Couple More Cards

I'm totally addicted to these pens. I picked up this set of SEI premade cards from their new baby line and made 2 completely non-baby cards with them. They're okay, I actually found the partially premade to be kind of limiting. If you notice though, I've actually got a little shadowing going on. I'm very high tech in my colouring, haha. I still pretty well suck, but I'm enjoying watching online tutorials and learning about them. These pens actually are a lot more high tech than I first realized. Ordered some brush tips for them as well, apparently that's what the pros use. Anyway, enough obsessing about my pens.



Weather has gotten much nicer here lately. I've been finding excuses to sneak outside at work. Take out the garbage, tidy the back yard, sit on the front steps... haha. I can't wait for summer. Not much else going on around here. Maybe I'll have some news tomorrow....

Home repair with Ang

Step 1: Go pee. This was meant to be step one of bathroom cleaning, because really, you can't pee after you clean the toilet, that's just wrong. Glance over at your tub. Decide that the person who did the caulk job around the edge of your tub did a really shitty job and you could probably do a better one.
Step 2: Abandon all ideas of cleaning the bathroom. Go to Canadian Tire and buy supplies - caulk, and caulking kit. Caulk gun already at home.
Step 3: Scrap the crap out of the old ugly caulk. If you're lucky enough for it to be about 1 inch up your wall in some places this will take several passes with the scraper.
Step 4: (Approx. 1 hour and 20 mins later) Realize that the person who did the original job most likely tiled your bathtub as well. Go back to Canadian Tire and return clear caulk for white because there is a 1/4" gap in some spots between the bathtub and wall tile.
Step 5: Figure out how to load caulk gun. Then realize once you've got it loaded that you were supposed to pierce some sort of seal. Figure out how to get caulk out of gun.
Step 6: Wipe up explosion of goo. Apparently it takes a second for the pressure you apply to result in caulk coming out. Don't over do it.
Step 7: Seal tub. Definitely invest in the 5 dollar smoothing tool. The first person definitely hadn't.
Step 8: Stand back and enjoy your job well done and wasted afternoon.
Step 9: Go clean your house.

Antibiotics again....

I went to the clinic. There was no one there, patients I mean. So they fit me in. I do have an ear infection. Which has caused that whole side of my body to be swollen, which is why my throat hurts so much. When she put the light thingie in my ear, she had to really jam it in there cause it was so swollen. It actually hurt quite a lot. She gave me a prescription for antibiotics. They're so very concerned about giving them to me because of my birth control. I keep telling them Ryan isn't even home (I guess I look like a ho-bag or something) and I won't be having sex. Even if he was home I feel like crap, so tough chance of that happening. But they're very keen on reminding me that it won't work for the next 2 weeks to a month. So I'm at work now, and have to wait till after to fill it. Hopefully I'll survive.

Stupid immune suppressants

Ugh, I'm sick again. Seriously, do I want to be sick with one thing or another? Those are my choices. Healthy is not an option. Because of my chron's I have to take immune suppressants which means I'm sick every couple weeks. A few weeks ago it was bronchitis. Now I feel crappy again, and I think it's an ear infection. I've been going to bed at 8:00 the last couple of nights, and waking up in hot sweats, with cramps in my neck. It's been tough to fall back asleep again, and when I do I can guarantee that I'll be waking up again soon. I'd like to stay home today, but I can't because Lynette is away, and I'm not quite on death's door, which is really the only time I stay home. So I'm off to Cosmic to get a coffee, and then to the doctors office to see if they can book me an appointment for Monday even though they only do walk in's today.

I love my markers

I went to June's and made 3 more cards. These markers are my new best friend. I want more. 16 colours is not enough selection. haha I'm going to be broke...... Here's photos of all of them. I didn't use my flash, and realize now that the colours are a little off... the butterfly card is really very purple. The orange one is my favorite by far.

Copic Cards

My Copic markers are so awesome! I love the colours. I had to pick up a few more colours today as well. The butterflies are coloured with them on the one card, and the lizard on the other card. The lizard (gecko?) card I used my Cuttlebug as well for the first time. Lots of firsts. I'm very addicted and think I'll have to make a few more tonight :)

