Scrappy things I want, get ready - there is a lot

Just thought I would put a list together of the things I am wanting right now. Turns out it is a lot!!!

Stamps:

Impress Stamps - valentine robot, birds and nests set, paris set, heart radio, chandelier, bird, solid bird, damask background, and damask leaf
A Muse Stamps - seaweed, dino love, monster duo, and skunk
Invoke Arts - black birds, angelic wings, collage elements, and honey bee
Sassafrass Lass Stamps - Oliver and Friends, fancy shmancy tags, tag-a-licious
Fontwerks - fresh foliage 1 and 2, mod squad, squared away, notes, steelfish alpha, fortuna dot alpha
Purple Onion Stamps - Plain Jane labels, deluxe labels, stems and grass, skinny dip alpha, ornamentals set, flea market set, whats the point, antique ledger background, and great circus alpha
Technique Tuesday - Whispy gigs and casablanca


Rub-ons:

Jenni Bowlin - Black birds and branch, black frames, black headings, cream birds and branches
Hambly Screenprints - Mod Flowers in orange, teal, lime green, and white, Dingbats and Robots in hot pink, and On Edge in orange and hot pink
Basic Grey - Photo Edges in black, heart swash, flourish outlines, and delicate frames




More to come later

Lots to say

Hi - miss me??

Well if you are wondering where I have been for the last few days.... I have been over at Scrap In Style TV. I'm in love. Rad new site with an amazing gallery and very very cool message boards. Go there. Register. Watch a few of their shows. Load some layouts. Make some scrappy friends.

I got my zingBoom kit in on Tuesday. LOVE IT!!!!1 There is so much goodness in that little box. I get happy just thinking about it. Plus chris ordered me the robot stamp from them and it came in too. I feel like..... "Happy Happy Joy Joy!" (yes that was a ren and stimpy refrence)

I was without all most all of my ladies on Wed. But I will see them soon. The really bad part was that I had to take the daughter with me, and she threw a fit. Like full on fit. She tainted my happy place. Dang her! I'll get over it. Her punishment is that she can't go for a while. It goes without saying that I didn't get much done.

We went to the Greek Festival yesterday evening. Love that. It makes me want to go back so freakin bad. So bad it like hurts inside. Never been as happy and carfree as when I was wandering the streets of Greece. (Except with joey, but really thats a different kind of happy, ya know?) I am doing a weight loss program, and I did really well. No cotton candy, and only one teeny tiny Loukoumade. Which was hard, but I did it. I did get to eat a wonderful beef Souvlaki. Love them. It was joey's idea to go. She is very attached to the idea that we come from greek people, and that her yaya was greek. She loves greek food, and music. I am glad because I love it too. Makes me think about my mom. I hope that one day I get to take Joey to Greece. That would be amazing.

I have to stop thinking about travel. It makes me sad that we just don't have enough money to go any where right now. So so sad. I am a traveler, a wanderer. I feel the best and happiest when I am in a new place doing and seeing new things. I could travel the whole rest of my life.

Anyways - we have a packed weekend. Dinner at my aunts tonight, then a midnight showing of Goonies with Joey. She saw the flyer and begged to go to it. For like days. So we agreed. Tomorrow is her multicultural festival at her school. Thenwe have to go get stuff out of my dad's house. Clean the house. Yuck! Sunday is free family day at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, with stuff about dragons. The kids get to make free art projects and stuff. For us this is a lot. Plus we will probably fit Shrek the Third in somewhere.

Well I am gonna go back over to SIS now. See you over there.

Right now

I am off to play with my new zingBoom kit. Lots of yumminess in it. I will post some stuff tomorrow.
R

With Mother's Day this weekend - its all I am thinking about right now

Not what I'm gonna get or anything like that. Just missing mine. Thoughts on being one. Stuff like that. Deep days.
Every time I think about being a mom, or giving birth I think about the song This Woman's Work by Kate Bush. It was in that Kevin Bacon movie. Love it. So I thought I would post the lyrics and add the youtube video. It tears at my heart, but in the best possible way.

Lyrics:
This Woman's Work - by Kate Bush

Pray God you can cope.
I stand outside this woman's work,
This woman's world.
Ooh, it's hard on the man,
Now his part is over.
Now starts the craft of the father.

I know you have a little life in you yet.
I know you have a lot of strength left.
I know you have a little life in you yet.
I know you have a lot of strength left.

I should be crying, but I just can't let it show.
I should be hoping, but I can't stop thinking

Of all the things I should've said,
That I never said.
All the things we should've done,
That we never did.
All the things I should've given,
But I didn't.

Oh, darling, make it go,
Make it go away.

Give me these moments back.
Give them back to me.
Give me that little kiss.
Give me your hand.

(I know you have a little life in you yet.
I know you have a lot of strength left.
I know you have a little life in you yet.
I know you have a lot of strength left.)

I should be crying, but I just can't let it show.
I should be hoping, but I can't stop thinking

Of all the things we should've said,
That were never said.
All the things we should've done,
That we never did.
All the things that you needed from me.
All the things that you wanted for me.
All the things that I should've given,
But I didn't.

Oh, darling, make it go away.
Just make it go away now.


the Video:

for her - today

He
wounds her effortlessly
and hides away some secret pleasure
smiles inside
unaware
unwilling to see
his malice is obvious to all
save him
happy in his misery
glad to pull her down with him
to hurt her again and again
he wields his angry words
like a weapon
and they inflict the worst kinds of sorrows
ones you should never feel
never from one you love so much
have spent so much time with
one who knows you so well
she will bear scars from him
forever
they are marked on her soul
were I a good doctor or nurse
I would issue her a
wondrous remedy
but I am neither
just a friend
a friend who knows
there is no remedy
no prescription can be written
to remove love
or the pain inflicted by it
all I can do
is be her friend
let her know she is loved
that her worth is
far beyond measure
and while i believe that
"time heals all wounds"
is a little white lie we tell ourselves
time can numb her hurt
it can dull her pain
she will make it through this
as will the two she loves
and if she feels the weight
the weight of this decision
pushing down on her
we who love her
are always here
to share the burden
with a smile
and a glad heart.

Digi

Another digi layout - I loved this photo of Winter and had to play with it

Meet Winter Wallace

She is amazing.
Young and beautiful, and the voice of one beyond her years.
Being around her you feel inspired and happy.
We don't know each other well -
but we know each other enough to be comfortable.
I got to photograph her yesterday.
Beautiful doesn't even begin to describe her really.
Here are a few I have played with -
I say a few because there is almost half a gig
of very usable photos of her.
She thought she wasn't photogenic.
Here is her myspace - go check out her music.

Digi Layout

this free kit at 2peas rocks

This is just

blowing my mind. I don't understand a word of it, but for some reason it makes no difference. The animation is so amazing. Simple, beautiful, and doodle like. YUMMMMM!!!!
take a look at it.