I am so sophisticated!

Those of you who really know me know that that is not true! However, I can at least feel a little sophisticated with this month's collection from Scrap in Style. The collection is called "The Sophisticate" and I love it! It is full of Basic Grey papers & ribbon (eat your heart out Katie), Heidi Swapp chipboard letters, mini Jenni Bowlin die cut paper, felt, buttons, woodgrain contact paper, and a few other random goodies. I had fun playing with this collection this weekend (after packing almost 600 kits for the Scrap Etc. event...that is a whole other post for later) and I thought I would share!

The layout above has pictures from Memory Trends '07 where I had fun meeting CD and hanging out with my SOY girls Janet, Paula, Ingunn, and Elizabeth.

The picture on the layout below is my friend Brooke's adorable little girl Abbey. A shout out and a thank you to Amanda Johnson (another of my SOY girls) for the cool editing on that picture!

Venture on over to Scrap in Style TV to look at more layouts using this collection and take a look at the new site. Jeanette and her team have been working hard to get the site spiffed up! And it looks so cool!

Happy St. Patricks Day, by the way!

gretchen

Girls RULE!

OK somebody please laugh with me at this:

My father-in-law and brother-in-law were visiting us this past weekend.

For some odd reason yesterday our ice maker stopped working.

This was quite upsetting to me since I really love my ice!

However my father-in-law is quite handy so I thought he would fix it right up.

Well that was not the case.

For about 30 minutes while dinner was cooking all 3 guys (Lee included) were almost standing inside the refrigerator trying to fix the icemaker.

At one point they had taken everything apart and there were parts all over my kitchen table.

Then since they were defeated and quite flabbergasted by the crazy ice maker, most of the dinner conversation involved different theories as to what was wrong and how it could be fixed if they had this certain tool, etc., etc.

And this is where the "Girls RULE!" come into play...

So I get home from work today and forgetting that the icemaker isn't working, I try to get some.

I make an interesting discovery in the process.

See, if that little light is lit up under "ice off" then the icemaker will not work.

With one little push of a button...TADA, ice maker now working!

Let me repeat, "Girls RULE!" and no tools needed.

This has got to be a "how many men does it take to fix an ice maker joke?"!

Rock on.

The pressure is on!

OK well since it appears that there are people reading this crazy blog, I guess I've got to make it something worth reading.

Hmmm, since it also appears that my brothers are popular subjects, I will start off with them.

We all ran the Disney marathon about a month ago. And I've got pictures!!

Let me preface these pictures with: Yes, they are single...sort of. Both have girlfriends but there are no rings on any fingers!

There is something wrong with these pictures. See if you can figure it out.

Here are Stuart and David at about mile 10. Looks like another stroll in the park, right??!

Every picture of David looks like he was looking for the camera! Looks like he having too much fun too. He was obviously not concentrating hard enough on his pace!


And here is Stuart with his dramatic finish! At least he looks a little tired in his pic.

And then there is me. I look like I am about to die in each and every picture. This is the best one. I think I was actually trying to muster up a smile in this one...trying.

That is what is wrong with these pictures. Next time (if there is a next time) I will not be worried about my pace or my time or the terrible burning sensation in my quads. I will be making sure to find all the cameramen and get better pictures!

Ahhh, yes, I am a scrapbooker!

Remember: still working out the kinks here. It will get better...I hope! :)

gretchen

For you Katie

since you are probably the only one reading this.

i have officially made a post.
i have got to make this thing more interesting.
thank you to the fabulous Wilna-pronounced-Vilna for the cool header.
it is way cooler than the one i will come up with so i may keep it for awhile.
i bet i could get people to read this if i posted pictures of my hot brothers.
wow that was really weird to say.
hmmm, this is a scrapbooking blog so i could post a layout.
i wonder if i can figure out how to do that.

ok so i did it.

now i need to figure out how to put that picture where i want it and not at the top of the page.

after 4 tries, i am leaving it up there for now.

how is that for an exciting blog post!

good night Katie