Jennilyn’s Journal

The last time I dyed my hair was 2 days after my last lice treatment (a month and a half ago) and because it was only 2 days, the roots ended up lighter than the rest of my hair. I got tired of it and decided to dye my hair today…the color was Clairol Nice ‘n Easy Natural Dark Brown, and this is how it came out (picture by Kaylee :))

It’s a little bit darker than “dark brown” don’t you think? LOL I know it’ll get lighter as I wash it so eventually it’ll get to where I want. I think I’ll try Medium Brown once I use up the 2 other packages of dye I have. I’m still looking for that perfect color that I can continue to use as I get more and more greys. Ugh.

Here are some layouts I’ve done since the last post. Still hanging on to 2 more for Misty since the kits won’t be out until this weekend. The first one is a template that can be found on La’s CT blog!

Well, I’m off to watch True Blood…Eve is chomping at the bit to talk to me about it. LOL

We planned on going to Halifax’s Parade of Lights this afternoon…was yucky with fog and stuff but not raining so we headed out. It started raining on our way there so we took a detour, deciding not to chance going and having to stand in the rain for an hour and a half so we went to Pizza Delight for supper. Was okay, but not worth the $46 bill we got. I would rather have gone to McDonald’s and spent $20 instead!

Such wonderful stuff out there in digi-world right now but I can’t shop! I have to wait until I get paid tomorrow and then I’ll be picking up this stuff…yummay!

Have you seen the new look Sweet Shoppe Designs has? It is gorgeous! And there are many many new goodies from the designers there too! I have made a few layouts using some of Lauren’s new stuff so here they are! I have 3 other layouts done (2 from Misty, 1 from La) as well as these but can’t post them until the blog challenge/new kit is up!

The first one is a lift of Babycake’s “In My Daughter’s Eyes” and the other 3 are using TaylorMade’s cool Taylored Sketch Templates at Oscraps!

We just finished watching the 3D version of Journey to the Center of the Earth. Good movie, but the 3D was off. I don’t know if it was because of our plasma TV or because the 3D glasses had to go overtop of my real glasses. Next time we’ll watch it in regular form.

Well, one of my lymph nodes is swollen and sore which is giving me a headache so I’m going to sign off now. Have a great weekend!

Today is my DHs 34th birthday and I made him a cake! Well, my mom make the cake part a while ago and gave it to me frozen last week, so I thawed it out and use the icing she gave me. I don’t have any cake decorating tools here nor have I ever decorated a cake (I always make cupcakes) so I didn’t know what I was doing. LOL I made a makeshift piping bag using a Ziploc bag and cut off the tip of it so I could put the words on. I think it turned out pretty good, especially for my first cake. It’s not perfect though I know.

I got him Mario Kart & an extra wheel for the Wii, my MIL gave him some jeans & the Journey to the Center of the Earth DVD and my mom gave him a nice hoodie sweatshirt. They both fit him great! He’s wearing them today

Kaylee had a bit of sickness yesterday. She had a few bouts of throwing up and ended up sleeping with me the whole night. She seems fine today except she has a bit of a fever. Sounds exactly like what Kristen had in the beginning of the week. I’m sure she’ll be fine by tomorrow.

Did you hear the next ADSR is starting in January? My BFF Melanie and I are going to join up and we’re calling ourselves the East Coast Mommas, like we did for ADSR2. Hopefully this year none of our children get sick and we won’t have to forfeit. I even made a blog for us to upload our pics to!

Here are 3 of the 4 layouts I did since the last post. The one I can’t show you is using a new kit of Misty’s that will be out on the 22nd. Lemme tell ya, if you have little girls, you will definitely want this kit!

Is anyone else in the Christmas mood already? We are watching Christmas movies already and I can’t wait until the end of the month to put our tree up! This year, because the new entertainment stand isn’t in the corner where the tree would be blocking the view for whoever is sitting on the couch, I can put our tree right in the front window!

Anyway, I think that’s all for today…I’m off to scrap some 1st birthday pics of my friends son using another of Misty’s new kits. I think it’ll be out on the 22nd too, but I’m not sure. I won’t be able to show you the layout until then anyway. Have a great Sunday!

We went through having lice back in September (realized the day my grandfather died) and took a week to get rid of them all off of me, Kaylee and mainly Kristen. Fast forward a month and a half…after the girls bath last night I was combing Kristen’s hair and I though I should check for lice since it’s been a while…what do I find? A live adult louse! ARRRGH! I went and got the NitFree comb and started combing through her hair right away and ended up finding about 25 nits (eggs). While I was combing, Kristen got a nosebleed. She hates the sight of blood and started freaking out and hyperventilating. I told her that I’d go through her head again in the morning and if I found more then she’d be staying home from school, but when I combed this morning I didn’t find anything. I went through mine last night and Kaylee’s this morning and didn’t find anything on us either, so hopefully I nipped it in the bud!

