Oh my. Here I go again with Liam.
Yesterday was his worst day in school to date. He got the dreaded RED CARD, which means that he was misbehaving badly. He wouldn't follow directions, and even bit a classmate! What am I going to do with this child? What surprises me is that the girl he bit, is the one HE LIKES. How do I know that? Did Liam tell me he likes her? No, he didn't. But, he drew a picture of 2 kids, a girl and a boy, walking together. He also wrote my friend CARLA (not her real name) and me.
At school, he wouldn't tell me what had happened. At home, he didn't want to talk about it, but after much prodding, he told me that his little friend that sits across from him told him to do it. Why on earth would Liam follow through on this? He acts without regard for his own safety or that of others. Because of this incident, he didn't play outside at recess, nor participated in centers. The principal even had a talk with him.
For example, on Saturday dh took him and Kaylie for a bike ride around the neighborhood. They usually ride along the bike trail that leads to the elementary school. As you ride along the route, there is a little bend where the road leads down and you have to stop as you come to the bottom or else you will fall from the curb onto the street. DH and Kaylie had dismounted their bikes and were waiting for Liam to come down. Well, Liam is riding his bike like there is no tomorrow, while his father is telling him to slow down and dismount. He ignores his father, jumps the curb and falls down. He got a super big scratch on his right arm near the elbow. He comes home crying and shows me his scratch. I take him to the powder room where I can get a closer look and get the first aid supplies. The minute he sees the alcohol bottle he starts screaming " NO ALCOHOL, NO ALCOHOL." I told him that I need to kill the germs in the scratch and can only do it with alcohol. He doesn't like it, but let me soak a rag to wipe it. The second he felt the sting from the alcohol, he starts jumping up and down while wailing like a siren. I am trying to blow on it to lessen the sting, but it is hard to do with a moving target. Finally, I am able to put the ointment on the scratch, a gauze and then hold it down with the bandage. Well, the only one I could find was a DORA THE EXPLORER bandage, which made him mad as he DOES NOT LIKE DORA. He kept the bandage on for a while and when I wasn't looking, he took it off in his bedroom and left it on the floor. And then wonders how I found out that he had taken off the bandage. :)
When he was in pre-school, he never bit anyone, and now that he is a year older and in Kindergarten, he does this. I just don't know where he picks up this kind of behaviour. He spends his time with his sister, who is totally opposite. The best sister ever...she dotes on him and watches out for him, but he will have none of it.
We'll see how he does today. I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop at any time.
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
October sampler by Ashallee Wall at Oscraps
I just love these papers..the colors are fab. Yes, I know, you are tired of hearing this from me, but I think you can agree that I am right.
Naturescape Paper at The Scrap Girls
Did I tell you I love Autumn? I am pretty sure I haven't told you (wink, wink). Anyway, the ScrapGirls have this freebie paper up at their store...just perfect. Which reminds me, I have a kit by Bren Boone that is calling my name. Well, if truth be told, I have 2 kits by her that are screaming at me...so I best listen. See you later folks, I have to go post my scraplift challenge at Scrapbook-Graphics. Won't you join me?
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The Friday Freebie on Tuesday: Commotion on the Ocean by Danielle
If you missed it on Friday, you still have time to pick it up over at Digital Freebies. Danielle did a wonderful job with this sampler. If you like the sampler, be sure to check out the full kit at the store...it is fab!
Autumn Glory by Cinzia at Digital Freebies
Autumn is my most favorite time of the year. The colors, the crisp air...the pumpkins...it is all magical for me. Thanks Cinzia for this super duper cute sampler.
Template by Andrea Gold
Andrea has been making templates left and right for quite a while now...and I don't mean left and right as in directional, I mean it in the sense that she makes a LOT of them. She shares them for free before she bundles them up to sell at her store. Not many designers do that...but she does. She has quite a following, and rightly so. Great job Andrea and thank you for your generosity. If you download, be courteous and leave her a comment.
http://scrapandrea.blogspot.com/2007/10/time-for-new-sketch-challenge.html
October Love by Corinna Nielsen
I love the colors of this paperpack by Corina. Don't you? Head on over to her blog and leave her some love!
