Mango Island

And the winner is...

Thank you to all of you who left comments with your resolution(s) for 2010. I worked very hard this weekend to stick to my resolutions, constantly reminding myself of them. I hope each of you are doing the same. Just keep telling yourself that you CAN do it!!

And now for the winner of the blog candy. Drum roll please...

Congratulations, Rhonda! Please email me your addy at jcarlisi5@gmail.com.

It's back to work today. Lots of stuff to do but I am going to be patient and stick to my to-do list so I will be less stressed and get more work done.

Peace.

It's resolution time

Happy New Years! I hope everyone had a wonderful and safe New Years Eve. 

The hubby and I stayed home, as usual, and rang in the New Year with a movie. Actually, the hubby was fast asleep before midnight while I was reading up on some Twilight fan fiction, my newest addition. We don't dare go out to any overpriced parties or get caught in a checkpoint. Back in the younger years the hubby and I used to throw house parties for New Years, but now that we have Joey we're pretty much homebodies. 

If you made it to my blog you probably came from Jenny's blog, which means you are hopping along on the Unscripted Sketches New Years blog hop. Yay! 

 
So it's the New Year and with that comes resolutions, wishes and goals. I have never been much for resolutions since I honestly didn't take the time to really stick to them. I'm hoping to be more serious this year and stick to them. Because I don't want to create all of these resolutions and overwhelm myself I am sticking to 2 that are going to be the most important things in my life that I desperately need. 

1. Be more patient with life and those around me. Having an extremely stressful job coupled with parenting a hormonal and rebellious teenager and a 4 year old little ruckus boy can really damper someone's level of patience. 
2. Become organized in every aspect of life- home and work- so that I can stay as stress free as possible. This means that I will need to create weekly goals and stick to them. 

I can live with these 2 and *know* that if I put my mind to it I can make this happen. Sounds easy enough right? Like everything in life the most simplest things are usually the things you have to work hardest at. 

I'd like to hear what your resolutions are for 2010. It doesn't have to be a laundry list but what are one or two of the most important things you would like to get out of 2010? Leave your resolution in the comments section by Sunday 9 pm EST to be entered to win blog candy from me. And feel free to follow me too! 

Next up is Kelly. And if you didn't start at the beginning of the blog hop head over to Unscripted Sketches. 

Peace.

Unscripted Sketches New Years blog hop!

Just a short note to announce that Unscripted Sketches will be doing a blog hop this Saturday. Come join us as you travel to each of our designer's blogs as we discuss our goals for 2010. I will be offering blog candy on mine, as I think several other designers are. You'll need to start on the Unscripted Sketches blog starting at 8 am EST. Hope you'll join us!!  

I'll be back again to update you on what I did on my vacation. It's finally starting to slow down a bit so I can catch my breath.

Peace!

Celebrate World Card making Day with a blog hop!

Thanks for joining the designers at Unscripted Sketches as we celebrate World Card Making Day.

Being that I am not new to the scrapbooking world this is actually the first I've heard of this event. I must have been hiding under a rock (the reality rock) or something but am excited to participate this year and hopefully make this a yearly event.

Those of you who follow my blog know I don't normally make too many cards- my passion is creating LOs and projects. Seeing that I've been seeing some really awesome cards by our own designers and my new favorite card designer, Kristina Werner (which actually inspired my card today) my level of card making interest has definitely increased!

So without further ado I present my card, in honor of World Card Making Day.

Supplies:

Journaling label (digi)- Lovey dovey, Audacious Designs, We R Storytellers

Bird (digi)- Just breathe, Kelly Mickus, The Digi Chick

Birthday quote (digi)- Brush by Fei Fei's Stuff

Blue paper- Making Memories

Flowers- Prima

Others unknown

Since creating my hybrid home house, I figured I would fuse my digi supplies with my paper supplies to make this card. I have SO many digi supplies- all too cute to just waste away on my computer. I'm starting to dig hybrid more and more.

And now, a word from our sponsors. For those of you who leave a comment will be entered into a drawing to win blog candy! Now I forgot to take a picture of my blog candy, but I assure you it's scrumptious. You will have until Monday at 6 p.m. PST to leave your comments. I will post the winner on Monday evening.

Next up in our blog hop- Kelly, and if you make a card today head over to the US blog and post a link to your creation!

Peace.