New creations....AND a fun little contest!

***FIRST quickly***

courtney is feeling much better and well on the road to recovery after her 8 day ordeal

of Strep throat and H1N1.

Doctor at Childrens Hospital Emerg on friday put her on Tamaflu, a highly effective

prescription for bacterial influenza infections...and also off the amoxocillin and onto something stronger for her major case of strep. she was night and day within 24 hours...

just finished 5th day of it tonight and a couple more days yet for strep meds.

she has also FINALLY been referred to a ENT specialist about a possible tonsillectomy...

this will be a good thing, as like her mother was, she is prone to strep / tonsillitis 4-6 times /year!

...and i can't help but feel annoyed with certain people that the same concern and

efforts weren't made for courtney as other people lately diagnosed with the same.

but that's the way it always goes.

i am used to it by now.

anyway, enough about that...

i wanted to share some of my newest creations i've made over this weekend!

a few of them were the layouts i used to teach at my

Monday Night Sketches class last night,

so if your interest is peeked, you should come out to a sketches class soon!

( wink)

:O)

AND........

i have also been busy today with reorganzing the kids' scrapbook albums.

( always having to resort as I add more, dangit, I like things in order )

ANYWAY....

after pulling out and adding the stack of piling up layouts to the new pile to be sorted,

i decided to have a fun little contest...

( i got this idea a loooong time ago off someone else's blog too, good idea, huh? )

LEAVE ME A COMMENT

WITH YOUR GUESS

OF HOW MANY LAYOUTS

ARE IN THIS PILE...
and you might win something fun and scrappy!!

( only one guess per person...and don't even TRY to count them by the photo tara leclaire! )

Deadline for guesses is midnite friday nov. 13... ( Wpg. time )

tell your friends!!!

GOOD LUCK!

this is how 38 looks on me...

every year around my birthday i try to remember to take a portrait or two of myself to document my year for my scrapbook album...

here's this years photo electives...

:O)

which one do you like better??

hope you're having a happy, smiley day!!!

fun project!

( before i start...can i just tell you how much i LOOOOVE this song playing??

the louder the better!!!! )

so my november newsletter is a little late coming out

( I blame it on halloween and it's busy-ness!! )

but this friday night is the Kick Off start for classes this month!

now that Halloween is over, and you took a ton of photos, come over and make this

cute felt mini album...perfect for showing off you cute little monsters!!

OR...bring your photos from halloweens past!

-album size is 5 x 61/2.

-12 pages to add your photos and embellishments to...

-6pm - midnite

Friday November 6!!!

class fee $15 - includes all basic supplies to create project, a few extras including some patterened papers and embellies...and as always, a half time snack, coffee and tea!

= a fun night out with the girls and scrapping your haunted memories!

for more info regarding classes and crops, email Kim at thegriffs@mts.net

i'd be happy to add you to my monthly newsletter!!

...other news...

my poor little girl is sick, sick, sick.

yesterday ( sunday ) was most unpleasant.

took her to the doc today and she's got strep throat, AGAIN.

she just had it in september too.

because she has developed a "liking" to strep throat and catches it about 4 or 5 times a year, her doctor has referred her to a ENT specialist to consider a tonsillectomy!

FINALLY! she is just like me when i was younger, and getting my tonsils out changed everything..hopefully this will get settled and done within the year!!!

Feel better Punky!!!

Luv luv...

:O)

Happy Halloween!!!!

warning : LOTS of pictures!!!!

Howdy ya'll...

i must forewarn you that i have a weeks worth of catching up to do, so i am going to go with the flow and give you the photo update...

FRIDAY night, i hosted a Halloween Crop Party for my scrapbooking peeps and

i think it's safe to say that it was a blast!

i had a ton of fun putting a theme crop on and i hope that those of you who attended

enjoyed a fun Hallow'd crop!

...the crop also gave my fellow Slice Girls and I a chance to have a quick little "birthday celebration" too....thank you all again for my thoughtful and lovely PINK gifts!! i love it all..you gals know me so well...THANK YOU!!!!!

~ giggle ~

..ahem...i will let the following costume photos speak for themselves...

hahahaha!!!


....and THANK YOU again to Miss Tara for making us some yummy spooky cupcakes!
YUMMY!!!!
You Rock.

