ADMIRATION

I have a true admiration to those bloggers that blog on a daily or near daily basis. I know we all have lots to blog about, but sometimes can't find the time to. So I will try to catch things up by working in a backwards fashion. As much as I can before I take Joy to the vets at least.

So I am on vacation this week from work. I really needed a break. Not as productive as I'ld like to be, but not wasting the time either! Took Jonathan to the dentist this morning. Suppose to get his bottom 2 cavities taken care of (got the top 2 done last week). Didn't happen though. He was just too upset and the dentist will not push it as she does not want the kids to be traumatized. Good thinking! Nitrous (happy gas) seems to have the reverse effect on him. He just cries harder. So we rescheduled for next week and I will give him some benedryl before we go and skip the happy gas.

I had to get some fall/ winter clothes for the boys yesterday and grocery shopping. Crazy thing is we go once a month to Gulfport (hour away) to the commisary and it's worth the trip. I'm still excited I bought 40 pounds of chicken for $12!!!! I hit the clearance & sale sections at the outlet stores. Was able to get a pair of jeans at the Nautica store for Tony for $15!!! I refuse to pay for a name. Don't mind paying for quality, but not a name.

Okay, I'm back. Didn't even know I was gone, did you? My mom called and then it was time to take Joy to the vet. We got bad about taking her for a while. We had 2 dogs and just couldn't afford for both. Found a good home for the other one (he was constantly marking his territory in the house!) So back on track with my baby girl. We've had her for almost 5 years.

Monday I spent 4 1/2 hours cleaning our LR carpet. Let me tell you, we invested in an Oreck Oribiter 2 years ago and I am soooooo glad. I use to spend 6 hours on my hands & knees scrubbing the same carpet. It is sooooo much easier with the Orbiter. Normally wouldn't have taken so long, but with the boys & dog, there were a lot of stains. Plus I use it to clean my wood & tiled floors!

Sunday, we took the boys & Joy to the beach. Was so much fun!

We had a fabulous time. DH & I actually were able to relax. The kids and Joy played hard. Definitely need to do this more often.

Okay, have to go get little guy from school! Bye!

BUSY, BUSY

Oh yes, the schedule has gotten busier lately.  Went to my 1st football game since high school! (Only a few...18...years ago, LOL)  Wow, did it bring back a lot of old memories.  Actually, think I may have gone to a game a couple years after graduating, but it's still been a while.  I was in marching band, so hearing the bands play actually made me long to pick up a flute again.  Have to say, my 15 yo's uniforms are sharp!  Better than the uniforms I had to wear!  Can you believe I forgot to bring my camera? (Bad mommy!)

I helped out a little bit with the NJROTC concession stand (we handle the visitor's side concession stand).  This Friday night is the rivalry game against PRC!  BIG game!  So we are going to cool hotdogs, burgers and I am going to make pulled pork for sandwiches.  Here is a neat little trick I just learned - can be used for home too....

       tip:  Use the bags used for cooking turkeys or roast in the oven to line your                             crockpot.  Makes for super easy clean up and the food won't burn.  Works                     great for chili & cheese sauce, stew, but not for water (I'm told, so not going                 to try it).

I'm definitely going to do this.  I am going to pick up 2 pork shoulder roasts tomorrow, get up at 3 am Friday morning, put them in the oven at 225 degrees and go back to bed.  Let it cook all day while I'm at work.  Will leave work early, go home and pull the pork, mix with a couple bottles of BBQ sauce and put in my lined crockpot.  Tasty & good profits!

Saturday will be very busy too.  I am helping my dear friend Tammy sell t-shirts at a fundraiser for Devin Funk.  See HERE for his MySpace page to read more.  He is an 11 yo boy from Slidell, LA that had his arm removed (to put it nicely) by an alligator on  July 30, 2008.  The doctors were unable to reattach it.  They had the Car-Show fundraiser scheduled for Sept. 6th, but Gustav made them have to reschedule and it is this Saturday.

Tammy is part owner of   Xpressionsplus and have they donated the printing cost of 400 tshirts to be sold.  And she has asked me to help her at the booth.

And just as a reminder, I HERE IS THE LINK for the post that has the main list for scrapbooking items and be make-up I have for sale.

FUNDRAISER

This is the link to the main post for items for sale for the fundraiser. It has links to the different groups of items I posted
http://southernconservativescrapper.blogspot.com/2008/09/items-posted-for-fundraising.html

MISCELLANEOUS

Here is another group of items. There is a little more but not sure if or when I'ld have time to post it. View pictures HERE

G1 - (Not pictured) Due to the weight of paper, I put 1 package together. It contains 350 sheets of 12x12 paper & cardstock, 7 12x12 sheets of transparent vellum (you can print on it) and 10 12x12 sheets of chipboard. This will sell for $45 (including shipping)... that is only 12 cents a sheet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

G2 - Karen Foster rub-on - brilliant

G3 - bottle caps - pastel-love (2)

G4 - bottle caps - halloween

G5 - painted binder clips - baby boy

G6 - large vintage wood word - road trip

G7 - large vintage wood word - vacation

G8 - large vintage wood word - friends

G9 - bottle caps - red

G10 - large vintage wood word - graduation

G11 - large vintage wood words - summer

G12 - large vintage wood words - family

G13 - chipboard shape - ice blue

G14 - K & Co home improvement 3D stickers

G15 - lg. wedding bears stamp

G16 - 6 pc small stamps set - wedding

G17 - hand stamped by stamp

G18 - dream stamp

G19 - destination clear unmounted stamp

G20 - adhesive back jewels

G21 - plaid crafty dye inks set/6

G22 - buttons

G23 - sew crafty mini sewing machine w/ boobins & book

G24 - Wilton 8x8 scrapbook tablet - 40 patterned papers, 6 die cut phrases pages, 6 die cut tag pages, 8 die cut border pages, 4 die cut alpha pages - 700+ pages