New L/O for Scraplift Chall. at SBG
This is my page for the scraplift challenge I host at SBG. Aren't these colors luscious? Jessica's swirls and wordart are fab, as is the scalloped folded matte by Jen.
Swirl (recolored), wordart (altered) and yarn stitching (recolored) from Just Another Memory by Jessica Bolton
http://www.scrapbookgraphics.com/xcart/product.php?productid=19138&cat=0&page=1
Eclectic Needs Variety – Stitched Circle -Jessica Bolton
http://www.scrapbookgraphics.com/xcart/product.php?productid=18200&cat=0&page=2
TK Stamped font, Taran Conyers
http://www.scrapbookgraphics.com/xcart/product.php?productid=16624&cat=279&page=2
Folded Scalloped Mattes by Jen Caputo
http://www.scrapbookgraphics.com/xcart/product.php?productid=19203&cat=0&page=1
Rustic Autumn by Kristin CB
http://www.scrapbookgraphics.com/xcart/product.php?productid=19279&cat=0&page=1
http://www.scrapbookgraphics.com/xcart/product.php?productid=19280&cat=0&page=1
Staple - Jenn Patricks
Folded corner by Karah Fredricks
Font: Lindsay HiTech
Swirl (recolored), wordart (altered) and yarn stitching (recolored) from Just Another Memory by Jessica Bolton
http://www.scrapbookgraphics.com/xcart/product.php?productid=19138&cat=0&page=1
Eclectic Needs Variety – Stitched Circle -Jessica Bolton
http://www.scrapbookgraphics.com/xcart/product.php?productid=18200&cat=0&page=2
TK Stamped font, Taran Conyers
http://www.scrapbookgraphics.com/xcart/product.php?productid=16624&cat=279&page=2
Folded Scalloped Mattes by Jen Caputo
http://www.scrapbookgraphics.com/xcart/product.php?productid=19203&cat=0&page=1
Rustic Autumn by Kristin CB
http://www.scrapbookgraphics.com/xcart/product.php?productid=19279&cat=0&page=1
http://www.scrapbookgraphics.com/xcart/product.php?productid=19280&cat=0&page=1
Staple - Jenn Patricks
Folded corner by Karah Fredricks
Font: Lindsay HiTech
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
W is for Wretched Computer
Hello Everyone!
No, I am not dead...if you haven't seen me is because I am trying to get my house in order, as well as optimize my computer.
My dh comes home, looks around assessing the space and the asks me the same question, "What Have You Done Today?"
It irks me that just because things are not getting done fast, or are not drastically different, he assumes I am sitting on my derriere playing on the computer all day.
I think I might have the FLYLADY have a talk with him and make him understand that what took 6 years (AND 2 adults and 2 kids) to do can not be undone in 1 week.
But, I am doing much better. I took a bag of clothing to the Vietnam Vets charity bin. 1 full bag of clothes in the trash. 4 other bags of stuff that I no longer want. I have been putting away the summer things, to make room for winter. And the ironing, oh my. Will have to remind myself to look for wrinkle free fabrics on my next shopping trip. :)
Now, getting back to my computer. I have a 180gb hard drive and a 500gb internal drive, and am down to like 50gb free space on the 180 and totally out of space on my 500gb drive.
I have been culling files all along and have deleted a ton of stuff. However, I haven't been burning my pages to dvds. So, I am changing all files from psd format to tiff format to reduce space and then burn them to dvd, to then be able to get them off of my 500gb drive. It is time consuming and a pain in the derriere but that is what I get for putting it off. I am multi-tasking though. I let the computer run the program and I do other things in between.
