~Our Circle of Learning Craft Project"

I am in charge of every weeks craft project and this one week we decorated our belsom's. I have had my two for such a long time and every time I looked at them I thought they were so plane looking and when I found out our newest member did not even have one I decided we would work on them. As you can see my TEENAGER is being himself!!! Ugg it never stops. Hope you like watching.

~Interview with My Family~

I know I have not been here for awhile, but I am hoping to be here more often to tell you what is going on with me now that I am out on my own again and have time to do this. I thought I would share this with all of you here. The first video is ME.. yes ME I said. My sister was nice enough to take this during one of our days at the flea market.



The next video is of my son. He is walking the same path as me and we are learning so much together.

Video of Booth

Took this from my sister's site.



I made the soy candles, the candle holders, the book of shadows, the book mark's, the spider catchers, slats and the incense cones.

Wounded one is home now..

Well my BF got his shoulder done this morning and now the nerve block has worn off. He is mean when he is in pain. Everything went ok and hopefully the pain will not last to long this time. Poor man has been in pain for over 2 years now. We are hoping this will help him.

Got a letter from his SSI lawyer and can you believe the lawyer wants us to pay for a detailed doctors report. A report stating how the doctor feels about his pain and if he can work. Well the issue is how much it will cost!1 One doctor wants $300.00 and the other wants $600.00... and he has three more doctors. I ask you this.. How can someone who only gets $300.00 from the state afford these reports. He tried to ex plane this to the lawyer but he said it would help his case out. I say time for a new lawyer!!

New Tag for my GT Tag group..

I just finished making a tag for one of my tag groups. I just loved the picture and this is what I have done with it. I have decided to only offer certain tags threw certain groups. If you like this tag you can join this yahoo group.

GT TAG GROUP

Playing with some graphics..

Trying to catch up on my emails from my yahoo groups. Snagging some awesome tubes to make tags with. Almost finished with the requests from my FOTKI page.. Man I did not realize so many people liked my tags!! I also stared to follow some blogs here for scrap kits. ya more things for me to work with.. LOL

LEADS day-"PSA Play"

Yes I made it to school today with a dead car. My partner picked me up and we had a great day. The kids still had so many questions with my budget game. I answered all of then and again it made me laugh when some of them were complaining about how much work this is. One girl said..."Thank god I am not an adult yet!!"
We played and interview games were I had two students make up 4 questions to ask each other and then each team went up to the front and introduced them by the answers. It went good and the kids learned some new things about each other. It also taught them that everyone gives different amounts of info. Some were long while others were short and sweet.
We started working on the questions for the questionnaire we are going to send out. They came up with so many great ones and now we have to narrow it down to just 10. I collected there journals again today to do my home work. I have been thinking that each person will have a more detailed budget for there career and situations. That means more work for me making up 45 different budgets, but in the end I think it is worth it and they will learn something out of this.

LEADS Day--"Tent City"

Yesterday was LEADS day for me. This class we are going to do a "tent city" and this will be the back drop of the other classes PSA. Me and my partner came up with the idea on to teach the kids how easy it is to become homeless we are mixing the game of monopoly and life together. I call it my Budget game. One week we had all the kids pick a career, material status, children, car or no car, if they rent or own a home. Then I gave them each a months worth of income. I also put on the career cards if they get paid weekly or biweekly. Funny how this is only our second week and the kids are already complaining about how much money it takes!1 One girl said yesterday "Thank god I do not have to do this in real life." To that I said.. "You might not but what about your parents. We go threw this every month and you have no clue." It was nice to see all the kids have a "WOW" moment. They came up with some of there own ideas like moving in with others in the class. Selling things they have won or were given. Yesterday one of the students helped another one out by lending them some money, with a small amount of interest to be paid back next month. Another one helped out a friend by gifting them some money to pay there bills because they got hurt and are out of work.
I told them this is what happens in real life and you guys will be more prepared when you graduate then others because you will already know how to do this. They are all freshman in high school now , but it is nice to see them opening there eyes up a bit to how "real life" works.
There homework for next week was to think of things to build a shelter with for protection when your living on the streets.
I am having so much fun with this!! The kids are awesome. Well off to my class today will write about it later.

I found a pretty cool site for pagan's

Check out this site for some free programs..

Pagan Heart

My new business Logo and siggy tag for it..

As I keep looking at my sisters web site I thought it was time to redo mine. I am not selling certain things anymore and wanted a more sleeker look. So I decide to sit down and play with some graphics to come up with a new logo. Now that I know how to play with my paint shop pro program a bit more I decided to give it a go... I am trying to make it transparent but having issues.. but this is what I came up with so far... It took me awhile because it is made up of 5 different types of pictures all cut out and fixed up and then pasted all together...





And this is my siggy tag to go with it.. soooo what do you think...






Now I have to make all new buttons and then play with the HTML code to fix everything again.. Oh joy!!

The flea market today..

