It's Been FOREVER!

Wow.. I haven't written in over 2 months! Well not much has really gone on in that period of time. We've been on Christmas break since the 19th and have to go back on the 5th... not look forward too it, I've really enjoyed this break, oh well! We took finals that last week and I passed all but one, which was Mr. Lamb's, my AP World History teacher. I studied and studied for that one but still was not able to pass, I was getting angry with myself until I figured out why I hadn't passed. He'd been asking us to go and get some book that cost $30 so we would be able to prepare for or AP test at the END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR. Little did I know that he was going to give us the test from that book as our final! He said that he went around and gave every one copies of it, but the ones who failed didn't remember him doing this. The kids that had the book made a 100 on the test of course, because they'd been working on it ever since he told us about this book. I thought that this was very unfair, what do you think?! Now I have to go back and take a test on the very first day we go back to try to get a better grade, but none of the other classes have to do that, they just have to answer some questions that were on the board! How unfair! Well enough on that. Christmas this year was great, my grandparents came up and spent Christmas eve through Saturday with us. Everybody kept saying that it wasn't going to be a big Christmas this year, and they were all worried about it, I kept saying that it didn't matter as long as we were all together it would be perfect, and it was! We did receive gifts and they were all awesome. I got a new pink MP3 player that also plays videos, clothes and PJ's, makeup, a new belt that has little gems on it, so cute!, a stocking full of chocolate and other candy... yum!!!, and money, even without these gifts Christmas would have still been great! How were your holidays?

I haven't been up to too much in the scrappy world, but I got a LO done a few weeks ago and have a few pictures of some of the cards I made, other than that nothing much has gone on. I plan on scrapping New Year's eve with my mom and we are planning on going to a few crops through out January so hopefully I will get my scrappy mojo back. I was really looking forward to going on the JS scrappy getaway, but unfortuantly I won't be able to, maybe next time!



Well I need to go get caught up on the scrappy boards and blogs! See ya later!
I will update this post with a few pics as soon as they finish loading.

UPDATE:

Girly Girl LO - I just love this picture of my mom, it is probably one of my fave ones to scrap!! These papers are from American Crafts... I usually don't care too much for them, but these ones just popped for me!!



Upclose on the Crown



Upclose on the Flower



Too Much of a Good Thing - Sorry 'bout how blurry it is!



Meowy Christmas



And here a few pictures of Daisy and Kitty.... we never call her Snowball-

Tim Holtz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Woohooo!!! Just got back from the new Micheal's that we went to... The real reason we went was to meet Tim!! OMGosh it was amazing!!!! My mom and I got a pic taken together with him, was soo awseome! He has got the most amazing teeth ever and the prettiest smile!!! Anyways, it was totally cool.... oh yea and guess what... besides the pic I got his autograph on the back of a make and take we did!!! Of course I took pics of some of the stuff we did... I kinda got pushed out of the way, but it was a blast!!! I've never really known much about Tim and his products, but I will have to start using his stuff!!! My mom met a friend of a friend there, she was so sweet! They got a pic together as well, my grandma did a make and take all by herself, actually she was the first one to do the make and take, it actually surprised us! She bought some stuff, which we haven't figured out why yet, she won't ever use it, but she says maybe she will.... let's hope!

Well I have alot of pics I found on the camera that I hadn't shown yet and ones of Tim of course!... and one I am going to show because I have no clue what the heck it is!!!!

Christmas Card I made a while back, don't care for it



Painting I did in Art, hoping to finish it sooner or later



Here's the pic I am not sure about.If ya have any ideas do share!!....



My Mom, Tim Holtz, and I!!



Make and Take



Upclose of Make and Take Butterfly



Upclose of Make and Take Charm



Tim's Signature!!!



And an Upclose (Kinda blurry though :()



Well that is it for now, having brother's b-day party tonight!!!!

Thanks for lookin' and hope your Saturday is going as good as mine!!!!

PS: Oh and guess what?! My mom took me to Movie Gallery to get an app and they told me I needed to be 18 or older to work there... why in the world would they put 16+ on the internet and when it actually has to be 18 or older!!! UGH!!!!