Anyway, I want to burn the dvds now that the files have been converted and fire up my ACDSee 9 and it crashes. I must have tried like 10 times and I can't get it to work. I am frazzled and tired, and desperately want to bash the computer, but if I do, then I won't have anything to play with...so I control my temper.
Anyway, I fretted all day long as to what to do...the obvious answer is get another drive; however, funds are tight in this household. DH works 60 hours a week so I can stay at home so I can't be bitching and complaining when I know that we have priorities to meet first.
At around 10:00, while doing laundry, I remembered that Connie Bensec, deals with ACDSee issues all the time and has a site dedicated to it (SEE THE LINK TO THE SITE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF MY BLOG), so I contacted her through HELLO. God bless her heart, she was online and directed me to the answer I was looking for. I eagerly followed the directions, which are very thorough and while I couldn't get it to work on the first suggestion, it did work on the 2nd one...the one about the registry...anyway, to make a long story short, I have been burning dvds all day long.
CONNIE BENSEC is fabulous and a great asset to the digiscrap community. I thank her from the bottom of my heart for helping those of us just getting started with ACDsee. I hear good things are happening to her and that an announcement will be forthcoming within a week.
Anyway, now you know why I am not scrapping.
No, I am not dead...if you haven't seen me is because I am trying to get my house in order, as well as optimize my computer.
My dh comes home, looks around assessing the space and the asks me the same question, "What Have You Done Today?"
It irks me that just because things are not getting done fast, or are not drastically different, he assumes I am sitting on my derriere playing on the computer all day.
I think I might have the FLYLADY have a talk with him and make him understand that what took 6 years (AND 2 adults and 2 kids) to do can not be undone in 1 week.
But, I am doing much better. I took a bag of clothing to the Vietnam Vets charity bin. 1 full bag of clothes in the trash. 4 other bags of stuff that I no longer want. I have been putting away the summer things, to make room for winter. And the ironing, oh my. Will have to remind myself to look for wrinkle free fabrics on my next shopping trip. :)
Now, getting back to my computer. I have a 180gb hard drive and a 500gb internal drive, and am down to like 50gb free space on the 180 and totally out of space on my 500gb drive.
I have been culling files all along and have deleted a ton of stuff. However, I haven't been burning my pages to dvds. So, I am changing all files from psd format to tiff format to reduce space and then burn them to dvd, to then be able to get them off of my 500gb drive. It is time consuming and a pain in the derriere but that is what I get for putting it off. I am multi-tasking though. I let the computer run the program and I do other things in between.
Anyway, I want to burn the dvds now that the files have been converted and fire up my ACDSee 9 and it crashes. I must have tried like 10 times and I can't get it to work. I am frazzled and tired, and desperately want to bash the computer, but if I do, then I won't have anything to play with...so I control my temper.
Anyway, I fretted all day long as to what to do...the obvious answer is get another drive; however, funds are tight in this household. DH works 60 hours a week so I can stay at home so I can't be bitching and complaining when I know that we have priorities to meet first.
At around 10:00, while doing laundry, I remembered that Connie Bensec, deals with ACDSee issues all the time and has a site dedicated to it (SEE THE LINK TO THE SITE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF MY BLOG), so I contacted her through HELLO. God bless her heart, she was online and directed me to the answer I was looking for. I eagerly followed the directions, which are very thorough and while I couldn't get it to work on the first suggestion, it did work on the 2nd one...the one about the registry...anyway, to make a long story short, I have been burning dvds all day long.
CONNIE BENSEC is fabulous and a great asset to the digiscrap community. I thank her from the bottom of my heart for helping those of us just getting started with ACDsee. I hear good things are happening to her and that an announcement will be forthcoming within a week.
Anyway, now you know why I am not scrapping.
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Enabler Alert - Halloween Kits and Embellishments
Tricks by Taran Conyers at SBG
Note of interest: This kit has a frame with branches and vines growing out of it. It has a full moon, a skull and a quickpage. Check out the stapled/stitched ribbons...they are fab!
