tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30029907545468569542024-03-13T00:37:39.359-07:00i'm talking serious scrap!Kiwi The Kreatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03136357721093616934noreply@blogger.comBlogger134125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002990754546856954.post-53590389267057611072014-02-03T11:19:00.002-08:002014-02-03T11:19:37.178-08:00I had SUCH great plans...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">...for Super Bowl Sunday. I mean, my hometown team was knocked out of the playoffs so...EH. I thought my husband would be soo caught up in the game that he would stare glossy-eyed at the tv and give me a few uninterrupted hours to do something of the UTMOST importance...<i>SCRAP. </i>I haven't paper crafted with any regularity in.YEARS. So this was my big chance to kreate some loveliness right? <i>LIES. </i>The game was a blowout. And as much as The Man loves sports he.will.not.dignify.a.blowout.with.more.than.a.glance. So instead of game watching and paper crafting, we snuggled and tickled...snacked and laughed...rocked out with Bruno and screamed out the words with the Chili Peppers...ok, that was just me (<i>giveitawaygiveitawaygiveitawayNAH!!!!)</i> Needless to say the big scrappy comeback didn't happen yesterday but I was reassured of something: even when things don't go as WE plan...God always makes them turn out right!!!! What did YOU do on Super Bowl Sunday?</span></div>
Kiwi The Kreatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03136357721093616934noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002990754546856954.post-69071830567006764952014-01-28T13:00:00.000-08:002014-01-28T13:23:08.253-08:00Right now, I'm knee deep...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">...into decorating our home. And like most people I'm doing it on a budget...like a <em>visittheclearancesectionineverystore </em></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">budget. So the other day when we were out running errands I <strike>begged pleaded</strike> encouraged my husband to stop into <a href="http://www.kirklands.com/" target="_blank">Kirkland's</a> to see what the clearance section beheld. I was sooo excited to see this</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">with an additional 25% off!!! So each lamp ended up being $26.23!!! And no they DIDN'T come with the lovely </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">green <a href="http://frogtape.com/" target="_blank">FrogTape</a> on them...I just have the paint addiction. This is how it looks with one coat of paint:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Now I'm sure it would have been easier to just spray paint them but we had a <a href="http://www.homedepot.com/" target="_blank">Home Depot</a> going out of business and I got a gallon of Behr Hi Gloss Enamel for $14...so I plan to use it 'til the wheels fall off! I plan to change up the finials and shades but I guess I'll wait until the sleet clears up outside. OH! I also picked up a few of these</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">for a little over $5 each. Strangely, there is no description on the boxes so I thought they were Christmas stocking holders until I removed the packaging and found this</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Doesn't matter though...I love animals so they'll still come in handy. I'll share what I did to them after the weather clears up.</span></div>
Kiwi The Kreatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03136357721093616934noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002990754546856954.post-64520799667051427502014-01-06T17:56:00.000-08:002014-01-08T11:09:26.046-08:00The other day, some IDIOT...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">...made the <strong>idiotic </strong>decision to steal my little's scooter from the back of our truck. <strong>YES, </strong>the scooter that Santa had just delivered <strong>A WEEK PRIOR</strong>!!!! And YES, we SHOULD HAVE removed it from the truck after our park visit was cut short due to a storm but that's now moot. We work hard to provide what our kids need and want...and YOUR JOB is to help yourself to it???? MORON!!!! INGRATE!!! BLANKITY BLANK <strong>BLANK!!!! </strong>Whew! I'm good now. But I couldn't bring myself to tell the little that his new scooter had probably been sold for a crack rock so I made the executive decision to replace it and THEN tell him. The point to my rant is that, because we have nothing but Dollar Tree, Family Dollar and Big Lots within about 15 miles of our house, when I visit the Westbank I REALLY make it count...like visitsevenstores count! So once I put the scooter in the basket the Target Christmas clearance was callin' my name! I think I squealed out loud when I spotted these ornaments:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Originally $19.99 for a box of 50, they were reduced to $4.50!!!! Maybe there were so many because of the neon yellow balls but I don't care about that...I have BIG PLANS for those! The smaller, star shaped boxes,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">were $1.50. <em>AWWWWESOME!!! </em>Another store my little and I hit up was Marshall's. I got three rolls of map wrapping paper before Christmas that I planned to use like wallpaper in Kea's room. But once I opened it and held it against the wall I wasn't feelin' it. So I stuffed the used roll in with my other wrapping crap and loaded the others into the truck. Do you know the cashier actually threw her arms open and asked, "You want to return <em>THIS???" </em>when I put those two rolls of wrapping paper on the counter? Yes ma'am I KNOW it's only $7 but it's MY $7 and I want it back...THANKEE KINDLY!!! Once THAT transaction was complete, Kea and I browsed the home section. SOOO much caught my eye but I had to limit myself especially because I'd just shelled out extra $$ to replace the scooter. But I did find a mercury glass candle holder (as a non-match match to the one I found before Christmas), these</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">faux binoculars that we can't have adventures with but will look good on a shelf; a lovely roll of steel gray velvet and satin ribbon on a wooden spool; and a wooden airplane puzzle for the little. I kinda figured in my head that I had about $30 worth of merchandise which would cost about $23 out of pocket once I factored in my refund. When we got to the cashier she scooped up all of my finds with their yummy red stickers and without a word walked into a back room...what the HIZZY is goin' on up in here today??? I didn't know if my clearance items were being quarantined because they were unwitting vessels of transport for cocaine or WHAT. Just when I SERIOUSLY started considering grabbing Kea and making a run for the door before S.W.A.T. swarmed out of that room the cashier returned with some even LOVELIER yellow tags on my goodies. She explained that the clearance items had an additional percentage off to which I replied, "SHUT.UP." I THEN had to spend the NEXT five minutes explaining to Kea WHY I was "not nice to the lady" and said something "SO ugly". But when it was all said and done, I got the </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New;">two pairs of binoculars, that gorgeous candlestick,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">that beautiful spool of ribbon</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">and Kea's plane which he hid before I could photograph</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">for $18 or ELEVEN DOLLARS after the refund (see lady...that $7 DID make a difference...nah nah a boo boo) I know one pair of the faux-noculars are going in Kea's room but I'm not sure yet where to use my other treasures. I'm sure it'll come to me SOON {{WINK}}}</span><br />
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Kiwi The Kreatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03136357721093616934noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002990754546856954.post-73691466003763257852013-12-30T21:40:00.004-08:002013-12-30T21:41:20.692-08:00I can't believe....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">...that it's been TWO YEARS since I last blogged. I've sat here for the last hour in denial (<em>NAH...NOT <strong>TWO YEARS!!!) </strong></em>But I guess the fact that I had to spend twenty minutes recovering my password is proof that it's been a minute. Life has just been so crazy for us...in so many good AND bad ways. But the most important and exciting is that, after looking </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">and looking and praying and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">signing <strike>our grandchildren away</strike> about a hundred legal documents...with a little help from our financial advisor...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">...we were finally able to relax</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">and to praise HIM for our new future:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">We've been in our home for six months and I've been working on making it our home every day. Even though it's been EXHAUSTING at times it's soo much fun because look at what I've had to work with:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><em>A COMPLETELY BLANK SLATE!!!!</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">And I hope that you join me on my journey to make it kompletely ours!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">KEANDRA</span></div>
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Kiwi The Kreatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03136357721093616934noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002990754546856954.post-87017246172506502722011-09-28T14:28:00.000-07:002011-09-28T14:28:29.655-07:00These are the shoes...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;">...that my husband ALMOST got! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;">We do a few races each year (Breast Cancer, MS) and John happens to love New Balance shoes. While I was perusing the daily deals I ran across one for <a href="http://blair.com/">Blair.com</a> where these shoes would be $29...with free shipping.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;"><i>yes please.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;">I'm all excited, planning how I would buy two pairs so he'd have one when the first wore out. Once I placed the order, I see a pop up screen: <i>Congratulations! Because this is your first order, you qualify for $10 off of your next order! </i>This is AMAZING! See, I only ordered one pair at first. I was going to have one sent here and one sent to my parents' house so my husband didn't know about them. So, I thought I would end up with two pairs of New Balance for less than $50...<i>awwwwwesome!!!!</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">When I clicked on the link, it took me to a page that says, "SCREW the $10...you're getting FIFTEEN!" Well, I'm ready to start jumping up and down!</span> <span style="font-size: xx-small;">FINE PRINT: JUST JOIN OUR REWARDS CLUB WHICH AUTHORIZES US TO DEBIT THE SAME CREDIT CARD YOU JUST PAID WITH THE LOW LOW PRICE OF $15 <b>MONTHLY!</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>WHA....?????</i></span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;">Nah, I'm straight...just give me the $10...click. SIKE! I then get the "thank you for your order which is processing" message. I try going back...nope. Oh well...I'll just call customer service. And here's where the devil stole my husband's shoes right outta the box!