So yesterday I redid my BFF Mel’s blog. She wanted it to be wintery/Christmasy, so I used my looseleaf background and added the title cluster she made. Check it out!

I’ve only scrapped one page since my last post. Without the SSD challenges (they are taking a break in Nov/Dec) I just don’t feel like scrapping much. LOL I call Kaylee “Sweetie Girl” all the time hence the title.

That’s it for me today! Have a great one!

It’s not even close to Christmas yet but I’m in the mood already so I changed my blog theme It’s not a whole lot different than last years, but there’s not much I can do besides change the color of the background and little cluster on the top.

So our Halloween went pretty well! We got up there around 4 and after we had supper (homemade pizza YUM) we all got ready to go Trick or Treating. I didn’t get the best pictures, but they did the trick. After we did some houses around my mom’s street, we packed up and headed out to visit my grandmother then my brother and SIL. The girls didn’t go to bed until 9pm! They still woke up at 6:30 the next morning though. Ugh!

We went shopping on Saturday and I got this cute little Christmas countdown figurine from Hallmark and Shrek the Halls on DVD (which isn’t supposed to be out until tomorrow so I guess WalMart goofed up).

Luckily for me, the girls didn’t wake up until 6am on Sunday. That is the adjusted DST time, so it would’ve been 7 if the time didn’t change….my girls never wake up that late! Normally they are up by 5:45! Later that morning it start snowing…

At one point it was snowing so hard, my mom asked me if I was sure I wanted to go home that day. LOL Funny though, when we left, we weren’t even to the exit to go to the city and there was nothing on the ground, everything was dry, I guess the snow just stuck around that one small area or something!

Kristen was pretty tired when we got home. She didn’t want to sleep and she didn’t have a fever but she said she was tired. She ended up throwing up a few times before bed and this morning she still didn’t feel well so I kept her home. She’s slightly warm but nothing major and hasn’t gotten sick at all today. She won’t eat anything and has been laying in bed/on the couch all day. Tomorrow is only a half day so it won’t be too bad if she needs to miss another day of school.

So that was my weekend…overall pretty fun with just a few downsides

I did my Halloween layout last night…couldn’t wait! And there’s another few I did today using stuff from TaylorMade & Paislee Press at Oscraps.

I guess that’s it for me! Don’t forget to check out my 60% off sale at both JLD and Oscraps! Some of the collabs I have out will be gone at the end of the month so you should grab them now!

I actually don’t like Halloween a whole lot and can’t wait until it’s over. LOL The girls and I are headed off to my parents house for the weekend so the girls can trick or treat with my 3 nephews tonight. They are SO excited!

So before we go, I wanted to show you my newest layouts and my announcement…

For SSD’s From Our Blog 2 Yours for 10/30, Mimi wanted to know what our cute monster says about us…

What Your Cute Monster Says About You

You are a well balanced person. You have all aspects of your life happily in order. Whenever you have a choice in life, you try to choose the middle path.You inner demon is melancholy. You can be a bit moody at times. People think you’re cute because you are easy going. Your live and let live attitude is charming.

So here is my big announcement Yes, I am retiring…for good this time. (I’m 90% sure LOL) Just like during my hiatus last year, my stuff will be on sale for 60% off for the month of November at both stores. (It’s actually on sale right now at Oscraps) They will be gone from Oscraps on December 1st, but will still be available for 50% off at JennilynDesigns.com indefinitely. I will still be offering my Take The Toybox option and blinkie services as well. So I’ll still be around digi. No worries.

Man oh man…I am so frustrated right now. The girls have 2 main rules when they play outside. Kaylee (3) has to stay in our yard and Kristen (6) can only go up or down the street to such & such a point. Well, the girls wanted to go outside and play today and for once Kristen wasn’t grounded to just our yard so I said okay, you can take your bike, but stay around here. They were in and out all morning, Kaylee doesn’t keep her jacket or shoes on, Kristen trades sneakers with her 8 year old friend and borrows her 5 year old friend’s (a boy) sneakers, their friends leave their junk all over our yard (juice packs, pencils, sunglasses, helmets, socks, etc.), and by the time nap time comes for Kaylee I can’t find either of them…I go walking down the road past the point Kristen is allowed to be, and what do I see? Kristen on her friends bike, her 8 year old friend is on Kristen’s bike (she isn’t allowed to let other kids on her bike), Kaylee is on Kristen’s scooter with NO helmet on & no shoes or jacket on! WTF? Holy crap they are both grounded!! Kristen is grounded for a week because she knows the rules and she should’ve known to make Kaylee go home. Kaylee is grounded for the weekend because I asked her at least 5 times to put her shoes and jacket on and stay in the yard (I do that more than 5 times every day). While I was putting Kristen’s bike back in the shed she came out back and said “now I really want to live with Jessica!” She has mentioned a few times that she wants to live at her house because they pretty much have no rules at all and the kids can do whatever the heck they want. I just told her to get in the house and if she doesn’t, I’ll add another week So now Kaylee is taking her nap and Kristen is taking one too, just because she tired herself out from all the crying. Ugh…at some point I’m just going to have to keep them inside forever. LOL

Here are a few layouts I did since yesterday.

