Something Two Crow About

Countdown to Tennessee

It's on baby! The move to Tennessee that is!

Gave up on trying to find any FREE boxes to pack all our belongings in. Had to break down and purchase the big plastic totes! In the long run these totes will come in handy...they are grey in color...ugly as hell but less than 4 bucks a piece at Wally World! Need to go into town today and pick up some more of these totes because in 3 weeks we will be headed over to Tennessee! YAY! Have I mentioned that I really hate packing!? I do have help though...my oldest daughter is helping and does a really good job at it! Thank you Sarah!

Today I dread...because most of my supplies are going to be hidden in boxes out of view. Wahhhhhhhhhhhh! But that isn't stopping me from going into Rockhill to Hobby Lobby again! HA! They have a sale on 12x12 papers 5 for 1.00! I can dig that! hee hee And they also have a coupon for 25% off regularly price items here *evil grin* I wonder if I can get them to notify me when new paper designs arrive! LOL

I will be leaving the doors open to my Etsy shop because it should only take a day to get all moved and get the puter set up again! But I am pretty sure I will have a slower connection being that they don't have cable over there in TN. THAT sucks! I will do my best to take care of any orders between now and the 25th/26th-ish of March there where abouts...any orders by check/money order please hold onto till I can get you my address change! I am a little unclear on the correct address....sounds silly though...because I know where we are moving but don't know the address! LMAO I will update you on that ASAP on Etsy here shortly! Please bear with me and my scatter-brained self! Gah!

There are a few new pieces up for grabs currently in my shop...including the piece shown above! "Every Moment".

****WARNING! If you don't like curse words than you better not read this below:

Uhhhhhhhhhhhh Uhhhhhhhhh what else can I tell you before I go.....Oh! How can I forget the lovely phone call I received yesterday from Sallie Mae on my DH's fed. student loan....Ya...they are taking this lack of able to make payment on these loans to higher grounds...that means we need to get our own lawyer and most likely file Chapter 13! Excuse the term here but.... FUCK! lol And we were almost to the finacial point to make payments again! ^#)$#&)@)@ And this ASSHOLE that called me treated me like crap! Jerkoff!!! I almost asked him if he's had his lunch break yet...cuz I was about to reach through that phone and rip off his balls and feed them to him! LOL Like come a little closer dude I got a treat for you!!! LMAO Fuckin sonnaffabitch! And I am not apologizing for my potty mouth! I don't cuss very often but after so many hardships you tend to get a little annoyed! It just pisses me off because we were about to make a payment with them...well you know what Sallie Mae!!....FUCK YOU!!! You'll get your damn money!!!!!! They said if we didn't make a 1,000 dollar payment today by 3 'O clock and the balance by Monday ...lets see that would be ohhhhhh somewhere about 35,000 they would take it to higher grounds! Ahhh hell! Kiss my ass!! lol If I had that kind of money dontcha think I would of done paid it by now!!!! I don't know if I should be saying this all outloud or not but HELLS BELLS!!! It sure as heck feels good to just let off steam! lol

Anywho! I have to run now and get my shower and get my buns to town!

Much love, hugs and blessings! 

"Shut up" hee hee

What I did this weekend! Finally got to go spend my birthday money!!!

"Shuuuuuut uuuuuuuup"!!! No I really don't use that saying but I though it appropriate for the title of the post! LOL

Paper!!!!!!!! Lots of paaaaaaperrrrrrr! Oh now..when I discovered the paper isle (sp) at Hobby Lobby...Holy S*** some one hand me a bib!!!! (btw this is the only place I have been able to find decorative papers at so bear with me here) 90 racks of different papers! Oh MY! Yup my hubby counted the racks...I don't know if this was to appease my paper addiction or to see exactly how long it was that he would be waiting for me to exit the isle LOL He was pretty good about it all!

and more papers!!!! They were 2 for a buck and I mostly got two of each of what I liked! One sheet to cut into a 4x6 size for my paper basket of papers that I use in my art...and keep one large sheet for my journal...I know where is that art journal anyways?! I'm sure I will work in it again soon!

I really need to find a scrapbooking store so I can find all the papers I like to drool over. And an art supply store....a physical store ...I didn't find everything on my list of supplies but I did find these.......

Clear rubber stamps! GET OUT!! LMAO just had to say that hee hee!