XOXO
-Cait


EDIT: 1:34 PM

OK, I just got some more pics from my mom that I'm gonna share of Tim, I was too busy paying attention to what he was doing to take pictures, so I took these!!!













He is soo funny as well, he said he wanted to make a shirt saying "Does this shirt make my crack look big?" and on the back he wanted a bottle of crackle paint... they told him no... I would so wear that though, he also said he wanted to name the Tim Holtz craft hammer the "Brad Banger" they told him no to that as well....

Well.....

I just realized that I'd promised some pics a while back and I tottally forgot to post them!!!

I would blame it on my busy schedule, but not that busy really. I promise to get some pics on here at the end of this post!!


Anyways,

Got my Report Card today, did better than I had expected due to the fact that this school is harder than the one before. I had to step up and study more and try to do better, which I did!!

English II - Coach Mendoza - 90 (Was a 75 a few weeks ago, had to work on that! We've been ready alot of short stories...all I have to say is Edger Allen Poe can be a little weird, I did like The Masque of the Red Death though!)

Physics - Mrs. Davis - 87 (Didn't make an A due the work that I had in AP that didn't get good grades before I switched classes, but looking towards an A for 2nd 6 Weeks. We've been working on Newton's laws, so far so good.)

Le Francais I - Madame Van Hooser - 98 (Loving that class.... not much more to say about it!!)

Honors Geometry - Mrs. Schiemenz - 90 (Still kinda confusing at times, but getting it down!)

Web Mastering -Mr. Williams - 99 (Lots of Free Days!! Starting to work with Microsoft Office Front Page, very fun!!)

Art I - Mrs. Ing - 91 (Really starting to like this class now, after I did my painting and she actually liked it, it helped me alot! We are currently working on a Haunted House.... I showed my parents tonight and my mom said "That's cute!" That's not what I'm going for so I gotta make it a bit more scarier :P)

AP World History - Mr. Lamb - 84 (My lowest grade... my hardest class!! I'm starting to get a hang of it now, very interesting stuff we are learning and I love to hear his stories and lectures about history instead of reading it from that book, I seem to understand it better when he lectures it!)

Well that's all for the grades, no missing day or tardies so that's good!!

My grandparents are up for the weekend, brother's birthday on Sunday! Going to see Tim Holtz tomorrow in Ft. Worth at the new Micheal's... found out about it when I got home from school... so excited!!!!! Julie, my mom's BF, is coming on Monday, fair day for us Texans, and her daughter may come.... she wants to go to the fair though. :( Starting to drive alot more and am really enjoying it, getting better now... so I guess that's good!!! Looking for a job so I can get some money.. been looking at jobs for about an hour gave up when I couldn't find anything online for this little town! I did find one place that was hiring, Movie Gallery.... Thought I had to get 18+ to work there, but it says 16, so we are going to print out an application and get it in tomorrow or whenever. Haven't done much in the scrappy world lately, planning on it this weekend, maybe I can get my grandma to help some, she wants to scrap but she just won't do it... she buys things to scrap with them leaves them sitting... get this, she has a kit she gets each month that is very easy to make, first one she got she said she didn't like... my mom had to inform her that she has to choose what she wants or she gets what they wanna give her!! :P Love my nana to death though! Oh yea! This cat of ours is getting on my nerves.. she decides she wants to wake me up at 2:30 in the morning on a school day to play with my hair, so I set her on the floor, she comes back, throw her about 10 times on the floor (not hurting her), comes back everytime, set her in the living room... beats me back to my bed! So I start getting mad... I throw her to the living room (once again not hurting her) and she finally quits... or so I think..... 3:30 am - starts all over again! Ugh!!!!

I do have some pics of an altered item I made for a challenge on JS, but never got posted and my new scrappy area. They are loading to photobucket atm so I will get the posted after dinner... promise!


EDIT: 7:08 PM

As promised pictures!!!!

