Credits:
Papers and all elements: A Work in Progress kit “A Touch of Romance”
Heart mask: Binty Designs   Round mask: HannahMade
Word Art: Elegant Word Art by Bethany
Swirls in background: Scrappin’ Cop   Sparkle on ring: Flergs

So obviously my sister is getting married…and soon, too! I will be writing about the bridal shower and sweatshops leading up to that very soon…and yeah, that is her ring…isn’t it pretty? She really likes the vintage look and her fiancé, Andy, had it made so it’s also one of a kind! It really suits her…he did done good! I don’t know what kind of wedding band she will have to go with it. I’ll have to ask her!

Today is the day of the annual Woodward Dream Cruise here in Michigan. I didn’t go at all this year because it was so.damn.hot. today and yesterday! It was like 90 degrees with humidity…no thank you. I’m kind of over it anyways. I mean, I grew up around old cars because my dad’s always had one (or two!) and I’ve been to a number of car shows and I don’t mind walk around looking at cars, but I don’t like the heat because I’m a sweaty beast and there are millions of people there! Millions…I kid you not!

Usually the hubbs and I will go to our church on Friday night. They have Chicken Shack there selling chicken dinners and music in a huge tent. The music is usually the Polish Muslims, which are a cool Weird Al type of band. Then when we’re done eating dinner and listening to the music a bit, we go sit out close to the road to inhale exhaust fumes and watch the old cars “cruise” down Woodward. Basically it’s 1 or 2 old cars and then regular cars who either don’t pay attention to what weekend it is and are now stuck driving on Woodward, or they want to be in the mess of it all. And…it’s basically a parking lot or a lot of drive 20 ft and then stop for a light.

Fun stuff!

Here are some pictures from 2007…I don’t remember if we went last year, maybe we didn’t…and since I didn’t go this year, I don’t have any from 09! But it’s pretty much the same!

Polish Muslims on stage

Woodward…bumper to bumper…smell that exhaust!

STILL bumper to bumper after dark!

It’s an ok time. A lot of people go and enjoy it. If it wasn’t so blazing hot yesterday and today, I probably would have went…but it WAS so stinkin hot. My husband didn’t even try to pop down there today, which is probably would have done if it wasn’t so dern hot.

And yes, I am whining about the heat! I cannot stand it!! I am SOOOO ready for fall. Ahhh wonderful Autumn…please hurry your seasonal butt up and get here already!

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop??

Here’s week one:

I had some time waiting for laundry to finish…

Credits: Papers and Swirly Element – Freebie kit, “Chilly Willy” by Bren Boone Designs

These templates are a freebie and they are by Lori. You can find them on her blog.

What an AWESOME idea! I know what everyone is going to get from my hubby and I this christmas. Especially his mom and mine, and my BIL in Australia, oooh and my sister too!

The good thing is that you can dress them up, put little “icons” like a heart for valentine’s day, a cake for birthdays, etc. How cool is that? and original too! Who doesn’t love a little personalized gift like that.

And it will cost probably less than 10.00 a piece! That will be at least 4 gifts out of the way. I’m sure as soon as people see them, more will want them too!

Here’s one I did for October, 2009 just to show an example.

 

I know those credits aren’t great…sorry. I was just searching for bday stuff through my files, so they came from where I said, but I don’t know who made them. I’ll go back and correct it later.

Anyways…that’s my example, We have 3 birthdays in October and actually my wedding anniversary is in Oct too on the 28th, which is also my hubby’s bday…so I usually put a cake or something. I should make it all about my anniversary though! LOL We’ve been married for 6 years…geez, and it will be 7 this year! Wow…I say wow because we had some really rough patches in the beginning. But things are great now. 

So those little calendars will be presents this year. I’ll have them printed at Costco and then get a frame. It will be great! I just KNOW they will love them!

I need to leave Lori a comment on her blog if I haven’t already.

She also has some other great templates. I’m really a template girl. I’m so new to digi with Photoshop and the templates really help me. I definitely jumped right in though!

I’m still doing wedding things. I’m frantically printing the programs and then Friday, which is also my sister’s birthday, we’re going to dinner for her and then we are going back into the sweat shop to fold these programs and then tie little tubes of wedding bubbles on them. Fun stuff. lol

My last wedding task is to make “Robusto” lol…basically it’s noodle salad. But I call it “Robusto!” lol I either need to make it Friday morning before we go up there or cut up the veggies and then make the noodlers there. Not sure which one I’m going to do. And I’m not sure how much I need to make. Enough for 150 or so people. I will be busy!!

Finally I got the creative bug and made a scrappy page. This is me and my two sisters from my sister’s wedding shower earlier this month.

Which gave the dogs just enough time to get into the trash and pull it all from one end of the house to the other. There were even cat food cans IN THE BED!!!

Now, I have to keep an eye on Topaz and pray he doesn’t have a seizure due to his garbage can escapades. I swear, he’s SO bad.

On a good note, I did get an outfit for my sister’s wedding shower next weekend and her wedding in October!! I’m excited because I had NO CLUE what I was going to wear. I also got a night gown that’s SOO comfy and a shirt for work. I got my sister’s shower gift too…and had it wrapped, but like a dummy, I dumped my thai food in and on the present bag so I will need to rewrap it this week. I’ll have to get a big bag.

Here are the shirts I got…

I got this shirt in Purple…or Berry I think it’s called for the shower. I’ll wear it with black pants and shoes. 

And I got this shirt for the wedding. It’s casual and this is a bit dressier than the other one. I’ll wear this with the same black pants and shoes.

I can’t link the graphics so I’ll post the links here…from the top clockwise:

Ok, so I went a little buckwild. Well…my husband buys CD’s, movies, hats and t-shirts. I buy scrappy kits.

I’ve kind of been in a scrappy slump…although, I did whip up a little piratey page today!

Whenever we go to Disney World, we dress up like pirates near the pirate ride and take pictures. We also do “Crazy Hat Day” and take pictures of ourselves with all of the crazy big hats that are sold all over Disney World.

 

I’m going shopping with my mom and sister in a little bit. I should actually jump in the shower right now. We’re going for clothes for my other sister’s bridal shower that is next week. Hopefully I can find something decent. I hate shopping for clothes!!!

Picture credit.

After the sweatshop, dinner, and birthday apple pie I came home to the most horrific smell in the hallway. UGH, it was NASTY!!! and definitely poop. I would say dog poop, but they really go little nuggets since being on raw, so maybe one of them has a sick tummy. Anyways, there was NO way I could clean that up! I couldn’t even go back into the hallway where it was, the smell was making me gag. I can still kind of smell it…let’s just say we are unprepared for carpet cleaning emergencies. Resolve is going on our shopping list! So the hubs clean it up…thank God he was home, I would have had to gag through it. Guess he’s good for some things…heh kidding of course!

We did the happy birthday thing for my dad. We ended up at Bahama Breeze. We were supposed to go to some new rib place, but my dad wanted to go to BB. It’s always good there…but we go a little buck wild on the appetizers. Plus, my nephew has braces and his teeth were hurting him, so he didn’t know what he could or should eat. So we got like 4 appetizers. lol Oh well, it was good. I got my usual, Chicken Jerk Pasta…so yummy!

Then we went to my parents and sang Happy Birthday to my dad and had apple pie. I am not a pie lover, so I skipped it…but I’m sure it was good!

Here’s a scrappy page of my dad blowing his candles out!!