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;">The customer service representative was an older lady...aww she's like my grandmother...LIES. I was all like, "Good day, kind lady...might I bother you for a replacement code for the one the website swindled me out of?" She was like, "No". HUHN???? "Ma'am, I don't have access to the code so there's no way I can give it to you."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;">SILENCE.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;">SOOOOO, I just don't get a code? "Nope". Ok, my nerves are bad now. "Well, can I speak to a supervisor?" "She doesn't have the code either." NOW I'm praying for God to slow my breathing down. I KNOW God doesn't want you to hurt babies and the elderly but THIS....this LADY is not my favorite person right now! I asked, "Can I speak to a supervisor?" {{{SIGH}}} I'll SEE if one is available to speak to you." WT....???? So, she puts me on hold and after she (obviously) played "This Little Piggie"...TWICE...she comes back to the line, "Ma'am the supervisor said she doesn't have the code." NO, I asked you if I could SPEAK TO a supervisor. "I'm telling you what she said and she cannot come to the phone." This right HERE...this is RIDICULOUS! "OK, can you just cancel my order?" "Ma'am I can't cancel..."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;">I LOST IT.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;">I didn't curse her. I didn't raise my voice. I just repeated, "Cancel the order" over and over. It may have been about 320 times...I'm not sure. But then this...this LADY HANGS UP ON ME.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;">OH.NO.SHE.DIDN'T</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;">Yeah...she didn't. Well, my breathing slowed down to a STOP. I was like a stealth Ninja at this point. I called back and when another representative came on the line, I was SYRUP PACKED IN SUGAR. "HIIIIIII...I'd like to cancel an order please kind lady." Because she really was. I regret that she didn't answer the phone THE FIRST TIME I CALLED. While she was "processing my request" I kindly asked for their mailing address which she kindly provided to me. You see, while I was smiling sweetly and talking to her, I had the Better Business Bureau open in another window. You'll be pleased to know that they HAVE been reported. Because play with me about MY MONEY???? NO THANX! Oh, and if any of you are looking for New Balance at a decent price check out <a href="http://joesnewbalanceoutlet.com/">joesnewbalanceoutlet.com</a> . They have a better selection and I've ordered from them before. The customer service was MUCH better than what I experienced today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;"><i>You're welcome!</i><i>.</i><i> </i></span><br />
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Kiwi The Kreatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03136357721093616934noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002990754546856954.post-72295046402847440972011-09-25T22:58:00.000-07:002011-09-25T22:58:21.075-07:00I've been letting ...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I normally have EXTREMELY thick eyebrows and I like 'em that way! I mean, I like them LUSH...not Al B. Sure-ish! (For my R&B-challenged peeps...PLEEEEASE Google "Al B. Sure"...you're in for a treat 'cause I REALLY look like that if I let my 'brows go untamed!) But because I'm not a professional, I have times when I cut one too thinly and then have to cut the other to match. So, I've been letting them grow for the last month so I'll look cute in my sister's wedding pix! Plus, my 40th is in November and I'm gearing up for a big celebration. TODAY, I got to the point where I just COULDN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE! Bushy brows bring me back to high school when the only taming I was allowed to do was a spit-and-slick! Plus, I needed to take a picture for the aforementioned event. So, I prayed real hard...used a SLOOOW and steady hand and got to cuttin'! It's STILL not a professional job but I think it's decent</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I think I'm still gonna go and try the threading (has anyone else tried that?) before the wedding. I just saw on the Today show Friday that reapplying lip gloss is an addictive behavior...Kathie Lee said she wakes up from a DEEP SLEEP to reapply it! She's a LIIITLE more obsessed than me but like my brother-in-law says...my lip gloss be POPPING!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Do you know we can <a href="http://kiwithekreator.blogspot.com/2011/09/just-awful.html">still smell it</a>? Marsh fires my BEHIND...there's something much more sinister going on out there...DUN DUN DUHHHHHH!!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">recently featured over at <a href="http://platinumscraps.blogspot.com/">Platinum Scraps</a>. We don't do the whole trick or treating</span> <span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">thang but we do dress up and go to the Children's Museum. Kea 1st wore the doggie costume right before he turned two and he was LIVID! He didn't want that CRAP on his head...his hands...he wanted OUTTA THERE!!! We took advantage of the fact that he could still fit into it last year so we recycled it. Man, what a difference a year makes! When I asked him to pose for pictures, he really hammed it up...he was HEElarryous!!! With the double page spread, I happened to be going through our family box of pictures and ran across several different photos of me and my older boys. We used to take pictures a few times a year. I thought for sure that once my family was complete we would go like ONCE A MONTH for pictures but that hasn't happened...my littlest hasn't taken pictures since his christening a year ago; BAD MOMMY! I've been kinda holding out because I wanted to take some on location shots. But, since Sears sent us a coupon for a free photo session plus $50 in pictures, I broke down and made an appointment. Hopefully I'll still get my outdoor shots before my birthday!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Lastly, if you like scrappy stuff hop on over to <a href="http://kreativity.kreatorvillekraft.com/">Kreatorville</a> for the opportunity to win a prize valued at over $200!!!! Don't miss out!!!! </span></div>
Kiwi The Kreatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03136357721093616934noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002990754546856954.post-78224213271900452672011-09-10T20:27:00.000-07:002011-09-10T20:28:00.641-07:00For dinner tonight...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">...I made sandwiches. I used a 100% wheat bun with sesame seeds and filled it with turkey cold cuts, raw spinach leaves, tomatoes and pickle slices. The condiments I used were mustard and mayo. Maybe 10 minutes after finishing my sandwich, the sides of my lips and tongue were tingling and slightly numb. Plus, I had a bitter taste in my mouth. My husband (who ate in another room) came into the bedroom and told me he had the same symptoms that I did! Both of our little boys had the same dinner...with NOOO problems! This was about an hour ago so the numbness has pretty much worn off. I've researched salmonella and E.coli and gratefully it doesn't seem to be either of those. I'm just wondering: have any of you experienced these symptoms before?</span><br />
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Kiwi The Kreatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03136357721093616934noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002990754546856954.post-13716863682417702832011-09-04T02:12:00.000-07:002011-09-04T02:12:46.715-07:00Thanx to all of you...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">...who were so concerned about our well-being due to the <a href="http://kiwithekreator.blogspot.com/2011/09/just-awful.html">marsh fires</a>! Even though it's rained consistently for two days, we're still keeping a low profile because the smell is still pretty bad. My husband said he heard it's actually remnants from the BP oil spill burning and it DOES kinda ring true; if you could SMELL this crap you'd understand what I mean! The great thing was that we got to just laze around yesterday...talking, laughing, NAPPING! John couldn't get the grill cranked up in the rain so he made an assortment of chicken wings for us in the oven. Ahmad is a chicken FANATIC...remember <a href="http://kiwithekreator.blogspot.com/2011/07/do-you-ever-get-that-feeling.html">the page</a> I did as an ode to his seasoned fowl obsession??? Well, one of his favorite ways to eat it is swimming in hot sauce. A lot of places call them Buffalo Wings...we just call 'em HOT WINGS!!! We normally buy him a large bag from Wal-Mart for about $11. In the last month, that price has risen to almost $15! That, coupled with the fact that Wal-Mart had packs of chicken wings on sale last week prompted our experiment today. I mean, the sauce is WAAAY too easy to make for us to keep throwing money at the millionaire Waltons when Mahd is craving them! And did I mention that the teenaged <strike>disposal</strike> dude can eat an entire bag in TWO sittings???? YEAAAAAAH! So the hubbs did a large batch of wings (like close to forty) and left some unembellished (HOW YOU LIKE THAT, my scrappin' sisters???). He put BBQ sauce on some and made hot wings with the others. The guys had fries with their wings but I ate mine with a spinach leaf salad. They were DEFINITELY yummy for my tummy! Have you ever been in a situation where you KNOW one more bite will make your belly POP all over the furniture but your mouth is still watering from the yumminess you've just experienced???? YEAH...that's how I felt last night! I'm proud to say that I resisted...there's always today,right??? ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I still can't access my beloved Kreatorville (SIGH) but I'll survive! I've been busy playing with the September kit. I actually have three pages that I've finished...I just have to print the pictures to put on them and do the journaling. Is that weird...sometimes I design the page first and THEN stick pix, a few more embellishments and journaling on them. There's some GORGEOUS <a href="http://www.shimmerzpaints.com/enamelz">Fake Bake Shimmerz Enamelz</a> in the September kit! I haven't used embossing powder in YEARS! My issue is this: I love when an artist has used it and it's all thick and LUSCIOUS looking! And I didn't know how to achieve that effect...so I moved on to the next technique. Well, out of the blue <a href="http://draft.blogger.com/goog_84575201">my girl</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I see that the September Page Maps newsletter has gone live! 'Member <a href="http://kiwithekreator.blogspot.com/2011/09/just-awful.html">I was telling you</a> that I'm one of the featured artists this month? I was TOO excited to see my double 8.5x11 layout on this page!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I PROMISE you that I DID use the sketch to kreate it...even though you may not be able to see it! OH WELL!!! Becky told me to make the sketch my own...and ya KNOW I did! I'm obsessed with origami hearts right now so I thought the center of the life preserver we were photographed with was the perfect spot to stick one!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> for about FOUR years...glad I finally got to USE IT!! Here you can see the cluster of STUFF I <strike>threw</strike> loving placed on the left side</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I don't know WHAT was on my mind when I put the collage of these two pages together because I actually cropped the ENTIRE right side OFF! Here's the right page and a closeup</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">OH! I actually found the picture that was missing from THIS page...here's the revised version:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> (To me, it's just 100% better with those beautiful eyes staring back at you!!!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I HAVE to get some rest...I've gotten maybe 12 hours in the last three nights! I have layouts to finish today and a little painting to do...IF my husband can stand it! And of course...some chicken to eat!!!!</span></div>
