Pot Roast for dinner tonight!

Every Wednesday night we have dinner at church. We eat at Hope and then attend our Bible Study classes. The kids just love it.....it is amazing because some of the things that Hope has made for dinner i think the kids will NEVER eat....and it always ends up that they do! And they look so forward to it.....it is a treat to them i think.....anywho... a treat for me too because i dont have to worry about feeding them......and i get some great worship in. Holler at me if you ever wanna go with.....it is a great time!

Click to Give! - DO IT EVERYDAY!

The Breast Cancer site is having trouble getting enough people to click on their site daily to meet their quota of donating at least one free mammogram a day to an underprivileged woman. It takes less than a minute to go to their site and click on 'donating a mammogram' for free (pink window in the middle).This doesn't cost you a thing. Their corporate sponsors /advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate mammogram in exchange for advertising.Here's the web site! Pass it along to people you know.http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/

28 Spots Left! Camp Crop A Lot!

CAMP CROP-A-LOT!
When: April 3 to 6
Where: Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park (Piersol Group Camp)

Time: Check in time begins Thursday, April 3 at 3 p.m.
Check out time is noon on Sunday, April 6
Cost: $50 per person
This cost covers: your bunk to sleep in, all your meals from dinner on Thursday evening thru breakfast on Sunday morning a designated place to crop for your entire stay. (Holy Cow...what a deal!)

Hosted by Stephanie Jackson and Debbie Flowers

Bring a snack (chips, dips, candy, cookies, cakes etc.) to share on the giant snack table.There will be a yard sale table for you to bring your unused, gently used, no longer-needed scrapbooking tools, embellishments, paper, etc. to sell.

Our menu for the weekend will consist of:

Breakfast: your choice of cold cereals, sweet rolls and instant oatmeal along with coffee and juice
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Lunches: sandwiches with your choice of 3 different lunch meats, 3 types of sandwich rolls, assorted cheeses, along with lettuce, tomatoes, onions and pickles to dress your sammies with. You will also have your choice of chips.

Dinners: Thursday taco salads
Friday chicken spaghetti with salad & garlic bread
Saturday soup, salad and baked potatoes

On Friday evening there will also be make-your-own sundaes and on Saturday evening we will have a bonfire where we will be toasting marshmallows and making smores! YUM!!!!!

Coffee, tea and bottled water will be provided all weekend. If you want any other drinks (i.e. cokes, etc.), please bring your own marked with your name and store them in the camp fridge.

All you need to bring is your cropping stuff, your bedding (a sleeping bag or sheets, pillow & blankie!) along with a towel or 2 and your clothes.

Hosted by Stephanie Jackson and Debbie Flowers

Send your deposits along with your email address and mailing address to:
Stephanie Jackson
4313 Renners Road
Memphis, TN 38128

Questions: Email Stephanie at luv2scrap55@bellsouth.net
Email Debbie at happiscrapper@xipline.com

Screen Cleaner....who knew you needed this???

Well...i am semi-computer savvy.....and i never knew that you needed a screencleaner for your monitor. Check out this tutorial on You Tube. Get yours today! I got mine...it really made a HUGE difference on my screen....people commented all day!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfl6wJsjDy4

have a great one!

Cropping for Camden!

If you are at all interested in scrapbooking a Disney vacation for Camden Marshky please let me know as soon as possible. Please visit his website http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/camdenmarshky for the whole story. He was granted a trip to Disney World last week from Make-A-Wish and I have contacted his mother and offered to scrapbook their trip for them.

How I was introduced to this little fighter was definately a God thing. I was simply driving to work and they were in the minivan next to me. They have magnets on the side of their van with Camden's website on it and i was curious about his story and the fight that they are going through. After reading the website and knowing all that i knew i felt i needed to do something for this family. I scrapbook...that was all i knew to do to help them....and i talked about this at a Scrapbooking Bible Study Group that i attend. Shortly after agreeing that we could all help them by scrapbooking for them....they were granted this wish.

I have emailed the local scrapbook stores and Eclectica was gracious enough to already respond with donations....i am waiting on Archivers to respond. I also called Michaels & Hobby Lobby who directed me to their corporate offices who said that they didnt do invidual donations like that. (oh well). I you know of anyone who would like to make a personal donation of money or scrapbooking supplies please give them my email imblessed2bme@gmail.com and i will advise them what to do. We are looking for Disney paper...embellishments...ribbon....cardstock....things like that. My plan is to give those who are interested in scrapbooking for this family a "kit"...basically the paper & pictures and embellishments to use...the design is all your own.

