TAG, You're It!

I have been tagged by Sunny…thanks

A= Available~ for website design work, www.ekreations.com
B= Best Friends~ Sunny, Michelle, Jamie, Danielle
C= Cake or pie~ hmmmm... hate cake! Pie, Cherry all the way! A La Mode of course!
D= Drink of choice~ Water
E= Essential item you use everyday~ My Computer
F= Favorite color~ depends, growing up it was purple, now red or pink.
G= Gummy bears or worms~ gummy bears, especially when they are half melted, lol!
H= Hometown~ Cardston, Alberta
I= Indulgences~ Score Bar
J= January or February~ Ummmm, January... a time for renual.
K= Kids and Names~ 1 Child - Hunter David
L= Life is incomplete without? My Son
M= Marriage date~ June 28, 1996
N= Number of siblings~ 1 older sister, Shanna
O= Oranges or apples~ Oranges, Manderine - Apples, Macintosh
P= Phobias or Fears~ Phobia is dry hands on paper - Calling on the phone is a fear.
Q= Favorite Quote~ This too shall pass
R= Reason to smile~ When my little boy says something so funny
S= Season~ Spring, planting new flowers and seeing everything come to life
T= Tag 2 or 3 people~ Sarah and Kim, KIM you TOLD me I needed to update my blog, lol!
U= Unknown fact about me~ That's hard... depends on who reads this really!
V= Vegetable you don't like~ eggplant
W= Worst habit~ right now, going back to bed after I take my son to school
X= X-rays ummm??? When I was pregnant with Hunter applying for my Green Card, it was mandatory and I was MAD! They had to put a big lead shield over my belly!
Y= Young at heart… - When I play on the Play Station
Z= Zodiac Sign~ Leo Baby! 8-8

Happy New Year!

Look On The Bright Side...

Tonight as I was tucking my little boy into bed we were talking about his day.

You see Daddy had taken him skating for the first time in a few years (only his second time ever) and he was pretty happy with himself.

He said to me, "Mommy, at first I wasn't doing so good and I needed Daddy's help. Then later I was skating by myself and I was so good!"
I told him how impressed I was with him and kissed him goodnight. I said that I loved him and he said the same. He then went on to tell me that he was tired and couldn't talk anymore.

As I started walking out the the room, he turned toward me and said, "Look on the bright side, now we can go ice skating together!"

My heart is full!

What I posted on my message board today...

Dear Team,

I wanted to write and let you all know that this month will be my last month with LP. I have so enjoyed working with each and everyone of you and I hope that we can stay in touch in the years to come!

When a company is in financial trouble they... xxxx ... along the way. This month my commission check was missing a few hundred dollars. I went to log into my instructor account and was shut out of the website. My LP website was also shut down by corporate, therefore I have no way of finding out what is going on, the news, or anything for you.

This month (December 2006) will be my last month with LP as I will be officially resigning by December 31st. If you have any questions please email me privately at ....

Feel free to stay on my http://www.kreativekropping.com/ message board and layout gallery as long as you want! I will keep the LP section up indefinately for your use and I will still have the Kreative Guest area that we can all have fun on playing games and talking about what we love to do, scrapbook!

Love you all, have a Merry Christmas with your families and a successful and full 2007!

Karma H.
http://www.thekreativekorner.com/

Merry Christmas

From our family to yours...

Some MORE Digi Pages!

OK, I have really been getting into digi scrapping more and more. With all of the wonderful kits and products out there that are so easy to download and use, I am getting hooked! SO much in fact that I am entertaining opening up my own digi shop with my own kreations! Hopefully be looking for that in the new year!

In the meantime, I am kreating cool things by some great designers! The following layouts are done with kit by a great designer called Amanda Rockwell! Check it out!

Click layout to see larger view.

I did this layout with papers and elements from Amanda Rockwell's Fresh Kit.

I did this layout with papers and elements from Amanda Rockwell's Fun Kit.I did this layout with papers and elements from Amanda Rockwell's Funky Kit.

I created a Slide Show of some of my favorite layouts! Check it out!

Happy Fall Ya'll

Happy Fall Ya'll

So we have been in Texas since June and it has been an interesting transition! We are not quite settled yet as all of our things are still in storage. Looks like we will not be decorating too much this year!

Eventhough we don't have much right now in our leased home, we have each other. We have lots of laughs, and spend quality time together.

In some ways I am enjoying not having all of my worldly posessions and sometimes I just really wish I could have my leather recliner back, lol! Not to mention my scrapbooking stash!

Did this layout with a combination of Leaving Prints
Digital papers and Memory Mixer Software Elements.

Ok, So we changed our minds...

