Say what? Yes a real life blog post!

Well it's only been since July, jeez, give a girl some credit. I have realized that I pretty much kinda sorta suck at blogging, but I am pretty much all the time good at making lists so here we go...... My life in lists..... the good, the bad, the awesome.

Top ten things consuming my life right now:

1. Dexter
2. Tea and lots of it
3. kids (high maintenance little buggers)
4. Online shopping
5. F%*&^ing laundry
6. Carsgone
7. emails
8. Instagram/Facebook
9. Scrapbooking
10. The freaking elf on the shelf

Top ten things that annoy me right now:


1. Teenagers
2. People eating my salt and vinegar chips and only leaving half a handful in the bag
3. Slow drivers
4. South Common pre-Christmas traffic
5. The fact that my voice doesn't want to go back to non-cougar mode
6. Cupboard doors that are left open
7. Kids who fight over computer time
8. Assholes who wear their shoes into pools when there is CLEARLY 10 signs on the way to the dressing room NO OUTDOOR SHOES
9. Treadmill guilt
10. When Ray "Annihalates" me in Foosball

Top ten freaking awesome things right now:

1. My camera
2. Rivers amazing reading/writing skills
3. Getting our family photos done by the amazing Sheri @ Captureitphotography
4. New fun, fabulous and inspiring scrappy friends and an amazing scrapbook store to hang out at
5. I am done my deadline for another month
6. FINALLY going on a fieldtrip with Taylas Class on Friday (work usually prevents these things)
7. I have a new baby to love and buy stuff for (Congrats Sara and Schmelliot)
8. Scoring an awesome New winter jacket today!!! And it being the last one and on sale!
9. My killer foosball skillz
10. Good books and bubble baths

Top ten excuses for not blogging more than every 4 months


1. No time
2. No one reads this shit anyways
3. To busy scrapbooking
4. To busy watching Dexter
5. To busy yelling at people for eating my chips and leaving cupboard doors open
6. To busy looking for "NEW AND EXCITING" places to hide the freaking elf
7. To busy not going on the treadmill
8. To busy trying to make Team Canada for foosball
9. Carpal Tunnel
10. To busy reading Lisa and Nadines blogs (who actually blog like every. freaking. Day.

Sweet Summertime

Yay it is summer! Loving the weather, even the crazy hot 34 degrees kind. And no I do not have air conditioning. Summer means so many awesome things to me, here is a top ten list: 1. Thunderstorms (the kind that don't turn into tonados and tear down my house) 2. The sound of my kids playing in the backyard, getting wet, blowing bubbles 3. Loads of vitamin D from hanging out in the sun 4. Home-ade Popsicles (lemonade and ice tea are my faves) 5. Paddle boat rides 6. Sleeping in 7. Pedicures (I have been training Tayla to take over this responsibility) 8. Beach days, the smell of sunscreen, cooler packed full of fresh fruit, divine 9. Air conditioned rides in the car 10. Flip flops I have been somehow, miraculously finding time to scrapbook... lots of scrap dates with my ladies lately :)Here are a bunch of my latest pages mostly made from Studio Calico Kits and goodies from Treasured Memories

I also chopped my hair, and am loving the freedom of no ponytails. Last night I did a spontaneous mini photo shoot with my best friend in the whole wide world, and her husband who does not in particular like having his picture taken. She is so gorgeous, this girl doesn't take a bad photo. Here are a couple of my favorites... I wish I didn't have a job that took so much of time, I would love to actually learn how to use my camera and take a few classes, and one day maybe even become a real photographer. Oh to dream...

Happy Summer!!

And the lucky horseshoe up her butt girl is..........

Teka Cochonneau! Congratulations, please email me your mailing information to rivermyheart@yahoo.ca and I will be crazy happy to send you your box of goodies!

As for the rest of you ladies, thank you so, so much for taking the time to leave a comment. I loved reading all your comments and you totally made my day!

Instagram, Cameo & a Giveaway! Oh My!

I have re-kindled my love with Instagram not that it ever died out, but I was a complete idiot and switched from being an Iphone user to an Android user about a year ago and I lost my Instagram app with that choice. I was beyond pumped when they made it available to Android users a couple of months ago and I have been snapping away, capturing super cool everyday moments. BEST APP EVER. Hands down. Here are some of my favorite shots....

And Now that you made it through all those I want to show you what I have been making with my new best friend....the Silhouette Cameo (finally got the spelling down). Ray my super immature husband has nicknamed this machine camel-toe, yes he really is 46. A picture for Tay's wall, just a cheap dollar store scrapbook frame with my favorite Jack Johnson Lyrics that remind me of Tay.

And one for River's room

and some Layouts I made with the amazing Studio Calico May kit 35 mm. Can't wait to really tear into it! This Cameo business has really stepped up my titles a notch, oh the freedom to never run out of e's or r's!

Random Happy Mail today that put a smile on my face

And now for the good part! The goods!

My awesome friend Sheri was the one that sold me her Cameo (aka.camel-toe)She quit scrapbooking recently (sounds of horror) So with it came a ginormous amount of goodies that she hadn't even told me about! I am talking ALOT of goodies. I just did a big purge so was pretty choosy on the stuff I kept and thought it would be a sweet idea to do a giveaway with the rest. So thank you Sheri and all this stuff is for one lucky winner (there is enough paper to cover your kitchen walls). All you have to do to be entered to win is tell me which Instagram picture I posted is your favorite. I will draw the person with the horseshoe up their butt on Sunday! Thanks for stopping by, you kinda rock!

Washi Organizer

I am a girl who likes to utilize whatever is kicking around, hey it works! lol.

My happy place

I am drooling over some of the spaces I saw on the Studio Calico Forum today so it inspired me to take some decent pics of my scrappy space tonight. I have come along way from having one of those rolling rubbermaid containers with 6 drawers in the closet. Ha! Hope you enjoy and maybe get some good ideas for your space.

I was thrilled to score these giant scissors at HomeSense awhile back.

This used to be a button display rack at a Fabric Store that closed down, I got it for FREE!!!

I believe this shelf thingy was a decorative plate display, I got it at a garage sale for 2.00 ;)

This hot pink Bird cage is perfect for small scraps of ribbon to hang off of and all my washi tape is hung by binder clips to be at my finger tips.

My Cricut Station (hoping to trade it in for a Cameo soon ;)

IKEA Expedit shevles, these are the greatest thing if you want to be organized. I have 7 in my house.lol.

Project Life.

Well this is my first shot at Becky Higgins Project Life and let me tell you I am loving it!!! It makes me more aware of everyday things, the little, so easy to forget important things. The pre-cut journalling cards, fun designs, and cool page protectors make it so super easy to document the everyday. I apologize for the crap photos, it is late, and this is just as good as it gets right now. Click the picture to see it in ginormous prportions.





To help with the organization of such a huge undertaking I have a notebook designated to keeping track of my days by simple point form notes that I think matter. I also created a folder on my desktop for all my pictures and organize them by date to keep it fool proof.

Easy peasy lemon squeezy. I cannot wait to see the whole year documented. I think out of all my treasured scrapbooks this one will be dearest to my heart, because it is the real us. The good, the bad, and the ugly.

Enjoy every moment, create happy memories.