Song Lyric...

Here's another Chalet Blog Challenge......If you could be a song, what would you be?

This one sticks to mind from many moons ago! We joked about this among friends.... you had to be there!

She's into superstitions black cats and voodoo dolls.
I feel a premonition that girl's gonna make me fall.
She's into new sensations new kicks in the candle light.
She's got a new addiction for every day and night.

She'll make you take your clothes off and go dancing in the rain.
She'll make you live her crazy life but she'll take away your pain
like a bullet to your brain. Come On!

[CHORUS:]
Upside, inside out she's livin la vida loca
She'll push and pull you down, livin la vida loca
Her lips are devil red and her skin's the color mocha
She will wear you out livin la vida loca Come On!
Livin la vida loca, Come on!
She's livin la vida loca.

Woke up in New York City in a funky cheap hotel
She took my heart and she took my money
she must've slipped me a sleeping pill
She never drinks the water and makes you order French Champagne
Once you've had a taste of her you'll never be the same
Yeah, she'll make you go insane.

[CHORUS]

She'll make you take your clothes off and go dancing in the rain.
She'll make you live her crazy life
but she'll take away your pain like a bullet to your brain. Come On!

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Now, do you remember who sang this song?! ;)

Me? a T-shirt?

One of my Blog Challenges at The Chalet is if I were a T-Shirt what would it say?

Well....I've always been a do-er. I never ever want to wonder how things may have been if....so I just do it! So did you guess then what my T-Shirt would have said? Yep, you got it......the Nike Ad of "Just Do It"...that would be me.

My sister sent me a nice surprise in the mail which I got in the mail the other day...check out my T-shirt! Yep, my hubby's name is Kurt. LOL!!! Of course there's Connor who just had to be in the picture! :)

The Chalet's Blog Challenge - 0807

I posted this at The Chalet but feel free to do the challenge with us! But read further.....if you join us at The Chalet you can also WIN PRIZES!!!

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Hello People! Ready to do some BLOG CHALLENGE WITH MOI!?!? Read on!!

Did you know that having a blog is like having a place for your friends to come visit you without you having to clean, get dressed or cook up some snacks?! But how do you ensure that your friends do come and enjoy their visit?

Well, one way is to have fresh content on there so when they come and visit, they have something to read and catch up on without you having to do any of the above I mentioned. So how can you have fresh content on there? Here’s Jozzie to the rescue!!

Do the Blog Challenge with me so your friends and web surfers out there can and will enjoy reading your blog. Look below and do as much of the challenges I’ve listed. When you’re done, link and post under this thread to let me know which you’ve done. There are two ways you can WIN! (1) The one with the most points at the end of the month, will be our Blog Challenge Winner and (2) All entrants have a chance to win the GRAND PRIZE from the Chalet! So keep tabs of your points! Just like any of the challenges here at the Chalet, the more you participate, the greater your chances of winning something FUN!

Here's how you win points. You get 1 point for every entry you post on your blog. Include a photo for each entry you get 1 extra point. Sorry, but this is for new entries only. Entries already posted in your blog from the past, are not eligible for new points. Remember you have to link back here and all posts must be in by August 31st at midnight!

Ready? Here we go. Here are some possible blog entries. I have listed 30 topics here, so you can have one fresh entry for the whole month! WOW! That’s a possible 30 to 60 points! AND…your friends will have something FUN to read everyday! COOL huh? Good luck everyone!!!!