No, we didn't change our minds about moving. In fact I have been so slack on my blogging (slap my hand) that we have already moved and been here for 3 weeks! So we took a loss on our house in Burbank, so unforseen problems, and so we are starting all over again in Texas. Which is OK because David got a great job that pays him more than his job in Hollywood! We are leasing this really nice home in the same area that we plan to build in. The house is 200sf bigger than our house in Burbank, so we are pretty happy, Also the lease payments are like 1/4 of our mortgage payments in Burbank were, so I think we will be able to catch up very fast. The thing we changed our minds on is which house we are going to build. Well, I keep chainging my mind but now I think I know what I want. (We got our deposit back from the one below, I know it's beautiful) This will be the best for us I think! I will post pictures later if that is the one we are really going to go with, hahaha! In the meantime, now that we are here are I feel better about things, I will try to blog more often! Ciao!

Our NEW House!

So if you didn't already hear or gather, we are moving to the Dallas area in the summer! Our house has been offered on and we have less than a month to pack up and go!! Woooo! I had a pretty good time, though fast, in Texas picking out all the fun stuff for our new home that will be done being built in October! Check it out!!! This is what it will look like:

No Lego Land From Me! :o(

OK, so today we were all supposed to go to Lego Land! We were to leave this morning at 7am to drive 3 hours down to San Diego. I went to bed with a headache and woke up with a migrain. I was so sad. I knew if I went then I would be so sick all day and stuck 3 hours away from home and throwing up. I let the boys go together and I stayed at home. Went back to bed.... The DARN dogs kept barking and waking me up so I called them in and made them sleep in my bed. They usually just stay under the covers. Then David calls me at 10:30, I was still sleeping. The phone rings 5 times. Then he calls again because I didn't answer it. Goll, this means that an agent wants to show the house for sure. So, I answered the phone, and yes, an agent wanted to come over in 45 minutes. I was a bit upset because in my condition I would now have to pick up everything that everone else left laying around from the day before. I was felling a little better, so I did that and took the dogs out to my favorite fast food place, Baja Fresh.

Now I am just on here taking it easy because I am off to Dallas tomorrow to pick out all of the colors, floors, cabinets, etc of our NEW HOUSE! Yes! It will be done being built in about October! We are very excited! So, that's what's new. I guess journaling isn't that bad!

I will post Lego Land pics when the boys get home!

Fighter Pilot Hunter - Reporting for Duty

Today was my son, Hunter's birthday! He was SO excited for it. He turned SIX today and is growing up so fast! Lately he has been so into fighter pilots... we were in an Army store and he saw this fighter pilots suit and really wanted it, this was a few month ago.

Well, I went and picked it up yesterday. When he opened it today he was so thrilled, it fit him like a glove! I managed to snap some award winning shots! Check out my big boy!!!

Still Crazy!

Wow, what a whirlwind of activity lately! Do things never slow down for me? So, rather than writing a BOOK and telling you what has been going on, I will leave you with this little picture of Hunter selling cookies and lemonade!! My sweet little entrepreneur!

Golly Golly Golly, Happy New Year?

Hey! This year is shaping up to be a weird one. So many crazy things going on... I thought I would drop a note because I know I haven't written in a month.

Chrismas was great! We went home to Canada and spend the holiday season with our family there. Hunter got tons of things. Too many things. The theme this year was dinosaures. Check him out!

The French General

Well, it's been a little while since I blogged... life has been hectic! Something to note tonight! we went to a Christmas party at the French General. David works right across the street from them in Hollywood and has also done some work on their website. www.frenchgeneral.com

It is always great to go in there, it smells like lavender and is always so amazing to see all the vintage linens and notions. If you are ever in Hollywood and love these kinds of things, go there and tell them Karma sent you!

They were actually just featured on Martha (Stewart) last week. It was so fun to see them on TV. They have also been featured in Memory Makers magazine and Home Companion. The owner Kaari wants me to come down and hang out with them, lol! I am going to bring my layouts with their vintage embellishments on it. Also, I had gotten a gift home box of embellishments a few years back and gave them to my good friend Sunny who designs scrapbooking product. She used some of it in her diecut designs that Leaving Prints has printed and we sell now! I am going to bring them down to Kaari!

Who are you?

Saw this on someone else's BLOG and had to have it...


You are Deb and you could drink whole milk if you
wanted.

Which Napoleon Dynamite character are you?
brought to you by

Oh, Christmas Treeeeee

So, yes, I know.... it's not even Thanksgiving yet and we have our Christmas tree up! YES, with us being Canadian, we have already had our thanksgiving! Last month in fact... so lastnight we started putting up our Christmas decorations.

Today David and Hunter are off to ride on a real time big Thomas the Tank Engine train. We had gone on him a couple years back. Our neighbour had 2 extra tickets. I decided to stay at home and continue to decorate, hmmm, maybe take a name and of course BLOG.

Today I joined a Yahoogroup about Faithbooking for Leaders of small groups of Faithbookers. I would like to start a Faithbooking group. What is Faithbooking you ask? Well it's scrapbooking about your faith, spiritual believes, etc. I have wanted to do it for over a year now. Maybe I will start it up in January, maybe after the Summer time. We will see!

