POKEY PEAS REFUGEES CHALLENGE for MAY 2017

Happy Sunday! What a day I had. Today was our city's "Ride & Stride" event where they block off several main streets and folks can walk, skate, ride bikes and etc. My street is a main path in all this and this year they added a street fair with various kinds of vendors. I was so excited to walk outside and see it all. I just didn't realize the street was right in front of my apt. They had lots and lots of businesses and I even got a couple of beautiful blouses for $8.00 each! My dh and I had so much fun seeing everything. They even had a little petting zoo with South American and small looking goats, sheep, lamas and etc. So neat for the kids.

The biggest blessing of the day was the weird weather. When I heard it was to rain today I was hoping it would be delayed or be light. But this morning the sun was out some and smiled on us. Then, in the afternoon a very light drizzle came and stopped fast. Then at 3pm when the event ended... it started raining with thunder and lightening!!!!! We rarely have t&l. So crazy! LOL! I think all of the organizers and residents had their fingers crossed because heavy rains would of been a mess. Thank the Lord!

Also, thanks for all the compliments on my cards. I just love them all especially the ones with the pink ribbon bows.


LisaDV - How did the ice cream turnout? Sounds yummy! And what a special day for your son or should we call him young man. Congrats!

nylene - So happy to see you up and back at your craft room. I know you missed it. But take it easy.

scrapincin - My dh is fine and been enjoying his job. Yes, we have been watching some of the playoff games and that Lebron is still amazing! I hope they can win it again this year.

@elaynef - Congrats on 50 years of marriage! What an accomplishment and joy! Nice to see ya with us here too.

grammadee - Glad your back is feeling better. Hope all the scrappin' helped.

Waving hello to ya all and have a nice evening.

Good Monday morning. Yes, maribeth , getting back to reality can be accompanied with some sobbing! You back from camping, kellyr21 after the street festival, me after my frantic scrap weekend.

This morning I stowed my fresh crop of pages into protectors in albums and cleaned up my scraproom. Now I need to do some cleaning of the rest of the house, then drive into town for groceries and to run a few errands. My back is doing better, but it usually does when I incorporate a lot of different motions into the day--walk some, bend some, sit some, stretch some, stand some, lie down some,...

Have already pulled hamburger out of the freezer for supper, because dh will be home by then, so I guess I will need to cook something. (I have been living on frozen meals, eggs & macaroni, and ice cream all weekend)

Hoping everyone is feeling well and that you have a great Monday and a wonderful week!


ETA:  If anyone is writing a script for a sitcom, or perhaps filming for AFHV or something, you should have been watching me--or filming it would be better!--as I rushed around cleaning house, then decided to take out a rather large bag of garbage to the dumpster.  It was heavy and unwieldly, and I had to stop several time to readjust the load, once dropping it on the ground so a bunch of scrap scraps fluttered out.  I chased them down, put them back into the bag, and then proceded to the dumpster.  Lifted the bag up to tip it into the bin, and brushed my glasses right off my face!   Didn't know what to do for fear I would knock the glasses into the dumpster, or this would have been even more hilarious (picture a fat little 70 year old dumpster diving!).  Anyway, I managed to slowly coax the bag into the dumpster and retrieve the glasses that were teetering on the edge.

I am going to town now.  And maybe come home and take a nap...

Finally finished my project from the tutorial on Scrapbookers of County Craft Creations Facebook group. The little bows were from the Free Stuff thread here, I received them from nicolep .

@elaynef, what a beautiful photo. Your vacation sounds perfect even with a little rain. Happy 50th Anniversary.

scrapincin, beautiful layout. I finally left love on it this morning. That tag is SO cute!! I would buy that. I'm glad you had time to create. The chickens will lay eggs around 6 months.

grammadee, also great layouts.
I feel that way if I go to sleep after 11pm. Fairly sad and pathetic of me, I know. But there it is. So glad you got so many pages complete. Did you meet your goal? I'm glad your back is better now. Your dumpster diving story made me laugh. Glad I wasn't drinking my tea, I would have spewed.

justjac, that page is gorgeous.

maribeth, glad you had fun camping. That box is super cute. What will you be storing in it?


**I've been trying to keep up in the gallery even if I haven't kept up here in the last couple of days, but am still a few layouts behind.

kellyr21, sounds like your festival was very lucky. I'm glad the storm held off until the end of the event. I miss living in a city for things like this. I'm sure you had a wonderful time.
I had made that ice cream before. It's quite good. I did churn it in my ice cream maker about 5 minutes too long the other day though. The timer went off, I was doing something else and thought "oh, I can finish, it shouldn't hurt it". It made it a little more like ice milk than ice cream.

nylene, how are you feeling now? Glad you had some time and energy to create.

DS14's confirmation was very nice. I said I wouldn't cry. Of course, I cried, all while dd11 is giving me the look of dismay. I cry at books and tv shows/movies and get the same look from her. It was so nice to have my whole family together. We thought about it and the last time we were all together and out was in January for dd's children's hospital appointment. It's usually just 2 of us together at a time.

