Winter is coming back....

Morning all,

So it's the end of March right??? So why are the weathermen all forcasting 6 to 12 inches of snow for Friday?  I am done with winter.  My crocusses are all budding.  It's been fun to watch my yard this spring because as some of you know we just moved into our new home at the end of August.  We have no idea what is planted and where it's planted.  Sor far we have crocusses and we have other things starting.  They look like they may be some daffodils and some tulips.  I am full of anticipation.  I have my little notebook already to write down but blooms and where so I can plant more or move things around.  :)   I want to trim back some bushes for sure.  Two of them are about to start covering up the front bedroom windows and I don't want that.  We may even pull them out and plant some new ones. 

My family has (knock on wood) spent a whole week without one of us being sick.  I hope I don't jinx our good fortune.  LOL  I have been sick on and off since the week between Christmas and New Years.  It has been a good feeling the last week and I want it to continue.  I still have the darn cough still lingering but even that is getting better.

I am very proud of myself today.  Last night I completely cleaned my scrapdesk and surrounding flat surfaces.  I think this weekend I will make my husband believe it's his idea to go to Ikea.  I love this store, but I think he loves it even more.  It probably won't be hard to persuade him to think he suggested going there.  I just know that I need a place to store my ever growing stash of punches.  (Mostly Martha Stewart punches)  I am addicted to them.  I cleaned because I want to start a whole new project and I never start a new project without putting EVERYTHING away first.   Are any of you like that?

So I usually do a Thankful Thursday (when I do one) but I never know when I will be back so I am going to do it today.  Here goes:

I am thankful for:

1.  Feeling healthy again,
2.  Having my scrap area clean and ready to create again,
3.  Having good friends
4.  Being loved by my family who have been my rocks through the last few months.

What are you thankful for???

Talk to you all soon,  Pam

So you know when people say they feel like they've been hit by a mack truck...

Well, I know how they feel.  I have had the flu.  3 weeks of having the flu.  I still have the cough.  People are telling me it lasts for a long time.  Great, everytime I cough, I feel like my head is going to explode.  But I shall live.

The new job is going well.  I am loving the people I work with and the new clients as well.  I can usually get along with anyone and everyone but you know how it feels to be the "new" girl. 

Some of you already know that my daughter is graduating from College this year.  She attends Framingham University.  Well we got notice yesterday (we already knew but it's nice to see on paper) that she is graduating Magna Cum Laude.  I can not tell you just how proud of that girl I am.  She had lots of things going on in her freshman and junior year that could have set her back but she overcame them all and did well in spite of (him) them.  She will be going on to get her masters degree.  She has made me such a proud mama.  And she has daddy wrapped around her little finger as well.

Speaking of daddy.  Tom and I celebrated our 28th wedding anniversary this past weekend.  We celebrated by going to our most favorite restaurant..  I had lobster pie, Tom had scallops.  It was all so delicious.  We decided when the weather gets better here we are going to go away for a weekend.  We haven't decided where yet.  Got any suggestions?

Those of  you that follow my blog will see me more often here.  I think I started my blog a little earlier than I was prepared for.  I planned to be here so much more often but things happen.......  Thanks Tracey for the push to get back over here.  I spent about an hour over at your blog yesterday getting caught up on you.  I totally agree that I wouldn't have been able to wait to pick up my stampin up order.  :) 

Okay, it's early here so I need to finish up my coffee and get to work.  I will be back tomorrow for my thankful thursday.  Stay tuned........  much more to come.

Talk to you all soon.

Pam

Another post, why is it so hard to come up with a title LOL

So it's February and I haven't really been posting like I wanted to but I am happy to say that life is getting back on an even kiel for me.  I am the example that everyone can use that YOU CAN TEACH AN OLD DOG NEW TRICKS.  I am really started to fit in at my new job.  These woman have really taken me under thier wing and made me feel the love.  I had a small incident with another woman at my workplace and I can't tell you the number of people that came to my rescue.  It started out with someone letting me know that I was the new girl and it ended with her knowing that I won't always be the new girl.  I think about it now and have to actually giggle a little bit because it so back fired on her.  LOL

So I have lots of stuff all laid out to be photographed and uploaded here.  I have been extremely happy with my scrapping self lately.  Have been getting lots of stuff done.  It should be all uploaded sometime this weekend. 

