Whew. I'm exhausted. I just e-mailed in my submission for the DT call at my LSS. 8 LO's, 3 altered projects, an essay and a bio...why am I so nervous??? In related news, there are but 24 hours left to get the call for the Scenic Route DT...hey, a girl can dream, right??? Here's a new page I made yesterday.
I actually joined ScrapSubmit last week and submitted one page to a magazine already! One small step for scrapper...well, we'll see if I get any e-mails about it. I have decided if I am going to start submitting layouts for publication, I'm not going to let page calls dictate my style or scrap habits. If I happen to make a page that works for a particular call, I may just send it in. But I'm not about to start nitpicking about neatness and stuff...I already spend so much time scrapping that I can't keep my house neat. You should see it after finishing up all my DT submission projects!!!
Oh, and another cool thing happened last weekend...for the first time in our 8 years of marriage, we went camping together! Just for the weekend, with some friends of ours and their kids, but I really think we all needed that. I mastered the art of perfect marshmallow roasting in the dark and Antonio slept beautifully in the tent. It was a tad chilly, this not being BC where it's still summer till mid-October, but the lake wasn't swimmable anyway so whatever. Very beautiful though! Here's some pictures:
Just like the stores do. It's quite standard for me to be planning out Halloween costumes in August. What can I say? I like to make my own, and that takes TIME. Especially when your son comes up with the strangest costume ideas. Last year was the first year we let him choose his own costume. He said he wanted to be a cat...a green cat. And it wasn't just a one-time deal. Every time we asked him, he was 
adamant about the green cat. So that's what he was. This year he says he wants to be a double-decker bus...NOW do you see why I like to start early??? I have no clue how I'm gonna pull this one off...well, making it's the easy part. Making it something he can WALK in...that's another story.
And yes, I dress up too. Since I started trick-or-treating, there have only been 2 Halloweens I didn't dress up for, both to my disappointment. Sometimes for work, sometimes for school, sometimes for taking kids around, wheher my own or someone else's...I love to dress up! I've been everything from Princess Jasmine to Axl Rose to that girl from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom...that one was when I was 7. I was the only girl in my entire Brownie troop that no one could guess what my costume was. As a rule I don't normally like to do the same costume twice in a row...but last year during my Fabricland days I managed to recreate my favourite dress from the Lord Of The Rings movies as a sort of sewing project...complete with cape and hood...and I would so love to wear it again. Plus it'll give me more time to work out a double-decker bus!!!
Having said that, I don't totally understand why STORES need to start as early as they do. If you're buying your costume premade, why do you need it 2 months in advance? Or candy and decorations for that matter? Unless you're one of those people who re-does their whole house for Halloween. Where do you people live? I wanna trick-or-treat at your place!!!
That's right. The mortgage has finally gotten final approval, and the house is OURS!!! In Quebec you can move in as soon as you make the down payment, so we still had stuff to finish up even after we moved in. But it's all done now. All we gotta do is pay the bills and not trash the place. Yeah!!!!!
We went out to the Chinese buffet to celebrate. They have different stuff on weekday nights than they do during lunchtime. Tried these little mini-pizzas that were actually made on what looked like wontons...they were actually pretty good! Not to mention this is one of only the 2 places we've found in the Ottawa/Gatineau area that has acceptable sushi.
Bought Antonio's birthday gift the other day...the Cars computer game. Shhhhhh, don't tell him. Oh, and I bought something for myself too. No, it's not MY birthday...but I finally found a copy of Punky Brewster Season Three on DVD!!! Yes, THIS is the extent of my wild and colourful life...getting giddy over box sets of 80's TV shows. But hey, Punky was one of my very first obsessions...I practically WAS her. Hey, who am I kidding, WAS???
Looks like another Wednesday has come and gone and we still haven't gotten rid of these boxes in the front hall. Arrrrrg. Don knows someone who wants them, but he only sees him on Wednesday nights. I never thought I'd ever say this, but I actually want to start organizing things in my house! Yep, you heard it from me. But don't expect it to become a habit.
And the tour continues....
The laundry room. Also the storage room. Bigger than you'd expect in a condo, but not as much storage space as our last apartment, so it's a bit cramped. Can't complain, because it saves us a lot of elevator riding.
Our room from the doorway. I tried to take one of the whole window but the flash was arguing with me.
My scrap area, set up in our room. Pretty much the same as the old one but with more natural light. As you can see I've already been scrapping.
This is what you see out of our big bay window. Beyond those trees is Gatineau Park. You can also see Antonio's playground. He loves that.
Antonio's room. Quite a bit smaller than his last room, even without the slidey climber thing, even with the second storage room shelf. I think it's high time to donate some of his old toys. He doesn't seem to mind, though...hey, there's a playground out back!!!
And that's our new place. We're still loving it, though I'll be loving it more when we get rid of all the empty boxes in the front hallway, and actually get stuff on the walls. Don doesn't want to put stuff up till we're totally sure we have things arranged the way we like them, and we can't really arrange things the way we like them till we get rid of all these BOXES...oh well, there's time.
