Virtual Crop Week #19 - Everyone's Invited!

• NonnasLove Said:

He's always been "Momma's Widdle Pookie-Face Schmoopsie-Poo." I call him that just to watch his little face scrunch up and hear him growl, "Mo-om!" He's relieved that everybody else believes him, too. Not that Jeremy and I ever doubted him. I'm a survivor myself, and I know that kids just don't make that kind of stuff up. They don't.

Pat, Shirley and I originally knew each other from sb.com forums. I don't think we actually participated in any threads together, but we were both from SA so somehow ended up on each other MyPlace - perhaps it was from the texas thread?

Then one day I was at M's and I overheard some lady near the die cutting machines talking to a sales associate about the different ones. Me, being new to SBing, went to eavesdrop on the conversation. At first I wasn't going to say anything, but at the end of it I blurted out "I so want the Wishblade " LOL! We talked for like 2 seconds and then she asked if I was on sb.com and if I was "tx" LOL! (back when my name was txcosmoh7105) maybe it was the shirt as I was wearing "I love my soldier" shirt and all my forum avatars were about loving my soldier LOL!! She had her DGD with her who had just cut her hair into a mullet, but was still super adorable

Atleast that's how I remember everything

Good night, Pat. Hope you're rested well in the morning.

Pat, how is everything going for you? You catch up with everyone else but I haven't seen you post about you this evening yet

On my last Easy Stick.

Viv, what exactly IS an Easy Stick? I've never heard of it.

• Bling Princess Ria Said:

Just my favorite adhesive:

http://store.scrapbook.com/nm-20700.html

Used to buy a 4 pack for $8 something at Wal-mart. {sigh}

That's how I remember it too! We had been on some threads together..maybe this one? I just remembered the txcos thing..

• Bling Princess Vivian Said:

So that price on the sb.com superstore is just for ONE??? Wow. It looks like an interesting product, and was one heckuva deal at 4/$8.

I'm using the Tombow tape adhesive dispensor and the Herma Vario "sticky-square" dispenser. My photo paper I've been using lately has been the self-adhesive kind: print it out, peel the backing off, and stick it to your page. I get it at Office Depot, 12 4x6 sheets for $2.

Well..I actually completed 3 LO's today! I was going to photo them, but the camera was downstairs, lol..I'll post them tomorrow, along with the other one. They are actually 2 twopagers..
DH got home quick. DD just left for work. Silly girl, she just completed pharm tech school..and is currently working at Wendy's. Well, her boss, who she worked with for 4 years at Taco Bell, decided he didn't want to lose her, so she's training to be shift manager.
He left her in charge the other day for 4 hours..she had to handle an irate customer even, and did well. Saturday night will be her first official shift manager day, on her own.

I've been using lots of combinations of stuff..mostly photo squares. And the ZIG two way. And Scotch liquid. That stuff is cool, but not great on thinner paper, its too liquid. But, it does work to make a dot or line for glitter!

• ScrappyLitty Said:

we don't have exactly that amount...we just put a few of the leftover candles we've had leftover all year from everybody's birthdays on the cake. never ends up to very many, though. jory's 9 and lizzie's 4, so i usually have only 3 candles left from two boxes. if i can scrounge up 4 candles, we do "one for each thousand years."

oh, the logic of it all!!!

I used to have a stock pile of these when one WM clearanced them out for like $2 for the 4-packs. I bought them out! But that was last year and all gone now.

I'm using Glue Dots more and not for rhinestones, either. I've got a couple of glue sticks and some liquid stuff, too. I keep praying that I'll will the sticky patrol.

So, Shirley, are you wanting dd to stay there or keep going with her education/profession?

I'm off to bed, ladies..good night!

This is it for many days.

Family

Now I'm done with March 2006. I'm now a little over 14 months behind if I don't count the gap in the 90's.

I'm going to bed soon too.

Good night. Hope to meet up with ya tomorrow.

