April 16

It’s Friday, we are ALL tired, except for Mover Aaron. Here is Aaron rocking out on his guitar, being one of the Imagination Movers (Dave, who wears his hat backwards and plays the guitar).

April 15

Our lilac bush is in bloom. It is the third year we have had it, and the first year it has had anything that could really count as blooms. It is really lovely and smells very fragrant. I wish it would GROW MORE!

April 14

This is me, HAPPY! We went to the Apple store and it was not as big of a hassle as I was afraid it would be. They swapped my phone out with a new one, and I was able to walk out the store making calls, texting, and taking a happy picture of myself. Phew!

New Release Friday!

Sarah Bennett has TWO wonderful collab kits out today!

First up, here is a beautiful kit she made with Trixie Scraps Designs called Sunday Afternoon. Again, I am loving the blues, greens and browns! It has good elements for boy and girl use, and really pretty metal word art, which I am into lately. I made this page with some pictures of Aaron that I just love from a day in January that he had to stay home sick.

Sarah’s other new release today is a fun springtastic kit she made with WM[squared] Designs called Go Green. It has all kind of fun earth-loving elements, and there are SO many great colorful papers, making this kit useful for so many photos! I made a page with my favorite photos from Valentine’s Day this year.

Go check these kits out, they are both AWESOME!

April 13

NOT my best day!!!!!!!!!! While I was walking to lunch, my shoe leather ripped! AW MAAAAAAN!!!! I LOVE this mocs from Land’s End…(I have them in 3 colors) they are a staple of my work wardrobe. I am all about shoe comfort! So, since that was only at 10:30 (yes, that is the time of my lunch break) I had to walk around in one gappy shoe for the rest of the day!

But that was NOTHING, (NOTHING I say!!!) compared to the tragedy that was to befall me later this evening. MY IPHONE DIED. like…not the battery. the phone. I used it all day, just fine, I have never had any problems with it. It is my friend. I synced it up in the evening before I went to the grocery store, then used it at the store (GroceryIQ app, of course) and then when I brought it home and plugged it back into my computer, NOTHING. Well, that is not entirely accurate, there was something. It was an occassionally flashing Apple logo, AND iTunes wouldn’t recognize it at all. After some quick internet searching, I saw that there are lots of discussion boards on the Apple site and elsewhere describing the same problem, so I learned how to get my computer to recognize it, and then it prompted me to do the dreaded restore. I was about 1 hour in at this point, and I knew, although unpleasant, that it was the only way. Alas, my phone was so far gone that it wouldn’t even successfully restore! To make matters even MORE stressful, the Apple website was saying my extended warranty (which my phone is only halfway through) was not valid. Finally, I got an error code that the Apple site said was a hardware issue. After all of these different layers of complications, I determined that going into an Apple store and seeing a “genius” was my only option. GREAT. The closest one to our house is…not close at all. But it is kinda by work, so I made an appointment and will have to wait and see what happens. Taking hubby along so he can be the brawn of the operation.

This is what my phone looked like when I finally got my computer to recognize it…it was a fleeting moment of hope. That moment passed. 

 

April 12

umm….time to do laundry?

All Wrapped Up

TWO FRIDAYS AGO (!!!) I neglected to put up Sarah’s new products, even though I did make pages to show them off! She released All Wrapped Up, some glittery stamps made with bubble wrap, which I used to make this page of Aaron’s first walk in his stroller.

(I used Storytime from Sarah, Lil’ Digi Bits by Jude and Stacy’s Backdoor Designs to make this page too. It is the first kit of Sarah’s that I ever saw at ScrapMatters and I immediately had it on my wishlist!)

She also released a set of Commercial Use Bubble Wrap Brushes that can be used colored as you see them in the preview, or, installed as brushes to be completely customized. I did a post on Sarah’s CT blog explaining how to use them. I used them to make this page of some of the earliest pictures of Aaron on his playmat. BOY he loved that thing! I am slowly but surely getting his baby book done….

( I used the ever-popular Sister Sue kit to make this layout. Sarah’s kits are ALL so versatile!)

Phew…glad I finally got all this goodness posted!