Weekend in GP

Well, Sunday morning Ryan and I set off for Grande Prairie. We were a little unsure, because the weather wasn't so hot but went for it anyhow. The ride there was totally fine, except we got stuck behind some big trucks. It was quite snowy, and at some points it was a little hard to see because of the wind blowing it around, but the roads were clear and dry. Ryan drove me around to some scrapbooking stores and patiently waited while I shopped. Around 4 we booked into our hotel. I seriously love this place, I would stay there every day of my life if I could. It makes me feel so fancy. I wish I had brought my camera. When you walked through the door, you were in the living room, yeah, the living room. Suede couch and flat screen tv. Then, you go through these doors to the bedroom. Kingsize bed, all in white. I love white beds. You then go into the bathroom, which had 2 sinks, a shower and a soaker tub. Seriously, best place on earth.
That night we went to the climbing gym at the college. It was fun. I hadn't ever done it before, and was nervous, but I did okay. I'm just not strong enough to maneuver around without a leg attached to the wall. It's just freaky.
We then went out for dinner and to a movie. We saw 21. It was really good, I quite enjoyed it. I did not enjoy the kids behind us who were kicking me in the head, but other then that it was great.
Monday we just did a little more shopping. Ryan bought me guitar hero which I officially stink at. I need lots of practice, that's for sure. I blame it on being left handed.
Ryan left today. But he'll be home in only 2 weeks and 3 days this time. Which I am fairly certain I can handle. I've done worse. So I should survive. Tonight I'm finishing up my Father's Day book. Depending on how long it takes me to type instructions I might break into my new Copic Markers... can't wait to play with those. Not that I really know how, but they look cool anyway. Wish me luck!

Good news, bad ideas

Lets start with the good news first. Good news is always better. I got a call yesterday from the AHCOTE office. I have an interview on May 16th to see if I get into college for my teaching degree. So that's pretty exciting. Although, I wonder what they will ask me. Hopefully it's similar to the interview I had to substitute teach. I totally rocked that interview. Although, I suppose I should dress as if I was a teacher, that's a good excuse to buy new clothes. I really dunno what they'll ask though...... ah, I'm a little freaked out.

My other good news is really quite surprising. Those of you who know Dad will understand. I had mentioned to my mom that Ry and I were looking at houses. Well, last night on the phone Dad says to me "Mom says you've been looking at buying a house". "Oh god, here we go" I thought. I respond with "More just looking around, educating ourselves. We were more curious how much things cost to know what we needed to save up for a deposit." Dad says, get this, "Well, when you're ready to look seriously, let me know and I'll come up and help you." No remarks about me getting a real job first, or living up here so far away, or about me and Ryan being together for ever. Just a honest, real, genuine answer. Don't get me wrong, my dad is a very loving man, and I think the world of him. I just never in a million years expected that answer.

Bad Idea No. 1: "Let's go out for dinner". We went to White Spot because it's one of only 4 places to eat here. Our waitress was HORRIBLE. She took our order, and came back like 15 minutes later to ask "What did you order again?" Comes out again, to tell him they don't have the soup he wanted. He picks another. She comes back another 10 minutes later to tell Ryan that he can't get soup with his Clubhouse. (We were very confused by this, but okay......) He then says he'd like salad. Okay, cool. Food is served, Ryan ends up with soup and a salad, no clubhouse. She then runs away before he can question her, and before I can ask for ketchup. She also failed to fill up his empty glass. She was gone seriously forever, until she comes out, while we are still eating to go "here's your bill" and then disappears again. I was going to get a dessert to take home for later, but I guess not. Seriously, it was comical how awful she was.

Bad Idea No. 2: "Let's go for a walk, it's not that cold". Okay, yes, it is that cold. My feet cramped up, my face turned bright red, my nose froze shut and my hair turned crispy. Nice spring we're having here.

We're going to GP this weekend, hopefully it'll be a bit nicer for the drive. And hopefully I can pick up some cool scrappin' stuff. Not that I need anything, but whatever. I'm gonna go work on a minibook for my daddy for father's day. Bye bye!

Into the Wild

I haven't posted in a while. Things have been crazy. Ryan has been home for a couple of days now. I hate when I have to work when he's here, but of course, I can't just take a full week off every month. Too bad though. We've been checking out real estate here, and have discovered it costs a lot more than we thought. It's about triple Powell River prices... We drove past a couple potential places only to discover the internet photos were strategically cropped to cut out the other half of a duplex. I'm sorry, but if I am going to buy a house, I'm not buying a house connected to someone. I might as well just stay in my apartment. It's going to take some saving anyway, but we'll definitely be keeping our eyes on the market.

Last night we watched the movie "Into the Wild" Here's a trailer for it.



This is one of my new favorite movies. It was inspired by a true story. This kid was tough, there is no way I could live in an abandoned bus in the middle of nowhere Alaska. Check it out, it's in the new releases section.

Not much else to comment on otherwise, I just have to go get ready for work now. Boo...

Sleep? Where are you?

