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Very Long Post Ahead
So, grab a cuppa, you'll be here for a bit!!
So obviously, I'm going on vacation! Actually, I am on vaca right now.....it's 2:30 am, I just got home from work, and here I sit typing, when I should be sleeping!! I was on the schedule to work, and was planning on doing the normal 8pm to 8am, but getting a little concerned that my peer would/would not be there for his scheduled day on --> we had our yearly inventory this week, so schedules were messed up. Anyways, my manager told me to come in, see if the other Assistant showed up, do some evals and then leave -----> He showed up!!! S W E E T!!!!!! Sooooo, I'm just not tired right now.
So here's my plans for the next 22 1/2 hours.....shop for clothes to take on vaca, take pics of September DT projects for Snobby Walrus, upload and PhotoShop all of the pics, write up my blurb about each project, send to the OverLord, do my QOTD & SQOTD for Posh, do laundry, pack, get AAA for DD & SIL, get & print directions & maps from MapQuest, and sleep!! All before 1 am Sunday!!
Wait....it gets better......wait for my parents to pick me up....3:30am and drive me to Orlando airport about an hour and a half away (you haven't had to drive with them, and in the middle of the night too!!), go through the normal airport security & airline procedures, and get on the plane. Fly to Burlington, Vermont......meet DD Ashley & DGS Mason, and drive to St. Albans, VT. Then visit with SIL's family for a day or so.
Not so bad right? W R O N G!!! Drive 1900 miles back to Florida, in one overpacked car with DD & DGS, who by the way is 22 months old and can put the Energizer Bunny to shame, and two cats!!! Ugh!!!!!!! All so she can meet hubby and spend a bit of time with the rest of the family, before they drive another 2000 miles to El Paso, Texas, by September 5th, where SIL is being stationed!!
Sooooo, would you call this a vacation? Me neither!! BUT, I do call it love, and I would do it everytime and anytime for any one of my kids! Even if it means that they have to leave me, to live their lives. They are and will always be my most prized possessions!!
Wait......and then, DS Kevin is moving......he's going to San Juan, Puerto Rico on September 5th, to be with the love of his life!!!
Sooo, that leaves DS Dan & DIL Carol, who have just bought their new house!!! They will moving at the beginning of September as well.
September is turning out to be the beginning of a new chapter in our lives. Will it be easy, NO! Will we like being apart from each other, NO! Will we get to see each other often, NO! Am I sad, NO! ....wait ....really, I'm not. I am very thankful, that we've had all of these years together, and I will cherish all of those memories. But it's time for all of us to move on and get on with our lives.
Why? I'm 50 years old, for crying out loud.......I want my own place....alone!!!! With a scrap/craft room!!!! Without having to clean up after anyone but myself!! Without having to remind anyone that it's time to pay the rent!! Without having to ask someone to move their car, so I can go to work! It's about time don't you think?!!! LOL
NOTE: If you are reading this, and are one of my children, please disregard the above paragraph!! It was never intended to offend you, just to smack you right dab in the middle of the face!!!!!
Really, you think I hate my kids? Not!! But, I am looking forward to this change.
And this story, really does get stranger & stranger......I will leave the rest of it for another post!
BTW, did I tell you the deal I made with DD? I told her, that I would do all of this with and for her, but, that we HAVE TO STOP at, at least one good SCRAP STORE on the way back to Florida...that's the way it is!!!!!! There, I put my foot down, didn't I? As if....she loves those places as much as I do!!
Okay, enough of that, onto Snobby Walrus...........
6 mos.
DD at about 5 1/2 to 6 mos pregnant, a nice little stroll on the beach. Another beach goer, actually asked her 'if she was trying to bake that kid'. It must have been 90 degrees in the shade that day, and we were taking it all in!! Love this pic!! And the look of printing it on a subtle pretty paper by Fancy Pants. Here's a closeup......
You can see the various floral patterns, as well as the writing on the paper, it does give it a bit of a vintage look. Flowers and starfish pendant are all Prima. Alphas are American Crafts. Diecut images are Graphic 45 from the 'On the Boardwalk' collection.
Stickers are EK Success, and shell beads are from my stash.
I used a Martha Stewart punch on the white cardstock, and then Glimmer Misted over a Glimmer Screen...all Tattered Angels. Lace is May Arts.
Sea horse is from EK Success, which I also Glimmer Misted with several colors. The journal card is Webster's Pages. A little bit of TH Distress Ink around the edges.
Notes To Self
A very inexpensive (25 cents at Wal-Mart) composition book is covered in Glitz paper. Slathered in Prima, May Arts, and handmade flowers from various scraps.
Bits of Tim Holtz Ideology findings, buttons from my stash, alphas from Cosmo Cricket and a handmade bird.
This is another sneak at what's coming in my Etsy shop (more on that in a later post). Beautiful trim from Webster's Pages, which I Glimmer Misted. A bit of bling from Michaels, and a sticker (ornate frame) from Hambly Screen Prints. Large orange sticker alphas are from Sassafras.
About the Etsy shop......I have a lot of product already made, my shop is actually open, though there is nothing to purchase at the moment. So, what's the problem, why haven't I stocked my shop yet? Uh, hello, vaca....and no one here to send out the lovelies!!! Can't really ask anyone to take over right now, as they are all moving!!! I promise, it will be stocked as soon as I can after my little trip to Vermont!!
And so, I will leave you with this question........Would you move back in with your parents?
Love ya,
Lynne
