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let's get persnickety: blog hop

 

Welcome to Paper Issues "Le'st get persnickety”

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You guessed it, this weeks “issue” is sponsored by Persnickety Prints.

 

I was lucky enough to get to play with some of Persnickety’s prints

I choose the Project Life Polaroid Prints, other wise known as persnickety prints polaroid 3x3 on 3x4.

 

 

I made these layout a few weeks back for a chic tag challenge and an Elle’s studio sketch challenge. OMG I love these prints

 

 

 

 

Here you can see I order just a few…

 

they are the same size as PL grid cards

 

And here you can see how well they just slip into PL

Next up on the hop is Lori

 

 

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instafriday: week 24

 

Another week down!

OMG we are like have way through the year! That’s crazy talk. Once again I survived random things. What’s surprising to is I feel totally unconnected from social media this week. I felt like I never instagramed, never Facebooked. When I sat down to write this post I saw I had taken way more photos then I thought. I seriously thought I wasn’t gonna have enough this week. Don’t fear, I took plenty! In fact it was hard to pick which ones to share today. I wont hold out on you any longer, here they are!

 

 

YES, this happened a rat pooped on my vanity. In fact he is still locked in my bathroom! That’s a whole nother story.

What you talkin bout Willis! Yes this cutie spent some time with me

I love lemon… I picked some lemons to make lemon sorbet

This Happened again this week, I am seriously in love with these

The great apricot massacre of 2013, I am so depressed

Uggggh I hate when my desk looks like this {which is all the time!}

Couldn’t resist a foot shot on this {clearance from Target} rug

Is he not precious, and yes you get goodies at Auntie Aimee’s

Ye this happened… but then it didn’t. It takes like 20 hours for the bowl to fully freeze. So no Lemon sorbet for me on Thursday night. {{insert sad face}}

samantha walker: june blog hop

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This month’s theme is summer. Living in so cal. summer is ALMOST year round… Almost!

I decided to make something with Samantha’s fabric. I am loving this cute fabric banner.

I tied it up in my backyard for photos, and I never took it down.

Through rain and snow… OK no snow. Its still up and looks fabulous.

It gives my backyard a little shabby chic touch. I love it!

I also love that it will look festive for 4^th of July, Bonus!

 

 

 

 

 

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happy monday:

This happened

in the wee hours of the morning

 

That is rat poop on my vanity.

enough said!

 

Happy Monday

a day in the life: may 31 2013

 

Hello Saturday….

 

Well I finally finished it. A day in the life, that is. I finally found a template I liked. It’s a simple scrapper premium membership sketch. I also purchased AC digitals Lucky Charm to work with.

It’s a little busy, but that okay. I think I wanted that. I plan on having it printed from Persnickety Prints as a 12x12 and I will slip it in with my Project Life Album.

 

 

 

8:45-woke up

8:50-go to my office and get my phone

8:50-snuggle/social media time

9:23-breakfast

9:40-forgot to do my banking earlier in the week

9:52-back home and reading my e-mail

10:05-mail arrives, PandaEIGHT flair is here! YAY

10:20- go take pictures of work

12:03- marking of things on my to do list

1:03- go outside for a little break, Hello lizard

1:08-first apricots of the season

1:14-another little snuggle and social media sesh

1:59-nap time

3:57-Kevin has been cleaning the garage. These 2 helpers found a bed out there

5:01-of to the notary

6:01-stopped for a little pick me up, Black ice tea and lemon pops

7:38-hosing down the driveway

7:46-hanging in the hammock

9:28-fresh out of the shower

9:59-start some laundry

10:02-pill time

 

*I had hung the lights earlier in the day and was checking them out after dark

** Yes the last 2 pictures are mixed up, but totally cool with that

 

This is pretty much an average day around here. Minus eating, and the regular appointments.

 

I love that I took the time to do this. What’s funny is on Wednesday when I woke up I had this feeling to do “a day in the life”. But I didn’t follow through with it. So when I saw that Ali was doing it on Friday, I joined in.

 

I hope you enjoyed!!! Did you document “a day in the life”?

instafriday: week 23

 

Surprisingly this week went by a lot faster then I imagined it would.

My dad & Kevin went out of town for what seems like forever. I honestly thought this Friday would get here. 1 down another to go.

