Jamie Danford

Poor Sid!!!!

Wow, wouldn't ya know it..a random, freak of nature tornado jumped right out of the sky and threw a bunch of trees smack dab on top of our Sid's house!  What're the chances, right????  Sid's house has been declared unsafe, so they have to move out...indefinitely.  The whole front half of the house is going to have to be ripped down to the studs and rebuilt b/c of the structural damage...not to mention the huge amount of water damage from the rain that came pouring in after the trees fell on the house.  She and her daughter were huddled in the bathroom through the storm and it wasn't until the worst of it was over that Sid realized she could hear water running...it was the rain streaming through their demolished roof.  She managed to save her scrapbooks thank goodness! SO even though she'll probably get mad, why don't we all say a prayer for Sid and her sweet family okay? 

Beach girls...

I'd say they had some fun...Miss Priss and her cousins, that is. (and Nana and Aunt Paula too of course.) They're leaving to go back to sweet home Alabama today, and E's pretty sad...I hate this part.  She sure does love her cousins, especially Savannah who's just two months younger and makes a perfect playmate and partner in crime.  They swam, spyed on the cute boy downstairs, shopped (hence the matching dresses and flip flops...thank you Nana) and drank 42 YooHoos a day.  The big girls, Taylor and Peyton got to go shark fishing with Big Dave and Bubba which they thought was pretty cool. I think it's safe to say they all had a great time at Tybee. 

Here's a recap...

A few to share...

I've been scrapping my Mom's vacation photos and most of the layouts are pretty simple, so I won't bore you with them (there are tons, by the way.)  But I will share some that I've just recently completed...and a couple from the other day when we scrapped at ASB.

First, one from Mom's London Trip...I really like the Making Memories Passport stuff!

and then we have some from her trip to the Bahamas...this one's the cover page.  I scanned an apron she brought back that had a map of the islands...

and here are two more...this first one here is the one inspired by a PageMap (and Deiha)

And this is a quicky filled with some goofy outtakes from a photo shoot I made Miss Priss suffer through...

Alrighty...off to do more school work...ick!  ;)

Some people suck...

Once again, the new scrap store in town has fallen victim to blatant thievery...I'm stunned.  I guess maybe it was happening at my store too, but since I didn't keep very good inventory records I couldn't ever prove it.  Here's the link to Linda's blog...so you can hear it straight from the horse's mouth...http://ascrapbookboutique.blogspot.com/

Too busy to blog????

How can this be? I...the person who was so bored two weeks ago that I rambled on endlessly about absolutely nothing?

But, alas...it  is true...so true.  Between my Adolescent Psychology class (which I think every parent of a ten through eighteen year old should take), my Middle Grades theory class (which is a total snore), my mom in law coming in town and hanging out at the beach, and my girls' day out crop/movie fest, I've been toooooo busy to blog! Oh my!

And if I'm bein' honest here, I'm halfway through "A Thousand Splendid Suns"...this novel that follows the lives of two women living in Afghanistan...and I cannot put it down. So anytime I've got a minute I sneak into my living room, plop down in the corner of my comfy couch and get lost in the book.

But I'm here now...see? Look...I'm really here...and I cut my fingernails so I can actually type faster (I was starting to look like a circus freak.)

Anyway, here's what I wanted to show you...remember those Pagemaps I told you about a looong time ago?  (the website's over on the left column down there if you wanna check it out.) Well, while we were cropping Saturday...see, here's us cropping...

Deiha and I had some similar photos (from Santee) and she was using her Pagemaps for inspiration...and I decided to copy her, I mean come on...it was just too easy to pass up.  We didn't have exactly the same photos, and we had totally different papers (she used fresh new Making Memories stuff from their Passport line that she got in her Scarlet Lime monthly kit) and I had some super old Creative Imaginations stuff that I've had lurking in my stash for about two years.  So we whipped out our layouts, Deiha forging ahead, me scuffling behind copying her every move, and this is what we came up with...

I think it's rather cool that we could take the same Pagemap (I think it was from June 07?) use different pics, papers, embellies, even flip the photos and come up with two fantabulous layouts. Ah...the ease of pagemaps...I suggest you go quickly... (it's free by the way.)

Oh yeah, and Father's Day came and went too didn't it?  I'm fresh out of fathers 'round here, so I got off pretty easy...just had to get Big Dave something.  And what did I give him that made his little mouth water and his tum tum say a big thank you?

You'd have thought I'd given him a wheelbarrow full of gold...he LOVES these things! He also got a big fat Home Depot gift card, because he wants wood to build a new deer stand...exciting huh? So I hope y'all had happy days with the Fathers in your lives...I know I sure did! :)

Are you a fan?

Of Sex in the City?  Have you gone to see the movie yet?

Okay, because if you are/were a fan of the show, and you haven't gone to see the movie, I'm here to tell ya sisters...

IT FREAKIN' ROCKS!!!!!!

Jill, Deiha, Kristine and I got together to scrap at ASB for a few hours today, and then we headed over to see the movie.  We give it eight thumbs ups! In our opinion, (heatedly discussed over din din at the Exchange) we think it could not have been any better.  It was like a fairy tale...we laughed our asses off...cried like maniacs, and laughed some more.  If you've seen it, then you have to know that Charlotte and the chocolate pudding is my favorite part of course!

