Marni Designs has a new collaboration kit with Anja J Designs coming out. It's called Color Me Happy. It will be available at Brownie Scraps starting tomorrow!

We went to the Blue and Gold banquet for scouts tonight. Owen got his wolf patch and some things for his belt. I guess he will be moving on to become a bear in the fall! At that time, Declan will be eligible to sign up as a Tiger Cub, which I think he wants to do. Then I will probably have to get more involved since Scot will be continuing to work with Owen. I see a busier schedule in our future, but I won't worry about it just yet! I was looking at the Scout came down near Colorado Springs. They have dates open all summer for 3 day/2 nights, so I am thinking of trying it out. All kids 6 and up can participate in the activities, so Declan would be able to do everything, also. They have lots of stuff to do, meals are provided, and there are real bathrooms with hot showers. You don't even have to bring a tent. It is either Thurs-Sat or Sun-Tues, so I would probably take the kids on my own since Scot hardly gets any days off and I would rather he save them for a fun vacation, either the two of us or another family one.

I am really liking the two new kits I bought yesterday by LDrag Designs, and I am getting some of my photos scrapped from our trip to Humboldt last August. The circle layout was for a template challenge and if my layout is picked, I will win some free templates, which I always love! The other one was done for a speed scrap at MLAS tonight. I try to do them every Friday night if I am home.

I have to share a poem Owen brought home today. He said he copied from his poem book at school because it was about Shadow.

black fur, foster dog
swinging and fuzzy tail,
sometimes startled by Declan,
why are you not eating?
you made us happy and joyful.
startled
startled
startled

I guess it was a certain style of poem that had to have 3 repeating words from the poem at the end. Anyway, I thought it was sweet and funny.

I made this page as a template challenge at Scrappity. It gave me a chance to use a kit I had gotten as a RAK but hadn't used yet by Julie It Is.

Shadow is going for her last car ride in the morning. I will take her to the shelter vet for her final farewell. She won't even eat ground beef anymore, which used to be something she would always eat, so I think it's time. She seems comfortable, at least, but not really too alert.

I was done with the Valentine theme background, so I switched again.

I had my recorder meeting today, which was fun. It was snowing off and on, but nothing was really sticking to the roads. We are supposed to get a few more inches by the end of tomorrow.

I moved all my digital scrapping files to my external hard drive to free up some space on my laptop. I can only hope it doesn't suddenly fail, as I've heard they sometimes do, but I have the zip files for all the kits still on the laptop and backed up online, so I can get them back that way.

Speed Scrap

I participated in a speed scrap tonight and this is the page I did. I used Finish Line by Pixiemama Designs and IBD Designs.

I usually do a Friday night speed scrap, but we were at the school dance. It was a lot of fun and even Scot was getting down with his bad self. It was a disco theme, but they played a variety of music. The kids both had some friends from their grade to run around with and we all danced.

Today I took Shadow to the shelter clinic since she's had a bad week. She is very weak and not eating well. When she does manage to eat, she throws up. We found her downstairs stuck by the washer the other morning, and I'm afraid she might have fallen down the stairs since she never comes down here on her own. She has been wandering and getting stuck a lot. She is probably in complete kidney failure so she is spending the weekend with an IV at the clinic. If she is still in discomfort, they will put her to sleep on Tuesday. I am kind of hoping for that outcome because she seems so miserable and can barely get around. I don't see the point in making her suffer when she has a terminal disease as it is. Luckily the vet agrees that even though they are a no-kill shelter, they will euthanize in cases like this. She is pretty out of it, so I think it's for the best.