I didn't get much done with house today. So alot to do tomorrow before I leave on Friday. The kitchen floor still isn't done. But the magic toilet is clean at least, even under the seat... magic?



Good night.

Goodnight, Shirley!

Here's a cute story for you guys, Lizzie is telling everybody her phone number is: "5-5-5-11-11-11-9-9-9-Hel lo Kitty-Hello Kitty...."

• Bling Princess Vivian Said:

Please...please...give me your spell...we have a magic wand to wave over the toilet...what's the spell????

Goodnight, Vivian! Sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite...if they do, hit 'em with your shoe, till they turn...black and blue!!!

Goodness, girls! This thread was #14 on the list (i.e. 13 other threads have had posts since the last one here)! What's wrong with us?!?!

I'll just have to go do my part to make up for that, I suppose.

• Shelly7105 Said:

Okay, maybe it would be more accurate to say that he's supposed to be home in October. His BCT graduation is set for August 17. Then he goes to AIT (which will actually also be at Ft. Sill, I believe). So if the class doesn't get delayed like Jimmy's did, then he should be home in October.

• ScrappyLitty Said:

Eh, I didn't do too badly. Baked chicken breasts, french fries, mixed veggies. The only thing is that I didn't have time to eat. But it was here for everyone else.

• Bling Princess Vivian Said:

Is that the one where he's a ballroom dance instructor and he teaches dancing to a bunch of inner city school kids? If so, I've seen it and it's GOOD.

Sounds good to me. I ate McDonald's at 3:30pm (first food of the day! I got to be better!), and then at 8 had a salad. I didn't do any scrapping, but did do some writing on a fiction story I'm working on. (And I got some cheeps kissed, too. LOL)

• Bling Princess Vivian Said:

You do that, too?

I don't watch them while I scrap, but I *have* recorded several eps of DIY Scrapbooking (I was SO disappointed when I discovered their web site doesn't have anything scrappy anymore) and Scrapbook Memories from PBS. They're a good way to get nudged out of a rut.

Ria - AMAZING news about the person turning him/herself in. Hopefully you all will be able to start on some closure from this now.

• NonnasLove Said:

First of all - welcome back.
Second of all - serves you right for being gone so long.

• NonnasLove Said:

Good to see you back! Good catch-up too!

• ShirleyJB Said:

Thanks for the tip, Shirley! I was just going to ask about this. I need to add some 'glitter' to my 'water play' LO.. and I'm wondering... I normally run the whole letter thru Xyron and then add the glitter. But this time, it's a long chipboard and I only want to add it selectively.

BTW, I'm doing my first official chipboard shape and I painted it with acrylic paint.. that is so much fun! I have never used acrylic paint before .. I bought some for the foam stamps, I had no idea they go on so easy, so well and is so much fun to play with! These are MM paints.. just the right consistency. I find that the regular acrylic paint I get from Ms is a bit too watery and harder to control.. maybe I need to get the right brand.

• NonnasLove Said:

we soooo would!

• NonnasLove Said:

When I come over, I'll make some of those famous pancakes I'll need a local goodlooking guy tough!

• Bling Princess Ria Said:

• c-leaper Said:

at least the family won't complain.

Phoo ... I'm so stressed right now!

let's see, where to begin... dh & I bought a brand new van. When dh went to pick it up, turns out they forgot to order the CD/airco combo we wanted in it (very good promotion, almost a steal). They were 2 options we were going to take anyway (tom can't drive without music, I can't without airco, I need it for my allergies plus I get naucious when I'm too hot).
Dh (nice guy as he is) settled for a minor discount and a free radio to make up for it.
There is no way to install the airco afterwards (not a good one anyway) and ordering a whole new car would be another 3 months...
When he told me I was like "WTF?! you got scr*wed!" I was MAD by it. First I tought I was overreacting to the situation, but then I talked to some friends about it, and they felt the same way I did: dh had been a complete ditz
So I told dh, that I was going to call the garage and tell them to order the new car, exactly to our wishes, and he would have to figure out a way to repay us the expenses we had on it (taxes and all) becaus of his mistake, and make sure, in the meanwhile we have transportation, either the van he tried to sell us and then take it back when the good one arrived, or another van that had airco.