I can't remember what I was looking at in the store when I turned around and saw these and my chin dropped to the floor and that heavely music came on just like in the movies you know the one where it sounds like angels singing in one of those glory moments lol This was one of those moments! I reached over (whilst drooling) tugging at my hubbys shirt sleeve...I was like a babbling idiot ahhhbuuuuahhhhhuhhhhh OOH BABY! ONE OF EACH PLEASE! Can you tell that I don't buy supplies very often??? LOL I have yet to take them out of the package and try em out...No time right now though..I got to get busy packing boxes cuz we are moving in one month!! YAY! I dread packing! hmmph!

Finally! A speedball! With many differet tips for writing, sketching, calligraphy!! It will take me some practice though...been alonnnnnnnnng time...Can we say highschool! lol Crap 25 years ago! Dang! Time really does fly by! LOL Should prove to be interesting! hee hee

I did get more paints but that was just way to embarrassing to show LOL

A few more rubber stamps and stencils and some gel medium! Haven't tried this brand of gel medium before so not so sure if I will like it or not...we'll see.

And then I seen this and just had to have one...

I thought...well stickers would be fun! Would save on gel medium! lol I mean it is acid free! Am I wrong here?! lol If anything the kids will have lots of stickers LOL Or make some stickers to go along in packages with art that I sell. Ok now I am offically out of room on my desk for all these things so I am off to pack what I am not using and keep out things that I always use!!!! I know..this sucks to buy all these goodies and then be tortured having them all packed away!!! I am still kicking myself in the arse for not getting a paper cutter so I am going to be cutting papers by hand lol As we my hub and I left the store he said, "Gee ..so if I were to go into a place like this and just start grabbing papers and buy them for you...you'd be tickled pink?" I said, "Oh boy howdy! You'd be so spoiled rotten if  you did" LMAO Oh! You should of seen the devilish grin on his face!!! lol I'm sure you can imagine was going through his mind! hee hee hee

Love ya all! Create something wonderful!

Nance

The New Kids on the Block....

Has it really been two weeks since my last post???!!

I've been playing! hee hee

Lots to show you today!

These are all loose pages...Art Pages!

Some colors didn't scan as well as others but to tell the truth they are so yummy in person!! This first one is "Thoughts and Dreams" Lots of handmade papers and magazine tid bits here and there, decorative papers, heart stickers from my daughter, I have used both water soluable crayons and acrylic paints on all of these! Oh! The colors you can create!

This second Art Page is titled, "Make Up Your Mind"...Again lots of handmade papers I have created, magazine tid bits, vintage peeps, and alot of journaling! Alot of shadows from my scanner! Ugh! 

Now where were we?! I was going to say something and it totally disappeared out of my mind! Can we say, "BRAIN FART"... Hate when that happens! Oooooo! That bugs the hell outta me! LOL ANYWHO!

This last one (for now) is "Think" ...Don't you just love how dr. Suess makes alot of sense?! Ok! Maybe it's just me and how I must be living another childhood and seem to forget all the adult stuff I am suppose to remember! Gah! Lord help me out here please! LOL And hearing my Dad's voice in my head, "ahh CRS again huh?!" pfffffft! Yup! hee hee Well if it is a second childhood...Could someone PLEASE explain to me why I have to pluck little hairs out of my chin!!  Now I have heard of after being with your mate for so many years you start to take on characteristics of theirs! WTF do I need a damn beard for!!! LMAO! And why do my eyebrows seem to have a mind of their own!? They look like hairy catapillars on a bad hair day! And we all thought puberty sucked! LOL Shit at least then little hairs grew where they were supposed to! Ok! Maybe that is taking it a bit far! But really! You have to laugh at life! If I thought it was serious enough..I would be calling friends bribing them to put me on "What not to Wear" LMFAO! Oh Lord! I like the way I am! Even if God decided to give me dimples on my behind instead of my face! OK OK Enough! I think I'd better scoot and get some things done around the house!

Love ya all! Blessings!

Nance

My First Tat.....

Well! I did it! I got my very first tattoo!!

A birthday pressie from my SIL!! Thank you Josh! You Rock!!

