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November 21, 2008

Design Monkeys work...which means giveaway time!

Hey, all! Sorry about the hiatus. Been very busy at home, and with work, lately. One of those being our first reveal for Store More Stamps, aka Design Monkeys. This month we got to work with  The Cat's Pajama's. So very cool! Alma, from The Cat's Pajama's was very generous to send all of us two sets of stamps, Smells Like Your Birthday and  You Say It's Your Birthday, so very cool, and fun to work with. :D The reason we were sent birthday sets was because it is/was the Design Monkeys first birthday! And just you wait what that means for you!!! But, first, let me share what I made with the stamp sets.

First up is a shabby chic birthday card (the cat that is on the You Say It's Your Birthday was calling for me to make it pink...I swear ;) ). Working with these stamps was a breeze, lemme tell you! And this was only the second time ever for me to use the amazing Copic Markers. Where these have been all my life, I do not know, but I now know I have another obsession, and will have every color, I swear! ;)

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Next up is a card I used using the Smells Like Cake stamp set. I LOVE penguins (we actually have a family of penguins that live here on the island, and they are soooooo cute to see!), so when I saw this stamp in that set, I knew I had to play with it. :) Try to be gentle, as it was the first time I had every used the Copic Markers, and probably only the 12th card I have ever made...lol.

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So, now, time for the birthday giveaway! That's right, The Design Monkey's are doing a giveaway for their birthday, how cool is that!!! So, just leave a comment here, and you may have a chance to win a set of stamps from The Cat's Pajamas and something a set of storage sleeves from The Design Monkey's.

Susan and I will pick the winner sometime soon, I promise! Good luck, everyone!!! Oh, and if you get a chance, go on over to Susan's Blog and wish them a VERY happy birthday!!!!   

November 08, 2008

We are off to the beach and a how to on making my altered pumpkin!

But I thought before I left, I would leave you with some projects I have finished. These two are for Simply Cardstock's October's kit. :D

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Now, for that frame project, I did a lot of things that you can't see. For one, I used this stamp by Hero Arts. What I used it for, though, is a pattern to where I wanted to put my leaves that I had die cutted out, and, also, where to hand stitch with my linen thread. Ok, maybe that's all I did that you can't really see, but you get the drift. LOL. Lots of techniques used, like, handstitching, puffy paint, die cutting, distressing, and only using cardstock. Well, except for the pumpkins on the far right corner that is. :)

Here is another project I did with the October kit.

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This is Holiday To Do list for this year. I used these two stamp sets from Purple Onion Designs :
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Many people have been asking me to post step by step instructions on how I made my pumpkin. I didn't take photos while I was making it, but hopefully these directions will help.

This is the pumpkin I am talking about:

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Here is the pumpkin I started out with:

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Yep, I used one that is a jack o' lantern. But it worked.

I then covered it with orange cardstock. I use Tombi Mono Liquid adhesive for all of my projects (just cause that stuffs stays stuck! :D), and after I lay the cardstock down (I don't cut it yet, at this point, so it was still 12x12, laid down, adhered onto the pumpkin).

At this point, I now run my brayer (you could use just about anything that helps to smooth out your cardstock, ie, a bone folder, etc) over top of my pumpkin, where I have adhered the cardstock.

Now, I would cut out the cardstock. Do NOT cut the cardstock where the eyeballs, mouth and nose are. This is very important. Unless you want that for your pumpkin. :)

Now I would get out my brown cardstock, and this is where I would try to cut out a bit more then what the shape of the stem is. I then rolled it through my big shot using this embossing folder:

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After I have embossed the cardstock, I then adhere it to my stem.

Now I have my green cardstock, which I cut out a piece that is about 4x4 (I think), and then adhere it to my leaf. I did brayer this one on (notice, I did not brayer on the stem, as I did not want to flatten out embossing). Then cut out. :) Try to get as close as you can to the edges, but with still leaving a little bit. :) This will be sanded off later but will help with the next step.

You want to ink all the edges, now. I use the Chocolate from Close to My Heart  (totally in love with that color). I use these sponge daubers . I did this all over the pumpkin, probably up to 1/2" in, whole way around (now I am guesstimating on how far I went in, but it was deeper in, so that with the next step you could still see it).