1. One scrapbook item you cannot live without!
2. My most favorite indulgence
3. Blog about your parents
4. Complete this sentence, “In High school, I Was The One Most Likely To….”
5. 5 Random Things About Yourself
6. Blog about your scrapbooking room.
7. It’s good to let the child in each of us come out from time to time. What is a child-like activity you like to participate in?
8. Reminisce about your favorite childhood memory?
9. Do you have a childhood friend? Are you still in touch?
10. Talk about a life-changing experience
11. What is your most prized possession?
12. Is there something you haven’t learned to do yet as an adult? Why not?
13. If you were a T-Shirt what would it say?
14. If you could be a song which one would you be?
15. What magazines do you subscribe to? Give us a review of it.
16. What was the last movie/video you’ve seen? Give us a review of it.
17. Are you a junk-food junkie? Blog about it.
18. List 5 scrapbooking dos and don’ts.
19. 5 things I want to tell my spouse.
20. Write about something you love to do with your children.
21. Write about your favorite actor/actress.
22. Write about your favorite author.
23. Is there anything exciting happening in your life right now? Share it with us!
24. Love/Hate Relationship. Write about it! EX: I love a clean house. I hate cleaning!
25. Write about your best friend.
26. Do you have a nighttime ritual with your kids?
27. When was the last time you went on a date night? Where did you go?
28. What’s your favorite food?
29. What’s your favorite drink?
30. Where do you love to shop? Give us a review of it!

Oh yeah and one more thing --- the idea is for you to have a blog entry every day, so you may not combine more than one topic per entry!

Now get BLOGGING!!!

EXTRA POINTS:

Visit and post a comment on your friends blogs and receive a point for doing so. You get a point for every comment. So the more you visit and comment, the more points you can get. So get commenting!!!!

Sorry Guys!

I'm so bad....I challenged the girls at The Chalet about blogging more and here I am with stale-dated content. I promise to get back on and post some stuff. I just wanted to post a quickie to let you know that I'm here. I'll post soon and please come back again...OK?

I'll have some goodies for you.... ;)

Love you guys!

Do You Have What It Takes To Be A STAR?!?!?

ANNOUNCING ~ Designing Like a Star Contest

Scrapbook Chalet is proud to announce an exciting contest that will get your creative juices flowing and challenges to set your mind free.

To enter and participate in the “Designing Like a Star” contest, you must upload 1 or 2 of your best 8.5 x 11, 12 x 12, Digital layouts, cards, and/or altered items into the “Designing Like a Star” section of the gallery, no later than midnight EST March 31th. Your layouts, cards, and/or altered items do not have to be an original, but must show your creativeness and style. Doing this will enter your name into the Contest!

Everyone who enters their layouts, cards, and/or altered items in the gallery by Midnight EST March 31th will automatically become one of the contestants. After you upload your 8.5 x 11, 12 x 12, Digital layouts, cards, and/or altered items, you must send an email to info@scrapbookchalet.com listing your name, user name, layout and/or altered item titles. This information will be posted in a special section of the message board so everyone will get to know each other better, and will also know who the participants are.

On Monday, April 2nd, we will announce the first “Designing Like a Star” challenge. You will have one week to complete the challenge and upload it to the “Designing Like a Star” Section of the gallery by Sunday, Midnight EST.

Every week thereafter on Monday's ~ the contestants and our message board members, will be given the opportunity to vote someone out. Voting will only take place on Monday's until 8PM, EST and failure to cast your vote before 8PM EST will result in the loss of your vote. After the voting, the NEW Challenge will go up along with the participants who will move to the next round!

Depending on the number of contestants playing, this will determine how many get voted out each week, until we are down to the final 5. Once there are only 5 contestants remaining in the Contest, only one will be voted off per week. During the elimination process, I will ask everyone on the board to be our judges, and I will have a SPECIAL GUEST announce who will become our “Designing Like a Star”.

Participation on the board is a MUST for ALL players!

There will be random weekly challenges for immunity which will give you a chance of not being voted out for the following week. We will also be giving random challenges throughout the game for various prizes, so participation is extremely important. Any and all Challenge announcements will be posted on the board. Failure to upload the challenge layout by the posted deadlines will result in disqualification.

Our Contest will consist of the following Challenges, but not limited to:

Ad Challenges
Sketch Challenges
Color Challenges
Product Challenges
Scraplift Challenges
Celebrity Challenges
Blog Challenges
NSBR Website Challenges
and many more...


Grand Prize:

The winner of the “Designing Like a Star” contest, as chosen by the jury, will be our Featured Member for the month on our Website & Newsletter, along with a $ 250.00 Gift Basket from Various Sponsors

Good Luck everyone, and most of all, have FUN!

Holiday Travel...

