Blog Prompt:Shoes make the woman. Give us an insight into your closet. Your shoes closet that is.

I don't have a shoe closet. Ever since I was a few months pregnant I have been wearing flip flop sandals because my feet swelled up so bad that I couldn't fit anything else. That's all I wear now. Those same sandals. I like them. I used to have a thing about my feet. I though they were so ugly. How could I show them to the world? But pregnancy has a way of getting you to overcome such nonsense. I don't care who sees my feet now. Whatever. I was born with them. It's not like I chose them, you know? I can't help how they look. My daughter now has the same feet. I call them "the family feet." Poor baby. Wide shoes will be a must for her.

Anyway. So I used to have a lot of shoes. I used to have a lot of nice shoes that I paid a lot of money for (well, a lot of money for me). Bakers was my favorite store. All of my shoes are dressy shoes. I'm a stay at home mom now. What in the world do I need dressy shoes for? Wearing heels while simutaniously dealing with an 11 month old (well, 11 months on Sunday) who just learned how to walk a few weeks ago and has been enjoying it and constantly doing it ever since? I don't think so. My feet hurt doing all that. Nowadays it's all flats, please. So all my shoes are in a laundry bag. Yes, I put my expensive shoes in a laundry bag. The horror, I know. But it was either that or just throwing them in a box...which I still may do. One day I'll dig them out and dust them off (or unscuff those that I can) and don them again. No time soon, let me assure you. So for now they sit in my closet inside a laundry bag that I had from the military and await the time when I'll be ready to wear them again. If they had a soul and feelings and all that, I would think that they'd be a bit hurt by being discarded so easily. But then, they don't have to support my weight anymore!

Not that I'm fat. I could stand to lose the weight I gained in pregnancy, plus a little more. About 50 pounds would do good for me. That would make me as skinny as I was in 2001. I looked so hot then! Or as skinny as I was in 2004. That was a good year, too! That's also the year I stopped working out regularly while still eating like a football player. I was counting on my youthful metabolism to carry me through forever. Well, the joke is on me for sure! Tell me, how am I supposed to work out when I'm a stay at home mom and have an 11 month old that is super clingy and doesn't really want strangers near her and I live in an apartment where there is no gym and no one close that I know or am comfortable with watching my daughter? Tell me. I would LOVE to know. And no, I'm not paying for one of those jogging strollers. A waste of money to me. I've already got 2 strollers. What on earth do I need to spend all that money for a third? Your right. Maybe I'm making excuses. Ever since the military FORCED me to work out every Monday, Wednesday and Friday I've hated working out and once I got out of the military I practically gave it up. LOL. Who am I kidding! I gave it up COMPLETELY! LOL Well. Guess I'll have to do something about it, huh? I'm eating less but maintaining my weight where I am. Sucks. Oh well. At least I'm well poportioned. There's a plus.

So I've strayed from the topic, but what do you expect? I'm a woman who had a baby. Shorter attention span and all that.

Thanks for reading. And if you comment, thanks for that, too.

Jennifer

Yup! Another Page

Another page I've just finished.



Credit: Faded Glory Page Kit by Lauren Bavin, DigitalScrapbookPlace Senior Designer

Blog Prompt: Fashionably Correct.

Fashionably Correct. In years past one would not be seen without a hat to complete your ensemble. Not so much these days. When and where do you think it is fashionably correct to wear a hat?

Hmmm. Nowadays, not many places. It really depends on the hat. Baseball Caps are hats and are appropriate in many places at almost any time. Cowboy hats can be worn just about any time, also. If we're talking about big ladies hats with flowers and what not on them, the most appropriate and common place to wear them are during church services (for baptists and other non-catholics- don't think I've ever seen a catholic adorne a hat in church). I could be wrong but that's the only place I would think it would fashionably correct. Also there's the beach. Hats are great to keep the sun off our faces! And they look good, too!

I don't wear hats. After being in the Navy for 4 1/2 years having to wear a baseball cap or other hat every time I went outside in uniform, I hate wearing them. They give me hat-hair! No thanks!

More Pages

I've done a couple more pages that I'm extremely pleased with. My husband helped me out with the "My Dog Darby" layout. He suggested that I enlarge the dog and place him in the corner and do sort of an overlay look to it. After playing around with the blending modes I settled on Luminosity. I then did a light opacity eraser brush to it to give it a softer look around the edges. With the other page, I added depth to the foliage by adding drop shadow. I extracted my daughter and sat her on a rock that I extracted and added a few more rocks that I extracted.


Credits: April Showers Add On Pack by Rene Bross, Digital Scrapbook Place

Credits: Word Art by Tina Chambers, Digital Scrapbook Place; Inspired By Nature Parts 1-3 Kits by Ingrid Designs

Simplify life. We all have them, those household items that we purchase for one thing and then end up using them for another. What items do you have t

Hmm. The only thing I can think of is baby wipes. With being a mother of a 10 month old, I use these all the time. Not just for wiping bottoms, but for cleaning up her face, hands, etc, when she makes a mess eating or whatever. I use them for dusting sometimes. I use them to wipe the food and finger prints off the furniture that my daughter leaves behind. And, after watching a news episode where they said that baby wipes disinfect like disinfectant wipes, I use them to disinfect tables at restaurants and shopping carts if my daughter will be touching them. No need to have her sick because someone doesn't wash their hands or a rag is filled with disgusting bacteria, right? I'm not a germ-a-phobe, but I still like to keep my daughter safe from some things, you know?

Blog Prompt: Fashion Woes. What, in your opinion, is your most embarassing fashion moment?

Hmmm. I don't think I have one PARTICULAR instance. I think the 80's would have to suffice as my most embarrassing fashion moment. I don't remember it much, but I do see pictures and I can't believe what I wore then. Yes, I'm only 24, but oh my goodness!

There was, however, one particular picture that I am embarrassed about. On my 10th birthday I picked out my outfit. I wore white cowboy boots and a purple dress (not frilly, just plain). I can't believe I wore that! Oh my goodness!

Most recently, the most embarassing moments were when I was breastfeeding in the beginning and I used to leak through my shirts. How nice to look down and see a nice round wet spot! I hated wearing the nursing pads because they were visible through the shirts.

I don't think I've ever been REALLY embarrassed by something I wore. I don't feel that way usually because I really don't let it bother me. Especially now that I'm a mother of a baby. Once she started eating solids I gave up on being embarrassed by the food that ended up on my shirt that I hadn't noticed for most of the day, or any other time I have a fashion mishap. I blame it on parenthood!

Digital Elite Team Contest

Every six months, in March and September, Digital Scrapbook Place holds a contest to choose new layout designers for their team. These designers create layouts using the DSP designers kits to showcase the kits. Even though I've only been digital scrapbooking for a few months (I think 5 months) I've decided to try. There are three elimination-style rounds. I'm hoping that I at least make it to round 2. Here is my submission for this round:


We were to use DSP Designer Kim Liddiard's Fantaisie D'Aile Kit and DSP Designer Tina Chamber's Word Art-Famous Authors-Keats. The objective: Using just the kits as is, create a layout that showcases the kit. Here is a preview of the kit:


My question is, do you think I showcased the kit well? I think so, but I'm not sure. I wish I could have seen the March round 1 finalists layouts so I could get an idea as to what the DET were looking for. I really want to be a DET member. I love the kits and I love the site. If I don't make it this time, I'll definitely be trying out next time. But I'll find out if I made it to round 2 on September 7th. Hopefully mine is unique enough and impresses the DET enough so they'll let me into round 2.

Anyway. That's what's been going on lately and why I haven't posted for a while. So busy with contests and challenges with deadlines very near.