so I got bored with the retro look, and decided to go Shabby instead 🙂 Thoughts??? I have been watching Entourage. That show is greatness! We watched Season 1 and Season 2 the past few nights, and I totally suggest sitting down and watching this show because it is greatness! Keet and I haven’t sat …

ARRR! How dare Google forget about the pirates! AVAST, ME HEARTIES. Google’s traditional themed logos sadly do not, yet at least, extend to today’s International Talk Like A Pirate Day. Altogether now: “arrrrrr.” read more | digg story

so here I sit in the hotel room watching Dumb and Dumber while Hal and Keet sleep next to me! All in all, so far this has been a really good trip. It has definitely been a difficiult trip with the dealing with Hal and all that… but I just kinda had to get her …

Well, since the days of Paul Revere, and Fighting for my right to Par-TAY, I have always wanted to eat at White Castle… but since I live in Texas, and don’t travel up North much… I have never really had the chance. I ended up going to Ohio to visit the in-laws family this weekend… …

Well… another 9/11 has come and gone…. what a weird day it just is… it just seems more eerie to me than the other days… ya know? I am one of those people who only likes happy endings in books, so I generally try not to think about the bad stuff… but on a day …

So, I recently started reading about a little blog war going on… like one of those… this famous scrapbook person said this about this famous scrapbook person, and can I just say…. I am so friggin glad I am not a scrapbook celebrity! I would die if someone said they didn’t like my work…. I …

Can I just say, for the record…. DAMMIT! It is almost 3:30 in the AM and I am wide afrigginwake! I hate when this happens… tomorrow I will drag all day and I won’t accomplish anything. Speaking of accomplishing things… I have been kickin butt at play groups (who says kickin butt at play groups? …

Holy CRAP! Can you even believe Steve Irwin is dead? You know… the Crocodile Hunter? Crikey and all that jazz… It kinda breaks my heart, ya know… I mean he was such a big part of our crazy generation… I remember I was working at K-Mart (yes I worked at K-Mart, but that is another …

lol this is one of those “I never post in my blog” posts. hahah I would love to say I have been super busy, but that isn’t the case… instead… I am obsessed with Big Brother, and I am spending all my time watching the live feeds haha! Why am I so obsessed with this …

Big Brother All Stars has seriously screwed up, and now they are having to redo the live head of household competition! This is greatness, the buzzers weren’t working, and the Internet live feeders are waiting to watch it! read more | digg story

Sure you have seed designs on toilet seats before, but you have ever seen them when you LIFT the lid? These are too cute, and some of them even look like scrapbook paper! read more | digg story

So, my husband runs a RPG website, and one of his friends was over and they were talking about the whole RPG thing, and one of them made a comment about how they were about to get mega nerdy…. which got me to thinking… what is nerdy anyway… I mean… who gets to decide this? …

Okay, now that the store is up and running I am feeling a little better about things… everything is calming down a little bit, and I am actually getting a little time to BREATHE! I have been hard at work making my images look pretty, and I have actually been learning a little photo shop!Hehe …

In the middle of the niiiight…. I go walkin in my sleeep…. Okay seriously… I have been working more on my store.. deciding how I want things to be laid out and all that… i have been quite busy 🙂 I have been trying to make everything perfect… but I know that it can’t be …

It’s here It’s here! I mean, sure the live feeds got turned on early and we got leaked as to who the all stars would be…. but hey I am still VERY excited! Why am I such a dork about Big Brother? I just love this show, and I am totally pulling for Diane… at …

Did you ever sing that song when you were a kid? Hi, my name is Joe, and I work in a button factory…. the other day my boss came up to me and said Hi Joe, are you busy? I said no, he said gooooood turn the button with your right hand… and then they …

Well well… looks like it is the fourth of July today! This is one of those random holidays that happens every year in the middle of the summer and everyone gets to be off work. This hasn’t always been a ‘real’ holiday to me because I am never at school during this time, so it …

