When I got the change to scrap with Cathy K's new kit SPLASH and the Add On she created I went through Gina's vacation pictures and found the one of her running on the beach and it came together so easily! The top page I wanted to use a long skinny photo so I used this one I took of Charli playing in the rain waiting for her Daddy, the lyrics from the song Laughter in the Rain bring back wonderful memories from my teen years.
In case you are too young to remember this sweet song here it is...




I have a list of things to get done today, I have already started laundry and am ready to go out to the garage and find some tea sat pieces to put in Charli's toys then I am ready to catch up on things I need to. Les it going to work tonight so I do not have to leave the house and even have my sweats on. Gina is off today and going to Anderson. It is wet and will probably drizzle off and on, I am glad I didn't plan to yard sale!

I am just settling down to post! We had the kids over for a supper of fried pork chops, mashed potatoes and gravy, black-eyed peas and stewed tomatoes. Trey really loved my pork chocks and Charli said the potatoes and gravy were Yummy. I am thinking about going to bed, I am very tired!
We share more with you later.

I am very late posting today. I have been working on my challenge page for week 3 and it was tough! Too much on it that I had to save in parts on my program! I am posting it here so I can go back and cut and paste to post in. It is a 1 - 10 challenge and here is what I used

1 alpha (Home Made Memories)
2 fonts ( Snappy script light and Serrific Grunge)
3 flourishes
4 strings
5 glitters
6 animals
7 photos
8 buttons
9 papers
10 flowers

kits are all by Connie Prince Pocketful of Sunshine, Perfectly Natural, Bright Blooms, and Home Made Memories.


I do not like to spend hours on a page, but that is what I did with this one! Glad it's done!

Had a pretty good day at work, the little boy I am concerned about is behind in speech and developmentally and they are checking into a program to evaluate and help him. I was proud of him today, he rode one of the cars today, I had noticed he never would ride any of the ride toys, I started putting him on and he would get off, Today I put him on and he rode it a couple of feet. He also climbed on himself. He will be 2 Sunday, please pray for the little fellow that he can catch up! He doesn't talk, either, (he grunts from his throat and hearing is fine) that is why I asked his Mom about getting him looked at. He had never been in daycare so she had not seen him beside kids his age. Also pray for the family, they are working hard to get him help.

Charli loves to go outside so when she grabbed my finger and went to the door I grabbed my camera to see what she would do. She wanted to play with her gardening tools.

I think of all the things in my Nanny's yard that held flowers, pots were everywhere and then there were tires... huge tractor tires that were white washed and cut and folded down. Now here I am trying to find unusual garden art to fill my yard! Les has made me a bird I will post when he gets it set up, it is made from plastic reels. We plan on doing recycled garden art and have the garage almost ready to start. It has been a fun idea and something we can share. I will post things as we make them. Our challenge is to pay as little as possible so we are watching the sides of the road and he made the floor for free, shipping crates and boards from a display at work.

Wish us luck!

Through the years of Les and Tammy

Les and I have a very few pictures of our wedding, it was very informal, I wore a blue sweater dress and Les had blue cords and a white sweater. Why am I posting this? Chris sent me the link to a FUNNY video, PLEASE watch this! Can you believe how skinny I was and Jeremy was 3 months old, too!
Les never really asked me to marry him, we just decided we should and it has been 28 years. I can't imagine not being married, I was 20 at the time, just weeks away from my 21st birthday.


Here we are on our first date, I was 16 at the time 2/14/76
Here we are in the 90's when I had the heavy Prednisone weight gain, I was in my 30's.

This is 2/14/2000 at church 26 years after our first date. I was 40.

And this is now near my 49th birthday. Well that takes you through the decades with Les and I, I really hope you enjoyed seeing these!

OK, my Blogger friends I got to thinking that I would like to know and share some of the 'funny habits' we have! Before I share mine this is a picture I have hanging on the wall of my office that Jeremy drew in HS. It is an art piece to say things about him. I might have to do a digital version...Here you can see we share a Pepsi thing and the '57' was our scout troop and you can see the symbol he created to sign his work with. He told me long ago I needed to sign mine so the one you see on my pages and pictures is a small 't' in an Arabic font I found. I love this work and have much of his art stored for him.

Now for my 'reveal'

I actually Blog the night before and set it to post the next morning so I don't feel as rushed most of the time. Sometimes I do put it up on the right day but most times I just read it and edit if I need to.

I love the lay my clothes out several days at a time and have a place I put them in in my bathroom so I can get ready quicker.