...i threw out a little optional contest for the scrapbookers to challenge their creativity and scrapbook one of THESE!!!!

...and here's the fun results!!

..the "Cock-A-Doodle BOO" punkin' won... ( michelle nyhof )

loved 'em all, it was very hard to pick only one...thanks for sharing all the awesome creations!!!

...and then it looks like next event i uploaded photos of was tonight...

HALLOWEEN!!!!!

i made us all a quick little pizza bagel supper and some halloween punch to have before the 'trick-or-treatin' festivities began!

NOTE my cool pumpkin carvings on the table...3.5 hours of devoted labour i tell you...

heeheehee!

...then we were onto finishing putting out the decorations that we didn't want to get stolen if we put them out too soon! hahaha....I am serious though!

( the sidewalk is lined with my leftover mini pumkins from last nights hall crop! )

...and then our little creatures of the night got ready for their long awaited fun...

( where did courtney go??? )

...and Batmans trusted and loyal sidekick... ( just like my little man )

ROBIN!!!!

"ready for action"

...the mini malinowski's came over around 6pm and the dad's were off with them on their

trick-or-treatin' adventures...

...and then reaping the rewards after with two very happy and excited kids...

OK.

now the catch up part..still lots of photos comin'!

meet BELLA.

this is one of the three dogs that our next door neighbors own and tend to neglect.

yes. there we have issues with the lack of care given to these dogs, which i won't get into or else i'll be here typing for hours...anyway, courtney has taken such a loving empathy to this little sweetheart. she is always at our fence the moment we come out of our house or pull up in the back. she CRAVES attention and we give her ( well, all three of them of course ) as much attention as possible through the fence.

i think that if she could, she would squeeze herself right through the fence to come and be courtney's puppy!!!

( courtney took this photo of her...amongst a few others!! )

last friday night we went out with Linda and Dave, all the kids and some of their friends to go

GLO BOWLING ( i love bowling...and i love kicking daves BUTT even more! )

hahhaha Malinowski...anytime, anywhere...

:O)

anyway...we had a very 'grown up' night out with our families and then to their house later for

some more self inflicted fun....

linda's adorable new onesies p.j's!!!

SOCK MONKEY??? could this BE any cuter?

...heehee, just having fun!

i am a TRUE supporter of catching those magical moments in your life through my photography...

NEVER pass out around who you thought was friends...it's one big 'free for all'

has the hair on your legs grown back yet dave??

hahahahha!!!!!

( and yes, that is sausage stacked on his head...he was also decorated with onion peels, and peanuts in the ears....)

nite nite, princess!

( we also stuffed his belly button with sausage, which was later found by their dog! )

....and then the following night, last saturday, mike, courtney and i went with the Pinters to

the Haunted House in Dugald...

unfortunately, this is as far as my camera was allowed at the venue...

BOO on that.

:O(

THAT was a fun little visit to Screamsville, compliments of Courtney and Taylor!!

hahaha....too funny!

...WHEW...

and i think that about covers this past week!

WELCOME NOVEMBER!!!

...19 more sleeps...

Mmmmmm, Edward!

:O)

monday night sketches and grandma's geese!

these are the sketches we did at my

Monday Night Sketches class this week!

-using paints and a bit of stamping..creating art!

if you would like more ino on the sketches classes, please email me at

thegriffs@mts.net

and i'd be happy to fill ya in!!

...i took my grandma on tuesday for her eye doctor's appointment, and afterwards when i brought her back home, i came in for a visit and her 3 geese were waiting for a visit too!

they've been coming back a few times a day to their patio for feedings.

like clockwork, always the same time of day!

it is soooo sweet how she gets them each their own little bowl of cracked corn ( from the Wild Bird Seed store ) and makes them share a water bowl. Amazingly, they don't go after each others food either. as she's putting each little bowl down she talks away to them about their day! they each just wait their turn until she puts their bowl down to eat...like little kids!

sooooo sweet!!!!

they come right to their patio and sqwak away until she brings them some food...she has them so tame now that i bet if they opened their patio gate, the darn geese would just waddle right into their apartment and make themselves at home!

...just the sweetest thing...

:O)