 

It’s been a tough week but like always I have survived. I didn’t think I was gonna have enough photos for today. Guess what I had more than plenty.  Sometimes its so hard to pick which photos are gonna to get high lighted. Instead of me gabbing, lets see those photos…

 

 

 

Last Friday was Ali Edwards week in the life

{I have yet to get those photos together, I know I know} this one of

Kevin is part of our morning routine, social media and snuggle time.

Good morning beautiful

My little assistants!

This A & K were placed like this in TJ Max, total photo opp!

This are in my shop, all proceeds will be donated, get your while they last

My chi chi bean

These are the best in the worlds, Strawberry Basil Martini Thanks Scott

Momma were not suppose to be in Kevin’s Chair

Have I mentioned how much I love to scrap this little guy He makes my work FAB!

simple scrapper: june blog hop & giveway

 

When I received they sketches for June, I was traveling. In my motor home.

And since the layouts were due before I returned home, I was forced to scrap in the motor home! It actually was very doable. Jennifer has talked about making a little kit before you sit down to scrap. Well that’s kinda what I did. I subscribe to a kit club. So I brought that kit along with some other “basic” product to scrap.

 

And as always I love, loved this months sketches. They were particularly easy to work with since I was limited on product.

Yes this is me! We went to the Cayman Islands when I was about 6. My parents can’t remember what year we actually went. This is by far one of my all time favorite photos of myself. We were at a sea turtle farm/aquarium? It was right on the beach. They had all these big pools of turtles, I guess we were aloud to hold them, cause there I am holding one! I also remember an incubator, with all the eggs. I wanted to see a little turtle hatch so badly. My favorite story from that trip is, my mom bought post cards from the gift shop. On the post card there was a little blonde girl and boy playing with the turtles on the sand {the turtles were just hatched and trying to make it into the ocean}. You could only see the back of the children. My younger cousin swore it was my neighbor and I. Any ways. I took this photo of the “original” photo with my camera. This is an instagram print from social print studio

 

And here are photos of what it looked like scrapin in the motorhome

 

 

Do you know the legend? Well as I have heard you cant buy a Buddha for yourself… Nope it can only bring you good luck if someone gives it to you! So my aunt Diane gave me one for Christmas last year. And that is the legend of the Buddha!

 

Piecing the layout together in the motor home

 

 

 

 

 

And for my story starter. This month’s story starter was about your childhood/children and or home. I have lived on the same street my whole life. I made a big move 13 years ago. Yep I moved across the street. None of the prompts really fit me, but I had just gone on a historic house tour in the small town I live in. So I wrote and scrapped about that.

 

 

 

another motorhome shot!

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finally in the shop: to oklahoma with love kits

 

The kits are live and ready to ship!

 

I wasn’t sure when the PandaEIGHT Flair would arrive at my house. I just picked today cause it sounded good and all.

Guess what, I picked a good date cause they arrived today!

Thank you for being so patient. Remember all the proceeds will be donated to the Oklahoma Tornado victims.

 

www.etsy.com/shop/aimeemaddern

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

there is a limited number of kits, once they are gone there gone.

instafriday: week 21

I seriously can’t believe its Friday AGAIN!

It feels like I just posted yesterday…Oh wait I did.

 

It has been extra hard getting back into the groove of things here.

Kevin started to clean out the garage. BIG project. It means I have to help cause most of it is my crap, from SPK. Remember I had a store. It seems like forever ago. It’s been over 2 years that we closed it. Sad, but I am very happy at where I am now, I actually get to play with all the goodies now. Anyways-long story short, YES I still have most of the inventory.

So I took a boatload of photos this week, I guess I didn’t have much down time, cause I only instagramed a few. It happens.

So if you don’t follow me @aimeemaddern on instagram you will get a few bonus ones!

 

 

**Layout for Elle’s Studio Challenge

We made tacos at home this week; actually we ate a lot at home this week!

1 reason why it’s good to be home I LOVE my yard

Another reason its good to be home, the baristas know how to spell my name = me happy!

**Layout for Chic Tags, Sunday Challenge

*Little Oklahoma’s for To Oklahoma with love kits. They go on sale tomorrow right just come back here tomorrow for a link to my etsy shop

Cards I made to show Oklahoma we care!

Where I slept

**Layout for Elle’s Studio Sketch Thursday

 

 

 

There you go, this weeks’ photos…

 

 

Did you see today is Ali Edwards “day in the life” I am gonna try! I have yet to do this one, come join me I probably will post all photos to instagram!

