POKEY PEAS REFUGEES CHALLENGE for JULY 2017

Happy July! We spent the whole day in town at the Canada Day celebrations. Pancake breakfast, parade, splash park, musical entertainment, tour of the school, lots of different junk food. It is still going on, but we came home. The little man missed his nap and is pretty tired. We had scrambled eggs here instead of staying in town for the beef on a bun. This was probably the hottest day all summer, so we have all had enough sun, I think.

Thanks for setting this up, nylene. Can't wait to see your pages.

Glad you got your electronics to behave, scrapincin.

Hope everyone is enjoying your weekend.

Happy July! The 7th month of the year which means the year is officially 1/2 over. I just really can't believe it!

maribeth, hope you had a great birthday. I'm glad you get a crafting weekend.

grammadee, I hope you had a good "down" day. Like Nylene said, your down days seem way more productive than mine. I bet it was nice to come home to a freshly painted house. I understand about trying to find time to craft. This month was so busy. I felt like when I did get into my room I just wanted to sit in front of the computer, usually because I was also eating a meal and taking a break from whatever project was taking place. That's why I started editing my 2017 photos - at least I felt like something productive was happening. Also I'm glad you shared the Brothers layout again last month. I couldn't fave it the other day on my phone. It is a fabulous page - everything about it. It sounds like Canada Day was a super fun!

nylene, you are quite productive from cleaning and creating to a massive creative session. I didn't know about the Refuge board until I received an email from someone, but for the life of me, I can't remember who sent me the email. It's been driving me crazy trying to remember.

justjac, Happy Summer Vacation!! A couple of fun trips planned and without anything else planned, maybe you'll be able to just relax doing only what you want to do. We school year round, with dd's health it's easier to take a slow steady pace. We have vacation last week (for her bday) and this week (for 4th of July). We take warm weather days in the winter/spring instead of snow days. Will you camp at the national park? tent, cabin, camper? You make the best outdoorsy layouts, so I will be looking forward to this trip being scrapped.

scrapincin, I hope the change in meds help. Also glad that your neighbor is home for the poor doggie’s sake. I'm not a fan of the cameo 3. I have a lot more problems with it cutting. I usually forget to change the auto blade to the ratchet, since I had a stockpile of the ratchet style.

kellyr21, how's your July going? Do you have big plans?

I cleaned off my desk and worked yesterday on my vintage spring swap banner pieces. I made little clay mold birds and dyed some canvas and then stenciled it with a leaf pattern. I hope to finish the 8 pieces for it today. I've been feeling quite lazy for household chores and just want to play in my craft room. Probably because I didn't get a chance to do much in June. I told Don he was taking care of meals and such (being me) for 2 whole weekends this month so I can concentrate on Christmas in July things.

Our little Ed (ible) is a bantam rooster. He just started crowing (cock-a-doodle-dooing) when we let him out of the coop in the morning. It's so cute! Don goes in the coop and all of the chickens rush over to him as he typically feeds them all the little bugs we find in the garden. Although even the chickens have had enough June bugs.

Off to get ready for church. I forgot that yesterday was Saturday and thought it was Friday all day.

whoa....you make the 1st prize in scrapping injuries!

@elaynef - LOL, - Hello, glad to see you hanging out
grammadee - Finger is doing well. Wrapping it with that self stick gauze tape to keep it a bit immobile as the cut was right on the knuckle and doc says to try not to bend it too much. Yes many folks do get to have the day off, but alas not us. 1st business day of new month is always busy accounting wise, but I don't think the plant and the quarry will have much business today. But on the bright side I have two Monday's and two Fridays this week.

Talk to you ladies later......

Happy Monday all! I have missed so much here I must go back to June's thread to get caught up. I had a busy day yesterday and feeling plum tired today. So lots of resting and self care today. Plus, Ron is off the rest of the day and tomorrow so we should have fun for the holiday.

A Ross store update: Remember I told you all I sent an email to the store manager praising them for such great service and a well kept shop. She responded and thanked me as well as surprised me with a 20% discount. Well, when I went to the store to use it one of the cashiers asked it I was the lady who sent the email. I said yes and she said the manager posted it so the staff could see and thanked me again. What a nice surprise! Then she was being funny by asking me to tell the manager how she and her colleagues were doing a great job too. LOL!

maribeth- HAPPY HAPY BELATED BIRTHDAY!!!! I hope you had a great time and hope that finger continues to heal. What a fun way to get an injury! LOL! Scrapping!!!