Rubber sidewalks, eh? I wonder what they feel like? Probably like a track! D.C. tests rubber sidewalks, apparently 10 U.S. cities total have them installed in limited quantities. The apparently last 3x longer, but cost 3x as much as cement currently. They work better with nearby trees however, and can be removed to service land …

Here are a couple of scrapbook layouts I forgot to put on the blog! Silly me 🙂 

Again, I am such a reality TV Dork! I am getting all excited for Big Brother All Stars hehe! I can’t wait for the thing to start! I want to know who made it into the house… don’t you? I am even in a swap on ScrapLove where we are trying to pick the winner, …

Holy crap I am in trouble… the new Stampin Up! catalog came out, and let me just say that there were only like ten pages in there that didn’t have stuff on them that I HAD to have! DAMMIT! I love stamps… I have loads of stamps I have NEVER used, but I still love …

So, tonight I got to hang out with some old friends that I hadn’t seen in forever and I had a TOTAL blast… I have to admit that at first I was nervous, but when I started hanging out with them it was like nothing had changed! I luff that! We even set up a …

So, here is something that you probably didn’t know about me… I am OBSESSED with reality television… I mean all of it, we are talking Big Brother, Survivor, The Real World Road Rules Challenge, even this new show on Fox Reality TV called Solitary… I love it all (with the exception of American Idol, I …

Okay, so my website has basically been renting out the space to another scrapbook store for the past nine months, and that store has decided to close its doors… which leaves the doors open for me to open my store and I am so excited… I have never done ANYTHING like this before.. yikes! So …

Do you ever feel like maybe you are about to start a new chapter in life? I can’t say too much YET, but I think it is about to happen for me. I am excited, scared, happy, and apprehensive all at the same time… but I think it could end up being total greatness! Wish …

Ahhhh! I swear we are never going to get better over here! Now Halle has tiny little chicken pox all over her body! I am pretty sure all that other crap was just leading up to this… except the cold, because I also have a righteous cold! I tried to be cool about it and …

OH MIGOODNESS! I can NOT believe how well my virtual crop is going! I am like freaking out here, my friend Amy headed it up, and she is like the most amazingest all star ever! This crop is totallythebomb. com Amy! All the girls are participating… I get to play myngo byngo as much as …

For all those of you on the edge of your seat… Halle is getting MUCH better! She still has a little cough though, and that is waking her up most of the night… so I am dang tired, but she isn’t just crying for no reason anymore, so I see that as a super improvement! …

Happy Father’s Day to all you amazing dads out there! Halle is so lucky to have a daddy that loves her as much as husband does! He is going to kill me when he sees this pic, but it is just such a great pic of the both of them, that I don’t care! I …

Okay, so her fever stayed up pretty much all night… and since it was Friday, I figured that I needed to go on ahead and take her in… well… we kinda of “woke up” about 9:30, and we had to be at the doctor’s at 11:00… so I got her to drink a little… then …

Well… it is ABOUT TIME we got some teeth, huh? How cute are those little teeth? I just love her new little smile. We decided we needed to do a little photo shoot in the playroom… which mainly consisted of Halle throwing her toys all around the place. She had a blast though. She got …

Holy Moly! Remember all those times in grade school when teachers told you to just cut those rings! Man oh man isn’t this the total truth! Poor turtle! Remember to cut those rings before you throw them away! This turtle spent the beginning of it’s life stuck inside one of those plastic 6 pack tops. …

Man I love scrapbooking! We get to have a retreat at the end of July! Can I get a hell yeah from the cheap seats in the back! I am very excited about this! We all get to go and play for a whole weekend while someone waits on us and gives us all our …

I actually went to work… it could have been worse… but not much worse… I missed Halle the entire time, and I could hear her all upset in the infant room! It wasn’t that they were taking BAD care of her…. they just weren’t taking the same kind of care of her as I do… …

No, really… I am totally going to go to work today… I have my teacher clothes on… My kid is dressed cute… (I gave her a bath and everything because I didn’t want her to be the dirty kid in class!) and all the bags are packed…. I think I am really really REALLY going …

