It's been 10 days??

What the heck?? Has it really been 10 days since I posted! Wow!! Ok, my neglect only goes so far!! Things have been hectic...the usual. Things are looking up though! Jerry has been working regularly and that in itself is a blessing! We are still struggling, but things are getting better. Michelle is here and it's been so great having her around. We have been battling the Home Owners Association from Hell in our little community. Sheesh. It's always something & everyone is CONSTANTLY getting some kind of notice. Our underpinning (which is FINE), we have lattice on our porch (LOTS of people do), you don't have the right mini blinds (?? huh...that's the very first thing I hung up, BUT I hung the pleated kind, they want VINYL slated ones), take of the trailer hitch (done, but it is a MOBILE home right). The list could go on forever. My point is I have a 46 year old trailer...the very oldest one out here. I am certain that I can't make it look new. If any neighbors together, it's all we talk about. It's insanity. This woman in the office she puts the ITCH in that B word. Michelle had been in her house all of 5 days and started getting notes on her door. Anyhoo...I kinda scared Michelle last night. I walked over and she was sitting outside. I sat down and said..."hey, I need to talk to you" and sat down. She looks at me and I tell her that we are moving. She just stares at me...w/ steam pouring out her ears...LOL. She finally pipes up and says WHERE?? I pointed to the double wide directly across the street from her. She said she was about to spontaneously com-bust when I told her we were moving...hehe. The lady across the street has had enough and wants out of here after 26 years. She is selling her place & we are going to do are very best to purchase hers. We have done a lot of work on little house, so, I am hoping that we can sell it. I really would like just a little more room!! It's a reasonable price, so start praying we can come up w/ the cash. School is about to start for our little people & I have to take my youngest to register/change some classes today. She's a sweetie pie! She will be a sophomore this year. UN-thinkable!! My oldest seems to be calming down. She did move in w/ her boyfriend and that was disappointing. I am relieved that she is going to finish school though. She is my VERY stubborn one and of course...I know nothing!! She will get it soon enough...life tends to do that. Anyway...that's what's going on! Oh...and they want to get married...in JULY outside in TEXAS...hmmm...I foresee a melting bride and cake...ROFL!!

Kimberly-StarScraps

MY LO!!

Yipee! I am too excited! I was chosen for LO of the Day @ Moo Two! Whoo Hoo! Yea Me!

Ok...phew. I did my happy dance! This week has been a quick one! It's just flew by! Michelle has been staying with me for a couple of days & I have truly enjoyed it! It's nice riding to work with someone. The kids are out for the Summer and are bored. Little stinkers! I wish I was bored! LOL! I am going to start packing this weekend I guess! My Mom & Dad have been packed for OVER a MONTH! I guess you could say they were excited! LOL! My cousin & I went shopping last night. He hasn't really bought anything for himself in a long while & I got to be the fashion police. He let me know (REAL QUICK) that flowered Hawaiian shirts would not be on the list! LOL! He will look great for our cruise! He dropped a small fortune for it, so he should!! Jerry has been out of town & just got in early this morning. Sooo glad he's home! Things in his job are changing and if you would think about him w/ your prayers. I don't know what God is doing there, but I totally expect great things to happen!

About the freebies...I need someone to share their creative energy with me please!! I just am NOT feeling it lately. The best thing I have come up with is NOTHING! I even went to The Great American Scrapbooking Convention last week and still...NOTHING. Not that I have really had time anyway, but still! Hopefully I can get something done soon.

Kimberly-StarScraps

Good Company...Great Weekend

We just had a great weekend! Things were a little stressful on Saturday! We had a water heater full of ants. Little buggers! They had a full nest in the thing....tunnels and all! Jerry just happened to catch it before it caught on fire. It was actually smoking too! Michelle just happened to have an EXTRA water heater that was sitting in her laundry room and it was exactly what we needed, so she was on her way with it! YEAH! Thank You Michelle! After she arrived we both worked @ our real jobs until around 5PM. Geez! Jerry & Brad installed the water heater and by 6PM we had hot water! We decided that a couple of Pool games were in order after our gruelling day and we all headed to kick back and relax! We all hadn't had that much fun in a long while! I truly LOVE playing pool, but who has time anymore?? Miss Michelle is quite a good player despite her protests. We played teams and took turns kick'n each others butts! LOL!Church was amazing this morning and we tried the Denton Campus for the first time. We really enjoyed it! I did a LO of Michelle & I! We snapped a few pics before we went out last night! She's too cute! I just love her! I am kinda in a rut designing right now...I hope that wears off soon! It's frustrating! Anyhoo...off to spend a little time with the hubby!





