POKEY PEAS REFUGEES CHALLENGE for September 2016

Happy Monday! I had a nice weekend. Yesterday, I was so bummed! I was looking forward to going to Hobby Lobby and we drove ALL the way there and it was CLOSED! I totally forgot they are closed on Sundays!!!! Man, I was so looking forward to it. So I will have to try again soon. LOL! Well, we did make it through our power outage. We went shopping for a while and then came home and went to bed. THe power returned a lot earlier than we though so that was great. They were replacing one of those huge power/telephone lines and it was a productions of workers, equipment and trucks.

Yeah, I am looking forward to these personal guitar lessons and I hope I will continue to improve. Also, I am preparing for my holiday cards. I might have to order more stuff because M's only had one roll of satin red ribbon in 1 1/2 inch which is what I need. I can't believe this might be another year that I have a hard time finding basic ribbon. Geez!!!

grammadee - I can't believe it is that cold there already! I wish I could send you some of our heat. You all did so much in your garden and I am glad you were able to prepare the veggies for future use. That is great! I have never canned anything so that sounds like a great way to keep the summer going all year long.

scrapincin - Our LA Rams play for the first time tonight and we will be watching. Sorry to hear about RG111 injury already. Boy, what a shame! I want to go to one of local high school games. We have a h.s. around the corner and have never been. Plus, I think it would be fun for my dh because he went to a small h.s. and they didn't have organized sports. So he missed all the Friday games and fun.

LisaDV - Sounds like your home is shaping up more. I know you are so glad the washer is fixed. Good news!

nylene - Oh, I am so glad your dd is betters. My prayers for you all. So stressful! Glad you get to start back to tutoring. That will be fun and great medicine for you. Hang in there!

justjac 's card is gorgeous IRL. That BB glitter paste is so rich in colour. And I LOVE that cute little turtle.

I hope your dd is feeling better, nylene . What meds caused the problem? Neither I nor my dd can handle Demerol or any of its derivatives: they are supposed to relax you, but we get VERY jittery. Her anxiety goes WAY up, and I get muscle spasms. And there are a couple of anti nausea drugs I have had post surgery that have the same effect on me.

Too bad about the HL non shopping trip, kellyr21 . I hate when that happens!

I love a good card exchange, but won't be playing this year. I will be hard pressed to get my "normal" batch of cards made after I get back. Two weeks from tonight, I will be in Venice! My SIL and I went through the shore excursions tonight, and I think I will book some tomorrow in between playing with carrots.

LisaDV I love your page, and I love the concept of a Craft War! Do you have a link? Isn't it nice to be able to wash clothes AND get some housework done? (Or some crafting?)

Funny you should mention raising pigs. Growing up, we had them and I remember we kids had to round them up if (actually WHEN) they got out of their pen. Sneaky animals, pigs are. I remember later driving into my brother's farm and his wife outside trying to get pigs out of her veggie garden and yelling at him to "Get out here or there will be bacon all over this yard!!!" When we were building this house 30 years ago on dh's family farm, I got a lot of teasing at work about living so far out in the bush. I remember one coworker gasping about how I could agree to being so far out of town. I told her I was good with moving out here, but I had one hard fast rule: NO PIGS! So far, that rule has stood...

I finished a couple more fall pages this morning. Quick and easy these were: back to basics, mostly cs, photos, and letter stickers. The older brother, here, loves to go for nature walks, spend hours watching for ducks and birds and bugs. The youngest one, who just turned one, has not mastered walking yet, but does not like being tied down in a stroller or restrained in someone's arms, so he does his own thing.

Fall walk See You by Gramma Dee, on FlickrFall walk my way by Gramma Dee, on Flickr

grammadee My mom's cousin-in-law was newly married on the farm and very upset about the large pig in her garden. She went to scare it off by firing the shotgun and has never lived down the name "Pat the Pig-killer." Whoops.

Love your page nylene ! Such cute dgk's!

