POKEY PEAS REFUGEES CHALLENGE for May 2016

Hello, Ladies!

I had a busy weekend, but am home now and trying to get caught up everywhere. Thought I saw scrapincin 's badge this afternoon, but now I can't see it again.

Grammadee is correct there is a new badge if you are interested. I will post it here in the thread so you can see it and it is also in my signature.




I made this a little larger so you could see it better. The one in your signature is only allowed to be a certain size.
If you would like it in your signature the following will tell you how.

1. Go to your profile. On that page on the right hand side you will see "edit profile".
2. It will go to another page and you will see tabs above your screen name, click on the one that says Personal.
3. It will bring up another page, scroll down until you see signature. 
4. You will need to type the letters-IMG with [  before after the letters and ] after the letters then copy and
5. paste this i64.tinypic.com/2rpela0.jpg[/IMG] into the box.
6. Then below the box is PREVIEW click there to make sure your badge is there.  Go to the bottom of the page and click on save.
now your badge should show up in your signature when you post.

Grammadee to get them lined up side by side paste the code right next to the the other badge. Hope that helps.

Nylene I will tell you a lot of times when I don't know how to do something on the computer and otherwise I go to ehow.com. They use common every day English not computer talk and that is how I learn a lot of this stuff. By the way I used the tiny pics but I will get you a link for it as the official site would not give me a code. It works like images shack and does not store your photos etc.


Here is the link:  plugin.tinypic.com/plugin/index.php

Hello Pokey's

grammadee great job on your pages will go leave love after I finish my post.
scrapincin thank you for the badge and the instructions
nylene thank you for getting our May thread up and going
kellyr21 congrats on returning to your card business. Are you going to be offer that most recent artwork you posted on your Society 6 site?

On Sunday I was able to get some scrapping in. Here are the pages I made on Sunday.

San Bernadino County Courthouse by Maribeth and Jim Robison, on Flickr
Panny's Family by Maribeth and Jim Robison, on Flickr
Ladies Night by Maribeth and Jim Robison, on Flickr
La Posada Hotel by Maribeth and Jim Robison, on Flickr
Jacks Canyon Bridge by Maribeth and Jim Robison, on Flickr
Garcia Opera House by Maribeth and Jim Robison, on Flickr
First National Bank by Maribeth and Jim Robison, on Flickr
Donna Dodd by Maribeth and Jim Robison, on Flickr
Chevelon Canyon Bridge by Maribeth and Jim Robison, on Flickr
Brigham City by Maribeth and Jim Robison, on Flickr
Bairds Chevelon Steps by Maribeth and Jim Robison, on Flickr

Mostly NRHP pages, 1 friends now and then page (which is also a part of a pre-designed formulaic style page) and two "free style" pages.

Everyone do something wonderful for yourself today.  You ladies all deserve it.  I have company coming in today through tomorrow so I won't be able to scrap again until later this week or most probably on Saturday NSD!  I can't wait.  Then we will be getting ready for our week long camping trip beginning the following weekend.

See ya later.

nylene, I love pages with lots of journaling. I go through galleries and see pages without any journaling and wonder if they add it after uploading. I've done that a few times. Or if they just never have any details. I'm not fond of no journaling pages, but those with lots make me happy. - As for homeschooling and summer's off, it depends upon the year. When they were young, yes. Now? I prefer keeping at least something going - usually it's math and something else that changes. A good thing about homeschooling is that we can be flexible. I don't think my kids could make it in public schools. Typically, they can finish their actual book work in just a few hours, unless a new concept is being covered in multiple subjects. They can take their books outside on nice days or work in the morning, break for outside play all afternoon and work in the evening. We don't have snow days, but we do at least one nice weather day each year. Also, if both of my kids can't concentrate, I've called a mental health day. It's for my mental health, otherwise I'm going to get upset and yell at them. They usually have 2 or 3 of those per year, but they don't know the rhyme or reason behind it.

scrapincin, I found my little 2peas icon. It's on my hard drive and I don't have a photobucket account. Do you by chance know how I link the little guy to my sig line?

grammadee, You're already planting? We've only done our orchard trees that came without dirt.


