It's about TIME!

Yeah yeah yeah.... BAAAADDDDD blogger.....

Check it out though... found a new board... just a friendly site... sweet girls!

http://www.cookinupcreations.com/

They are having a July "Count 'em up" challenge... hopefully that will get my mojo running! Come join us :)

Sweet Memories By Wacky Scrap Designs

How GORGEOUS is this kit?!?!?!

Here are some pages.....




Check it out here:
http://www.digiscrapdesign.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=3&products_id=11&zenid=1261d1696bca8164f9b8740bd4a533c6
It's only THREE BUCKS!!!

Brand new DESIGNER!!! Wacky Scraps :)

Oh how FUN!!! I finally got to play with the first kit from Wacky Scrap Designs.... YUMMO!!! LOVE LOVE the bright colors... and this is just my first creation! Look out for more soon.. and check her out at : www.digiscrapdesign.com .... the grand opening begins today, but there's some technical issues.... so be patient, and check back in often!

ScrapCity May reveal

We got to play with the gorgeous Sierra Skies by NLP Designs! What rich colors!

Sassy Scrappers May reveal

How fun! I even got to create the kit we played with this month.... WOO HOO!

Freebie Alert!!!

Check out Martha's Scrappy blog:
http://www.awayfromthechaos.blogspot.com/

She's got a freebie there and a FUN exciting thing going on too....



We've got NSD stuff going on at Sassy Scrappers (www.sassyscrappers.darkbb.com) and at Memories from the Attic (www.memoriesfromtheattic.info) Come check us out!

Check it out!

Hey... Look what I found!!! A fun new digi site:

I know a couple of the girls (one REAL well!!) that will be designing kits for this site... and I'm so stinkin' excited!!!!

Ides of April

I realize I haven't updated in a bit.... so just a quick post.....

Work is going well... got the notification of my flights for the Arizona conference... YEAH!! So I was able to book everything for the family last night too... all that will be left is to get my return ticket changed when I get it. It'll be nice to have a weekend of downtime after a heavy duty conference. I'm so stinkin' excited... I haven't been to a conference in a long time and am SO excited to get to this one... Evidence Based Practice Immersion... what a great thing for nursing!

Emily is having difficulty this week... she's so ready for daddy to come home... I think that she's mostly having trouble with the early mornings... but she even had tears during dance last night. Poor thing. But, if daddy doesn't get home Sunday, she gets to go hang out with Grandma on Monday, so that'll be much better.

Nathan... well... he's such a trooper. He's been a real good boy and doing everything he can to behave.... bless his little heart! He just goes with the flow :)

Scrappy wise.... well.... we just got done with the Birthday Bash crop at Sassy.... I did not get nearly what I wanted to done, but still got a few things done. The sponsor for Sassy is Bring your own Memories... what a fun October Afternoon kit!!!
The MFTA kit for this month is beautiful. And I DID work on the kit this last weekend, but haven't gotten them scanned yet.... This month's prompts are all about "My Music/TV/Books"... some of my favorite things!!!
The sponsor this month for ScrapCity is Scrapbook Max.... fun CD to use... especially if you haven't really done much digi... real user friendly.... Also some sponsor stuff from Stephanie... FUN spring kit there too! I hope to get some slide shows done soon.

Blog Hop WINNERS!!!

How fun was this???? What a neat idea to do a blog hop!!!

I've randomly drawn my winners for my three challenges.... and they are...

Challenge #1: Wicked Stepmother (Cindy)
Challenge #2: Martha
Challenge #3: Karee Sue


You guys have some RAKs heading to your house.... from Memories from the Attic and me :)

Thank you to Jeri for providing some prizes for our players!!!

Last Day for Hoppin'!!!!

Get your bouncin' shoes on ladies... it's the last day to get your goods done and posted for the Blog Hop....

Don't forget to get them in the MFTA gallery and linked back in the blog comments for each challenge.....

MFTA Blog: www.mftadt.blogspot.com
MFTA Gallery: www.memoriesfromtheattic.info/coppermine

Can't wait girls!

Blog Hop Challenge #3!!!

Okie dokie girlies!!!!

Here ya go... my FINAL blog hop challenge.... only 8 days left to get your entries in....

remember... post them at the MFTA gallery (www.memoriesfromtheattic.info/coppermine) and link back here in a comment so I can put you in my draw for a RAK from Jeri and the store!!!



Make a layout of any size based on this sketch :) Have fun!!

Game #2 WINNERS!!!

YIPPEE!!!


I love sending out winners!!!