LisaDV- Your rooster sounds like "Mr. Personality!" LOL! No big plans over here so far. My dh and I might just be couch potatos today and tomorrow. I still and having the shopping bug but other than that just chilling. I have to check out the "Christmas in July". Sounds like fun.

Waving hi to you all and have a great afternoon/evening!!

Happy Fourth of July, everyone! kellyr21, I hope you and your hubby get the down time you need. Happy scrafting, maribeth! Our town always has a great fireworks show on Canada Day, but we were just wiped after a day in the sun, so after bringing the little guy home to bed, no one had the energy to drive back into town to watch. I guess we could have driven just up over the brim of our hill (about a mile from here), but none of us wanted to move even that far. Doesn't get dark enough for fireworks this time of year around here until after 10PM.

What are the rest of you doing today? I have a date with the weeds in my garden. It rained yesterday morning, so the soil should be perfect for releasing those stubborn little roots. Today and Thursday are my only two unplanned days this week, and by Thursday those weeds may be cemented into the soil.

OK. Must gulp down my coffee and get my butt out there...

Good morning ladies

I hope you all had a wonderful 4th. No scrafting for me, did a few things around the house, and organized in the craft room a bit. Had a great lazy day for the most part. I needed that I think.

Have a great day.

Happy Wednesday! Sounds like you all had a nice holiday. We did too. We went shopping earlier in the day and the crowds were low which was good. Then we picked up a few groceries and cooked our holiday meal. The rest of the day was lots of rest and a firework show. I took my new canon camera to see if I could get a few good pictures. I still have a lot to learn with this camera. When I was trying to get those quick pics my camera had to auto focus, focus, focus ... then snap! By the time it took the pic, the firework image passed. LOL! Need to practice more for next year.

Oh, thanks you all for the praise about my newer art show video. LisaDV and I think nylene asked about the video. I used "movie maker" on my computer. It is so fun to use. You just add your pics, music and select the digital features and that is it. Love making these videos.

grammadee - Glad to hear your garden is growing except for the weeds. That does sound like a headache to have to "weed" the weeds.

nylene - That layout is just darling!!!! I have to go see it and leave some praise. The background looks amazing. How fun to try something new.

So glad that you had a lazy day, maribeth. Those are so needed, more often than we get them.

grammadee, you and your husband are such awesome parents!! I know your dd appreciated the help. Of course, now I'm excited to know what you picked up for yourself too. The dogs did ok. The older one had her tail between her legs so you knew she was scared, but she just laid right beside my feet so I could pet her, and then dd brought out a blanket and the dog moved to lay on the bottom of her blanket. The beagle jumped up in dd's lap and stayed there most of the time.

nylene, thanks. Don and I are excited to hopefully get a definitive answer and treatment plan. DD is a bit nervous with all of the testing. Her and I are flying out as well which adds to her nervousness. It'll be her first time. Your page is beautiful. I love your splatters and inked background and the colors are perfect.

@elaynef, you are being quite productive. Kudos for editing and ordering photos as editing photos for printing is my least favorite activity.

kellyr21, I'll have to check out moviemaker. Thanks.

I had my first big batch of squash from the garden yesterday. I picked 7 regular zucchini and 2 yellow crooknecks. It's so nice to have it fresh from the garden.

scrapincin or nylene, have you ever used the deep cut blade for the cameo 3? I have to cut chipboard for my summer banner and realized 2 days ago that the regular blade wouldn't cut it. I ordered a set of blades that included a deep cut in hopes that it would. I should have it Friday - gotta love Amazon prime.

Off to work some more on my banner. I'd like to have everything ready to put on once I cut the banner base, and I still have a beach umbrella to piece together.

Hi ladies......busy paying bills this morning so I didn't get a chance to post. Home for a quick lunch and thought I would say HI!

nylene - Your page is GREAT!!!!! I love that you stepped out of your comfort zone, you did an absolutely fantastic job on this. I am sure since this page turned out so wonderful, you will be more willing to do more experimenting in the future.

Have a wonderful Thursday ladies.

Hi everyone I am really doing well just did not have much to write about so I didn't!!!!! Also I was making decisions, watching kids, Monday i was busy and Tuesday was the holiday! We did not do much of anything on the 4th! I did get some of chores done. I am waiting for the Tim Holtz stamping press to come! Everyone is getting theirs and I am waiting patiently! I did order the Tim Holtz Script dies to use on my cards! I can't wait to try them out!
I have so enjoyed all of your creations and photos.

BBL have a boy friend of Bobbys here and need to get him home.

@ Kellyr21 here's a link for the spikey pod it sure looks like the one you photographed

Spikey Pod