Kiwi The Kreatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03136357721093616934noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002990754546856954.post-27482473083209548942011-09-01T21:24:00.000-07:002011-09-01T21:24:58.761-07:00Just AWFUL.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">It's bad enough that we're thinking about Katrina right now. Yeah...I KNOW it's been SIX years and other places have experienced weather disasters since then. BUT...when you don't have a hospital, WalMart, movie theater near your house...you can't HELP but think about the cause of these things not being around any more! I THOUGHT my focus would be on praying for those affected by Irene this week. But here we are...dealing with crap again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">When I awakened Monday morning, our house was filled with the smell of smoke. I went around smelling all the outlets but I couldn't figure out where it was coming from. This was about 7AM and I don't normally turn the TV on when it's just me and Kea (he watches TV in the back). I was SOO scared that I called my husband at work to tell him he might have to come home because something was on fire. That's when he told me about the marsh fires. When the little and I went out Tuesday I realized that the ENTIRE city looks like this</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> There's no escaping it. I could smell it in Wal-Mart; everyone in the Social Security office was coughing Tuesday because it was coming in through the vents. To make matters worse, we live about a mile and a half from where the fires are actually burning. Thank God John and Ahmad have awesome immune systems and haven't really been affected. The littlest has been plagued by congestion, coughing, vomiting and fever all week. There's no where that I can even take him to get him into clean air except almost 100 miles away! I've been coughing and looking at so much vomit all week has my belly feeling wonky. John saw somewhere that a vinegar and lemon mixture helps to dissipate the smoke smell. I placed a bowl of it in almost every room. Don't get it twisted...THAT crap doesn't smell like roses either. It helps though so I guess it's more like the lesser of two evils!!! It did rain today and should rain for the next few days</span> <span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">so prayerfully we can get back to normal next week! The teen's second football game is tomorrow. I doubt that the littlest and I will be able to go if the smoke is still thick...SUX!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">THEN I try to view Kreatorville's blog (kreativity.kreatorvillekraft.com) and I kept getting a "Server Not Found" error message...<i>wha???? </i>After several hours of back and forth I was told that the confusion should be cleared up in about five days...{{{SIGH}}}</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">has been posted. These are pix from my sister friend's 40th birthday celebration. I really loved being challenged by the combos...I'm sure I'll play along again soon!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Well, gotta make the donuts! NAH...but I DO need to sleep so I can get up early. I have a list of 73 items to finish before next month!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">...enjoying talking to/spending time with <a href="http://kiwithekreator.blogspot.com/2011/08/my-teen-is-back.html">the teen.</a></span> <span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">He just got an Iphone from his father so I've heard a LOT of "C'mon Ma!" in the last few weeks</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">*been playing around with party decor </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">My sister is getting married in October and we're celebrating my 40th in November. I was soo excited when Ray told me that she wants a vintage feel for her reception decor! Add to that the fact that our celebration colors are almost the same! I'm decorating Mason jars for her party and with a few changes, I'll use them the next month...can you say WINNING???</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">*Speaking of winning...<a href="http://cindyspagesintime.blogspot.com/">this sweetie peetie</a></span> <span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">has given me this</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">If you've never met Cindy...go on over! She is the CUTEST lil lady I've ever seen!!! To answer the twelve questions:</span><br />
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Favorite song: I love SOO many songs! One of my faves right now is </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I Give Myself Away by William McDowell</span><br />
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Favorite dessert: Oreo cookies WITH Lay's Original chips! Yep...TOGEEEEETHER!!!!</span><br />
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What wizzes you off at the moment?People who make promises which they don't keep! Just tell me "I MAY be able to" DON'T say you promise...TICKS ME OFF </span><br />
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My favorite pet: Somebody else's</span><br />
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Black or white? Both,please!!! </span><br />
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Biggest fear: Not using up every ounce of my kreativity!</span><br />
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Best feature: My kreativity!</span><br />
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Everyday attitude: Don't ever look back and regret that you didn't live each day to the fullest</span><br />
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What is perfection? Good food and good times with good folks</span><br />
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Guilty pleasure? Pinterest, scrapbooking</span><br />
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When you're upset. . . it shows all over my face!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">So, I have to give this award to six peeps who interest me and {{GASP}} they're not all scrapbookers!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><a href="http://creativegirlz.blogspot.com/">Charity</a> who has a beautiful blog design with beautiful pages displayed there!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><a href="http://www.scrappydoo-askings.blogspot.com/">Amy</a> who works like a ROCKET LAUNCHER to churn out beautiful kreations! </span></div>
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<a href="http://kidtropolis.wordpress.com/page/2/"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">kidtropolis</span></a><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">. They continuously inspire my desire to give my boys rooms like movie stars' kids!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><a href="http://pinterest./">Pinterest.</a> I'm continuously <strike>caught up and forget to feed my family</strike> inspired by this site!</span></div>
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<a href="http://myanaloglife.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Miche</span></a> <span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">who amazes me EVERY.TIME. with the versatility of her art!</span></div>
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<a href="http://designpardeux.com/"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Milla and Kahli. </span></a><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I don't know these ladies...I just ran across their blog yesterday. But I love their blog design and the CONTENT...these ladies can wring a thrift store DRY!!! Plus, I think they're beautiful (IDENTICAL TWINS!) and sweet as 7up cake!!! I've been so inspired by their decorating already!I guess they ACTUALLY count as two people, bringing my count to 7! Oh well...this IS my blog! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">If you can, check out these blogs and let me know if YOU think these ladies rock as much as I do! And thanx for the award, Cinds...love you, lil lady!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">*I FINALLY finished stenciling the walls in our bedroom and bathroom. The teen was soo amazed he asked me to do his walls too! I'm not sure I like ANYBODY enough to do more stenciling right now!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">*We've been celebrating a few birthdays. My niece</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">from the July kit! Remember you still have two days to crank out a page to participate in <a href="http://kreativity.kreatorvillekraft.com/2011/08/soooo-ms-charity.html">the challenge</a> and be in the running for a scrapbook.com gift card! C'MON...you can DO IT!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Today I'll be twisting the teen's hair...his dreds have to be FRESH for school tomorrow (ahhh...the life of a high school football player!!!) Afterwards, I'll do a little cleaning before turning in early. After my sister gets married in October, she and her husband will stay with us for a week. My goal for the next few weeks is to completely clean/decorate/organize before that time. I have a party and the holidays to prepare for at the end of the year and I want that to be my sole focus...pray for me PLEASE!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">The combo this week really lent itself to a boy page. And the inspiration picture just BEGGED me to scrap a beach picture!!! This shot was taken on a beach in Biloxi (Mississippi...I just LOVE spelling that really quickly!!!)about three years ago. Those stars? The envelope that the stamps are in when you leave the post office! You should REALLY go and visit the site! There are some VERY talented kreators over there...check 'em out!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">This page was inspired by <a href="http://platinumscraps.blogspot.com/2011/08/layout-challenge-week-1.html">the sketch last week</a>. Even though I normally do 12x12's for my and my husband's scrapbooks...I love the idea of switching it up and having different sizes all thrown in there together! And EVEN THOUGH my chin makes me look like Jay Leno's love child here, I love this picture SOO much because of my husband's amazing smile. This was taken early on in our relationship when he was still trying to impress me. Now I just get the "men don't smile" look most of the time! I also took advantage of the card sketch this week to kreate a card </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">for one of my classmates who just turned 40 a few weeks ago. That piece of patterned paper is actually one of my all times faves from <a href="http://seilifestyle.blogspot.com/">SEI</a>...I may cry when I use the last sheet! It has this AMAZING texture and beautiful shimmer to it...what were we talking about again? Seriously...go check out the challenges at Platinum Scraps; they're sure to get your mojo rolling...get cha motor runnin'...head out on the highway...lookin' for adven...it's like 1:30 in the morning...I can be crazy if I want to!