Jennilyn’s Journal

So the girls went to get their portraits done on Friday and DH picked the prints up yesterday when he took the girls to the park. They weren’t the “perfect” poses, but they were okay. So that night I “scanned” them (took a picture of each of the pictures LOL) and made my Christmas card using a postage frame by Paislee Press & Taylormade at Oscraps and snowflakes by Rachel Young…they were foil but I changed the contrast until they were a solid white. I used my Pampers points to get 25 free Shutterfly photo cards and all I had to pay was $6.99 for shipping! I’ll be scrapping these photos very soon for sure.

For SSD’s From Our Blog 2 Yours for 10/23, they want to know what our jack-o-lantern says about us. Here’s my results, but it’s not right at all. I am no grouch and am optimistic most of the time.

I promised a new Cheaters Challenge template the next time I blogged and since my BFF Melanie tagged me, I had to do it. LOL Click here to get it in my Playroom!

For SSD’s From Our Blog to Yours for 10/16, Tracey wants to know what type of Halloween candy we are…I was hoping I was a chocolate bar because lately I’ve been eating so much of it, I was thinking I might turn into one! LOL

Halloween Candy Quiz

You are a Lollypop

Like the Lollypop you are sweet and lickable

Find out which Halloween Candy you are at Quizopolis.com

Here’s the tag from Mel!

Here are the rules:

• Use the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the following questions.
• They have to be real places, names, things. nothing made up!
• You can’t use your name for the boy/girl name question.

1. What is your name? Jennifer

2. A 4 Letter Word: June

3. A Boys Name: Jeremiah

4. A Girls Name: Jessica

5. An Occupation: Juggler

6. A Color: Jade green

7. Something you wear: Jacket

8. A Beverage: Juice

9. A Food: Jalapeno pepper

10. Something found in the bathroom: Jacuzzi

11. A place: Jakarta

12. A Reason for being late: Junk in the hallway tripped me and I was knocked unconscious!

13. Something you shout: Join in!

Okay…I tag…hmmm…Andy & La!

I’ve only done one layout since I last blogged, but I like it! It’s using an older Cookie from SSD and Helena Jole’s new suede lacing template that she originally had in an NDISB collab back in January of 2007. It’s only $1.60, so you should definitely get it!

That’s it for me today! Have a great weekend! I don’t think we’re doing anything special, but it’s supposed to be nice (but cool) all weekend so I’m sure we’ll end up doing something!

DH’s staff party on Saturday was pretty fun! The weather wasn’t that great - drizzling a tiny bit, but there was a good turn out and there was face painting and a bouncy castle for the girls to do (although Kaylee didn’t want to do either). There was hot dogs, hamburgers, chips and the owner even brought it freshly made french fries from a chip wagon (20 boxes!). Kristen spent most of the time with a bunch of girls her age. She just loved her newly painted face and didn’t want to wash it off that night! LOL

Yesterday I got this gorgeous necklace in the mail. One of the women in my mommies group has breast cancer and one of the other members said she’d make a necklace for whoever wanted to buy one, in honor of Beth. The clear bead is for Beth and the 2 little pink ones are for her 2 children. I don’t normally wear much jewelry except for the stuff I never take off, but I couldn’t pass this up.

I only have one layout to show you right now. For some reason I haven’t scrapped much in the past few days. I am really pleased with how this turned out. I’ve had these pics for a while now and never got around to scrapping them, then I got the Beep Boop 2 scoops kit from Lauren & Kristin and the colors were almost perfect for them! I just had to darken the blues and reds a bit. I hope my FIL likes it! This is his plane that he built himself!

I’m starting to think about Christmas already…ways I can save money on gifts like Air Miles points can get me gift cards for some people, my Pampers points can get me 25 free photo cards, etc. What do you do during the holidays to save money on gifts? I already got my ILs present, but I can’t say what it is because my MIL reads this sometimes.

There’s a new Cheaters Challenge up in my Playroom at JLD! Check it out here! There’s a new incentive to do the challenge too…I will randomly draw 3 names for a $5 GC to my store for those who participate and post their links in the thread!

That’s it for me this beautiful fall day! (I know, technically it’s still summer, but it feels like fall!) It’s supposed to be generally nice up until at least October 1st. I’m happy about that for sure! Have a great day!

