Quirky

Names can mean so much to some or do they really….while your parents chose your everyday name many people are blessed with creative friends who tag you with a name…a nick name…One, none the less, that will be noticed and sometimes stick and be carried on!  I grew up known to family and friends as Kristen; unless my grandmother was talking to me…then I was Debbie (my mother’s family nick name, one she hates!)  Note I waited till I had my little girl to hear my name more often than not from the lips of my grandmother :)  How sweat is that!  Or my grandfather’s endearing term “Turdbird”….yep…you read that right…I told you creative minds were at work!  My mother actually had wanted to name me Cora Lee and at the time was convinced it was too common…talk about funny….I was definitely NOT the only Kristen in my class growing up!  So Kristen it is…Kris if it family and some friends, the real ones :).  I really do like the name Cora, enough that if we have any more children (yes I know…inevitable)…so ok…WHEN we have more kids…if it is a little girl I’m gonna try hard to convince Robbie (The hubby who is Robert…see…family nick name…Rob by his friends…) that it is cool!  For a little boy I really really like the name Hunter but haven’t come up with a middle name I like with it…so we will see…And oh yeah….I guess I need to talk to Robbie on that one :)  Our little girl…She is Savannah Skye…to me, “Monkey”…to Daddy, “Baby Girl”…So I ask….what exactly is the point of a name, when it is replaced by a version if not a completely different form once your personality has been established and tagged!  :)  I love the name Savannah but I’m just waiting for the day when she says “mom it just isn’t cool…I wanna be called….____ (I’m hoping Skye is different enough she might go there…but not holding my breath)

I do believe I have rambled on enough…and if you haven’t guessed it by the direction this went YES I want more kids…at least one….just NOT right now :):)  So I have plenty of time to decide on that perfect name that will be butchered and reshaped as time goes on!

ok…so since my pictures were orginized and I didn’t have class I SCRAPPED!!!  Can you believe it???  Well here is my cake for DSP’s Birthday!

And here is the gallery to see the rest of the cakes for the challenge if you are nosey like me:)

See ya tomorrow!!

I sooo hope I’m not dreaming!  I spent the weekend organizing..not the house…pictures!  over 6000 of them!  What started this madness…other than the fact that it just needed done you ask…Some time ago I bought a program called Digital ScrapRoom to organize my digi scrap supplies…with 20 gig worth I was forgetting what I had sooo I got the program and swore I’d get organized…well that was about 7 months or more ago and no the scrap supplies aren’t organized…I still don’t know what I have…not that it mattered I only catch 15 min. snipits worth of time where I can scrap and I’ve wasted every bit of that free time searching for the pictures I wanted to use that I just KNEW was out there on the hard drive somewhere…well…I paid for the fact that I was in a hurry just about every time I dumped pictures from my camera onto the drive…I never renamed them so I could find them and do you think I put them in one folder…NOPE!!!  Well…the scrapbook software I’d bought sent me an e-mail announcing the merge with a program called ACDsee…so…I’m desperate…I need to see if this would work…I HAVE to get some kind of organization and NOW…no more pictures till I get it under control…so I grab the trial and found the best site Digi Scrap Info!!!!  The two awesom ladies there are just about the most helpful I’ve come across in a while!  So  I tackled it this weekend…long story short, or not I know, about 40 categories later and several hours…they are not only tagged right and cross referenced if needed…they are cropped, renamed, and yes I actually got rid of a TON!!!!!  I can hardly believe I’m done with them…I really thought it would take sooo much longer, so needless to say I now have hope that the scrap stuff might get done :)  I don’t start another class till the 2nd so I’m going to try and get the scrap stuff done this week…and heck even try and do a couple of Layouts :)  DEFINITLY check out the program ACDsee, in this digital age…organization is a much and this makes it a breeze (for those of us a day late dollar short )

Well I told you I live eat and breathe school work so I guess (ohhh..there is one…guess :), unintentional )  GRADES is one that is steady on the brain lately!

Gum - savannah left some in my car and I just found it

Grouping - ok..so I really wanted to say organization but it didn’t start with a G

Green - my little green frog waiter is sitting next to my desk smiling at me…picture to come…

Goldfish - those flavor blasted ones are what I ate for my lunch… I know..healthy…NOT!

Guide - no reason…just popped into my head…

Gifts - Two in one…Gifts…who doesn’t love getting them..and GIFTS the non-profit software I use at work :)  GOOD HUH

Greedy, Gold, Gullet, Gimp, Grab, Go, Give, Gender, Golf, Gorgeous, Girl, Gravy (yuck), Grapes, Gourd, Grip, Grow, God, Good, Gumby (the little green character), Gather, Got, Go, Great, Gregarious, Gummy, Gumbo (yum), Gracious, Guilt, Guild, Grumpy, Garden, Governor, Gait, Gallop (yes horse fanatic), Grit, Growl

Ok…I’m done…I need to work…I’d much rather keep building my little list..but work is important…(I think )

Ok…so here I am covering the front desk flipping through a magazine that was up there…Southern Living to be exact…Well since I’m in Graphic design school now I’ve been paying attention to the ads not just articles like I used to :)  fitting huh…well one got me today…I WILL incorporate this into my next scrap page..it is just so fitting for the scrapping world…oh wait…they let it happen well to an extent…not all Layouts get printed :)  Ok…enough of the vague pointless info…I know…you wanna know the ad that got me to actually write something in this blog

 HP Ad in Southern Living April 2007 issue.

“Don’t let your babies grow up to be JPEGS”

NOW HOW GREAT IS THAT!  I loved it..and after spending my evening last night trying to organize my millions of jpegs I totally get it :)  I’m one of those people that tends to think ads are either stupid, pointless, or just plain dumb (as in having nothing to do with the product…I know you’ve seen them..HELLO…Confusion doesn’t help sell stuff…or does it :))  See…I’m rambling…sorry…it is a great ad and as the title notes…inspiration for my scrapping comes in all forms!