I am also in the midst of getting a new computer.  I am changing things up a little bit.  Changing from a PC to a MAC. I am so tired of paying someone to take those nasty viruses off my computer.  My daughter has had a mac for about three years now and she hasn't gotten one virus to my 10+ times I have had to pay someone to wipe my computer clean and start over.  So it's a MAC for me.  I am done wasting my money.  Hey, I need it to buy new scrappy stuff right???

I have a couple new followers and it really thrills me to no end.  I want to make myself deserving of having some followers so I am going to start posting more often.  Hopefully when I get my new MAC I will spend a little extra and get a camera so that I can do some tutorials like some of you already do.  Not that I think I would be able to teach anyone anything right now but maybe someday.

One of the things that Tracy from Tracy's Treasures does is list some things she is grateful for so I think that I am going to give that a whirl.  Hope she doesn't mind.  (Tracy, let me know if you do okay?  I promise not to be offended.)

So here is what I am grateful for right now:

1.  Having friends out there is the computer world.  Some of you I have known for years and even had the pleasure of meeting. 

2.  Having a hobby that I can use pretty papers and not have people look at me like I need counseling.  LOL

3.  Having a wonderful family that keeps me amused and fills my life with laughter.  Tonight I laughed so hard with my 22 year old daughter and my surrogate 21  daughter (my daughters best friend that lives with us) that my face is sore from the salt in the tears I shed.  I had the most wonderful time laughing.  It really does do wonders for your soul.

And as Tracy says, what have you done today to make you feel proud???

See ya all this weekend, if not before,

Pam

It's me again

Well, here I am again.  Nothing to post today as I haven't been creative at all.  I have a sick house right now.  My daughter Meaghan has had the flu all weekend and hasn't moved off the couch unless it's go run for the batroom.  Elissa, my surrogate daughter had her wisdom teeth surgically removed on Thursday and she is the one that keeps us in stitches laughing all the time.  Right now she is in stitches that prevent her from opening her mouth to far and no one feels much like laughing any way.  My husband and I are just plain worn out from taking care of them.

I am so hoping to sit at the craft table this afternon and do something.  Tracy from Tracy's Treasures made some post it note covers that I am so gonna try for myself.  That's on the agenda as I have many of them that came home with me ffrom the old office.  They were goinna be tossed and I wasn't having any of that.  A scrapper and stamper can find a use for just about anything right?

I hope all of you that check out my blog are happy and healthy. Talk to you all again soon.

What a difference a week makes...

I am getting ready for a new week to start and I realized that I am happy.  Almost looking forward (as much as you can look forward to going to work.) to going back into work.  I have had a great weekend with the family.  I have limited time with my daughter as she leaves friday night and I see her for about an hour on saturday night before she is gone again and I don't see her again til sunday night.  I miss her like crazy but I guess this is the way it will be as soon she will probably be out on her own. 

I did do a little bit of crafting this weekend as well.  I made a birthday card for my mom but forgot to take a picture before I gave it to her.  Oh well.  But here is a little something else that I finished up.  Next week I hope to actually put some pictures to paper.  LOL

Well, I will talk to you all during the week.  Stay tuned for Chapter two of this saga.  LOL

I'm BBBAAACCCKKK!!!

Hello, Out there,

There are not enough people out there that even know that I have a blog nevermind enough people to have missed me.  But never the less, I am back to say that I have made it through my first week of working at my new job.  I have been crazy busy trying to learn a new computer system and falling asleep in my chair ever single night while trying to watch tv.  But it has been a GREAT week.  I have met so many nice ladies.  They have all taken me under thier wing and helped me so much.  This is probably a move that I should have made a long time ago.  I was pushed into it kicking and screaming but I am a willing participent now. 