G25 - bag of flowers and buttons (2)

G26 - 1 lb. scrap pack - cardstock

G27 - making memories, funky with fibers

G28 - photo corners 240 pc, black (2)

G29 - boy mini medals (4)

G30 - girl mini medals (3)

G31 - mom tag

G32 - ribbons

G33 - black 8.5x11 archival photo paper for 3 ring binder - 10 per pack (5)

G34 - karen foster metal tag lines - sports

G35 - ribbon & fibers

BOHEMIAM TRANSFER TITLES
G36 - mother, my little prince, me and my sister, like father~like son, brothers, favorite guy

G37 - feb, april, may, june, july, aug, oct, nov, 2006

G38 - surf's up, riding the waves, by the sea, on the lake, sandcastles

G39 - outdoor adventure, camping out, nothing but blue skies, little fish, gone fishing, summer, winter

G40 - all natural, simply perfect, best friends, the love of my life

G41 - full of spunk, free spirit, drama queen, delight

G42 - 100% authentic boy, my little explorer, such a handsome boy, this boy, charmer

G43 - all boy, a boy's life, friends, cousins, best buddies


G44 - ticket pockets (2)

SKELETON LEAVES
G45 - pink/yellow

G46 - pink

G47 - green

G48 - blue

G49 - natural


G50 - 54 stitched adhesive letters & #'s

G51 - MM 3 metal charmed quotes - children

G52 - MM petite signage, self adhesive - all boy

ITEMS POSTED FOR FUNDRAISING

Okay, I have spent my whole day off taking pictures and posting items on here. If you are new to my blog, let me give you a quick explanation....my dear husband is about to retire from the US Navy after 24 years of dedicated service. I have been saving money for his ceremony & reception, which we ate up a bunch of it when we evacuated for Gustav. So I was asking for donations and was willing to send scrapbooking supplies & be bare minerals to people who donated. There were a lot of questions about specific items, so I told everyone I would post pictures. I warned everyone, I have A LOT of items. So I posted pictures into groups today ~ and this isn't even all of it. I just don't have time to do anymore today as it's almost time to pick the kids up.

This is how it works: find what you want and offer me a reasonable donation amount (keep in mind, I will be mailing the items to you). Email msac4@bellsouth.com me your want list with donation amount. 1st come, 1st served! I will go in the order of emails received. I will keep the blog updated as to when items sell as much as possible. I will give you my work address & phone # to send the money to. I would like to stay away from PayPal because of fees, but will accept payment there. This is also one of the reasons I am not doing this on ebay (fees and time), but I am a registered user tami3476, so you can see I am a real person and a good rating!

Here are the groups I listed today:

stickers 2

tools

embellishments

ribbon & fiber packs

stickers, embellishments, wood

stamps

be bare minerals make-up

miscellaneous **newly added

This is most of everything and not sure if I will be adding anymore. As things are sold, I will try to stay on top of it & adjust # available or turn the text to red and put ~SOLD~.

RIBBON & FIBER PACKS

I HAVE 7 PACKAGES OF RIBBONS & FIBERS PACKAGED JUST FOR YOU THAT YOU CAN SEE HERE!  F1, F3, F5 & F6 are SOLD

STICKERS 2

When a number is listed after the description ~ ie. (2)~, that notates how many are available. When you tell me the code of what you want, let me know the number of them you want. If you do not tell how many, I will assume you only want one. Pictures are HERE.

STK 3 - ALPHA BUBBLE STICKERS - please choose color & number of each
Blue -1 Orange -3 pink -3 Green -1 purple - 1 lt. blue -2 orchid -3
red (cursive) -3 black - 3 white - 2 trio - hunter/navy/burgundy - 4
trio - pink/lt. blue/orchid - 2 trio - blue/green/yellow - 3

STK 4 - ribbon accents - adhesive back diecuts

STK 5 - clear sticker - family

STK 6 - sticko stickersaurus - little boys

STK 7 - karen foster rub on word - having fun

STK 8 - karen foster rub on word - snoozin' (2)

STK 9 - karen foster rub on word - dressed up (3)

STK 10 - spring fern tags (2)

STK 11 - school tags (2)

STK 12 - sports imagination stickers (2)

STK 13 - Romance " " (3)

STK 14 - friends " "

STK 15 - wedding " " (6)

STK 16 - party adhesive art domes (2)

BO-BUNNY CARDSTOCK STICKERS - please notate how many of each you would like
STK 17 - SWAK (4)

STK 18 - family (1)

STK 19 - princess (2)

STK 20 - Ooh La La (4)

STK 21 - sunshine (2)

STK 22 - butterfly kisses (4)

STK 23 - cottage kitchen alpha

STK 24 - she is (4)

STK 25 - mother's heart (1)

STK 26 - pet tag alphabet

STK 27 - posh pet (4)

STK 28 - sports stickers - set of 2

STK 29 - 3D Sticker flowers

STK 30 - tab stickers - fun (9)

STK 31 - wedding (6)