Bye-Bye, Blogger!

I have a NEW blog! Click it & bookmark it! ;)

http://sweetgenevieve.mommyish.net

Grrr....Blogger!

Okay, Blogger is NOT my friend today. I stupidly decided to change my template over to their new WYSIWYG-edited templates, and now I can't figure out how to get my blog banner and blinkies back up! Rot rot rot! Hopefully, my wonderful web-designer friend, Leah, will be able to help me out a little later.

Anyways, once again, I am posting when I have fifty-million other things I should be doing. We're leaving tomorrow for Michigan, so I have tons of packing to do. I have TWO newsletters that need to go out for my job. And I'm trying desperately to finish a new kit before I leave, so I'll have something to post while I'm gone. *phew*

Okay....that totally makes me stressed, so I'm going back to work now.

My Baby is One Year Old!

Today is Mia's first birthday. I just can't believe it. The year seems to have flown by. I can remember last December like it was yesterday--just coming home from the hospital with our tiny new baby, mom and Maria staying with us for almost a month to help take care of her while Bobby and I adjusted to our new role as parents. How did she go from tiny sleeping baby to VERY BUSY, opinionated 1-year-old? Someone told us once that having kids is like someone hitting the fast forward button on your life, and I would have to say that that is a very accurate description!

Anyways, I had plans to have a little party for Mia tonight after church, with a little cake for her to get into and everything, but those plans might all come to naught because both Mia and I are sick. Mia's been coughing for over a week, and started to get a really runny nose this past weekend, and she's just been miserable for the past couple days. I have had a bit of a scratchy throat since Sunday and was hoping it was nothing, but I was all congested and coughing last night, and feel pretty rotten this morning. Ugh. It's this stupid weather! Last week it was in the low 50s all week, and this week it's in the mid 70s! Up and down. Up and down. It's enough to make anyone sick. *sigh*

But all you digiscrappers out there can still celebrate with us, because I'm having a one-day happy-birthday-to-Mia sale today, and my being sick doesn't interfere with that at least!
Today only, pretty much everything in my shops at DigiScrapDivas and Oscraps is marked a $1 off (commercial use items, and items $2 or less not included--the latter due to PayPal fees for small purchases). So, there's some enabling for you, if you feel like shopping today! ;)

And here's me...eating my words!

Here is a post I wrote last February, on an old blog (that I no longer use). I can't remember what it was like to feel this way. But I bet a lot of people will get a huge kick out of reading this, considering how digital I am now...

"Digital Scrapping and Me"
Thursday, 16 February 2006
"I have a confession to make. I'll whisper it so I don't upset too many people: ::whisper:: I don't like digital scrapbooking. Shh! Don't tell anyone! I know how popular it's getting! I guess I should add a disclaimer before I go any further. So, disclaimer: I have seen many beautiful digital layouts, and I think it's amazing what people can do with a photo shop program these days!

"Here comes the but: BUT...For me personally, it just doesn't appeal. I guess it's hard for me to be creative at a computer beyond fixing/tweaking a photograph or typing out my journaling in some cool font. For me scrapbooking is as much about the tactile process as it is about preserving my memories. I love to get up to my elbows in scrap paper, stickers, glue, paint and everything else. If I don't come out of my scrap room covered in glitter, with sticky fingers and paper trimmings in my hair, then I didn't get anything done! :)

"Guess that's the amazing thing about scrapbooking. There are so many facets of scrapbooking that it appeals to different people for different reasons. I'm sure that the process of physically arranging a layout, and then having to tack it down once you finally get it how you like it, is probably grueling to some people (hey, sometimes it's even grueling to me). Digital scrapbooking would eliminate that step. You don't like the photo in that corner, just drag and drop it in another corner. And I bet with digital scrapbooking you get a lot more done in a shorter amount of time. Sometimes it takes me days to complete a layout. So, I definitely see the pros. And I love looking at the layouts of the many talented digital scrappers on this site.
But for me, I'm going to stick with my cardstock, paper trimmer and adhesives. At least for now. I mean, hey, a year ago I swore undying love to my 35mm filmCanon Elan 7e, and now I can't wait until we can afford a digital Rebel(or better yet, Elan)! I still do love my film camera, but... Oh, enough already! You get my meaning! :)"

Mia WALKED!