Here's the ones I received:
Harley
Martha
Carolyn
Trisha


My winners are:

First received: Harley!!!

Random Draw: TRISHA!!!

I have your addresses.... so you don't need to do a thing!!!



Keep your eye out for ONE LAST Blog hop challenge.... coming soon!!!

MFTA Blog Hop.... Game #2

Here ya go girls.....

Word scramble time!!!

SO, here ya go.... unscramble these words.....
1. sswohre
2. wrfelo
3. gpsrni
4. nair
5. enger
6. seeeg
7. rmlealub
8. puemdis (2 wds)
9. rppea
10. drngae
11. mooobfek (3 wds)
12. hssunnei
13. lahi
14. oolpbhg (2 wds)
15. ghaeelclsn

TWO winners on this one.... the FIRST ONE to send me (email: scrappyshel@centurytel.net) their answers will get a RAK... then I'll draw ONE MORE winner from the participants who get all the answers right.

THIS IS DUE TO MY EMAIL by MARCH 22nd at 5 pm CST. I'll post winners soon thereafter.

MFTA Blog HOP!!! A winner, and challenge #2

First... Congratulations to Karee Sue for taking my gallery love challenge... you are my winner!!!

And girls... you don't know what you are missing if you don't check out the gallery!!!


OK... now for challenge #2... due by the end of the Hop (March 30th)...

Your challenge is to create a card, any theme, with three flowers (any type) and PINK (any amount).

Upload to the gallery and post your link in a comment here... one random winner will receive a RAK from me... and make their way to the queen of the hop!!!

Who's ready to rock?!?!?!

Ready for some Deja' Vu???

Come on over girls and guys too.....Our Deja Vu Crop is going strong!!

I counted a whoppin' TWENTY challenges and three games are posted so far!!

Come join us in all the fun.... http://sassyscrappers.darkbb.com LOTS of RAKS up for grabs too... and one grand prize too!

I've got a photo game going on.... you can jump in any time! And Valerie has posted a real fun guessing game too... Plus... Linda E's posted a gallery scavenger hunt too!

Hope to see you there... the challenges aren't due till Monday night!

Blog HOP!!!!! Hoppin' through the gallery.... A CHALLENGE!!

Alrighty girls... our gallery is so in need of comments!!!

It needs some love AND some uploads!!! Now, the upload part, we should be seeing that bloom very soon.. but the love part... oh my....

SO... I challenge YOU to go leave 10 positive and specific comments in our gallery... for every 10 comments you leave, I'll give you one entry... on Sunday afternoon at around 5 pm CST, I'll draw one RAK winner..... easy peasy!

Just leave a comment here when you've posted your comments!!

The first giveaway!!!

So... I challenged you all to get ready... and you did!!



My "random number generator" chose #4... that is gmadew....



SO.... you are my winner!! BUT... I need you to do two things....



1. to make sure you are registered in our gallery at Memories from the Attic, you need to make at least one comment OR upload one piece of art....



and



2. email me your address at: scrappyshel@centurytel.net :)





CONGRATULATIONS!

MFTA Blog HOP!!! Michelle's Challenge #1

Yep girls... here's my very first challenge!!!

This is DUE by the end of the HOP... BUT, I'll give a RAK to one person who gets this done and posted in the MFTA gallery (and leave me a note here...) by Friday, March 13th....by 5pm cst.


Ready?


This is your FROG challenge! I want to see these things on a LAYOUT... any size, but must be a layout.....
F: Felt
R: Red
O: Circles of some sort
G: Glitz (think STICKLES, glitter, or bling)


Fun huh?? Ready, set, GO!

Are you ready to HOP???

Our Memories from the Attic blog hop begins tomorrow!!!

Are you ready to hop????

Tell ya what... Post a note here AND be sure you are registered in the MFTA gallery.... (http://memoriesfromtheattic.info/coppermine/) and I'll throw your name in the hat for a RAK!!

That's all... just sign up!!!

I'll take comments until Tuesday morning :) 3/10... get hoppin!

ScrapCity March Reveal! Inspired Mommie Designs Kit :)

Sassy Scrappers March: The Treasure Box Club SPONSOR!

What a BAD BLOGGER!!!

Oh my goodness... I can't believe it's been SO LONG since I blogged!!!

Holy moly..... guess there's not much going on huh?

Really... not a lot, but we had a TON of scrappy fun in February..... two big sketch crops.... FUN!!