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">My <a href="http://creativegirlz.blogspot.com/">Chary</a> threw down the gauntlet over at <a href="http://kreativity.kreatorvillekraft.com/2011/08/soooo-ms-charity.html">Kreatorville</a>...she challenged us to scrap vintage pix this month. I...ummm...<strike>stole</strike> <i>borrowed </i>a few from my mom...one when I was 1 1/2...one of me at seven and the third with my sisters (I was ten). You have to go over to Kreatorville and check that one out...our expressions have always made me laugh! If you decide to take Char's challenge and/or work with the sketch this month, there's a linky tool at the end of <a href="http://kreativity.kreatorvillekraft.com/2011/08/soooo-ms-charity.html">this post</a>...share a peeky to your projects there and you could win a scrapbook.com gift card!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I was JUST telling Mahd that we would go to the thrift store tomorrow after we go to Wal-Mart. When the baby boy and I stopped in last week, I was able to get a Dean Koontz hardcover that I never owned for $3. I have a literary crush on him but most of my books were lost...so I'm LOVIN' being able to rebuild my collection with some $3 finds! I also got a few baroque frames that I'll spray for the living room wall once we decide on the color. The boys get soo excited about visiting thrift stores because they know they're about to score new books! I have no problem checking out the books and home goods...it's the clothes that I just DON'T have the patience to go through!!! I'm not a secondhand snob...I feel the same way in Dillard's...Macy's...I don't have the patience! My Mom looks at me like I was switched at birth because I will online shop...just no in-store visits for me, thank you very much! She can stay in one store for HOURS...<i>who <b>does </b>that??? </i>Well, when I visited the SEI blog a few minutes ago, guess what I found? <a href="http://www.fortheloveofblogtherapy.com/">Sarah Larsen</a></span> <span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">is guest blogging for them this week and she hasn't talked about paper crafting yet...<i>just thrifting!!! </i>Click on the SEI link to see the cuteness her and her kids have scored from thrift and secondhand stores. Will I woosah and check those racks tomo...umm...later today? {{{I GUESS!!!!}}}</span>Kiwi The Kreatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03136357721093616934noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002990754546856954.post-89925191175802351482011-07-31T20:53:00.000-07:002011-07-31T20:53:04.738-07:00It feels good to know...<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">...that there are people who understand and support what you're going through. In addition to the great comments from you, I had the Man's support. I was typing the <a href="http://kiwithekreator.blogspot.com/2011/07/every-year-for-past-five.html">last post</a></span> <span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">when he walked in the back to check on the littlest. I finished the post...burst into tears and the Man walked back into the room simultaneously. I fully expected to hear, "What the <i>hell????</i>" but he walked over, hugged me and asked, "Are you thinking about your Dad?" Now THAT'S love!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I decided to keep myself EXTRA busy this past week to push away the blues. In addition to projects the hubbs and I are completing around the house, I found a FEW minutes to get kreative! <a href="http://sassafras.typepad.com/">Sassafras'</a> design team sponsored a few "we're at CHA but don't forget about us" challenges and I did pages for a few (of COURSE I forgot to post these in time to be in the running for any PRIZES but it's all about the PROCESS...<i>right???)</i>:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> of myself and my aunt last summer. I LOVE when I'm able to get an older picture put away in the books! I'm not sure if this counts as focusing on the journaling since I still added circles and STUFF around the page!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">We don't visit the same vacation spots every summer; we don't always complete the same activities. But two things are GA-RON-TEED to happen EVERY summer: the Man steps up his barbecue'in and as SOON as they're in season we partake of the crawfish! We love to eat...don't judge! BONUS: I got to utilize one of the handmade embellishments from the <a href="http://kreativity.kreatorvillekraft.com/">July Kreatorville kit</a>...SCORE!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><a href="http://sassafras.typepad.com/sassafras/2011/07/michelles-cha-challenge.html">Michelle</a> challenged us with a color palette which inspired me to scrap these older pix of Kea:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I found an entire pack of these 35mm pix while transforming my studio into Kea's bedroom a few weeks back. I'm glad because a lot of Noonie's baby pictures were lost on an old computer. I LOVED-ED that bouncer when he was a wee tot because it knocked him out ALL.THE.TIME. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I also scrapped some of those same 35mm pictures using the last palette from <a href="http://colorcombosgalore.ning.com/">Color Combos Galore</a>. I started off making the base of the page first...I didn't know what pictures I would use. But when I looked at those sweet cheeks and little teeth peeking out...I couldn't resist scrapping my baby boy. Hence the girly colors!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I'm not too pleased with myself right now. There's actually a front facing shot that I left room for where you can SEE those little teeth...you know...so you get the full effect of all his cuteness! But, I've misplaced it! Guess I'll repost this once I add it to the page!</span><br />
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<a href="http://famleafour.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">My twin </span></a><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">is giving birth to a little girl right now so I used those same colors for a congrats card</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I'm practicing my card-making skills. I have a sister who'll be married in October, another whose having a baby in February and 90% of my friends will turn 40 this year...lots and LOTS of cards in my future!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I have a cool post up at <a href="http://kreativity.kreatorvillekraft.com/2011/07/do-you.html">Kreatorville </a>on a stash-busting technique I use a lot on my kreations. In other scrappy news, my <a href="http://masterfulscrapbookdesign.com/2011/07/1107-program/">webinar has finally been posted</a> on Masterful Scrapbook Design...you should really consider signing up to hear all my wit, charm and sage advice! (I'm a comedian...what can I say???) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I've saved my best scrappy news for last: <a href="http://debbitscraps.blogspot.com/">Debbi</a> just announced that I'm the August Guest Designer over at Color Combos Galore...say <i>whaaaat???? </i>I'm soo excited...I've already finished two of the pages! Here's a sneaky peaky for <i>you:</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I'm hot as a cat on a tin roof right now!!! Keep it coming, Lord...<i>keep it coming!!!</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span>Kiwi The Kreatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03136357721093616934noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002990754546856954.post-70431402938689043252011-07-23T01:25:00.000-07:002011-07-23T01:25:11.413-07:00Every year for the past five...<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">THIS has been the hardest week I endure all year. My Daddy was born on July 15th...and <a href="http://kiwithekreator.blogspot.com/2010/03/death.html">died</a> on July 22, 2006. Normally, I'm soo down during this week. We couldn't really fully enjoy Daddy's last birthday because we KNEW his time was short. I start working myself up in June, dreading what's coming. But...it didn't happen this year. I mean, I still felt down in June. I always think about the fact that Daddy never got to meet my husband or youngest son so every time they (or the older two boys) accomplish anything my first thought is: Daddy would have LOVED to see that! As I type this...is the first time I've cried this week. My Daddy was an awesome artist and I always think about how he would be the only one of my family (beside my husband) to truly celebrate my kreative accomplishments. Before this week arrived I prayed: "God...please...give me strength to focus on the positive during Daddy's week so that I'm not soo down in the dumps. In Jesus' name...Amen." And it worked! I had soo much goodness in my life this week that I only smiled when I thought of my Daddy...thought of how proud he would be of me. When I read this comment from <a href="http://debbiehodge.com/">Debbie</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">It hit me...HE DID IT!!! My Daddy had a lil discussion with God: "Say Big G...I was thinking: why don't we give Face (what Daddy called me!) a break this year. Nothing but goodness this week." And that's why I've had such a blessed week. Thank you, Daddy...and God for such a spectacular week...and for helping me hold back the tears until it was over </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">The webinar yesterday started off like a train wreck but I ended up feeling like a lottery winner!!! I was SOOO nervous and my heart was pounding. I've never done this before and I was worried...would something go wrong...of COURSE it did!!! I put the headset that Debbie sent to me on top of our freezer to make sure the littlest boy didn't destroy it before I got the chance to USE them...I thought that would be the crux of my problems...<i>FOOL!!</i> My discussion was scheduled to begin at 8:30...my computer froze at 8:05. Hubbs and I decided that he would take the boys and leave for an hour. When the technical difficulties began, I <s>demanded</s> asked the teen boy to stay home to be my audio technician...needless to say, I was NOT his friend! He wanted to go with Dad to do <i>something fun. </i>WhatEVER, dude!!! Have you ever watched Royal Pains? This doctor lost his job because he chose to save a (<i>nobody</i>) kid over a billionaire hospital board member and his brother encourages him to become a concierge doctor. Hank's the doctor and Evan's the brother. Well, when Evan and Hank are having a phone conversation that Evan doesn't particularly want to hear, he pretends that there's static on the line and he's going through a tunnel. Well, that's what Debbie sounded like. I had to laugh to keep from crying. First MY computer and then Mahd's? God WHY have You to led me to this webinar with faulty equipment??? <i> </i>When Debbie said, "You can just call in"...well, I REALLY heard angels singing. I was having a good time...explaining my techniques to people who really care...