Monday.....and moving slow!!

Brrrrrrrr!  It's getting colder every day and today was one of the coldest we have had...the first day I actually wanted to put slipper on my feet, instead of my normal flip flops!

  I started out the day by sleeping in and knew my task for today was to get moving on my gift wrapping.  But....there was this dreadfully messy wall in our bathroom that I had been waiting for Hubby or DS to re-paint for weeks now!  Grrr!    It's been driving me crazy, so today, I finally dragged out the can of paint and supplies and touched up all the bad spots all by myself.  I actually used to paint a lot and have painted tons in this house, but it's a killer with Fibro and something I rarely do, but this was not like painting a whole room, it was a touch up and I was sick or waiting for the "guys" to do it!   You know how the saying goes!  If you really want somethign done.....then do it yourself.

  Of course, it wasn't too hard and because I only need on small brush and about only about a cup of paint, if that, but it's done and NOW it looks SO much better.  I'm much happier to have that done and glad I finally just did it!   When Alex came home from lunch, he noticed right away and said,
" Mom...I told you I would paint that for you before Christmas"...and I just smiled and looked at him and said....'Ya, I know, but which Christmas did you mean?'...?   LOL!!

   Right after that, I had planned to move onto my wrapping, but decided to check my emails first--and then of course, that led to some online shopping, which worked out quite well and checked off three more gifts from my list.   Then I quickly checked for a few sales and stopped by some of my digi stores--and that's when I ran into a little trouble!!    I just happened to go to StampFairy and found some adorable new images that Gerda had just released!  And YES....you caught me, I bought two already, (still loving her 50% off SALE), and instead of wrapping-- I said, the heck with that...I want to color and so that's what I did instead.  This is the first card that I made from the newest Lenny as Santa images, or so I named them.  I have a second card in the works, and will post him tomororw!  

  Imagine my surprise, when I sent him off to share with Gerda and later found out that she had featured my card with the New Release post!   I'm so touched!!   You can find the release post over at the StampFairy World blog!   I was so excited when I went into the SSC group and saw it in the news feed too!   Thank you Gerda - You made my day!!   

   I was also playing around with Photoscape and found these really cool new features and frames that you can use when you edit your pictures.  I use Picasa to upload all my pictures, but it's so limited ant I could not use a custom watermark with it.  Krista, from Baby Bud Designs, and introduced and recommended that I try using Photoscape to add my watermarks and it's been working great.  I Love it and now the more I using it, more the fun features I'm finding it has.  And these best part is that it's a FREE....Yes...Free!!   If you are looking for some fun and new photo editing software, your can download Photoscape HERE!!

  This is another pic of the same card, but I used a cool 'gradient frame' on this one and really loved to the soft focus look.  I found a ton more and spend about two hours playing around with all the new fun frames and edit I can now make to my cards!   Yippee!!

     So...how many gift did I end up wrapping today ?    Well that would be Zero, Zip, Nada....None!!  But, I sure did get some things done and also had time to craft and to me....that's a pretty good day and I have no complaints!

    Tomorrow....I shall wrap ALL day....!!  Or at least that's my plan!   On Wednesday, I am heading out of town with Alex,  to make one last trip to the Malls ...and after that, you will not see me near any Mall between now and Christmas!  I will do any last minute things here in town and will avoid the Malls until after Christmas!   They are simply too busy and crazy as the shopping days wind down.   I decided to go with Alex, because he will drive, he can carry my packages and mostly because I love spending time with my kids...and it's a joy to have them offer to take me along!   He can also help me pick out a nice little gift for his girlfriend and maybe something else he wants too!

     Hope your day went as nicely as mine!!