Snowball (Not scrappy related, but cute pic)




Scrap Space





Shelf with scrappy stuff (Disney Movie collection top 2 shelves and the rest is scrappy related)



Altered Item



Upclose



That's all the pics I have right now!!!

I've Been Tagged and other stuff!

De tagged me!!

Here are the rules:
1. Link your tagger and list these rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
4. Let them know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.
Ok so you want to know a little bit about me:

About Me:
1. I've always wanted to be a vet/nurse, but am afraid of blood!!
2. I love video games!!
3. I broke my leg when I was 12...we were fishing!
4. I'm OCD when it comes to my room... I don't like anything out of place. (My room isn't the cleanest, but don't mess with something when I'm near or I'll move it back!)
5. I'm addicted to chocolate.
6. I love Kenny Chesney.... (I will meet him some day!!!)
7. I couldn't ride a bike w/o training wheels 'til I was 8... was too afraid!! :P

Hmm Ok now my turn to pick 7 people...

1. Karen B.
2. Greta
3. Cristal
4. Ruby
5. Dawny
6. Nicky
7. Trinka

And now for the other stuff....

I finally got my room finished up today, drove Dad to auto parts store, bank and the dump so we could get all of these boxes thrown away (Don't mind this driving stuff and I'm getting better, can't wait for license then I don't have to ride the bus with all of the screaming and bossy little kids anymore!), got the computer set up (Don't have to use Dad's anymore), finished getting scrappy stuff set up, made an altered item and tried to make a shaker box... but gave up after a while. I've got a few pics and will share them in the next post!!

Finally Settled!!!

Well, we are finally settled!!! About time!!! My room is just about done, just need to get my desk in there and buy another shelf!! It's been quite a while since I've posted...poor blog!! :P Anyways, lots of stuff to tell.

How was the move?

Well to be honest, a pain in the butt!! But we are all happy to be back at "home"! We've gotten alot done in the past few weeks, but were able to take some time to relax and not think about unpacking and such as well. We found a few resturants that have become our favorite. Much different than Austin though, not much in this little 'ole town!!

How's School?

So far it's ok, much more challenging then Austin, as the teachers actually teach you instead of letting you do what you want, we are trying to adjust to this, much harder than before though. I'm taking a pre-college class, Geometry, not too bad, just get confused with some of the vocab and I'm taking a college level class, World History, the teacher speaks his mind, but is able to help us learn better this way because he gives us his opinion instead of just reading what other people say, I've gotten a better view on all of the things I am learning so far, having some trouble with note taking, I can take notes, but I don't seem to get enough information, he lets us use whatever notes we have written on our test, which makes it easier for some questions. My other classes are:

English 2, which I am working on getting the grade up in that class, once again having trouble with all of the vocab that is on the tests, but I'm doing good on all of the Essays and Reports, guess that's a good thing because it's a major part on the TAKs test coming up.

Physics, with Mrs. Davis, she is an awesome teacher!! Dropped out of Pre-AP Physics because it was too hard for me as I do not know Algebra 2. In my other school Chemistry was taken in 10th grade so that in 11th you would be in Algebra 2 and Physics at the same time so you would be learning everything you need to know around the same time, but not in this school. Luckily she is able to take the time to teach us this which is helpful because in Pre-AP Coach Hornback didn't have time. So far so good in that class.

French!!!! I totally love that class!!! Madame Van Hooser is another awesome teacher! I've learned to count to 100, learn which nouns are female and male, colors, how to ask your name, how you're doing, and how to say hello in 2 different ways, also the difference between a formal and informal greeting. We got to pick a French name the 2nd week of school, I picked Gisele because it was my moms French name when she took French in High School.

Web Mastering with Mr. Williams, he gives us a ton of free days.... who wouldnt love that teacher!!! Basically we learn how to well... master the web!! Right now we are working with HTML and other codes inbetween our free days.

Art..... Well I don't mind it but I detest the teacher!!! Mrs. Ing....... She always puts down your work and doesnt like you unless you are very artistic... umm HELLO NEWS FLASH!! This is Art 1 we are taking.... isnt this supposed to help us become artistic?!!! She told my table partner today that she hated her piece of work and thought it looked like shattered glass, she spent forever working on this project. She told me that I needed to add some more circles and "highways" to mine... meh oh well, not failing in her class atm and I'm doing the best I can....Although we do have to paint tomorrow, not sure how pretty that will be.