Construction update: We had a fence put in yesterday. Although Don didn't get the right kind of fencing or gates for the chicken and rabbit pens. Also the rabbit pen gate faces the road. Although DH told me it was to face the garden right after meeting with them, so I think the fence people are the ones who screwed that up. But it wasn't like there was a finished little map and a sign-off. I should have double checked it all. Actually I should have just been there. DH still needs to finish the flooring in dd's room and the hallway, but for the last month plus a week or so, he's only been home a day to a day and a half. Last week he was home for 5 days, but the weather was nice so...he spent all his time outside, not like that was a big surprise. Also I had a DUH moment yesterday. DS's room has the flooring already down. I still haven't bought trim, but I could totally have been moving him in over the last month. So Don will help me this weekend put up the bed.

DD Health: She will be starting immunotherapy hopefully next week or the week after. We'll being doing drops instead of shots which are not covered by insurance, but also doesn't require us to go to town to have them. She has a neurologist referral for her motion sickness and the initial consult is July 21st and in the meantime we will try those cruise ship patches for even our local trips to town.

I'm off. It's taking me an hour to write this post as I've had to keep getting up for the kids and for phone calls. (I should have snagged DH's laptop instead of trying to do it on my desktop.)

More Mother's Day Cards by Kelly Roberts, on Flickr

Happy Wednesday! Here are more of the cards I made for Mother's Day. My mil ordered these and I was happy to deliver them to her on Monday night. She was so happy! We sold more this week and I am so happy with how our restart is going. I have lots of ideas for my business and hope to get some sold in a few stores again too.

Nylene- How are your teacher cards coming along? Yes, I plan to get some of our cards back on my Etsy shop and/or my blog. Still need to decide. Also, the walking and riding event was held in our little city. It was so fun to see all ages out enjoying themselves.

Maribeth- I didn't even think of putting my latest painting on my art shop but thanks for asking about it. I think I will. Your camping sounds so wonderful. Just hearing you talk about your relaxing trips makes me want to at least take a day trip somewhere. Look at all the pages you have done. Awesome! I must go over to gallery and see them up close.

Lisa- You asked on my blog if I have a place at home for my new art. So far, I have it in my front room and I hope to find some wall space for her at some point. I just love looking at her. LOL! Hey, your place is really coming along. You really sound like you are on a farm. When I was growing up, I lived in a semi-rural area. We had a friend's horse for a while and then later I got a pony and lamb. I was in 4-h club and that was a cool experience. So, I can imagine how wonderful your home and yard is gonna be.

Grammadee- Congrats on the special new challenge you are running here. It is nice to see all this activity on our Two Peas again. Also, your garden sounds like it is gonna be delicious. How is the weather there? Does it get humid in the summers?

kellyr21, your cards are so lovely! I did 4-H for a couple of years as well. We're hoping after dd's health improves that they'll be able to as well.

nylene, you are busy. Congrats on 1000 posts!! YAY!

grammadee, I'm still trying to figure out my last frost date. The 3 main towns that box us in have dates of 5/24, 6/9, and 6/23. I was telling Don that even just a mile up the road have flowers that bloom at least 2 weeks before mine. I was hoping to finish off dd's floor before we start planting. At least we'll have a garden this year, but I look forward to the day when we have it all down pat like you. Thanks for posting all of the TYS threads and moving that along. I've been looking forward to jumping on first thing every morning this month! You are not pokey at all. I love it!

I think I mentioned how I wanted some time for crafting where hubs takes the kids, but it wasn't going to work out. So I told him I still wanted him to be the responsible one, meal planning/preparation being the chore he has to really take over. I told him even if I was helping him with the floor it would be good for him to have to then come and cook when we take a break, which is what I normally have to do. He's came home with groceries and a meal plan last night. What a good man!

