I have been to every animal shelter in the area. I have called vets. I have e-mailed everybody I know on this base. I called the people who pick up dead animals off of the side of the street and, thankfully, they haven’t picked up any cats on base this past week. I sent out a lost pet alert through Home Again, the microchip company we use. This alert should go to every shelter and vets in the area so I am praying that SOMEBODY brings my cat in before I go crazy. I am sick to my stomach over here.

Tonight I’m going to go door to door for a few blocks.

Lissy! COME HOME NOW! I cannot possibly make it through another deployment without you! You’re about the only thing that got me through the last one!

It was a loooong weekend! I taught all day Saturday and classes went great, but it sure wore me out! Now I’m back home and work is so piled up. The Nook is closing up a month long challenge, narrowing down the first cut of a Design Team call and geting a virtual crop underway, in addition to the usual ordering for the kits and keeping everyone happy. I’ve found that my job goes in spurts. It is either smooth sailing or totally bottlenecked. I am looking forward to August when all of the hulabaloo is over and it will be back to teh regularly scheduled easy peasy lemon squeasy programming I’m content with.

Aside from work, it is going to be a busy day here. I have kids who need love, a bedroom floor that is,uhh, currently missing, company for dinner and a family who will mutiny if I don’t take them all to see Wall-E tonight! Heck, I’ll mutiny! I am also stalking my postman waiting for a package of goodies from Cosmo Cricket to hit my doorstep.

The funny thing is that come next Monday, I will have very little to occupy my time at all. My life attacks me several days at a time, and then it is smooth sailing for a few weeks. It always helps me to remember that when things begin to pile up. I can hit it hard today, but a sunset and time at the scraptable are on the horizon!

One bit of bad news- my cat, Lissy, is missing. We left for the weekend and I thought she was in the house, but I think she snuck out and now she is nowhere to be found. She is a very outdoorsy cat and has done this before, but she almost always comes as soon as I call her, so I’m worried.

My little sister is here visiting from England, and the girl’s got skills. She taught me how to do a video tutorial, and here is what we created! Enjoy!

Also, the template used is right here:

The supply list is in the video; it is mostly Cosmo Cricket “Cogsmo”

Feel free to print it out and make your own Rocket Card, but you know, give credit where credit is due.

Saturday is class day and it is going to be a doozy! If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area and up for some fun classes, I’ll be teaching FIVE of them on Sat. June 28th from 10-8! Check them out here!

Also, I did draw a winner for the pregnancy journal book! Congrats to Crystal Carlsen! Please send me your address.

I cleaned out my scrapbooking space this past week. It took hours, but it is finally de-junked! In the process I stumbled accross this layout I did a few months ago that I never shared anywhere, so here it is! I mixed Pink Paislee and Tinkering Ink and Hambly; the font is Quickutz Biography.

I made it! Yahoooooooooooooooooooooooo! I was so keyed up I didn’t sleep last night! Now on to round TWO- YIKES- still nervous! Thanks Cosmo!

Feeling nervous is more like it! Today Cosmo Cricket is choosing finalists for their Design Team. I applied. My fingers, arms, toes, ankles, eyes and lower intestines are crossed for luck. I’m berating myself for actually wanting this one enough to be slightly freaking out about it. You see, I’ve tried for many teams in the past. Some I’ve wanted, and some I’ve been hopeful, and some I’ve just tossed my hat in the ring without any hope at all. With every one of those, I’ve been pretty calm. What will be will be, and I will learn, grow and love where ever I end up. And I have.

However, that calm is eluding me this time around because it turns out, I REALLY WANT THIS SPOT!!!!

So Julie, Lindsay, Jodi, Jon, Eric, if you’re reading this, may I subtly and with much professionalism say PICK ME!! CHOOSE ME!!! LOVE ME!!!!!

And if you just can’t, well fine then. I’ll still buy all your stuff because I’m hooked and in love (and cause I saw the Halloween paper peek, and well, I’m incapable of harboring enough bitterness to keep me from buying that perfection), and I’ll just make really fantastic things with it and love them. So there. But seriously. I’m on my knees here.

This card was inspired by a little Caardvarks challenge, and I can’t wait to mail it to my Mom for her birthday! Have a beautiful day!

Finally got my hands on some of this new Hello Sunshine Cosmo Cricket line, and I had to play with it at my crop last night! I’ve been holding onto this photo for awhile. I took it on a dusty old backroad in small town Utah. The wind was blowing, the sheep were grazing, the leaves were turning, and when I finished taking shots of all those things and got back into the truck (yes, we stopped the vehicle and I crawled into a sheep pasture) I saw myself in the side mirror on the truck looking so very much like myself, hair all blown, denim jacket all covered in pasture and dirt and I took a picture.