Going GREEN

Don't mind me...I'm just playing around with the look of my blog. What do you think of the new background, header, and colors? I need something more spring like. I'm also really into green right now. Maybe that's because...we are gonna be painting soon!!!! And the walls are gonna be green. I have picked out flooring finally!!! We'll be doing that as soon as the painting is done. I.can't.wait.



This is a pic of my paint colors (All sitting on top of our new countertops)...The darker green will be in the hallway and living room, the lighter green in the kitchen and dining room with cream trim and doors. The colors on the right are going to be my kitchen cabinets...Cream with a dark coffee like glaze. (I don't think I'm gonna use the light or medium colors). The piece on top is a swatch of my curtains...totally gorgeous IMO!!!



This pic has all my swatches and...my floor samples!!



I really think these pics don't do it justice...just know that I am super excited to finally be getting these things done, and I won't have to be embarrassed to have anyone come inside my house anymore. So nice...

A Couple of Challenges...And One Personal One

So I'm at home with my sick baby. I had a horrible day on Monday, just trying to get Ethan in to see someone was crazy! None of the pediatricians would see him before school let out, so I went to the oncall clinic...what a nightmare! I will never got to that place again. Without giving all the mundane details, I ended up being there for about 5 hours. Ethan has influenza A and I had to fork out 50 bucks for his Tamiflu! And that's with the insurance!

I digress...

So yesterday I decided to chill with lil man, brought some of my scrappy stuff to the living room floor, and worked on a challenge from Dream Girls using 80% American Crafts products w/ a heart and flourish somewhere on the page. And I have some papers that I've been dying to use! Here's what I came up with...




This morning I whipped this puppy out. I'm usually a really slooooow scrapper, but this one was so easy and fun to do! It's for the Noel Mignon challenge which is based on an awesome website called Curly Girl Design. I love her products! Here's my inspired creation...




On a more personal note...I have been struggling to deal with a "friend" I use the term loosley. This will probably turn into a novel, so bear with me... It started on Thanksgiving evening. This friend left me an odd picture comment on myspace, so I messaged her and asked if everything was ok, was she upset w/ me. This unleashed a fury from her. She wrote about grievances from almost 4 years ago up til the past summer. I was so upset and I cried all evening. It took me about a week to mull everything over and talk several times with Hubby before I wrote her back and point by point explained everything she said. Some things I apologized for and some things simply were not true. Her response? "whatever" We sent some emails back and forth, but mostly it hasn't been nice from her end, she has even brought my kids into this, calling them names. I know you thinking "screw her" and "she's not a friend" etc, but then I find out from mutual friends that she's been drinking again (she's a recovering alcoholic) and going to rehab. Well I've had about enough of this and send her an email pretty much telling her that I know about it and threw a few of her phrases back at her and Karma's a bitch, etc. I know, not really nice but I was mad that she was playing the victim in our relationship when she's got issues herself. Yesterday she replies to me and tells me she's humble and caring and that I'm soulless. WTF?? I am so pissed now! But I suck it up and reply that my feelings have been hurt, that I apologized to her. She hasn't even acknowledged it or said she was sorry back. And why did she wait so long to tell me and let it fester for years? So far no response...

Here's my main dilemma...we have mutual friends, our hubbies have been friends since grade school, and we hang out in the same places. We have kids that are the same age, she was at my house for my "obnoxious" daughter's bday party! I would like to resolve this so that we can at least be at the same place and not want to kill each other. I just don't know how, if she seems to be hell bent on calling me and mine names and not really saying why she feels this way except that she's felt this way for a long time. I am absolutely sick over this.

Valentine Crop-a-thon

So this week at Noel Mignon's message board she hosted a Valentines Crop-a-thon. Much fun on the board complete with make and takes and challenges with prizes. I got 2 of the layout challenges done. Jana's Love Letter layout challenge...Write your journaling in letter form, include a heart somewhere on the layout and be sure to tie a ribbon around something. Here's my entry...



Jana's Red Hot layout challenge... Red = the color red somewhere on your layout

H = Hand-cutting
O = Circle Element of some kind
T = Tearing

And here's the one I did for it...(I think that I got the idea for this LO in a magazine, but I can't recall where :D)

Traditions

The tradition in my family is that the boys don't get their first haircut until after they turn two years old. That is about the time that they stop being little babies and become little boys, and we mark it with a new little boy hair do. Well...Ethan turned two last weekend. I didn't really want to cut it, but I had to since it was my tradition and all. So we took him to the barber shop, and got 'er done. He was sooooooo good...he sat still and didn't cry...unlike his mother who cried like a big 'ol baby. I don't care who you are...he's still my baby!!!


Before...


At the barbershop...



Of course he got a sucker...



After...