Just for fun!

Krista over at Saturated Canary posted this on her blog today and I thought it would be fun to join in.  Especially since I just switched over to this blog and I have some new followers. It is fun to get to know people better. You can play along if you would like. I hate tagging people in these types of things. So if you play, let me know in the comment section below so I can come read your answers!

There are five rules:
1. Post these rules.
2. Post a photo of yourself and 11 random things.
3. Answer the questions set for you in the original post.
4. Create 11 new questions and tag people to answer them.
5. Go to their blog/twitter and tell them you've tagged them.

11 Random Things

1.    I love snow!

2.     I love having my nails painted, but hate painting them. I am never patient enough to let them dry all the way. So I always have to buy fast drying nail polish

3.  I recently discovered that I LOVE pickled beets, now I always have a jar of them in my fridge.

4.  I hate licorice, especially Twizzlers. It makes me gag to think about it.

5.  Blogger is confusing the crap outta me. It is really hard to adjust to it after using Wordpress for so many years.

6. I am huge country girl at heart, I can live and thrive in the city, but my heart longs for the country.

7. I love soft fuzzy socks

8.  I love costume jewelry and am always scoping it out on clearance when I am in the stores. I always feel naked if I am not wearing jewelry with my outfit. It just doesn't feel complete.

9.  I am addicted to Castleville on Facebook..lol

10. I love being a mom, and am so grateful that God gave me that chance with my stepdaughter, Heather.

11.I LOVE the smell of fresh cut grass.


The Questions she gave us are:



1.       Favorite nail color?
Depends on my mood, really. Lately it has been teal with glitter

2.      Pink or RED lipstick?...or are you a gloss kinda gal?
Always toffee…So neither pink, nor red. The answer is always brown.

3.      Favorite craft site?
          Scrapbook.com

4.      Are you a morning person or a night owl?

         A night owl, for sure. I usually can’t be much of one though, with work and driving my daughter to school.

5.      Are you really chatty or super quiet? Or maybe somewhere in between??
Again, it depends on my mood. I can be very chatty at times and sometimes I really hate to talk..lol

6.      What is one thing you want to accomplish this year?
Loosing weight

7.      What is your best talent/gift?
This is hard… I would say edification is my gift.

8.      Do you have a tattoo?

        No, I used to want one so badly. I was even promised one for my 18^th birthday. I just could never settle on one for more than 6 months …so I just never got one.

9.      What is one thing you'd like to learn more about?
       Jesus

10.   You're alter ego would be a _______.  (think occupation:)
An Artist or an Author

11.    What three people (past or present) would you like to meet?
Jesus, back when he walked with the Disciples, My two babies that have went on to heaven before me, my great- great grandparents.

 My Questions for you: 

   1. What is your favorite color, and why

   2. If you were animal based on your personality, which one would you be and why? 

   3. What character trait would you change about yourself? 

   4. favorite craft medium in one word only

   5. Who do you feel influenced you the most growing up? 

   6. favorite show as a kid

   7. Favorite Disney princess

   8. Where do you like to vacation, and why? 

   9. A make believe place that you wish you could visit? 

   10. What perfume do you wear most often, or lotion/body spray?

   11.  What are you looking forward too?

      If you end up playing along, please let me know. 

      I hope you all have a fantastic Monday! 

    Tracy S.

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Cheeeeeese!

Here is a quick little post of a card I did for a recipe swap on Paper Craft Planet. The recipe had to have the main ingredient of cheese! This is one of my favorite House Mouse stamps but I rarely have an opportunity to use it. I thought this occasion was perfect though. It having cheese on it and all..lol

I got to play with my Grand Caliber that hubby bought me for my birthday and make my first shaped card. I need some work on it but it was fun nonetheless.

I hope you are all having a great start to your week. Today ends my weekend and it is back to work tomorrow! I hope to get some crafting done this week. Anyone with some spare mojo, please fling it this way..lol I would greatly appreciate it!

