little gi

just a little taste....

of the absolute blur of my everyday...

i just love the look on kate's face....she absolutely LOVES playing with her brother and sister...

and i thought i would share a rather enlightening conversation i had with ryan yesterday....

me - ryan....settle down, o.k....

ryan - o.k. mommy!!

{loud crashes, crazy thumps, things flying}

me - ryan...didn't you say you would settle down!!!???

ryan - o.k. mommy!! ....what does settle down mean again?

ahhhh!!!  i see....said the blind man!!!

happy wednesday everyone!  gi

a new flex challenge is up!!!

it's wednesday everyone!!!!!  you know that means a new flex your creative mind challenge is up on patty's blog....

go here to get all the details.....this one is super good!!!

more later....gotta go calm the restless natives.....

gi

flexin' my creative mind, y'all.....

here is my take on patty's first flex your creative mind challenge....have i told you yet how much i LOVE these challenges???....they are so much fun & really help you get your mojo workin'....we all know that it is so much easier to just THINK about getting all of these fun layouts & projects done...it is the challenges that are really helping me actually haul out the paper, glue and scissors to actually GET IT DONE!...if you haven't joined a challenge yet....what the heck are you waiting for?  get crackin"!!!!!!!!  patty will have a new challenge for us tomorrow so be sure to check her blog & link up your completed work so we can all oogle it & give you lots of nice praise & compliments....

now off to procrastinate on some other challenge!!!  you know i always have to wait until just the last minute.....pressure always spurs on this creative mind! lol!!!

happy tuesday!!!!  gi

*****ETA*******  the patterned paper from my "always" layout from my last post is from cross my heart's uptown collection by rosanne herskind....i received it as part of my cocoa daisy february kit....beautiful stuff.....

well...i did get 1 done....

got this done last night "cyber cropping" w/ my pal, ellyn, who moved a bit away.....only got one done since we spent the majority of our "crop" chatting away! (isn't that the way it always is as crops???...at least it is for me....)...i'm hoping to get my exercise your mind challenge done tonight...wish me luck!

in other news...lately i'm having lots of trouble realizing that my little girl is growing up....last night she had international night for her daisy scouts....of course, i forgot her daisy apron, AGAIN, so i ran home to get it for her & brought it back.....when i got back she was off w/ her daisy buddies travelling the world and i found her....& it just struck me like a ton of bricks....she is her own little person w/ her own little world now.....i'm not with her 24 hours a day anymore....she's too big for me to carry her to her bed at night....she's a kid now....i still can't wrap my brain around it.....gotta get back to my focus of trying to enjoy each moment...not wish it away & want things to be easier, quieter, not so messy....so today, kells bells & i are going to have a girls day out....we are going to lunch & then the scrapbook store, where i'm sure she'll pick out the animal stickers and sparkly bazzill......

happy saturday!!  gi

a new challenge....

if you haven't already.....

visit patty's blog....she has started a new challenge.....exercise your creative mind....this week the challenge is to create something using a quote from dr. suess.....Today you are You.  That is truer than true.  there is no one alive who is Youer than You.

i've got my idea...now i've got to get it down on paper....stay tuned......

i'm cyber cropping tomorrow night w/ a pal who's moved away.....basically this means that we both promised to scrap starting at 9:30 pm & will e-mail each other our layouts....& we can talk on the phone to get ideas & such....anyone else want to join in?   feel free!  scrappin' is always more fun w/ a girlfriend!!!

happy thursday everyone!!!  gigi.

everyone has a shoe story.....

ok...week 7 of the deck of me challenge on emily's blog.....everyone has a shoe story to tell......

ooohhh!  i've got a bunch.....i remember when i was in high school & i had black penny loafers but i stuck quarters in them (total rebel...i know...), i remember digging those quarters out so i could make a phone call to my mom & dad to tell them i was running late...LIKE ALWAYS....

i remember finding a pair of black doc martens with tiny purple doodling on them in a hole in the wall shoe store in the village & they were $17...i bought them and wore them all the time, even though they were 1/2 size too small....

i remember finding my brown boots in a store in berkley for $10...i still wear those boots & get compliments all the time @ them...they also are 1/2 size too small & it is 11 years later & i am still wearing them!!

i remember buying my first pair of high heal black boots over on fulton street in brooklyn...the zippers fell down constantly when i walked, but i loved them anyway...don't know what happened to them...

yeah...i used to be quite the shoe girl.....but now is a totally different story....

i wear flip flops during the spring, summer & fall....ALL THE TIME....

which brings me to my story.....last august i went out for dinner & drinks with a bunch of girlfriends.  my friends all show up dressed to the nines...looking gorgeous....i show up in jeans, a tank top and my nice pair of flip flops (they have turquoise beads on them...really pretty)....basically...the gigi uniform....my bud, annette, takes one look at me & starts laughing "no one told me we were going casual!  who said we were doing casual!!!???"....& i said to her "but these are my dressy flip-flops!!"....they, of course, had a nice laugh on my behalf....

***ETA*** the picture on my card is from a j.crew catalog...i don't have those flip flops...but they would be cool....maybe i'll look into them....you know...broaden my wardrobe...LOL!!

happy thursday everyone....gi

"i love you ry...."

yesterday, when kelly and ryan were walking up the big hill in the back to go sledding with mike....kelly said to ryan....hey ry,  i love you, ry...you are my best friend....and ryan said....thank you kel-wee.....you're my best friend too.....

too freakin' adorable....MUST scrap this!!

happy president's day!!  gi

diggin' the challenges...

week 6 of emily's challenge is LOVE...LOVE...LOVE.... so here's my take:

obviously used lyrics from john hiatt's song have a little faith in me....i LOVE that song...totally bawl my eyes out when i sing it....LOVE it.....

i also did this week's scrapjack of amber skolnick....soooo love her style & the layout design was sooooo awesome...so here's my jack:

ya know....i think i still have a couple of jacks in me for this one...the design is so awesome...i'm having the gals over tonight to stamp & scrap and i think i may do a couple more of this design.

i also have a few other challenges i'm workin' on...as i said...totally diggin' the challenges...such a jumpstart to my creativity & i'm getting to meet some wonderful & talented peeps on line.  i'm going to be joining patty on a challenge on her blog starting wednesday...so exciting...can't wait to see what she comes up with!

well, gotta make the beer bread & dip for tonight....tater is napping and kelly & ryan are at a birthday party with mike so i've gotta make hay while the sun shines! 

happy saturday!!  gi

just a quickie.....

i'm lovin' this heart scalloped paper, don't ya think???  couldn't bear to use my last piece so i used it as a template & cut this heart out of patterned paper that i liked (& had lines so my journaling didn't go all screwy...lol!!)  all of this was in my february jenni bowlin kit.....

i'm in a scrappin' groove lately.....having so much fun!!

& a pic for the family......this was taken a few weeks ago when we only had an inch on the ground....the kids will probably go out in our BIG snow (@ 10 inches) later today when the wind dies down....ryan saw the tire tracks in the driveway and got so psyched mom, look, two hearts in the snow!!!....pretty perceptive for a 4 year old....

a little love on a page....

did this last night...i have the holes in my fingers to prove it....i'm a psycho with a needle....totally scraplifted jenni bowlin on this one....her design was perfect...why mess w/ perfection....

wish i could remember what we were laughing about...

happy valentines day!  - gi