Photohunt

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I've never done the photohunt before, but my friend, April participates, so I thought I would give it a try. Besides, this weeks theme is "nautical" and I've got lots of pictures that will work! LOL! I took this picture last summer at the marina in Coral Gables. Gotta love those sailboats!


This picture is an oldie that I think I've shared here before. This is the view I have from the pool. That's Miami you see in the background.


It's funny that I decided to try this for the first time when there's a nautical theme because this is the weekend of the Miami Beach Boat Show. Do you know what that means? It means---EVEN MORE TRAFFIC! LOL!

Friday at school we celebrated Valentine's Day and the kids had a great time. One of the things we did was use a hundreds chart to color a heart. I used some of April's graphics to scrap the pictures. Here's one layout I made...



April has got a wonderful set called Chocolate Decadence that's on sell at Scrap It Sassy. I used it for today's layout. Here's a preview of the kit for you to see...

Happy Valentine's Day!

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Happy Friday!

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It's been such a long hard week! Every weekend should have at least three days! The cold days we had have done their damage and all the kids at school have colds. I think that's added to making this week feel like it lasted for a month.

Thanks to our picket line yesterday I was on our local news last night and this morning. LOL! I didn't give an interview but my Friend and I had awesome signs so the cameras kept filming us. That was so funny because I really HATE to have my picture taken. LOL!

We're celebrating Valentine's Day at school tomorrow. Should be fun! Hopefully, I'll get some cute pictures to share with you.

If you visit Shel Belle Scraps you'll be able to pick up some adorable BB pages that Louisiana Lady made with the Celebrate Love kit. Shel is also going to give away some extra elements for the set. I'm excited about that!

Deanna has got her Music of My Heart kit up at Flower Scraps. I hope you've gone and picked it up! Here's another layout I made using the kit. I saved it as a quick page for you.

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2-12-09

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I'm sorry that some of you had trouble downloading the QP yesterday. I've fixed the link and you can download it here

What a day! I am so tired. Walking a picket line is hard work! LOL! Now, I'm sure that what we did will have very little impact on what the school board votes to do but at least we made our voices heard.

Today is the day that Deanna is releasing a wonderful music kit on her blog. Here's a quick layout I made with her kit. I think this picture was taken sometime in the 60's when we lived in Seattle. That's my dad on the sax.


Here's one with my class dancing to one of Dr. Jean's songs. She's a big hit with the Kindergarten crowd. LOL!


It's past my bedtime. Make sure you go visit Deanna at Flowerscraps and enjoy your day!

Wednesday

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Guess what I'm doing after school? I'm joining a picket line outside the school board office. This year they broke our contracts and didn't give us our raises. Now, they're telling us that they are going to take two days pay from us. That's just not right! Of course, the people who are planning to take even more money out of our pockets aren't giving up any of their pay. Isn't that always how it goes?

I feel bad because I meant to give you this quickpage last week and completely forgot. Anyway, it's from Flowerscraps portion of the Chocolate Cherry Blog Train.

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On Thursday, Deanna will be releasing another great kit on her blog. I can't wait for you to see it!

I need to get some sleep. Enjoy your day.

Lucky Natalie!

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My friend Natalie is so lucky! She is going to the Oscars! Natalie has a cousin that works for the academy so Natalie is going as her "plus one". Today Natalie asked me for a favor and promised to bring me something from LA if I could help her--I told her I wanted George Clooney! LOL!

OK, true story time. A couple of months after Charlie passed away I got a notice from the security gate wanting me to update my information. They wanted to know the names of anyone living with me so they could get through the gate. They wanted to know the names of anyone that I wanted them to automatically let through the front gate, like family members. Then they wanted to know the names of anyone that I wanted to give restricted entrance to, like the water delivery guy. Anyone else would be stopped at the gate until I confirmed that I was expecting them.

Well, at this point in time, I was still crying on a daily basis because my heart had been broken into so many tiny pieces when Charlie passed away. Those tiny pieces all broke into even smaller pieces at the thought of his name no longer being on that list. I couldn't bring myself to fill the form out and turn it back in. I kept it for another month or so without writing anything.

When I finally decided that I just had to write something and turn it in. I wrote one name on the list of people that they should always let in, no matter what day or time it is. That name was GEORGE CLOONEY. LOL! Mom gets stopped at the gate, but if Natalie keeps her promise and brings George home to me he'll get through the gate with no problem. LOL!

Back to work...

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Today was a beautiful 70 degrees! Of course, they say that another cold front is coming through. This has been the craziest winter! I live in south Florida, we aren't supposed to even have winter!

It's back to work for me. I can make it...I can make it...LOL! I don't have big plans for the upcoming weekend, but I'm still looking forward to it!

I hope you've gone by Shel Belle Scraps to start picking up the Celebrate Love Kit. On Sunday she gave away the papers and today you'll get the first part of the elements. Here's another layout I made with the kit...


OK, I promise that someday I'm going to be finished with the pics from our 100th day. I'm just not sure when that day will arrive. LOL! These pictures have kids from three different classes. We went outside and did 100 exercises. Well, they did 100 exercises. I took pictures. LOL!

If you're getting tired of seeing these layouts just blame it all on Shel! If she hadn't made such a cute 100 Days of School Kit I'd have given up on scrapping these pictures already. LOL!

Here in Dade County students don't get art, music or PE until 2nd grade. That's crazy isn't it? Well, I was lucky enough to get in on a grant this year that gave my class 15 art lessons with an artist through the Arts For Learning program. It was lots of fun. I'm just sorry we couldn't have more art classes! One of the things that did was trace themselves to make little mini mes. I used April's Back to School Kit for this layout...


So, I need to get some sleep now. Enjoy your day!