I am up to my elbows in carrots again. Yesterday, I prepped the nice ones for long term storage, and grated the culls. Today I am dealing with the grated ones. Have a couple of carrot cakes in the oven. Plans for muffins this afternoon. I also want to get out to the garden and dig another couple of buckets so I start the process all over again tomorrow.

Before I got going in the kitchen, I put together what I thought was going to be a quick page, but of course I got playing. I like the results, though, especially with how the combo of enamel dots and Nuvo drops turned out. This page will need a day to dry before it goes into the album.

Fun stuff by Gramma Dee, on Flickr

Have a good day, Ladies!

Hi Everybody! Hope you all have a great week going! sounds like everyone is busy busy busy! I have had kids and been doing things around home but no scrapping yet. I really need to get my act together.

nylene- Soooo happy to hear that good report from your dermatologist! Music to my ears. I know those students you work with have got to love you cuz you have to be doing a dynamite job. Love your layouts! You are totally enjoying that Silhouette! I am so happy for you. Sorry to hear about your daughter reaction to those meds. Kellie has problems with meds when she has surgery.

grammadee-you get more done in one day then I get done in a week! by the way your cruise is a month long? You better take extra batteries and and photo card cuz you will have enough photos to make a coffee table size book!

LisaDV- loving your layouts. Gladto hear you got those appliances working and that your family are feeling better.

justjac- love that sweet turtle card AND your birthday card with the numbers. You do such great work!

@kelly21- Glad to hear about the guitar lessons! I guess you heard RG is out for about 10 weeks with a broken bone in his shgouler. And again we lost our opening day game. Thank goodness the college ball I watch is more promising!

Ok I need to get a few things done so will BBL

I agree, no matter what she says. Although I did tell hubs that when the kids were out of the house, I wasn't going to cook for him anymore and was just going to "do my own thing". Which means I'm going to move into my craft room and stay there. I think he was actually worried that I was serious! LOL! I love your title and the whole layout is way cute. Those two are adorable!


I'll be cleaning too. I can't even see my dining table!!! The canning supplies made it there and not to there storage spot (of course, we're still working in the basement which is where they go. But I do have there spot all cleaned and ready now. Of course, they'll be coming back out next week for jelly and applesauce.) And, of course, there is just a ton of other junk that needs attention. I've tried to freeze baked goods and others do it with success, but it just taste so funny to me if I do, and I use my vacuum sealer and everything. It just makes the texture funny. It's probably all in my head -- or I'm just goofing the process up.

I have to brag about my kids. Don & I went to a town hall meeting the other night. When I got home, my dd had picked up the bathroom making it all nice and neat. My ds had did the dishes as he was told, but also made GF bread and cleaned up after himself. This in itself is terrific. It was the best non-mix GF bread we've had since using GF. The next morning I told my son I saw that the recipe was on my phone's internet browser and that I'd print it later. He said, "oh, I made substitutions." The recipe was for regular gluten bread. He came up with his own GF mix by using my all purpose mix and brown rice flour. Then he said, it called for instant yeast and we just had active. So I had to change the order it was put together. Upon questioning what that meant, he then explained all the steps he took. He "proofed" the yeast. He just didn't know that term. I was SO, SO proud of him I can't even begin to tell you. OK, brag over.

My ATC swap cards. The background is a shaving cream print, then stenciled with gesso, then another stencil with orange, and then pink distress ink sponged with another stencil, and then I've already forgotten. oops. The image was stamped on tissue paper, colored with copics, and cut out with the coordinating die. Then adhered. I used a wink of stella pen to add shimmer to the hat feathers and then a little rhinestone earring and brooch.
09 16 16_ldi_0020 by Lisa Davolt, on Flickr

Happy Saturday! I hope you all are enjoying yourselves. I hope to make it to Hobby Lobby again. LOL! My guitar lesson went well the other day. Practice is what I need to continue to do. Also, my art is shaping up and finished a couple of cards. I was using some old glitter paper and boy was it sooo messy. I love that the newer ones don't rub off.

