DSP Blog Prompt: Fashion Baron. You are the up and coming fashion designer of the age. What kind of fashions and fabrics can we expect?
For dressy stuff, something that would be a mix of gypsy, Victorian, gothic, and Renaissance, all rolled into one. Stuff slashed and jagged on the ends. Lots of boots and bustiers. Something Stevie Nicks, with MY twist!
Lots of high quality satins, lace lace lace! And stuff that helps those of us with flat/no boobs. Sheer, cozy, ethereal see through fabrics over opaque fabrics like silk.
Dark, rich colors, or rich creams and whites. Irridescents and sequins. Bling!
Pajamas: BIG, cozy, flannel, furry pajamas! fuzzy socks.
LOTS of costumes. I would be Halloween costume specialist. Or a Hollywood costume prop specialist......
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Weekend Scrapping
Two blogs in one day and all these scrapbook pages I did...Boy I was on a roll this weekend. Credits are in my DSP gallery. My favorite one though is the one I changed my avatar to! I also included my DET entries, i think it's safe to put them here since I got cut going to R3. Boo.
Halloween!!!!
This should technically be my last Halloween with the kids. I have entertained this thought this weekend, and at first, it broke my heart. There just can't be an end to Halloween. We can't just stop having our one day of the year that we love almost most of all---our one chance to prank, run, dress up, shock, gorge, and be general miscreants!!!!
Then I started to try to find ways around it. Cris is just over a year old. Kenna's pregnant---Sam's pregnant---new babies are coming, babies who'll have a crazy aunt and cousins to teach them all about toilet papering, comical costumes, how to get extra candy...yes, Halloween might carry on...but it just won't be the same. Maybe I might accept grandkids, after all. Just on Halloween.
And I thought about it even more....why can't they still dress up and go trick or treating? Maybe not to get candy, but one of the best parts of Halloween is the time spent with my kids while we brainstorm and create our costumes. And it's not like we still can't keep our other Halloween tradtions......the haunted house at my sister's farm.....(she can't wait for them to get older so she can put them to work as a spook instead of on the hayride having fun)...the trip to the pumpkin patch to pick a pumpkin and the hayride there, complete with pictures, apple cider, horse rides (Kameron hates those but always does it anyway), the house parties.....
Somehow I think next year will find me in severe denial of the fact my youngest will be official teens, and we'll still be making costumes....after all....aunt Janet needs more spooks for her haunted hayride. Until then, I am going to go for broke and enjoy this one for all I can milk out of it.
Then I started to try to find ways around it. Cris is just over a year old. Kenna's pregnant---Sam's pregnant---new babies are coming, babies who'll have a crazy aunt and cousins to teach them all about toilet papering, comical costumes, how to get extra candy...yes, Halloween might carry on...but it just won't be the same. Maybe I might accept grandkids, after all. Just on Halloween.
And I thought about it even more....why can't they still dress up and go trick or treating? Maybe not to get candy, but one of the best parts of Halloween is the time spent with my kids while we brainstorm and create our costumes. And it's not like we still can't keep our other Halloween tradtions......the haunted house at my sister's farm.....(she can't wait for them to get older so she can put them to work as a spook instead of on the hayride having fun)...the trip to the pumpkin patch to pick a pumpkin and the hayride there, complete with pictures, apple cider, horse rides (Kameron hates those but always does it anyway), the house parties.....
Somehow I think next year will find me in severe denial of the fact my youngest will be official teens, and we'll still be making costumes....after all....aunt Janet needs more spooks for her haunted hayride. Until then, I am going to go for broke and enjoy this one for all I can milk out of it.
Friday, September 14, 2007
Memes and Beauty Secrets
I have been tagged by Tink, my fave OtherFaery, of [url=http://tinkstribulations.blogspot.com/] Tink's Tribulations. I have to list seven things about me you probably don't know. (My oldest freinds will probably not only know it, but still remember it.) But this is for my virtual friends!
I am going to use FIRSTS as a springboard, since anything current is just.....boring.
1. Who was your first prom date?
Didn't make it to prom
2. Who was your first roommate?
Glenda Seaford---my thoughts still follow you all the way to Heaven.