Now, this is where you will need some of either the Basic Grey files or you could also use the files from Close to My heart. This is what I used to shape the edges around the pumpkin, leaf, and stem. I used the one that is more flat on one side. You could also use sand paper, I think, I just didn't (not saying one is better then the other, I just don't know how sandpaper will work out.). You do the filing/sanding down all on the outer edges of the pumpkin, leaf, and stem, then you want to run either sand paper or a sand paper block over the stem to make the embossing stand out a bit more.

I traced, with a pencil, where I thought the curve of the pumpkin lines would be, to give it a bit more depth. Then, after I did that, I took a little bit of ink and put it on a paintbrush, with some water, and went over the lines, to give just a tad bit more depth. Then (because I could still see the pencil lines) I poked holes with my poker (I don't know the technical name...lol) about every tenth of an inch or so (this could be way off, could have been 1/4 of an inch, I just kinda went with the flow). I also did this with the leaf, too (both the pencil lines, shading, and then, poking the holes).

At this point, pick out your thread, sit on the couch, and watch a good movie while stitching (I recommend When Harry Met Sally, a true classic...seriously, the Deli scene...it will ALWAYS crack me up), make your SO rub your feet while stitching, make your kids bring you a drink...make it be a family thing. ;) They will appreciate alllll of the hard work you are doing for them while stitching up that pretty pumpkin of yours. ;)

Now that you are done stitching, and enjoying a bit of tv time, it's time to stamp. I used the flourishes on this Heidi Grace stamp set and stamped it onto some Making Memories Ledger paper (I would link you up, but couldn't find a link to it...you could use any type of ledger paper, or flourish stamp, those are just what I used) and I used this stamp pad for the stems:
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I then cut those out, inked them, and put them onto the pumpkin. :)
Here is a closer look:
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The wooden flourishes I used were from Kaiser Kraft  and these from Kaiser Kraft (I cut them up a bit to fit my needs). I also inked onto them, to give them a bit more of a worn look (as if it were outside).

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Now, the lace...this I was lucky to recieve from Gypsy Rose Paperie   in a RAK. It just kinda fit. It's vintage, but I am sure there is more ribbon out there like that.

I adhered the lace and the wooden flourishes with mini glue dots. :D

If you look closely at the photos that are more zoomed in, you can see where I cut up the flourishes.

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I then found a wooden button, and used some of the silk ribbon from Creative Impressions (it would be the 1" Celery Silk, I believe).

The last thing I did, because I can't leave well enough alone, I took my sponge daubers and lightly inked around where I stitched, just to give a more weathered look. :D

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask away!

Ok, so Paul is calling for me, we are off to the beach! Sometimes, I really do love living in Hawaii. Oh yeah!

Aloha,
~M

November 05, 2008

We seem to have a little Ariel on our hands

For all of you Disney aficionados, you totally get my meaning on this for sure. Miss C, it seems has taken to the ocean. This, the child who has screamed since birth about how much she hates the water (it took her months to even let us put her in a bath for more then 10 seconds), LOVES it now. Not just LOVES it, SWIMS in it. For those of you who have seen my daughter in a pool, or in the ocean before this time, KNOW what I mean. She DETESTED all of this. And on Sunday???!!! She walks RIGHT INTO THE OCEAN! We didn't entice her in any way, AND she gave Daddy the swim floats (that are Alex's, as we were NOT anticipating her wanting to go in at all) and put her arm up to tell him to put them on her. And he did. And from that point on, she was in the ocean, with just a little respite to build a sand mountain with Daddy. We could NOT believe it! Of course, we were thrilled, happy, bursting at the seams with pride, but still, the child who hated the water is now in love! Such a turn around...wonder if she will do this with her sassiness. Just wake up one day and no longer have it? ;) Oh, one can wish, right? ;)

So, of course, I took photos of this momentous occasion, and shall show them here for the family, and friends, to see. :D Seriously, we are still some very proud parents here!

Here she is walking in, well, I should say marching in, as she was all about getting in the water.

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And here she is just letting the waves wash right over her.

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And here, well, this was when we finally took her out, and she was calling to Daddy, Brendan and Alex to get out, too. She was shivering, her little lips were a light blue, BUT she STILL wanted to go back in. Determination, that she does have.

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And, of course, I got some photos of the boys, as well. :D

Here is Brendan, 'surfing' on his boogie board. He has so much fun out in the water!

