I am off to Ohio!

Leaving in the morning for a painting convention in Ohio!! I am so excited! I also get to learn a technique where I will paint on scrapbook paper!!! Super excited about that!! Also excited to see what the trade show will have this year for cross over of scrapbooking versus painting!!!!

Heres another layout I did for the Scrap Friendzy contest! this is my niece Michelle!

I am so loving my new camera!!!

I have learned alot already! I plan to learn a lot more!!!



I am still in the contest on Scrap Friendzy (well at least till tomorrow when they announce the next and last elimination before the last and final week where the winner is announced! It is such a fun and friendly site! Come and check it out! Scrap Friendzy
This is my layout for this weeks challenge! Wish me luck!

My Camera broke!!!!! But!

I am getting a new and much better one!!! YEAH a dream come true! I am so sad can you tell that my camera broke!

Not that my old camera did not take some nice photos but I had truly out grown it, I want to learn so much more!

I really want to take some classes on photography! that is a huge dream of mine!

Well maybe I will just post a few recent photos I like to say thanks to a camera that has really work hard for me! I am positive it has give me THOUSANDS OF PHOTOS and deserves a decent funeral!

Well I am home from camping but still participating in Scrapfriendzy Camp!

Yes that is right I have made it through 4 full weeks now of elimination at Scrap-friendzys Camp Contest and I want to thank all those that have voted for me! I am looking forward though to this week which is a week off from the contest! We are still doing our bonus challenges but no voting this week!

I enjoyed my week camping and was lifted up spiritually, which I trully needed! I am going to start sharing a few more tutorials and ideas and keep my blog a little more active. YES I know it is about time!!!

I leave you with a few recent layouts!

Wow it is the end of week 3 of the contest

I am pleased with my layout again so if all else fails I have some great layouts
So Don't forget to head over to Scrap-Friendzy and check out all the layouts as the gallery is just on fire! It's not to late to join and earn some badges and chances at some great prizes. the links are in the previous posts!

I leave for camp tonight, looking forward to it! I really love the tent revivials!
Hoping for some great photos too! Here is one from last year! This is grandson Noah and daughters father in law Fred.

It's been a long night, but a good night!

I wish I had taken more photos! I enjoyed my tastefully simple party tonight and I appreciate all who came and made it a success! The only photo I did take was of their newest product!

It's called Dylan in a Bucket!

I finished my layout for the next round of Scrap-Friendzys Camp Friendzy contest in the nick of time! Well I thought it was the nick of time and then I found out they extended the finish time till saturday at noon so at least tomorrow I can put up a better photo of the layout because the photo is terrible since I took it indoors! I will put up the photo tomorrow when I take the better photo!

Off to get some rest after all that cleaning for my party! I am tired!!!

Time is running out!!!!

I have one wonderful friend so far that has posted and joined scrap friendzy and unless someone else goes over and joins (see previous post) Judy will be the automatic winner of a hand painted item! It is not to late to join the contest!!! hurry and join Scrap friendzy's summer camp contest and tell them susieq sent you to be entered into my drawing!!!!

BLog RAK! BLOG CANDY Yummy! LOL

First I want to Praise God for some answers to prayer! Daughter has found a place to rent. We are praying something happens soon and she is able to get the boys! THis has been such a roller coaster ride! But God has a plan and I know all this is going to work out and those who lie and do wrong will face Him one day! Thank you to all who support us and love us! God is so good! I do not know how people who have no faith make it in our world!

well this Blog candy has a little catch! OH no you say! well auctually it's rather
easy! IF you read my last post Scrap Friendzy is having this great contest and I invited you all to go register and join, which cost nothing and is easy to do and mention Susieq sent you! Well I have decided anyone that does this will be entered into a drawing for blog candy on my blog. All you do is come back and leave a commment that you registered and left a post on Scrap Friendzy!!! I will post a photo later of the HAND PAINTED ITEM YOU CAN WIN and the more that register the bigger the blog candy!!!

thats http://www.scrap-friendzy.com

Woo hoo a new look and an invitation!

