POKEY PEAS Challenge for September 2019

Thanks for setting this up again, nylene. Glad to hear you had a wonderful time with family and that you are home again safe.

I am planning to head out of here Friday and won't be back for almost two weeks. Spending the weekend in Calgary area with a couple of my sons' families. Then flying to BC to spend some time with my other son's girls while Mom & Dad go on a short vacation. Flying back to Calgary on the 17th and driving home after that.

Had planned to attend a Grandparents' Day activity with dd and her little guy closer to Edmonton on Sunday, but Grampa is going to pick up that engagement to give me more time to visit with two families and seven dgk's in the Calgary area.

Am dealing on a new vehicle, so need to drive to the dealership again this week to finalize details and price, pay the deposit and sign all the papers. Meanwhile I need to get some stuff off the garden this week (the tomatoes in case it freezes while I am gone, and some carrots and other veggies to take with me to the kids' homes).

Was feeling like I was coming down with a head cold, but feeling pretty energetic today. I think the adrenalyn and caffeine have chased the virus away--or into hiding!

I have to take a larger suitcase when I fly to stay with the girls b/c I have my youngest dgd's bd gift to transport (and I get free luggage checking on my BMO card), and I am going to have a couple of days with the girls in school, so I am planning to tuck in a tool bag and some papers and photos to scrap while I am there.  There is a WM nearby where I can print photos of the weekend before and of my adventures with the girls, so I will be well set up to do at least SOME scrapping while I am there.  Not sure if I will get to all the sketches this month, but hope to catch the ones I miss when I get back.

nylene, how was the reunion? I’m glad you are home safe. I’m sure you had fun.

grammadee, a new car is exciting. I hope you have chased the virus away because it sounds like you have way too much going on to be sick.

joyfulnana, that ending on the Boys really surprised me. We’re waiting for Umbrella Academy and Jack Ryan too. As long as the stocking is finished by Christmas, it doesn’t matter how long before. I’m glad your workload is starting to lessen. Lake Michigan is awesome. Actually Michigan is awesome, you know 4 out of 5 great Lakes prefer Michigan. lol

Linda, I’m glad dd hasn’t been late since the bus change and that ds is settling into his new routine.

woodysbetty, welcome back to the boards (saw you around and wanted to remind you of this little corner of the peas). How is FL treating you?

My sister and bil left this morning. They arrived Saturday and I had lots of visiting down time but no time for the computer. After leaving today, we had our first day of school. Orientation which usually takes a couple of days and setting up the girl for hers took a majority of the day. DD finished her first day and part of her orientation with flying colors. She’s been fairly excited and chatty which is nice. Currently the family is playing a board game after dinner. I cleaned up after dinner and had some laundry that needed dealt with before sitting down here to visit with the pokeys.

Next week my BFF is coming in from Monday through Thursday. She’s taking a train up with a friend that has family in Indiana. The friend’s family is going to drive her halfway and I said I’d drive her to their place on Thursday. Then either Thursday evening or Friday morning, the kids and I will take off for the farm. We have DDS, the ortho and DDs well check up that following week. But must be back for the following weekend when DS and DH will be spending the weekend in Chicago. Whew. I’m already exhausted from the travel.

And my to do list keeps growing. I feel like it’s one of those old cartoon scrolls that they drop down and it just rolls and rolls for miles. With all of that, I don’t know how many sketches I’ll get to this month. I know I won’t be able to keep up with commenting. But I have to do some, because crafting is my de-stressor. I’m going to go look at the already posted sketches now and see about starting one.

nylene welcome back! Having your sisters grands join summer camp when your older ones leave it sounds like a good idea! I'm sure they would love it! I've been so bad about posting my creating here in this thread. But then I haven't had anything to post lately either lol. I have some waxed paper with nuvo drops too. Sometimes I feel brave and put them right on the page, other times I don't.

grammadee you are so busy! I would be exhausted with it all. But then I'm an introvert and need a lot of downtime by myself lol. It's awesome that you are able to see your far away kids so often and help them out like this. I agree with nylene, you scrap so much faster than I do and you are always using techniques that take me forever. It also takes me forever to decide on paper lol. A layout a day is something I would love to accomplish but I have to get a heck of a lot faster lol.

LisaDV Michigan IS awesome! I love it there! You are super busy too. Your to do list SOUNDS like one of those cartoon scrolls! But how fun to have all the visitors! Except as mentioned above it would have me so tired lol I'm waiting for This Is Us and A Million Little Things and The Crown now. That's awesome that DD is excited about school I'm not sure most kids are at that age.

linda sounds like you are definitely safe from Dorian now! I can't believe some of the video I've seen from the Bahamas, or that it just stalled there like it did, moving so slowly. Yay that DD hasn't been late anymore. Even though it wasn't her fault!