I didn’t know a man could get pregnant!

I scrapped my heart out yesterday! I did 4 pages, but I can only show you 3 because 1 was made with a kit of Misty’s that won’t be out until the 16th. She is so organized and ahead of schedule all the time!

I have a new Cheaters Challenge up in my Playroom! It’s based on the last layout shown above. Love that freebie of Kari’s! I’ll be watching what else she puts out at FPD with their Teacher’s Pet contest.

That’s it for me! I’ll be back on Saturday with more layouts I’m sure!

Check it out here! It’s based on one of my newest layouts that isn’t a lift or made with a template! LOL

So potty training isn’t going as well as I thought. Today it took her a few hours to pee (which is really unusual) but before she did that she was crying and asking for a diaper. I stood my ground and told her no and finally she peed on the potty but freaked when it started coming out. That didn’t happen yesterday! I was tired of her peeing on the couch so I went to look for Kristen’s waterproof pad to put on top of her bean bag chair for her to sit on and while I did that (didn’t find it) she had about 5 accidents and was freaking out crying so I put a diaper on her. We’ll see after her nap how it goes.

Did you see this freebie?? My friend Eve is giving away her exclusive DST kit that she made in April of 2007! She’s retired from designing now, but I still love this kit…here’s the layout I made with it!

Credits here for “Wonderful”

I have 2 sets of alphas coming into my stores tomorrow!

The second one is really versatile I think. If you put a paper/gradient/color below it you get one look, and if you multiply the layer enough times to make it solid you get another, then if you make it gray scale and do what was mentioned, you’ll get even more looks! Of course, the first one being clear, is just as versatile.

Kristen is off with her grandparents until Saturday so it’ll be a much more calm few days than normal. I plan to enjoy them! Have a great day!

I had a lot of fun going to the Wildlife Park on Friday with Kristen’s class! I had to chaperone 3 other girls besides Kristen and they were really well behaved. We named ourselves the Otters, because they are cute and love to swim, just like my girls. Whenever it was time to go to the next animal, I’d yell “Okay Otters!” then they’d all come to me

For the From Our Blog To Yours at SSD for June 19th…

What Your Fridge Says About You

You aren’t greedy, but you don’t really deprive yourself either. You strike a good balance with the stuff you buy. You are a very thrifty person. You don’t like to waste money… or food. You don’t tend to be a very adventurous person, but you do surprise everyone now and then. You have a bit of a wild side. You try to be responsible, but you don’t always succeed. Your heart is in the right place though. You are likely single - and a workaholic.

I only did one layout since the last post but I used a kit of Misty’s that isn’t out until next Saturday so I can’t show it to you. I can, however, show you the front and back covers of the Shutterfly book I ordered the other day. It’s of all (minus one that I forgot) the layouts I’ve done with both girls in it so far.

Man, I hate it when DH is in a bad mood (which is often) because then everything bugs him, even the stuff that shouldn’t. He was getting annoyed at Kaylee because she was trying to give her sleeping sister (who isn’t feeling well) a stuffed animal. I asked him why it was annoying him and he said I didn’t understand then went downstairs, as usual. I wish he could handle the kids better because he obviously can’t. I’d say at least 90% off his “tantrums” are kid-related. The big baby can spend the rest of the night down there for all I care.

My site was telling me I needed to upgrade a few things so today I upgraded my gallery. Shoulda backed up before doing so because now there is no theme on it at all! My whole pretty looseleaf background is gone. Then I upgraded my family blog and it went okay…nothing missing or wonky, so I upgraded my scrapping blog (this one). Whoops! Shoulda backed up the stylesheet because it went back to a very plain blog with no customizing at all! Grr…So I took a few hours and got it mainly back to the way it was, but there’s a few things that need fixing. Now it’s saying my store needs to be upgraded. No way no how am I doing that! LOL

I can finally show you the 2 layouts I made weeks ago! One was for a kit Misty put out Saturday called Lullaby and one is for the Treat of the Month (Holly Griego) at SSD that started yesterday!

Credits here for “Peek a Boo!”

Credits here for “You Make My Heart Sing”

Now that most shows are over we have caught up on all the shows we recorded but never watched and we got to watch a movie on Friday night. We watched “I Know Who Killed Me” with Lindsay Lohan. It was really good! Suspense thriller type of movie that kept me thinking through the whole movie! I give it:

Next Friday they are premiering “I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry“, so I guess we’ll be watching that!