I am such a dork… I think I am headed back to the scrapbook convention! I haven’t been to the floor part yet, and Keet said he would watch Hal… so I think I might just head on over. Besides, I really want to see a pazzle demo! I want a pazzle so bad… I …

Okay, it isn’t like I am going to work full time or anything, and it isn’t like we are going to be relying on this job… if it doesn’t work… then I can just quit, and we can go on about our merry ways… I was the one who deided I needed to get a …

Okay I have been thinking about work all day… what if I miss her first steps? I just know she is going to do it in school! I can’t believe I thought this was a good idea for us. I can’t believe I am even thinking about this. This is the dumbest thing I have …

Okay, so I go in to train on Monday, and I am freaking out. Not about teaching… that part is easy, but am I really going to put my daughter into preschool? Is this a good idea? Will she be okay? I am so nervous. What if she hates it? If she hates it, then …

Today was one of THOSE days… it all started when I couldn’ t go to sleep until five in the morning… then I had to get up early and take Hal to my mom’s house so I could go to the Great American Scrapbook Convention’s all day crop. Well, Halle decided to cry pretty much …

The birthday party was a total success, and Halle had loads of fun! The cake was yummy, and the blue punch went over well. I really threw my first ever children’t birthday party! I am very proud of myself haha! Why oh why did I have to drink that coffee so late? It is almost …

Man that cake must taste sweet! I can’t believe my daughter is one today, but she is… she REALLY is! I am so proud of her! 

There are two really great pre-schools that want me to come and teach their pre-k program full time, and I am wondering if it wouldn’t be a good idea. I mean…. Hal would get interaction with kids, I would get out of the house, and we would have a little extra spending money… I just …

Well, the husband is on vacation. My job is now not to bombard him with stuff he needs to do! hehe think I can do it? I am going to try really hard. I don’t know if I am going to be able to do it though haha! I can think of a zillion things …

woohoo! I got all of Halle’s birthday supplies! I am so excited! She is going to have the best rubber duck birthday party EVER! Oh I hope she has fun! She loves ducks so much I think she will be excited to see all the great ducks! I hope she isn’t disappointed… haha can you …

yup… that’s right I am a grown woman and I am gonna go to a friggin NIN concert… haha what has gotten into me? I am so not going to mosh though… last time I did that… well… last time I said I was gonna do that, and then I got ascared of all the …

Hmmm… what do you think? Think it works? Why are kids not allowed cell phones anyway? We all know they have them…. why don’t we just let them? Techno-savvy UK pupils have recorded the ultra-high sound – audible only to under-20-year-olds – from the ultrasonic device Mosquito onto their cell phones – and are now …

So, one of my girls found these super cute giant clothespins on another website, and I decided to try my hand at one. I really like the way it turned out. Even if I am not a fan of Junkitz Rub Ons… they just don’t glide like the Gin-X ones do…. seriously Gin-X Rub-ons are …

Man, I love being a mom… you just get to see such cool stuff. This tiny little person that came from YOU is exploring and learning everything there is to learn in the whole world, and you get to be their guide. I mean sure, there is cleaning, bootie wiping, putting to bed, and all …

Do you ever feel like that is the only time you have to yourself? Sometimes I just like to sit up here in the guest bedroom on the laptop and mindlessly surf. I wonder if that makes me crazy? Man I hope not, because I am going to post this to my blog in a …

Okay, my daughter is back home, my company is gone, and we should be able to return to normal now… I had a super great time with my cousins here, but I am definitely worn out from the weekend! Yesterday we had my husband’s company picnic, and Hal went on her very first boat ride! …

My cousins are here my cousins are here! They came to play with me for the weekend and it is a big scrapbooking party up in my scrap room woot woot! I love bringing people into the scrapbooking fold… makes me feel all evil, but in a crafty way. Tomorrow we are having lunch with …

Well… as many of you know, my husband is all the time looking for new things to try… and his latest plan… he wants to buy a car that runs on diesel and convert it to run on vegetable oil. Yeah, I am serious… 🙂 At first I thought he might be crazy, but then …