If you are interested in scrapbooking for the Marshky family please let me know so that i can put your name on the already growing list.

This is just a beginning gals.....this is a God thing....when we are done with the Marshky family...there will be another...that is the saddest fact about St. Jude patients.

Thanks so much for joining me on this journey. It is worth it!

Love to you all!

You need to CROP? Here is a chance!!

Hope you can join us! March 8, 2008 Second Annual Crop for the Village Youth Villages Paul W. Barret JR. Gym 7410 Memphis Arlington Rd Bartlett, TN 38135 8am to 5 pm Come Scrap your past for their future *Registration check-in will open at 8:00am the morning of the event! To reserve your seat, please email Debbie Flowers at happiscrapper@xipline.com (Include your name, address, phone number and t-shirt size) Or contact by phone at 901-461-8156 Deadline for registration is March 1, 2008 Your registration fee of $50.00 will be donated to the Youth Villages Food with Class program. This donation includes a "Crop at the Village" T-shirt, goodie bag, drinks, breakfast and lunch for you. There will be 2 Ellison die machines and all the dies you can imagine available for your use. There will be door prizes, bingo and many other drawings through out the day. Bingo is $1 a card. Limited Seating Available and Pre-Registration required. Please make checks payable to Youth Villages and mail checks to: Debbie Flowers156 Duncan DriveAtoka, TN 38004 This event is open to all scrapbookers age 14 and older. This policy also refers to infants). All scrapbookers under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult 21 or older. Thank you for understanding. Hosted by:Lisa Paine, Debbie Flowers, and Michelle Cavallo

Now is the time to place an order!!!!

Now is the time to place an order with Stampin' Up! it is SALE-A-BRATION time. The perks are awesome! Our Sale-A-Bration promotion gives everyone a reason to celebrate!

Promotion Details

Customers: For every $50 purchase they make, customers will receive a free Sale-A-Bration product.

Hostesses: In addition to our regular hostess benefits, hostesses will receive a free Sale-A-Bration stamp set for workshops that reach $300 or more.

Recruits: Anyone who joins as a demonstrator during Sale-A-Bration can choose any stamp set--a value of up to $47.95--from the current catalog.

If you want to place an order OR if you know anyone who would be interested....please send them to my website.

Also...i have a stampers club that needs only a few more members. So if you are interested in that please please let me know soon so that we can get that started!

Ann Peace Love Joy and me!

Ann Peace.....what a great person! I met Ann during Archivers employee training. We just clicked! We really hit it off.....we are about the same age and we have the same interests...beliefs.....she is just fun to be around. This picture was taken at a crop that we attending in the Cook Convention Center in December. We had a good time.

At this crop one of her layouts won best of show! I need to get a picture of it and post it!

Ann U ROCK! Thanks Ann for sending me this picture. Love to you!

Bible Verse - Week 1 - Join me!

Join me and my family as we learn a Bible verse a week.
This week is Philippians 4:13 - I can do everything through him who gives me strength.

The Lioness

Today was spent enjoying a day off with the kids....we went to the zoo....we picked up one of my peeps kids and off to the zoo. What a great day....the animals were kind of slim pickens because of the weather...it was a bit cold. Here is a picture of the lioness. Enjoy!

Awaiting our visitation!!!

Some of you know already about this dog...affectionately called Mattie Kay at our home. Mattie Kay was a dog that was rescued from Tipton County Animal Shelter...her previous owner poured motor oil all over her and she was a SAD sight when she came from there....but now....she is a princess living high on the hog in east Memphis....a co-worker of mine adopted her and we have visitation rights to Mattie Kay...one weekend here or there we get her....if her owners go on vacation...we get her....and let me just tell you...we love this dog to death....yeah...we have 4 dogs and we love them too....but what is that saying about absence makes the heart grow fonder...it works both ways with this darned pug! She is the snoringist and silliest dog....but we just love her....anywho....we are missing her something fierce and hoping soon we can convince her custodial parents to let us have some darned visitation!!!

My Scrap Room....

Here it is....my K&Company wallpapered closet....my husband said that we are SURELY not going to be able to ever sell the house with this room...and now...this closet. Oh well...i am happy right here where we are planted! Let me know if you have questions about what all this crap is....the bottom of the closet has bins...each bin is filled with something...and has a purpose...the first shelf is tools & clear stamps...mostly...then the second shelf is buckets of binder clips, pens...my The Angel Company stamps in CD cases...my piggy bank of course...and then the top shelf is mostly pretty stuff and then some albums...Anywho....send me some shouts if you love the room....i am tickled pink about it myself!