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And here is Mr.Alex himself. Seriously, my kids have soooo much fun in the water. I love that, I love that they are not afraid to go in, get wet, and just be. :D

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I can show the wall art I did for Miss C's room. I think it looks OK. I know I should have done more with it, but man, that sucker took 5 days! That's enough time for me. LOL.

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It was based off of Scrap Scheme 8. :D I used a TON of product on here, but I do have to give a shout out to Purple Onion Designs, whose Scallop Ledger Labels were perfect for the middle of all of my flowers and their Scallops were used to make the petals to all of the flowers. Yes, that would be the AWESOME Swiss Dot Cuttlebug folder that I used on some of the stems and some of the petals. Seriously so in love with that thing. :D

Here are just a few little tidbits on what I did with the Simply Cardstock October '08 kit. I can't show all of it just yet, but I will share a little bit. :)

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And I did get a bit of happy news in my email yesterday. :) Love when that happens, totally made my day (heck, my month, OK, maybe the past 6 months... ;) ). You will all just have to wait till February for me to spill the beans. :D

Here's hoping that your week (and after voting day! so glad I got my vote in 3 weeks ago, gotta love absentee ballots!) is going well!

Aloha,

~M

November 02, 2008

What do Tinkerbelle, Batman and Optimus Prime have in common?

Well, if they weren't my three kids in costume, I would say not much. ;) Yep, no Thomas the Train this year OR a Power Ranger. WOW! We have had a Thomas the Train for 5 years running before this year, and a Power Ranger of some sort for two years. ;) So I am liking the new trend. :D And, well, Little Miss C has all the sass to pull of Tinkerbelle. My goodness, does she... ;).
So, here they are, in their full regale:
Batman (aka, Alex):
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Tinkerbelle (aka Little Miss C):
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(no, she isn't picking her nose...she was trying to point at me and say ceese (no cheese, it sounds more like ssssseeeeeeeeeesssssssseeeeee).)
And, last, but CERTAINLY not least, Mr. Optimus Prime himself (aka, Brendan):
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And, just one little extra photo...Little Miss C's first Prince Charming (her brothers look after her SOOOOOO well...I am one blessed, and lucky, mama!):
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And here are a few of the many projects I have been working on this past month.

For last week's Random Chaos Challenge (color red, black and white photo, and a heart):

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(yep, that was all stamped with my FAVORITE alpha stamps from Hero Arts)

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I was in a Halloween pendant swap with my local mommies group, and I had a blank one. Went with the bat theme (which, now, I love anything bat (that is crafty) related).

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(yes, I hand stitched, punched (scallop punch from SU!), stamped on 12 of these suckers!)

(oh, and glittered, too...LOTS of glitter)

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(oh yeah, and embossed...I don't know how I keep forgetting things)

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This is just a little sneak peek of an 18x24 canvas wall hanging I did for Little Miss C's room. I need the ok to show everything before I put it all up. That think took me about 4 days (I would say at least 24 hours total woman work) to put together. Lots of hand stitching, lots of embossing, TONS of stamping...seriously. A lot of work. :D But I love it, and can't wait for Paul to put up the shelf so we can put it up. :D

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I would love to thank all of you who left comments, and emailed me, about last week. You have no idea how much that meant to me, thank you so much, from the bottom of my heart. One of my friends here, Laura, stopped off last Saturday and dropped me off a handmade card and this (in memory of Mom):
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I am so very lucky to have some many amazing friends both here in Hawaii and with scrapbooking. Thank you all, again, for thinking of us. :)

Till next time!

Aloha,
~M

P.S.
Please tell me I was not the only one hooting and hollering that the Phillies won the World Series! It was a LONG time coming...the won the year after I was born (1980) and this is only their second pendant win ever. From someone who was raised from the womb to love and worship the Phillies, I have got to say I was one happy woman on Wed!!! :D Go Phillies! How I wish I could have been in Philly for the game (and the cheese steaks, but NOT the weather, for that I will take Hawaii any day! :D). Must have been such a cool experience. Again, go Phillies!!! WOOHOO!!!

October 24, 2008

She is still missed

Every single day. Today, the 25th of October, will mark 5 years that she has since passed. There is, still, not a day that I don't think of her. She was my other half, she was the person who I called 10-20 times a day, she was my rock, and she was my mentor. Most of all, she was my mom. I miss you more now then I ever have, Ma. I love you so so so much. Always have and always will.

Here is a remembrance album I did about 2 years ago, about her. I don't know if I have shared it before, so I apologize in advance if I have.