Ahhhhh here we go again rearranging rooms… we decided that husband did need to be downstairs in the office/playroom so that we could have the guest room back… of course, my cousins are coming tomorrow… so the room needs to be sort of ready to go! We have been pulling the bed BACK out of …

Okay, so I went to the preschool down the road, and I took my daughter and I filled out an application. They seemed VERY interested in me… in fact I go in on Friday to look around the place, and then I think I am going to substitute for them during the summer… and they …

Okay, as many of you regular readers know… I own a website (ScrapLove), and man… I love owning that place. I love being the person that started that place and made it what it is today… but sometimes things just get to be a little stressful. I mean, of course there is drama… a thousand …

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Okay, so I just sat through the Grey’s Anatomy season finale, and I am about to spoil the heck out of it, so if you haven’t watched it… then don’t read any further! You have been warned. Now… I can’t believe that Denny died… that was heartbreaking! Not to mention that guy has died on …

Yup… this is really happening…. this, my friends is just amazing… IPod Shuffle giveaways have been used to lure people to open bank accounts and buy cars and as bait by online hucksters. Well, now even churches are getting in on the craze.Leaders of the Interfaith Unity Church, are hoping to capitalize on the gadget’s …

And… now I am obsessed… lol I can’t stop altering Composition books… and for some reason I can’t get the word MEAD out of my head… what a weird word MEAD is… lol remember when you had a Trapper Keeper? Those things were so small they didn’t hold anything… but hey they made you cooler! …

Okay, so remember those old black and white composition books you used to write in when you were in school? I have always loved them, and I saw the coolest thing the other day…so I decided that I HAD to copy it! I headed on over to the Dollar Tree and I picked up a …

Well… obviously Halle has been here, but the question is… how can a child so tiny need so many toys? Or, more importantly, how can a child so tiny get bored with all these toys so quickly? You buy thousands of dollars in toys, and your kid would rather play with her daddy’s shoe! It …

Who knew? I think that is greatness! I am glad we are teaching out kids to be friends instead of be so rude! Maybe Junior High will be a happier place… hmmm… or maybe not 🙂 It’s no longer cool to be cool. Now it’s more about being warm. Such is the perplexing conclusion reached …

I am finally scrapbooking again! and it feels soooo good hehe! I finally sat down and did a page… I owe it all to Ali Edwards. She said “Don’t scrap chronologically” in this month’s Creating Keepsakes, so I decided to listen! Huh, to think… all I had to do was listen to a scrapbooking legend …

Though all the hype so far has been for Super Mario Galaxy, there’s a new traditional Super Mario platformer destined for the Gamecube coming out this fall! It uses Paper Mario for its look, but it plays like the classics… can’t wait!  

So, my parents decided to take the daughter for the night… that means I can stay up as late as I want… and then sleep in as late as I want…. and do whatever I want tomorrow! WOOHOO! I am currently reading The DaVinci Code (yes I am aware that I am probably the only …

Well, helk… I don’t know why I was so damn worried about Easter… the day started off with Hal puking all over me and then just kept going from there…. all day long… then the next day I caught it… then the next day Keet caught it, then my MOM! ugh! That was no fun! …

What the heck am I going to put in my kid’s Easter Basket? I mean, I don’t want to break the bank or anything, but I want her first Easter to be special. Hehe mostly for the amazing scrapbook pics… but also so she has fun too! How can she have fun and have a …

Well, my little girl was looking a little scraggly today, and her bangs were in her eyes, so I took her to get her first haircut! She got to watch an Elmo movie while sitting in a little car… so all in all it was a pretty good experience… I got a little stressed out …

Well… I guess it is about time I jumped on the blog bandwagon…. I should tell you a little about myself. My name is Jamie, I am a 27 year old Stay at Home mom with a wonderful daughter, Halle. All in all I would say I have a pretty fun time. Being a mom …

If you like a good scare, and open water is your greatest fear, then you have GOT to go watch Jaws On The Water this summer! Beginning sometime in July 2021, The Volente Beach resort and Beachside Billy’s with Alamo Drafthouse are showing Jaws right on the lake. This is their sixth year in a …