Coming soon... DT reveals for Sassy Scrappers... Sponsored by The Treasure Box (YUMYUM); CT reveal for The Scrap City.... Sponsored by Inspired Mommie Designs.... and SOON to receive is the March BOM kit from Memories from the Attic!!!

NOT TO MENTION.... we are having a LEAP FROG BLOG HOP in March.... beginning on March 9th... I'm stoked... it sounds like so much fun!!!! (check out the forum at www.memoriesfromtheattic.info to join us!)

I'll be posting soon :)

Pictures of the day 1/14-1/24

Very sad...

I'm very saddened to hear of the untimely passing of one of the online scrapping community's nicest and sweetest ladies. Janice Nielson passed from the earth on Wednesday. We don't know much more, but it sounds as if it was unexpected and fast.

Check out the Scrap City Blog ( http://thescrapcity.blogspot.com ) for a wonderful tribute posted by Telah... it includes some of Janice's wonderful work too... her love for her family, scrapping, and life in general showed through always.

You'll be missed Janice.... and you'll never run out of adhesive again in Scrapper's Heaven!!!

TOOT TOOT TOOT!!!

What an amazing thing.... I just found out this morning that I was chosen to be a part of the Digi Creative Team at The Scrap City!!!!! Yep, I said DIGI!!!


WOW!!!! I'm so honored!!!!

(and to be honest, a little nervous!!)

But.... I do have my sister (who is ALSO on the team!!) on speed dial... and at least she's two hours behind me if I'm up late frustrated trying to figure out PSP!!!


Thank you Martha for giving me the push!

Photos of the day

Need to vent....

Well.. no happy joy joy post today.... I'm so distressed that I have GOT to write or I'm just gonna stew and make it worse....

Well... along about July last year, our hospital began to respond to the downturn in patient flow and did the right business thing and froze hiring and closed one unit and had several more layoffs. of course, during the first round of layoffs, I became the Unit Coordinator... mostly because my old job ceased to exist. I had filled in during the summer and they offered it to me. All well and good. I'm glad to have a job that is M-F days.... By October, the census had NOT picked up.. and especially for us, we were seeing a SIGNIFICANT downturn in census... More layoffs and continued hiring freeze, except for critical positions..... such as RN's. We stayed low during November and December.... even so low that we ended up downstaffing and floating so often..... I ran out of ETO because of time off. Then came January.

As we predicted, people finally got so sick they couldn't wait.... census has been HIGH for two weeks. We have been running 25-32 patients for the whole time. Oh... yeah.... remember, we are now staffed for 20 patients. Do the math... it adds up to me having to take patients almost all of the time, not to mention trying to keep up with comings and goings of those 25-32 patients.... several on isolation (which is a big PIA because they HAVE to have private rooms.... and yep, out of our 40 beds, only 2 are in privates.... ).... oh and did I mention that we have had FOUR patient care techs leave since January 1st.... three have become RN's and one went to school somewhere....... (and we can't hire).... AND... we have lost THREE secretaries (out of FIVE) since the beginning of the year too..... do the math on that one too.... we should have one secretary 7a-11pm and double coverage from 11a-7p AND 7a-7p on the weekends.... (and we can't hire...)

SO... we are only staffed for 20 patients.... we've LOST this many people in the last two weeks and can't replace them..... so that means we are actually STAFFED for about 16 patients.

To add fuel to this... we have this flex staff pool which is wonderful, however, if you don't post your needs, you can't get them filled..... well.... I had no way to get to it until Monday... so I have DOZENS of unfilled shifts... and just a couple filled... literally. Oh, and many of the nurses in the flex pool have gone and found other jobs because they were not getting hours.




SO, today, I lost it.

it was about 2:30... I had 5 patients all day, took a post op at 1315..... making 6. Yeah, all the other nurses had 6 too. AND we only had two techs and a nurse working as a tech.... Then SICU called with a transfer (I had called earlier in the day after I knew the docs had rounded and got "nope, no transfers today... " I knew we had three patients in SICU to come out sometime and ALL were on isolation... so I wanted to plan ahead... SO... the Clinical Sup there called me around 1415 and needed to get a transfer out right now. I had no bed, would have to move people to make a bed... but had three discharges and if they could wait a bit, then we wouldn't have to move someone. I told her I'd call her back when I found out when the patient was going home.... I had no way of knowing.... I couldn't even get all of my crap done with MY patients let alone keep up with who was going home when..... PLUS, it was time to make assignments and I got NO help in the float pool.... so I had to figure out how to have 5 nurses, 2 techs and one secretary (who was working OT on her birthday... because BTW, our day secretary had been working SICK for 10 days and ended up in the ER yesterday to have a peritonsilar abscess drained!!!) take care of like 29 patients. So I called the manager of the day... to see if I could pull the PCT who was orienting to be a US off to be on the floor.... I about lost it.... but was trying to be OK.... then Jana (the House sup..) came around and was asking when I could take the patient from SI... this was about 1435.... I had already made arrangements for the patient to be moved to make a bed... and told her that was my plan, but hadn't called SI yet because it'd only been like 15 minutes and I had a gazillion things to do between things.... so she was on the phone with SI... and they had sent the patient to NI!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Per Jana "she freaked out".... and "had" to make a bed for a heart... that Jana had just told me was still 2-3 hours from being done.

