POKEY PEAS REFUGEES CHALLENGE for October 2017

Hi everyone! Yes I am alive! It just seemed like I could not get here. Between baseball games and kids and dinner etc I just could not get time. I
am so loving the Indians I hope they go all the way. I am doing well after my fall-still have some bruises on my knees but soreness is gone.

nylene-I hate to say this but no I have not received your email yet. Try looking under sent in your folders and it should be there and send it again It does not have to be you one time I did not get an email for several months. It had been wandering around in cyber space I guess.It must work like the US Post Office works! LovAlice in Wonderland. ed your layout about

grammadee-loved your pages for your calendar. I swear that will be one of the coolest calendars around. Thanks again for organizing the card exchange.

Happy Thanksgiving to you and justjac . I know both of you will be participating.

elayne I want to say Thank you for your nice comments on my pages . Waving hi to Jana, Kelly everyone I may have missed-old brain ya know I have to go get dinner going BBL

My mother made the dress.  (Double knit..remember that?) I still have the pin too.
I can't believe the baby dress coincidence.  They must have made a lot of those!
So sorry about your dh...hope for him to be better soon.

Good Morning! I want to wish all our Canadian friends a very
                                                           HAPPY THANKSGIVING !!!

I hope you all have a very enjoyable day with family and friends.

nylene so sad to hear about Steve. Poor guy! You two keep getting one thing then another. I am sending you an email with a screen shot of your Alice in Wonderland layout in the Featured Layouts on Scrapbook.com.

justjac Looks like you have been busy scrapping. Your pages are beautifully done and I will be leaving you love in the gallery later.

grammadee Thanks again for organizing our card swap I don't know how we would get along without you and Nylene! Hope you have a great day too.

kellyr21 I have been watching games-baseball, college and the Browns. Good thing most of them are only happening during the weekend. Otherwise I would get nothing done. Have not seen how your team is doing. You will have to update me.

LisaDV you are so busy also I can not keep up. Have you ever received any feedback on your DD's testing at May?

Ok going to get off of here. Have a great day everyone! I will check back later to see how everyone is doing!

Happy Wednesday everyone!

scrapincin, so glad to hear the soreness is gone. Although I don't watch baseball on TV, I do hope the Indian's go all the way this year. Thanks for asking about dd. We go back to the mayo this weekend. We're just there on Monday (hopefully) for the one test (autonomic nerve test) they couldn't work in while we were there the last time. It's a non-invasive and she can have light meals. Just no caffiene or smoking 4 hours before the test, since she doesn't get either, we should be good. lol. The antibiotics they put her on for the small intestine bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) seemed to be doing some good but then they were gone and after a few days it was back to yuck for her. Right now she's fighting a cold. I just called the mayo yesterday, talked to one of the GI's nurses today. She thinks the dr. will just order another round of antibiotics without doing another test for SIBO. So I'm waiting to hear back.

grammadee, I know this is late, but if it was just dh & I pumpkin pie is totally a meal! Oh, who am I kidding, even with the kids, it could be breakfast. I love your latest pages and card. I was all caught up in the gallery this morning, but now I see I need to head back over. We worked outside on Sunday afternoon and all day Monday. With uneven ground, it makes projects a bit more difficult. How many dogs do you have? I've told DH we need some type of fenced area for our dogs. That stinking beagle does really well and then every few days gets on a scent and runs off into the woods and someone has to chase him down. And now it's a month before deer season and so DH wants them leashed each time they go out. They need to run some.

nylene, I hope Steve is doing better and the kidney stone passed or even better, shrunk.

justjac, I left you love in the gallery on all of your layouts. I always enjoy seeing them. I think of myself as a paper scrapper too, but honestly, I can do layouts so much more quickly in digital form. Out of my current 211 layouts 131 are digital. Also I can work on a page while taking a break which includes eating lunch. I'm glad Dean was able to come with you to your Mom's. I'm sure you had a great time. Hope you had a safe trip home.

I'm just trying to keep things moving at the moment and my head above water. I've totally lost my little calendar book and can't find it anywhere. I know I had it here at home. Just have no idea where to look next. I've spent most of my free time creating digital layouts. I'm trying to finish my 2009 Christmas pages. I've been working on them all year and I'm tired of having them loom over me.

I hope to be back later this week and that everyone has a wonderful rest of the week.

Thanks for the love in the Gallery, Ladies!

Glad your dh is beginning to feel better, nylene. I hope kellyr21 checks in soon. I had not realized the fires were that far south. What a year for natural catastrophes! Thanks for volunteering to get in touch with maribeth about the card exchange.

LisaDV, we have seen moose, deer, and bear on our yard. We hear coyotes chattering not too far away most nights. The occasional skunk passes through. Our dogs aren't that fierce, but I think they are annoying enough to wildlife to keep them around the perimeter most of the time. Our two outdoor cats patrol for mice and squirrels that think they would like to live in the garage or figure out a way to get into the house. The dogs dig for moles and gophers in the garden. Not sure who does the most damage: the critters or the dogs?

Today I assembled 10 quick cards from SU! kits. Not as quick as I thought they might be: these were kits from a class from a couple of years ago I did not attend for some reason. Anyway, the directions say to "adhere the [whatever] from the large bin". Of course the large bin is not in my scraproom, so that meant I had to improvise. Some of the sentiments were pre stamped, but most were not. Fortunately I have bags and bins of all manner of Christmassy stuff all over the place, so was able to finish these ten cards.

This afternoon I am meeting justjac to drive to a nearby city to attend an adult education conference tomorrow. I have agreed to facilitate a couple of sessions--one on the nature of adult learners, and one on dealing with learners with different personalities. Not sure if anyone will sign up for those workshops, but I am ready if they do.

