What a long day!

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OK, so I showed up for jury duty at 8AM this morning like a good little girl. Lunch was a hot dog from a street vendor a little before noon. It was going on 2 PM before I got called to go to an actual courtroom. Then it was 4:30 before I learned that I had to stay and be on the jury. At 7PM, the judge announced that I was the alternate and sent me home while everyone else went out to deliberate. So after spending eleven hours at the court house I don't get to know if the girl was found guilty or not. That just doesn't seem fair, does it? LOL!

Oh, and since it was dark outside and the courthouse isn't in the best of neighborhoods there was a court officer that drove me to my car in the parking lot. How's that for scary?

Here's another layout I made using Shel Belle's Tropical Punch Kit. You get this as a quickpage and you should be able to pick up the second part of the elements at Shel's Blog today.



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Now, I'm going to bed. Enjoy your day!

Time flies!

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Wow! I can't believe the weekend is over already. Where does the time go? Of course, I completely wasted this day and it was so much fun. LOL!

Tomorrow morning is jury duty day. YUCK! Oh well, at least it will be over and I won't have to worry about getting summoned for another year or so.

Have you checked out the shop at Aimee Asher lately? Tammy DeYoung has put up some Valentine things that she had out last year and this one is my favorite...



Check out the template designer. Yep, that's me! Guess you know why it's my favorite. LOL!

Have you picked up the papers from Shel Belle's Tropical Punch Kit? You should be able to get the first part of the elements later today. Here's another layout I made using the kit...



It's an awesome kit and it's free. You just can't beat that!

April has a cute set called Gingerbread Lane in her store. It's really cute and I've got a quickpage for you that Ill post later this week. It's perfect for any Christmas pictures you haven't scrapped yet, but it can be used for other photos as well. Here's a quick layout I made today...



During the month of January, we teach winter at school and that's such a hard concept to teach in Miami. LOL! Basically, we only know it's winter when the traffic gets even worse because the snowbirds have returned. LOL! I used April's Winters First Snow kit on this layout. I'm trying to get better at extracting parts of photographs. How do you think I did?



Now, I'm off to get some sleep. Enjoy your day!

What a beautiful day!

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I don't know what the weather was like where you live today, but it was simply beautiful here today. I'm so glad it was a Saturday and I could actually enjoy it. I met up with a couple of my friends for lunch today. We had a nice table outside and there was a group of young guys sitting by us. One of them kept saying, "I feel a sin coming on". I guess it got stuck in my head cause it's the quote you're getting for today's wordart. LOL!

I've joined another CT. I'm working with Shel from Shel Belle Scraps. She's got an awesome blog and gives away some really great kits. The first kit I got to work with is called Tropical Punch and she will begin giving it away on her blog sometime Sunday evening. I believe you're going to get the papers first, but here is a preview of the whole kit...



Doesn't it look great? I've had so much fun putting together pages with this kit. I've even got a quickpage to give you later this week. Here's one of the layouts I've made...



Now, make sure you head over to Shel's blog to pick up today's part of the kit. If she hasn't posted it yet, just check back later.

Mail Call!

Friday's mail brought some beautiful postcards! We got cards from Sanibel Island, Chicago, England, Arizona, Oregon and Santa Barbara. They are all beautiful and we love them all. I loved being able to show them the cards from England and talk about how I am going there in April. Thank you, Miss Lori, Stephen, Christine & Faz the Cat, Diane, Miss Peach and Laili & Minanie! You brought smiles to the faces of 17 Kindergarten students and 1 Kindergarten teacher today!

Today's wordart was a request. I'm sure my mother asked herself this question on more than one occasion. LOL!

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Here's a layout I made using April the Scrapaholic new Winter's First Snow Kit



The wordart is a freebie that April gave away on her blog. You can pick it up here

Finally Friday

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Do you have big plans for the weekend? I am going to sleep, sleep and sleep. LOL!

Do you know any little girls that are having a birthday soon? Well, I do and thanks to April and her wonderful Fluttering Dragonflies Kit I can share the candy wrapper I made with you. You can download the candy wrapper under the picture.


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Enjoy your day!

I'm so tired

Going back to school after a two week vacation is so hard! I'm tired and will be heading off to bed shortly.

Have you ever been so tired that you find yourself doing silly things? That's how tired I have been today. I spent a good three minutes looking for my sunglasses earlier and I was wearing them at the time. LOL! I decided not to go out for a walk once I realized that. LOL! I was afraid that I would be so tired I wouldn't find my way back home. LOL!

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Good news and bad

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Well, the good news is that I don't have to go to jury duty tomorrow. The bad news is that I have to go on Monday. LOL! I dialed the number after 5 tonight hoping to hear that I wasn't needed, but that wasn't meant to be. Now, I almost wish I was going tomorrow just so it would be over with.

I also have more news about our 100th day. When I posted that it was on the 31st, I was going by our original calendar. I forgot all about school starting two days late this year because of hurricane season. That means our 100th day will be on February 3rd. I'm kind of glad about that because it gives me a couple of extra days to get the postcards in the mail. By the way, have I said thank you? I am still just so touched by how many people have offered to help us.

I made another layout using April's awesome Fluttering Dragonflies Kit and you get this one as a quickpage. I used more pictures from Vizcaya. These pictures show the pool area and how it goes up under the house. The pictures don't show you just how pretty it really is though.



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