<i>and then the pages we were discussing disappeared from the screen. </i>I pray EVERY day, people...mostly for patience. I have LOTS of love and empathy...which I OBVIOUSLY exchanged for patience! At this point, my chest started tightening up and I almost started hyperventilating! It's a good thing I've looked at those pages about a thousand times over the last few months and I could see them in my sleep because I was able to visualize the elements she was asking about until Mahd was able to unfreeze his screen. I really enjoyed it a GREAT deal!!! I made a few new scrappy pals...what UP, <a href="http://somethingaboutmaryc.blogspot.com/">Mary??</a><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"> </span>Get those HATS ready for our pictures in Vegas!!!</span> <span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">And <a href="http://michigirl74.blogspot.com/">Tams</a> and I laughed but not so much that <a href="http://debbiehodge.typepad.com/unexpected_destination/">Debbie</a> won't ask me to come back...right, Debbie? PLEEEEASE??? I want to share a few (or SEVEN!) of the pages that I kreated especially for Masterful Scrappers:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I HAD TO share this page first (and separately!) because (in my humble opinion) it's the best one I've kreated lately. Kea broke my Daddy's glasses and then cheerfully walked up to me to SHOW me that he broke them! God was with him THAT day, because the idea for this page IMMEDIATELY popped into my head and I was too excited about kreating to choke him! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Those are some GORGEOUS young men! (This is my space...I can gush if I wanna!!!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">The "One with the 'Fro" page is another that came together rather quickly. The picture on the left is of me and my Daddy Ernest in front of our church on Easter Sunday when I was 7. When we took a picture together in the SAME SPOT this year, I knew that I had to scrap them together! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I REALLY enjoyed this webinar and hope I inspired some artists (OTHER than <a href="http://michigirl74.blogspot.com/2011/07/mini-album-for-my-niece.html">Tami</a> who MIGHT just buy stock in Sharpie!!!) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">And it MUST still be <a href="http://kiwithekreator.blogspot.com/2011/07/do-you-ever-get-that-feeling.html">rainin' on me</a>!!!</span> <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">I participated in <a href="http://colorcombosgalore.ning.com/forum/topics/200th-anniversary-blog-hop-sig">Color Combos Galore blog hop </a>a few days ago and when I logged on yesterday I saw that I won a set of handmade butterflies from <a href="http://kellyrholbrook.blogspot.com/2011/07/butterfly-embellishment-winner.html">Kelly</a>!!! I PROMISED her that I wouldn't hoard them so I'll show some kreations using them soon! THEN, I find out that my page had been chosen as the gallery fave on Color Combos on the 19th!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">AND an email today saying the same page has been added to the Featured Pages gallery!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">(one of my FAVORITE older pages had been pinned!!!) and I got a message from <a href="http://onescrappydoctor.blogspot.com/">Natty </a>saying, "Congrats on being featured in the <a href="http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/?source=camsn">Two Peas</a> newsletter!" Wait...<i>WHA...??? </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><i>HUHN...</i>MIGHT NOT be such a bad time to try out for <a href="http://americancrafts.typepad.com/">this team</a>...you know, strike while the iron's hot!!!<i> </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Also, I received a blog award from my main chica, <a href="http://poconopam.blogspot.com/">Pam</a>! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">So I've been instructed to thank the person who gave the award to me, tell you 8 things about me and pass this to seven others! Thank you <a href="http://poconopam.blogspot.com/">my sister </a>...you know I love you like Hot Tamales!!! And speaking of Hot Tamales, that's fact number one!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">1. They are my favorite <i>EVA </i>candy!!! I would eat them when I was</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"> pregnant with my middle and little boys and I could smell the </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"> cinnamon in my breast milk...I thought that was the <i>coolest!!!</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"><i> </i>(Don't worry...I tasted it to make sure I didn't burn the </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"><i> </i>kids' mouths!!!)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">2. No matter WHAT I DO...what I'm feeling is written all over my</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"> my face! I try SOO hard to disguise it...especially when I'm</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"> thinking "UGH!" but it doesn't work!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">3. I always wished my first name was Kelly. In elementary school</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"> I would write my name as "Keandra Rachelle Kelly Theresa </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"> Perkins" (Theresa is my confirmation name...I started out </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"> as a good Catholic school girl!) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">4. My favorite color is red. Maybe that's why I have a jones </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"> for Hot Tamales...<i>hmmmm</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">5. I always wanted daughters. I bought all girl clothes with son</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"> one and cried as I exchanged them. I bought SOME girl clothes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"> with son two and DIDN'T cry when I exchanged them. I bought </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"> some girl clothes with son three. Then, I got a teenaged </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"> stepdaughter. I <i>happily </i>skipped to the store to exchange the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"> girl clothes. And just like that...I was cured of <i>EVA </i>wanting</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"> another vagina to reside in my house. Sorry...just sayin'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">6. I'm EXTREMELY sensitive. I cried while watching America's Got</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"> Talent the other day because the homeless dancer made it </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"> through to the semi-finals</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">7. I <i>always </i>root for the underdog (<i>see number 6)</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">8. I love <i>HARD. </i>If I'm down for you there's almost NOTHING I </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"><i> </i>wouldn't do to see you happy. But if you cross me...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">I actually have fun doing those "getting-to-know me" posts! And I have seven ladies who ABSOLUTELY deserve this award:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">2. <a href="http://onescrappydoctor.blogspot.com/">Natty</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">3. <a href="http://michigirl74.blogspot.com/">Tami</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">4. <a href="http://cindyspagesintime.blogspot.com/">Cinds</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">5. <a href="http://delectabledesigns-chalesek.blogspot.com/">Chal</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">6. <a href="http://draft.blogger.com/%09%20%20%20%20%20%20http://www.miscrappyvidaloca.blogspot.com">Laura</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">7. <a href="http://myanaloglife.blogspot.com/">Miche</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">And I'll ask that you spread some love: click on each name to be taken to that chica's spot. Be nice...leave a comment! And tell 'em Keandra Rachelle Kelly Theresa Perkins Willis sent ya!!!</span><br />
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Kiwi The Kreatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03136357721093616934noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002990754546856954.post-86990021152805264042011-07-19T00:02:00.000-07:002011-07-19T00:03:41.639-07:00Do you ever get that feeling...<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">...that when it rains it pours? I don't mean in a Katrina-sweeping-away-lives rain. I mean a warm, gentle "wanna-put-on-my-rain-boots-and-play-in-a-puddle rain. So, I logged into Facebook the other day and saw the following poem on my son's wall:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">One day when I get to your kingdom</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">and finally understand the true meaning of freedom,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I will only have one question to ask</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Please allow me to look at my childhood past</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">to finally and truly see</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">that the truth will set you free</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">and that evil is only within the mind</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">that we must leave the faulty errors behind</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">for when we see Your rod</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">we know it is You, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">our only hero,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">God.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I like it. So I asked who wrote it and he responded, "me". I am SOO proud of my kreative kids!!! I love that he said it "just came to me and I had to write it down!" and I was INSTANTLY inspired to <strike>scrap</strike> document this! The current challenge at <a href="http://colorcombosgalore.ning.com/forum/topics/color-combo-challenge-200">Color Combos Galore</a> was the perfect palette for me to quickly complete this layout:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">This is the one I made for Mahd to keep...I'm still working on ours. He smiled when he saw it today...I don't know if that really means anything since he smiles when you LOOK at him! I also happened to visit <a href="http://sassafras.typepad.com/">Sassafras'</a> blog and saw that the July challenge is to mix and match different Sass lines. RIGHT UP MY ALLEY!!! Those letters on the page above? They're Sassafras circa 1914!!! I exaggerate but they ARE at least five years old! I've been doing really well with using my stash this year and letter stickers for journaling helps me out quite a bit! My goal is to attend summer <a href="https://www.craftandhobby.org/eweb/DynamicPage.aspx?WebKey=3164C54F-A778-40E9-9A29-098EEB73C70A">CHA</a> next year with a clean slate! I mean, I have some papers and embellies that I'm just stocked up on (like Scenic Route graph papers and alphabet stickers!) But I wanna do away with the stuff I'm HOARDING! Someone else can use them and I can use the SPACE! I'll get off my soapbox now and show you the page I made:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> This picture was taken during one of Mahd's football practices. I almost always take the camera because I never know what memories I might capture! This particular day, Kea had tried several times to run out on the field and join the practice and I kept reeling him back! I guess he wore himself out (it WAS about 95 degrees!) and sat down on my lap in submission and I pounced with the cam! I LOVE messy pages so this really makes me happy! I just saw that Sass has a few challenges going on this week while they're away at CHA so maybe I'll get to play some more with them...IF I get two minutes to rub together!