Counting down the hours where I go and hop on that plane to visit my family in Florida! Guess what time our flight is! 6AM on Sunday (Christmas Eve) morning! Aaaah! Crazy, eh?! But hopefully the kids, especially my 2YO, will be sleeping all the way there. I'm so looking forward to being with my family during the holidays and also celebrating my 27th (ahem) birthday! Yep, I was born December 25th! Such a special day! HAH!!!

What do I love about traveling? Of course getting ready for it, the anticipation, the outings, hanging out, doing nothing or doing lots of things....family times.....everyday is something to look forward to.......and afterwards the memories made.......scrapping moments :)

What I like least? Packing followed by the "til we meet again" moment! Argh!

Check out STM to see the other chicks response!

Year End Contest!

Make sure to check out my YEAR-END CONTEST here!

YOU could be the LUCKY WINNER! Good luck!!!

If I had 15 minutes to spare....

Just what would I do? Geesh, does it only have to be just 15 minutes?! I'm sleep deprived at times so I would want some extra sleep. But that seems such a waste. I would love to go shopping but for 15 minutes, I would stress out and I think I want to use that extra 15 minutes doing something very relaxing. Ahhh....a bubble bath? Sounds like FUN but I need company when I do that! Then I don't know if 15 minutes would be enough. HAH! Seriously though, 15 minutes, I would love to make cards, while listening to some music and sipping a nice cup of tea. In 15 minutes I can easily crank out 5 or 6 of them. Then if I had another 15 minutes I'd love to mail them out to people I love.

Look at some of my creations from the previous entries. You'll see some of my FUN creations from last night using just the supplies I had at hand. It was sooo FUN and very relaxing making them. I was up 'til midnight. All alone. Peace and quiet! Just me and my cards....

What about you what would you do with that 15 minutes? Let me ask my STM Chicks....

Yuck! Never Trust a Quiet 2 Year Old....

So, we just got home after dropping off my daughter to her volleyball practice. I fed the dog, took off our jackets (son and I) and I'm looking at the STM boards . I was wondering why I was able to do too much without any interruption from my son.

I go and check on him as I was getting quite suspicious by the quietness and my ability to do a lot!!! Like I"ve died and gone to heaven?! UGH! To my disgust!!! Guess what I saw, he and my dog are eating doggie biscuits!!!! YUCKIE!!!

..................and he was brushing his teeth with the dog's toothbrush!!! EEEK!!!!.............

Kisses anyone?!?!?!?

I'm Up To My Ears....

In SNOW!!! We got over 12 inches of snow last night! Schools are closed. My hubby's home. The roads are bad. This is what I see when I look outside. I'm inside taking the photos. No way will I go out there. I'm in to stay warm!!

Here's Ava and Connor making a snowman!

Scrreeeech......stop for a moment and sing a song!

My Blog Challenge today is to talk about your favorite Christmas song. Do you have one? What is it? Wanna scrap about it?

My favorite Christmas song I think is "I'll Be Home for Christmas". I don't know why I like that one so much. It gets me teary eyed. I think maybe because I'm usually away from my family around that time of year. Not my immediate family but my parents, siblings and their families. They're all in Florida. So I'm really excited that this year we get to celebrate together!

So yep, this year, "I'll be home for Christmas".........

Missing You

I knew that I would miss you,
My loving, loyal friend...

I knew the special joy we shared
would one day have to end...

But now the time has come,
And though I know it's sadly true...

I can't believe you're really gone,
And I'm here missing you.

Some think there is a heaven
For the pets we cherish so...

I think God meant for us
To give heaven here below!

You were a special gift from Him
And gave me so much love...

I know He must have smiled on us
From heaven up above.

So 'til I'm sure whre you have gone,
I'm comforted, you see...

Just knowing you were "In pet heaven"
Here on earth with me.

Stuka 1989 - 2003

My Most FUN Job Ever!

Ok, so I challenged the STM Chicks today of what was their most FUN job ever....so here's mine....

Many of the jobs I ever held were basically FUN, ok, so maybe not the job itself, stressful is more like it, but basically, there's a FUN element about each of them.