Take a minute to pray for Camden

Hey folks...quick post....please take a minute to pray for this little boy and his family as they take a trip that Make-a-wish granted him to Disney World. They left last night.

www.caringbridge.org/visit/camdenmarshky

Cleaning the toilet is fun!

so....yesterday....i gave the girls a list of chores and told them that they had to do the chores together and when the chore was done they could cross it off and ring a bell. It was going great...i watched them mostly to see who was really doing the work....of course i knew...but i watched....when they rang the bell i told them that they were moving along quickly and that i was proud and to keep working. Soon...there was a fight....as usual.....i was on the phone so they knew that i wasnt paying attention however I WAS and just in time to see the little one spit on the big one! OMG! I ended the call and immediately headed over to their location. I asked the little one why she spit at her ... she said that she spit at the door....i told her that i saw the whole thing and that i would take her to church this very minute so she could tell that lie there....she changed her story. ...i gave her two choices....she could clean the toilet (which both of them are afraid to do....) or spend the day in her room. She whined and cried about it but eventually went to her room.....quickly bored of that she came to me and told me that she would clean the toilet. I made her gather the cleaning supplies....put the gloves on and get to work...i sat there managing the whole thing....telling her where to scrub around the back...in the bowl....she was afraid of it flushing on her....duh....you have to pull that to make it flush i told her.....anywho....after she was done....she put the cleaning supplies away and then came to me and said..."Mom....i will spit on (BIG ONE) again....i think cleaning the toilet was fun". I didnt respond.

Temptation

Funny thing isnt it? There is actually a game for Gameboy Advance called LarryBoy and the Bad Apple...here is the game description: The world needs a hero and LarryBoy is that hero! When trouble appears, the citizens of Bumblyburg call world-famous crime fighter LarryBoy! Aided only by his trusted butler Alfred (played with zest by Archibald Asparagus), plunger-headed LarryBoy is everything that his alter-ego Larry the Cucumber is not: bold… confident… relentlessly driven… brazenly heroic. Well, actually, that's not entirely true. While he tries to create this impression, inside, LarryBoy is still plain-old Larry. LarryBoy attempts to save the day with clever use of his super-suction ears and the many features of the Larry-Mobile. Call him a kinder, gentler, slightly slower superhero! Wow...huh? I am getting this game.

This weekend at church (Hope Presbyterian Church www.hopepres.com) we had a sermon on "Defeating Temptations". I want to share with you the 5 things you can do right now to help resist your temptations.
1. Determine in advance what causes your temptation.
2. Guard your heart.
3. Ask for God's help.
4. Redirect your attention.
5. Get some support.

Also....check out the other site Hope sponsors called www.hope2change.com .

And...if you ever wanna go to church with me .... holler....it is fun!

A whole new roll~!

And...it is not the food kind!

The fondue party was amazing. Let me just tell you....white chocolate covered marshmellows are out of this world!

The party started at about 6pm where we gathered around the table with the delicious center piece of a fondue pot full of hot swiss cheese (gourmet and tasty kinds) .....each of us armed with a fondue poker...(mine was pink) and we dipped things like apples, white bread, brown bread (pumpernickle i think is what she said), celery, brocoli, califlower and maybe more stuff....it was all amazing....i think that ANYTHING dipped in meltin hot cheese runs the chance of being ... um...to die for!

The next event on our schedule was card making....we each designed 2 cards....of course....my peeps are extremely talented and we ended up about 2 hours later with 6 fabulous cards. One peep shared the cracked glass technique....i will take a picture of it....it was so cool!

Now it is time for the main course....i guess mainer than the cheese....we had a fondue pot of oil and one of boullioun & spices....we had beer batter & a non beer batter for the one having our little Caprioni (baby boy name for Capri).....then the plates consisted of...steak, chicken, lobster & shrimp and then a bowl full of BIG mushroom caps. IT was amazing...i am trying not to keep using that word but ladies....it just didnt get any better than this...i swear.....i am thinking when i have had a meal this good and nothing is beating this....sorry mom.....i mean....i love your fried chicken and you know that....but this was great. Maybe you should make me some fried chicken this week so that i can be sure that the fondue was the best......anywho....it was great...steak & chicken was all i really partook in.....and i was happy...