3. Where did you go on your first ride on an airplane?
Virginia Beach, Virginia
4. When you snuck out of your house for the first time, who was it with?
Cory & Debbie
5. Whose wedding were you in the first time?
Crystal's--Maid of honor
6. What was the first concert you ever went to?
Guns s Roses and Aerosmith
7. First tattoo or piercing?
tattoo--spray of roses on the ankle---15 yrs old
piercing---ears at 7 yrs old
And I'm supposed to tag 7 other people. I don't think I know 7, so I'll go as far as I can:
Pat from The Life of LoonyHiker
LuLu from Linda Rechtin's Designer Blog
Beth from Beth's Designer Blog *******************************************************************************
DSP Blog prompt for Friday:
Beauty Secrets. What beauty secrets do you use (no matter how unusual)?
Food for thought, food for the tummy, and for your body....
Cabbage for acne treatment:
Cabbage toner:
4 oz witch hazel
One 1-in square pc of cabbage leaf
Put in wide-mouth plastic bottle. Cover w/ tight fitting lid. Let steep for 24 hours. Keeps up to 1 week.
Olive oil in the hair, put a plastic bag over it, lay on a towel and a heating pad, turning every so often. Or go do yardwork in the summer. Or blowdry it with the bag on it, but it's got to set, like, an hour or more. Leaves your hair super soft and shiny. Hard as heck to wash out, but it's just like a hot oil treatment for.....oh, 5 cents. My hair is to my waist and two tablespoons does the trick.
Preparation H for puffy wrinkled eyes. Do it at night, cause it kinds stings if your undereyes are in pretty bad shape. (Um among other reasons, haha)
Green tea for everything. Put warmed tea bags under the eyes for circles and puffs, drink for cancer-fighting, antioxidants, nerves.
Orange juice and a bowl of chili the morning after to cure a hangover. (It works.)
Lay on the sofa every night with your legs over your heart for at least an hour to prevent vericose veins.
I am going to use FIRSTS as a springboard, since anything current is just.....boring.
1. Who was your first prom date?
Didn't make it to prom
2. Who was your first roommate?
Glenda Seaford---my thoughts still follow you all the way to Heaven.
3. Where did you go on your first ride on an airplane?
Virginia Beach, Virginia
4. When you snuck out of your house for the first time, who was it with?
Cory & Debbie
5. Whose wedding were you in the first time?
Crystal's--Maid of honor
6. What was the first concert you ever went to?
Guns s Roses and Aerosmith
7. First tattoo or piercing?
tattoo--spray of roses on the ankle---15 yrs old
piercing---ears at 7 yrs old
And I'm supposed to tag 7 other people. I don't think I know 7, so I'll go as far as I can:
Pat from The Life of LoonyHiker
LuLu from Linda Rechtin's Designer Blog
Beth from Beth's Designer Blog *******************************************************************************
DSP Blog prompt for Friday:
Beauty Secrets. What beauty secrets do you use (no matter how unusual)?
Food for thought, food for the tummy, and for your body....
Cabbage for acne treatment:
Cabbage toner:
4 oz witch hazel
One 1-in square pc of cabbage leaf
Put in wide-mouth plastic bottle. Cover w/ tight fitting lid. Let steep for 24 hours. Keeps up to 1 week.
Olive oil in the hair, put a plastic bag over it, lay on a towel and a heating pad, turning every so often. Or go do yardwork in the summer. Or blowdry it with the bag on it, but it's got to set, like, an hour or more. Leaves your hair super soft and shiny. Hard as heck to wash out, but it's just like a hot oil treatment for.....oh, 5 cents. My hair is to my waist and two tablespoons does the trick.
Preparation H for puffy wrinkled eyes. Do it at night, cause it kinds stings if your undereyes are in pretty bad shape. (Um among other reasons, haha)
Green tea for everything. Put warmed tea bags under the eyes for circles and puffs, drink for cancer-fighting, antioxidants, nerves.
Orange juice and a bowl of chili the morning after to cure a hangover. (It works.)
Lay on the sofa every night with your legs over your heart for at least an hour to prevent vericose veins.
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Self Motivation
DSP Blog Prompt: Self-motivation. Ever get in a rut and didn't feel like you would ever get out? What did you do to pull yourself up and out?
Hm.
I don't think I ever get OUT of the rut.
The closets always need cleaned out. I got my summer clothes out in July this year. The autumn leaves from last fall didn't get burned until June. The dishes get left until I need to cook again, the checkbook gets balanced when I'm afraid I might have bounced something, the shopping gets done when we are out of EVERYTHING. The utility bills get paid late because I forget to mail them off. I don't want to do direct deposit because I forget to balance my checkbook on time.
I'm still legally married. I left my husband 8 years ago. We were only married for six. How's that for procrastination?
I do what I can do, until I get tired, and what's not done, someone else can do, or it gets left.