Starting from out of college I held a job as an Aerobics Instructor. Speaking of work! Whew! Work-out it was! I would teach classes back to back and sometimes I would go for 5 hours straight teaching aerobics! But hey, I was way younger then too :) I had LOTS of stamina! Heeheehee! That was FUN, the pay wasn't much, but I had a body a quarter could bounce off of! :)

After that I got a more serious job for one of the major life insurance companies. I had to make some kind of a living right? So I did that. Moved up the corporate ladder. Great pay and benefits but it came with lots of responsibilites and lots of stress. Managing people in the Call Center was not glamorous. But what I loved about it were the perks! After work outings, holiday parties, long lunch hours, friends. Those were the things I miss! Those were FUN, ahhhhh..... {my mind's wandering}..... the good old days. Left that to pursue my dream of being a full-time Mom. OK, wait a minute, I'm getting to the most FUN job I ever had!!! Keep reading....

About 3 years ago, I ran into one of my good friends from highschool. I was shopping at Victoria's Secret and she happens to be the manager there. We were joking around about how much FUN it would be to work there and she hired me on the spot. I worked around my family's work schedule. So that was neat. And then working there at the store......talk about S-E-X-Y!!! I loved it. I got to see first hand what's NEW, and we got to try out everything and I mean everything in the store so we know what we're selling and talk to the customers about. Speaking of customers, I'm sure you can imagine, I've met some quite "interesting" people. And some are "famous" people. Maybe someday, I'll tell you over a nice glass of mai-tais! LOL! Anyway, moreof the perks, we always got FREE sexy-wearables each month! LOL! So talk about great perks! Unfortunately, it had to be cut short. I had to quit. Why? If you're doing the math correctly, you would have figured out that's about when Connor came along. GOTCHA!

So kind of like Gaspe Chick, that job would forever change my life path. Happier family, bigger family and lots of VS wearables! :)


How about you, what was the most FUN job you ever had? Comment here!

Cranberries in Grand Marnier Sauce

Here's what I always make for Thanksgiving that is ALWAYS a hit! ENJOY!

1 sm. fresh orange
1 1/2 c. sugar
3/4 c. orange juice
12 oz. fresh cranberries
1/3 c. Grand Marnier

1) With a vegie peeler, remove 1 1/2 T rind from the orange and cut into thin slivers. Peel and seed the orange and chop coarsely.

2) Combine sugar and orange juice in a medium-size non-aluminum saucepan. Cook over medium heat until sugar dissolves. Add cranberries, orange and orange rind. Simmer until cranberries skins pop, about 10 minutes. Add Grand Marnier and cook 1 minute longer.

3) Chill well before serving. Sauce can be made several weeks in advance and refrigerated.

YIELD: 3 cups

How about you, do you have any delicious Thanksgiving Dinner recipe? Post it or comment here so we can check out your blog to "savor" the moment. Visit our STM Forum and maybe some of the girls will have something to share to!

What scrapbook item would YOU be?

Here's a FUN STM Blog Challenge for all of you. We're all talking about what we want on our Christmas list and wishing for this and that. But what if YOU were a scrapbook item, just what would you be and why? Blog about it, make a layout about it, for now, fantasize!

Me? I would have to say an adhesive. I know, nothing exciting or colorful. But really with what's going on with a dear friend of mine, I would say I would want to be an adhesive. Why?

Well, let me tell you why. Did you know that according to the current stats, 40% - 50% of marriages end in divorce? UGH! Just what in the world is going on? Ok, so I'm not an expert. I've been married for almost 17 years and it hasn't always been peaches and cream, but let me tell you, been there, done that and I'm so glad I stuck it out. I wouldn't have Connor.....you know the kid that sticks popcorn kernels up his nose, almost had his finger cut off, the one that got a swollen face after he ate peanut butter cookies, yes, that's the one, that little angel I have who will be 2YO this Thursday, if I had given up. Anywho, I think many if not some, people just give up too easily. It took me years but it worked out. A dear friend of mine, wants to divorce her husband and it saddens me so. I don't want to go into details but she really hasn't exhausted all her options and I believe she should give it another chance. They have a 4YO daughter together.