This book is dedicated to you, Ma.

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Journaling reads:
Marriage was the cornerstone of your life. Though I think it was different then others, or how they viewed marriage, anyway. You never hid your emotions with dad. If you were angry, you showed it, if you were happy, you showed it, and you also let us kids see it as well. Which, to me, was a good thing. Not candy coating marriage, as many other parents have, showed me just what marriage is about. Not just the flowers, the nights out away from the kids, the cuddling, but the yelling, the money problems, etc. And working through them, in front of the kids, instead of hiding it behind closed doors. I know that it may seem weird to others, but that showed me just what to expect from marriage, the good and the
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Journaling reads:
What you lived for, though, when all was said and done, were your grandkids. Now, when others read this, I know they are going to think, what, not her kids??? But her kids didn’t need her as much, and when they did it was for big stuff. Life was easier for her with these two little boys. All they wanted from her was time and love, something that was readily available from her. She dropped everything for the two of them, everything, and they ate it up and gave it right back to her. The love that she shared with Alex and Brendan goes beyond the love she shared with us kids. And that, that will always be remembered by me.

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But what I think is the most important thing that I will always remember about my mom is to be your true self. Don’t let others intimidate you, make you feel as though you have to change and mold to their specifications. You are you, and if they don’t like it tough! Then she would go on to say how she would always love you, no matter what, and that if that’s what it came down to, that’s all that mattered. And she couldn’t have been more right. Her love was more then enough for all of us, and that, THAT will be what I will remember most.

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~In our hearts forever~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Deborah Campbell McClain
June 2nd, 1951-October 25th, 2003
You will never, ever be forgotten, Mom, never ever ever.
I love you.

Aloha,
~M

October 22, 2008

So getting some sleep tonight

Ok, all. I will tell you this once. 2 hours of sleep does no one any good. At all. So, right now it is 9 pm, and I am just about ready to hit the hay. Big time. I thought, though, before I did, I would share a few more things that I did with the October kit from Sweet Pea Scraps.

This is a little frame of Brendan that I have hanging on the fridge.

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This is a double page layout of Brendan, who was a power ranger last year (and the year before...lol. thank goodness this year we are either Iron Man or Spider Man.).

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And here is a double page layout I did of Miss C.

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ok, my bed is calling my name. i hope to have more to share tomorrow. :)

Aloha,

~M 

Oh, how I just detest insomnia

Yep, I do. It is 2:30am (HST, obviously...lol), and here I am, wide awake. Dudes, seriously, insomnia (and lack of mojo, if I am gonna be up, why does the mojo have to be gone, too????), it truly bites a big one. I have had it for years now, but it has only gotten worse ever since having kids (how can that be true, shouldn't it be the opposite????). I have tried ambien, every over the counter med known to man kind, seriously, just about everything...and still, her I sit, after 3 sleeping pills, and still, can not fall asleep.

So, why would I be sharing this with anyone (who really wants to know that I have been fighting insomnia for years????)? Well, because my loss of sleep is letting me blog, therefore, letting me share. If there is one good thing about insomnia, the kids are asleep, therefore giving me quiet time to blog. Don't get much of that time while Paul is gone, so there is a silver lining when the insomnia hits me extra hard. :P

So, without further ado, I will share with you some projects I have worked on.

This is a layout I did for the Random Chaos blog. The challenge this week was to use all scraps (minus the backing paper). I had so much fun looking through my scraps, soooo many papers in there that I had forgotten about.

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I stamped onto the cardstock with a background stamp from Autumn Leaves and some Versamark Chalk Ink.

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Of course, it is hard for me to do anything without hand stitching on it. This time I didn't do too much. :D

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Supplies used:

PP-Making Memories, Chatterbox, Webster's Pages, Basic Grey, Prima

Cardstock-Bazzill and Diecuts with a view

Stickers-Basic Grey

Paper Brad-Bazzill

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Letter stickers-Making Memories and Heidi Grace

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Here are some projects that I did as a guest designer for Sweet Pea Scraps. If my kids hadn't had walked away with 1/2 of my projects, I would have shared these earlier on (and I still can't find one of my layouts...what is up with my kids! :P).

