Summer Vacation

Summer vacation is in full swing for me. Lots of house cleaning projects to do. Lots of shop cleaning projects too.
Adding new things to Jacquelines Paper and Jacquelines Creations every week. Check them out.

Today I think it is closet cleaning time. I got some totes to put my winter clothes in. I can't believe I've never done that before. As much as I love organization my closet is a mess. I need to weed out those things that no longer fit. Mostly because of loosing weight I am Happy to say. Wish me luck.

Maybe I will also sneak in a few more episodes of "Lost Girl" on Netflix...... 

Monday

Well this is almost the end of the day. The start of another week. I don't have many plans this week. I have lots I want to get done but haven't planned any of it. I  sometimes wish my ideas would slow down long enough for me to have the time to do them all. I need to take time to prioritize my ideas. I need to still have time for spending time with the family and cleaning house.

Some days I do wish my hobby was enough to support me so I could stay home and do it. I still don't think I would have the time to do it all. I have a Birthday party to plan. That includes a cake with fondant characters. I do enjoy making cakes. I have made 3 with fondant so far. Sometime I will share them on here.

Well off I go to do some organizing. That's another thing that interferes with my creating. I get the organizing bug and have to start organizing. Trouble is I don't often have the time to finish what I want to organize. Maybe summer will bring me more time to get these projects done. I think I will make a list of things I need to finish and things I need to start. Then get them done this summer.

Busy...Busy..Busy

Well school season being here again I have been busy with work as well as my shops. I also started couponing in late January. That keeps me extra busy. Trying to keep up with all the extra deals and coupon clipping. Thank god Wayne helps with the clipping.

Last Saturday I took a little me time and spent a day with friends scrapbooking. I managed to make myself 6 pages in a few hours. It was nice to get back into it. Now I feel refreshed and ready to start creating again. I sometimes wish the ideas in my head would slow down to keep better pace with the time I actually have to do them in.

The next few days I will spend packaging and mailing. Then I will have time to start listing things again. Oh, and I cannot forget I promised my son I would make him a chicken pot pie for dinner sometime this week.

Hope you all are having a great week :)

Packaging and my week

Packing up orders for Maryland, Texas and Australia right now. Then I will be working on getting my nails pretty again. I switched to doing my own Acrylic nails years ago. I do them for a while then get tired and go without them for a while. It is always interesting to work with them the first week they are on. Like learning to do things all over again. Tweezers have become my best friend when I have long nails.

Tomorrow meeting up with some friends. Friday going school shopping with the boys. Cutting it a little close. School starts next week. I go back on Monday and the boys go back on Wednesday. Where did the summer go?

I was hoping to play a little bit this week on a scrapbook page or two of my own. Well there is always tomorrow night. I think I need to take at least a day a week for me.

To my list of hobbies and things I do I have added coupon blogging. I do enjoy it. I just wonder how I can juggle it all. Some days very good at juggling. Other days not so much. But, I am human after all. There is no such thing as super woman. We shouldn't try to live up to being perfect. It creates so much stress.

Need Update Badly

Wow I need to update this blog badly. I thought it would be easier to do with the phone. Then I found out my phone is a little slow. Can't wait unlit Monday when I get my new phone. Maybe then I can update this a little easier.
I Have been busy with work,family, cleaning, creating and my new addiction coupons. Wow it is a lot to fit into a day. Glad this is school vacation. I hope to get some major cleaning done around the house. Then get some new things listed to the shops. I made a lot of new paper piecings yesterday for my paper shop. Can't wait to add them.

Excited!

I feel just like a little kid before Christmas. I'm waiting to go to a midnight showing of Breaking Dawn. 3 hours and 22 minutes left. I have been watching all the previous movies as soon as I got home frm work. In a little while I will get dressed up to go. I will post pictures as soon as I can.

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I Got To Play Yesterday

I finaly took some time for me yesterday. I was walking away from my cricut yesterday when Wayne asked, "working on more orders?" I answered, "no, I cut out a title for my scrapbook page." He was surprised.

