I seem to have a little of this...

And a little that going on.

Oh.  And did I mention some of this?

And ashamed to admit, some more of this...

(yes, that is my breakfast up there in the right hand corner of the above photo.  ate my oatmeal right out of the dish I cooked it in!  just keepin' it real people, just keepin' it real.)

So as you can see I have created a monster mess.  (I did mention I was messy, right??) I printed and printed photos last night and now I am all ready to scrap.  Hopefully will have some scrappy-ness to show you tomorrow. :)

I am pretty sure technology is out to get me today.  Nothing seems to be going right.  You saw the post this morning with the email thingy.  Then later today I might have broken the DVD player.  Yup, that's right, might have.  I swear all I did was put in a disc then whamo - it won't work.  I was totally innocent.  I swear it!  Next, my camera battery called in sick today.  Or tired.  Or lazy.  Or I just want to mess with her 'cause her camera is pretty much joined to her right hand and it will really get to her...you get the idea.   Then this...

I can't even get into my emails now!  I am pretty sure I can hear it giggling.  I pressed mute.  We're definitely not talking now!

So back to the no camera battery.  No camera battery means no photos.  And no photos means no uploading photos of the stuff I have been creating to show you. :(

But never fear, I am a scrappy super hero and have an alternative plan.  (Can you tell today has been a loooong day??) 

Can you guess what these images have in common?

Can't figure it out?  Read this to find out.

Hopefully, tomorrow, technology will not be out to get me and I can get things rolling again!  Have a great night everyone. :)

So I have just spent some time with my emails.  You know, me + emails, all cosy together.  You can picture it, can't you? 

This is what I learned.

Sometimes I love email.  Sometimes I hate it.   We might need to break up. 

I have no idea what is going on with my emails but they are making me nuts!  I have just figured out that I missed some emails from people who needed visual files from past classes and some people have not received emails that I sent out. grr to me, grr to the email system.  I just spent 2 hours going through everything with a fine tooth comb (ok, not really with a comb but I painstakingly went through about 1000 emails to recheck everything). 

So about a million emails later (I have a tendency to exaggerate) I have resent them all.  So if you sent me an email and I never replied then you should have something in your email box now.  If not, try your spam.  And if you still don't have something, well, you are out of luck!  OK, just kidding.

Email me again.  Start a fresh email - don't resend the previous one.  My email is gobbling those.  Let me know how terrible I am for not sending you a reply ;), tell me what you need, wait 10 seconds and send again.  Just kidding on the 10 seconds thing.  If you don't get a reply to the new email by tonight then leave a comment here on the blog and we will try to sort out why my email is mad at your email.

OK, that is it for now.  I am walking away from my computer for awhile.  We need some space.  I might have said somethings to my email system that I might later regret.  You know how fights go...

Back later today with some budget scrapping ideas.

I forgot to add to the last post that I saw this scrapbook while at the castle.

I wonder if Sir Henry every worried about what color paper to use or where to find the latest embellishment?

Somehow I doubt it!

Sure it's big and there are lots of rooms and gorgeous ceilings and woodwork....

OH and there is a room named after my husband....

But the shower needs some work... 

And of course just thinking about having to clean the place gives me a heart attack...;)

Sorry I have been MIA the last few days.  After taking some out of town guests on a tour of Casa Loma (the above local castle) I ended up with a migraine.  Not something that effects me very often but this one made me want to curl up in the corner sucking my thumb and calling for my mommy!

So that being said I have not been able to prep what I wanted to show you regarding scrapbooking on a budget.  Since it is already the middle of the week I think I will start it Monday of next week so we can have a full week. This rest of this week will just have to be about regular ol' scrapbooking! :)