Well I finally finished the remodeling and all the constructions signs are down and the plaster and dust is cleaned up! I hope you like my facelift!


Now for the fun to begin again! I have a wonderful fun invite for you!
Scrap-Friendzy is having a wonderful contest! This is a wonderful place to make new friends! PLEASE COME JOIN US AND MENTION You heard about the contest from Susieq!

Have a wonderful day!!!

Things have been a little nuts!

Seems like its in the air, the more I talk to people the more I hear that people are

having rough weeks lately! Well ours have been mighty rough! Too rough to go in to,

lets just put it this way, satan is after us and we refuse to let him win! God has a plan!

So please if you find a spare minute in your day, we would appreciate all the prayers

we can get!

Here is a new layout I just did with a great technique I learned from Min over at

Scrap Friendzy!

I sure wish Min would send me her snail mail so I can mail her prizes! I have to mail

other stuff at the post office but am waiting to di it all in one trip!!!

HINT HINT MISS MIN! LOL

While I am on the subject of Raks! I found a great one for everyone to comment

to try to win! Just go visit the lovely blog of Kim Strother, LOVE-JOY-SCRAP

and leave a comment for a chance to win an awesome rak!

THe prize I am shipping out!

Just wanted to show everyone what Min has won!
I really hope she enjoys it all as much as I enjoyed shopping for it
and as much as I enjoyed painting it!

Just as a little by the way information, I make it a
practice when I paint a gift, that while I am painting the
gift, I pray for the person I am painting it for. Even if it ends
up being one I sell, I pray for whoever will get it someday/own it
someday. So Min prayers have gone up for you that you are
blessed and that God puts a hedge of protection around you
and your family. Just to mention a few of the prayers.

thanks to all who commented!

AND THE Winner is!!!

Well I went away and painted for two days! AND I waited till tonight to do the drawing so my grandson could draw! I am going to post the picture tomorrow of the winning prize as I have to get a good picture of what I painted to send with the scrappy stuff and also tomorrow I plan on picking up a few more scrappy items!

I am looking forward to another year of blogging! but I guess you would like to know the winner!

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please send me a pm or email with your snail mail

Today is the final day!! I am excited! lots of entries and more time!

there is a little time left to get in some more entries into my blog birthday drawing! I am going to post the photo of the what the lucky winner got mailed and those who missed out on the drawing will be disappointed!~ I am going away tomorrow and sunday to a painting class and then I will post the winning prize but plan on posting later tonight the winning name!
Here is a layout of Noah and Jason to share with you!

Golly Dylan is getting so big!

 
I got some really cute shots of Dylan today! He is growing so fast! Before I know it he will be walking! I just can't believe how time has flown! It is hard to believe such a happy baby has Cystic fibrosis! I pray his doctor is right that we are only about five years from a cure!!!

Tomorrow is the big day! My blog birthday!!! I will draw the winning name after nine pm eastern time so that everyone has a chance to post tomorrow too~

Okay I am a slacker! BUT THE BLOG CANDY IS STILL ON!

YEP I missed a few days! My son came to visit from S.C. and we helped my father in law moved out of the family home of 53 years this past weekend!
I am having a blog birthday on the 16th so remember to comment each day from now till then to enter for an entry for Blog candy! I promise it will be worth it! I am sending out a scrappy prize and including a handpainted gift!

Speaking of handpainted, I taught a class monday night and here is my piece! It is a Scrapbook album cover! I plan on using it for heritage pictures. Then I also finished a piece up on monday for my Secret Sister for Church. Cindy seemed to love the basket!


 
 
 

They grow up so very fast!

This was the boys coloring eggs for Easter! Golly it seems like yesterday that the oldest was a baby!

Please don't forget to keep commenting each day to earn entries into my blog candy drawing coming up on the 16th to celebrate the 4th birthday of my blog!!!

Dog Tired!

 
Yep, I missed several days! I have been so dogged tired! Finally gave in on Saturday and went to a walkin and had a major sinus infection! But the antibiotics have helped!

By the way Jack my little buddy in the picture was dog tired from chasing the kids while they looked for Easter Eggs on Easter Sunday! Wish I had gotten a picture of Jack with the "one HE found" and took off with! He thought it was a ball! LOL!

