Wish ?

Rules For Happiness.

- Something to do.

-Something to love.

-Something to hope for.

~Cest la vie~

I was tagged!!!! 4 things :)

Thanks for the tag Tara!
A) Four jobs I have had:
1. Thrift store
2. Waitress
3. Janitor
4. Records Manager

B)Four movies I could watch over and over:
1.Big Fish
2.Where the Heart is
3.Garden State
4.Elizabeth Town

C) Four places I have lived:
1. Abbotsford
2. 100 Mile House
3. Kamloops
4. Burnaby

D) Four TV shows I love to watch:
1. HEROES
2. Medium
3. Gilmore Girls
4. Desperate Housewives

E) Four places I have been on vacation:
1. Toffino
2. Victoria
3. Montreal
4. Edmonton...I know not a world traveller LOL!

F) Four of my favourite foods:
1. Japanese
2. Indian
3. CHOCOLATE
4. Chinese

G) Four places I would like to be right now:
1. Australia
2. Antigua
3. Hawaii
4. some where WARM.....brrrrrrr.

H) some friends I think will respond:

Carrie :)
Christina
Wanita

Wishing on a Star

So I just made this card using the scraps from my last Layout! The ladies at the Daring Carmakers had posted. The challenge and it was to creat a card with a STAR. :) Thanks Ladies for the challenge and inspiration.

Hi Mom!

Just a page I did showing Carson being himself...TROUBLE! He had our playing cards thrown all over the floor..... I was wondering why he was sooooo quiet....that stinker!

The view from my window, gingerbread cookies and over exposed :)

I love my Window view! It was especially cold today....brrrrrr.

Hutch waiting for me to take out the gingerbread cookies I made tonight!

I wish I had better exposed this photo another one of my Carson fav's

Farflung Frou Frou :)

Got a message from Kristy at Farflung :)

~ I sent off goody bags to everyone last week with some new fabric and a few fabric flowers. Also is just a little silly note pad I picked up and thought of all of you.I am about 99% done with the outline and when it is done I will send it to all of you. I am hoping you will all be willing to assist me with layouts and projects for the book!

Peace and happy holidays. Kristy ~

How cool!

I can't wait :)

Snapshotz

Some photos from when Mike, Mel and the gang visited.

I'm in love with this photo of Carson looking at Ashley...I can't stop looking at it. This one is getting put up my wall :)

Snow Day...part 2!!

We bought Carson a new sled today! So we had to try it out and he ended up falling asleep halway through our walk :) Hutch was a great "musher" he must be part husky.

Card - wintery

Are we there yet? - Layout

It was 9:00am when a brilliant idea sprung to my mind ..... Why not go and visit Oma for the day?

Old bowls - Layout

As we watched you play in Grama’s plasticware cupboard. I had to laugh

when Brodie was reminiscing about the time he, and the rest of the kosoblair gang would use

that silver bowl as a sled ……. in the snow! That “silver rocket” is dented and bumped up with love.

They sure put a lot of miles on that bowl, miles that can be remembered whenever they look at it.

*** oh boy this is one crooked scan! LOL ***

waiting on the world to change

Waiting On The World To Change, Those in this generation are fighting for a voice...that is why I love this song by John Mayer

me and all my friends
we're all misunderstood
they say we stand for nothing and
there's no way we ever could
now we see everything that's going wrong
with the world and those who lead it
we just feel like we don't have the means
to rise above and beat it

so we keep waiting waiting
on the world to change
we keep on waiting waiting
on the world to change

it's hard to beat the system
when we're standing at a distance
so we keep waiting waiting
on the world to change
now if we had the power
to bring our neighbors home from war
they would have never missed a Christmas
no more ribbons on their door
and when you trust your television
what you get is what you got
cause when they own the information, oh
they can bend it all they want

that's why we're waiting waiting
on the world to change
we keep on waiting waiting
on the world to change

it's not that we don't care,
we just know that the fight ain't fair
so we keep on waiting waiting

on the world to change
and we're still waiting
waiting on the world to change
we keep on waiting waiting
on the world to change

one day our generation is gonna rule the population

so we keep on waiting waiting on the world to change we keep on waiting waiting on the world to change.

Some Cards :)

Just finally getting some cards posted :)

Blue Eyes

My folks and Carson when he was 3 months old.

This is a page I did a couple months ago but since my scanner was being "difficult" I never got around to scanning it. So I played around with the gamma etc......and now it seems to be working again.....well for now anyways!

10 Names :)

My friend Lisa had this posted and I replied to her post by saying I'd give it a try :)

10 Names

1. YOUR REAL NAME:
Andrea

2.YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (fav ice cream flavor, favorite cookie). Cookie dough shortbread

3.YOUR "FLY Guy/Girl" NAME: (first initial of first name, first three of last name)
Aair

4. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME:(fav color and fav animal):
Blue bird

5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, town where you were born):
Paulette New Westminster ?

6. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first name, first 3 letters of mom's maiden name)
Blaanayo

7. SUPERHERO NAME: (2nd favorite color, favorite drink )
Green margarita

8. IRAQI NAME: (2nd letter of your first name, 3rd letter of your last name, 1 letter of your middle name, 2nd letter of your moms maiden name, 3rd letter of you dads middle name, 1 letter of a siblings first name, last letter of your moms middle name):
Napyema

9. STRIPPER NAME: (the name of your favorite perfume/cologne
Love spell

10.WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother & father's middle name)
Leona Geert

Happy rider :)

Carson and his rocking horse. Thanks to Uncle Jerry he is able to ride off into the sunset.........high-ho silver away!

He loves ?

Carson Loves our "little dust eater"!

It's been almost a week.....!

