Friday, May 31, 2013

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!


 
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**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!



Tuesday, May 28, 2013

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


 



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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!


 
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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



Saturday, May 18, 2013

instafriday: week 20 on saturday

 


 


Sorry I didn’t have a chance to post yesterday


But a day late is better than nothing at all.


So Monday morning Kevin and I left So Cal. driving to Topeka
Ks.


The first night we made it to Holbrook Az.


Tuesday we made
it to Meade Ks


We arrived at our destination around 2:30 pm on Wednesday.


And the rest is what they call history.


On Tuesday afternoon I was finally able to download
abeautifulmess app. 


Needless to say “I
am in love.


 


So here are MORE photos
from the road!


 


 
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So love these 2, they are my ying & yang!


Hello Texas {on hwy 54}


Paper Issues, June “need more” kit Under the Stars-
Available June 1st


A Sea of Yellow {I think it was saffron}


This just may be the smallest post office.


Brian the Pug


The triple nut at Texas Roadhouse


Scrapbooks Etc. in Topeka Ks.


Yes I love to visit ALL Local
Scrapbook Stores, and try to spend a bit of money!


I got the boot! At Texas Roadhouse… No really I actually got
it!



Wednesday, May 15, 2013

day 2: from the road

 


well we made it to Kansas.


Yesterday we drove through Arizona, New Mexico,


Texas, Oklahoma and into Kansas.


Here are Tuesdays photos!



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I used the new app a beautiful mess on all photos



Tuesday, May 14, 2013

from the road

Kevin & I left yesterday morning for Topeka Kansas for a race. Blogging will be all over the place! We are pulling into Albuquerque NM at the moment. Here are a few photos from the road





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Friday, May 10, 2013

instafriday: week 19 & the winners

 


Lets get this straight;


I spent the whole week recovering
from the weekend.


YES I am getting old!!! I don’t want to face it, but I am.


Not to many photos get taken when you don’t leave bed…haha


 


So if you don’t follow me on instagram, here is what
happened this past week{end}


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One of my layouts for NSD


3 of the 4 girls @ Hobby Lobby


All of the girl layouts put together {only 4 & a card
are mine}


It was good to come home, sleep in my own bed and


of course
get my named spelled correctly on my cup!


Funky sky after a funky little rain shower


It is officially mine! After a discrepancy on the OG pink


The housekeepers were here on Tuesday, and that meant


I got
a friend in the office,


make that 2 friends


THE GIRLS


My yellow roofed weeny snitchel


 


 


and the winners from last weeks 2 giveaways are


Studio Calico Stamp


Natasha Poteraj


 


AC Goodie Pack


Tanuya Butler


 


Congrats Girls!


 


Also I havent heard from 1 of my Birthday Bash winners


Sherry Smith


Please email me at amadd78@gmail to claim your prize!



Thursday, May 9, 2013

NSD: the weekend

 


What I did for NSD recap


 


 


I went to my friend Kelly’s house for NSD. She is the blog
& DT coordinator for Paper Issues,


& she lives just 90 miles from me.


 


I got to her house late Friday night. There were 2 other
girls that came from Nor Cal, Kristi & Jen.


Kristi, Jen & Kelly were
busy Scrappin! I really just went to socialize.


So I didn’t make an absurd
amount of pages like them!


Nope I made 4 layouts and 1 card. I was more about
shopping.


We hit up the local Michaels, Joann’s, Hobby Lobby & don’t forget
the deals at big lots and Marshalls!


 


I toke some projects to work on, but didn’t really get to
them.


As the girls were competing, I decided I wanted to join in.


I ended up,
using bits and pieces, and all of there scraps for my projects!


 



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{remarks from big lots}


 




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{thickers from marshalls, sequins from hobby lobby heidi swapp banner from Kelly}


 




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{using the lost at sea kit, polka dot & gray stripe paper from Kelly}


 




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{heidi swapp stuff from Kelly, thickers from Marshalls, sequins from hobby lobby}


 




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{ thickers from Marshals, gold twine from hobby lobby, MME paper and sticker from Kelly, she even trimmed and rounded the corners!}


 


 



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we made friends at Starbucks


 


 



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posed for photos at hobby lobby


 



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patriotic strp tease at hobby lobby {just kidding}


 



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gifts


 



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food


 



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thanks girls for a super AWESOME weekend!


Can't wait for Vegas!



Tuesday, May 7, 2013

samantha walker: may blog hop





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This month for the hop I decided to make an apple for the teacher!


Apple Basket that is. How cute would this apple filled with
some lollipops or Starbucks card be!


I used the 3d apple box, leaf border cut from the floralicious set, and summer vacation
word phrase set
.


I inked everything to give it dimension. I cut the phrase
extra tiny so I could glue it to a tag.






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Monday, May 6, 2013

simple scrapper: may blog hop & giveway

 



Bloghop-2013


 


It’s the first Tuesday in May… and do you know what that
mans?


It’s the Simple Scrapper blog hop! The DT members get to share what


they
created with the May sketches.


Like always, I seriously loved this months sketch!


And like
always, I cannot wait to see how Jennifer tops these sketches.


 


 


When I sat down to work on these sketches, I had just gone
to the zoo.


So I had way to many photos for a 1 pager.


That’s right people, I
did a double layout.


All I did was flip the sketch upside down.


I love how that
each layout holds it own, but look great put together.


 



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Room 580 was my mom’s hospital room; she broke her ankle a
few weeks ago.


This photo went with this paper so well.


This paper is a little
overwhelming, but with simple layers and embellishments,


the photo just about
scrapped itself.


 



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This month’s story starter is Big Events.


I had Kevin write
me a letter telling the story of this picture.


I just love the journaling as
the background paper!


 



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Thanks for hopping by!


I love getting to share my work with
all of you!


 


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