Sexy Rexy

This is Rex. Rex didn't start out as a part of the family. Rex adopted us as his family. Rex is an ugly hound dog that lived at the neighbors.






But Rex was lonely. Rex saw that we had a lot of dogs at our house to play with. Rex would come over to play. Sometimes he would go home; sometimes he wouldn't. Sometimes Rex's other family would pick him up; sometimes we would take him home. One day Rex decided to stay and hasn't ventured home for too long. Rex has decided he is home now. Rex is a character. Rex always has to chew on your hand. Not too hard, mostly gentle. And his slobber gets all over you--and it isn't cute especially after he has been eating and he has wet crumbs on the sides of his mouth. If Rex can't chew on your hand, he goes for the next best things--your shirt or your pants. Or he just lays at your feet so you can't move. Rex has charm. Charm is what makes Rexy Sexy!

Crop for a Cure

I am getting ready this week to attend a Crop for a Cure on Saturday at my LSS, Scrapbook Country, College Station, Texas. It is an all day long crop where the fee is going to be donated to the American Cancer Society. I always get a little excited to attend a crop. Anxiety hits when I start packing my kits but excitement is always in the air. I think I am going to take kits for some of these projects:

* Creative Escape album
* Advent Calendar (cookie sheet)
* Birthday Calnendar (my take of Carol's CE project)
* CJ
* Halloween mini album (in progress)
* Cigar Box/trinket box

These are the projects for sure that I will be taking to work on. Course it is a long croppin' day so I need to get my rear in gear and kit up some more projects.

RAK Winners

Okay I have finally decided on the winners of my RAKs...

Carrie
Kristin
Kathy
Leslie
Lyn
Jeanne {Furoaks}

No particular reason for choosing these winners--except to say I liked what they said. All the players had a great reason for their favorite holiday.

Watch for more RAKs to come in the future. Now I challenge each RAK winner to Pay It Foward and pass on a good dead to another deserving friend...

New Obsession

This man is my new obsession. I have been watching the movie "Domino" on HBO. I am so in love with this actor. His name is Edgar Ramirez and he plays Choco, a bounty hunter, in the movie. I cannot get enough of this man!!! Love love love me some Edgar!!!

The Babes

This is a checkbook cover I made of my beautiful dog, Baby. Don't be fooled--Baby is a Yorkshire Terrier. She just likes to mix it up sometimes and got a Scottie cut for this picture. Baby is just that my baby. She is the love of my life. Baby turned 9 years in September. Just this year she has gone blind. For awhile she was depressed and then she became her old self again. Baby is known by many names... The Babes, Babalicious, Shrimpapotamus, Suge, Suges, Babykins, Shrimpanoodle, Tiny Heinie. To Nikki she is the greasiest ghetto dog that is AKC registered. To me she is precious!

I wanna RAK your world!!!

I am in another mood to RAK some friends from Creative Escape 2006. Yes I know I just RAKed 5 people last week. So what!?!?! Maybe those same five friends want anothe RAK.

To qualify for these RAKs, post a response to the following question:

What is your favorite holiday and why? (Just a brief little explanation needed).

I will select a few (not saying exactly how many--but it is more than one) winners from the comments and send some RAKs. DEADLINE: You must submit a comment by Friday, October 13, 2006 to be considered for a RAK. Who said Friday the 13th was an unlucky day?

I LUV BLOGS

I am a lurker for the most part in most of the message boards I belong to. I don't pipe up and respond to too many posts. Mainly I read the messages. Oh I get a lot of information from MBs... New trends, bad products, good/bad websites, different uses for supplies, upcoming events, etc. Some of MBs go way beyond discussion about fun and friendly things that get off the track of papercrafting and comraderie--that is a lot of reason why I don't participate in MBs.

But I really love Blogs. Blogs are a great way for me to lurk. I don't have to know you but I can always learn from you. Blogs give me a glimpse of great papercrafting artists out there. And when I get bored because those bloggers that I stalk haven't updated their blogs (okay no finger pointing here) but I can always look at a new blog by clicking on a link from someone's blog. Yes, my name is Kim and I am a Bloggger Stalker.

Just this morning, I was stalking a blogger and clicked on a link that gave me a great idea for some Christmas presents. Again, another reason why I love blogs.

RAKs

I can't sleep at 2:00 a.m on Monday (and yes I have to be to work at 9:00 a.m.) Anyways, I thought I would post the recipients of my Creative Escape 2006 Raks (just in case these girls happen to read my blog--highly doubtful so their RAKs will still be a surprise):

Christall Murphy
Lara Cousins
Stephanie Miller
Chiara Osborne
Kristin Bruno

I dug through my supplies and found some great stuff to RAKs these wonderful ladies with. Enjoy!

Scrappin' Fun

I went to my LSS, Scrapbook Country, College Station, Texas, for a VIP crop. I finished my Heidi Swapp clock project from Creative Escape 2006. I know the picture isn't the greatest but I couldn't figure out how to turn off the flash since my battery was basically dead. As soon as I can recharge my camera battery I will try to figure out how to turn off the flash and take a better picture. But I believe you get the idea...





I also thought I would upload this lovely picture of Heidi Swapp and myself. I am the gorgeous girl on the left.

On my way to the crop, I was thinking to myself why aren't attending my crops lately. I get to meet new people as well as get stuff done (okay it is more of a theory that I actually get stuff done but I do work on stuff...)

I signed up for a class at my LSS but have put off on the crops until I see the November schedule since I can't make any of the October dates. Nikki and I are attending a weekend retreat in Buffalo, Texas, in November. So I do have that to look forward to...