My new cupboard

This is it! All full too! Hopefully tomorrow I will feel better enough for a decent post! I did a layout today but not done scanning it so guess it will wait till tomorrow!

feeling a little better!

Both boys stayed home today and went the doctors and Noah is on antibiotic for a sinus infection!

But at least I felt better enough to start cleaning up what has been let go while I have been sick! On top of that hubby has been bringing home some stuff from his dads as his dad sold his home of many years and is moving into a retirement home. So I had to rearrange on top of being under the weather. But I adore my wonderful oak cupboard that was my hubbys grandmas. Maybe tomorrow I will share a photo of it!

Not a great day in the Kithcart household

We have decided to pass around that wonderful cold that is going around. So one child is home from school. I was suppose to help at the school bookfair but that did not happen! But not just because Jason is home, I also have it and my head feels double the normal size, I hate being sick!

Hopefully tomorrow will be a nicer post!! I was hoping to post a finished picture of my project from my class I did on saturday but I did not get it done yet! But on the way home saturday I did do some scrappy shopping!

ENTER NOW Blog Candy in 16 days

IN 16 days my Blog will be 4 years old and I want to celebrate by giving away blog candy! SO for each day in the next 16 days that you post a comment you will get a entry into the drawing for my blog candy! I will post a picture soon! NOW you know this is a challenge for me to also post each day by 8pm eastern time. SO if I miss a day after 8pm eastern time click on the email notice and email me that day and you get 2 entries!! Guess that puts the pressure on me!! LOL! I promise I am going to make the candy worth it! It will be scrappy and will also have a hand painted gift included!
Now I would like to share a layout I did on scrap whispers for a whispers challenge!

Spring! I so love the flowers and the birds!

My flowers have poked up throught the ground and have even showed some signs of the blossums forming! How cool is that!

I have been enjoying watching the birds at my feeder and have even purchased another feeder so I can not only watch from the kitchen but now from the living room also. Today I hope to put up the gold finch feeder since I finally remembered to purchase some thistle for it!

wish I could remember to blog like I use to!!!

Life is so busy taking care of my grandboys! I get so busy I forget about things like blogging! LOL!

Well I will just share a few of my latest layouts and leave it at that!

I am scrapping alot more but

NOT doing so well keeping up with the blog!!! LOL

I got POTD (Pick of the Day)for a layout I did on Scrap Friendzy Scrapbook forum! The layout is special to me as it is the last photo of my mom before she went into the hospital and was placed on a ventilator! The photo was taken with my phone and so the photo is not the best photo but still means so much!

I am so happy to finally be scrapping again! I guess I needed that time of mourning! TOO bad it did not make me a better scrapper! LOL

OH and I also finished painting my paper towel holder too! Its a design by Lynne Deptula!

Baby it's cold outside!!!

So cold that all I can do is scrap and play on the puter! Got a few more layouts done!
Cleaned the kitchen and talked on the phone with Anne which always makes me smile!

Do you know someone who can bring a smile to your face no matter how bad the day! Well that is Anne. Funny thing is I meant Anne on line on a facebook game and she has become my best friend! Unfortanelty she lives in Virginia. She and I have so much in common which is cool but the best part about her is the fact that she can always make me smile or even better laugh!

SHe really needs to give me a photo of her so I can scrap a layout about her and one of these days I really really want to meet her in person. Although I can't go to her house and stay cause she is known as the cat lady and I am allergic to cats! LOL so I guess thats one things we don't have in common!!
Also finding out that her hubby and mine have alot in common!!!

O Christmas Tree!

Sharing another layout and also wanted to tell you about a chance to win a gift certificate for some wonderful cardstock! Just head over to Cut Cardstocks blog and enter there contest!

I am down today and not sure I can even scrap tomorrow as I had quite a few trigger point injections today. Hoping maybe tomorrow will be okay but sometimes I have two days down so we shall see.

Yeah! Scrapping again and MY WORD FOR THIS YEAR IS....

So I got one layout done and going to scrap more today!