I finally have 3 of 4 of my sketches ready to go. I want to get them done so I can start on the others, they all look so good! I can't remember the last time I did a layout with a sketch. I'm really hoping to get several of them done this month and there are so many challenges that will hopefully up my point total as well! I'm hoping I can keep the mojo going all this month for a change. Not a lot going on here, I've been scouring my cookbooks looking for some new, quick recipes for dinner. Tuesday seems to be my menu planning night lately. I made time for a little yoga this morning and omg that first big stretch felt so good! It always makes me wonder why I let yoga fall to the back burner when I really do love it.

joyfulnana, good reminder that I should finish my sketches before working on others. Except I want one to be paper so I do have to wait for the farm for that one. I consider my crafting time part of my down time when I just deal with my immediate family. I realized that it doesn't work when I've had to be social with others last night. I had some time, but couldn't work. Hopefully today things will be clicking again.

ABCreations, what cute photos and those patches are adorable. Are they real or digital?


So I've switched to firefox as my browser, but I've noticed Linda and ABCreations photos don't show up on firefox. Not sure if anyone else's don't show up. I noticed it last night while oogling the layouts in the share thread that Linda's weren't there but I had remembered seeing them. So I went to my phone and pulled up the same thread. Yep, they were there. Just did it with ABCreations's. Strange, if anyone has a fix or a clue as to why??? please share. I bet Cindy would have known.

LisaDV - no idea why they aren't showing on Firefox - they are hosted on FB so maybe that has something to do with it?

Today is not off to a fabulous start - DH decided to get up early (and his alarm woke me) and then my alarm went off 30 minutes early (I think he set it wrong) and I hadn't slept well to begin with. And one of the cats has an upset tummy and there were ants in DD12's closet on her clothes....I'm hoping it improves from here on out.

ABCreations - lovely page with the patch in the centre - Daisies are such a fun age!

Hi to everyone else

Thank you! This is a traditional (non-digital) page. 
oh no, firefox is eating my pictures?! that naughty little fox! idk how to fix that

Thank you! I hope your day got better! Hugs!

Have fun grammadee - you sound very prepared

ABCreations I love the bees and daisies and all the photos. nylene I’m glad you’re feeling better and getting creative. I put the Nuvos straight on the page! kellyr21 I would take some of your heat! The leaves are starting to turn in my knocking the woods and it feels like fall. @disadv back to school is such a busy time. I taught my first week last week and I’m exhausted. grammadee have fun with the grandkids. Stacey is all set to register us on Wednesday for the LSS crop.

I’ve had a fantastic weekend. We (my DH, MIL, BIL, and me) drove to the city Saturday. We went to the Great Canadian Scrapbook Carnival and I was actually a little restrained. I only bought one sheet of paper. And four stamp sets, and four ink pads, and some sequins, and a little pack of wooden stars, and a yoga chipboard set. Then I went to a dress store I love and bought a dress and an outfit for Halloween. It’s not really a costume, just a jumper with spider webs webs on the pockets and bats on the bib and a shirt to wear under it.

Then we went to see Rent. It was very good. Then we went for fondue. I had such a good day.

Happy Sunday, Pokeys!

We have had a busy weekend between kids’ hockey try outs and parents’ rodeo event finals. A bit of quiet time now as the boys are playing outside with the neighbourhood kids. It has been cool and wet today, but thankfully not raining now.

Ugh Linda on the stickers! I have never had THAT happen, but did manage to drop a mesh bag filled with chipboard letters into a puddle when transferring stuff for a crop. It’s frustrating to lose a go-to supply no matter how it happens.

Hope you got lots of photos of that little guy running and enjoying the free play, joyfulnana. I still have one sketch sample to do up as well, and I only had two to do! As I said on the Sketchtember planning chat PM, if it weren’t for the last minute, nothing would get done...

Glad that Dorian avoided you, Linda. Hoping that msliz and woodysbetty will check in to let us know they have survived the storm as well.

Your Saturday sounds awesome, justjac. New scrappy supplies AND new clothes? Awesome! I have a transition day tomorrow, leaving here after boys are on the bus and heading over to my other son’s house by after school. Think I will use the time to print pic’s from this weekend and maybe check out a couple of scrapbook stores in Calgary. I also need to get my niece’s bd card ( her bd is before I get back home) into the mail.

Oh, I hear the boys heading in from their playing. Lunch dishes have been cleared away: it’s probably time for a snack. TTYL.

My Dad served in WW2 AND Korea (enlisted in 1943, retired in 1980 - and died in 1989 when I was only 19) - he didn't talk about the wars either. What little I know about his service I've pieced together from military records. I do know he went over on D-day (Sword beach - he was British Army) and that he lost his eyesight in the V2 rocket attack on the Rex Cinema in Antwerp and had a corneal transplant that returned his vision and that he nearly died from hemmorrhagic fever in Korea and his recovery made it into a US Army training film (apparently he was the first to recover after falling into a coma? I guess at that time once patients became comatose, death was inevitable? the details are somewhat vague)


nylene - yay for your daughter helping you. Computer stuff does seem to come easier to those who grew up with them.

grammadee - what a fun busy time with the grand-sons - I bet you're treasuring every moment!