I lost it.....

I felt so out of control... and I hate that feeling.

And Steph and Barb came to help me... but they were so busy too.... they still took the time to take care of me... the bad part is that it is MY JOB to TAKE CARE OF THEM.... that is my role... I should be making sure that THEY are OK and have the tools to do their jobs.... I can't DO THAT if I'm overwhelmed.....

I don't know how much more of this I can take. It's got to let up. OR, I have to let go somehow. I don't know how. I have let go of everything that doesn't matter.... and there is still too much on my plate at work.

The managers and director have done everything they can, but it's not helping. And during all of this chaos today.... they were either in a meeting or dealing with ICU issues.... I know the units were getting hit hard.....


SO... if you got this far... please send me a positive thought for peace... and perseverence.


I'm also on call this weekend. yep. joy.

My Weekend Scrappiness!!

Photos of the last three days...

For 1/5/09... Nathan playing DS and Emily looking on...






For 1/6/09... my lunch.... something that I'm trying to do pretty much every day... this is new for me!





And for 1/7/09... a picture of me... stealing Martha's new hairdo!!! Still not sure if I like it or not!

Sassy Blog challenge....

It's about techniques.

Well... I'm not a big technique girl AT ALL... The most intricate I usually get is either tearing or sewing at times.... and that is few and far between. I'm mostly lazy. LOL.


Now... Things I would LIKE to try... is EVERYTHING on Tim Holtz's blog!!! I NEED an embossing gun... I want to try embossing.. big time.... I also want to try the embossing thing on the fragments... it is SO cool looking!!! And I need to stamp much more!

So... pretty short story.. but that's mine!

Catching up on Pic of the day

Well, the Blogger gremlins FINALLY let me upload pictures!!

From 1/2: My bathroom sink... getting ready for work

From 1/3: Laundry... every weekend!

And on 1/4: Dave's new Hummer!!! He's so excited

And besides getting the Hummer on Saturday, not much else going on. Back to usual routines.. thank goodness!! Nathan went back to school today... I worked.... tough day at work. I'll rant about that later :)

TOOT TOOT!!!!!

What an exciting day!!!! Actually two days...

I was chosen as the Member of the Month at The Scrap City!!!!!

Oh my GOSH!!! I noticed Tina's comment on my blog yesterday, but I thought she was talking about the December challenge drawing... which I also won!!! OH MY!!!!!

Then I took a look at the ScrapCity blog... they made a SLIDE SHOW of MY layouts!!! WOW!!

Thank you girls so much!!

Go check out the blog:
http://www.thescrapcity.blogspot.com/






AND.... Memories From the Attic has a BUNCH of new stuff going on!!!

We are two days into the Scrap in the New Year challenge competition between MFTA and Scrapbook Express... What fun!!! If you haven't checked it out... GET OVER THERE!!!

There are LOTS of sponsors and BIG prizes... Bo Bunny... 3 Bugs in a Rug.. Bazzill... Colorbok... Imaginisce... Quikutz... and of course the two sites!!!

LOTS of time to play.... Come play for our team at MFTA... and tell them I sent ya..... then tell YOUR friends too... and get some points too! The best part is that you don't have to keep track of the points.... Melissa will do that for us!

www.memoriesfromtheattic.info



OK... for my daily.....

I took a pic of my bathroom counter this morning... I haven't uploaded yet, but I'll update this when I get it uploaded.

Food: Did good today. Took my breakfast and lunch to work, added some salad (even did pretty good with salad choices).

Exercise: Did my yoga dvd! WOO HOO!!


Off to a great start!

Oh happy DAY!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

I spent the first day of 2009 doing what I love... scrapping!!!!

And met my goals today too....

I ate well all day. I exercised today too... treadmill for 30 mins and lifted weights for 30 mins.

And took my picture for today too.... Just a pic of the refrigerator. That's how we live :)