I know it's been awhile!

I am so sorry for not updating in so long, but I live a busy life, lol. When I say busy, I mean BUSY. So I am able to type now without feeling tired, lol, and share a little of what I have managed to accomplish since my last post.

Quick update also: I fell (bad knees)at work Friday afternoon (June 19th) and freakin broke my right hand ring finger nail in half. I did not even notice until another person on the flight line with me pointed in out. I think I was more embarrassed than anything. Sooooo, I am sent to medical, and they tell me (yes, you guessed it) they have to stick me with needles to numb my finger so they can pull the rest of the nail off! I started freaking out, because one, I think they are going to stick the needle in my nail or near it. But, no the did not after many tears and the bravery of tearing it off myself (it was already detached, just hanging). So they stick me at the base of the finger (still hurt) numbed it up and cleaned it out, gave me good drugs and sent me home. Needless to say this has been a very long couple of days living with this crippled finger, lol. Why is it when you hurt a body part, you and everyone else seem to focus on causing it more pain? Such as my daughter stepping on it (by accident of course).

Now on an awesome note, I have received another great award from a great blogger! You should check out her blog. Her name is Janice and her work is wonderful! Here is her blog. Thanks again Janice and thanks for being patient with me. The Navy is a very busy world!

So here is some of my work, I managed to squeeze out.

Hope you enjoy!

Well I have more, I just cannot post right now, because we have not released them on our blog yet, so make sue you come on over and visit our blog " Iftheshoefitsscrapit " or visit our forum where we have great challenges going on as well from our DT and our GD. We are also looking for GD (guest designers) so please come to them blog for rules on what you need to do. Hope to see ya there!

Tanisha~

Karma Award

Thanks Tanisha Renee for this award!



The Karma Award: These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind of bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers. Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award.

Note: I know I don't have a lot of followers, which is fine with me, because I am very content with the ones that chose to actually stop by and listen to what I have to say, and share my family and projects. Also it's very cool to receive an award from someone as cool as Tanisha and to share the same name!

Now here are my picks:
1. Debbie Breedlove
2.Tammy
3. Christine
4. Jill
5. Kristy
6. Tracey
7. Leslie
8. Janet

What A mini Vacation!

Happy Memorial Day!

So I just got back late last night from a great mini vacation. So funny because we only drove about 45 minutes away, but, traffic is sooo hectic we decided to just stay at the Best Western the entire weekend

Also, Morgans birthday was Friday, so we celebrated a bit at the house before we left for the weekend. So this was actually a birthday present for him. Happy Birthday Morgan! I can't believe he is eight now, time sure does fly!

We went to Water Country on Saturday, which was a lot more fun than I expected and the kids really enjoyed themselves. Especialy Morgan. I

have never seen him willing to get on so many rides, lol!

Sunday we went to Busch Gardens! It exceced my expectations. I ad listened to so many others in the past that did not care for it (silly me for that) that I did not want to go. Great great park! I think with this one we spent more time playing games than riding, lol. We got there a little too late, (blame to staying up super late the night before). We ran into some traffic as well. Omg, I wish you all could have seen my husband living out his Lebron James NBA dreams! He spent (so he tells me) 60.00 on the 3 point shoot out contest, he did pretty well, but not well enough to win the PS3 (one that he already freaking owns)!! LOL.

Here are some pics of our weekend: Look at that hairdo!

Mommy to my hairdo rescue!

Nice to meet you Bert!

Wow, two in one night!

Hey why not! I am on a roll, may as well keep it going right? Well, first off I would just like to say I am now on Twitter, lol! Follow me! I will just rant random things off, but, hey it's addictive. I thik you can just look up Tanisha Boyd and you should find me.

Okay here's a card I did for our blog at The Shoe. It was my turn to run a challenge and challenging it was, even for myself! You had to do a card using a beach theme. It took me all the way until I thought it was due to do it, simple because I did not know what the heck I was going to do! First off, let me just say, I have sooo fallen in love with Bazzil Cardstocks! So that is what I used for this challenge.

Ingredients:

• Bazzil Cardstock


• Stickles (Waterfall & Icicle)


• Doodlebug Braddies (Seashell)


• Craft n Craftin Glitterstock (Copper)


• Forgot wo the Stickers were by, and can't find the package ( will up date when I do)

Monorams, Oh My!

So last night, I decided once again, despite my better judgement, to stay up late! Not your eleven o' clock late either, try 2am! Yeah, I am serious, and I was definitely tired, I just could not sleep until this card was done. Had I not finished it, it probably wouldn't have gotten done.

Well this card that I worked on was for a blog I stumbled upon in one of my many google searches, lol. Probably not new to you, but it was to me. It's called The Pink Elephant Challenge, and so far I really like it!