Anyway, why an adhesive, obvious, I want people to stick together, unless there are absolute reasons not to of course!

I didn't mean for this entry to be so serious. Check back here and read some funny ones from the other STM Chicks.

How about you, just what scrapbook item would YOU be?

My First Driving Experience

Good Morning!

For today's STM blog challenge let's go back to the good old days. Remember when you were just learning how to drive? What was that like? Who taught you? When did you start driving? What was the first car that you owned? Bring us back there. Maybe even do a layout and even if you don't have a photo of it, I'm sure you can download something off of the net. So let's burn rubber and blog!

So, let me bring you back to the good old days....my first driving experience. I learned how to drive when I was 16, in school, you know Driver's Ed. Got my permit but never really went and got my driver's license until I was 20 something. Why? I always had people that drove me around. My dad, friends, boyfriends. So I never really had the desire to get a driver's license. Plus we lived in the city....it was always hard to find parking spaces, crazy knucklehead drivers all over the place. :) So anyway, when I met my husband to be, he taught me how to drive all over again. Got my license then my first car, my parents bought for me a Nissan Sentra. Then when I got married, I had to leave the car behind. Go figure! So we bought a VW Fox. A stickshift!!!! OMG! I didn't know how to drive a stick but I learned. But boy, let me tell you, driving to and from work, during rush hour, with stop and go traffic, over 40 miles each way, I'm surprised I didn't get in any wreck or anything. But let me tell you, I was stressed even before I got to work! I did love that car though. It was white with a sunroof. I love having a sunroof. My next car will be a convertible. My husband still owes me one of those. Someday....

My 3 Wishes

MY STM Blog Challenge for today was if the Scrapbook Genie will grant me 3 wishes, what would I wish for?

Here they are:

1) I wish for lots of customers and Matthew McConahey to come my way through my Dazzle In Style business!
2) I wish for lots of money so I can buy my camera, a wide format printer and scanner.
3) I wish for more wishes!

Ok, so we know that 3 wishes just aren't enough when it comes to scrapbooking! How about you --- what would you wish for?

Daylight Savings Time....

Fall back......don't like it 'cause it gets dark so early, but what I do like is the extra hour I gain.
So what do I do with that extra hour?

SLEEP!

I use it to sleep in.
I don't get to do that that often, so when I get a chance...
I use it for sleep!

What about you what did you do with that extra hour?

SwEeT DrEaMs.....was it really?!

Oh my! I challenged the STM Chicks to blog about their dream last night. Here was my dream....

I was putting THREE strollers in my car with light pink bows!!!! AAAH!

For the record..before anyone goes congratulating me, I am not pregnant!!! LOL! I feel very rested this morning. Though the night before I didn't go to bed until about 3 am. I was reading "Winning Volleyball for Girls" by Deborah Crisfield and Mark Gola". If you're coaching VB or have girls that are in VB, pick up a copy of this book! Great stuff! Anyway, last night I went to bed at about 10:30pm, woke up at 7:30 am and took a nice long shower. DH is working from home. Love that!

So what do you think that all meant?

About Me and ABC?!

Not quite! I dared the STM Chicks to do this blog challenge....3 letters! What is your remedy for it? What do you do to feel better?

I woke up this morning not feeling good. I was crampy and real faint. I was hoping Connor would wake up later than usual, which he did, 7:15 am! It helped some. I hate it when I wake up like that, I could barely stand up. Faint and icky! I've been diagnosed with anemia so I have to really watch my iron. I've had a very stressful week and last night didn't help much either. My team let me down by not having good sportsmanship out on the court and it didn't help their game. They need some talking to.

This morning I wish I could just lay down and drink some tea and just veg....but my darling little son, I swear he's related to one girl named Bella.... :) 'cause I can so relate with that poor mom. I need a nap! I need a warm drink, maybe with a dash of something 100% proof wouldn't hurt either...... Calgon take me away!

I wish ABC was as easy as 123! Go have yourself a good day! Now go away! :)