POKEY PEAS REFUGEES CHALLENGE for MAY 2017

Happy Mothers' Day, everyone!

Do you have any special plans with your kids &/or your mom? We will have supper with dd and her family.

Happy Mother's Day!

msliz , hitting all of the craft stores with coupons sounds like an excellent day to me. Sounds like you found lots of goodies at bargain prices. I hope you can find some time to play with it all.
  My family wouldn't even think to put bows on them. They'd just say it. Of course, if it was on my to get done list, I'd be thrilled it was completed. 

scrapincin , so sorry Bob is sick. I hope he continues to get better and quickly.

nylene , Sammie sounds like my type of girl. Love a plan! I just have to remind myself it's not the end of the world if everything doesn't go to plan. Don's made it his mission in life to "lighten me up". He succeeded. Are they just closing AC warehouse temporarily or forever?

kellyr21 , I will leave love in the gallery in the next day or two. I oohed and awed over it this morning, but didn't want to try leaving a comment as I had just woke up after 4 hours of sleep and was on my phone. It's so very pretty. I love all of those pp banners.

My weekend didn't go according to plan, oh wait, I didn't have a plan! OK. I'm good. I had a rough idea that I wanted to work on my banner swaps, which I did cut out the bases for and for the spring swap even adhered the base pp on. But I received my Clique Kit for May and decided I wanted to play with it. I have killed the kit. I made 7 layouts. I still have quite a bit of the embellishments leftover, but only about 4-5 small pieces of pp. I also watch several movies. Some repeats. 

It's 4pm on Sunday and the family is on their way home. They left about 10am, but decided to go watch Guardian of the Galaxy 2 again. We just saw it last Sunday. Of course, we all wanted to see it again the next day. 

I'm sharing a couple of layouts -one from last Thursday and my first layout from Saturday. I also did a companion journaling page in 8.5x11 to go with the last layout. I just didn't have room for my journaling on the page.
 
Double Rainbow Days by Lisa Davolt, on Flickr

You Bird Catch by Lisa Davolt, on Flickr
The little gold stickers at the top say "most people are content to bird watch" then underneath the photos, "not you, you bird catch".

Hope everyone is having a wonderful day. 

For all you sweet pea mom's. I saw this online and wanted to share it with you all. LOL!

It's Time to go to School
One early morning, a lady went in to wake up her son. "Wake up, son. It's time to go to school!"

Son: "But why Mom? I don't want to go."
Mom: "Give me two reasons why you don't want to go."
Son: "Well, the kids hate me for one, and the teachers hate me, too!"
Mom: "Oh, that's no reason to not to go to school. Come on now and get ready."
Son: "Give me two reasons why I should go to school."
Mom: "Well, for one, you're 52 years old. And for another, you're the Principal!"
www.mothersdaycelebration.com

Glad your Home Alone weekend went well, LisaDV. It's nice to just go with the flow.

Good to hear that you have the scrapping bug, scrapincin. Can't wait to see what you do with your new papers. And fish shaped cookies sound fun: it's great to get crafty in the kitchen as well. Hope your dh feels better soon.

We had a nice supper with dd & family. Had to cook the steaks indoors because it was raining, but it all worked out. Got some cute shots of mama & boy, so I am happy.

This morning I made some birthday cards for my niece's girls whose bd's are next week. Some of you have seen them and commented already. Thanks for the love. The oldest one turns 18 and is turning into a lovely young lady.

be wonderful by Gramma Dee, on Flickr

Her sister turns 13. She has always been quite shy, but has really started coming out of her shell.

teen by Gramma Dee, on Flickr

Here's a quick visit! Wanted to let everyone know that Bob is doing much better! Only one real dizzy spell today. So still not driving etc. Just in case. Tomorrow night we have recognition at Bobby's school . I can't wait to see how he does. He is such a nice boy and he loves school! Speaking of school Kelly I read that little piece you posted to them and neither one was expecting to hear the last line! Maggie's mouth just dropped open when she heard he was the principal. Too funny! Worked on the patio today just getting things cleaned up from the winter.

nylene will be watching the American Ninja Warrior when it starts and will listen for the guy you were talking about. Bobby and I like to watch that show together. I tell you the strength you have to have to do those obstacles is tremendous. There is a guy around Cleveland who has built a training course similar to that one just for kids to gain strength.

Going to get off for now as I have already written a book! BBL

kellyr21 , that was funny. I read it to my kids too. Your Mom day cards are so beautiful. I just love what you do with bows.

scrapincin , glad Bob is doing better. Hopefully he'll just continue to improve with no set backs. Please take a picture of your fish cookies and post here for us all to see. They sound adorable. The kids went fishing at their Grandma's last weekend and left the bluegill on a stringer in the lake. Well, a hungry turtle ate most of their catch. lol. The learned to put them in a bucket after that.

grammadee , I love your sign. It's fabulous. DGS is going to love it.

Our internet went out yesterday and when it came back on we could get TV (netflix, amazon, hulu) but we still could not access google or any other website from our computers or phones. We could get on the facebook app on our phones. It was very annoying especially with the virus out there right now. You don't think about how much you now rely on the computer for everything - phone numbers, I don't even have a yellow book; any piece of information, just look it up real quick. Today it seems to be working fine.