So here is the card that I will be submitting, and this will actually be my very first time submitting to anything other than Iftheshoefitsscrapit! I believe the rule was to use a monogra/letter. So I used the letter "F" as my Monogram letter. I actually stamped a sheet of paper, then cut out the same stamp and cut and popped dotted it on top. I stamped each individual letter so to spell out the word FOREVER. Even though it is a simple card, I really had to use my noggin, lol. Great challenge Pink Elephant!!!

A couple of cards

So, I am finally able to add these cards to my blog. We had a couple of challenges on "If the shoe fits". Now one of these challenges I had to use the colors purple and green, yes, purple and green! I tell you that was a challenge for me. I didn't think I was ever going to figure out how to get those two colors to mesh. Both colors are beautiful by themselves, but together was a whole other foe me, lol! Needless to say, I pulled it off and this was what I came up with.

This next card was for the Mother's Day card Challenge. I had a little bit of scrappers block with this as well, (not sure what's up with me, lol). I thought I would make it plain and simple, well, no that was not the case. One thing led to another, butterflies cames into play and hey....you now how the rest goes. Also what I love about this, is I tried something new, I used crackle paint on my stamp, the pink one. I find that it only works well with certain stamps though. So stay tuned to see which stamps I find work well. Make sure you hop on over to "iftheshoefits...scrap it!" for more great challenges and prizes. Happy Scrapping

Tanisha~

Short & Sweet

Not really much to say tonight, trying to get outta here so I can go shoot pool with my husband, and whip his ____! LOL. So I will just show a LO that had me in a funk for some time, but finally got it together. I was also going to show another project I made, but just remembered I can't, lol, I am oing to use it for our blog, so you will have to wait just a bit. Good Night Enjoy~

A day at the Virginia Beach Zoo

So Sunday my husband gets this great idea to go to the zoo, in 93 degree weather! But, the kids had a great time, so it was all good. I took like a million pictures as usual and my Nya as always posed. I not quite sure why, but I have to bribe my son to let me get photos of him (or sneak them). Morgan will usually let me take them if he sees his sister is getting all of the attention.




















See what I mean? Thats Morgan for you though.






















I think she wanted to take these chairs home!






















Now tell me why Nya had to sit in both chairs, and she did not want to get out of them either!
Now here's one more! We were waiting for the little 2.00 a ride train. Now let me tell you, this train is supposed to take you around the zoo, and show you the animals that in in the outskirt of it. Yeah, tell me why, the trip consisited of half animals, and half construction of the animals habitats that would be there next year! You get what you pay for, right?
I have been a little dissapointed with my pics lately, ever since my lens (70mm-300mm) broke. I hoped to get it fixed within the next week or two so I can try to get back on my game, lol!

Early to rise....whatever!

Tell me why it is 4:36am and I am not in the bed! As tired as I am too, lol, but I guess I needed to get this post on, or it would be another two weeks before I updated. I still have a lot of projects to get done and it seems as if I am running out of time. But make sure to check back, because I am going try to make it point, (keyword is try) to update before the weekend is out.

So I had a color challenge to do, and the colors were pale blue and cream (Beautiful combo by the way) this is what I came up with. It was pretty simple, and I actually wish I had spent more time on it. I used a bit of crackle paint(which I am in love with) around the edges of the title and the journal box. I also used it on the arrow. The sparrow like bird is from inkadinkadoo (of course). Can't quite remember, but I think that border is from Prima, I bought it last minute and used it right away. For those that are new to following me, that is my baby girl Nya, and she is such a poser!

Next I have the "Pink & Brown" not every ones favorite combo, but it is absolutely one of mine! I actually used a technique I have never tried before, I mixed my green glimmer mist with my pink(tattered rose) crackle paint then heat dried until it starting bubbling a bit, to give it an even aged look. I used this on the cute swirly like grunge board. Well ladies on that note, I can't take it anymore, I am beat! Night, or shall I say good morning?

OHYIF! (Oh heck yeah, its Friday!)

So, I am getting a little better with posting, I think. I will actually post this weekend on some projects I have working on. I'm a busy girl, so it's hard. So on to some good stuff. I received an awesome blog award from my friend Tracey!!! Therefore, I would love to pass this on to 10 more fabulous blogs, that I truly love. There are a few that I wil keep of, because they have been nominated already, you uys know who you are! Mwah!!

There are some rules to this one:

1. The winner may put the logo onto their blog.

2. Put a link to the person who sent you the award.

3. Nominate 10 blogs.

4. Put links to their blogs.

5. Leave a message for the nominees.

1. Renee

2. Tanisharenee

3. KadyMaeBella

4. Keisha Campbell

5. Debbie

Now without feeling to weird for leaving blog awards for complete strangers because their blogs are my favorites, I am going to have to put these gals down anyway, because they are still my Fav, even though they have already been nominated!

6. Leslie

7. Judith

8. Janet

9. Bad Girls

10. Regina Easter

So I am soooo nominating these woman for their talent and their blogs!

Thanks again Tracey! Nominees... keep it moving!!! Till Next Time!