Kimberly-StarScraps

When will this week be over

Hi All!

I am sooo ready for this week to be over. Work has truly been awful. I have been so frustrated with work I am daydreaming of leaving. That's not good. I am shuffling between "hot" projects like a magician. And my boss wants to know when I will be done...hmmmph. I emailed him back and gave him my to do list. A long one. I LOVE where I work, I LOVE the people I work with. I am NOT loving this last month though. I actually got an email from another manager asking me to do some work....it actually made me cry, seriously...just broke down and cried. LOL! Luckily, my break from the chaos is soon! We leave in 16 days!! Whoo Hoo! Alaska here I come. If I am lucky...maybe they will keep me!! LOL. I started working on a freebie and I fell asleep at the computer....maybe I need to sleep! On another note...I feel a little stagnate creatively. Anyone have any magical tutorials out there. For PSE? Maybe something new could help!! Anyone??

Kimberly-StarScraps

How's it going out there?

Hope everyone is very well. We are doing "OH SO MUCH" better. I am 100%! Yeah me!! Jerry did have a bad allergic reaction type thing w/ some shots he had in his back, but he is much better. Thank You everyone for praying for us!

Today is my youngest daughters birthday. 15...how in the heck did she just turn 15?? I swear I just gave birth to that child. I will never forget the nurse laying her in my arms. She was so fat and cute! Chubby cheeks and thick, dark black hair that they had put into a Mohawk, topped with a small pink bow. I laughed and cried. So sweet. Kaylee is a sweet young lady and oh so much fun to be with. I cherish every moment I get with her. She is truly God's gift. Happy Birthday Kaylee!

Little house is going very well. Well...hmm...I haven't done one single thing too it lately, but we're okay! I still haven't downsized anything either...hmmph. We have piles...of stuff. They're organized somewhat. This pile is "this"...and that pile is "that"...LOL. I will get to it...eventually.

I am getting a new neighbor...Michelle from Missie's ScrakAttic is moving one Mobile Home down from me. Yippee...(insert a happy dance...here). Wow...the neighbor between us is in trouble. I see a footpath between yards in our future.

Here's my top 10 reasons why it will be sooo Cool too have Michelle as a neighbor...

1. What could be better than having your BFF live next door!
2. Ride sharing...Money in the bank!
3. Meal sharing...again...Money in the bank! AND...that means less cooking for everyone! I say we find a third neighbor and get them to cook more than us.
4. She makes coffee. I like coffee...
5. Our kids can play everyday.
6. She has an extra parking space! heehee.
7. If I want to go over to her house, it's not 2 hours away...more like 20 seconds. Maybe less...will time it for sure.
8. If we have too many margarita's on Friday's @ HER house...(hint..hint...) I can walk home.
9. If we have too many glasses of wine on Saturday's @ MY house...she can walk home.
10. Scrapping all the time!

I can't wait to have her here, it may take a little while, but it will be great!

Good Night All!

Kimberly-StarScraps

New Kit in the Store and a couple of LO's!

Hi All!

I have a new kit in the store today and it will be 30% for a short time! I think it's the best I have ever done! LOL...NOT tooting my horn here, but I liked scrapping with it!! LOL! Here's the preview.& if you want it just click it to go to the store. This selling stuff kinda freaks me out. What if NO ONE buys anything? It's scary to me. I hope I am wrong, but this worries me greatly. Did any other designers feel this way when you started(if your reading)? I also did a couple of LO's with it! Scrapping yourself is never easy and trust me when I say it took me FOREVER last night to do it!! (hehe...notice the play on the kit's name there...I'm a witty one...hehe). The other LO is my husband and daughter. He may not be her real "Dad", but their LOVE for each other is "REAL".