Ciao,

Tracy S

Use the Force

Since Valentine's has come and gone, I can now show you the card I made hubby. Anyone that knows me very well, knows that my hubby is a HUGE Star Wars fan. The whole fam is pretty fond of all things Star Wars actually. Anyway... When Krista over at Saturated Canary came out with the Star Wars themed digis, I HAD to have them. I knew I wanted to use this cute little guy for my hubby's Valentine card. I was so impressed with myself because I managed a love card for him that was not girlie..Woot!

No ribbon, bling, pink, or embossed lips..lol YAY me! No, seriously though, I am shocked and amazed that I was able to keep it simple and masculine. Those are the two hardest things for me.

Thanks for stopping by!

Card Deets:

Image- Force by Krista Smith

paper- Basic Grey

Copics:

lightsaber -C1,C3,C5,C6, YG17,Y09,YG06,YG05,YG03,YG01,R46

skin- E00, E11

eyes- B01,B05

hair-E44,E43, E41

cape-W7, W3, W2

clothes & boots- E77, E74,E71,E34,E31,E30,E13, YG91

** I updated the typo in the sentiment. Thank you Gina for pointing it out. Especially since I had saved the sentiment I made..lol That would have been super embarrassing!

Valentine Wishes

First off, thank you to all that followed me over here. You all ROCK! I am working on some ideas to get more exposure, so that people know that I moved. Maybe a RAK or contest or something. I will keep you posted. I will make it worth it though, promise.

Well I know most of you are probably out with your significant other or hanging with friends and family. I on the other hand am home alone for Valentine's. I am not going to complain and whine too much because mine is just working. I know some of my friend's do not have the luxury of having their honey come home from work even. I am thinking about you all today. *hugs* The ones that are divorced, still single or lost that special someone. I wanted to dedicate this post to all of you. I wanted to wish you all sweet Valentine wishes! Whatever that looks like for each of you. I hope your wishes and dreams come true. I love all of my wonderful friends and crafty buddies and wanted to let you all know that on this Valentine's Day!!

So now enough with all the mushy, sappy stuff..lol I am going to see if I remember how to post a pic up in this beast..lol It has only been 6 years... I mean it should be just like riding a bike, right? Well except that bikes stay the same and technology does not... so wish me luck :) here goes nothing..............

k I must admit that it took a few tries. I am not sure how to post it after text but I will work on that. I just have one question????... Why is this typing in a different color with an underline all the sudden? lol Oh man I have a lot to learn..Please bear with me as I work through the kinks.

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY, FRIENDS!!!

- Tracy S

Resurrection!

I am going to attempt to resurrect my Blogger Blog. I have wanted to do this for awhile now but have been hesitant. We own our own domain and it seemed silly to use a free blog site when we are paying yearly for another. However, Blogger has come a long way since I left it many years ago. As you can see from my previous posts on here... I have been gone from this blog for several years.

I wanted to move back for a few reasons. One of them being that it is super easy to get a cute blog template and change it out at my leisure over here. That is a big plus to me. Neither hubby nor I know how to write CSS code to design new templates for my other blog. He tweaks it a a little here and there when I ask... but that is the plus of coming back over here, I can tweak this one myself at any time.

The other reason is that my blog traffic is terrible. I know most people use Blogger and the majority do not know how to "Follow" my other blog.

the downfall to this is that everyone has to change their bookmarks of my blog, I have to start from the bottom up getting followers, and what am I going to do with my other blog that we are paying for?

I am not sure that I want to take the leap to leaving my old blog behind.. I am a bit sentimental like that. I figure though, I left this one behind and it was ok..lol

Soooo I am going to do a little test to see how this one goes. Take it for a test drive of sorts. I will let that determine whether or not it is worth ditching the other for this one.

What do you guys think? Any thoughts, suggestions, comments?

I would love to hear them.