2Peas challenge: What would you do if you knew you would not fail.

If I knew I would not fail I think I would start a home for girls (runaways, pregnant). I have always wanted to have a place where young girls in trouble can go for assistance. It would be a huge house with lots of rooms and lots of love for the girls. It would be a safe haven for them. The girls would be offered help and assistance and a chance to be successful in life. I have wanted to do this since I was a teenager. We would have a small staff and we would not have to worry about any type of financial woes because we would have money donated on a consistent basis. Yes...if I could do something knowing I would not fail this is what I would do...

2 Peas Challenge:

Blog about 5 things you want to do before your time is up.
Could be anything.

interesting question...5 things....hmmmmm....

1/ travel around the world!
2/ bungee jump!!!!
3/ own "my house"...the one near our creek in the mountains!
4/ catch up on my scrapbooking!!!
5/ join the Mile High club (teeehehehehe)

2Peas Today's Challenge~
So you get a monthly kit? If so what do you like about getting a monthly kit

I receive 5 kits a month!!! I love each of them and the reason i love kits is because i am able to get some incredible things that i cannot find in my local stores. I also get things that match and that is awesome because it takes all the guess work out of matching things! I also love one of my kits because it does EVERYTHING for me! All i have to do is follow the directions and add the pictures! This is WONDERFUL when i am in a slump but want to scrap!!! I also love the anticipation of seeing big boxes in my mail and wondering what goodies are inside this month!! Yep...i LOVE my kits!!!!

2 Peas Today's challenge~
Share with us one technique you find your self using on layouts over and over again....

I LOVE to ink my pages (i cannot tell you how many shirts i have ruined because i get so involved with the process...ink goes everywhere!!). I have to stop myself from inking EVERYTHING!!!

speaking of ink, i went to the Scrap Expo on Saturday and they had a vendor who sold so many vintage items (including 7 Gypsies). She had over 50 colors in stamping inks and sprays (I did not know about sprays!!). I tell you i was in heaven. It was fun to look at everything and see all the wonderful ideas! Anyway...she had the cutes vintage stickers, papers and door knobs for books!!! It was awesome. I was disappointed with most of the EXPO, but this vendor made up for it!!!

2Peas Challenge for today~
What are you scrapping plans for the weekend?
This weekend I am looking forward to going to a Scrapbooking Expo! Hopefully I will not spend lots of money!!! (keep you fingers crossed with me that i will be good!). I also plan on working on my goal for 2007 (207 layouts). I also have a few challenges that i need to finish!!! FUN plans this weekend and they involve the S word (scrapbooking and soccer!!)

2 Peas challenge: When doing a lo do you choose to mat or not mat your photo's?

Well...I am one of those people that can go both ways. HOWEVER...I love to mat most of my pictures. I feel like the picture is naked without a little covering (teeehehehehe). It just seems to give it a more "finished" look. Below are a few lo's i have done recently and you can see that i can go both ways (it just depends on what the lo is calling for...).

10 Things I Have Been Putting Off...

1/ organizing my scrap room
2/ cleaning out and giving my car a bath
3/ sending out some cards (just becuz cards)
4/ getting a monthly savings plan going (yuck!!)
5/ cleaning out the "junk room"
6/ getting the laundry caught up (washed, folded AND put away)
7/ maintenance in the downstairs bathroom
8/ organizing both hard and soft copies of my photo's
9/ getting my desk at work decorated
10/ planning a family dinner at my home (another just becuz)

2 Peas Today's Challenge~ What do you do to calm yourself down when your very upset or stressed out? Listening to music (country or soft rock) will help to calm me down (if i am on the verge of road rage!!!). If i am in a store, counting helps! At work it helps to move to something else for a while or walk away from the situation (these always help!!). At home...well yelling ALWAYS relieves my stress but I have learned that is not healthy for the family or the pets (teeehehehehe) so....watching tv, scrapping, reading a magazine and music can help me out! Now.. i have to tell you any and all of these things can work when i am feeling great and i have life by the huevos! If that is not the case there are ONLY 4 things that will help (please be warned these are not healthy or encouraged). COKE CHOCOLATE SHOPPING ***x-rated*** Now...i have been known to do 3 of those things at once if the stress was real bad...the 4th....well if I could discover a way to add that to the mix i think i would have discovered paradise....teeeehehehehe!

2Peas Today's Challenge~ When looking back at your past blog posts. Do you wish you could change anything about your writing or blog?

Good question...

No...I would not change anything (well...when it comes to format, colors or design i would and have...it must be that perfectionist in me...*sighy*). When I enter something it is what I am feeling or thinking at that time and why would i change it. No...the answer is no I do not wish i would change anything i have written.

I will say that I feel that I am sooooo new to blogging (I just went public a few days ago!!) and I am still learning about this "new world" (how to enter a header with a picture, show 4-5 photo's in one block, change the colors of my background but not the format!!!...*sighy*). It has been an exciting journey (looking at other blogs, talking with my baby girls about my blog...that is always a hoot!!!, spending "me" time on the computer, discovering the world is bigger than I thought) and I look forward to "mastering" the blog world....teeeehehehe (that perfectionist coming out!). I love the fact that there is a place to express myself and right or wrong, those expressions are mine (wait!!! why would they be wrong if they are mine...hmmmm something for me to ponder!!???). So in 3 years when I look back will I want to change things...well the perfectionist in me says YES! but the "real" me will look back and giggle and hopefully think..."Wow! you have come a long way!!!".

A lo I completed this week. It is part of the 101 things challenge on 2Peas. My youngest baby girl and Fifi.



Another lo I completed this week. This was for the BOS challenge on 2Peas. My baby girl.

Today's 2Peas Challenge~
Share with us something you have recently created.




teeehehehehe...this was a challenge on Category Stories (Your Crush). I did not get it done in time to post but I knew i had to do a lo! This was such a fun challenge! I LOVE L.L. Cool J! He is soooooo cute and those dimples!!! There is a saying we joke about..."that's My Babies Daddy" and when I speak about LL that is what I say so I had to add it to the lo! Teeehehehe (if you are looking hunny bunny please know you are still the only one that can curl my toes....kiss..kiss)