A relaxing day of scrapbooking...

Today was a pretty good day. I woke up early and cleaned a little and did a bit of laundry. Then I got down to the fun stuff and worked on some digital scrapbooking layouts.

Pets are used as a form of therapy, so why can't scrapbooking be consider therapy? No matter how my day might be going, scrapbooking has a way of calming me down and making my anxiety levels lower.

The only thing that would make scrapbooking better is if I had my own room to do it in.

I am not a proficient as some with digial scrapbooking, but check out my layouts just the same.

Meeting Paula Deen!

My DH and I had an experience of a lifetime this past January when we got to meet Paula Deen on the set of her show Paula's Party! The show topic wasn't one that I would have personally picked, but I would have eaten liver and onions for the opportunity to meet the "Queen of Southern Cooking" herself.

This was our first time visiting Savannah and I only wish that we had been there for more days. We stayed in a beautiful room with complimentary concierge service and views of the pool and river.

My sincere thanks to an enterprising ebayer!

One of the things that I like to do when I am not tending to a myriad of household duties is scrapbooking. I have dabbled at being a consultant for a company and lately I am exploring the world of digital.

Along the way in my journey to create records of my family's memories I have collected quite a number of "tools". Things that I assure my husband is an absolute necessity to complete that very special album that I am currently working on. Other times I justify the purchases by pointing out to my dear sexy husband that said "tool" of the moment can be used in various applications. Therefore, such "tool" becomes a multipurpose "tool" with the ability to function in ways the prior "tool" could not.

I have even gone so far as to assure dear sexy husband that whatever "tool" can also serve as a source of income once I devise a sure fire byproduct that other scrapbooking housewives can not live without.

I have won some battles and I have lost some, but I think the war might be turning the tide in my favor. Thanks in part to something I saw on Ebay today.

Imagine my surprise when a creative scrapbooker took the same "tools" that I have so diligently worked with for years and was able to create something so rare and beautiful that other woman would covet it. Covet it to the point of spending their hard won "tool" money to have it.

I just want to send a sincere thank you to that enterprising ebayer because she singlehandedly in one auction helped to further the cause of every scrapbooking mother in america.

Check out the auction for yourself and see if you agree.

Doing something I never thought I would...

I have resisted the urge to create a blog for a very long time. I just never saw the need to post my varied ramblings for the world to read. So what has changed? I can't rightly tell you. Maybe it is the feeling of being left behind. Or maybe its feeling like all the cool people have one, so I should too. Either way I am here now and I feel sorry for you!

What can I tell you about life on Mystical Cove? First, it is very very quiet and not much exciting happens on our street. Except for that one time we had a special guest come visit us. She had her own tour bus and everything. Once she got in the house she gaves us a private concert and everything with her back up dancers.

The truth is my daughter had her dance recital the weekend before and really liked her costume. I guess in her mind she wouldn't get to wear it again, so she decided to wear it to summer camp. I can only imagine what the counselors at camp were thinking about the mother who would let her child come to school in this get-up. Once I saw her in it I figured that the best discipline was to just let her go and suffer the consequences.

Me meeting the bus with my camera was a stroke of genius that hit me as I heard the roar of the diesel engine approach the house. That was the last time I had to say anything to her about wearing appropriate attire to camp! Here she is in all of her glory in recital photos.