With my cold kicked up a notch, I'm off. It's 12:30 and I think I'll go get dressed for the day. ha. I want to play a bit, then I'll rest a bit, then maybe go get wood (still need fires in the morning to take the chill out of the air & because we like fires; and with the colds, we want it warmer through the day too), then rest, then craft. awe. sounds like a good day.

Good morning Pokeys

nylene - unfortunately my absence from the board over the last few days was not due to scrapping or organizing. My husband's daughter (50) and her friend came in for a visit. Hubs is all things wonderful, but being a "host" is not really his strong suite so it was kind of up to me to keep the conversation going in the evenings when I got home from work, and then I am so OCD about waking people up that I got up in the morning and went out the the RV to get ready for work so I didn't bother them with the hair dryer etc. Your page looks great! Will be leaving love after my post.

grammadee - You are scrapping up a storm! So glad to hear you are not currently in harms way, I had been wondering that as well. I have a FB friend I met through playing games years ago on FB that live in Canada, I need to touch base with her. The few news feeds I have seen and the photos posted on FB look absolutely frightening. Oh my gosh as I was typing this a news report came on with even more scary footage.

kellyr21 - your cards are beautiful. I love the color pallet you chose they are so feminine and bright and cheery. will leave love after my post

LisaDV - Hope you get to work some scrappy time into your busy schedule soon, but first you need to rest and take care of that cold. Feel better soon.

scrapincin - Busy, busy, busy, but thankfully it is all good things going on for you. I know the feeling of wanting to get caught up on those events. Scrappy time will come soon, I am sure you will make it so.

I have some great Courthouse Lady news - In 2013 when I realized I was not going to be able to travel to the 3,144 US counties myself to get the Courthouse photos I began my search to find people who would give me permission to use their photos on my pages.  At first I focused my search on those that had large collection of photos.  I found several that had complete collections of individual States.  Right away I was given permission from individuals and groups for Washington State, Arkansas and Ohio.  The I experienced several vehement "NO's" by several others that had large collections.  I took those NO's pretty hard and stopped looking and concentrated on getting the ones I had put on pages.  After my March Madness in Calvinball, I am finally down to about 10 Courthouse photos from those initial States.  I decided I needed to begin my search again and hope I can find some more generous photographers.  I had contacted John Morrison of Prairie Vistas Photography back in 2013 who has an absolutely beautiful collection of the Kansas Courthouses.  He sold his photos in large format (like poster size), and I had asked him if I could purchase them at a 4 x 6 size.  On our last email in 2013 he said he was willing to do that and that he would work on a price, and then he never go back to me.  I didn't pursue at the time.  Desperate for more photos I decided to contact him again to see if he would still sell me the photos in that 4x6 size.  He responded to my email with a link to dropbox and he gave me all the digital files to print the photos myself in a 4x6 size.  How great is that!!!!! Now I have another batch of Courthouse photos to keep me busy!  And hopefully I can find some more generous folks to help me fulfill my dream!

Have a wonderfully Pokey day ladies!

Happy Friday! It has been raining here and Lord knows we need it. I have been taking nice long walks but today I think I will stay in and be cozy! Thanks for all the love about my cards. They have brought me so much joy and joy to lots of others who bought and will receive them. We just about sold out and that is so cool! I shared some pics of these cards in the gallery at Scrapbook.com and today I got an email that I won a $10 coupon to their store!!!! I was so surprised and elated especially since I wanted to order more stuff soon.

Lisa- I hope you continue to feel better! Sending you some virtual hot tea. Hope you get to scrap this weekend.

Cindy- Of course those dgks are talented. Look at you! LOL! I know you all must be so proud of them. School is going to be out soon. are you planning some fun crafting with them? Also, wow your team got Clay Mathews brother? I hope he will be a great player for you all.

Nylene- Oh boy, you did get lots of cards made. I know the teachers will love them.

Maribeth- That is so cool that you got all those courthouse pics. I know you will have a ball creating new pages with them.