Main Entry: ap·pre·ci·a·tion
Pronunciation: \ə-ˌprē-shē-ˈā-shən, -ˌpri- also -ˌprē-sē-\
Function: noun
Date: 1604
1 a : judgment, evaluation; especially : a favorable critical estimate b : sensitive awareness; especially : recognition of aesthetic values c : an expression of admiration, approval, or gratitude2 : increase in value
I'm going out on a limb here by assuming most of my readers are females. How many times a day do you feel like you are not appreciated...at home, at work, by your spouse, by your boss, by your kids, by your neighbors, by your friends and on and on? Before going any further let me tell you, "I appreciate you!!"
If Glenda the good witch would have put on an evil pair of shoes before she left for work in the morning, would she have flying monkeys too?? because I could really use some flying monkeys right now to go after a few folks and slap them around a little (lot).
I was crafty yesterday.
The scrapbooking tote bag is finished. I saw someone with a bag made with Tri Kappa Cross Key magazines and thought it would be a great project to try. It was more complicated than I thought...but it's done! Don't look too closely at the seams....yikes!
AND! I finished up the hard cover book album. The hook on the side is a D-ring hanger. Bill knew exactly what I was looking for....as I expected. The instructions for completing this album were in the Scrapbooks Etc magazine this month. It seemed like a cool project and it was relatively simple.
Had dinner at Gino's East of Chicago tonight. The deep dish pizza is oh-so yummy. Definitely 4.0 stars...definitely.whoop...gotta go...more mindless TV...Real Chance of Love 2!
Malissa and I took a road trip in August to the Scrapbook Expo in St. Charles, IL. We had lots of fun, had a chance to hang out with Dawn and bought a couple things.
If you know only two things about me, one is probably that I HATE fake purses and being asked if my purses are real....or being asked if my anything is real. For the record, missy, YES! my boobs are real. How is it that every festival, car show, fair, etc has these!!?? This was one of 4 tents selling fake purses at Auburn this year.
We didn't make it to Kansas this summer for Ashley and Allison's birthday party but we got to see them over Labor Day weekend. The gang flew into town for the ND football game and on Sunday we went down to the Blueberry Festival. The girls had a great time eating, riding rides and playing on the playground. It was a little tough for us to look at anything but thankfully most of the booths have the same stuff year after year. I think this is one of the girls favorite poses. 
I've been able to keep up with the monthly AA kits. I intended to post my project every month...yay right! Here is my project for the August kit. Look! It's that pose again. These girls are so adorable it's fun to work with their pictures. 
When I walked by the dining room window this morning, I noticed these giant red blooms in my yard. Years ago, my mom and dad brought a start of what we knew as a "Star Bush" from my grandmother's home in Alabama. The plant grew bigger every year and was always covered with these big, beautiful red flowers. When Bill and I bought our first house, I took a start from my mother. When we moved into our current house, I moved my plant. We moved it again when we put in our new back patio. For the last couple summers, I've been worried I killed the plant so imagine how excited I was on the last day of summer....to see these flowers.