Well that's it with the classes, haven't made many friends yet, but I recognize alot of old friends I used to know, just to scared to go up and talk to them.... even saw my old B.F.F. but too much of a chicken to go talk to her!! I do have 2 classes with my brother which is kinda cool.

Scrapbooking?

I've gotten a few things done!! This weekend I took Sunday and did nothing but scrap! I haven't been feeling to good so I figure a day of that wouldn't hurt I took pics of a few of the things I did. I'll show them down futhur in the post.

Blogs and Scrappy Sites!

I have been so behind on visiting blogs I will try to attempt that tonight. Need to get caught up on the scrappy sites as well..

Well here are the pics:

Cherish



Wild and Crazy Scrappy Pals



Love


Best Friends



I got a few more things done but didnt take pictures for some reason.

Hoping to be back to check the blog in the next day or so, but if not sorry!!

Hugs

Cait

Long Time, No Bloggin'!

Wow!! I just realized how long it has actually been since I've posted on here!!

Well let's see....

We are working on moving back to Springtown(ICK!), since we have a house there and the owner of the company my parents are currently working for is going to sell it. We've known this for a while now, but I still wasn't prepared! :P We've been busy packing up stuff, getting rid of junk we don't need that has just been sitting around collecting dust, and getting everything ready to go. We still have quite a few things to do, but we're getting there. Last weekend we went and cleaned out the house and it wasn't as bad as we expected. This weekend we are planning going back up there to work on a few more things!! Yippeee! Oh yea, Tax Free Weekend this weekend, gonna go clothes shopping with my mom on Sunday, maybe. Only good thing about the original plan going bad is that we don't have to wear uniforms at this new school. Plus, this new school is a better one than the one we went to last year, may actually be a challenge instead of me getting my work done in the first 20 minutes of class and having nothing else to do!! I will miss some of the teachers that I had and a few of my friends, and a few other places here in Austin, like our fave scrapbooking store, but other than that BUH-BYE Austin!!

I get so sidetracked, I had some other things to say, but I just can't think of them!!!

Gonna hold off on the challenges as you can see I didn't post one last week, or the week before, will probably wait until everything has settled down and we are back in school and done moving!

I was able to get a few cards accomplished today after looking at a magazine and seeing them!! Have you ever done Double Pocket-Folding Cards? OMGosh they are so easy and fun to make once you figure them out!!

Ok here they are:

1st Card:



Upclose on the Saying at the Bottom:



The Bookmark/Tags inside of the card:



And the 2nd one was a Christmas one with the Elsie Christmas papers, I just love them!!

2nd Card:



Tag/Bookmarks:



Ok, You've seen this one before, but I added a lil something to it as it wasn't what I really wanted, I just need to get it sent out!



And this is for Ms. Ashley on JS!



Well stop back in later and I will post the directions for the Double Pocket-Fold Cards!!


XOXO
-Cait

My First Blog Award(s)

Morning!!

Like I said in my last post I rec'd two blog awards form my mom and Nicky!!


I just recently met Nicky after visiting a Sisterhood of the Blogging Stampers and joining a group on there!!

Of course I've known my mom all me life! :P And I just love scrapping with her!!

Ok, here it goes!!



So, time for me to PIF (pay it forward) the blog award. The rules are as follows:

1. Only 5 people allowed.
2. 4 have to be dedicated followers of your blog
3. one has to be someone new or recently new to your blog and live in another part of the world.
4. you must link back to whoever gave you the award.

This is going to be difficult for me to narrow it down to just 5 people but I will do my best. If I didn't choose you please don't be offended, I visit lots of blogs and enjoy looking at everyones work!!