I made 3 pages. I of my step grandaughter Kamdyn. I used Tattered Angels glimmer mist on the chipboard k. It covered it nicely and has a little sparkle. I used word stickers from different sheets I had hanging around. Thanks to my friend Terry who did a similar thing on a page she did. I used one of my new border punches I got on the black paper at the bottom. I added a bling pink heart.

Then I did 2 pages of my niece Kenzie. 1 for me and 1 for my sisiter. They were done similar except for the title. I cut the title with my Cricut Jasmyn cart. I used some yellow floral pattern paper I have had for ages. I cut a duck from my Cricut Doodlecharms cart. I popped the top part of the body up with foam adhesive. Then I added flock to the center to mimic the fuzzy duck in the book I was reading to her in the picture. I used Studio G flock. I have to say I have been dissapointed with that flock. I need to get some of the origional stuff. What did I expect for $1?

They have called off our workshop at school today. Irene must have impacted some areas more than I thought. We didnt lose our power here. Blinked a few times but that was it.

I guess that I get 1 extra day off before this school year begins. I think I will try to get some more pages done. Felt good doing something for myself yesterday.

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Tornado in Embden, Maine

I know that this tornado isn't nearly as bad as some of the ones that have happened this year. It is unusual for us here in Maine. Tornadoes are something we just don't get. So here in Maine this has been a big deal. My heart and prayers go out to all those states that have gotten tornadoes that have taken lives.

My fiance's nephew is the first man to be interviewed.
WGME - News 13

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Baby Contest

Please vote for my niece here is the entry photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/qbabyidol09/5615982133/in/set-72157626280975345
You can text "QBaby 0811" to 68255. Or vote here: http://www.wjbq.com//Article.asp?id=2145650 her #0811 Vote as many times as you want

Snow Day

The sound of snowplows seems so wrong this morning. They say we could get up to 14". I am hoping the amounts are off. I don't realy want to shovel again. We have no school. Some are upset by this because it meens 2 extra school days. I say look on the bright side. We do have summer off. I used to work in a kitchen behind the grill all year round. No air conditioning when it was 90 degrees and over. The saying goes that in a kitchen you can add 10 degrees to whatever it is outside. Nothing like cooking and having to wipe the sweat that keeps rolling down your neck. I don't miss those days at all.
I think I will use this day to get some new things listed in my shops. Then maybe some scrapbooking for me and jewelery making.
I know the boys will use this day just to play xbox live. That is ok, it will be fairly quiet. All I will here is "what's for lunch?" The answer today will be grilled cheese or chicken burgers. I am going to take it easy and do housework tomorrow.

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My new addiction

I have a new addiction thanks to a friend. Friends are always good for getting you to try something new. This addiction is good for you, greek yogurt. I have tried 3 different brands. So far I have one favorite. Chobani is my favorite. It is creamy and full of fruit. Even someone who doesn't like yogurt should give it a try. It is more like having a dessert than a yogurt. It is so good for you. It has 2ce the protien than regular yogurt. I have tried all these flavors:
( * next to my favorites)
Pineapple*
Honey
Strawberry*
Raspberry*
Pomegranet*
Vanilla
Blueberry
Try one today and let me know what you think.

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A new year

A new year is here again. It seems to go faster every year. I have made no resolutions. I do know there are a lot of things I want to accomplish or change this year. With no resolution I can't be dissapointed.
With this new app I downloaded on my phone I should be able to update more often. Not that I'm making that a resolution. We all know what happens to them :)

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I's been too long

I can't believe it has been so long since my last post. Wait a minute, yes I can. Life is just too busy to post every day. I have my family and they are my priority. I do get sucked into the Facebook games like Cafe World. Are there many that don't? Tell me if you are one of them so I don't feel so bad about getting taken in by them.

I am off for the summer now. I am working summer school but that is only in July for 4 weeks (16 hours per week). I will have a little more time to create some new pieces for my shop. I am planning on getting the clay out and doing a little more with that.