What do I do to get out of it? I don't really think I do. I haven't felt 'caught up' since I was 15 and didn't know what all that stuff is.
If anyone has any good ideas, pass them along. Usually the best motivation for me, though, is the onset of spring and fall. Which means, I'm about to get my butt up and going, right about now.
Maybe. I still have scrapping to do, and books to read, and costumes to sew......
Hm.
I don't think I ever get OUT of the rut.
The closets always need cleaned out. I got my summer clothes out in July this year. The autumn leaves from last fall didn't get burned until June. The dishes get left until I need to cook again, the checkbook gets balanced when I'm afraid I might have bounced something, the shopping gets done when we are out of EVERYTHING. The utility bills get paid late because I forget to mail them off. I don't want to do direct deposit because I forget to balance my checkbook on time.
I'm still legally married. I left my husband 8 years ago. We were only married for six. How's that for procrastination?
I do what I can do, until I get tired, and what's not done, someone else can do, or it gets left.
What do I do to get out of it? I don't really think I do. I haven't felt 'caught up' since I was 15 and didn't know what all that stuff is.
If anyone has any good ideas, pass them along. Usually the best motivation for me, though, is the onset of spring and fall. Which means, I'm about to get my butt up and going, right about now.
Maybe. I still have scrapping to do, and books to read, and costumes to sew......
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Lest we Forget....
I'm not much on discussion of politics, world events, or debating, and I won't elaborate now, but to me it is very important to post my small tribute to the memory of Sept. 11. It is very important that we not forget what happened to our country on that day!
Monday, September 10, 2007
Pranks!!!!
So I took the boy to Wal-Mart today to have his hair cut. We had a 45 minute wait, and I didn't have any cash to spend so we couldn't really go shopping.
Wal-mart + Mom + Kameron = BAD Business.
It also brought back a few memories.
We got security cameras turned on us for drinking a Full Throttle energy drink in the sewing section. (I wanted to check out costumes, and he was thirsty. We paid for it first. I never pay for chicken livers first, I eat them in the store all the time, and I never get in trouble! Boo.) The customer is always right.
I dared him to get up on the treadmill display and see how fast he could go. He did.
We thought about greasing the inside of the free check your blood pressure cuff with KY Jelly, but I didn't have enough cash to buy the jelly.
They were out of silly string. Boo. I have been silly stringed before, right in the shampoo section. And the magazine section, and the sporting goods section.
If you put a bottle of lotion up against your arm and stick this in the blood pressure monitor, wait till it squeezes it's tightest, and flip open the lotion lid, Kameron gets blasted with lotion. If it's the right kind of bottle, he gets it in the face.(That wasn't this trip, though.)
Wal-mart shoppers do not necessarily like to be hit in the face with snowballs. (Not this trip either, but I do know this to be fact.)
I don't really know what they think of merchandise getting put in their buggy when they aren't looking. We haven't gotten caught yet.
It's easier to throw stuffed animals over the tops of the aisles at one another if the twins are with us. Then, we can just blame it on them.
I didn't buy a bra this time, so Kameron didn't stroll around with it on the top of his head, with the cups sticking up like ears.
Wal-mart + Mom + Kameron = BAD Business.
It also brought back a few memories.
We got security cameras turned on us for drinking a Full Throttle energy drink in the sewing section. (I wanted to check out costumes, and he was thirsty. We paid for it first. I never pay for chicken livers first, I eat them in the store all the time, and I never get in trouble! Boo.) The customer is always right.
I dared him to get up on the treadmill display and see how fast he could go. He did.
We thought about greasing the inside of the free check your blood pressure cuff with KY Jelly, but I didn't have enough cash to buy the jelly.
They were out of silly string. Boo. I have been silly stringed before, right in the shampoo section. And the magazine section, and the sporting goods section.
If you put a bottle of lotion up against your arm and stick this in the blood pressure monitor, wait till it squeezes it's tightest, and flip open the lotion lid, Kameron gets blasted with lotion. If it's the right kind of bottle, he gets it in the face.(That wasn't this trip, though.)
Wal-mart shoppers do not necessarily like to be hit in the face with snowballs. (Not this trip either, but I do know this to be fact.)
I don't really know what they think of merchandise getting put in their buggy when they aren't looking. We haven't gotten caught yet.
It's easier to throw stuffed animals over the tops of the aisles at one another if the twins are with us. Then, we can just blame it on them.
I didn't buy a bra this time, so Kameron didn't stroll around with it on the top of his head, with the cups sticking up like ears.
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