Mia has been crusing along furnature for months now, but until recently has never showed any inclination to actually walk on her own. A couple weeks ago she started taking a step inbetween pieces of furnature to get from one to the other, but was still kind of unaware of what she was doing. Tonight, Bobby and I were playing with her, and she took a couple steps in a row to get to a chair. We freaked out and clapped and praised her, and then decided to see if we could get her to do it some more. So we sat on the floor a couple feet away from each other and Bobby stood her up facing me and I held out my hands, and she WALKED to me! She went back and forth between us a few times before she started getting tired and resorted to crawling again. So three days before her first birthday, our little girl took real steps for the first time!

Holiday Decorating

Well, we pretty much came to the conclusion last night that our holiday decorating is just not going to get done this year. No pretty wreath on the door. No lights around the window. And no Christmas tree. It's sad, but it's just going to be impossible to do this year. The first chance Bobby would have to go to storage and dig everything out would be next Friday, and it would be silly to put it up then because we're leaving for Michigan 5 days later. So, the first Christmas decorations I will get to enjoy this year will be in Michigan. And there had better be snow to go along with them!

Anyways, since I can't decorate our apartment this year, I decided I'd at least decorate my blog for Christmas. What do you think of the new header? The papers and bows are from the Christmas collaboration Leah Riordan and I did called Swanky Christmas (follow the link to find it at Oscraps), and the garland is from the Holiday Garland pack I made, and the alpha in "Merry" is from my Midnight Clear kit. Yay! :)

And speaking of my designs, I put out TWO new kits today, and I think they are very cute. They are called Coffeehouse and Tea and you can find both individuall or as a set(which is discounted) at Oscraps and DigiScrapDivas!

Same ol' busy blah.

Well, we've been home from NM for over a week and I haven't had time to update! The flight home was not fun. We flew in the evening this time, and we thought for sure Mia would sleep again on both flights, but she didn't. She was exhausted, but refused to sleep. Instead she fussed and wiggled and whined the whole time. We got in at 11pm, caught the shuttle to the lot where our car was parked, and they couldn't find our car. When they did find it, the battery was dead. After they jumped it, we drove to our hotel--the hotel couldn't find our reservations. Because my mother-in-law made the reservations at the wrong Holiday Inn. We got in the car and drove 20 minutes to the right Holiday Inn. By this time, Mia's diaper had leaked and she was soaking wet. So I give her a bath, take a shower myself, and we crawl into bed around 1am. It was a loooong day.

And it's been go go go ever since, of course. Bobby is going insane between work & end-of-semester stuff for his classes. And Mia's been teething and about as cranky as she's ever been lately, so I've been opperating on less sleep. We finally found out that we will be able to go home to Michigan for Christmas, which we are excited about, but there is an endless stream of things to do, events to go to right up until the day we leave. I guess that's just pretty typical for this time of year. On Saturday I have a bridal shower to go to, and Bobby's broker's Christmas party is the same night. So I'm going to the shower for like five minutes before I have to go home and get ready for the Christmas party (and honestly, I don't know why they decided they needed to have the bridal shower in December--the wedding's not until next summer. But you know, whatever. Stack it on the pile).

I just don't feel very Christmasy at all. We haven't had time to get our tree out of storage yet, and the more time that goes by, the less worth it it is to even put it up, since we'll be in Michigan the last part of December. I need to dig out our Christmas music!

Sorry this wasn't a very cheery post. We are all doing just fine! Just very busy! :)

A Post Before Flying

So we have a long afternoon/evening of traveling ahead of us tomorrow, and then a morning of driving on Wednesday before we'll actually be home. I get tired just THINKING about it, but it's been a very good visit (long, but good), and I'm thankful it went so well.

I will be happy when we're finally home, though. I am looking forward to a couple weeks of our "normal" routine before we head off to Michigan for Christmas--and, YAY, it looks like this is now a certainty! For a while there we weren't sure we'd be able to go, but Bobby's work schedule is finalized, and we are free and clear for about a week around Christmas. Of course, two of those days will be spent driving (UGH!!!), but we are thankful we'll be able to spend Christmas with our families.


So, I wonder if my Wacom tablet misses me, because I sure miss it! I have big plans for two new kits that I want to get started on right away! Whoo-hoo! Until then, though, here's another LO I did a couple days ago. I believe someone was complaining that I don't do enough "Mommy & Mia" layouts, so here ya go!

Credits: Paper and Elements from Scrap Artist's Simple Pleasures megakit. Font is Coronet.