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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Min @ Kaymin Kreations

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!