 

*To Oklahoma With Love Kits were to be sold through Paper Issues. The Paper Issues Shop will be closed for Cassie to take a mini Vaca. There for we will sell them through my shop and when the PI shop reopens if there are any left they will be sold there

 

**Please feel free to enter the challenges above, I have provided a link to each challenge above. Come on try it, it’s fun to win free stuff!

to oklahoma with love:

To Oklahoma with love!

I wanted to do something for the people of Moore Kansas. When the tornado hit Moore, we were on our way from Topeka To Kansas City. Moore is 305 miles from Topeka, & 357 miles from Kansas City MO. While we had been in Topeka, we had tornado warnings. Being from Cali. we had no idea what to expect or do, or even think. When it rains in the Midwest, it rains more in 3hrs than it does a whole season in CA. We had tornado warnings on Thursday night. Kevin had to come up with a plan to calm my nerves {Adam kept reading the news on his phone and talking about it way worse than he needed to}. The next morning, and there was no storm in sight! Then the NHRA actually finished up most of the race on Saturday, so they would have minimal, classes to run on Sunday, which is RACE DAY! Saturday night the wind picked up, and around 12 am it started to rain, thunder and lightning. We finally went to bed around 2 am, listening to the rain pounding into the roof of the motor home. I remember waking up in the still of the night and it was very calm. Around 5am it started to rain again, and by 9am Sunday morning the storm blew out. We lost in the final round, just when another storm started to blow in. By dinner time there was now denying the storm. I took my dogs to the restaurant just in case! We sat down at the restaurant, just as the rain REALLY started. I was very concerned for those little dogs, and how scared they probably were in the car. Kevin actually left the windows down a bit for them; he had to run out in the pouring rain to roll them up! The rain stopped after about 30mins. We went back to the track, the wind picked up it began to rain again, and we went to bed. The next morning we woke to beautiful weather. We went to joyland, a few other thrift shops and headed to KC. around 1:30 pm we meet up with my dad on the turnpike. My dad’s flight home was at 5 so he wanted to be at the airport by 3:30. We dropped him off and then started a little sight seeing. Adam started reading all these post off his Facebook feed about this tornado. I just thought he was rambling again about the storms over the weekend. As it got later in the evening I started seeing stuff about the tornado on my Facebook feed. It finally hit me when one of the guys who works on our car posted on his timeline “I stopped for gas in Moore Ok. 20 min before the tornado hit!” I am home and safe. He lives in the Dallas area. Then we started realizing where Moore was and that it was close to a racetrack we have raced at. We know many people in Moore and surrounding areas. We are in a motor home. We don’t have TV in the motor home. The only news we get is from our Facebook feeds and other social media. I never watched any news about the tornados. But we were so close to the aftermath you could feel the tornado’s presences.

 

Kevin and I thought about going to Moore and helping out. I do know one of the guys from the races did drive there to help on his down time. Adam auctioned off a shirt on FB last I saw, the shirt was at $400! Friday I got an email to donate cards to OK. So I posted that to FB and here on the blog. I made some cards, and some girls from the Paper Issues, DT sent some too!

 

I wanted to do a bit more. I used my cameo to cut the state of OK out and then stitched a heart in the middle! I then asked my friend Martha from PandaEIGHT if she would make some flair, and we could sell them together in the Paper Issues Store. Martha was in. We only made a handful of these little kits. All profits will be donated to the Moore OK Tornado victims!

They will be listed in the Paper Issues shop on Saturday June 1st and will ship on Monday June 3rd! They are perfect for making cards, SMASHing, using in Project Life or even on a Scrapbook layout. I actually made 4 cards with them to send to OK.

Thank you for your love, support, and reading my story!

These little embellishments have been made from the HEART! To Oklahoma with LOVE

 

 

Well it sure isn’t Friday!

It’s Monday on a Tuesday! And I never posted on Friday!

If you followed that you are a genius!

 

So now to view photos from the past week.

On Monday we left Topeka KS for KC MO.

Lots of these weeks’ photos are inside jokes.

But you will still get them I’m sure!

 

 

Adam the turtle wrangler

Scrappin in the motor home

Bed head

Boss Hawgs, horrifying vegetarians since 1995

Jager on the yellow brick road

We saw a derailed train.

This happened on a Sunday and we saw it on the following Thursday,

crazy huh!

At Dorothy’s house, they’re no place like home {Cali style}

Ying and yang! No expiation needed

To Oklahoma with Love