yesterday, in a nutshell...

So, with all the excitement and family appointments and grocery shopping and quality time and homework and phone calls and prepping for today and prayers and finally falling asleep... I NEVER POSTED MY END OF THE DAY POST YESTERDAY!

A scrappers dream was my afternoon yesterday.  I finally completed a layout I had in my brain for several years! 

Eating and scrapping and chatting... not a bad day!  The child came home and sat at the table with us while she worked on her homework.  What a blessing.

And to top all, I was able to finish a trash2treasure project... a bulletin board for our Mom2Mom ministry! 

And it made its debut this morning... and was already receiving posts from the the ladies before we finished our group time today!  That is recycling at it's finest, I think. 

I plan to tackle my girl's Halloween costume all from scratch this year... she will be the Mad Hatter!  If I can get my hands on a webcam, I may even video some of its creative steps!!! 

In the meantime, the world moves ahead at light speed.  I pray that my girl has had a good day at school and greets me with at least a half-smile if not FULL BLOWN ENTHUSIASM.

A Homemaker can dream, you know!

rounding out the morning...

Well, The Homemaker now has a plan for the day!  LOOK. AT. ME. GO!

Scrapping the late morning away, working on projects long left undone.  Today's efforts will be concentrated on a Tinkerbell layout I want to do for our family Disney scrap album!  I've found I am partial to painting my linen albums myself to personalize.  (Yes, that is a service Homemaker's Mercantile offers!)  Here is the one I am adding pages to today.

It is a 12x12 album, so no small Mickey for us!

As for the rest of the day... well, I'll keep you posted.  Get it?  POSTED?  I'll post another blog!  Sorry, lame humor.  ;)

a day in the life...

Let there be light!  Okay, so the little lamp is a little damaged.  But it WORKS!  And now my workspace is LIT UP!  HELLO!

Today, as I sit here in the Scrapuccino Room I know of several lists throughout the house and garage of things to do.  The one in front of me has 4.5 crossed off, 1 was actually a duplicate and the other two require either a) another persons participation or b) a trip to a store that is not in the neighborhood.  Welp, those 2 things probably aren't getting done again today.  I started another list just before I took the girl to school... that was 49 minutes ago and I've already forgotten what is on it and it is sitting on the kitchen counter.  WAIT!  I need coffee!  I'll go get the coffee AND the list... be right back!

Yum!  Okay, I'm back and I remembered the list.  It's on a Disneyland note pad, in case you were curious.  So this list says: "sand in bucket, wood in shed, 2 bins to sort and 2 little boxes".  Okay, I can't lift the rubbermaid bin that the sand is currently in so I will have to wait to dump it into the enamelware bucket.  I s'pose I could go round up all the stray pieces of wood in the garage that I asked my hubby to gather and put it in it's place for him... Naaah, I'll wait on that.  2 bins to sort... well, that requires Hubby because they are on the top shelf in the garage and are too heavy to lift.  2 little bins!  I could do that, but alas, those are Hubby's bins and he would NOT be happy with me if I sorted and got rid of *his* stuff.  So, that has to wait.

While typing this, I toggled over to an email I just remembered I needed to send.  And I need to be mindful of the time... A shower is in order before my friends come over to scrap today.  That will be fun!  And I can finish that last tiny load of reds that need to be washed.  I had planned to do it last night, but after checking online grades and seeing an F for a quiz from last Friday I basically felt all the energy just leave my body as if Scotty had beamed me up and left all my motivation behind.  And yet, sleep eluded me until after MIDNIGHT.  I actually got up and showered in hopes that it would trigger my body into thinking (wait, what the heck? my font just shrank for no apparent reason while typing this! it feels like an odd computerized scene out of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory!  bring on the Oompa Loompas!) that it was morning and thus I'd naturally want to crawl back in bed... IT WORKED!  Well, that and turning the a/c down so that an egg, if left out on the counter all night, didn't end up soft boiled in this late summer/early fall TRIPLE DIGIT HEAT WAVE.

And now I just found myself toggling over to post to my friends on FB!  Wow.  Multitasking has taken on a new meaning.  Last night, however, I did manage to set up all of my mom's bills for online banking!  MAJOR THRILL for me!  Nothing chaps my Lubriderm'd hide more than spending money on POSTAGE STAMPS!  Well, that's not true.  Spending on gas instead of using a stamp - yes, I did that just based on principle - yes, that did chap my Lubriderm'd hide more.

So, with all that said, I need to go install a face, download a better attitude and SMILE LIKE I MEAN IT!  God is watching and I will call upon Him to lift my spirits to meet His needs today.  I'll check back in later and let you all know how the plan for the day is shaping up... and figure out why my computer is suffering Oompa Loompa font disease.

For now... CHEERS!