I did this frame for a friend of mine in Hawaii, who just celebrated her birthday. She has a thing for my handmade gifts (I don't know why, but glad that someone likes them ;) ), so I hope she liked this. :)

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(a little bit closer up, and not so much attention on my fall decorations outside...we don't get much 'fall' here in Hawaii, so I am all about 'showing' off what little bit we do get here, ie, the pumpkins that we got at a pumpkin patch here in Hawaii. :D)

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Here you see the dimension I added to the frame. Everything but the brown paper and stamps, came in this awesome kit (which, seriously, had me written all over it! They make such awesome kits over there! And their DT is just so awesome, and inspiring!).

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And here is a closer up of the stamping. I used a stamp from Close To My Heart (the bigger one) and I just stamped over and over to make it more like a background. Pretty easy. Then I just waited for the Colonial White (seriously in LOVE with this color. Not quite white, but not quite Ivory, either. LOVE IT!) to dry, and then just stamped on top with my favorite Hero Arts letter stamps and some brown ink.

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So that's my sharing for today. Hoping to find my Photoshop on one of my hard drives tomorrow, so I can share some photos. I took so many at the Dole Plantation and the pumpkin patch, and I am in dire need of working with new photos, too, so I am really hoping to find my photoshop soon. I am lost without it!

Here's hoping that your night went better then mine, and here is hoping, that at 3am, I might get in 3 hours of sleep before the boys need to get up for school. :)

Aloha,

~M

October 19, 2008

The post with lots of projects

So this will be the post where I share a ton of projects that I have been working on. It took me awhile to find my mojo again (especially after my computer crashed, yet again), but once I did, I haven't stopped creating. And now that I finally have a program on my computer that recognizes my camera, I am all good to share now. :) So without further ado...here are some projects I have done that I can share right now.

I did this for a friend's baby shower today. Her little girl will be named Lily (love that name!), so I made a little trinket box with a monogram on it, as well as a card (I know, me, make a card...I do believe something has frozen over). I got the idea for the card from the latest Card Creations that just came out. Amazing book, amazing artists in there! A must get book for sure.

Here is the card:
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There was lots of stamping on that card (I am sooo totally hooked on stamping, it's not even funny!).

Here is the box:
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I do hope she liked them. I wasn't able to stay at the shower, as I had the kiddos and Paul is leaving soon, and had duty today, so little time and lots of errands to run for him.

Here is a pumpkin I made for the September kit at Simply Cardstock .

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Lots of techniques used on that pumpkin, but the one I liked the most was stamping onto patterned paper to make the vines at the top. I have stamped on patterened paper before, of course, but not to make something that was a flourish, into something that is now a vine. So it was out of my comfort zone and I loved it. Can't wait to really get into playing with stamping (have I mentioned I am in love with stamping???), so so so totally loving it! :D

Here is a layout I did for that same kit, too. I stamped with Purple Onion Designs for the scallops (aren't those the coolest!!!). Still love these photos of lil Miss C (taken almost a year ago! Ack!!!).

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Ok, going to share one more layout with you. This is one I did of Brendan. I was feeling a little Christmas'y', and still love these photos of Brendan taken just about two years ago. :D

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Ok, I hope to be back tomorrow with more to share. :) I am now off to work on that mojo that is still kicking around. Which is good, considering I need something to keep me busy while the man is out of the house. :) Hope you all enjoyed your weekend! :)

Aloha,
~M

October 18, 2008

Back from the dead

Whoa! Where has the past 6 weeks gone??? Between the kids growing, Paul being in and out of port, and just life in general, I have had NO time to update! I plan on posting some photos tomorrow, so watch out! I have missed you all!

September 07, 2008

Sibling photos, no, really, I actually got...

Seriously, I did! And, for the most part, not posed. Alex poses, Caitlynn, she does not. ;)

The other day we said good bye to daddy as he was leaving port...and I brought the camera with me. I didn't know if we would be allowed to take photos of the sub leaving the port (I did, but still don't know if it was ok...it wasn't showing anything but them leaving, but I don't know...). Alex and Caitlynn came along (Brendan was at a friend's house, playing), and I never would have thought that I would be able to get any photos of the two of them together (Caitlynn has an aversion of getting her photo taken with ANYONE...lol). But I did! so, here they are (with one of just Alex, as well).

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In the last photo, the two of them are holding hands...it is just very very adorable. :)

So, that's that. I am missing Paul terribly, already (I am SUCH a sap), and counting down the days till he comes home. :)

Hoping that all of you enjoyed your weekend.

Aloha,
~M

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