So if you're bored around the house, and like the series, then go on and shell out the nine bucks to see it...just seeing those hot man bootays on the big screen was worth the money for me!  :)

House flies, zits, and mother-in-laws...

Which one of these things is NOT like the others???  (Well, at least in my book.)  No, not zits... it's my Mother-in-law.  She's coming in town tomorrow, yippeeeeeeee!   I L*O*V*E this woman, and no it's not just because she's picking up Miss Priss and taking her to the beach with her for a week...although that doesn't hurt. I love her b/c she's so down to earth (except for the time she had that meltdown at my house and didn't speak to me for a week, but we don't talk about that) and she's genuinely in love with her family...talk about your stereotypical matriarch. She's a rockin' Nana and Miss Priss can't WAIT to spend a week with her (uh, that makes two of us!) The only problem I can see with my mother in law is that she WILL NOT let me take photos of her...sigh...country people, I swear. So I'm reduced to sneaking quicky little candid shots.  But I'm gonna try...REALLY try to get some photos of her with E down at the beach this week...wish me luck.

Now as far as house flies and zits go...I've got 'em both.  I friggin' HATE house flies, but when it's Summertime in Savannah and you own dogs, you're 'bound to get 'em.  Is it that way everywhere? And the zit? It's in the crevice of my ear...whah????  Yep, right up there in the little cranny at the top, where at least I can cover it with my hair.  Ever get one there? It's like when one of 'em pops up on the edge of your nostril...talk about tender!

Okay, I'm done.  I really didn't have a lot to say, but I just thought the combination of house flies, zits and mother in laws deserved some attention. Really, I'm done. 

;)

Show and Tell...

Between Entertainment Tonight and So You Think You Can Dance, I managed to whip up three layouts last night.  This one's my favorite...

I mean how can you possibly go wrong with the new Bobunny beach papers right? I also found this little orange fishypoo in my stash (Mambi) and used some Doodlebug letters combined with Scenie Route chipboard abcs. Cute right?

And I dig this one too...

I wanted to title it something like "Zany action packed antics on the trampoline" but alas, there wasn't enough room.  Most of this stuff came out of my scrapbox.  Ya never know what combinations are gonna come out of that big ol' box. Speaking of which, have you ever seen my Oscar winning scrap box video?  I'm gonna add it on here if you wanna watch it...it's good for a chuckle or two as you see my in my pjs all hunched over for the camera trying to explain/justify my method for storing scrap paper...

And finally my last page...don'tcha hate it when you're on your last layout of the night, and you know it's the last one, and you just feel like petering out? (Hee hee, I used peter as a verb...cool.)  Well, that's pretty much what happened here...

It's not that I hate it, in fact I'm pretty happy with it, but I think I probably could have done more with it. Hey, but guess what? It's DONE, and that gets points right?  By the way, these photos were taken right after Thanksgiving dinner and we were all bloated up lying on the floor at Mom's house...just thought I needed to explain...we don't normally lie around on floors and make stupid faces...well...maybe...ah, never mind. 

So now you've seen what I've been doing, what have YOU been doing?  I'd love to see some of the layouts you've done lately...and I'd love to share them on here with our friends.  Anyone wanna let me share their layouts? Anyone?  Anyone? Beuller? Beuller?   

Summer Reading...

Well, it was only a matter of time...we got our official summer reading instructions and Miss Priss has some work to do. Lucky for her there's only one required book...

The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis.  After that she can read ten books of whatever she wants as long as it's on grade level.  So, we went over to Books A Million and bought it.  And this...

A totally COOL new Bible.  She asked if she could get a study Bible because her teacher told her it would be nice to have one and read it over the Summer. So we found this one...easy for her to read, age appropriate for a ten year old going on sixteen, and even cooler...it has commentaries and extra stuff for her to read that helps her relate what she's reading to her life.  We actually had a conversation about why God wanted Adam and Eve to be married...now come on...that's pretty cool right?

Since I've got her taken care of for at least a week or two, I grabbed some books for myself.

So far I've read all but The Shipping News.  And all I can say is the Kite Runner will make you cry a lot and think a whole bunch about this crazy ass world we live in...Wedding Ring will make you cry just a smidgen and be happy that you read it, and What Matters Most will make you want to hunt Luanne Rice down like a dog and smack her with it. (It's good, typical Luanne Rice, but dangit it's so sad!)

I'm trying to get a jump on my classwork by reading ahead in my Middle Grades ed books, but hope to get started on The Shipping News any day.  Oh, and once I get off of here I'm going to start on my second scrapbook page of the night...

I mowed the lawn today too...

just needed to have a little validation. Thanks.  ;)

Mind*less*ness...

Here I am at 9am on a Tuesday in my pjs, doing a bit of net surfing.  Not a darn bit productive I'm afraid.  Since I've got nothing interesting of my own to share today, I thought I'd bring you this...just a wee nugget of golden sunshine from my Youtube wanderings...(my favorite is the 7th cat)

Really, if you have nothing better to do (and I hope this isn't the case) go to youtube and search for singing kitty videos...I'll bet you'll smile at least once!