Today DH had to work so I didn’t get to sleep in…well tomorrow I am gonna because I am darn tired of waking up too early! Kaylee wakes up at 5:40am on average, every stinkin’ day! I do lay in bed until 7 most mornings, but I don’t go back to sleep once I wake up because the girls are noisy and keep coming into my room. Last week DH got to sleep in 2 mornings because it was a long weekend, so I think I deserve to sleep in tomorrow instead of him, no? Anyway, I doubt I’ll be blogging tomorrow, so I’ll see y’all next week!

We had a great time at my parents house this weekend! It really helped that it was pretty nice weather. On Sunday DH & I took Kaylee to Victoria Park (a really huge beautiful park with swimming pools, large playground, waterfalls and walking trails). Kristen didn’t want to go because my oldest nephew was at my parents and she didn’t want to go without him. LOL Here are just a few of the pics we took while we were there (click to get a larger version)

We had a wonderful turkey dinner with 2 kinds of stuffing and 2 kinds of pie (lemon meringue & butterscotch - the pumpkin pie was eaten the night before LOL). The girls even ate a good share of the food which was awesome! They are normally picky and don’t eat a lot. That night DH and I went to visit my brother and SIL and just hung out for a few hours. I can’t wait to do it more often!

Here are a few layouts I did since the last post! The first one is a QP I made for Lauren from her Scary Moon Cat kit that you can buy in her store at Sweet Shoppe Designs!

I found this FAIL the other day and literally laughed out loud! I hope my delivery person never does this with my stuff!

I don’t think I have anything else to blog about, so have a great day! I’ll see if I can try to muster up a new Cheaters Challenge for next time

We are thinking of moving to my hometown! I haven’t lived there for over 12 years and the death of my grandfather made me realize just how much I need to be home. My whole family lives there and I only get to see my immediate family once a month, sometimes 2 months. DH has his parents here and his brother/SIL/niece, so we’ll miss the frequent visits from them, but DH talked to my FIL about it and he thinks it’s a good idea. My hometown is a nice little town that has everything you’d need and I think it would be a great place for the kids to grow up. They could even be going to school with my nephews which Kristen is really excited about. Yes, I told her even if it isn’t official and she loves the idea! We just have to visit the bank to see what kind of mortgage we can get and if it’s enough to get a house there. If we continue to live here, we’ll be spending a LONG time in this duplex as we can’t afford anything more. In my hometown, houses are cheaper because they aren’t close to the city. DH says a lot of the time he isn’t working in the city anyway, so it doesn’t really matter if we live here or there. I am so excited! I don’t want to take Kristen out of school though, so we won’t move till school is out next year. Our realtor (a family friend) came over to check out the house yesterday and she said we won’t have a problem selling this house at all and will make a really good profit off of it, which in turn will be our down payment for the next house.

Yesterday I took Kaylee to Superstore to get the girls their outfits for their portrait session at the end of the month. I’ll be using the pics for our Christmas card this year. Here are the outfits. Aren’t they so cute? Little preppy girls. LOL

I had to exchange Kaylee’s dress today because it was a bit small and hard to pull over her head. So I went up 2 sizes and got the 4T. The 3T would’ve been best but now it’ll get worn for longer.

I’m not back up to the scrapping speed I was before, but at least I’m trying! Here’s 2 layouts I’ve done in the past few days.

For SSD’s From Our Blog 2 Yours for 10/9, Jaclyn wants to know what our ice cream personality is…I don’t think it got me right on a few things…I don’t have a one track mind (mulit-task ALL the time) nor am I dramatic and over the top.

Not compared to some bloggers, but for me, it’s been a while since I really blogged. I still think about my grandfather every day and will miss his hugs.

So I haven’t felt like scrapping much lately but I am getting back into it. I have 2 layouts to show you, both being for an SSD challenge. I only got 18 points last month but I am reaching for at least 30 this month!

Here are the last 2 From Our Blog 2 Yours quizzes! First, from the 9/25 challenge, they wanted to see how fast of a typist we all are. I thought I was faster than that, but I guess 51 wpm without any real training (besides forum surfing and chatting LOL) I think it’s pretty good.

Next, for the 10/2 challenge, Libby wants to know what our favorite fast food joint is. My favorite is McDonald’s, but I can usually find something that I like at any of the fast food places around here. I love to get a Big Mac meal with a chocolate shake! Yummmmm…

I think that’s it for me right now…I’ll see about making a new Cheaters Challenge soon!