Katie the Scrapbook Lady

Time to roundup August!

If you are a "regular" 'round here, ya'll know the drill. If not, well, here's the scoop!

I use this simple tool every month to "roundup" my memories and now I have a ton of great information to use for journaling and scrapbooking. I challenge you to join me in using the roundup tool. You can post your answers on your blog, use them on a layout, or just jot them down to as a record of the month's activities. You don't have to answer every single question and do all the tasks, just do what you can. You will be glad you did!

If you want to show your roundup pride, here's a blinkie for your blogs and/or siggy lines

You can read more about roundups by reading through some of my past posts about them.

What books and/or magazines did I read this month?

What movies and/or tv shows did I watch this month?

What special days did I celebrate and how?

What gifts did I give and/or receive?

What illnesses or health concerns did I have?

What fun things did I do with my friends and/or family?

What new foods, recipes or restaurants did I try this month?

What special or unusual purchases did I make?

What were this month's disappointments?

What were my accomplishments this month?

Anything else noteworthy to record?

 

Backup your digital pictures to cd/dvd and upload them to an online site or two for an extra backup. Send the links to the online albums to friends and family.

Choose photos (or digital layouts) to be printed out and get that done while you are thinking about it.

Make sure your scrapbooking area is cleaned up and organized. Put away new purchases (or organize your hard drive if you are a digi scrapper)

Look over the calendar for the coming month and make note of upcoming events you will want to capture for your scrapbooks.

Get those memories rounded up!  I will be back tomorrow with my own roundup to post.

If you are a "regular" 'round here, ya'll know the drill. If not, well, here's the scoop!

I use this simple tool every month to "roundup" my memories and now I have a ton of great information to use for journaling and scrapbooking. I challenge you to join me in using the roundup tool. You can post your answers on your blog, use them on a layout, or just jot them down to as a record of the month's activities. You don't have to answer every single question and do all the tasks, just do what you can. You will be glad you did!

If you want to show your roundup pride, here's a blinkie for your blogs and/or siggy lines

You can read more about roundups by reading through some of my past posts about them.

What books and/or magazines did I read this month?

What movies and/or tv shows did I watch this month?

What special days did I celebrate and how?

What gifts did I give and/or receive?

What illnesses or health concerns did I have?

What fun things did I do with my friends and/or family?

What new foods, recipes or restaurants did I try this month?

What special or unusual purchases did I make?

What were this month's disappointments?

What were my accomplishments this month?

Anything else noteworthy to record?

 

Backup your digital pictures to cd/dvd and upload them to an online site or two for an extra backup. Send the links to the online albums to friends and family.

Choose photos (or digital layouts) to be printed out and get that done while you are thinking about it.

Make sure your scrapbooking area is cleaned up and organized. Put away new purchases (or organize your hard drive if you are a digi scrapper)

Look over the calendar for the coming month and make note of upcoming events you will want to capture for your scrapbooks.

Get those memories rounded up!  I will be back tomorrow with my own roundup to post.

If you are a "regular" 'round here, ya'll know the drill. If not, well, here's the scoop!

I use this simple tool every month to "roundup" my memories and now I have a ton of great information to use for journaling and scrapbooking. I challenge you to join me in using the roundup tool. You can post your answers on your blog, use them on a layout, or just jot them down to as a record of the month's activities. You don't have to answer every single question and do all the tasks, just do what you can. You will be glad you did!

If you want to show your roundup pride, here's a blinkie for your blogs and/or siggy lines

You can read more about roundups by reading through some of my past posts about them.

What books and/or magazines did I read this month?

What movies and/or tv shows did I watch this month?

What special days did I celebrate and how?

What gifts did I give and/or receive?

What illnesses or health concerns did I have?

What fun things did I do with my friends and/or family?

What new foods, recipes or restaurants did I try this month?

What special or unusual purchases did I make?

What were this month's disappointments?

What were my accomplishments this month?

Anything else noteworthy to record?

 

Backup your digital pictures to cd/dvd and upload them to an online site or two for an extra backup. Send the links to the online albums to friends and family.

Choose photos (or digital layouts) to be printed out and get that done while you are thinking about it.

Make sure your scrapbooking area is cleaned up and organized. Put away new purchases (or organize your hard drive if you are a digi scrapper)

Look over the calendar for the coming month and make note of upcoming events you will want to capture for your scrapbooks.

Get those memories rounded up!  I will be back tomorrow with my own roundup to post.

If you are a "regular" 'round here, ya'll know the drill. If not, well, here's the scoop!

I use this simple tool every month to "roundup" my memories and now I have a ton of great information to use for journaling and scrapbooking. I challenge you to join me in using the roundup tool. You can post your answers on your blog, use them on a layout, or just jot them down to as a record of the month's activities. You don't have to answer every single question and do all the tasks, just do what you can. You will be glad you did!

If you want to show your roundup pride, here's a blinkie for your blogs and/or siggy lines

You can read more about roundups by reading through some of my past posts about them.

What books and/or magazines did I read this month?

What movies and/or tv shows did I watch this month?

What special days did I celebrate and how?

What gifts did I give and/or receive?

What illnesses or health concerns did I have?

What fun things did I do with my friends and/or family?

What new foods, recipes or restaurants did I try this month?

What special or unusual purchases did I make?

What were this month's disappointments?

What were my accomplishments this month?

Anything else noteworthy to record?

 

Backup your digital pictures to cd/dvd and upload them to an online site or two for an extra backup. Send the links to the online albums to friends and family.

Choose photos (or digital layouts) to be printed out and get that done while you are thinking about it.

