Gettin' big babiez

Babiez are gettin' so big! It's amazing how much the "little" ones are catching up to the Australorps. Who now have names. I don't know which is which, but John made a comment when they were little that they looked like penguins. And that comment has stayed with me. So one of them is Penguin and the other is Joker. And speaking of Batman! Cocoa looks an awful lot like the Penguin played by Danny DeVito in the movie. She's got this fluff of baby feathers around her neck and everything else is growing into adult feathers and she looks like a cross between the Penguin and the Hunchback of Notre Dame!

First pic is Penguin, Joker and Sylvester. Second is Penguin, Kiss, Cocoa and Tweety. Third is Tweety, Penguin, Joker, Kiss and Cocoa. Last is all six! Penguin and Joker. Cocoa and Kiss. Tweety and Sylvester.

John has gotten all of the corner posts on the old coop replaced. Today he sprayed it with more bug killer to get rid of any remaining mites. He only used 1/2 of the bottle, so he said he'd let it sit for a few days and probably on Sunday use up the rest of the bottle just to be on the safe side. Then Tues & Wed, he hopes we can get the old coop re-chicken wired and he can get the new doors and roosts built. Then we can give the girls free rein on all the coops.

A new direction

So I am now a Mary Kay Independent Beauty Consultant! And no...I'm not giving up CTMH. I can do both since they are not related businesses. I have loved and used MK product since I was 16. A looooong time ago! When I was in my early 20's my MK Rep tried to get me to sign up. Even took me to one of their meetings. I was skeered! Them women were over the top excited! The enthusiasm in that room took my breath away. I decided I was good just being a customer. And so I've been for the last :::mumble, mumble, mumble:::years! Well my MK Rep, Kari presented me with an offer I couldn't refuse, so I am now officially a Mary Kay Rep. So if you're a Mary Kay user and need anything, give me a shout. I will be treating this biz much the same as CTMH. I'm not gonna bug YOU, but if you need or want something, just hollah!

Ahhhh!

And with this layout, Christmas 2010 is complete! This is the other layout design from the "You and Me" kit. And while it's nice, I am not liking it as much as the other one. This uses more of the older than dirt Scenic Route papers and I've still got some left! I don't know why the picture of Kathy and Bruce is so dark. It's not in real life! Printer gremlins must have been having fun!

Susan T. Swap

My wonderful second Upline, Susan did a second swap for our Spring/Summer Idea Book since it's good for 6 months. I decided to do two different cards. The first one uses Bliss paper pack and the second uses Fanfare, and it IS a round card that I photographed in front of a piece of white cardstock. Can't wait to see what all the other girls come up with. This swap just keeps getting better with each one we do.

Wii got moves!

Nothing like being 4 months behind on scrapping pictures! But I have an excuse! My printer was majorly malfunctioning. Every time I'd try to print pictures they would come out overly blue or red or aubergine. We took it to the tech geeks and were told that because it was sooooooo old, it would cost us more to repair it than to just replace it. And they just so happened to be having a "trade in" sale. So we bought a new printer. This one's wireless and we can send pics directly from our phones to the printer. Very cool! Now I have no excuse! So I'm finishing scrapping my Christmas pictures.

This one is brother-in-law John's brother Jim...affectionately known as Unka Him. When Joy was learning how to talk, she had problems with her J's so Uncle Jim became Unka Him. And while Joy can now pronounce her J's just fine, I still do, and will continue to call Jim, Him! After our feast at Jan and John's on Christmas Eve, the kids pulled out the Wii Dance and Unka Him (being the biggest kid of all!) had to show off his smooth moves!

I used some ooooooold Scenic Route papers for this, along with the layout (and stamp set) from the "You and Me" kit again. I just love this layout design! The alpha is a new CTMH product called Newsprint Rub-On's. I did outline it in Cocoa ink to make it stand out a bit more.

Rockin' Hope

I got my Hope For Japan stamp set two weeks ago and had not inked it yet. So sad! This was a CTMH promotion during April. The stamp is normally $7.50, but in order to raise money to send to the earthquake and tsunami victims in Japan, Corporate decided to sell this stamp for $5.00 with no limit to how many each person bought and donate 100% of the profits to Japan. With us having family and friends in Japan, it was a no-brainer for me to order one. I've seen lots of examples done by other CTMH Consultants on our bulletin boards with 99.9% of them being pink. Now I am notsomuch a pink girl! I can take it in small doses! So I thought I needed to do one that wasn't pink and that went against the "norm!" So I pulled out the now retired You Rock paper pack and went to town with it and Hope For Japan and this is what I came up with.

Guard Snake!

Most "normal" people have guard dogs. Not the Waters! Nothins so mundane, boring and ordinary as a dog for us. No siree! We have a guard snake! I started out to do my morning routine of check the pond, check the chickens and see what, if anything is blooming. But this little guy is standing (laying?!) guard at the back door. I am willing to bet he slept where he is and he's waiting for the sun to warm him up. So he can stay there as long as he likes! Because if I go out the front door, chances are, I'll forget and try to come in the back door and while I know the black snake isn't poisonous, he could certainly make ME hurt myself trying to get away from him! Rock on little snake. Rock on!