It's 1:30 am. i cannot sleep. i tell you, i've tried. I just can't do it. This is ridiculous. I'm turning into some sort of nocturnal creature. I was awake half of last night and slept for the majority of today because I was that tired. Sitting on the couch, watching tv at 3 o'clock this afternoon, next thing I know it's 5:30. Jenny called me around 5, didn't even hear the phone. (I'll call you tomorrow Jenny) I woke up, made dinner, and then struggled to stay awake. 10 pm, I go to bed, here I am still up. It's stupid. Seriously, I am one cranky tired girl.

This Cracks Me Up

Have you seen this movie yet? I love it. The whole thing was just great. This random scene is so hilarious to me. It reminds me of Mary for some reason. I guess I see you doing the exact same thing Mar..... hahaha. I'm now remembering Horse Milk. Anyhow, I won't go into any of those stories, as everyone else who reads this will think I'm officially insane. If you haven't watched Horton Hears a Who, you must.

a crazy day......

Today was fairly insane. I'll spare the details, but basically every customer the store has ever had came to buy something today. All the brides have decided that they'd like to create their wedding invites this week as well. All in all, my head was ready to explode by 6. Hopefully I'll survive tomorrow alone.

I still didn't finish those cards, but I did take a photo of the front of one. This is my favorite, and it's going to be Grandma Rosie's Mothers Day card. The little circle at the top says "Can you come get me?". That's something I pulled on her quite frequently. I also finished off my layout for a class. Here's a peek at it until I scan it at the store on the big scanner. It has no pictures on it, so it's not really that interesting, but I really like it. I don't often do black. Brown is my colour. But it was good to try something different. Thanks Jen for suggesting the Stickles, it looks great.

Ryan suggested that we go to GP to go climbing when he comes home. They have an indoor thing there. I'm pretty sure I'm not going to be able to do it, I am such a weakling. I'm gonna give it a try though. Of course, I'll have to make a stop by the lss as well. I can't wait till he gets home in 5 days. 3 weeks away is far too long. I can handle 2, but after that I start going crazy. I get all emotional and drive him crazy. But you can't blame me, I love him. Anyhow, a trip to GP should be fun. It's nice to visit an actual town every once and a while. Stock up on stuff you can't get in Fort St John. Like La Senza underwear, very essential. haha.

Products used: Mother's Day card - Dark blue paper is unknown, light blue is MME. 7 G's cardstock stickers, Bazzill cardstock, Tsuk. glue pad and Stampendous glitter was used to stamp Doodlebug flourishes. Friends Layout - Bo Bunny Teen Chic, Prima flowers, Stickles, Bazzill and Making Memories brads

You are getting sleepy

I'm tired. Very tired. Like, I think I've been drugged I'm so tired. Last night, I went to bed at 9:30, and it was a chore to stay up that late. But then, I woke up at 5:30 am, and couldn't sleep properly after that. So here I am again, 7 pm and ready for bed. I'm cutting this short so that I can have a bath and read, maybe I'll stay awake for a little longer that way. Must stay up as late as possible.........
Not much to talk about, I really didn't do anything today. I am working on a layout for the store, which I was intending on finishing tonight, but no hope in hell for that now. The cards I mentioned in my last post still aren't finished, so I haven't taken a photo of them, so I can't show you just yet. But I promise to soon.
Seriously, I can't even type, because my brain won't work. I'll try again tomorrow.

Watch out below!

Do you know that episode of Corner Gas where Lacey fills in the pothole? The city of Fort St. John must have seen that episode. For those of you that don't watch Corner Gas, Lacey slams into a pothole one day and is complaining about it. She discovers that it's the towns only pothole. She figures that if it's the only one, why not get rid of it and create a pothole free town. Well, she does and it creates a ruckus. Cars are going too fast now. Lacey then creates a speedbump. Well, the problem now is that it's not natural. So the town solution is a pothole. They end up right back where they are. FSJ must have a serious speeding problem, so they've created a pothole on every street to scare drivers into going slow. Everywhere you go there's a foot deep hole. And they're like 3 feet wide some of them. There's no avoiding it. Going to the grocery store is like four-by-ing up Goat Main. It's ridiculous.
On a lighter note, I watched two movies last night. Both of which were extremely good. I watched "Enchanted" first. It was a cute twist on the traditional Disney fairytale. I cried a little. But then, anyone who knows me shouldn't be surprised by that. After, I watched "Dan in Real Life". I cried a lot in that movie. Partly because it was then 1 am and my emotions were all a little off. My only complaint is that no one seriously has a family like that. There's just no way. Far too open and honest. Not to say my family is all lies and deception, but my brother and I aren't just going to start a conversation about "clogged pipes" if you know what I mean.
I made some more cards tonight at June's place. I'll post them tomorrow. I am off to go read a book in bed. Tomorrow is a work day. Stupid work days.

