 inches to even up some of my layers. Also touched up my highlights, added a few more. Looking pretty nice, I'll really be able to tell after I fix it myself! So while I'm at the salon with foil on my hair, Matt calls " Tornados in Bixby" is about all I heard. So of course I started freaking out, my mom went outside where she could hear and called him back. There was rotation and not 10 mins after he called we got hit with a great little hail/rain storm! Should have seen all of us ladies in tin foil freaking out about tornados and our hair! Where we all going to pile into the 2 bathrooms in the salon. LOL The storm went fast and no tornados touched down that I am aware of in the area.

It's beautiful outside this morning. Going to start getting ready pretty soon for my errands. Trips to Albertsons (groceries), Sams (laundry deteregent) and possibly Home Depot for some spray paint. Depending on how my moms day goes, she might be taking Tally for the night. Nothing planned if she does, just a nice evening at home with Matt. Maybe a movie!

Need to take that shower and get ready for shopping. Have a nice weekend!

Lovely day... other than the rain!

Woke up to the rain but it seems to have stopped for now. Tally and I went to lunch with my mom. It was nice. Tally was a good girl for the most part. Afterwards we went stopped by Catos to kill some time before my mom needed to return back to work, I bought 1 shirt. Also stopped by Albertsons, needed to pick up some Whink rust remover. My dryer has been leaving rust marks on my light colored clothing, not good. So going to fix the dryer and my clothes. While there I also picked up Tally a stuffed pug, it is so cute. She kept giving it hugs then when we got home she was petting it. LOL

So 2 of my 3 books came in from Amazon, the other was shipped yesterday. My Appetizer recipe cards arrived also. They look awesome, other than a little bit cut off on the edges. The zip of the soups will be sent on Saturday.... and I'll be waiting again. teehee My book binding tape is in the mail too, so hopefully should be in by the beginning of the week. So I can get started on my altered mothers journal!

I did a little bit of shopping this past week on digital stuff. Bought 5 alphas from CG Essentials and I bought Shappy Princesses new kit as well as Taran Conyers new font. Can't wait to get some pages started this weekend. Here is the preview of the stuff I got. (didn't have the pink embroidered alpha preview so TOO is it!)


Well I am going to get my hair trimmed, maybe make a new avatar tonight for my boards. Have a nice evening!!!

I'm a mess...

Not spending as much time online today. My main goal that I am trying to reach is to be off the computer no later than 11 at night. I have been breaking that for a while now and it's hurting me in many ways. Would go much better if my daughter didn't wake up between 7-8 am. Hopefully it will help my attitude more.

Did a lot of things on my to-do list today. Laundry being at the top of that list. So far 3 loads. Still have some to fold and hang. So that straightened the bedroom a bit. Get some more things trashed and moved around, then my craft/sewing area will be ready. I ordered some book binding tape from eBay today, should be here next week. Excited about that, now I need to pick up the other supplies for my first project. Still waiting on my scrapbooking books from Amazon to come in and my Appetizer Recipes cards from Winkflash. Then I need to start thinking of another project to hold them. Getting excited just thinking about all the fun little crafts. I took a Picture frame that my grandmother got me for Tallys baby shower, it's one of those ugly heavy gold and black things, I am going to spray paint in white or cream and do some simple ribbon and maybe flowers on it. I don't know exactly, just going to make it pretty for Tallys room. So those are some of the projects I plan to work on in the next couple of weeks.

I picked up the books I had on hold at the library, 2 toddler recipe books and Donna Downeys Photo Decor (one of the ones on its way from Amazon right now). One of the recipe books is awesome, it's called "The Baby Bistro Cookbook" Has tons of great toddler friendly recipes. I have had such a problem with lunches for Tally. Hopefully this will fix it, since I can make a batch of a couple of them, then have her lunches for a week. She has some great freezeable meals. May have to buy this book too.

Tally has something new she likes to do... bang on my keyboard, her leapfrog lulu spider, me, and everything else with one of those lovely drumsticks that go with her music band set that Nana got her.... thanks NANA! I won't let her near my keyboard/mouse area, so now she stands next to me with that stupid drumstick and beats the keyboard with it before I can get her. Those things are going to disappear soon.