Make sure your scrapbooking area is cleaned up and organized. Put away new purchases (or organize your hard drive if you are a digi scrapper)

Look over the calendar for the coming month and make note of upcoming events you will want to capture for your scrapbooks.

Get those memories rounded up!  I will be back tomorrow with my own roundup to post.

Twinkie Sushi

What a weekend!

My mom and brother arrived in town yesterday and we had a tasty dinner (courtesy of Costco - lol!) of chicken salad, croissants, fruit kabobs, and twinkie sushi. Yes, you read that right - TWINKIE sushi! Isn't that hilarious?!

My hubby took great pride in his twinkie creations

It's amazing what this guy can do with twinkies, fruit roll ups and chopped up gummy bears!

my daughter is such a poser!

nothing like your Mom coming to visit to get you to finally clean out the refrigerator!

Have you heard of a "good hair day"? Well, I was having a "good fridge day" after I cleaned it out and stocked up at Costco and the grocery store, so I took a picture for my blog. Yep, this is what a scrapbook lady does in her spare time ... I take pictures of my refrigerator to post on my blog. Fridge layout coming soon! LOL!

Embarrassment at Target

For the 9th challenge in the Amazing Digi Scrapping Race we had to do a page about an embarrassing experience. Boy do I have one!

Posted at Digi Shop Talk

If you can't read the journaling, here it is:

I know that every Mom has embarrassing moments when shopping with young children, but add autism in the mix and you can end up with some experiences that will scar you for life! Alex’s meltdowns, sensory overload & irrational fears made a simple shopping trip downright impossible for me for many years. We persevered though and I thought my prayers had been answered when Super Target introduced the fabulous 2 seater carts where I could safely buckle both kids inside. I knew I had limited time so I would give them cookies and shop as fast as I could. Riley soon found that she could get quite a reaction out of Alex by poking and prodding him throughout the store while he was held captive by his seat belt. One day was particularly bad and I kept saying to Alex “we are almost done, just hang in there.” When we were paying up front Alex started to talk to the checker. His speech was improving a lot but he was still a little hard to understand sometimes, however on this occasion he had absolutely perfect articulation. He said to her in the most polite but somewhat loud voice  “Excuse me, this woman is smacking me around!”

She shot me the dirtiest look I’ve ever received and I tried to explain that he was referring to his 2 year old sister who had been poking him. I could tell she didn’t believe me and neither did the glaring people in other lines who had overheard him. I was mortified! It seemed like it took forever for her to finish ringing me up. She didn’t say another word to me and at first I tried to explain but it just made things sound worse. After we were all back in the car I cried,but for some reason I also laughed out loud to myself somewhat hysterically.It still makes me both cringe and gigle to remember that day. It was quite a while before I got brave enough to shop at that Target store again!

How's that for an embarrassing moment? At least I can laugh about! I believe having a sense of humor is key to getting through life. To quote a line from the movie Mr. Mom... "Keep that sense of humor... it's critical!"

             Every survival kit should include a sense of humor.  ~Author Unknown

In real life

It has been a busy but fun day around here today. We drove up to Ogden, Utah today to visit the Dinosaur Park. And we met up with one of my digi buddies! I've never met anyone in real life that I have gotten to know on the internet first. My friend Crissy is someone who I have traded comments with for close to 2 years and she was even on my creative team for about a year.

It is sort of strange to finally meet someone that you already know in so many ways - but it was a lot of fun! Our kids were all really good, especially considering how hot and humid it was.

Oh my goodness, my kids are huge! LOL! Alex is only about 3 inches shorter than me now. I'm somewhere close to 5'7" - maybe just a touch shorter.

This experience got me thinking about "in real life" or "IRL" as it is known online. I spend a lot of time reading blogs, comments, viewing layouts and swapping ideas and stories with so many people around the world that I will probably never meet in real life. Some of them I'm not even sure I would recognize if I ran into them at the store. Perhaps some of you might not recognize me on the street unless I was with the oft photographed Riley and Alex - LOL!

If you met me "in real life" you might be surprised to find out that I'm a little heavier than I look on the computer. I go to a lot of work to hide my middle in photographs - it never seems to work though!

You might be surprised at how low my voice is, everyone always is. In fact my Mom said people used to be downright shocked when I was a tiny little girl with a deep voice. I also have a "gift" for being able to use a very loud voice. What can I say? I've got lung power or something. In fact my hubby teases me that I do not know how to whisper. We will be talking in bed at night and he says "you're going to wake up the kids!"

I bet you would be surprised to see how thin my hair is - I know I am! I've always had thin hair and it seems to be getting thinner. Plus I lost a large chunk of it off the top of my head when I had surgery to remove huge golf ball size cysts from my head about 18 months ago. It turns out that scar tissue doesn't grow hair.

Yikes! Maybe it is better if you just know me from the computer instead of "IRL" LOL!

There are some things that I don't think would surprise you though. In real life I'm pretty much the same as I am here on the blog. I believe in being nice and in being genuine. Those things are important to me.

I don't think it would surprise you to find that I keep a camera in my purse at almost all times. You would also most likely find me with my kids or with my hubby and kids. I'm big into my family.

Hopefully it wouldn't surprise you to find that I love to have fun. And of course you would know that I would then go home and blog about it!

So this is me:

in case you ever run into me in real life :)

What are you like "in real life"? What would suprise people? What wouldn't be a surprise? Wouldn't this make a great prompt for a scrapbook page? I know I will use this entry some time in the future to inspire a page.

Roundup Layout

I decided to do a layout to go with my July roundup. I also used this for the Wordy Wednesday challenge so if you want to play along be sure to read about it on The Digi Shoppe Blog.

posted at Digi Shop Talk

Thanks to Hummie for telling me about Live Signature!