Vacation & Homeschool

Vacation was fabulous. The mail when I got home was wonderful. Homeschool starting again yesterday? Not so fun. ha It was like throwing water on my vacation fire! Oh well, back to the ole grind stone. Trying to make the kids' homeschool year more exciting and we're going over things to make sure we haven't missed anything we need to cover for their grades. Fun Fun Fun. *eyeroll* (can you feel my pain? I'm still planning things. When its all planned I'll feel much better.)

Vacation . After several huge delays in our flight we just barely made it to the beachfront place before the sun set. The setting was gorgeous and the pics that came out of my new camera will be a joy to experience over and over. I can't wait to start scrapping everything (and I haven't felt like scrapping in awhile!)


On Saturday I met up with a lady I had only known online for the last 2 years, Janet (we're both on the DT at ScrapAddict.com). Sweet as pie really. We had the best time going out to lunch and getting a pedicure! My feet have never looked so good! She also helped us with some Disney tickets. I wish I had had more time to spend with her... Next time for sure!

We had the best time in Orlando. We met family at the rented (gorgeous!) house and swam, ate, laughed and dragged ourselves through 5 days of parks. Only thing I would do differently is have more time (OH! And not get burned the first day at the beach. *eyeroll*) Because of rain delays, we ended up shoving the majority of our park visits into 4 straight days. We were dog tired at night. But we really did enjoy it. Best news of the trip was, my parents got a call about a job daddy had applied for, and he was accepted. So within a month, they are moving back home! We've missed not having them around. They've been in Georgia for almost 3 years.

Okay, cutting this post short and I'm off to finish planning homeschool stuff before the kids get home from church. I'll update later with more pictures and info about all the yummys I rec'd in the mail too!

Long Update - See U L8R!

It's been a busy 2 weeks since I've posted. We're off to the World of Disney (hallelujah!) in the morning and have been closely watching the reports of Hurricane Ernesto. Looks like he has quieted down, so when we fly in to Orlando tomorrow, it might be just be to alittle rain (hallelujah again!) We've planned this trip with family for awhile now and are so looking forward to it! I'll send you a postcard if you want one. *wink* Email with your address to kristuey@sbcglobal.net. We're staying in a nice house too!

I'm so excited about a new purchase! Okay, semi-excited. We bought a new camera. Olympus SP-500 uz. I really wanted a Canon S3 IS but I was so slow in researching them that I didn't have time at the last minute to get the one I wanted off of eBay. So I picked this one up from Sams. It does have the MP's I want as well as the optical zoom. If it turns out to annoy me too much not to have an Image Stabilizer, I'll take it back. Hoping it works out for all our trip to Disney. I'm looking forward to filming the sunset on St. Pete Beach, which is our first night's stop (and then back to Orlando for Disney.) If you have either of these, give me a review, would love to hear about them!

Okay, what has been happening in my art world? It's been a blur, really. I worked on some ATCs, an envelope album (in the shape of a purse) and a few other things. Before we leave tomorrow I need to make 4 autograph books. I'll post when they're finished (if I like them.) Don't have pics of everything else (except the purse which is for ScrapAddict DT and I can't show it here yet...)

I did finally pack up my fabric & trims for the partners I'm sending to in my Fall Fabric & Trims Swap on Swap-Bot. I've rec'd a beautiful package of fabrics from one partner. I'll have to post a pic of it all when we get back from our trip (too swamped now.)

I still have a growing list to take care of before we head out the door:
1 - go to the post office
2 - go to the library
3 - pick up DH from work
4 - make autograph books (4)
5 - find my bathing suit
6 - buy Disney Tickets (wonder if I can still do this online? )
7 - return a couple thousand emails. ha
8 - check over all things packed and make sure the cats aren't in the suitcases
9 - shower
10 - get a bit of sleep before the buzzer goes off in the early morn

See you all when I get back (unless I get a moment to post from Florida!)

Can't Help Myself!

I'm just so enamored with my new Jacquard trims I won on eBay, I keep using them. So I decided to share some with the world. Okay, not the world, but with partners. I started a Swap-Bot Swap just for Jacquard Ribbons. It closes September 15th, and you send ribbons by October 6th (MY BIRTHDAY!). You'll find these ribbons are fabulous for tote bag handles, trims on other sewing projects, great for scrapbooking and fabulous in collage (also for tails on bookmarks, see previous post.) Who wants some of my yummy ribbons? Join my swap and maybe I'll get YOUR name!