Think we are having a breakfast night. Scrambled eggs, toast and turkey bacon. Might make some pancakes if I'm up for it. That or we are having leftovers, might leave that for tomorrow though. So I already started making my grocery list... fun fun stuff! Might have a playdate on Friday, waiting for the ok on if she is having one. Ended up not raining today so she might. It doesn't matter either way to me on Fridays, I have plenty to do otherwise. It would be nice though to get Tally around the other kids.

Ok I made this a lot longer than planned, Have a nice evening!

Recipe Journal and some other boring stuff...

Another boring day in the Burton house. Tally woke up around 8 so while she played, I napped on the floor. She got sleepy around 11 something, so down for a nap she went. During all of this I made my second recipe card for the Recipe Journal, this week is Soups. So here is my Chipotle Chile Pepper Soup!

I am also working on another one for Hamburger Stew. Which is what we are having tonight so a picture will be on that card. If you want this recipe and you aren't in the recipe journal, email me and I will send you a copy if you can't read this one.

So Matt just brought me my Diet Pepsi for the day, he stopped by the house to pick up the movies we need to return this week since he is going by Albertsons to pick up dog food and milk. When he gets back I think I'll start dinner and then I might sneak out to the library to pick up some books I have on hold. I said this yesterday but tonight I might do it, go for a walk after dinner. Last night we got started on a movie and by the time that was over it was after 9pm. So tonight maybe we can get one in before American Idol.

Didn't get my scrap area organized so it looks like I might start a digital page instead. If I do, I'll post it tonight. TTFN

LO's, Pictures and a boring day!

First the LO's. 2 of them from our trip to the parks... plural cause we went to 2 parks. One from each! First one here was taken at Woodward Park.

Spring Blooms

Second one was taken at Whiteside Park.

Fun at the Park

As usual if you want to know what I used check out my galleries or email me.

Ok now onto some pictures...

So onto the boring day... Woke up around 9, had breakfast. My mom calls around 11 and needs someone to talk to about her day, really I think she just wanted to see Tally. lol I'm all ears, she leaves around 2pm. I put Tally in her bed for her nap shortly after and she sleeps until close to 6pm. Most of that time is spent on here making those LO's. Made Spaghetti for dinner, it was yummy. Tally is drank from her Princess sippy cup, trying to get her off those Nuby brand sippys. So that's good news since she screamed at me yesterday when I gave it to her. Bye Bye Nuby's!!! See I warned you this was a boring post, should have taken the warning ;)

Been in a mood the past couple of days. Trying to keep myself locked up in this house, must be P.M.S'ing, I know TMI but oh well. Still debating on ordering those book binding tapes off eBay, going to butter up Matt soon. It's not like it's bukos of money... we'll see. I'm going to try and paper scrap tomorrow if I can get my table cleared off and organized in the morning. Well I'm going to get those layouts posted to my galleries and then chat a little and hit the hay by 12am. ~Night~

Pretty uneventful

Nothing much happened yesterday. Went running around with my mom. Various shopping. I returned my Xyron and picked it back up at Hobby Lobby for the $20 cheaper. While there I bought some scrapbook papers since they were 1/2 off. I also picked up Provo Crafts Silent Eyelet Setter. Kind of excited to start paper scrapping again or doing some altering. I looked at several places for Making Memories Book Binding Tape. It looks like I'm going to have to order some online. So now I need to start looking. I am so ready to make the Mothers Journal in Donna Downey's Decorative Journals book. Arg... book binding tape. I might find another little book to alter since I have to find that tape.

My parents came over to our house this time for family night. They brought some bbq and we got the movie. Watched Memoirs of a Geisha. I read the book in February and I liked it, the movie was ok. If I wouldn't have read the book, I might have thought it was great. Interesting about reading books and then seeing the movie is that it's like I've already seen some parts because it was so well explained in the book. The Sumo match part, really felt like I had seen the movie already. I also picked up Just Friends but we haven't watched it yet. We will leave that for Monday night, since Desperate Housewives and Greys Anatomy is on tonight.

Well I'm going to jump in the shower and then we are heading to the park for some pictures. Might post some pictures tonight after DH and GA!