Hopefully that will give me the pick me up I need!

The boys really enjoyed Christmas and it was such a blessing that they were appreciative and there was no "is there anymore" etc.

I know it's hard on them with the situation but golly you would not know and they sure show me and grandpa and aunt Mindy and uncle Mike a lot of love!

In the photos even Jack and Nikki got into the photos! LoL (although WHY are they up on the couch MIKE!)

We did miss Beauty that morning as she always knew she would get treats in her stocking too! In fact I could not bare to hang if for the other dogs! Mike got us a special ornament that is a dog paw with a spot for her photo and ironically we had bought an ornament for Jason that is red with paw prints on it to help remember her too. We will have to hang them together! Rest in peace Beauty ( we miss you!)

Golly 2009 Was a rough year!! and 2010 has started out kinda Rocky too! SO NOW I AM READY FOR SOME GOOD TIMES and trusting God will be faithful and even if they are rough I know He will carry me through!

I am going to take the losses from 2009 turn them into some beautiful scrap book pages honoring those I lost! ( I LOVE and MISS you Mom) and I am going to make this year a year of honoring and a year of ENJOYMENT! Grieving is going to be there but not my life!

SO MY WORD FOR 2010 is ENJOYMENT!!!

Yeah! I did it!

Okay, okay not when I said and not the one I said but I finally scrapped! And it went fast and smooth! I decided to do one of Noah before doing the one of Dylan first, just because I felt the mojo for it!

Also I decided I would not scrap till I had my scrap/paint area totally organized and cleaned and that took some time getting done between my mess and all the junk we are going through right now with our grandsons living with us! Let me tell you being involved with CPS can be the pits even when you are not the one who was doing something wrong! Let me tell you I am learning that they can't be trusted! Or at least I use to believe that people in those positions were honest and now I know better! But let me tell you I would lay down my life for my grandkids as would my hubby!!

sO HERE IS THE LAYOUT THAT IS THE FIRST SINCE jAN 09.

I am back and I promise!

I painted last week and I am headed downstairs to scrap! SO soon you will meet my newest grandson! SO the next post wil be about my latest paintings and my newest grandson and his fist layout!! watch for it real soon!

Dedicating this post to my Mom!

First thanks Mica for bringing me back to my blog!

ON Jan. 30th My MOM was taken to be with the Lord! I miss her greatly! It had taken me a long time to even get any desire to move on! I talked daily with my mom and she was always there for me.

I encourage everyone to let your Mom know how much you love them! Always treat them with respect. It is a terrible feeling to be show disrespect from a child especially an adult child. It carves down into the heart. I hope and pray I never did that to my Mom!

I am posting a few photos and then I am going to go back to posting regularing and sharing about my grandchildren and scrapping which I must start doing as I know Mom would want me to go on!

Thanks for listening and for all who prayed all those months that we tried so hard to get her off the vent. She may have never came off the vent but I will always cherish that time spent with her and be grateful that my husband was willing to be without me while I stayed with her 750 miles away for 4 months. Somedays going to the hospital every single day were hard but looking back I would not trade a single solitary day and I am grateful to my God for each of those days!

Win a very easy RAK!

BUT first I must explain I did not make it to the crop in last entry myself because friday morning a special family member was taken home! Not my mom but a special cousin of my husbands who lived with my husbands father. She and him were roommates since my mother in law died and auctually although my father in law was her uncle she was older. She use to babysit my mother in law. A kind and gentle woman! Ruth will be sadly missed and never forgotten. Expect some layouts!


Now for the Rak! SCRAP CITY IS ALMOST AT 400 MEMBERS!!! only 3 left till the magic number! THE 400th member is going to win a rak! SO all you have to do is head over to THE SCRAP CITY and register and you will win a rak! and as long as you are there check out the place it is the most friendly and fun scrap book forum!!! So click on the link and take a chance to win a RAK! YOU CAN'T WIN if YOU DON'T REGISTER!!!

FOLLOW ME TO A CROP

and make me crop too!! I need to get out of a major slump!! have not scrapped in longer then I have not blogged! OH IS THAT BAD!!!