Kristin put out the cutest camping kit Saturday called Gone Campin’! I have some camping pics that I’ve been wanting to scrap but haven’t gotten the right kit up until now, so now I can scrap them! Woot!

I have a new Cheaters Challenge out in my Playroom, so go grab them!

Also, Misty put up those desktops on her blog that I was telling you about! Go to her blog to pick them up!

That’s it for me I think! I’ll be back in a few days with some more layouts!

For Mother’s Day I asked for a Blizzard cake from DQ and a new set of headphones so I can comfortably watch a movie on the laptop while DH watches his races during the weekends. LOL (the cake is the middle one in the picture below). It better be good! It cost $30! He mentioned they had a Reese’s one, so I told him he can get it for Father’s Day. LOL

Also, on Thursday Kristen gave me her Mother’s Day gift that she made at school. A cute card/poster and a pot that she decorated with a packet of flower seeds in it.

I have been a scrapping machine since I posted last! Here are the newest layouts!

Credits here for “Right Direction”

Credits here for “Speechless”

Credits here for “Wonder of Nature”

I have another layout to show you too, but I can’t until June 1st because it’s a top secret thing.

I have 3 toots…count ‘em…three to tell you!

1. The last 2 I made using Misty Cato’s designs because guess what? I’m on her CT now!! She PM’d me about a week ago, a few days after a chat she had at SSD, and asked me if I’d like to be on her CT, so I said yes! I’m so excited to be on a new CT. I never really tried out her designs before, but so far they are great and my pages come together really easily!

2. I forgot to tell you all…I’m going to have 2 layouts published in next month’s Bella Scraps magazine! (should be out around the 15th)You can buy it at Bella Scraps site or Oscraps to see which ones!

3. I am this week’s Spin-a-Lift gallery on the Sweet Shoppe Designs blog! They are down right now because they are switching to a bigger server, but once it’s back up you can go over there, lift me, and then get a Sweet Rewards point! I think I may even lift myself so I can get a point! LOL

So I promised you all a new Cheaters Challenge, so here it is! Once again, it’s based on a layout by my friend Eve. Click here to get it in my playroom and as always, it comes in both 12×12 & 8.5×11 sizes!

That’s it for me today! Happy Mother’s Day all!

I just put some new stuff into my Toybox! (they’ll be at Oscraps soon). They are in the store individually for $2 each as well as in a combo for $10 and are good for commercial use too!

One of the Cheery-O’s at Oscraps gave me this layout to lift but didn’t say who it was by, but I lifted it last night anyway. I’m really starting to like Flergs stuff and I would say I’m becoming a fan, but I can’t buy any of her stuff yet because of my spending freeze. After this next pay gets transferred to our account, I will still owe about $115, then I can start buying stuff again!

Credits here for “My Girl”

I put out a new Cheaters Challenge yesterday! It’s based off of a layout by my good friend Eve, shown here. Go to my Playroom to get both 12×12 & 8.5×11 sizes!

Yesterday was SO nice! It was sunny all day and got up to 13 degrees in the afternoon! Almost warm enough for no jacket! We even stayed at the school for 45 minutes after school was out so the girls could play in the playground. Today and tomorrow are supposed to be of the same caliber too! Maybe we’ll break out the sidewalk chalk after school. The girls got a bunch for Easter and have been dying to use it!

No real title today…just a hodge podge of stuff to mumble about.

Here are some layouts I’ve done since the last post. Most are for the ADSR, just not the Valentines 08 and Defined.

Credits here for “17″

Credits here for “Valentines 08″

Credits here for “Honeymoon”

Credits here for “Like a Butterfly”

Credits here for “Defined”

Last night was the first night we did a load in our new dishwasher. Everything worked well…no leaks or anything. LOL Turns out that the 1 1/2 cupboards and 2 drawers we had to give up to get the dishwasher in weren’t really needed anyway because we found a place for everything in it.

Lastly, I finally put out a new Cheaters Challenge template! You can go here to the thread in my forum to get both 12×12 & 8.5×11 sizes!

I’ll be putting a new pack of the 8.5×11’s in the store soon from challenges 11-14.

That’s it for me for now! Have a great weekend!