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">The <a href="http://kreativity.kreatorvillekraft.com/2011/07/its-time-to-show-you.html">July kit</a> has been revealed over at Kreatorville (go SEE!!!)and two of the pages I completed were featured in the post. But, this kit inspired me so much that I actually did about TWENTY pages, some cards AND some home decor items! I know having a trillion pix from <a href="http://kiwithekreator.blogspot.com/2011/06/i-cant-believe.html">the Man's birthday party </a>inspired me and I did a few 8x8's for his book:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">But I just also loved the papers and colors SOO much! <a href="http://crate.typepad.com/cratepaper/">Crate Paper </a>ALWAYS makes me swoon and the Campy Trails line by <a href="http://americancrafts.typepad.com/studio/">American Crafts</a>...ahh, the MASCULINITY of it...LOVE! Coupled with the AWESOME handmade <a href="http://kreativity.kreatorvillekraft.com/2011/07/this-lady.html">Aptly Kreative</a> embellishment for the July kit they're PERFECT for this Mahd page:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> My son LOVES chicken! It's kinda like Bubba from Forrest Gump with fowl instead of shrimp. He'll eat it any way; he'll eat it any day. He'll eat it on bread or standing on his head. It's late...the Dr. Seuss comes out in me! I actually took these pix one day to time him and he finished EVERYTHING on his plate in THIRTY ONE MINUTES! <i>DAAAYYYYNG!!!! </i>Dude is serious about his chicken! I'm glad I was able to use those corrugated Rusty Pickle numbers too. I love them...<i>a lot</i>...but since I scrap mostly 8.5x11, they tend to overwhelm most pages I do! I also got to use bits and pieces from vintage Kreatorville kits so this page makes me REALLY happy!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I'm soo excited but NERVOUS about tonight! <a href="http://kiwithekreator.blogspot.com/2011/06/my-husband-turned.html">Remember when</a> I told you that I was asked to participate in Masterful Scrapbook Design's July webinars? Well, my show is scheduled for tonight (Tuesday, 19 July) at 9:30 EST...which is 8:30 my (Central Standard) time. You can go <a href="http://masterfulscrapbookdesign.com/subscribe-now/">HERE</a> to subscribe to the webinar. It's really an awesome deal: for $12.50 you have access to my webinar as well as the other three teachers for July (Celeste Smith, Vee Jennings and Lynnette Penacho) as WELL AS a free 12 lesson e-class!!! I mean, I'm excited about dissecting my work with like minded individuals but what if I choke...<i>literally.</i> What if all I can remember is "Hi my name is Kean". Debbie will ask, "so on this page, what inspired you to tear the paper in that manner?" and I'll be like <i>giggle, giggle </i>"did I tell you my name is Kean?" It's just that I kinda have stage fright around peeps I don't know. <i>Here's my confession:</i> when I was a little girl, I had an EXTREMELY raspy voice. The doctor told my parents that when I was learning to speak, I obviously got a cold and started speaking with my <i>false folds </i>instead of the true vocal cords. (Did you know you have false folds? I didn't either. And this has been your medical lesson for the day...you're welcome!) So I was teased a <i>lot </i>when I was younger. My Daddy would call me Whispers which would have been cute if my classmates and the dude I had a crush on when I was six weren't telling me I sounded like a man. Don't worry...I'm TOO cute to still be bothered by what some idiots said to me in 1865! I'm not that little girl...dude, if God allows...I'll be forty in a few months! It's just that I always get that twinge when I have to talk to people for the first time like, <i>what will they think???</i> I'm sure it'll be fine because <a href="http://michigirl74.blogspot.com/">this lady</a> (who makes me cry <i>real tears </i>when I laugh and <a href="http://scrappydoo-askings.blogspot.com/">this chica</a> (who I happen to think is sweet as honey) will be there for support so I should be FINE...<i>riiight???? </i>I'll be back tomorrow to share some of the pages I kreated especially for Masterful Scrapbook Design!</span>Kiwi The Kreatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03136357721093616934noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002990754546856954.post-49175765222709082362011-07-01T16:19:00.000-07:002011-07-02T12:17:09.339-07:00The $5 Buffet.<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">No...not Chinese! Though I <i>could </i>go for some steaming won tons right now...I digress! I mean buffet...like</span><br />
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Whether it was from the beauty of this buffet</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTorU5rYmjbUICoMPWj-gkx3dmxEosgq30AFHRySQ0n99LzhnyTo0xF_6ftJ2ZaTZmBkNDKXqAvAXuEQXCWvhClE6YWtiouavsWnM5ikSYT7EXrQxgFflQC2vO0ShVa9hjjIGNXfVhPW8/s1600/DSC_1861.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTorU5rYmjbUICoMPWj-gkx3dmxEosgq30AFHRySQ0n99LzhnyTo0xF_6ftJ2ZaTZmBkNDKXqAvAXuEQXCWvhClE6YWtiouavsWnM5ikSYT7EXrQxgFflQC2vO0ShVa9hjjIGNXfVhPW8/s320/DSC_1861.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="sds-list"></div><div class="sds-list"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> or all the dust emanating from it...I don't know. And when Ms. Annie (yeah, baybee...I'm on a first name basis with her...<i style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">what????</i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">) told me, "Oh, baybee...you can have that old thing for $5!"...I had to restrain myself because I almost shoved the money at her and pushed her down on the way out! I'm glad I had the 5'11" teen with me because it took all three of us to get this into the back of my truck! I had to rush home like the wind to get started on it! See, I have that "</span><i style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">startnotfinish" </i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">illness and I couldn't stand to see the disappointment in hubbs' eyes when he saw another incomplete project! I opened it up and found the bottom was wrapped in this YUMMY Christmas wrapping paper from 1852 and there were two white wire shelves</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfVgHOTE4UTY7m6NLhUFtWCQbzPhjr7u2tVJpunwvQx5D9YSz7Xe4cs1nfsVBxyQZrTlzlXeC6-l1jHdGwhhf393ezUYrowYL94jxPPlFNhgOC6FRSuoMkr-sW2LDnt3A5id_SlrZs8gI/s1600/DSC_1862.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfVgHOTE4UTY7m6NLhUFtWCQbzPhjr7u2tVJpunwvQx5D9YSz7Xe4cs1nfsVBxyQZrTlzlXeC6-l1jHdGwhhf393ezUYrowYL94jxPPlFNhgOC6FRSuoMkr-sW2LDnt3A5id_SlrZs8gI/s400/DSC_1862.JPG" width="268" /></a></div><div class="sds-list"></div><div class="sds-list"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> (which I bleached and placed in another cabinet to organize our canned goods). I tried to remove the hardware which was actually STAPLED on and I had a mishap</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHFCgeAB71BAT8YPJvTo26JejcFW4eIZbiqumrKBto5uhmU2uHdMWUwkNWHL74ocaFQYZQYYEcUfUuIb8Kogblf-1fW29Zqgpo6tyT9x1PRUEgj8_k2JP3UphHOrQOa5XS4HZoI4UN2Qg/s1600/DSC_1866.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHFCgeAB71BAT8YPJvTo26JejcFW4eIZbiqumrKBto5uhmU2uHdMWUwkNWHL74ocaFQYZQYYEcUfUuIb8Kogblf-1fW29Zqgpo6tyT9x1PRUEgj8_k2JP3UphHOrQOa5XS4HZoI4UN2Qg/s400/DSC_1866.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="sds-list"></div><div class="sds-list" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">What's sad is that I'm used to accidents like this...if you look closely at the tip of my index finger you'll see ANOTHER cut just starting to heal. UMMM...so IXNAY on the EMOVERAY! I decided to just cut around those pieces with my paintbrush and have a wipe handy for quick clean ups!!!</span></div><div class="sds-list" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"></div><div class="sds-list" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">I didn't prime it...'cause I lost the primer and didn't want to explain to the hubbs why I needed more so soon. Remember when Valspar gave out free samples a few months ago? I got a couple of VINTAGE GREY (EB48-1) and it only took one full jar plus a DAB from another to achieve this:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi64tFhadPQbh4nIZ2BN4P2abYmtuTzlscM6WjfKTT38VHcg4HSXun555bSYSuQOYMkMU22N4Ox0TsLNLciJM-DfqVR8lrYiPk-UYzWqOE_1m0JVQwZ6zdSRrt6SpVw4WjGj7OTmnGHqwY/s1600/DSC_1869.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi64tFhadPQbh4nIZ2BN4P2abYmtuTzlscM6WjfKTT38VHcg4HSXun555bSYSuQOYMkMU22N4Ox0TsLNLciJM-DfqVR8lrYiPk-UYzWqOE_1m0JVQwZ6zdSRrt6SpVw4WjGj7OTmnGHqwY/s400/DSC_1869.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="sds-list" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hubbs was even wowed...I added storage to our kitchen for $5 and a LITTLE BLOOD and sweat? Who's the woman??? 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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> had a birthday at the beginning of the month and I had the BEST time pulling together a celebration for him...because he said not to! There are people who do soo much for everyone else and never expect anything for themselves. My husband is that kinda dude...and I appreciate his selfless spirit. So, every opportunity I get to celebrate him I do. We had a small party at my parents' house and I made mustache props for the pix...here's the littlest boy trying them out for me:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDYNqUBI2d18xQ_NV6MZ6fWVprKZtBVFtPrdkMxIkDz-Qp8mj6CLzzLzP8mKmdP1y81CZ0Pz9Pi1zVYDzQtfIVivx_0-jE7ujNFPiACyXpNps5f_1qxGhHa97C-mOmvW6odaQyC_VRF94/s1600/Kea+trying+mustache.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDYNqUBI2d18xQ_NV6MZ6fWVprKZtBVFtPrdkMxIkDz-Qp8mj6CLzzLzP8mKmdP1y81CZ0Pz9Pi1zVYDzQtfIVivx_0-jE7ujNFPiACyXpNps5f_1qxGhHa97C-mOmvW6odaQyC_VRF94/s400/Kea+trying+mustache.jpg" width="292" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">One of his godmothers took Kea to a kids' party for a couple of hours to give me some time to set up</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgurx3P8eTISNE26BITCWSoMM1zsEi7H__OZySaP91bp2XPJUuqSTaDcxHdUZeuw4mnCujS_gmPc3huX2HJQ26-hm3T2Rhne96aCot73tUpH0p9McCwq1P6sd8mZL2R-PjHTmyoKl2vkH4/s1600/Nanny+Dee+and+Kea.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgurx3P8eTISNE26BITCWSoMM1zsEi7H__OZySaP91bp2XPJUuqSTaDcxHdUZeuw4mnCujS_gmPc3huX2HJQ26-hm3T2Rhne96aCot73tUpH0p9McCwq1P6sd8mZL2R-PjHTmyoKl2vkH4/s400/Nanny+Dee+and+Kea.jpg" width="255" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">We had some yummies</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguN37ODI1x2opMYKM6sXOF-8yv8Xvj5SxTWml7KXcqgSVTTIuMceSIVn49ssV4mACGJ0DUOKwNcDT-PooeRDlXDisykOk_gFjJmRWOuB5ZCx0_Bk_hPyEUTTaNyVUtklm8uLeL3Uz024U/s1600/DSC_1990.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguN37ODI1x2opMYKM6sXOF-8yv8Xvj5SxTWml7KXcqgSVTTIuMceSIVn49ssV4mACGJ0DUOKwNcDT-PooeRDlXDisykOk_gFjJmRWOuB5ZCx0_Bk_hPyEUTTaNyVUtklm8uLeL3Uz024U/s400/DSC_1990.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span id="goog_283136096"></span><span id="goog_283136097"></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">My husband had friends drive in from out of town to celebrate with him and a few of my friends and family joined us. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxehRcHLC0jlDle3pgl4LYMZVgSDEsJdgce5lVOH3x1xCAH4nW0rnZtmh8GlotHKaw7X-BAbkGyAggZ55qo0OkoWNlGKcn1smRFY82zO-kNBatrMHtDu7XyPTyLXXyTvfbLaV4nke7R6U/s1600/DSC_2052.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxehRcHLC0jlDle3pgl4LYMZVgSDEsJdgce5lVOH3x1xCAH4nW0rnZtmh8GlotHKaw7X-BAbkGyAggZ55qo0OkoWNlGKcn1smRFY82zO-kNBatrMHtDu7XyPTyLXXyTvfbLaV4nke7R6U/s400/DSC_2052.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">OK...now we're off to celebrate Mahd's day!!!</span><i> </i></span> </div>Kiwi The Kreatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03136357721093616934noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002990754546856954.post-90776733804392398852011-06-27T12:12:00.000-07:002011-06-27T12:12:56.753-07:00There's just never...<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">...any rest for the weary mommy!!! About two weeks ago, one of my aunties had surgery. John and I visited her the day after and I promised to check on her again in a few days. A couple of days later, Kea had a dentist's appointment so I decide to get the most outta my gas tank and combine trips. After we left the dentist and took care of a few errands, we dropped Ahmad at football practice and utilized those two hours to visit my aunt. We sat with her for about an hour and a half and went back to the field. Mahd still wasn't finished when we arrived so I settled in to talk to my sister in Texas while we waited. Kea climbed on my lap and I remember telling my sister that he felt like a hot box. Now, I wasn't alarmed because his body temperature is naturally high (hence one of his nicknames...<i><b>HOT DADDY!</b></i>)and it WAS 100 degrees out that day. Plus, he never stopped playing...he wasn't lethargic like you'd expect. Well, we got home and he was zonked out and I just thought he was TOO CUTE so of COURSE I snapped a picture:</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQAf4MCSLbZnzpdJpNio7mkguf0mgn7DlqZtaWph9sFQzCyvu2aGfuvmYSCjN9fkZ7g0MU6Y4lvMlDBS_37ny5wWEcBWfGpyz4ucnveImeGoGqWvgc4tAac_3a26IZTSMyUIINIBhvbtE/s1600/DSC_2268.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQAf4MCSLbZnzpdJpNio7mkguf0mgn7DlqZtaWph9sFQzCyvu2aGfuvmYSCjN9fkZ7g0MU6Y4lvMlDBS_37ny5wWEcBWfGpyz4ucnveImeGoGqWvgc4tAac_3a26IZTSMyUIINIBhvbtE/s400/DSC_2268.JPG" width="265" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> Well, we got inside and he was still warm so I stripped him naked...that's how he normally rolls anyway! After we had been here for about twenty minutes, he climbed into my lap and he was STILL a hot box and <i>I knew</i>. He either caught something from one of the kids at the dentist's office or at the hospital and his temperature was 102.8. So, we did what we normally do and alternated Tylenol and Motrin. He never stopped playing but he woke up a couple of nights soo congested and once his nose was running all over the pillow...<i>niice!!! </i>But, the fever subsided and we were just dealing with the congestion and cough. Well, I fell asleep on the sofa Friday night and John awakened me around 3am with Kea in his arms and said, "Listen". When Keanohn coughed he LITERALLY sounded like a puppy...or a seal barking. It <i>scared the HIZZIE </i>outta me. I took it for as long as I could...about 30 minutes...and then we packed him into the truck and drove to Children's Hospital...where the doctor told us he had croup. </span><br />
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<i><b>Croup</b> (or <b>laryngotracheobronchitis</b>) is a respiratory condition that is usually triggered by an acute viral infection of the upper airway. The infection leads to swelling inside the throat, which interferes with normal breathing and produces the classical symptoms of a "barking" <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cough" title="Cough">cough</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stridor" title="Stridor">stridor</a>, and <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoarseness" title="Hoarseness">hoarseness</a>. It may produce mild, moderate, or severe symptoms, which often worsen at night. It is often treated with a single dose of oral <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steroids" title="Steroids">steroids</a>; occasionally <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epinephrine" title="Epinephrine">epinephrine</a> is used in more severe cases.</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">The doctor told us he has a very contagious virus which brought on the croup. So, we've kept him inside as much as possible which means...<i>of course</i></span><i> <span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">...</span></i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Mommy is all caught up! I HATE being sick...especially because I'm in the middle of painting our house and reorganizing. It's a good thing that I recognize how busy the devil is when you're trying to accomplish something so I just keep pushing on!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> is my latest project for them)and of COURSE <a href="http://kreativity.kreatorvillekraft.com/"><i>HERE</i></a>. I haven't forgotten that I promised to share pix of my <a href="http://kiwithekreator.blogspot.com/2011/06/my-husband-turned.html">hubb's birthday celebration</a> but it'll have to wait a little longer...Mahd's birthday is this week and I have another celebration to plan...told ya...<i>no rest!!!!</i></span>Kiwi The Kreatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03136357721093616934noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002990754546856954.post-8356817889208940512011-06-06T01:41:00.000-07:002011-06-06T01:41:14.069-07:00My husband turned...<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">...45 on the 2nd. As I do with for every holiday or event, I pulled out my craft yummies and made a card for him from his wife as well as from Kea. When my boys were babies I took great joy in putting the pen in my right hand and writing messages "from them". But, John told me for Mother's Day he wrote a message on a sheet of paper and Kea wrote it inside my card himself. So, I decided to do the same for Daddy's card. I gave Kea this</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">In scrappy news, I got an email last month where <a href="http://www.debbiehodge.typepad.com/">THIS lady</a> asked if she could interest me in teaching an online webinar. UMMM...dude? SERIOUSLY??? For future reference if anyone out there has similar endeavors for me you DON'T NEED TO ASK!!! Send me an email telling me what's due and WHEN...I am SOOO there!!! I'm pretty excited to see my name all up on the Get It Scrapped site </span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG3wrVmmAUREPyv0iqXn3HZmjY6HlQjKHBu-cE_v9nTAmVsAqGrei52MtkAu9nCmwdKS7cqYbVbct_1p8FOAxi1yrWxgSTLNRYS06dmbKIuWo8eUS2wgDgP5TS_BNry32_NEQ4qu_Mzbs/s1600/The+In+Laws.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG3wrVmmAUREPyv0iqXn3HZmjY6HlQjKHBu-cE_v9nTAmVsAqGrei52MtkAu9nCmwdKS7cqYbVbct_1p8FOAxi1yrWxgSTLNRYS06dmbKIuWo8eUS2wgDgP5TS_BNry32_NEQ4qu_Mzbs/s400/The+In+Laws.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">which were both inspired by the current sketch at <a href="http://creativescrappers.blogspot.com/2011/05/sketch-154.html">Creative Scrappers</a>. The first page is just me and the littlest...doin' what we do when we're home alone!! The second page is a few of the pictures that we took Easter Sunday. My husband and I always joke about our "OUTlaws!" so I thought I'd scrap about the GOOD ONES!!! Since it's National Scrappy Day AND tomorrow is Mother's Day maybe I'll get some stuff DONE!!! What's on your plate for this weekend?</span>Kiwi The Kreatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03136357721093616934noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002990754546856954.post-27071029181532563792011-05-01T22:46:00.000-07:002011-05-01T22:46:18.112-07:00I'm sure you've already heard but...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">...how do you feel about this man's death? </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>God, please give me the strength to NOT KILL THIS PLANT. In Jesus' name...Amen.</i></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i> </i></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i> </i></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i> </i></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">John and I decided to take the littlest to see</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> around!!! I must admit...I love children's movies but this was one I thought I would just tolerate so that Kea would have a good time but I REALLY enjoyed it! Like I'd buy it on DVD enjoyed it! And the theatre was remodeled after Katrina so we stopped for a few shots</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Speaking of which: I pulled the older two boys' baskets out of the closet </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I love holidays and celebrations but sometimes they can be SOO stressful!!! The next extravaganza will be for my husband's birthday in June when he turns 45. I'm working on everything right now so that I'm not pulling my hair out!!! What are you looking forward to? </span>Kiwi The Kreatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03136357721093616934noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002990754546856954.post-35058888740553378222011-04-13T11:24:00.000-07:002011-04-13T11:24:44.624-07:00I always try to warn you...<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">...when the post may be long or have no pictures. Consider yourselves warned because this is both!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">When my husband and I first got together, he would tell me horror stories about being dragged to court for more child support on a woman's every whim: OHHH...you've gotten a new girlfriend? I need more money! You bought a new tire for your car? You must have too much spare money! His comment to me was that the child support system is set up to ONLY benefit the mother and for years I've VEHEMENTLY opposed that statement. Going to court for child support for ME was demeaning. My son's father "mistakenly" left his W2 home so they just GUESSTIMATED what his contribution should be. And when I took him back to court because the child support wasn't being paid on time, he was ordered to pay TWO DOLLARS more than he already HADN'T been paying. Now, I think anyone who knows me can attest to the fact that I'm not a money hound. I just want enough to give to God, pay some bills and enjoy time with my family...with a new pair of shoes sprinkled in here and there. I pursued this child support case because I felt why should YOU get the BENEFITS of being a parent without taking the RESPONSIBILITY of being one??? But, if I knew then what I know now...I would have let him ride. This is just TOO MUCH CONFUSION FOR NOTHING.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">My teen is his father's first born. He has two younger sisters with a third on the way. Now I'm all for loving adults raising as many littles as their hearts desire...but don't have more if you can't care for the ones already here. You can't IMAGINE how it's twisted my heart for my son to tell me, "Ma, my dad said that I may be cut short because there's another baby on the way." Naw...I couldn't EVEN make something like that up. Before my husband and I decided to have my littlest, we discussed whether it was feasible with all the other kids we had. I can remember being pregnant and getting calls from my husband's daughter in South Carolina: "my friend's birthday is coming up and I need money to buy her a gift." or "The dance is next week...can you send me money for shoes and pictures?" I would go straight to the bank and deposit the money in her account because John and I are in this together. