what a great weekend!

Friday after the kids came home from school the whole family went to the county dog shelter for Sydney's birthday. She has been wanting a little dog she can keep beside her and sleep with her. Well after a tearful trip( its very depressing to see them all in the cages barking) She finally made her choice. His name at the shelter was Bogey but Syd named him Gizmo. He had been at the shelter since the 13 of this month. He is a wonderful addition to the family even though I really did not want another pet. He is very lovable. Saturday was Sydney's slumber party --it went very well. They had an awesome time dancing and singing. They ended up watching movies until 5 am sunday. Oh to be young again.




waiting for her little doggie to come out to go home with us.
Walking to the car
In the car before we left the parking lot of the county dog shelter.look how happy Sydney is!

The cake I made Sydney --red velvet with this red and white frosting.

a birthday and my atc's

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY DEAR SYDNEY_____________:) love you mom




OMG!! I am in ATC heaven. I loved making the glitter atc swap but now I want more and more of these bad boys. I want to go to the thrift store to find a tin for them--i have looked at these about 5 times since I received them yesterday. I am hooked--thanks ALLY for these swaps--i can't wait for more!

I have to get this house cleaned because Saturday there will be 8 teenage girls here--my dd wants an 80's themed party so we have the 80's music, 80's movies and they will play the 80's sing star I also bought safety pin and beads to make friendship pins( totally 80's). We are going today to pick up jelly bracelets to give to the girls--MADONNA--:) Oh its going to be the 80's all over again. I have a huge collection of cds so they will not run out of music but I might go a little crazy with 8 teenage girls. fun fun fun times! I wish I could sit down and create but there's no time. Have an awesome Friday-----------------gina

atc, necklace, shrinky dinks and funny pics

very simple atc its for a friend we are swapping one of eachother
my new necklace from a garage sale from the weekend--not the star i added it. the lady that makes the beaded necklaces is ill but this keeps her busy while she is home from work.
i used my qk with some shrinky dink plastic to make my embellies--man i remember my first pack of sd back in the 80's but i did forget how fun they were.
Yesterday I took this picture of me fooling around making faces ---thought it would give people a laugh or maybe a smile --which we all need to do more often. have an awesome day---gina---:)

wow its Monday--pics and los

Just wanted to show my hair yesterday---I need to retouch the color --its really coming out. I dyed it purple at one time but the color wouldn't stay in long so I redid it red.
My dd ---She cracks me up--her sunglasses broke so she went around wearing them the way they were--silly but she looks so cute.

this lo is actually my second for this challenge over at the PINK NINJA'S--bff's---I had to do one of my dh. One time he had some sparkles on his face so that is when I called him my knight in shimmering armor--that's the story behind the title. I really love h0w this turned out--not every time do i love a lo. Do you ever feel that you make your self scrap pictures you really don't love but love the moment they were taken so you want to keep the memory. I made it my goal to stop wanting to make every lo perfect--they are mine--:) if you want to see my 1st lo of bff scroll down to firday's post.
Here is my challenge for the random challenge over at the Pink ninja's--they hit over a 100 followers---how awesome is that? so so cool and they do rock--i can see why they have so many followers. for this challenge I used 102( the amount of followers they actually have) of my faves. I am sure I left out some. Go check out their awesome blog!!