The Crazy Chaotic House: 2018

Sunday, April 1, 2018

April Blogging Friends Blog Hop

Happy April and Happy Spring! It went from 55-80 degrees in like 2 days here in Northern California. Pure craziness!!! I think I may have even got a little red from the sun out at my kiddos baseball games yesterday. Spring break is over and my crazy kids are headed back to school on Monday....Thank goodness!!! I had a photoshoot last night and boy were the mosquitoes out in full force. I keep forgetting to put the spray in the car to have handy at baseball and my sunset photo shoots...MUST remember to do that!!!

So this month's theme is to CASE another member of our hop. I cased Libby Fens. I only CASEd her layout. This was such a hard decision for me, as is everything, so I made it a little easier on myself and just chose a layout from last month's hop. I really wanted to use a set that I hadn't used in months, a set that I have forgotten about {which is actually a lot} I used Life Me Up...love this set so much! I really don't and haven't used it much at all. My next two monthly classes will focus on items and sets retiring. We will be finding that out soon! I'm really hoping this set isn't on that list!

Libby's design

Let's see what Michelle has created this month for us!

Tammy Gill

Rick Adkins

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Thursday, March 1, 2018

March Blogging Friends Blog Hop.

It's hard to believe its March already! It's that busy BUSY time of year for us. Basketball is just about over and baseball has already started. Plus lots and lots of school activities and field trips. The next 3 months are going to fly by.

I am so excited to show you what I created for our Sale-a-bration theme hop. I CASEd a card straight from the Sale-a-bration brochure but then kept adding and adding tidbits to it. I loved creating with the Springtime foil DSP....so many different ways to add color. I added color with ink pads and aqua painters. The DSP is thick and a little glossy, it dries pretty quick and looks even more lovely in person. I love the way these turned out!

Let's see what Michelle has going on today......

    Crystal Komara     

Libby Fens

Mary Blocher

Jessica Mink {that's me}

Michelle Clarke

Mary Ann Kay Rossiter

Tammy Gill

Nikki Daigneau

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Thursday, February 1, 2018

February Blogging Friends Blog Hop.

I am so glad the month of January is FINALLY over! It seemed to really drag. The family has been hit again with that dreaded flu but this time around my husband and I both got it so that wasn't good. It was horrible! The last kiddo woke up yesterday with it, this round seemed to move fast so let's hope by end of then week he's good to go:)

This month our theme is RED in celebration of Valentine's day! My creations are not totally red. A couple of these cards we made at last months class but I switched out the colors using red for the blog hop. Last month Stampin' Up! kicked off Sale-a-bration. For every $50 you spend {before tax and shipping} you get to pick out a FREE item from the Sale-a-bration catalog and the super cute Party Pandas is a FREEBIE you can select.

Let's see what Leanne has created this month!She's up next!

Crystal Komara  

Libby Fens

Mary Blocher  

Danica Ferrante 

Jessica Mink

Leanne Dillon Johnson 

Michelle Clarke 

Mary Ann Kay Rossiter     

Tammy Gill 

Rick Adkins 

Lisa Harvey Reber   

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Monday, January 1, 2018

January Blogging Friends Blog Hop.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New year! I know we did:) Things have been crazy busy around {like always} but I am enjoying the couple weeks the kids have off of school to wind down and get ready for the next 6 months {which will be crazy busy}. We have had lots of family birthdays this month including two of my sons', turning 8 and 10...double digits!!!!

The kids have had the flu for the past week or so. It went straight down the line and all three got it...thankfully Ryan and I didn't get it and I'm not sure how we didn't! So the kids have done absolutely nothing for the past week and I am about to lose my mind BUT I guess the good thing about them getting it over break is they didn't miss school. I just wish it wasn't Christmas because my oldest was down all day on Christmas day at both Grandma's house and looked miserable. He said, "It was the worst Christmas ever"....so that was pretty sad to hear.

With all the craziness going on I have not ordered anything from the new Occasions catalog. I am hoping to later next week if I can narrow down my selection:) This month's theme is "Baby, It's Cold Outside". At first I wasn't sure if I had anything but I went searching my stamp sets and found the Christmas Cookie Cutter set with the little eskimo girl {super cute} and I have never used that particular stamp before so I was excited to come up with something.