Ugly Card Swap

This is the second card swap that I hosted. :) I took inspiration from an ugliest jewelry contest that I read about. It was so much fun. Everyone's ideas were different...even if they weren't that UGLY!!!

The swap consisted of 8 swappers (including myself).

• singaling (her cards have a suprise inside....a duct tape wedding dress!)
• littledevil
• ShariP
• ant me
• polarbear
• country_stamper
• kimmyqtgirl

Thanks for looking.....

Jennie (aka jennie_hi)

I wonder what we can do for our next "challenge"!

Mom's Birthday Party

Yesterday was a fun day. I should have been home studying for Math, Spanish, Psychology, Accounting & Sociology. But instead Sheld & I went and visited my mom and stepdad in Atlanta. They are here for a few days for a work conference.

We left around noon to take Rich to see the Titantic exhibit. After waiting for 20 minutes at the wrong hotel for him things went a lot better. The exhibit was pretty amazing. There was over 300 artifiacts on display. Each guest was given a boarding pass with a passanger from The Titantic. At the end we found out if we were one of the survivors or not. That made it pretty intense.

Afterwards we met my mom and went to dinner. We were supposed to be meeting my brother and sil also. But there was some miscommunication and they didn't come. However we went out to a Pub and had a pretty good dinner.

It was nice to see mom and Rich. With them living in North Carolina we don't get to see them as much as we would like.

JunkMail & Recycle Swap

This is the first swap that I hosted. Everything had to be recycled or junk mail. All the women in this swap were great. Everyone sent in great stuff.

I just had to figure out how to sort everything. NOtice my handy dandy sorter. The floor. :) Luckly for me all the kitties were sleeping so they didn't help.

Our house has been...

Taken over by the plants. There was a freeze scare here a few days ago. So guess who got to come in and stay inside. All of our veggies. We have tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, peppers, green beans and herbs. YIKES. I cannot even get to my kitchen because of this.

But they are growing healthy. We will eat good this summer.

TFL,

Jennie

Inchie Contest---Lots of Layering

I have been challenged by Lori (littledevil) to hold an Inchie card contest. So once I receive all the "cards" I will post them here and people can vote.

Haven't decided on the prize yet...but since these are small...so should the prize. LOL I will probably have it open to 10 people and 2nd place will get to keep all the goodies.

It is all about Layering.....the more layers the better.

This should be fun.

TFL,

Jennie

TODAY....

Yikes,

Today was a hard day. I feel like pulling out my hair. I had to study, study and study some more. I had one test today...in statistics. And tomorrow I have one in Psych....plus a quiz in Accounting and then Wednesday we start all over again.

I think if I studied hard one more day I would have Stat down pat...but as it was I was about 75% sure on things. So depending on how that goes it can go either in your favor or not. We will see.

Better go and finish studing for Psych.

Thanks for listening to my rant.

Jennie

Creativity

I was looking through some old photos and found some jewelry that I designed last summer. I realize that I miss creating jewelry. I have been busy lately with school and haven't felt the creative bug. Plus lately I have been on the Paper Crafts Message Board and doing card swaps. The women there have been great and have helped me grow so much in my cardmaking skills.

I do miss my jewelry making though...perhaps next month when school is out I will start up again. I just won't think about all the classes I am taking for summer school.

I am also excited because I saw a picture of myself...and I was about 20 pounds heavier. I didn't think a 20 lb weight loss would make a difference. But it does.

Savannah

We made it to Savannah. It is a beautiful city. We didn't have enough time to do everything that we wanted. However, Sheld & I were able to take in River Street, walk through the squares. We ate dinner the first night at the Pirates House...that was very fun & delicious. I am finding that I am a shrimp fan.

We went to bed pretty early. We were too tired puppies (forgive my pun) after what Batman had put us through. Plus, Sheldon had to get up early the next day for his GSA conference.

I on the other hand, slept in. Then I went and walked around some antique and gift stores before meeting up with Sheldon for lunch. After walking around and looking at different areas...he went Metal Detecting with a guy he meet through a MD website. I stayed and hung out in the room.

On Saturday, we went to the Davenport House Museum and had lunch before making the journey home. We were going to eat at Paula Dean's restaurant. Lady & Sons but there was a huge line and we were starving.

Excitement

We had a bit of excitement this weekend. We were supposed to leave early Thursday morning for Savannah. However our journey didn't start off as we had planned. Batman had gotten out of the house on Tuesday night...came back Wednesday not doing so well. We found out that he had been bit by something. So we ended up takinghim to the Vet. Everything turned out okay. $150.00 later and 2 tired parents. We were in bed by 3:00. So we ended up leaving a bit later than planned.

Getting Started

I cannot believe that Thanksgiving is over. The older I get, the faster life seems to go. We spent Thanksgiving with family--My (Jennie's) brother, sister-in-law & newphew, also my parents. We had a great time though we were the party poopers because we had to come home early and do homework and finish getting the house ready for Christmas.

Sheldon and I also tried to get our Christmas photo taken. Nobody had the patience to do it right. Or maybe nobody wanted to hear me boss them around. But I think this photo is the one we are going to use.