I have to know where my keys, shoes and glasses are and can't stand anyone to move them. Les has a bad habit of losing his keys, his house keys are missing now, and so I do not often let him use mine AND I have a spare set in my pocketbook 'just in case'

I am MEAN if someone drinks my last Pepsi and I do not have one for the morning to take my pills with!

I have memory tricks that really help me w/o writing things down.. I put my watch on right arm, put a piece of paper on the dash in front of my gauges in the car or put something out of place. These help me remember to tell someone something or to do something if I might get distracted.
When I see the thing in the wrong place it triggers why. When I first got sick in 1989 I had to take huge doses of Prednisone so I had to teach myself new ways to stay straight.

Well I think those are my worst ones, if you put yours on your Blog add a comment so I can go see yours.

To remember scripture I like to see it so I created this for each of my friends in the Women's On Mission group I belong to using a kit Rina is about to retire called Carpetbag. I love the colors and old fashioned feel to it and the ladies loved their cards! If you would like a copy please let my know and I will send it to you via email. If anyone that does not scrap would like to have me do a scripture card please ask, I do so many pages with the kits from my designers and would not mind at all!

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A quick rundown on yesterday before I go the a cakewalk at church (I made gooey Death by Chocolate cookies and put in a basket)
Lynn went to yard sales with me and we found some wonderful Premie boy clothes for her babies and after Gina cut my hair off so I can be cooler she and David, Les and ate grilled chicken, had fresh creamed corn, beans and slaw. Les put a tomato from his garden in the slaw and it was good! I really enjoy Lynn's company and hope we can do this more often!
Poor Lynn ended up giving many of the clotes and socks to her great-nephew who was born July 1, Payton who happens to be a distant cousin of mine. I hope she will get then back soon, LOL!

The Scripture Challenge for SBE is at post below.

Scripture Challenge at SBE

Just a reminder: for the months of July and August each challenge will last for TWO WEEKS instead of weekly, in order to give everyone a little more time to participate!

Our current theme is “FAITHFULNESS”, and with that in mind, our scripture verse for Week 22 comes from Psalm 115:1 which says:
“Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to your name be the glory, because of your love and faithfulness.”

** Be sure to read the General Guidelines to the challenge HERE, where you can find out what will happen each week. It will tell you how you can take part, what you will be receiving, where to post your submissions to, etc.

Here is a preview of your FREE Word Art for this week (the link to download the Word Art to use as part of your submission appears at the BOTTOM of this message):



* The deadline for submitting your creation for THIS challenge is midnight EST on Saturday August 8th 2009.*

My Mom, Twila and Cody came over last night and we cooked a real southern meal, LOL. Fatback, gravy, biscuits cantaloupe, and I fixed some fordhook Lima beans. Growing up we had this often but would most likely have pork'n beans. Mama worked 9 to 6 and so meals needed to be quick. I was so tickled when Jeremy called from Washington State and said, "Mama, they don't have Fatback in these grocery stores!" I don't remember what he said they called it, side meat or something. It is funny to me to remember that as a kid we would not eat the rind so my Daddy ate ours, now that's my favorite part. Also, he liked the crust on cornbread and would eat ours.
The picture is just like I scanned it of my Nanny and me in 1964. She made the BEST cornbread! She used yellow corn meal, flour, buttermilk, eggs and a big spoon of mayonnaise and had a special square tin pan with a few dents to bake it in. Using that pan it was as pretty as a cake with no crust and was so light. I can't find the meal she used and mine never turned out like hers so I rarely make cornbread. I can't bake biscuits either. She had a bowl of flour like many southern women and would put the shortening and buttermilk in the bowl. I wonder what today's health officials would say about reusing the flour? Didn't hurt us!
I guess I will have to come up with something that Charli remembers me cooking. We have a cake walk at church tomorrow helping the Acteens raise money to send a missionary for school supplies in a part of the country they are really hurting. The Children's Church does do a local thing, too, but the Acteen's are doing a Rock a Thon and getting sponcers and then we have the cake walk. I am baking cookies called "Death by Chocolate" and will try to find a cute way to package them. I have some tins and baskets so I will do something cute.
Well that's another memory shared, Les is getting ready for work and I am going to check out a yard sale or two and go see Charli and get Gina to do my hair. I want layers because I sweat so badly in this humid heat my hair stays soaked. Gina says it is hormones and most older women complain of this. It makes me feel like my poor Nanny, she would have a rag to keep her face wiped. She had very thick hair and long and would wind it up on top of her head. She was a true Southern Woman (worked in the cotton mill, too.) The irony is her parents, the Maynards, came over from England in 1904 and since she was born January 4, 1917 she was first generation American!