LisaDV - Oh I love that card you made. All the fun techniques you used sounds like it was very exciting to see how it would turn out. Love the quote too. I just read CoCo Chanel's book this year. What a woman! Your ds is such a sweetheart and so industrious! Maybe he will become a chef of some sort of food expert.

scrapincin - What a bad break for RG3! I wonder if his career is over?

grammadee- You have made some wonderful pages! Off to see them in the gallery.

nylene - Your layouts are so sweet. Oh my goodness!

grammadee , I've been making my own mix. I'm not sure it's any better or any worse than store bought. I really need to do a baking comparison. I will get the recipes I've been using to you the first part of the week. I think vitamart? is where I order most from that I don't pick up locally (I'll get that to you too). Great pages. Love the heart for the o in one and the colors.

kellyr21 , Hope you made it to HL today. I agree with liking the newer glitter paper since it doesn't rub off. Hope to see your cards soon.

nylene, I love how you used a color page as the background. We love to see your pages; you won't drive us nuts at all.

My son usually only wants to cook food from other countries. My daughter is the one contemplating being a chef and spends a lot of time in the kitchen.

I was hoping to finish off a scrapbook layout today, but was super busy all day long with cleaning, as those darn elves never showed up here, and with some baking. I did finish the last 2 chapters (the tear jerker ones) of Where the Red Fern Grows which I was reading aloud to dd. She's read it before, but typically we pick favorites for our night time reading. But last night I said I would finish it during the day. As we both sat there snuggling and blubbering, I was like, this is why we couldn't read it last night. 

OK, gotta go get my evening preps done. Good night, pokeys.

Good Sunday evening, barely. It's 11pm my time, and I can't remember the last time I stayed up this late. Trying to keep dd on a schedule and with her hurting every night, even if she has a good day, means she wants mom to sleep next to her. We'll transition her to her own room once the trim and the curtains are up, until then I don't really mind (most of the time) her being the peanut butter. But today, my ds shot a deer (great shot so the deer didn't suffer) for the youth hunt. Don took it to a local butcher and they always have it back same day. So I need to stay up and vacuum seal all of it into usable portions and get it in the freezer. Tomorrow we're hoping for a nice day to finish cleaning out the pool.

nylene , that is too funny!!!  Also, one of the advantages to homeschooling. I'm so quick to tear up at any little thing. My kids looked at me like I had 2 heads while I was crying at the end of Charlotte's Web and dd was in K. I remember crying back in 3rd grade when I read it to myself. It didn't change. Yesterday, my dd was telling me how I cry at everything - movies, tv shows, books if they're the slightest bit sentimental or sad, but that this book was different. Yeah, because you're crying too was what I was thinking.

grammadee , awe, your dgs must have had a blast digging potatoes today!  I hope you got some good photos. Those 3 do sound like they are just as good as elves. With your mention of carrying potatoes to the basement, I was wondering how your knee is doing? I don't want you throwing it out before the big cruise.   Also, could you pm me your email? It will be easier to send the gf flour mix recipes I've tried and my next one that I will be trying.  It'll be Tuesday or Wednesday (those are the days Don is usually on client site and I get a bit more breathing room).

scrapincin , so sorry that you suffer from IBS. I think it's a cop out by doctors to say we don't know what's wrong. Seems like so many people are being diagnosed with it. I was afraid that's what they would say about dd. Of course, I don't know if abdominal migraine is much better.  It still basically means you're on your own to figure out the triggers which can be anything. Glad you got to go fishing though!  Did you catch anything?? Did you start collecting your supplies yet?

I was able to finish my layout after church today. I knew I wanted to sew the rays. But I couldn't find the cord to my old machine that I only use for paper. So I bit the bullet and used my fabric machine.  I remembered how much I love the look of sewing on a page and ordered an itty bitty single stitch machine that I could leave out on my desk for $17. I also remembered how much I loved my fabric machine. Of course, that still doesn't mean I'll do anything about it. No time for fabric when I have so much paper crafting that I WANT to do.... Here's my layout.

YouAreMySonshine by Lisa Davolt, on Flickr

I used my cameo for the template of the rays and for the sonshine in the title. I actually like the way it turned out. Although there isn't a lot of embellishment on the page, I didn't feel it needed it with so many patterns.