A little more Cocoa Daisy Fun

Ok, one more for the Cocoa Daisy challenge for this month.  I had so much fun making this layout about my little guy with pieces from seven kits.  This picture of Wyatt was taken in the parking lot of daycare as he was getting out of the car - gotta love iphones and instagram. The hat is from Germany - for our cold Texas winters (ha!) I adore this photo.



Cocoa Daisy - In with the New, Out with the Old Challenge

So excited to actually get a challenge completed on time - not that I expect to win but it was so fun to get to play along. The challenge this month at Cocoa Daisy was for you to use things from the new kit and things from a past kit.  Well I feel like I took the past kit use to a new extreme!  I used the Sassafras cards, American Crafts thickers and two cardstocks from the current kit - By the Numbers, some of the Sassafras paper flowers from January's Tea and Cupcakes Kit, some Jillibean chipboard alphabet from the October Famer's Market Kit and some paper from the September - Printers Drawer kit and finally some velvet ribbon from the July Kit - Urban Loft.   Whew!  I feel seriously accomplished in getting all of that to go on one two-page spread!  Also used October Afternoon alpa and labels in a few spots. 

One, Two, Three Strikes You're Out - by Iska Wire

Be My Valentine

For the first time in a long while I was a calm mom on the night of February 13th as my girlfirend and I finished the kids valentines on February 4th - I love advance planning.  So here they are - sorry for the very bad picture that I took with my phone. I couldn't take another because my wonderful children sealed them up like I asked them too after they signed them.  We had a couple left over which we dropped to three sweet neighbors who are like extra grandparents to our kids.  I hope those little notes brought a smile to their faces. 

Making Progress - Calendar

Yes, I have a perpetual calendar that I started when I was pregnant with Elsie - a class at a LSS to distract me from that fact that I still had weeks left to go.  So fast forward nearly six years - yes, I said six - Elsie is now 5+.  I have completed December, January, February and now March.  See - nagging projects are getting done.  Only eight more months to go!  (thought honestly I have decided that April and May will be the same as well as June and August). If my math is correct, that means only six to go! 

Mommy - can we have coffee?

This is Wyatt's favorite phrase recently.  And I have to admit he is smart - figure out what mommy likes and then beg her to do it daily.  So once a week or so, we stop for coffee after dropping Elsie at school, just me and Wyatt.  As we pull out of the STES drop off alley, he says, "It's just you and me, right mommy?" and then he starts, "Mommy, can we stop at Starbucks?"  Some days the answer is no, mommy has a meeting or we are running late, but some days I relent and take him.  We don't stay long.  He always orders the same thing - milk and a petite vanilla scone.  But he loves the time with me.  And so do I.

Weekend - Retreat to Scraphappyland

This weekend was packed with scrapbooking at Rockin R Retreats in Temple, TX.  What a wonderful way to spend nearly three full days!  In keeping with the to do list project for 2012 and my one little word of DO, I planned, packed and completed all of the things on my list for the weekend crop.  Three travel albums for mom - yes, three!!! - a halloween mini by Cocoa Daisy that turned out amazing, and a small mini album for a friend.  I even did a few pages of some current pictures.  But the biggest exciting moment was the completion of the travel album from mom's 2006 (yes, that is SIX years ago) Baltic Cruise with Jill.  Holy smokes it felt good to empty that box that had been sitting on the floor of my scraproom for nearly six whole years.  Here is a pic of the work from the weekend (sans the non-travel layouts - those will come in a later post) complete with my wine glass! 

Friday - I can say it was a good week

It is Friday - late Friday afternoon and I can honestly say - what a good week!  I am on track with goals and a few other things so I am pretty happy.  I hear the faint call of happy hour in the background, wait, you here it too?  Oh, good!  I'm not crazy. . .

I have too much stacked on my desk and a prospect list a mile long with nothing exciting in it.  But I have a plan for the weekend and it involves a date night tonight (oh yes, my planner friends, it pays to have a calendar with crap like this already on it.  I even have the menu from the restaurant printed out with my picks - hey, it is a tapas restaurant - there are lots of choices), time at home with my little people, and maybe even some time doing a project or two on my list (oh yeah, the Christmas decorations, ugh). 

A recap of the day:

I got a good cup of coffee - a latte to be exact.  It was like heaven in a cup.  You know, I LOVE coffee, but what I truly love about it, isn't the drink itself, it is the time I spend enjoying it.  I used to guzzle a venti soy latte in 15 minutes flat.  Now, I skip the soy and just enjoy the flavor of that yummy warm goodness taking a few minutes to think and prepare for the day.  My DH does not understand my love of coffee.  I think what he is missing in the equation (ugh, I just used a math word) is the time I somehow manage to take when my hands are full and my mouth is shut.  Sigh - happy thoughts. 

Today, I was made fun of for bringing my lunch to a meeting when everyone else was eating from a massive buffet.  I have to admit, it looked really good, but I ate my insanely good tuna with cranberries from Whole Foods with my crackers and grapes and I am still perfectly full - not stuffed and tired like I would be if I had eaten the buffet.  Plus - I get dessert at dinner at the yummy tapas place, well worth it in my book. Double happy. 

A little more:

I made another LO last night and posted to Two Peas in a Bucket - so happy that I am doing this, even if no one notices or comments, this is about my goal to do something for me.  The page was about me - which is a rarity.  Another happy thought.  Here's the LO for you: