Busy month!

I can't believe I haven't opened up Blogger in almost a whole month!  It's been busy and fun and I just haven't had the time to sit down and post stuff.

Amateur hour...

I've been looking at the blogs that are participating in a blog hop today and feeling like I am sooo on the amateur end of things... There is so much I have to learn with digiscrapping!

But it's really neat to see what people have created.  My style is so much simpler than what most of them do, but I love seeing the different things they've done.

Halloween Challenge!

Robyn has a bunch of challenges going on over at her blog My Pink Stamper.  While she is the cricut queen and uses it and makes amazing cool stuff... I don't own a cricut, I don't have a stack of paper, and I'm just not really paper crafty.

But I've been watching her challenges, and I decided I'm going to follow along and do her challenges in my own medium... Digiscrapping.

She challenged us to make a project that is Halloween or Fall themed.  So I Scrapbooked two pages from past halloween's.

Both pages were made using free downloads from Free Digital Scrapbooking for the paper backgrounds, and the word overlay's.  I used font in Photoshop Elements for the journaling.

Giving Credit where credit is due...

I'm new to the world of digiscrapping and blogging and posting what you make and stuff.

I apologize in the past I haven't put where I've gotten the papers and embellishments and fonts from for the digital scrapbook pages I've made.  I honestly didn't really think about it, but there are so many awesome sites that I've gotten stuff from.  Most of the stuff I use has been from Shabby Princess and Free Digital Scrapbooking.  From now on I'll try and remember to give credit to where I am getting the pages and embellishments and stuff.

Digi Scrapping

I started up my photoshop elements program again on Sunday.  I hadn't worked with it since March and really forget how much I enjoy working with it.  Here are some pages... the first two were from March that I don't think I posted, but the other ones are what I did this week.

Snack Time

A friend reminded me today about a Yummy snack!  I'd even bought all the ingredients for it recently, but then never made it for the kids.

Honey Graham Chex Mix

6 cups rice chex
6 cups golden grahams
1 cup chopped almonds (or slivered)
1 cup coconut.

2 sticks butter
1 cup light corn syrup
1 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla

Combine cereals, almonds and coconut in a large bowl, set aside.

Combine butter, corn syrup, and sugar in a medium sauce pan.  Cook on med until it boils, stirring constantly.

Boil for 5 minutes or until it reaches a light golden taffy color. Add vanilla.

Pour over cereal mixture and stir well.

Spread out on wax paper and cool.

Enjoy!

Ramblings of the sleep deprived..

So my hubbie is out of town for a few nights.  It's just a short trip- 3 days 2 nights.  I deal with these trips so much easier than the week long or week+ trips that occasionally come up.

I don't sleep well when he's gone, I just don't.  I've tried just about everything and even when I do get myself to sleep at a decent time, I wake up multiple times at night.  I can take a sleeping pill, but I don't like to do that when I'm the only adult in the house with four kids... it just doesn't seem like a good combination.

In the past when hubbie has had trips I relax on a lot of house rules.  I let the kids make messes, and don't make them clean it up.  We eat comfort food that's quick and not the healthiest.  We bake desserts, or go and buy ice cream.

This trip feels different though.  I'm realizing that although I tell myself we clean up each day because it makes hubbie happy- in truth is makes me happy.  My mind feels so much free'er and uncluttered, when the house is basically clean and picked up.  (we aren't talking magazing cover clean... there are 4 kids and a dog that live here!)  I feel so much better when I'm not eating a lot of comfort junk foods with the kids (I'll still let them have some- that's tradition!).  I'm trying to stay busy with stuff to do in the house to keep my mind working- and I'm feeling less tired and cranky than I usually do at this stage of the trip.

I guess I'm growing up a little bit myself... took a while... maybe by the time I get to 40 I'll feel like I really should be the grown-up in charge that wants to make the grown up choices instead of just grudgingly admitting when I make them that they are the right ones... :)