what can happen in 15 minutes

i left the kids alone for 15 minutes to make this card.........they couldn't even get along for 15 minutes. ughhhhhhhh......

simple

hate taking pictures with the flash.......natural light is better but i gotta do what i can with the free time i do have.

it was hard for me

call me wierd but it was very hard for me to cut into this paper but i did. i am such a paper hoarder! there's something about pretty paper that i love..... i wish i call wallpaper my craft room in all my favorite papers!

brandon & i went to his school mates's 4th birthday party today. he had a blast! pics later this week.

don't let their sweetness fool ya!

let's see.....what have these bad boys been up to lately? besides both getting over being sick, bryan's been beating up his older brother and doing wrestling moves on him. i recently found out brandon cut a snippet of his hair--- AGAIN. i thought his hair looked a little funny in the front but i just though it was his buzz cut that got cut a little too short. those boys drive me crazy i tell ya! [can you just see the white hairs sprouting from the top of my head?]

ok, so onto my 'therapy'. just a card & layout i did this week.

buds

another layout. this one is of brandon and his friend nicholas. so sweet......don't cha just want them to stay this age?!

not much happening here. just everybody in the house is still sick.

does anyone have this: https://www.bigtreetomato.com:458/index.php?tid=3559

i kinda want to buy it. i am planting some tomato plants right now bought from good ol' target. i don't even really like tomatoes nor does eddie. just fun to grow things and share. brandon's pre-k class is growing some stuff & asked for a donations of plants & soil. i donated a tomato plant and a cage. let me clarify--- the cage is a tomato cage......not a cage for the kids although it sounds good on "those" kinda days. any tips out there for growing tomatoes?

a play date

since seeing one of brandon's classmates, nicholas, at dim sum one day, we've been planning a play date with the two boys since. so last friday, we met at pat & oscar's for lunch. we would've liked to have been outdoors to let the boys run off some energy but it had rained that morning! the boys were all SO LOUD & NOISY!!!! embarassing but what can you do----they are boys!

some pictures from his "friendship" day at school. (they call it that instead of valentine's day) here's ms. marisela and ms. genevieve with the gift bags i made for them.

for my friend

i made this for my best friend michele. it's actually her christmas gift that i just sent off along with her birthday present. [birthday present was on time.....just christmas gift, i got behind] i had 1/2 of it made but then got caught up with all the other christmas going-ons and then january came and it was planning for bryan's birthday party and things going on at work (the company i work for got bought out)....blah,blah, blah........i know---excuses. so sorry michele it's so late! hopefully she'll find a lot of uses outta these all occassion cards. it's so hard for me to cut up pretty patterned papers.........i really like the one on the altered lunch tin. i am learning not to hoard paper this year.