As you can see in the photo the tat is fresh...this photo was taken right after my SIL finished the tat! So it is still a bit puffy and red! There are some little spots that might need some touching up after it heals a bit! It's a bit tender, but it wasn't really all that bad at least not as bad as I had thought originally! For those of you who haven't had a tat and always wanted one, it is only the outlines that hurt a bit...not too bad...NO I didn't cry LOL I did make a few faces...when it comes to filling the tat in and shading it's a breeze!!! Now I want another one...possibly a puffy heart with a banner like ribbon going through the center of the heart with my first Grandbaby Gabriels name spelled out on the ribbon! I designed this one...my SIL added his own special touch to it ...I am also going to design the next one! :)

I hope to get more photos of this so you can see the whole view of it...see inside the chainlike links is all 6 of my childrens first initial (one initial per link) boys on one side and girls on the other going from oldest to youngest!

Both my little girls made me birthday cards and pressies from the heart(those are the best) my ten year old daughter brought me her card and pressie just as I was getting ready for my tat and she said, "Now you must wait till your done with your tattoo and then you can open them." I was okayyyyyyy what is this girl up too....well....Now I know why she wanted me to wait....I opened the card later on and the outside it read, "Happy Birthday Oatmeal Butt" OHHHH! Now I know why she wanted me to wait...so that I wouldn't chase her down give her a pinch! Orneryness she is! Honestly I don't know where she gets it from! ;O)  The lovely and obnoxious Lia aka Art Junk Girl deemed me with the nick name of Oatmeal Butt....I think you've all heard the story about that! Right?! My daugther had made oatmeal one day and had it sitting on the couch (why I dont know) and she had something I needed to look at and without knowing the bowl of extremely hot oatmeal innocently sitting on the couch...I sat down...RIGHT IN IT!! Yeeeeeeeeeeeeowwwwwwwww! LMAO Burned my bum! *laughing* So ya that is how I got that nick name! Thank you LIa! Ya bratwoman!! lol hee hee

I wanted to Thank all of you for your lovely comments and birthday wishes! Each and everyone of them made my day! Every present I received was from the heart! SO COOL! So yes! It was a fabulous birthday!! I think my family will be doing more of gifts from the heart for our next Christmas instead of store bought items! We have discussed *spell check* this and we all like the idea! There are so many talents in this house and the imagination is limitless!

With that I am off to do who knows what...probably some art! :D

Much Love and Hugs!

Nance

A Gift For YOU!!!

43 years ago I was born into this world...5 months after my birth I was adopted by two wonderful people, who took me under their wings along with 3 siblings, 1 sister and 2 brothers who were also adopted from different families! I can say this...I have the best parents a girl could ask for and wonderfully talented siblings! I also have the most lovely friends spread out across this gigantic world!! I love you all so very much!!

As a birthday present given to my by my dear friend Suze this beautiful gift of love the Spread The Love Award!!! Love is the most precious gift you can give to another! Thank you dear friend! xoxo

So to you Suze, lovely friends and to all the beautiful visitors I pass this award on to you! So spread the love to all you hold dear!

I believe this to be the best birthday ever! The love of family and great friends is the best present I could ask for!!

Thank you all for always leaving such lovely sweet comments here!

Love and Hugs and Many Blessings!!

Nance

Every Little Thing....

Two Art Pages I did this weekend...

This first one is "Every Little Thing" and now I got that song stuck in my head..you know the one! It really doesn't  have anything to do with this page but you know how things go! lol

If you were able to read this first page you would of found out that I am going to do something bold for my birthday! A tattoo (which now I can see I spelled it wrong on my art page hee hee) I am scared as hell LOL I am getting an arm band not a complete band all the way around my arm (hard to explain but I will get a photo of it when it is done) it is like a chain with all my childrens initial inside of each link. You'll see!

And this is the other Art Page I finished this weekend! "Nothing Less" I have yet to list "Every Little Thing" on Etsy ...Will do that later today!!! However you will find "Nothing Less" up for dibs in my shop!!!

Have a BEAUTIFUL day! Create something wonderful and share it with the world!!

Much Love and Hugs!

Nance

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Hanging In There....

Hello again! Playing again on loose art pages!

No matter what I create I always come back to these loose leaf art pages...they are always so much fun to create!

One week from today my DH will be home once again! I am hanging in there but it is still tough...I don't know if it gets easier...maybe just getting comfortable with it takes time I don't know...I just know I miss my baby! Love you hunny!

"The Good Stuff" Original Mixed Media Collage       8-1/2" x 11" on heavy cardstock available now here!

Much love and hugs!

Nance