Then..the finale....ladies....there are no words.....white chocolate....real whipping cream....and BUTTAH....OMG! my mouth is watering. oh...and since we had two pots to fondue in...we had to have another chocolate.....it was the Tolberone chocolate....milk chocolate...it was good....really good....but the white chocolate marshmellow....holy cow....who would have thought? I even loved the taste of my pink poker in the white chocolate.

I swear that i left that place with a whole new roll escaping from my once loose jeans. I slept so good!

Peep.....i am telling you....you are amazing. You really know what you are doing....thanks for all your hard work! U my fellow peep...rock!

more later...gotta work~

This is what i am doing this weekend....

So...one of my peeps forwarded me this picture from a blog she checks out....she knew i would fall in love...i did...immediately in love.....so...off with the doors in my scrapbook room and the closet will be "wallpapered' with the latest K&Co line....i am so excited...i will post pictures.

Later taters.....pictures of the finished project on Monday....(cross you fingers....)

Fondue with my peeps....doesnt get much better!

Tomorrow is a special day! I am so excited...i have been waiting and waiting for this day. I am having FONDUE with my peeps! I guess it was close to a year ago....maybe....i think....that myself and 3 of my "peeps" (this is a term of endearment that is used to describe this set of 3 friends - we all use this term for each other)....we all gather at a different home each month and have dinner. We also design cards and gather the supplies for these cards and put it in a plastic shoe box thingy then we pass around the boxes and create cards designed by our fellow peeps while we chat about funny things in our lives. It is a great time and we all look forward to this day each month. We leave with a bunch of new cards....and a date for the next gathering. I value this time with my peeps so much....they are such great gals and to me gifts from God.....before we started our little club we knew "of" each other and shared ideas on occasion....but now.... we are part of each others lives....seriously....these girls are the ones i called to check on after the storm...i cry with them....laugh with them...and at them.....go to church with them....i have even broke out into a couple of my old Catholic hymns with them....these are my best buds and i love them. So if one of you are reading this.... "i got somethin for you" - love ya!

My Parents......

My Mom & Dad.....silly folks they are.....i guess better know as Grandma & PawPaw....funny how your parent become your best friends when you get older. Mom...if you are reading this....i am not asking for anything...i am simply stating the truth! As you get older your parents grow on you...is it just me? I mean...i have GOT to know where they are all the time....not because i am nosey....i mean i just want to be sure they are ok.....and they are not disabled or anything...they get along pretty good....they are not old...they both work fulltime....but i just wanna make sure they are ok....They travel a lot and i swear....it just kills me....they joke about it to me but i worry about them until i hear from them...and then...i worry until i hear from them again......i guess i will stop doing this when my daughter becomes a teenager....then i will have her to worry about. oh well...will post more later!
toodles...

OMG!

Ok....so....i was lurking on my list of many blogs this morning and when i clicked on this one http://www.momsleap.blogspot.com/ i was scared! My mugshot.... (note to self....get a new picture on Stampin' Up! website TODAY!)....bless her heart...Carol must think that this is a great picture of me.....yikes....it only was a temporary picture that worked in a pinch. I am working on a new picture right now and will post it right away! YIKES....

This was up the street last night!?!?

So today as i look at pictures of what went on in our town yesterday i was shocked to find this picture that was taken only a couple miles from our house! YIKES! I mean...when the sirens are on...dont think that i lollygag to the safe place...i am there....with a supply of water and food...but never could i believe that this was just a couple miles from us. I wont show this to the girls. They will freak out....it was just us, the bird and the dogs....daddy was at work. I was however on the phone with my dad pretty often....he kept telling me what was going on. He cracked me up...at one point he said that he had to go bury his butt in the tub! :-) He is funny like that. I hate the visual it gave me but love the giggle that it still gives me. I think that he was and is a great source of joy in my life.

I am joining the blog world!

I am going to join the world of bloggers. My name is Juli.... J - U - L - I and i am a blogger. (If you ever watch the show Intervention...you "got" that). So....what will this blog contain? Who knows....i will start out with an introduction of me....so if you dont know me...you will...and if you know me ... you really will know me...or you can just skip the first few blogs....i will then include my thoughts...funny things my kids do...pictures of my latest craft projects....pictures of my craft room that i am in the process of remodeling...i am also reading the Bible regularly this year so i will add some great storys from the Bible also....so...this should be something rather interesting ... and if it isnt...i am sorry...i will try....i will just be proud of myself for doing it.

Just Find Your Joy.....Fine Joy is my statement for 2008. If you just focus daily on finding joy...what a day it will be.....

I hope you find a little joy in reading my blog.