Was slow due to the snow but at least I got some work done. Making candle stick holders with beads around them.. It tough because inspector number 9 keeps rejecting them and makes me REDO them all over again!! What a tough women!!
After the flea market and me dropping off my sister I headed to the grocery store to pick up some coffee and other things we need. Wouldn't you know it my dam car died again!! Just shuts off no power.. I sat in the parking lot playing with the battery and all the wires and nothing... Decided to call AAA and they told me it would be a 2 hour wait.. I was like WTF!! I am not waiting that long... called sis to see if someone could pick me up and he did.. thanks so much.. it was getting cold in the car with no heat.
When I got home my love made a comment about how later he would walk to go check out the car and how it is afraid of him and will start. That SOB was kinda right... He went to the store and played with the battery wires and poof the car started.. Ugg I am never going to hear the end of this!! I guess I should go get some new cables.

Watching the snow fall...

Just sitting here watching the snow fall outside right now. I did not even know it was going to snow. It is really quite outside to. Could be because it is so early here right now.. around 5am... Been up since about 10 pm. I was putting things away from moving back in with my love and my back was hurting so I took a muscle relaxer.. umm that put me right out.. LOL I slept for like 5 hours but I was up early and am now waiting to get tired. Just made a pot of coffee and will be getting myself a cup soon. Catching up on my graphic groups and other yahoo groups...

New Tags Made..

I know I already posted theses but here it goes..
These have been done for awhile and I am still filling requests for them. If you want to request one of the tag and also check out the other ones I am offering just follow the link above. Just click the title of the post. As always I have no limit on how many names, no expiration date, if your name is too long I will try to contact you and all that I do ask is some time to fill all the requests. Right now I am up to about 200 for each tag so it does take me awhile as I do not script my tags. Thanks for looking and if you have any questions just ask.

Been Busy.. and New Info..

Boy life really can get you.. LOL.. I have been busy and have not had the time to come and post. I am now just going threw all my emails and have been putting up some new information on my craft board. Head over there and check things out.. The link is in my side bar.

The letter was sent...

I have been wanting to write a letter to certain people and it was done today. I tried to write it when I was calm but it got me going as I was writing it. I do not expect them to understand were I am coming from but I want to know what they expect from me.

Felt like creating....

It is so nice to have a computer to play with now. I have been in the mood to make some tags... This is what I came up with.. Now I just gotta figure out were to offer them first. LOL I usually end up getting over 100 requests for them.. I guess I will start with right here. If you want a tag with your name on it just leave a comment below and tell me what tag you want. PSP Addict, Lady In Red or Always Sisters.

Gotta love our New England weather..

First I gotta say OMG it is a bit cold outside today!! They are saying rain with snow mixed in... Wasn't it just in the upper 70's the other day? Yes so gotta love our weather here in good old New England!!

Yes a new computer..

Well it isn't mine but oh well something is better than nothing right. At least I get to sit here and blog for a bit. Everything is going fine so far. Had an awesome holiday with my sister and her family and oh yes a friend. Enjoyed every minute of it!! I got to see my little girl also.. ya she wanted to spend the weekend with daddy so she could go get candy but she has no school on Monday due to a teachers thing so I took her for the day. It was so nice to see her. I do miss her so much!! Sometimes I do not know how to answer her questions. She told me the other day that she isnt happy anymore like the way she used to be. That she sits at home with daddy and watches TV and is unhappy. I asked her why and she could not answer me.. well she wouldnt answer me because he did not want to get me upset. I asked her if it was because she missed me and Chris, she just shook her head yes. I told her it was ok for her to miss us and we are just a phone call away. She then said well sometimes it is late at night and I can not call you, so I told her when we go out and buy her the dream journal that she can write us letters in there and when she comes over to visit I will read them. I told her when mommy writes in her journal it makes me feel better. She eyes opened wide and was happy with that. It has been a bit over year since she has been living with her father and I do not think it turned out the way she thought. Daddy does spend more time with her, but the sounds of it she also spends more time with aunt, uncle and there children and another aunt. My ex wasn't to much of a full time parent like I was, but I think that is a mother thing, but I know he is trying her best. It has been hard sometimes to let her go after raising her for 9 years, but I keep telling myself it is her fathers turn to have her now....We went out before I brought her home and got her the dream/missing journal and she was so happy. She hates going back home because she doesn't want to leave me, but she knows she will see me again.

Another day at the flea market...

Spent another day with my sis at the flea market. I did not sell anything but that is ok I got some book marks done. I just love sitting there working on my crafts and meeting new people. I tried to do a one card reading but because of my issues at home I just could not. I am sooo blocked!! So I just focused on making things and fixing our displays. We gotta take a picture of our spot , it is looking better every week!!
I just made some bathsalts and my sis charged them and now it is time to decide on who to package them. Have to see what I can afford right now as money is really tight!! Wish I did sell at least a candle or two to make some money...but it will happen when it happens.

What is a padiddle??

Ok this goes back to a few weeks ago when me and someone was sitting in a car and they yell out..."Padiddle" I was like WTF is that!! He then said it was game they used to play back in New York when he grew up. I was like ok what the hell does it mean. He said it was when the car has one head light out. If you follow the link you will see what Wikipedia say about it. OMG I can not believe that he was telling me the truth!! I could not stop laughing when I read some of the rules.