Things really are getting better for me and "phew" am I glad. I was practically off work (or working from home) all of April. I was either down in my back or terribly ill, but I am so much better! I am still coughing and still have a scratchy throat, but I can FUNCTION!! Thank You everyone for the prayers and encouragement. I know you prayed me through it.

The little house is going pretty well. My husband laid some laminate floors and they look great. He re-arranged the cabinets to make the Kitchen more functional. He built a new bar in the kitchen and it also serves as the pantry. We still have no counter tops, but their on their way. He made the 3rd bedroom (soooo small) into a closet for us. The house was so old there are no closets...wow! Luckily, the room is serving well as the closet and storage room, junk room, I don't know what to do with box so it goes in this room, room...etc. We really paired down our stuff when we moved and it is VERY obvious that we must do it again. God is revealing to me that I don't' need all this STUFF!! I didn't realize that I had sooooo many clothes that I didn't wear. It really doesn't matter how many clothes I have right now, during my month long illness I seemed to have lost around 30 lbs and I can't wear anything I had anyway. I can wear some of the shirts, but the pants are a joke. Now don't get me wrong...I am NOT complaining! I have needed to take off some weight for a while now. I really need to hit some thrift stores! I am pants poor!! (y'all go buy my kits...HAHA..no seriously..teehee) I really haven't gotten to do much in the little house, I have been too sick, but just wait for this weekend! I have a plan of attack! Reduce, Reduce and Reduce some more!! Wish me luck....better yet...pray! Oh YEAH!! I forgot to mention....I am going to Alaska...(you know that old song...North to Alaska...North the rush is on...it's stuck in my head) on a CRUISE! I am getting to go with my Grandparents (my Mom and Dad, but that's another post) & my Aunt and Cousin and other family I really don't know that well!! I am sooooo very excited! Where do I get one of those count down widget things!! I need one!! Sooo good to check in! I hope everything is well with everyone! AND...You guy's go visit Michelle's blog! She has some cutie pie boy's stuff and you need to get it! AND it's a FREEBIE!! Click the Pic to go to Michelle's Blog and get it!

Love you Guy's!!

Kimberly-StarScraps

All I can say is WOW...

Yep...and I would be lucky to just "CROAK" that out. I told you all last week that I came up with a nasty bug...well, the bug develops into a nastier bug and then I wake up Monday with what feels like razors in my throat. I am running fever, my throat is on fire (I can't speak) and coughing my head off. I go to the DR. and he says..."oh yeah..you have strep AND a upper respiratory infection..." GEEZ. I have gotta get a break here. This is enough. I am totally pissed off about all this! BUT...yep there is one thing ...MY BACK IS BETTER!! LOL! Something had to give and I guess that was my break! You guy's should see all the drugs the DR. gave me. It's crazy! Pills for coughing, pain pills for coughing, breathing treatments, 2 rounds of antibiotics, an inhaler, a steroid inhaler...and if I am not better tomorrow...I get to go back. Oh Joy. Anyhoo...I am going to lay back down. Any suggestions?? Maybe I should get a bubble and live in it!??

Check back in soon! I truly hope you guy's are well!

Kimberly-StarScraps

A little less Horror and a little less pain

Hi Guys!