This is one of those mornings I did not want to get up! I was at church until almost 9:30 helping clean out the flower room and shed and I was so tired and went to bed soon after getting home. Today is my DGM's 91st birthday so I will go visit her awhile and I have to go to Wal-mart and get groceries. YUCK!

Today's page is done for the DSA CT contest and is made from Connie Prince's Good Night Moon kit and add on and a few pieces of her perfectly natural Kit and her date tags. The competition is rough and when the voting opens on Monday many people have all there friends and family voting for them but it is fun anyway. I think this is one of my best pages. The lyrics are a song by Third Day, "Wnen the Rain Comes" and is one of my favorite songs.

Well off to get ready for work, TGIF!

Sitting like this runs in my family, I still sit this way everyday while I sit on the floor with the kids. The top picture is Gina making clothes for her cat. The silly cat would just sit there and let her, too. The picture of Charli was taken Tuesday while we were playing, that's the lamb I take her picture with every month.
Now the last picture is an angel my Grandmother got for me many years ago. She said she thought of me when she saw it. It was one of the first angels people gave me. The blue angel to the right back was given to my Mom when I was born and says Wednesday's Child is full of woe, the wings are broken on it. I still can't part with that one or the October one that belonged to my great-grandmother, Hassie, which is broke, too. The two in back on the bench are from Jeremy and the pretty pink one is from My Mom.
I have many Willowtrees that Gina has gotten me, I love those! My collection is in my bedroom on the mantle so I see them everyday, I do not buy them myself so each one was given by someone who I love, most Gina and my Mom. I never want these to get 'out of hand' like my VW's (I have over 300), I have just enough for my space now, but I love my Angels!

I am in a contest at Digital Scrap Addicts and needed a picture for this week. You know who I picked as my model, LOL! She is so easy to work with, I changed her clothes and brought the umbrella as a prop and just let her play! Maybe she and I should get into fashion photography, ROFL!
The page I posted last week got the page of the day at Gotta Pixel for 7/21, I thought that was cool!
I found out a couple of new words Charli says... MINE! and Chocolate. I brought a 3 Musketeers bar last week to share with her and she loved it so I picked up some mini ones and she went to my pocketbook and wanted to see what I had. After nap she grabbed my finger and told me "'mon" so I got her another she told me "chocolate" and says Yum. The hours I spend with her are the highlight of my week! I am teaching her the Barney Song so she will say I Love You and when I do Itsy Bitsy Spider she tries to do her fingers.

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I don't remember my grandmother's singing to me but my Granddaddy did! He sang silly songs he made up. My favorite is Cat beans and bananna soup, he was never afraid to be silly when he and I were together, I will always remember him being disappointed when I wasn't ticklish anymore! I loved my Granddaddy so much and am so sorry he died when Gina was almost 3 so she barely knew him!

Les has an awful breaking out now! He finished his antibiotics, he has an appointment tomorrow to see what is going on. My FIL finally came home from the hospital.

I really enjoy reading Zaroga's Blog! I really need to post more memories of growing up and so here is a start...

First this is my 350th post, I am very proud of myself for posting every day this year!
July 20, 1969 was the day of the first moon walk, I really do not have a memory of seeing it on TV but it would have been a huge B/W set, Daddy also had a tiny portable TV for the car, Les and I actually used that when we got married! We have never been ones to have the latest model.
I was in the Third grade in 1968/69, my teacher was Mrs. Smith. I remember she had a chalk painting on one of her chalk boards that Ruth Martin had done. Mrs Martin was the Mom of Lou who was in my class. She was a local artist and owned the Gallery in town, She would come and give us art lessons and really encouraged me. Back then it was not something common to have art, we had a little PE because of the President's Council on Physical Fitness that was mostly going on the playground and counting pull ups and running and jumping. By 1970 we had it once a week.
This funny picture is me holding my brother and that's my sister (sorry Twila!) The top picture is my third grade photo. I had these glasses from before I started school until I fell and broke them after the fourth grade. I tripped over something in our laundry room/side porch. I wish the photographer would have at least straightened them!
There is something else very important about Art back then... then, we did a clay project every year, this was my second grade and in the third grade we did a SC one because SC History was a Third Grade requirement. The thing is the TEACHER did most of the work! Thank goodness it is not like that today! I have had people helping in my class and they start doing the child's art themselves and I tell them "It is the Process not the Product!" Learning how to make art is very important to children, it is a small muscle motor skill. Most parents will not buy Play Dough, paint and such because of the mess. I am so glad I taught my kids better!

Publish Post

Well this is a start, I am going to have to think of more stuff, I guess!