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">A couple of weeks ago, I got the following text:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><b><i>Hey,I'm txting u 2 say that I checked out ur site & I think it's pretty cool & really shows ur creative side. Even after I read ur blog from 09 that had</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><b><i>the not so flattering things n it about me :-) Lol. But do u do personalized bday cards or things of that nature? Adia's 4th bday is April 27 & I may w</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><b><i>ant to patronize u for something unusual & unique. Are u interested in having my business? & that blog did sting a little but it's all good. For real</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> Well, I finally went back and found the post he referred to...it's <a href="http://kiwithekreator.blogspot.com/2009/08/no-internet.html">HERE</a> if you haven't already seen it.</span> <span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">But, back to the text message...I really got upset so I decided to pray first and respond later. I REALLY prayed hard on what to say to him. I don't have that text because I've sent soo many since that day a few weeks ago but I do remember the gist of it: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><i><b>I normally pray on important situations in my life and then go to my husband for his advice. This time, God revealed the answer to me and I didn't even need to bother John. I can remember being a BEAST when I was younger...I wanted things to go my way. Now that I'm trying to be better, I try to avoid situations where I'll be brought back to the person I used to be. I got really angry thinking about you wanting me to do work for you because I can't even get the CHILD SUPPORT on time. All I want to do now is encourage and see my son through his 18th birthday so that we can have as little contact as possible.</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Because the child support, which I'm supposed to receive twice a month? Well, I hadn't gotten it since <b>JANUARY 24th!!!!</b> So here is HIS response...all ELEVEN TEXTS:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><i><b>I've actually never thought of you as being as bad of a person as you seem to think you were. I hope and I pray that the anger that you still harbor can</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><i><b>one day subside. I want to understand it so that I can do or say the right thing or things to help you get over it. Well maybe I do know what to say. Kea</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><i><b>ndra, I apologize to you for hurting and disappointing you. I mean it from the most inner part of me. I'm sorry that I could not be the other half of </b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><i><b>the puzzle that you wanted us to put together. If I ever mislead you, I'm sorry. As far as what you or Ahmad think that I said regarding him, he is my f</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><i><b>irst born and only son. You nor he, can quantify what that means to me. But I guess I've failed miserably in getting him to begin to understand that. As </b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><i><b>far as my Child Support goes; I have been in a legal battle with Lionel and Angie for almost a year. According to the Temporary Restraining Order that wa</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><i><b>s granted to me, my Child Support should not be interrupted or late. If it is, please let me know. And I too, prayed to God. And I asked that he forgive</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><i><b>you and me. I asked that he give us peace and understanding. I asked in earnest and he delivered me from the anger towards you a long time ago. I know th</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><i><b>at I've tried to make peace with you sincerely and I've given you what I would want most. Forgiveness and understanding. So I'm at peace now with me and </b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><i><b>with you. I wish you no harm as a person and the mother of my son. I have love for you for those reasons as well. I still think your site is very creati</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><i><b>ve. Good luck with it.</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">When I read this, it just made me sad...sad that OBVIOUSLY God also delivered him from the responsibility of paying child support when He didn't deliver US from having to feed this 5'8" joker EVERY DAY!!!! I asked my husband: why is it that whenever a woman comes REAL with a man he equates that with "I'm sorry I can't be with you"? I thought for SURE he got the memo that any feelings I had for him were dead along with MY WEDDING INVITATION!!!! I feel nothing for him for several reasons starting with what he did when my father was DYING. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I had to drive from Jacksonville to New Orleans alone, which is about an 8 hour drive. I explained to my son's father that my father had cancer and was not going to live (my daddy passed away two weeks later). I explained that I didn't have a car charger for the phone and that I needed to stay off of it in case of emergencies. I EXPLAINED that I wouldn't be answering his calls for that reason. I BEGGED HIM to not call and upset my father who by that point was wearing TWO MORPHINE PATCHES to tolerate the pain. I promised that when I got to Mobile (where I was more familiar with the area) I would stop and buy a car charger. I thought he understood...why then did my dad chew me out later? He say that Ahmad's father had called him and said I was ignoring his calls. All I could do was cry. Something really died inside of me that day. I really understood the depths of this person's selfishness. How SELFISH are you to ask me to notify you EVERY TIME the payment is late??? When you're late with a mortgage payment, the company may give you a courtesy call; once you're late with so many...THEY LABEL YOU. It's the same with ANY BILL YOU PAY. Why should I continue telling you about YOUR RESPONSIBILITY??? I've told HIM before...I've told HIS MOM...I'm TIRED. And understand that the payments didn't just START coming late for the past year like his text suggested...this has BEEN going on. It's the reason we went back to court the second time. Oh and by the way...the last child support payment is STILL JANUARY 24th...it STILL hasn't been paid! You see, soft hearted ME thought: ok, I've mentioned not getting the support so I KNOW his pride won't let that go on much longer (because he does NOT like to be called out!) Guess I was wrong! So, I called yesterday to see what steps could be taken. I was told that there is a lottery attachment in place. <i>HUH? Did he hit the bigs???? </i>No, but just in case he DOES happen to play and DOES happen to win a substantial amount, we'll collect the child support arrears then. BAYBEE...that was the BEST LAUGH I have had in a MINUTE!!! <i>REALLY??? </i>That's what you're going with? The representative said, "He has a 30 day grace period"...ummm...30 days from WHEN??? 'Cuz...I'm not SURE...but I think it's been OVER SIXTY!!!! Then she said, "After NINETY days, the court will decide whether or not further action should be taken." LAUGHABLE!!!! I'm through with this, though. I'm obviously dealing with a person whose understanding is limited. You tell me that you just want peace between us...<i>pay the child support and don't put my child behind your other responsibilities. </i>You think that I've harbored anger for you. Let me tell you something about me, peeps: I have to CARE about you in order for you to bring my temperature to boiling. My husband...my kids...my girls...they all make me simmer every once in a while. When I love you, you get the entire GAMUT of emotions. But my feelings for Ahmad's father are stuck in neutral. My anger EMERGED a few weeks ago because you're affecting my child! I WOULD put him out if he were on fire; I WOULD call 911 if he were in danger. But, the only hurt I would feel if something DID happen would be the sadness for MY HURTING CHILD. The ONE lesson that I've tried to instill in my two older boys and will drill into them and their baby brother until I'm no longer able is this: don't LISTEN to what a person says...look at his ACTIONS. All the energy put into sending those text messages sounds like blah, blah, blah, blah because the child support office STILL has no payment and even when one DOES come...the next won't come on time. If I'm wrong, I'll definitely let you know because I'm a STRONG proponent of people changing...or being so ticked off by what I said that they'll do whatever it takes to prove me wrong! ;P </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span>Kiwi The Kreatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03136357721093616934noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002990754546856954.post-60976984960508489112011-03-23T18:54:00.000-07:002011-03-23T18:54:59.735-07:00OK enough...<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">...already!!! I've been gone for a LOOOOONG time and even though I try not to worry about what people think, I have been wondering. You all matter to me. Especially those of you who have emailed, CALLED and left messages on SB.com and Facebook screaming WHERE ARE YOU??? I didn't want to disappoint you but I did anyway. I really started experiencing something at the end of last year that I can't explain. I had to step back from everything and get my mind right. If it wasn't for God and my husband I really think I would be in <a href="http://www.doc.louisiana.gov/view.php?cat=7&id=44">St. Gabriel</a> right now. But I'm getting better and I thought I would just jump back into things...I THOUGHT. The devil starts creeping around and telling you that things won't be the same...that no one is paying attention anymore. And that really started to gnaw at me and, even when I was ready to return...after I promised my girls that I would...I still didn't. I know I've angered some people because my sabbatical included not sending some packages out on time. But I had to tell myself: all I can do is apologize and DO BETTER. So after I uploaded my assignment for <a href="http://scrapsofcolorespire.blogspot.com/">SOC</a> tonight I decided to just DO IT...type a quick blog post and go to sleep. Tomorrow I'll see if there are welcomes or a lynch mob. But for tonight, I'm <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">kinda </span>glad to be back!!! </span>Kiwi The Kreatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03136357721093616934noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002990754546856954.post-87333834871559222262010-12-07T22:59:00.000-08:002010-12-07T22:59:08.573-08:00My very first...<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">...post is up at Scraps of Color <a href="http://scrapsofcolorespire.blogspot.com/2010/12/if-youre-anything-like-me.html">HERE.</a></span> <span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">This is one of the pages highlighted in my post.</span><br />
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