Oh look, another layout

I made this one for a challenge at Creative Therapy. I also used the Pencil Lines sketch #83.

My grandma died in 1996 I think and even though I've made a layout about her and my grandpa, I never made a layout just for her. She was a really good grandma to me and my cousins and I miss her so so much. I never got to say goodbye to her because she got sick from cancer very suddenly and my parents didn't want me to remember her in the hospital with all the tubes and machines. Even though I'm glad I remember her being happy and healthy, I still regret not getting to say goodbye. It makes me want to cry just thinking about it.

On a happier note, Saturday was mine and Dustin's two year anniversary. We didn't get to do anything because of work, but I made him a card and I told him not to get me anything because we didn't have the money. So he gave me a diamond bracelet that his grandma had passed down to his mother. :) Even though it's awesome, it makes me want to go get him something even though I know I can't afford to.

But I thought I'd post a recent picture of us, just because I don't think I have yet. I accidentally cut off his head, but it was the best one out of like 7 and he was getting tired of posing. lol.

Mother Layout

I made this for The Design Experiment but I just finished it today. I had wanted to type the journaling for this but I can't afford to buy ink right now. I'm not really sure if I like it...I really wish I had something else, like some say it with crystals or something to put in the corner instead of the year she graduated. Oh well. That's life when you're broke.

National Scrapbooking Day

I'm not feeling so hot today, but I got my pictures printed last night and I knew I had to scrap today. I finished four pages, but I was low on white stickers, so one of them isn't completely finished. The title is missing two letters, so I'll post that one when I buy new letters.

Here are the other three.

I really like the Lil Sis one and I promise the colors look better in person. The Frogs one came out pretty cool. I like using paint..it's fun :)I don't really like the Let It Snow one but I didn't want to leave out any pictures, so I did what I could.

Tired

I was told a guy was coming today to fix the air conditioning so I woke up at 7:30 this morning. I slept like crap last night but I didn't want him to come at like 10 and me be in my pajamas so I decided to get up when Dustin was getting ready for work. I'm sooo tired.

In addition to being tired, I was reminded that yogurt does not mix with my stomach in the morning. So I'm just feeling pretty crappy all together.

But Dustin has Thursday and Friday off so I'll get to spend the next two days with him, so that's good. With him working a 55 hour work week, I don't get to see much of him these days and it's making me depressed. I don't have any other friends or family here, so without him, I'm extremely lonely.

Another upside is that I should be able to get my pictures printed in a few days so I'll have something to scrap. :)

Word Up #25: Grow

This is the layout I did for One Little Word. I also based it off of sketch #80 from Pencil Lines. I didn't mean for it to be another monochromatic layout, but oh well. I think I like it. I'm trying not to use so much plain cardstock and the only patterned paper I had that worked with the pictures was polka dotted. Everyone's going to think I'm obsessed, which I kind of am, but whatever. I wanted to scrapbook and I used what I had. *shrug*

There's a storm coming

The air conditioner froze, so it's as hot as a sauna in our bedroom. I brought my laptop so that I could sit outside and type some more of the story I'm working on and I just now realized that the sky is very dark. The wind feels good, but I don't want to get wet. I guess I'll probably be going inside in a little while.

I was watching the movie Reservation Road earlier since our Direct TV went out. I realized very quickly that it was going to be a sad movie. One line that really got me was after the little boy had died, his sister was asked to play the piano in a recital and she looked up at her mom and asked, "Can you hear music in Heaven?" I was just like AWW and the tears started coming. I'm such a sap for sad movies.

I don't know if I mentioned this or not, but my boyfriend and I are living with his parents and his 15 year old sister right now until we can save up some money to get our own place...didn't realize how hard that was going to be. But anyway, I'm the only one without a job now, except for his sister, so I decided to clean the house yesterday. It wasn't very dirty except for the bathroom, but it looked really good once I was done. Today, it doesn't look like I even did anything. I'm not cleaning again today. I'm relaxing and waiting for Dustin to get home from work.

Pencil Lines Sketch #81

Jane Eubank provided the sketch over at Pencil Lines and I decided I'd give it a try. It's nothing special and it was hard for me to mix the different patterns, but I think it turned out pretty cute. I had these pictures stuck in a photo album and thought they deserved to be scrapped.

It sucks that Dustin started working and I haven't. He's taking his security class right now and I'm stuck at home with nothing to do. I don't have my license and he has the car anyway, so it's not like I can go anywhere. I can vaccuum...I guess I'll do that when I get offline. I just wish that the economy wasn't so crappy right now so someone would hire me! I'm a very good worker with a college degree...I deserve a job. Most of the jobs are in Nashville though and with the gas prices the way they are, I can't afford to have a job over 30 minutes away.

Oh well. At least we can start eating something other than ramen noodles now that Dustin has a job. lol.