I also have my new little niece to visit. I plan on being able to see her a little more this summer. Howie is going to be 15 this August. My oldest is getting too old. Nathan I think will be doing a lot of fishing this summer. I hope to go camping with them for Howard's Birthday.

Here is a picture of my new niece Kenzie :)

This is baby Kenzie crying her little cry. It is so adorable how her bottom lip shakes :)

I am a Twilight geek

Well I'm probably too old for it but whatever. I am a geek. I love twilight. I have a cardboard cut out of Edward. I am going to have people pose with it fir my Twilight party. I just bought yet another t shirt. This one says, "I like my men sparkly." And another bracelet set. I got my Edward jewelery box in the mail the other day. A great place for me to put my collection of Twilight jewelery in. I also have an Edward figure...yes a doll. They made his face a little too tan for me but oh, well. I am considering getting the Bella and Jacob dolls. In that order.

I think I might need help. I am annoying my teenage son with this Twilight stuff. What ever, You gotta have fun with something.

Acting like a teenager

Sometimes it's fun to forget that you are a grownup. I am doing that with my love of Twilight. I am obsessed. Some of my friends tease me. It's all in fun. I find myself funny too. I have been collecting Twilight items. I plan to have a party the day Eclipse comes out. After the party me and any of my guests that want to will go to the midnight showing.

2 weeks ago I made a trip to I Party that had me laughing to myself all the way home. I felt like a teenager..LOL I called a friend on the way home to tell her I had Edward in the backseat. Yes I spent way too much on this life size cardboard cutout of Edward. It is taller than me. I can't wait to get party guests to pose with him for pictures... ;)

You have to do something totally silly once in a while. Try it, it is so much fun.

What is the silliest thing you have done that made you feel more like a kid again?

I've been featured on a blog

my peanut necklace and earrings have been featured on this blog. http://foundhandmade.com/news/itemize



Christmas time and I am busy, busy, busy. Between my Etsy store, craft fair, family, work, and Christmas gifts I'm making. I don't know when I find the time to breathe. I love creating. I will take some relaxation time once Christmas is all done.

Fall is in the air

well it's starting to get a little chillier here. I love the smell of the fresh crisp air. I love the fact that I live in a place where the leaves change color. I will have to post pictures of the trees this fall. Maine has some beautiful color. I guess I better stock up on some hot cocoa.

Fall is my favorite season but it is also kinda sad. That means that this year is soon over and a new one begins.

What is your favorite season?

Sports

I just love making these earrings. I started with my baseball earrings. That led to the football, soccer, and basketball. I'm updating this on my son's computer so I don't have all the pictures.

To confess I didn't like sports at school. I didn't give them a chance. I was determined not to like them because everyone else seemed to. I was a bit rebellious. I started watching baseball with my fiance in 2004. I have been hooked ever since. I am a Red Sox fan. I joke with him that it is i who brought the luck to them that year.

If you have a favorite sport or team what is it?

Here are a couple pictures of my sports earrings.

Procrastination ....a blog giveaway

Do you ever find yourself putting things off. I do. I think I am lucky that I always seem to get them done before it's too late. Giving something away has been on my list of procrastinations.


Things to procrastinate about:

1. changing laundry from washer to dryer
2. folding laundry
3. telling myself to get off the computer and get something done
4. taking photos
5. dishes
6. cleaning my craft room
7. exercising....that one never seems to get done :)

To win You need to tell me what you procrastinate about. Even if you never procrastinate tell me. I will pick a winner next Saturday August 1st. I will be giving away a domino magnet/ pin. Tell me if you would prefer a pin or magnet when you post to this. I might even throw in a surprise or two.



This is a real domino. Hand stamped and colored with special ink, and sealed with acrylic spray.

This is what the back looks like to prove that it is a domino. You can have a pin or magnet.

You can find more dominos and other things on my Etsy site Jacquelines Creations . I will be adding more domino things there soon.

Cards

Popping in to show off 3 cards I have made. Watching the Red Sox. David had a home run. Yay!! I am off for the weekend tomorrow. Going scrap booking at a friends house. Hope I get more inspiration then I have right now.

Here are the cards.