I scrapped today! It has been a long time but Cathy K has a new U Build It kit Summer Serenade and I couldn't resist working on photos from June!

I uploaded a video of Charli today

Took Charli to Festival of Discovery and was having a nice time eating ribs and listening to music when a storm came up! Had to wait until it let up a little under a vender's tent before we could make it to car. Parking was CRAZY! They had our regular spot blocked and were parking as far away as Dollar General and library! No handicap spaces open! Thank goodness after Les let us out he found a close one!

I joined Swagbucks today, I earned about 60 points so far, a friend told me you can earn gift cards and gifts using it to search the web. I just hope I remember to use it instead of Google, LOL! There is a daily survey I need to check every day, too for points. I printed a couple of coupons and when I use them I will get more points. I also added my Blog so a couple times a month I will tell you what I got, if there are any super deals or anything.

Just a quick note to say we had a good time in Ninety Six watching the fireworks! We picked up Gina and the babies and went to Barbara Etters and sat with Tim and Leighanne, We got Gina home just before 11. She is very tired and Charli was a little ill. Trey stayed with his Dad, he had a better day today Gina said, we are waiting for a call just anytime. Gina picked Debbie up a top for the funeral, Mickey told Debbie he was dying, he is in so much pain. It is so hard on Trey!

Charli came in the door saying 'We're doing crafts today!" YEP, she's My grand daughter! She found her some envelopes got stickers, stamps, inks and paper punches and created.

Friday night Charli spent the night with us and Saturday we spent the day going to Park Seed, the Train Museum and Nelson's Garden. We also did her favorite thing going to see the topiaries up town. She loved the elephant and Gamecock!

First night of VBS, Charli had a blast! She was in the 4 year old class and laughed so hard at Miss Barbara! I have 4 more days of therapy so I am trying to find a small exercise bike that doesn't take up too much room.

Jeremy just called for Afghanistan! It was 11:24 here and 7:54 AM there! He said it took 30 hours to get there and it was hot and nothing but sand where he was. No trees or anything. His troop is more in the north part of the country. I was so glad he got to tell his Dad Happy Father's Day! I am looking forward to my family coming over tomorrow!

STAYED AT HOME TODAY, TREY HAD TO WORK OVER SO STAYED AT HOME INSTEAD OF GOING TO THERAPY. FELT GOOD THOUGH. TRYING TO GET READY FOR VBS. SIGNED UP FOR EXTREME COUPONING CLASS JULY 7, FUN!

Feeling pretty good tonight, had trouble at exercise and stopped at 5 min on treadmill because heart rate was very high. Had some rough storms move through just before we got out of church. Glad Les is off tomorrow while I have kids.

Went to Charleston today, Dr Wheton doesn't think I am good candidate for transplant and lung tests are not good. Will talk to Dr Holman later.

With all the couponing I have been doing I have more groceries than ever and we have not been eating out so much! Got 4 jars of Peter Pan peanut butter Free plus many other things super cheap and am up to $.95 Fuelperks!
Started a group on Facebook called Spiral Clips

crafty sites

http://vickiehowell.blogspot.com/2010/02/i-love-to-create-zipper-embellished.html
http://www.craftstylish.com/item/45111/how-to-make-a-magazine-reed-box/page/all
http://www.craftstylish.com/item/39555/how-to-make-dangly-earrings-with-magazine-pages/page/all
http://howaboutorange.blogspot.com/2009/06/recycled-magazine-coasters.html
http://howaboutorange.blogspot.com/2009/10/make-gift-bow-from-magazine-page.html
http://littledishy.blogspot.com/2008/08/how-to-make-gift-bags.html
http://alittlehut.blogspot.com/2007/05/recycling.html
http://www.fleetingthing.com/index.php?section=2&sub_section=13&page=15
http://artsyville.blogspot.com/2010/04/cut-and-paste-necklaces.html
http://artsyville.blogspot.com/2009/01/creating-colorful-journal-pages.html
http://michaelcreations.blogspot.com/2010/08/paper-beads-tutorial.html
http://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fp%3Drecycled%2Bcrafts%2Btrays%26b%3D481%26ni%3D20%26ei%3DUTF-8%26xargs%3D0%26pstart%3D1%26fr%3Dush-mail%26fr2%3Dtab-web&w=267&h=200&imgurl=drummbellina.typepad.com%2F.a%2F6a01157114783c970b011570251db0970c-pi&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fdrummbellina.typepad.com%2Fdrummbellina%2Fsaving-money%2F&size=54KB&name=Recycle+and+re-u...&p=recycled+crafts+trays&oid=4b5cd93967429ca326d42482d6217cf6&fr2=tab-web&no=498&tt=3930&b=481&ni=20&sigr=11q4vkcvd&sigi=121vut379&sigb=142gakj9o&.crumb=w.gVc7VQTpq
http://deedabbler.blogspot.com/
http://cosaverde.com/store/laalicia/
http://mynaptimecrafts.blogspot.com/2010/05/toilet-paper-roll-wreath.html

I kept Ames yesterday while Gina and Trey had date night taking Charli to movies



Today's Rite Aid haul, Total value $79.57 Wellness savings $20.87 and coupon savings $40.00 I paid $18.70 I am having a ball couponing!

Got a lot of cleaning done today!

Found a darling necklace that will put my old air tubing to use!
I think it is adorable! I sold another pair of earrings Wednesday, Lorie wants me to make some necklaces so I am going to work on that. I need to find somewhere to find 1/8" silk ribbons for an idea I have. I also need a tiny nylon cord to crochet.

Gina had her surgery Friday and Charli spent the night with me Saturday and we watched Gnomeo and Juliette, Les worked so we painted a wood cheerleader and played magnet paper dolls I found at Dollar General. The thing is she lost one each of the 3 boots so she is not happy about that, LOL. She was good in church going with Les to Children's Church to see puppets

I went to Hannah's Graduation cook out tonight, had to go by myself because Gina worked late and Les's gout is really bad. He got stuck by a bee on his foot yesterday and while he is usually allergic I made him take benadryl and use cordaid but he had a rough day!
Sold 2 pairs of earrings to Hollis. Also Lorie sold a pair at her shop yesterday for me!

This has been a terrific week as far as health goes! I have gotten things done and a friend, Lori Taylor is opening a store in Laurens called Dipstick tomorrow and she is going to put my earrings in it to help me sell so I can get money for Charleston! I want to make as much money with my crafts as I can so I feel I am not taking it from the house hold budget.
Yesterday we took Charli with us to AC Moore and Red Robin. When she plays hide and seek she does the thing where you say Red Robin and she saids MMMM so you know where she is!
I am really starting to work more on her learning her alphabet so I started buying the letters that make a train. We are working with P, S and C so I bought those first. This week we will paint them and each time I go to A.C. Moore I will buy another letter, next ones A, M and T, I think then N and O, maybe D. I am going by letters that start certain words so I do have a plan. ;) That will be a fun way for her to learn them!

Have been busy today and gotten a lot done, felt really great but Les is still sick!