Yesterday, we allowed ourselves some down time and worked on getting the wired put on the top of the chicken run. We're 1/2 way through the run now. Today is school and chores.

I will be working this week to prep some food for the weekend. Don will be taking the kids to his mom's this weekend to give me a weekend of responsibility free time. Hurray! I still have no idea what I will do. I will definitely work on some banner swaps I signed up for. But I'm like do I want to do household projects, home decor projects, scrapbooking, just relax with a book, or some movies and nice meals or movies and popcorn. What's a girl to do with so many choices?!! So I'm playing it by ear and see what happens.

Have a great week everyone!

Good Tuesday evening. Hope you all had a good day. Looking forward to seeing your page, nylene. I mailed 3 mothers' day cards yesterday, but still have dd's here. Will have to remember to photograph it tomorrow.

That little drawer is really sweet, maribeth, and those RAK bows were the perfect finishing touch. And LisaDV, bet you are excited about this upcoming weekend. My advice is not plan too much: you want to ENJOY that "me" time! There should be enough room in each day to get some crafting done, do a little reading and relaxing, and whatever you want to do at the time. Don't should on yourself: just go with the flow.

Nothing creative going on around here today. Dh was busy in the yard. I worked in the basement. On Friday, I will defrost the freezer while he drives to pick up the beef from the meat cutters'. Before I can defrost, I needed to clear all my mixed media stuff, as well as other flotsam off the top of the freezers. I have been merrily sliding it all from the top of one to the top of the other when I needed to get access, but now they are both cleared off.

Next job was to extricate the tubs we use to transport meat from the top shelf, behind the door in the cold room. I told you I was short, right? Ended up toppling them all down, and nearly trapped myself in there with no way to open the door. Told you a filming crew should be following me around!

Somehow managed to get out of there and to wash out the tubs. I also organized the recycling stuff so there is room to bring the tubs of meat in and set them beside the freezer. Exciting times! Dh went to a supper meeting in town this evening, but I just relaxed watched some TV

Thank you everyone for your kind words on my little suitcase msliz I will be putting that one in my bedroom as my bedroom is all in blue and white, (my craft room is yellow, black and white). As for what I am going to put in it, not sure yet, but I will surely find something. I like things put away out of sight, so all these little boxes that I am making will be great for putting those little things in that don't really have a place to live.

Well camping trip starts tomorrow after work. Today is going to be a hugely busy day, so that is cool it will go fast.

LisaDV - ENJOY, ENJOY, ENJOY - whatever it is you choose to do.

Waving high to all - scrapincin , grammadee , nylene , kellyr21 , @elaynef , and justjac

Have fun camping, maribeth!

Here is my mothers' day card, as promised, before some unforeseen event may prevent me from sharing it.

happy mothers day by Gramma Dee, on Flickr

grammadee, beautiful card. I'll leave love on it later today.

msliz, I hope she gets the job so she won't be whining at you! 😉 Plus it'll give her something to do so she's not bored. I'm sure she's happy to home really.

nylene, what an adorable grandson! and super lovely layout. I will leave love after posting here. Do you skype or facetime if you have iphones? - That is what my sister does with her dgk that live 12 hours away. They do this daily actually.

grammadee, Oh, both of your dgs will be so thrilled with their gifts.
We'll be getting our plants from the nursery as well, since I never started my seeds because I didn't have a place to put them once I started them. Until last week I still had the trim and doors for upstairs in my dining area and the flooring for the upstairs hall. It's only been there since October, what's the rush, right? How large is your garden? We're hoping for the last weekend in May for planting. I get my bees that weekend as well.


I was up at 5am this morning, as I needed to put the patch on my dd for traveling today. Of course, I can rarely go back to sleep after waking anytime after 4. So starting my alone time with the Peas and the family still asleep. DD had a bad day yesterday, and I think it's due to leaving me, but once she's at Grandma's she has the time of her life. Just have to get her there.

My first order of business is to actually run errands in town. Not the best way to start my time, but it saves me from doing it on Monday, when the family is home, and I can get a special weekend treat for myself (not sure what yet). But the #1 reason for going is to go to Michaels or Joann's as I need some papers for my banner swaps that I want to work on. Scrapbook shopping definitely makes the trip worthwhile. Also I'll pick up sushi for lunch. Double bonus!

Have a wonderful weekend to all! I'm jumping off to get ready for "my" day.

msliz that sounds like a wonderful Saturday! LisaDV I hope you are enjoying your "all about me" day, getting all the rest and creativity you need.

I slept in this morning. It is raining here, so no outside work today. I might get to finish dgs's sign. Will take it downstairs and start the layers of Mod podge. I guess I could also start putting pages I pulled back into their albums. Not a job I like, but one that has to be done.

Happy Saturday, everyone!

Hi everyone! HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to all of you mom's! I have tto make a couple cards for my girls this evening! Bob is sick with vertigo so had to cancel my day with Kellie and her SO. We will reschedule for a Saturday in the near future. Supposed to go to Becky;s tomorrow but not sure about it. He's doing better then he was yesterday. And the day before he was in the bed for 24 hours. no food or anything. I did get liquids in him

I hope you all have special weekend
Closing for now.