Just thought I would give an update! The Chiropractor thing is going very well. When I went in, they took Xrays and showed me what was going on. (I have had many opinions of Chiropractors and such, but my experience has been good) She showed me that I had some issues going on with my tailbone. She explained that there are plates in your tailbone and lot's and lots of nerves and muscles that held them in place & she explained that these plates actually should move when you walk. Mine weren't moving...AT ALL. That's why when I would move it was excruciating. She put me on a Physical Therapy plan that included, some kind of "shocking the heck out of you machine", some exercises and adjustments. I was expecting to get twisted into all kinds of painful positions, but that didn't happen. She has this "clicker" (my pet name for it...lol) and she feels along my spine and neck and "clicks" my spine back into place. Imagine being thumped really really firmly. She says that it is just as effective as being manipulated and it's less traumatic. I liked that because I didn't need traumatic...I was traumatic! Sitting still gets me. I finish my 2nd week with her this Friday and will probably have to see her next week too! I actually had to go lay in a conference room for a few the other day, but just laying down for a little bit really does help. I have been reclining in my car at lunch for a little while. It's not quite the same as laying, but it does take the edge off. On Friday, Saturday & Sunday I ran fever and had the worst sore throat ever. It's landed completely in my chest. It must be going around though...My husband has it, My Michelle (well...she is mine...LOL...she always puts URMichelle when she downloads...LOL), my Director has it. We all sound like a bunch of hacking, crouping, wheezing, coughing group of sickos! I have coughed so much that I just vomit. I was talking to Debbie today and started coughing...I looked at her with panic and was like...NOW WHAT. The bathroom is at the complete other end of the building from her desk. I could have yucked in her trash, but EWWW! I trucked to the bathroom as fast as my lame old butt could get me there. I think I even half jogged. I was mortified at the thought of vomiting in the floor!! I hate to vomit, but at the same time...I feel better afterwards. Enough of my icky talk! Sunday night, I was crying to my husband...I think someone Hates me! Suprised, he was like "WHUT?" I said, you know, like they hate me & have a voodoo doll and they are trying to kill me. He just laughed...ya honey. I really think I am just being spiritually attacked. Satan is all over me with my health. Well, he didn't take away our love for Christ when we lost our house, he didn't take away my love for Christ with the problems with my daughter, he didn't take it with my childhood...so...nananabooboo Devil...God's taking care of me! You guy's just pray for me to get well AND Pray for Miss Michelle. In fact don't pray for me...just pray for Michelle. She needs Lot's of prayer, love and support! I do have some other cool news. Before we moved, I applied to be on a DT w/ a way Coool place! I was offered a spot! I am sooo pumped up for that! On second thought go ahead and add me to the prayer list...I need to get some kits created for the store and you guy's need freebies!! And I miss being here all the time! I just need an hour or two (ok...three...pray for three hours) to sit here and crank some stuff out!! I have some great ideas and can't wait to get them out! Love you all! Miss everyone!

Kimberly-StarScraps

oooh...the horror and the pain part 2

Hi Guys!

Yep...still down in the back. I am getting around though...that's a big improvement! Made a stab at work today & made it until about 2pm until I just couldn't take it anymore. Came home and had to lay down for about an hour and a half just to be able to function. This is definitely not working for me. It's driving me nuts! I hate this! I am going to the Chiropractor 8:30AM tomorrow morning though. I am actually a little scared. I hurt so much that I am afraid. I just know that I will eventually get to make a new kit soon! Hubby has a laptop & I am going to have to insist he switches w/ me so I can design anywhere...I think this is a fab idea...I could just take it everywhere I go! I really miss you guys & promise to be back soon!

Kimberly-StarScraps

Oh...the horror and the pain

Wow. Seems like forever since I have been able to get on any computer! I sure have missed you guys! What was the "horror and the pain" you ask? I have been completely bed ridden w/ my back out. Yup-blew it completely out. I am sitting and walking today and just might get to have a shower. You laugh, but it's true~no shower for 3 days. EWWW. It took me over 10 minutes just to crawl to the bathroom, that might not seem like that long, but the bathroom is literally 8 feet away. I never really understood how bad "lower back" pain could be, but I think God has humbled me. Whenver someone said their back was out, I don't think I "GOT IT", but trust me on this....I DO NOW. LOL. I am sitting upright & the pain is MUCH, MUCH LESS! I felt like I had surgery or something. Anyway, I will get back to designing very soon hopefully and really miss everyone! I hope to be back soon!

Love you guys!

Kimberly-StarScraps

Planes, Trains and Automobiles Paper Pack 2

Hi All!

