For Rachel...

So...I was doing something today...don't even know what, and I realized...I told Rachel that I would write to her the last two weeks at camp..and COMPLETELY forgot. I am SO SO sorry, Rachel, so I guess all I can do is write to you at home, and remember to write to you when you go back. So, I'm sorry, and I will try to do better! And...here are some scrapbook pages for you! :) ...cause everyone knows scrapbook pages make it all better...just kidding. I love you!!!!!!

A couple of fun challenge pages!

I was sick all day yesterday ...but I couldn't leave work, cause we were already short cause someone called in, so I made it through the day and came home and crashed. I slept until seven or so, and then my wonderful Sweetie went to the store to get me some chicken noodle soup and saltines, and then I ate and took a shower, and we watched some tv and went to bed. Anyway, I'm doing better today, don't feel all the way better, but good enough to scrap in my jammies (glad to have the day off) so I wanted to share these pages that I've done for some different challenges...the sisters one is for the how much is too much fabric/fibers challenge, and the other is for the freestyle blog journaling bits challenge. I like doing different challenges cause it makes me try new things! That is why I'm so totally excited about Elsie's book coming out, with 52 challenges! Yay! Anyway, I should get back to scrapping!
Love, Joy.

Happy 3 Month Anniversary!

I love you so so much, Sweetie! I love being married to you!!

Family

This is just one I did for fun last night, a picture of our family on New Year's Eve...if you look close you can see Jeremy in the backround..Joanne is taking the picture...and I have no idea where Dad is!!

at long last

I had a wonderful trip to Kansas, got to see lots of friends, and finally got to see the baby! He is so much fun! So, I'm finally writing a blog, about how I finally got my desk cleaned off so that I can scrap again! I started one page last night, my bling page, with 10 different kinds of bling, and did this one of David and I this morning! I feel so productive when I get to scrapbook! Have a happy day!

Joy has OOD!

That's right, I have Obsessive Odometer Disorder...it comes from my math-geek-ness, I'm pretty sure. Jason and I drove around for five miles this morning until we could get a picture of my odometer turning over 90,000, how exciting! :) I love my sweetie! I'm sure going to miss him, I love you, Sweetie!

Moving is great fun!

...even if it is only within the same house.

My hubby and I are moving our office so that we can work on things in the same room, and we finally got the great big desk out of our closet room, and my hubby hung a bar for me today while I was at work, and I love my new closet! There is lots of place for all my shoes on the floor, it's great!
Not much going on...Elsie's classes for this weekend were moved, so that's a bummer, but they were moved to a weekend I have off, and Kristi traded me a day AGAIN, so I still get to go! Kristi is great...she traded me this weekend so that I would be able to go, and then traded me that day when I found out today that they had moved Elsie's classes.
I'll get to see my dad for Father's Day, and as I now find out, Saturday is also...I think he said, their 28th wedding anniversary! How very exciting!
Jason and I are going to have a pizza and watch a movie now, so I'll get going, I hope you like my closet!
Also, Debbie, if you're reading this, and if you really want to order a purse, I can totally make you one! You can email me at joylynn@gmail.com if you are interested!

Making the old new-

The other day at work a friend of mine had a purse that I kinda liked...it was way too small for me ever to carry, but I liked that it had vertical ribbon stripes and thought to myself that I could totally make something like that, only WAY MORE FUN!! (and I could do it with scrapbooking supplies!) So I did. I had this purse that I had gotten at the army surplus store that I carried for a while, but it was a little boring and needed some pizzaz! So I used some ribbons, rick-rack, fabric stickers and buttons to jazz it up, it was a fun project, and it's fun to carry!

My New Toy. :)

And so the fun of picking a name begins!!
I got my new camera, the Canon PowerShot 550, today, and I am SO excited! She's pretty much perfect for me, really small and really fast, I can carry it in my purse and take pictures at a moment's notice, nice big screen, really easy! I love it! The things I liked about Jason's camera is that it takes really nice pictures, and it has a turny-aroundy screen so that you can take pictures of yourself and actually know what you're getting...but his camera is a little too big for the purse...for a small one anyway, and there are just SO SO many settings! I wanted something smaller and more point-and-shoot-y...but I had no idea how small mine was actually going to be! I ♥ it!! I'm really excited...if I haven't said that yet. I decided that it wouldn't take long to pay for itself really, because I don't have to pay for each disposable camera (and I go through quite a few) I don't have to pay for the processing of bad pictures (and I take quite a few) and I don't have to pay to have my pictures put on CD each time! I will be taking my last disposable camera to Walmart for processing tomorrow, hooray! So, if anyone has names that they think I should consider for my new baby, leave me a comment!! I would love to have your ideas for consideration!

For your viewing pleasure...

So, I have a few pages for you that I was going to enter in a contest, but I decided that I was going to be too busy over the next couple of weeks to get everything done, so, here they are! (a few of them anyway) I'll just post a couple a day so that I don't have to think of anything else to write about! Heh. Oh, also, tomorrow morning Jason has a job interview, so that's exciting, everyone can pray for him!! Also, I'll post my pub ad challenge for the week...it was a fun one that I got to use wedding pics for!

Macaroni and cheese and tuna pizza!!

Today I had the day off work and had a grand time with my wondermous hubby!! Last night we came up with the idea to make a macaroni and cheese and tuna pizza, and today we DID IT!!! And it was SOOOOOOOOOO good! I just got a premade crust from the store, made up 2 XL packages of easy mac, added about 1 1/2 packages tuna, spread it over the crust, sprinkled shredded cheese over it and baked it for 8 minutes, and it was the most delicious pizza I've ever tasted. But you have to know, this is coming from me, who loves mac n cheese, tuna, and pizza, so if you don't particularly like those...you probably wouldn't like it as much. BUT...I thought it was SPECTACULAR!!!! (You should try it sometime!)

Quick update.

I just wanted to share quickly one of the fun new uses that I've discovered of the BG Notch & Die tool, just a fun little page about my birthday a few years ago!
Enjoy.
Love, Joy!

Sorry!

So...I know it's been pretty much FOREVER since I wrote a blog, I'm so so sorry, I need to get back to posting like...EVERY day! Magen, just for you I'll post a couple of the Magen pages that I've done in the past week! I have another one Magen, that is TOO cute, but I'll have to email it to you!
Life is great here in the wonderful state of Wisconsin where I am now an official Wisconsinite with Wisconsin plates on my car! Exciting, eh?!? In other news, I am going to get to take some Elsie classes just two weeks from tomorrow, and I'm going to get to meet my new nephew Alex soon! I'm going to be taking a little road trip down to MO and KS between the 16th and 20th! It will be a very short visit, though, I am afraid! Ah well, maybe next time when my hubby can come with me we will make it a little longer. Other than all of that, I've done quite a bit of scrapping in the past week, even though it doesn't look like it from here, but maybe someday I can show you all the fun pages I've done, I've gotten to use a bunch of the really fun American Crafts Bookshelf Collection papers, yay!
Anyway, here's a couple of new Magen pages and a couple of pages for my wonderful Sweetie, on which I got to use the magnificent uniball signo white pen, which I just got this week! Thanks for looking!
Love, Joy.