My choices, in no particular order are:

1. Karen B (aka my mom)- Of course I had to choose her! I fought her for the longest time about scrapping, I never wanted to do it and would always mess with her about it. Finally one day I just gave in and I'd have to say that is one of the best choices I have made in a long time!! I enjoy our time together, we don't always have to be scrapping, it can be shopping or just spending time with each other. We have a blast when we start scrapping together and things usually get messy!! I love you so much mama!!!

2. Ruby - I met Ruby through the Adornit Teen Chix contest that was held a few months ago. After seeing her work she created with the free product I basically started stalking her blog! :P I just love Ruby's work, and the fact that she is another young scrapper is awesome!! Her work totally inspires me and she has so many great ideas!!!

3. Greta - I met Greta on JS and I fell in love with her!!! She is so beautiful and she amazes me!! Her work is awesome!! She's so free-spirited and ventures out and tries different things all the time!!!

4. Amy - I just love Amy!! I met her a while back on a different set of forums I am no longer a part of, and I think she is just too cute!! Her work is always beautiful and so inspiring!!!

5. Mare - I also met Mare on SBS and she has commented quite a few times on my blog about how she loves my work!! She is just so sweet!! Her work is beautiful as well and she also inspires me!!! I'm looking forward to getting to know her more and see more of her work in the future!!!

Well that sums that up for a bit, was very hard choosing only 5 people, but I did it!! Dunno if I will be back with more today or not, it's the 1st which is our busy time of the month... although it is actually not very busy today!!

Hugs!!

Cait

Lots of Stuff...

Well, I was awarded a blog award from two people the other day, Nikki and my mom!!! I was so happy!! I'll do a next post about that in a lil bit! Today I woke up earlier so I could go to the DPS to get another permit as I've lost mine and my School ID as well... luckily I am not going to that school anymore..oh yea! We are moving next to my grandparents in Red Oak/Ferris and we are starting school in Ferris on August 25th! I am so happy!! Can't wait to start it, hopefully it will be much better than the school we were in and a plus, my mom and her best friend went there and her daughter will be starting 9th grade this year and me and my brother will be in 10th! Yay to not being a fishy!! hehe!

Well, when we went to the DPS it had a school bus full of kids and the parking lot was full... so we said forget that for today, we'll take another shot at it tomorrow. We went to Archivers and Micheals and omgosh Micheals has some newer stuff..it is too cute!! We got the cutest flowers, I'll have to show later, mom is taking a class atm she went back to "school" tonight! Anyways, I found a cute little kit at Archivers that I just fell in love with. When I got home I started creating!!

Well here they are so far!

Album


1st Page


2nd Page


3rd Page


4th Page


And the 5th!


Thanks for looking calling it a night!!

XOXO

Cait

Challenge #3! Color My World!

Good Afternoon!!


Well, I've been thinking about my next challenge for a few hours. I wanted it to be a bit easier as I know alot of people are busy this time of the year, so with that said... here is the next challenge!

These challenge's will start Saturday and all entry's must be completed by 11:59 P.M. CST on Friday, so if you are not CST make sure you don't get confused (trust me it happens to me alot!!!) I will choose a winner Saturday morning and I will need that person to e-mail their information. Does that seem easy enough?




Challenge Number 3:

COLOR MY WORLD!

So here it is, I am going to show you two different scraps of paper I had left over and I want you to use atleast 1 of the colors on there and atleast 1 flower.(once again, you may choose what you want to do, ATC's,a card, Layout, other altered items... etc., etc.)

Sound easy?! I hope, it was very easy and I was able to create an example for each color scheme (I guess that's the right word?)

Color Scheme #1: RED,YELLOW,PINK,ORANGE

Ok, the colors in this choice are RED YELLOW PINK AND ORANGE. You will see some black and white which can be used on your project.




My Example is a CARD and it is listed below:





(Yes, I know it is tiny! My cutting skills weren't working with me today though! :P)

The colors in choice #2 are BLUES AND GREENS. You will see some black and white, which can be used on your project.




My Example is a CARD and it is listed below:






Well I think that is it... only 50 minutes left of work!! Woohoo!! We've been soo busy today, we've done 7 rentals + other daily stuff that goes on!!!


XOXO
-Cait