Puppy Obedience Class

Fantasy: puppy obedience class would be a SINCH. Stressfree. Not much work. The kids will get along. I will be calm and happy. The MINUTE I let Dottie out of the car she went crazy! Sam went crazy! He wanted to WALK her thru the parking lot and into the store! I could barely control the dog let a lone a near 3 year old. Dottie continued to pull us through the store making my life MISERABLE. Sam was yelling at me that he is MAD AT ME for not letting him walk the dog. I was HOPING that we'd be the only ones in the class, sure would have made the hour much easier. NOPE. Another couple and their grown daughter brought in their german sheppard/coon hound. It was excited, but listed better than my dog. All my dog wanted to do was jump on top of it. I spent the hour fighting the dog and the kids who wanted to hold the leash. The couple with us, well, that was interesting. They were probably in their 60s. They sat their large ASSES on little tiny circular chairs while the daughter worked with the dog. I bet they both sit at home in worn out Lazy Boy chairs, eating and watching TV all day long. The only excercise they get is walking to and from the fridge and the bathroom. It's mind boggling that two sedintary people would get a dog that needs energetic people. Then, they started chewing up the hour with their stupid questions on how to get the dog NOT to jump their fenced in yard. The trainer goes off on little tangents about her 4 dogs. COME ON!! She told Sam to sit on a chair in the corner by himself and if he didn't get up, she'd give him a sucker. WELL, he sat their picking his nose like a good little boy. I felt bad for him, so I told him to go look at the cats with Catie. He asked her for his sucker (which she didn't have any to beging with), she said NOPE, you got up....He doesn't forget!! Home now, it's only 8:11pm and I have 2 more days as a single parent. I am going to LOSE MY MIND.

Baby Tag

A work in progress. These are going to be used to tie our hand dipped pretzel rods for my sister's baby shower.

Spring Banners

Catie and I made SPRING banners last night. Originally, wanted to cut ovals to create 6 flowers, however, the ovals are too round. The 'flowers' looked more like EGGS piled on top of each other. I used the CM Ovals, 2 sizes. I actually USED my Cricut to cut the letters. It took a few tries to get the right font size. I actually LIKED it!! It makes me want to get more font cartridges. I only have 2, but they are very exciting!!! Catie used the first letters we made with the Cricut. I think they were too big and didn't stand out on my ovals. We recut in brown. I thought the "I" did not print, so we cut a piece of scrap to make the 'I' and used the flowers to DOT it. I used Martha Stewart glitter on the edges of the circles. I bought on of those fancy glue pens, which made glittering SOOOO much easier!!! Eyelets and ribbon to string them.

Aaron's comment, after 4 hours of work, "Oh no, more banners??" It's been a long time since my last banner kick!!!!

New Punches

I like the checker board punch - Martha Stewart. I had NO idea until now that Martha's punches are made by EK Success!! The other punch is EK Success. The picture shows a small cut out or embossed cirlce that follows the zig zag. I was hoping for PUNCH OUT, but it's embossed and BARELY comes out!! I might return this one....???

New Lattice Punch - Martha Stewart

LOVE IT!!!!! Check it out. EK Success (Michael's) had some cool punches too, a few of them were miniture sizes....I'm addicted!!

Challenge 7

I am a little behind, but doing the challenges as I can. I just noticed that I made a few spelling mistakes. My handwriting is not very good either. I will go back and REDO the journaling circles in a few days. I added some popsicle facts to the page. I'm also going to try to draw/cut out some popsicles for the 2nd page. Again, I am a two page layout girl!! I have a 3rd set of pictures where Sam is enjoying cheese puffs. I'll probably do that page too!!

I bought FUN FLOCK from LLL yesterday. It is a fiberous material that gives a 3D look. Kind of like puffy paint???!!! I'm going to practice using it too. The owner of LLL said it's LOTS of fun.

I have decided to just post my layout with the mistakes and omitted embellishments, incase it takes a few more weeks to complete!!

BLOG PICTURE

How do I enlarge my profile picture? How do I make the page fancier?? It's so boring!