I will share with you an album that I made just before Christmas because I have not been able to make anything for a while now. 

Another one influenced by Laura Denison.  (I have many more to show you too.)

Hope this blog entry finds you all well.  I will be back tomorrow and then hopefully on a more regular basis from here on in.

Well today is the day

Today is the day that I have been dreading.  Today marks the end of an era for me.  I am done working at the office that I have been at for ten years.  I am looking forward to new beginnnings and all but it stinks that I have to start all over again.  It stinks that I will be low man on the totem pole again.  It looks so funny around here.  There's nothing on my bulletin board and no papers left on my desk.  Tom has taken my desk calendars home for me and me, the girl that hoards pencils and pens only have one pen left on my desk to use today.  That pen and my cup for coffee are the only thing leaving with me tonight at 4pm when it's time to go home.  I have a constant lump in my throat waiting to spill over.  And spill it does everytime a client comes in to say goodbye to us.  Yes, I will see some of them again.  I am moving along with the book of business but they won't be "my" clients anymore.  I know that I will be fine and by next friday I will be safely ensconced in a new job and looking forward to the weekend but for now I AM SAD. 

I will be back this evening to post more about how my day went and my next batch of creativity.  But if you read this and are so inclined, remember me in a short prayer just to get through this day. 

See you when it's all over.........

Pam :)

It's a new day

Hi, 

Another day, another project to see.  These two projects are going to two special people.  I have owed these to two friends for a long time and they probably think that I have forgotten.  They have been made for months.  If they read this blog they will probably know exactly who they are.  Again, they are Laura Denison Designs (I told you that I love her stuff).

Okay so you know who you are if you were have lots of garden/flower pictures.  I have tried to send these out a couple of times.  Then I decided that I wanted to start this blog and I had to have pictures of them.  Then try to get an almost 22 year old daughter who is in college and dating and working part time have the time to take pictures for you and teach you how to do all this.  Any way you get the picture. 

So watch the mail because I will get them out really soon. 

Pam

I have a whole new attitude

Okay, no more feeling sorry for myself.  Okay, so I lost my job of ten years, but I have a new one and a new chapter of my life to get started.  This week will be hard as we will have lots of people coming into the office to say goodbye.  There will probably be tears shed, that's okay, I know I will be fine. 

So the whole reason for my blog is to show some of the things that I have done lately.  This is an album created by Laura Denison.  I just love her work.  I bought a pattern from her and this is my take on her bird house album.

So now that I have a whole new attitude, there will be no more talk about feeling bad about loosing my job.  I may let you know how well the new one is going though.  Talk to you again soon.  I have lots more to share with you.

Pam

Well, Here I am at the start of a new blog.  Not only new but my first.  I know, I am behind the times right?  I have started this blog because there are so many new things going on in my world that I just decided it was time so that I didn't  have to tell family and friends one by one what was happening.  First and formost this is the year that I want to join a design team with my papercrafting.  I don't know if that means, scrapbooking, cardmaking or whatever making that is but I want to be able to share all of that with you.

The new year brought on a lot of changes.  I came to work yesterday January 3rd to find out that I had no job.  My co-worker and I have spent the last ten years of our lives together on a daily basis and now in two weeks that will be over.  We work in insurance and our agency has been sold.  Amongst the tears that were shed, and the moments of anxiety, that had me breathing into a paperbag for a few minutes, I picked up the phone and called the agency that bought us out and I am happy to report that I WON'T be signing up for unemployment benefits anytime soon.  So the first thing I did was buy a scrapbooking kit from Laura Denison from Following the Paper Trail.  LOL  Most people wouldn't get this but Laura does,  Papercrafting makes me sane.   Or as sane as I will ever be. 

I will be back soon to make my blog all pretty and start my real posting, not only of words but of projects that I am working on.  Hope you come back to see me.

Pam