I think Typepad hates me...

...I have seriously been trying to update this poor 'lil blog of mine.  But every time I try to do so, something happenes. Either pix won't load (and what good is a post w/o pix?) or I finish up a VERY long post with lots of pix and LO's and then I go to post and ....NOTHING.  GONE.  ZIP. ZADA. ZILCH.  Oh the joys...

So.  I'll try again.  However, I probably won't take the time to catch you up on the last month.  Suffice it to say we have been REALLY busy.  I don't think I have ever been this busy...no time to check email even.  Now that's crazy! Don't get me worng, it has all been good, but I am really looking forward to the time when all my days are the same and predictable. Like when the kids actually go to bed at their bedtime.  Like when I can remember what day it is.  Like when I have time to be a part of the wonderful scrapping community that I love so much.  Our shipment from Malaysia arrives tomorrow so it will probably be another week before life settles a bit, but now that we are at least sleeping in the same place every day I am hoping to get a little structure back into my life.

So, we arrived at our new place on Sunday.  It's a little crazy moving into a house that you have never even seen a picture of!  We've done it before but with three kids it is a bit more challenging.  FOr instance, we bought a beautiful dining room table and had it shipped from Malaysia.  However, there really isn't a place for it in our house.  Eek!  Oh well, those kinds of things have made us try to think in creative ways and I THINK we have come up with a way to organize the house AND get the dining room table and buffet in.

Obviously, there are lots of little things that need to get done.  I'll just have to be patient.  The one VERY SERIOUS problem is the internet access here.  We have it, which is great, but there are some seriously wonky filters that the school runs and I can't access yahoo groups AND I can't download anything!!!  I can't DL kits from my designers and I can't DL all  my yummy goodies from Scrapartist's 40% off sale.  So, either they will have to do something fast or I will have to get my own internet connection.  Yikes.

Okay, well, DH just walked in here and asked about the last post of mine that got deleted. I told him I couldn't recover it and I went to show him the blog and THERE IT WAS!  So one of them did post.  I just don't get it!

Okay, anyway, back to the internet issues.  I feel like a lifeline has been cut off!  I can't catch up on a few of my teams b/c I deleted all the emails in my box thinking I could just go to yahoo groups to read them.  But I can't get in so I am soooo lost!  And what?  No downloading kits??  What is a girl to do???

Oh, for the WONDERFUL NEWS I had to share...

Remember that contest I told you about at the end of June...the Scrappy Awards put on by Photoshop Elements Techniques magazine?  Well...while quickly looking through emails to see if there was anything important I noticed a SPAM email in my regular box ( I get very little spam but what I do get always goes to the spam folder.)  So, I opened it and got an email saying I won BEST OF SHOW!  So, out of 768 layouts I WON!  And...it is one of my favorite LO's!!  Here's what I won...  (over $2600 worth!!!)

Your prize package includes:

Nikon CoolPix 7900 - Digital camera
Adobe Photoshop CS2 – Professional Version software
Photo/Graphic Edges 6.0 and DreamSuite Series 2 - Digital imaging and visual enhancement software
Spyder2 Suite - Monitor and printer calibration software
Wacom Intuous3 – Pen Tablet
iStockphoto logo bag, hat and T-shirt, plus 25 free iStockphoto credits.
PhotoSpin prize package
2-year subscription to Photoshop Elements Techniques newsletter
Autographed copy of Photoshop Elements 4 for Digital Photographers by Scott Kelby
“Photoshop Elements for Digital Scrapbooking” DVD with Matt Kloskowski
“The Scrapper’s Guide to Adope Photoshop Elements Training CDs, Volumes 1 & 2” by Lynette Kent
Photoshop Element Plug-Ins: Shapes Pack 9, 10, 11, Styles Collection 2
Photoshop Elements Logo Duffle Bag, T-shirt and Hat

Yipee for me!  So, I should have my 'lil Levi in a magazine in September (Photoshop Elements Techniques) and Alaina is due to arrive in Memory Makers Idea Gallery 7 in October.  Poor little Caleb =(

Okay, that's it for me today.  Gotta finish unpacking our airline stuff before the shipment arrives tomorrow.  But first, here are some LO's using Meredith Fenwicks PERSONALITY COLLECTION.  *Disclaimer* I am still working on my monitor calibration on my laptop and I don't think I have it right so I think these pix are a little dark.  I'll have to fix them before printing.

Mer's collection is just AMAZING.  Everything just came together so well!  I still have to post all these in galleries (I'm backed up on LO's from not having internet access). 

Have a GREAT day!

Comments

[Daly]

You sound like uyou are living a wild and crazy (and fun) life!
Congrats on winning and I hope your computer woes are remedied soon!