Wow I can't believe I haven't posted since Monday!

Well my first week at my new job went well :) (next week will be the true test....;) )

So the lady that was training me was...well....lets say she was a little bitter. Not to me, but the other staff. She never really had anything nice to say about anyone. Okay so what am I supposed to think???

Watched the 2 hour season premier of Medium. This is one of my favorite shows and am so glad it's back for another season.

I have a little confession.....I bought a box of chocolates from my old employer....and well I ate them ALL! They were going to be a gift for someone. (Sorry Wende! :( ) I PROMISE to make sure the next box makes it to the mailbox!

Working on some DT stuff for Farflung :) I hope to get that uploaded soon.....yep soon I hope! ARGGGGGGHHHHH I need a scanner! So if anyone out there cares.....I want a scanner!

WOW....this weeeeeek went FAST!

Thoughts...and burnt toast ?

I'm nervous - not nervous in a shakey sorta way just butterfly nervous, I guess. I start my new job tomorrow and I'm just worried I won't "fit in". I'm trying to think positive.....but those butterflies are flying aound like crazy.


I got an email the other day from a lady asking me to submit some layouts for a DT call? ..... hmmmmmm?


Heroes was on tonight, I CAN'T WAIT for next weeks episode ...... Thus ....the burnt toast comment.......it was a cafe two of the characters were having breakfast in.....burnt toast what a neat name for a cafe!


Carson and our neighbours St. Bernard Sebastion. A BIG lovable giant.

Random Roadtrip

It was 9:00am when a brilliant idea sprung to my mind ..... Why not go and visit Oma for the day?

So I called her...ummm... not realizing she was still in bed, I figured that out by the fumbleing for the phone. She sounded excited to here that we would be coming. I then decided why not invite Leah and Alex? Well Leah wasn't up to it so we stopped bye on our way out to pick up Alex. This would be his first roadtrip with Aunty and Uncle.

My Oma lives in Barriere which is about 2 hours from our home. We know of a short cut which takes you around Adams lake, but the road is gravel. We decided to take a chance and go for it! The road wasn't as bad as I thought it would be and the bumpiness and me trusting Brodie's driving skills as he navigated along the side of the mountain..... was drowned out by Carson's tunes.....yes an hour of Raffi's "Baby Beluga" and Big Bird's "The wheels on the bus"!

Carson and his Great Grandmother.

The pooped out travellers.

Take off your coat...stay a while :)

A layout I did on a picture I took of our jackets lined up at the back door.

Salmon Run

It was a sunny October day when we set out with Char. We went to meet up with Ma & Pa at the Provincial Park on the Adams River. It was PACKED the park was at full to capacity with many visitors from all over the world. This is the largest Salmon run in BC, which only happens every 4 years. We walked along the shore and Carson loved every minute of it, stopping here and there to pick up rocks or touch the trees….my little nature buff. I took many photographs and even had a chance to try out the underwater capabilities of our digital camera.

Watching the Adams River sockeye salmon run leads me to ponder the miracle of their journey.

I used some lovely Lil' Davis chipboard alphas.

That Mural!

from right to left

Carsons mural is 80% done!I feel like I'm finally getting somewhere :)

We watched the movie CARS tonight, Carson doesn't watch to much television so he really like the animation. Shhhhh I think we may get it for him for Christmas.

It's rememberance day Lest we not forget .

Snow Day!

It snowed again today, not everywhere around town. Up on the hill it was snowing then a few miles down the hill it was raining....and it didn't snow at our home.

and....I FINALLY did something creative....I made the design for our Christmas cards and I plan on uploading some more pages soon.....yahhh :)

New Stamps

Check out these Hero Arts stamps...I'm really loving them :)

Hedge Hogs and Truffles :)

We made Hedgehogs and Orange and Peppermint truffles at work ..... oh they're delicious here are some pictures from the shop.

I'm going to miss this place as tomorrow is my last day, goodbye chocolate, goodbye free latte's......I'll miss you! *sob, sob*

*** This is also for Julie's work place photo Challenge at SS :) ***

Upside Down

A litle something I thought I'd share...I found myself smiling while I hummmmmed to one of my favorite Jack Johnson songs from the Curious George Soundtrack.....so upbeat :) just what I needed these last few days, Thanks Jack!

Who’s to say what’s impossible

Well they forgot this world keeps spinning

And with each new day I can feel a change in everything

And as the surface breaks reflections fade

But in some ways they remain the same

And as my mind begins to spread it’s wings

There’s no stopping curiosity

I want to turn the whole thing upside down

I’ll find the things they say just can’t be found

I’ll share this love I find with everyone

We’ll sing and dance to mother nature’s songs

I don’t want this feeling to go away

Who’s to say I can’t do everything

Well I can try, and as I roll along

I begin to find Things aren’t always just what they seem

I want to turn the whole thing upside down

I’ll find the things they say just can’t be found

I’ll share this love I find with everyone

We’ll sing and dance to mother nature’s songs

This world keeps spinning

And there’s no time to waste

Well it all keeps spinning spinning Round and round and upside down Who’s to say what’s impossible and can’t be found

I don’t want this feeling to go away

Please don’t go away

Please don’t go away

Please don’t go away

Is this how it’s supposed to be

Is this how it’s supposed to be

Not much scrappn' going on

I've been so overwhelmed with my "life" these days that I've neglected my creativeness. I'm working on some projects tonight....finally after over a week of no mojo....it hits me :) Go figure.

Some pictures from todays Sunday drive to visit friends and family. There was a fire on the side of the highway on the way home, so the photo is not of high quality.

~~~~A little side note~~~~

*** I really must get myself that Jack Johnson CD!!! Yep, loving it :)***