@"%$!!! I'm the person paying for this car, and I'm already buying a car completely to the wishes of my hubby (I would've bought a new fiat 500), and then I don't get to have the ONE option I really wanted? No way this is happening!

So I called the garage, it was their answering machine... I got so stressed all of the sudden, all I could do was stutter that he had to call me back because I had troubles I couldn't tell to the answering machine ...

• NMlady Said:

for our paper anniversary, I made DH a book with photos of his GI Joe action figure collection. I used eyelets and stole some of his 550 parachute cord to bind it. (He brought home a huge spool of it when he was discharged from the Marines.) He still has the book.

• Bling Princess Vivian Said:

I'm not a man, but I am a tom boy

• Bling Princess Vivian Said:

I try like heck to empty the DW while DH isn't around or gets around to it. Whenever he puts dishes away, I can't find anything. I have a set of nesting bowls. he puts each bowl away seperately! Huh? They nest so they take up less space! Same with my gladware. He once stuck my tiny colander where I couldn't find it for weeks and I accused him of throwing it out! (It's thirty year old tupperware, I took it from my dad's kitchen when he died, and I am overly attached to it.)

• Bling Princess Vivian Said:

Not me! Tomorrow's the last day of DD's vacation with Nana and I'm planning on sleeping late, at least until 5!

• scrappycath Said:

Take it from one who's in therapy, it's a toss up. My sessions (without insurance) are $150 for twenty minutes. But that's ok because I only go every two months, since all he does is monitor my medications, which without insurance run $1000 for a 90 day supply. If I'm actually going to a therapist to work on things, it's $120 for a forty five minute session, and those need to be at least every two weeks.

In contrast, I spent 15 bucks at Scrapbook Island yesterday on one QuicKutz die and 5 bottles of stickles. but that's just one day and i restrained myself a lot. I've spent close to $1600 this year on supplies. (most being sizzix and QuicKutz ).

• moxiegirl23 Said:

A bottle of stickles goes a long way!!

Now I just need to find a store in my area that caries them!!

• c-leaper Said:

Here, here! I know there are people who think that the way DH and I handle our finances are weird, but it works for is. I had joint accounts with my ex. I got burned during the divorce to the point where I don't want another joint owner situation, no matter how much I love/trust John. Plus I balance my checkbook to the penny, and he doesn't and having an account where it's not accurate to the penny bothers me. Our bills are paid, our savings are growing, our investments are working, the whole thing works for us.

• c-leaper Said:

We constantly tell DD that she's gonna grow up just like us. Usually right after we do something silly.

Star Trek is on TV Land. I'm loving sitting here watching it, drinking coffee and catching up here.

Ok. I have to get ready to leave for my headshrinking visit. I wanted to hit some stores on the way home (and maybe a visit to that one in Topsfield that Mom told me about, but UPS is coming with another CM order (all customer stuff, too, nothing for me!) and I don't want to miss it. I'll be back later, after I shrink my head, clean my room and clean some of DD's room.

• moxiegirl23 Said:

I'll volunteer to get the next one started! I just need to know what to do... I know it needs to be done on Friday (right?). And somehow I link this forum topic to that one??? I'd like to do it so I learn how! Besides - it'll really make me feel even more a part of the group!! (you guys are great at making me feel right at home!)Since this is my first week of being on here!!

Cath

Just title the thread the same as this one only week #20 - you can always just go to the 1st post of this one and copy that post b/c I think we've pretty much just do that or you can make your own intro *shrugs* Pretty simple

• Bling Princess Ria Said:

It's dh's job to clean the toilet but he never gets around to it. So I still clean it weekly and he's amazed at how clean that one toilet in our house stays. I don't tell him. I'm the "magic."

• c-leaper Said:

Yep, that's the one. I've jumped from sci-fi to ball room dancing.