Well, my day started at 6:00AM after going to bed SO very late last night & we worked and painted the little house 4EVER! Major, Major difference though! No more school bus yellow cabinets and kitchen walls. I thought we would have to replace the cabinets, but as it turns out, they just needed a decent painting. We seriously need new flooring though. Little House (my affectionate name for the new place) got a mini lift today! I picked out a tan color for the walls and a lighter tanish (is that a word??) color for the cabinets. Upon the first stroke on the walls I immediately knew that this definately wasn't dark enough. It was really just WHITE. Which also meant the cabinet color was BRIGHT WHITE! So, back to Home Depot we went and waited almost 2 hours for the guy to fumble around and try and figure something out. The sad part was, we were the only ones there! When I returned from Home Depot and got the ceilings and the walls rolled out I realized that the outsidehouse color EXACTLY matches the inside now. My mother in law proceeds to point out that the outside is also trimmed in green and that my curtains and accents in a lot of my decor is also green....hmmm. Hey, I guess we have a color scheme going. My husband laughed his head off. He says that we could have used the exterior paint in the shed and save a few bucks! I hurt everywhere...All of me is tired and hurts! And it's not over...sniff...sniff. Lord help me! I am posting right now just to unwind! Sooo...on to the FREEBIES!

Here's your 2nd Paper Pack! It's the last of the papers! Hope you enjoy!

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Good Night...pray for my strength to face tomorrow!

Kimberly-StarScraps

Planes, Trains & Automobiles Paper Pack 1

Hi Everyone!

Hope all is well with everyone! Thank You to those who left comments about what type of kit they might like to see~I took a comment from "Anonymous" (LOL...would of been nice for ANY OTHER name...but OK I'll take it!) She said that she has four boys and loves bright colors - and Masculine. Well, she didn't really say what ages, but I did make a grungy, but bright boy kit. This Paper Pack has 8 papers~There is a plaid, 3 solids, an airplane paper, diamonds, large polka dots & Stars! I just love Stars!

Many of you may wonder the WHY behind StarScraps, well....I had hippie very young parents, who decided it would be a grand idea to name me LOVE STAR! You did read that correctly...LOVE STAR. Well, by the time I was born, the LOVE turned into KIMBERLY...(thank you LORD, thank you, thank you and thank you). The Star remained though and I was teased un-mercifully, but I dropped it when I married. Star really doesn't seem that bad now, but it's also many, many MOONS (hehe...little joke right there..LOL) later and I really don't care now. So what better way than to express that now! So...now you know!! LOL! I am starting my vacation today! I would say YIPEE in any other instance, but this vacation is packing, moving and unpacking...LOL. Although, I am down in my back today, hurts all the way down my right leg. You guys pray for me, because this is really painful!

Enjoy your first Paper Pack and leave me some LUV!

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Kimberly-StarScraps

My Grunge Girlfriend Paper Pack 2

Hi Everybody...(my husband made me change "guys" to "everybody" Jerry...the critic...now he says if I were blogging about Guns then I could use "guys", but since I am talking about Scrapping it needs to be "Girls or Everybody"-Thank You Honey-I appreciate your assistance!)

Wow...another one of those days...yeah me. I truly needed to work my real job tonight, but it didn't work out that way. A realtor had some houses listed in my X's neighborhood-one of the houses he used to live in and would be 2 other homes. Well, we were interested in the other 2. Not the X's. Isn't living in your X's rent house weird? My Hubby drove up and he was like NO WAY-we can't live here. We didn't ask to even see the X's old house, she just gave me an address and upon turning down the street I realized that OH...NO...NO...NO...NO...can't be the X's...driving closer to the X's old house...getting closer...you must be joking...THE X's HOUSE. We are not looking at this house...and then she stopped...right in front of the X's house. I tell her I just don't think I can live here & OOPS...Sorry...she doesn't have anything else available at the moment...So very Sorry. Geez...now let me explain that's this is my kind of luck. My X's hand me downs...NO THANK YOU...So... We have decided that we need to be living well below our means. Well below...very "WELL". That would mean making sacrifices right? Well, I think we have decided to do just that. Make VERY, HUGE, BIG, BIG (did I say Huge or monumental yet?) sacrifices. We found a very small house (on wheels that has lights attached to the back-hey, but they are painted so it's not exactly mobile...the porch is attahced, does that count? AND the hitch has been removed!) that will save us a VERY considerable amount of money. Two years here and we save some very large bank. The good news is that we will be moving and soon, the bad news we are going to learn quickly how to live in 1300+ sq ft LESS than have been accustomed and are comfortable with...oh boy. More good news...it's paid for...we own it. I think I'm gonna need a really big porch added on to this house & move the living room right outside...hehe. Hope no one steals the T.V. Those are going to have to be some really big bolts to hold it all down! Just kidding (not really...) This will be interesting...talk about a close knit family. I'm not sure I want to be this close to my family. I think I will get myself a hotel room at least once a month to feel like I actually have some space. Hey, here's a thought...we could always build a huge deck OVER the mobile home...hmm...a two story mobile home...now that's thinking outside the trailer house. I am really going to miss my house, but I will not miss the payment that was on the new statement yesterday...$2,224.10! (That's a MONTH not quarterly...)For my 2000+ Sq ft. $140K-apparent Mansion we financed so ignorantly. These are some Hard lessons, but hey...we had a good teacher. Thank You Mortgage Lender! Theives! Robbing, lying theives.