Tomatoes and Bikes

Hello!!!

Well, I haven't written in a few days but it's been a busy time! First of all I have to tell you about this funny thing that you would only see on an LA freeway! So we were on the 10 freeway, one of the most busy freeways in the nation.... as we are zooming by on the left lane, I see a full grown tomato plant growing in the cracks on the side of the road! There was a big honkin' tomato growing on it, ONLY in LA! So I said to David, and I coin the phrase, "Now that's somethin' to BLOG about!"

So, remember a few days ago when I was asking what exercise was? Well, I've been doing it! Yesterday at the YMCA while Hunter was at gymnastics I got on the Eliptical, my new favorite machine and I burned 300 callories in 45 minutes. It was great! Today, I let Hunter ride his bike to school while I walked, as soon as he got to the end of the block, I began running. So, 6 blocks there and 6 blocks back.... I am on a roll, lol! How sad!

Wisdom From Oprah.com 6 Different Journals

What is the difference between the six journals?

Daily Journal — Write whatever you like here. This is your own private space for your general daily thoughts.

Gratitude Journal — Record five things you love every day. Your entire outlook on life will change because you will be looking for the things you are happy about to record later on in your journal.

Spa Girls Journal — Keep your exercise routine on track with your fitness goals! Record your best and worst fitness moments. How is it making you feel about your body today?

Discovery Journal — Get to know yourself by looking back. Remember how you felt, what you loved, were you afraid of, and dreamed of doing. As a child, a teen, and a young adult, what are the themes taking place in your life?

Health Journal — Your goals, successes and challenges. It's good for your body and soul. How are you treating your body?

Create Your Own Journal — You can name it whatever you like. It's yours!

What will I write about today... hmmmm???

David's Blog...

I decided to go to my DH's blog today and see how much he has written... well, I have him beat! Here is what he has so far, pretty whitty!!!

A Day in the Life of...
It all began when our 5 year old
son Hunter cried in the middle of the night as a result of an ear infection and
said "Daddy.... I'm a ruined man." Ever since then, I realized that I needed to
get this and many other choice moments in life down. Somewhere. Might as well be
a blog.

Friday, September 16, 2005

Only the Beginning...
It's
Friday, and I am running through an inventory of the week. This is Hunter's
second full week of kindergarten. We're halfway through September 2005. It's
been several weeks since Hurricane Katrina's damage landed on our shores. We're
gonna start recording sessions for He Reigns next week. Our family could not go
bowling at Pickwick last night as we now found out that Sunday through Thursday
are league nights, which means we gotta get there earlier.

This week
Karma and I discovered that Hunter can REALLY sell chocolates for the school
fundraiser. I mean, the whole box of 30 chocolates was sold in one evening.
Karma and I bought 4, but the rest was him.

Scene 1:Karma is signing
Hunter to the Awana program at the church.Hunter, in loud, strong, excited tone:
"Would anyone like to buy some delicious chocolates? They are only $2 each!"5
sold.

Scene 2:Karma and Hunter are walking over to the nursery. A person
is walking toward them.Hunter, in loud, strong, exited tone: "Would you like to
buy a delicious chocolate? They are only $2 each!"1 sold.

Scene 3:Karma
drops off Hunter for the night care before she joins me at choir
rehearsal.Hunter, in loud, strong, excited tone: "Would anyone like to buy some
delicious chocolates? They are only $2 each!"3 sold.

Scene 4:I am
closing the choir in prayer. Karma brought Hunter back from the nursery as the
care for the evening is finished. Hunter is anxiously standing beside me, at the
piano.David, fully aware that Hunter is about to say something, but not sure to
who: "In Jesus' name, Amen."Hunter, in loud, strong, exited tone: "Everybody,
Everybody! Buy some delicious chocolates! They are only $2 each!"17 sold.

Deja-vuHunter's first
lemonade stand at the age of 4, in front of our house. Unabashedly promoting
lemonade that we just made, 15 minutes after he said, "Let's sell lemonade."

David: "Now?"

Hunter, already in the kitchen with spoon in hand:
"Let's get a pitcher, some glasses, and a table."

Before I knew it,
Hunter (decked out in cowboy hat and boots) and I were outside conversing with
neighbors we had not talked to in weeks, all at the same time.

What it
took: 45 minutes, 8 glasses, 1 table, a pitcher of lemonade, and a dash of
sponteneity

Collected: $8.75

Earned Benefit: priceless

Postlogue
Where did Hunter figure out to use that
word 'delicious' with chocolates? We did not even go over a script with him.
Even Barry Burnett, a well known Real Estate broker came up to Hunter and
offered him a job in 13 years from now due to his natural ability to sell.

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;your works
are wonderful,I know that full well.Psalms 139:14