The Cool, The Random, and The Lovely

Some cool things...

I made the Scrapfreak newsletter in the Member Spotlight with THIS layout!!

I got the most AMAZING happy mail from Tessa at Precocious Paper!!!  Just lOOk at this amazingness:

I won this yummy haul from Scrap That Poetry for THIS layout!  I can't WAIT to play with it!  Even the packaging is too stinkin cute!

The random...

We had our own "V" (visitor for those of you who don't watch the show...) yesterday:

A days-old baby duckling in our pool.  No idea how the little bugger got into our pool all by himself because he clearly couldn't fly yet with his stubby little downy wings!  But I soon discovered that he was born in our neighbor's backyard and he has 8 siblings!  It was like a Benny Hill skit trying to capture the little guy.  (Can you hear the music?  Is this reference too old?  LOL)  Did you know eeny-weeny little baby ducks can dive like freakin submarines??!!  And a word of advice...don't try catching one with a pool skimmer.  Too shallow.  They JUMP!  4 times as a matter of fact.  He was finally wrangled, though...

Awwwwwww.... 

And returned to mom...

The lovely...

Another card made with the gorgeous Lawn Fawn Stamps "Sew Lovely" set.  The colorful measuring tapes paper is from the Cosmo Cricket "Material Girl" Mini Deck that I got in the Torendi store. 

We spent the day having fun with the kids.  The boy had another basketball game this morning and he's coming along great!  He is having so much fun!!!  (Did I tell you he made his first basket in a game last week??  ~beaming mom~)  Then we spent the afternoon at a birthday party playing round after round (after round) of mini golf, eating pizza and sno-cones, and getting entirely too much sun again.  Tomorrow we have another jam-packed outdoorsy type of day planned with a trip to a local olive farm where they serve the most amazing food.  Maybe I'll have some pics to share. 

Hope the rest of your weekend is awesome!

Heidi

Car Pool

Iiiiiiiiiiiiiittttttt's Thurrrrrrssssssday!!

Time for your weekly installment of Sketchy Thursdays!!

Another rockin' sketch by the talented and beautiful Miss Diana:

Slowly but surely I WILL finish up scrapping my son's first day of Kindergarten.

This layout depicts the now daily routine of the carpool lane. 

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Really wanted to use these acrylic alphas but had run out of o's so like my improvisation?  The journaling says, "The daily routine:  Mrs. Kenyon walks you out "airplane style", you cross the road, then run/walk to me. 

I'm usually the first if not second car in line.  I like to get there early and use the time to catch up on my addiction of choice. (Right now it's the Twilight series again...I've abandoned Harry mid-way through the third reading of that series to revisit the Edward yumminess.  Don't fret Harry, I'll be back in your arms shortly.  Sometimes you just gotta let another hero drive for a while.)

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Nowadays, what Heidi layout is complete without a little fun machine stitching? 

Details:  Colorbok papers; Heidi Grace acrylic alpha; Zig Milennium pen; thread.

And, of course, what Sketchy Thursdays challenge is complete without a rockin' prize??

This week's winner will receive a $25 gift certificate to Scrap Freak, a wonderful, online scrapbook store that also happens to have a fabulous forum, gallery and challenge site.

Be sure to head on over to the Sketchy Thursdays site to check out what our AMAZINGLY TALENTED Design Team made for your inspiration this week.  We really hit the jackpot with Tessa, Jennifer, and Amanda!!  AND we're also sooooo lucky to have Mo as our Guest DT this month!!!  Oh, and have I mentioned how UBER TALENTED Miss Diana is??!!  You won't be disappointed with this week's samples.
 
Hope you have a cool Thursday.  I know I am!!  (Literally!  It's forecasted to be ONLY 89 today!  It's a virtual cold snap.  Seriously, there will be yahoos wearing long sleeves today, I kid you not!  Arizonans can't drive in the rain and freeze to death under 95 degrees, LOL.)
 
Heidi