Too many stamps, not enough time

I officially have a lot of stamps. Ryan, if you're reading this, I'm lying. I do not have enough, in fact, I need more. Yeah, that's it. more...... so, okay, I have a lot, and a lot I haven't used yet. So I dumped them all onto the floor and spread them all out so I could see them. I made these two cards today. I really like both of them. Normally, I don't do much for colouring in images. Mostly because I'm lazy. I really like the look though. I'll have to do it more. Now though, I'm getting a slight panic attack by the mess behind me on the floor. There's stamps everywhere, I can't take it. My problem is that I need a better storage solution for them. For now I'm going to dump them all into this rolling plastic cart that's been sitting empty in my bedroom closet. I don't have room for it out here though, so I guess I'm storing stamps in my bedroom now. Lucky Ryan.
Today is a day off, I haven't done much. I normally lay around and watch tv on Sundays, scrapbook and all that. Then on Monday I do all my errands and clean the house. I feel I deserve a day of absolutely no responsibility once a week. Tonight I'm calling Maria. Maria, I really want to drive down and see you, you poor girl! Maria dislocated her knee last week. My motherly urges are telling me to go help her. She's one tough cookie though, so she hopefully will be better soon. I'm off to go start watching season 3 of Corner Gas for the zillionth time. Bye bye!

Products Used: The first card is Love, Elsie paper with stamps from Inkadinkado (Santa and stocking) and Stampendous (Happy Holidays). I added white Staz-on to the snowflakes (Heidi Swapp) and attached with MM brads. The second card I finally busted out my Tsukineko glue pad. The flourish is a new one from Inque Boutique that I covered in glitter. The butterfly and birds are from Basic Grey. The "hello there" is a dollar stamp from Hampton Arts. Papers from Creative Imaginations and MM.

Get your own spot

There's someone parked in my parking spot. I really really really hate that. It drives me nuts. I like to leave mean notes on their windshields, but today I didn't have any paper.
I did the bridal fair tonight. Not much interesting there. Just exhausted my voice discussing wedding invites. I met some girl who has just lived here for like 2 weeks. She was telling me how she has no friends. I wanted to be like "Be my friend!" but that would be lame, so I didn't. Shes' supposed to come visit me in the store though. So that could be exciting, she seemed really cool. I'm going stop talking about what a loser I am now though.
Here's another layout for Jenny I did a while back. It's the sting rays at West Ed. I used a random pile of stuff for this page. For those who care I used Stemma (striped paper), Scenic Route (Kraft), Making Memories (brown dot), Bazzill (c.s.) and Bo Bunny (chipboard). Also Doodlebug glitter paper and QK photo corner.

Cough Cough

Wow. Who knew I could cough so much? I'm surprised I'm finding a way to get a breath or two in between. Okay, it's not that bad, but seriously. I'm sick of coughing. hahha, sick of coughing. get it? annnnnyhow........
I went to June's for dinner today. We had Chinese food and it was yummy. My fortune said that I would soon be starting a new line of work. So that's interesting. Perhaps I will be. It was fun to hang out with her again. It's surprising how long a week can be.
Tomorrow I have to work until 9. I officially am not interested. Who wants to be all cheery to strangers at night time when you're coughing so hard you may puke? Not me, that's for sure. So we'll see how that goes.
I'm off to bed to attempt some sleep. Goodnight!

The Sun is Sunny

Today it was +8 outside. It was like a tropical paradise. Taking out the garbage was exciting. If it wasn't so muddy and disgusting I'd go sit outside, but it's pretty much like a pig farm out there. In my parking lot, one step out of the vehicle and spllllllat. Foot goes right in the mud. It's pretty upsetting for someone who loves her running shoes so much.
June comes home today. I can't wait. She's been gone one week and I feel deprived. My scrapping buddy must return. Speaking of scrapbooking, here's a layout, I'm posting just for Jenny. She's grabbing some metalman's butt in West Ed Mall. It was a pretty funny situation. We had just arrived at the mall, and were all pumped for some serious money spending and feeling touristy. One of the first things we see are these guys. Being all dorky, I tell Jenny to grab a bum. She does, and out of nowhere these two guys manning little booths on either side of the statue swarm up. They're like 'you like him? you like him? you'll like what we have to offer you." grabbing and pulling us toward their booths. It was like Mexico. We just like like "no thanks" and ran away.

Sometimes we just need to take a nap and get over it

I quote a stamp from Inkadinkado. They've got these new stamps with quotes from kids on them. They're all pretty cute. Perhaps I just need to take a nap and get over it. Perhaps I need to stomp on some faces. Who knows? We all complain about work don't we? All of us have THE worst boss on Earth don't we? All I'm asking for is a few less mood swings and a few less power trips. Until then, I'm taking a nap.