Tonight, hubby had the last bite of dressing from Thanksgiving. It was a sad moment for him as he says this year’s dressing was the best he ever had. As he was just diagnosed with full blown diabetes he is going to have to really watch his diet from now on. But, he just had to do the last of the dressing. He worked it out so he could get it into his food until it was gone - -it was all he would have for one of his meals each day.

Moving ON

I just have to share with you all one of the sweet moments we had when the grandson was here - His Papaw thought it was time he learned what a sling shot was.Can you tell how excited he was to get to hold the sacred slingshot? I can see it now, down the road a few years, the two of them getting into trouble together.

Yep, the weather is yucky, rainy and we are just hunkering down and staying indoors. Though, I generally stay indoors anyway, it is hard on hubby. He is stuck watching TV. With over 200 channels he cannot find something to watch. I’m sure you all have heard that before though. He finally settled on watching Planet Earth tonight but it is just too tame and slow for me. I get antsy just sitting there watching it.

The Holiday Countdown at NDISB is still going on. Today is day 7 and there is a cute mini kit for free on their site. Click on the animated, countdown banner above and it will take you to their site.

Because I was bored and did not have anything else to do - ya right - I made you all some card stock to use for Christmas layouts. It is amazing how many designers just don’t get it that cardstock needs to have some texture in it. It does not take much, but a plain color fill just is not designing.It is hard to tell with the preview, but there is a nice texture on each of these. Each one has a different texture as well. You could if you want, recolor them as well. They are Commercial Use OK.  These also should go with many of the Christmas kits you have and might purchase.There are four papers and three bows.

You know how we sometimes have bad hair days? Well, I believe there are days when we have bad tech days. Only, it has been bad tech week for me around here.

It started the first of the week when my big momma, the 8G memory machine went down - - Black screen would not turn on –the works. This lady is only five months old, so it should have be giving me problems. But, there it was, would not turn on. I popped the case and discovered that when you pushed the on button, the fan would give it whirl and then die. Then, one had to disconnect the power source and wait a few minutes before it would try again.

But, Dell came through for me and sent a tech type dude out. The poor man arrived after dark in the rain. Our dirt road is two miles of twisting, little bridges and mud when it rains and really is scary in the dark. There are no street lights out here in the country, the cows gotta have their beauty sleep you know. Anyway, he came and installed a new mother board and power module and everything was fine. It also was done in less than two days after I called them. And, of course I had my laptop to help out.

Then, later in the week, on Friday, the DSL went out. Would you believe they sent out a line man THAT very day and he came EARLY? I was impressed. He and hubby looked at the outside box, at the inside box and then it was decided we needed filters on every single phone jack in the house. We already had two, and he had another in the truck and voila! DSL connection again.

Of course, hubby on the laptop had a minor issue last night. He could not get the internet. I worked on the linksys, powering them down, resetting and the like and then, discovered he had inadvertently turned off the wireless on the laptop. It is very easy to do, and thus I generally check it first. But, not this time.

What a week.

Of course, we are also trying to get NDISB back up. Theresa has a home page and the store is slowing coming back together. More TECH WOES!

Don’t forget to drop by and pick up your daily download over at NDISB today. It was released around 10:00 this morning.

Its getting that time again when the weather around here gets chilly and downright cold now and then. The cats start sleeping with me more and start finding warmer and higher spots to sleep during the day. Hubby and I begin to be sure to put on socks to keep our feet warm and the thermostat goes up on the heater. These manufactured homes (read that as mobile, or trailer homes) sure are hard to keep warm at times.

Anyway, Clio found the perfect spot today when hubby got up to work in the kitchen. He had been browsing the web and had left the laptop open by his chair. When I came into the kitchen to see what he was doing as it is not normal for him to do kitchen duties I looked over and saw her. And that my friends, is how the cat bumwarmer was discovered.

Doesn’t she look as if she is just daring me to try and move her?

Moving On

Natural Designs In Scrap Booking (NDISB) is sort of up and running again. Unfortunately the store isn’t back up but the unfinished Home Page is and we are having a Countdown to Christmas. This was suppose to start yesterday but unfortunately again the fates were against us but Theresa has the Countdown Calendar up along with the first download Free Holiday Kit for you. This is going to be an awesome kit by the time you get everything downloaded. So don’t miss out on any of it. Click on the ad below to go the homepage where you can download the pieces. You can get pasts portions by scrolling down towards the bottom and going to the previous days’s posts.

Moving On

OK - the subject line says a freebie, so here it is. I made some stuff to kick off the Christmas Season and to help get us in the spirit of it all. It includes three papers, two fairies and a gnome all in the colors of the season.