I'm still trying to get over "home alone" time. I stayed up late both nights and got up early both days. I said earlier that if I go to bed after 11 I feel hung over the next day. I didn't let it stop me during the weekend as alone time is too precious to waste. But yesterday I was moving way slower than I should have and I woke up this morning still feeling that hung over feeling. Oh, But I went back to bed at 5:30 this morning and sometimes that makes me feel that way too. Maybe that's why I feel that way today. Guess I should think before I speak write. Of course, I have a list of things to get done today, so I best be getting to them. 

Wishing everyone a wonderful week.

nylene, I missed the birthday thread yesterday with the Internet out and just caught up today. Happy belated birthday to you! I hope you had a wonderful day as no one deserves it more!

I too missed your Birthday I am so sorry! I hope you had a very special day. Knowing your family I am sure you did!

Happy Birthday Nylene!!!!!!

Yes, nylene ! Happy belated birthday to you! Hope your family spoiled you. You deserve it!

Oh, nylene... that's not good! I hope the puffers help you out, and you are feeling better soon!

I spent the day organizing things in here, which is not my favorite passtime. I have some space now on my scrap counters but still need to go through my papers & cs and put them away where they belong. Also need to sort my scraps by colour to put into my scrap files.

Won't get that done tomorrow: have a day in town planned, including vehicle service and errands for dh, but also printing pic's at WM, dropping into the LSS, making a stop at M's, and supper with justjac. Looking forward to it!

Happy Wednesday! Not much going on today so far (even though I have several things to do.) LOL! Hope you all are well today. I am working on more cards. These are smaller size A2 cards. I've haven't made very many in this size so it is a challenge to figure out how to add my style to them. hummmmm.....

nylene- Sending you lots of hot tea and a hug. I hope you feel better soon. Take it easy. We can hold the fort down here while you rest.

Waving hi to you all and have a good one.

Happy Friday everyone! Hope all peas and families are feeling healthy and happy and ready to take on the weekend. In Canada, this is a long weekend, and dd & her little guy will be at the farm for part of it. (Her dh is working this weekend). Hoping that the garden will be dry enough to do some planting!!!

Yesterday I got all the copied pages I have into my dgs's album. Still have one more batch to pick up. Also almost finished the cover page. I took a page out of maribeth 's book: I don't have a photo to put on this page yet, so I printed a proof on regular paper to stand in for it. I am thinking of also adding a quote, and will be asking for help for that on another thread. I still need to cut some fillers for the PL protectors I am putting in at the end of the album. The only other scrapping I will be doing for this book is the last page, and I have an idea for that, but haven't started yet.

grad book cover page by Gramma Dee, on Flickr

And it is STILL too wet to garden, so I worked on sorting all the stuff that has been accumulating on my scrap counters.  Found enough scraps that worked together with a photo I had taken of my dd on Mothers' Day and printed this past Wednesday, so instead of putting them away, I glued this page together.  It will be the May page in my family calendar for 2018.

May 2018 by Gramma Dee, on Flickr

nylene, so sorry to hear that you haven't fought those germs off yet. Praying for healing.

scrapincin, thanks for the silhouette update. I downloaded it this week, took one look at the changes and closed the thing up. I dislike when the change the location of things and you have to relearn. ha. Glad to know that it will be easy to deal with.

msliz, did you go to your retreat yesterday? Did you get everything accomplished you hoped to? Most importantly, did you have fun?

grammadee, I left love on those gorgeous layouts already. Have fun with your dgs.

justjac, I've been leaving love on your layouts from LOAD as well. Hope you are well.

maribeth, hope you are off and enjoying your camping trips with lovely weather.

kellyr21, Did you get your cards figured out? I like the square cards so much better than the A-2s but I started with A-2s and have 3 shoe boxes full of them. Hope you share them when you finish.

It's Sunday and we're leaving for Grand Rapids today. Although both kids were not feeling well yesterday evening, so we will leave later than planned. DS14 worked in the rain 2 days this week and it's been a bit chillier. We were hoping for nice weather and a zoo trip today, but it looks like rain. DD has a neurology follow-up tomorrow. We're taking both vehicles as the kids and I will come back on Tuesday morning.

Hope every one has a great start to their week.

Good evening Pokeys! I hope everyone is having a great weekend! Mine is almost over being I am east of everyone! LOL We had the fishing Derby today but got rained out in the early afternoon. I caught 2 fish and had problems with my rod like the line breaking twice. But we had a great turnout and lots of kids were there! The cookies were a success too! The little ones enjoyed them. Below is a photo of them after they were iced.

18619921_10209122981612648_6729025408298019963_n by Cindy Blair, on Flickr


Nylene I sure hope you are feeling better and will be up and around soon! We miss you but more we want you healthy.

You gals are leaving some great pages in the gallery. I left lots of love over there a while ago. Well I am tired so going toget off of hereand go to bed. Have a good night BBT!