Enough of my sarcasm...Here is your 2nd Paper Pack. It's all patterns. Striped, plaid, boxy (I can't think of anything else to call the black, pink and white one) 2 flower prints, and some swirly ones. I have one more Element Pack to give you and one more Paper Pack to give you! I am so truly blessed by all the comments on my blog today and 4shared. You all are the best! Big, Big smiles reading them all. So, Thank You, Thank You and Thank You!

Yall come back tomorrow for my show tomorrow-I usually post about 10:00PM! You never know, I just might take this show to VEGAS!

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Love you guys (hmmph...he's not in here now...I can say guys...)!

Kimberly-StarScraps

My Grunge Girlfriend Elements 1

Hi Everybody!

Wow. Today was just a whirlwind. Talk about things happening one right after another. (in my real job) Phew! And it starts again in the morning. yeah me...LOL! This is my "get away" though (DigiScrap)-I get to be creative and GIVE. Now that's really a "YEAH ME!" I am so trying to get my stuff on to 4shared, but it just isn't cooperating...I am trying now for the 4th time. Anyone have another preference? Know anything about some others? PLEASE let me know if you do!! I can pretty much count on trying to upload to 4shared at least 3X's. Arrggghhh. Got to a whopping 17% that time...geez. Ok...in the meantime, I found this awesome site tonight. I was praying for a friend and started googling some things and found this site: DELVE - I haven't seen anything I don't like yet. Very Good Reading!

The hubby is in College Station working and the kiddo's are at Dad's this week (share custody-every other week) So it's just me and Gus...my dog. He's just sitting here snoring his little life away. And I do mean SNORING. Like, waking the neighbors kind of snoring, it's almost disturbing really. We turned down a nice, very affordable house for Gus yesterday. I LOVE MY DOG and sorry, he can't sleep in the backyard. Now, don't get me wrong-some dogs need to sleep in the backyard. But, not my baby....

One of my best girlfriends had another baby today! Welcome baby Jay! 7lbs 13oz of little man! Congrats Arley, Kristin and big Sis Grace!

Ohhh. 32%...I am not getting excited over this yet. 47%...come on...you can do it...55%... getting hopeful now...78% Oh man...86%...holding my breath...screen saver just came on...oh geez...PHEW... 89%...Gus is currently looking out the window from upstairs...snorting...no cute girly dogs in sight...poor Gus...92%...Puuulllleeeezzzee...aren't you experiencing an exciting night at my house...aren't you glad your reading this...my sarcasm knows no bounds...95%...Please Lord I am praying over the Laptop now...I am about to pass out..99%...OOOHHH...THANK YOU LORD 100%.

Ok...here's your Element Pack! There are over 20+ Elements in this first pack-This was soo much fun to create! I hope you enjoy! Leave me a comment! I luv them! You know, that's the thing too...I never really left comments, I didn't really see the point, but now, I really do. It gives me motivation & it's knowing that someone out there appreciates your gifts you give out..for free. I really do read them all and you can't really "respond" on 4shared.

Enough of my ramblings, but did you notice...I actually posted something to "Read". I hope your entertained anyway!

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Kimberly-StarScraps