Of course, before meeting up with Jac I "need" to stop at the LSS to pick up some Ella & Viv Christmas paper, and maybe something else that might catch my eye. I may also print some photos from our family reunion in August in prep for the weekend crop NEXT weekend.

Must get off the computer and start packing my suitcase!

grammadee, my dogs do more damage than the gofers and moles too. Your conference sounds very interesting. I'd go to both of those topics. You are so awesome to continue to teach. I'm wishing you and justjac safe travels.

nylene, super page. I left love early on it. I used to use silhouette to design my layouts in too. Especially when I was cutting lots of page parts with it. It really worked well for you. I love this page.

kellyr21, so glad you checked in and that the fires are not by you. I pray that continues to be the case.

I had to drive Don's big ol' honking truck to town today. He couldn't get in at his oil change place and so I took it to my quick place. Side swiped the concrete pole coming out of the bay. Yellow streaks all down the back quarter panel. The attendant grabbed a rag and wiped it all off and said "he'll never know". Of course, I told him I hit the pole anyway. Everything took longer than anticipated in town so what should have been a couple of hours in town turned into like 4, meaning at least 6 hours of my day gone with travel to and from home. After dh & I walked the dogs, I had some school work I needed to actually sit with dd for and then ds needed me to administer his weekly math tests. When all was said and done, it was after 6. I should have done something else productive, but... yeah, didn't happen. Tomorrow.

Good night.

Love that you are included crocheted items on your pages, @elaynef.

I hate driving dh's truck, LisaDV. Glad you were able to get the paint off the side.

Glad you are safe, kellyr21. And I hope your family remains safe as well, nylene.

scrapincin, you can't be behind in scrapbooking. Crafting is an art, and wherever you are is where you were meant to be.

Conference went well, and justjac got me safely back to her home yesterday evening. I drove home from there.

I had made up my mind not to make any more Christmas cards for awhile, but while I was clearing off my scrap counter I found enough materials to create another dozen this morning. But then I put the rest of the bits and pieces away into a bin for later. Finished a bd card I had started last week for our niece.

My next tasks are to integrate some new purchases (Jac & I "happened" to stop at a LSS before heading home) into my stash, and start getting organized for our crop next weekend. My focus will be on getting the family reunion album finished for copying for Christmas gifts. Already have a tub of supplies and photos packed for that. But will also pack up my FALL supplies: I have some fun fall photos I took in Calgary, plus really cool ones sent by my dd yesterday. I have a large iris case of autumn themed papers. I need to add in leaf stamps and dies and stickers.

Have a wonderful Sunday, Pokeys!

Good Tuesday evening, Pokeys.

Love your page, nylene . Sounds like your new way of using Silhouette is a real time saver! Please don't get so speedy that you leave all the Pokey Peas behind!

Good to hear from you scrapincin ! As for the cards, we have 8 people signed up, so that would mean we would each make and send 7 cards. If we manage to track down the other two, we would add 2 to each of those totals, but no more than 9 cards each. Target is to have them ready to put into the mail by December 1st.

How did the appointments go, LisaDV ? Hope you had a good trip. Looking forward to seeing this years' cards, kellyr21 .

Glad you got to drive out to see the fall foliage, nylene . Ours were lovely a couple of weeks ago, but huge winds came through and whipped them all off the trees. Dh has been spending the last few days lawn sweeping and working the leaves into the garden. We have had a few days of nice weather but it is raining and snowing tonight and very cool.

I have some lovely fall photos from my weekend in Calgary to scrap this next weekend. And dd sent some awesome shots of their little guy at the scarecrow festival, the Terry Fox run, and just hiking through the woods. Can't wait to get them printed to scrap this weekend as well.

The only thing remotely crafty I have done this week is yesterday I played with paints and sprays to create a few background papers for my fall pages. Basically, I just plopped globs of some orange, gold, red & brown paint on a sheet of cs, then used a roller to spread it all over 2 sheets. When it was dry, I spritzed it with various sprays until I liked the looks of the pages. Ended up with about 8 pages.  Some may end up as bg pages. Some I may diecut into leaves and vines to layer over the top or...

I spent today organizing my crafting supplies, and decided that rather than make it a two step process of cleaning and then packing for the crop, I would just pack what I needed while I cleared off my counters. So all that has to happen now is for the totes to be loaded into my vehicle. Will probably do that on Thursday.

Anyway, have a good evening!

Have fun msliz ! grammadee and I are at a crop this weekend, too. It is Friday evening-Sunday afternoon. I have not started packing for it or finished cleaning my house (I will have two house guests for the weekend.) Here are my latest LOAD pages. Sorry for dumping so many on you at once. I'll try to post more frequently for the rest of the month.

Not Jackie by Jacqueline Bruce, on Flickr

Award by Jacqueline Bruce, on Flickr

My Happy Place by Jacqueline Bruce, on Flickr

Wear It by Jacqueline Bruce, on Flickr

Girlfriends, Chocolate, and Cheese by Jacqueline Bruce, on Flickr

The Gift of Music by Jacqueline Bruce, on Flickr

I Am Enough by Jacqueline Bruce, on Flickr

Success by Jacqueline Bruce, on Flickr

Obsessed by Jacqueline Bruce, on Flickr

Sisters by Jacqueline Bruce, on Flickr

justjac..thanks for showing us your lovely layouts. Hope y'all have a great time this weekend.

I have another project to prepare for the children at bible study. It involves paper plates and crayons! 

It's finally getting a little cooler here. ..and we are relishing that and trying to up our walking milage to prepare for our hiking in Arkansas state parks next month.