Hallowbling by Traci Reed and Amy Blesser at SBG
Note of interest: This kit is jam packed with traditional colors and elements. Spiderwebs, ghosts, buttons, jack of lantern, bats...you name it, its got it. The clothes pins are interesting...
Creepy Candy by Brent Boone at SBG
This kit is too cute to be scary! :) I love, love, love the ghost peeking out, the bat and the supercute spider coming down the web. While this is a Halloween kit, the plain pprs. can be used for other types of pages, too. You got to check this kit...
Bootown by Dana Frantz at SBG
Check out the web overlay on this baby! Love the patches and creepy sayings; it also comes with an alpha. Hurry, it is on sale but the reduced price won't last long!
Oh my, have you seen the latest Halloween kits to hit the stores...they are fab! I can't wait for my kids to get dressed for Halloween...I got my stash ready to go.
So, without further ado, I share with you my pick of must have Halloween kits.
Enabler Alert - My Must Haves of the Day...
Folded Scalloped Mattes by Jen Caputo at Scrapbook-Graphics
If you are in the market for innovative and fun mattes, then look no further! These are the must-have mattes of the season. Can you see the attention to detail that Jen put into these babies. Look closer...see the scallops - can you see how some of them are folded over? Jen is so innovative in her designs...I can't wait to see what else she has up her sleeves!
TP Peking Chicken Fingers Font by Taran Conyers at Scrapbook-Graphics
I just love the clever names that Taran assigns to her fonts! Isn't this a funny name? I love the clean and neat look of this font. It would be great for journaling.
Jot It Down 2 by Trish Jones at Scrapbook-Graphics
I got to tell you I am loving these notes. They are fun and not your typical run of the mill notes. I like Trish's outside the box thinking on these! But don't take my word for it, get them and tell me I am wrong.
Flowers in the Garden by Bren Taylor Boone at Scrapbook-Graphics
Aren't these flowers absolutely gorgeous? I love their vibrant colors. These beauties are sure to spice up any page.
Aren't these flowers absolutely gorgeous? I love their vibrant colors. These beauties are sure to spice up any page.
Monday, September 17, 2007
A Day To Remember by Merkeley Designs at Oscraps
Merkee is selling at Oscraps. This is her introduction sampler. Isn't it beautiful. I love the colors and the frames. Thanks Merkee and much success in your new store.
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Sunday, September 16, 2007
Artistic Fall by E-scapeandscrap.net
The fabulous Julie Mead, along with Kay Eflin, Karen Aicken, Ruth Davis and Betty Jo Martin, have designed this wonderful e-part kit titled Artistic Fall. What gorgeous colors and elements. Thank you so much ladies for this wonderful kit. Be sure to check the store for coordinating kits and elements!
http://www.e-scapeandscrap.net/FunandFree.htm
Link to the store: http://www.e-scapeandscrap.net/boutique/index.php
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Studio Bren Boone is Open!
I am so excited that Bren Boone gave up her sabbatical and joined the Studio Girls at Scrapbook-Graphics! Her store opens today. She is super talented and has an eye for color. Love, love, love her stuff.
Above is a preview of her work in the store, along with a link so you can see it up close and personal: http://www.scrapbookgraphics.com/xcart/manufacturers.php?manufacturerid=33
Her stuff has a 20 percent discount on Saturday, 9/15 and Sunday, 9/16 only....hurry!
Say What? I Don't Need Your Attitude
Here is a page I made using wordart by Trish Jones from the Say What? mega kit.
Credits: Wordart by Trish Jones from Say What? Collaboration kit by The Studio Girls
A Certain Panache Revisited and A Certain Panache - Solids, by Carrie Stephens
Template from Launchpad #6 (modified) by Bree Clarkson
Staples by Kathy Moore; Font: Times New Roman
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