My biter did his thing yesterday! I was blessed to have several days bite free, I guess! I had to put ice on Dakota's arm, they were playing so well together with the dinosaurs and he bit her out of the blue! All I can do is put him in Time Out, No to biting lemons, or hot sauce or Anything else. I am hoping he will learn to talk better so he can express himself better soon!

My baby is 18 months old today! How I love seeing her grow and change! There are so many words she can say and a few things she is ahead of some the the babies at work, even. She has been jumping a couple of weeks, now, running for awhile, and even holds her crayons right when coloring. How blessed I am and I pray for the kids often.
Yesterday while holding her in church she was humming to the music and she is singing Jesus Loves Me a little and when the preacher said Jesus she repeated him. I took her back for a couple of minuted to see Les do the puppet show and that tickles her. I will get her 18 month pictures tomorrow when I keep her.
The credit goes to the kids for these pictures, mostly Trey, I think, they are off Gina's camera.

This is a very wonderful day at church, we voted on started construction on our new social hall! When the church was built they were smart to go ahead and have plans drawn up to expand, since the church is paid off we have the money in our building fund now and will break ground the first Sunday in August! How exciting this is to me, my Great-grandmother broke ground at her church and now I get to participate at my church!

I had a very cooperative butterfly when I got home and played with the app. settings on my camera.

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I am very proud of myself, I got a lot done cleaning yesterday including dusting under my bed, am going to leave the computer in a few minutes and work some more. The more I get rid of the more I want to get rid of, LOL!
Charli was in a Meme mood today, she wanted me and was giving Gina a fit leaving church. MADE ME PROUD! Preacher Bud said "Grandma's been spoiling that baby!" Gina said she and Trey may go bowling or something together for awhile so we can play together.

SBE Scripture Challenge

Now, because this time of year many of us are away for summer vacations, I've decided to extend the July and August challenges to TWO WEEKS each so that we can all have a little more time to participate. We'll pick up on our regular weekly schedule in the Fall when school starts and we're all back in a normal routine again. That means that this next challenge will run until Saturday July 25th.

For July and August we will be starting a new theme: FAITHFULNESS.

Here is Rina's LO for this challenge




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For the months of July and August our theme will be FAITHFULNESS. The scripture verse for Week 21 comes from Proverbs 3:3 which says:
“Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.”

** Be sure to read the General Guidelines to the challenge HERE, where you can find out what will happen each week. It will tell you how you can take part, what you will be receiving, where to post your submissions to, etc.

Connie Prince has a new kit coming out at Gotta Pixel and Elemental Scraps the first of the week for $2 and so I made these two pages. I was watching the VH1 100 greatest one hit wonders and the song inspired me to do the top page. The kit is called Life is a Picnic, very cute kit!
Les and I just got home, we went to the Faith Home and stopped by a yard sale where we got several flower pots for a quarter and fifty cents. I also got some glass pieces to make a project we plan on doing. I have really got him inspired to do some things together and he has a good start on the garage, he has started organizing his tools and found things he forgot he had, LOL!

We saw a great garden while we were out, they had a chair with a plant and used clay pots on the side with ivy growing over them. It was in the neighborhood my teen friend Pam lived in.

I have to say I had the most relaxing time this week listening to The Fantastic Shakers at our Live After Five uptown last night! I sat enjoying the fun music including beach, disco, and soul, eating my cheeseburger from the Caravan and working on my latest crochet project. I so hope Charli can go with us next year to these concerts! They even did the YMCA and Cupid Shuffle!
What a blast Les and I have together at these things, we can forget the stress of work and drama of family.
FIL still in hospital, sugar very high and still yellow and work was pretty good Thursday, no bites.

This is just a very quick post this morning to share some pictures of my DGS! Julie had sent them to my gmail account and I had not checked it in awhile. Hope I will not be so busy this afternoon but car is fixed, no real news on my FIL but thegrowth in his liver is larger and he is running a fever and knee is Much better, almost normal. I hope all is well with everyone! I will stop by and check on you later!

Just scrapping some of the pictures of Charli I have taken recently. This is Connie Prince's new kit called Your Sweetness is my Weakness and is on sale for $1 at Gotta Pixel and Elemental Scraps.

Les went to the Doctor today because he got a spider bite Saturday and he has Blood Poisoning. George, my FIL is not doing well, he has some kind of infection and they are not sure how to get rid of it.
My knee is getting much better, thank goodness, just a little stiff.
Charli has learned to jump and does it a lot. She is early on this! I have had 2 year olds that cannot lift themselves to jump. She is especially enjoying Hop on Pop and jumping on Les, now HE started that so has himself to blame, LOL! I am glad she loves him so much! (BUT she still likes me better, ROFLMBO!)
My car is fixed and Les got several things done, including making a windchime.