Recent Scrapbooking

Lately I've been joining a church each month to scrapbook. Of course, I'm the only digital scrapbooker there and it sort of makes me giggle to see everyone toting in their growing collections of paper, gadgets, and whatnot...and then I just whip out my laptop. I look forward to it each month :) The conversation and company is good and creativity flows. So here are some layouts I've done recently. Ask me for more detailed credits if you want them (as usual it's almost all from the sweet shoppe).


Template by Cindy Schnieder, font by Darcy Baldwin, and kit is by Kristen Cronin-Barrow all over at the Sweet Shoppe.

Another Cindy Schnieder template, Darcy Baldwin Font, and kit by MLE Card and Clingerman (retired from Sweet Shoppe).

Take Flight collabe - Sweet Shoppe. Frames - Katie Pertiet

Font - Darcy Baldwin



Today was a pretty good day (ie..I was able to turn off the water works and have a normal day). I went to class, and paid attention well...ate lunch at school. I sprinted a mile (all I could fit in before sunrise), washed the linens on the guest bed, walked the dogs...and studied for the rest of the night :) And..as is my usual pre-test custom, I'm going to bed before 11 with the intention of waking up at 5:00 to study just a bit more. Mornings are acutally my prime study time ^_^ They are just so quiet and peaceful, and I enjoy drinking my coffee and watching the sun rise. LAST ROUND OF [multiple] FINALS EVER!!! I get to see my folks this weekend!!! Chase will present my white coat to me in just a few days!!! HAPPPPPYYYY!!!!!!


Thought of the day:

"Let all that you do be done in LOVE"
~1 Corinthians 16: 14

I'd love to hear what was on your mind today so leave a comment if you drop by :)

Peace and love to all of you, my dear friends.

God and the blubber bug

I don't know if any of you have experienced this, but today the "blubber bug" got me at bible study. During the prayer requests at the very end, we started all sharing that one person that is heavy on your heart to pray for. Probably 80% of the gals there had almost the same request. As I was talking about my person, I started crying and just couldn't stop even after someone brought me a tissue...and another girl started crying too. And I continued crying all the way home...and through my shower....and a long conversation with my mom. SO here it is. Is there a person in your life who doesn't believe in God? Every day, every moment we have is a gift ..not at all guaranteed. How do you know if when that person walks out the door..that you'll ever see them again? And the simple truth is...you might not see them again. So today my heart was broken for the unbelievers in my life and I couldn't stop crying. One girl mentioned how she lost her father unexpectedly, and how she regrets she never talked with him about Christ and what he believes. Anyway - pray for me that I may be bold for Christ. And if you have a person God's placed heavy on your heart, I'll pray for you too.




Peace and Love, y'all!

Fall Festival

Chase planned a trip to a nearby Pumpkin festival as a surpise this morning. There were tons of craft booths selling their wares and TONS of fair type food! Enjoy fall wherever you are!


FOUND ONE!!!!!! Yeah!!!

Awww... cute couple picture!

Potato tornado - an entire potato cut in a spiral and deep fried..then covered in seasoned salt! YUM!!!!!

And corn - grilled and then DIPPED in butter :)



Today when we got home, Chase got the fall decorations out of the closet. I gave Ruby a bath, and now we're sitting around watching TV (as soon as I finish this post, i'm going to start studying for last round of finals EVER).

Lately the parable of the ungrateful, unforgiving servant has been heavy on my mind... You know the one where the king forgave a servant a HUGE debt (Mat 18:21-35). Then the unforgiving servant went out and demanded another servant repay him a smaller debt. The unforgiving servant had the second servant put in jail. So the master placed the unforgiving servant in jail to be tortured until he could pay back his debt. Anyway, there was a debt I needed to forgive and let go, because I don't want to be like that servant. And with God's help, that chapter is finished and I'm moving on from it :) There's no day like today to forgive someone! Just remember this parable next time someone has wronged you or owes you :)


Peace and Love, y'all!

WOYWW...er T

Don't know what What's on Your Workspace Wendesday is? Check it out at Julia's blog.

I'm a day late, but here's my workspace!

I've been working on recipe cards lately so all my remaining scrapbooking supplies is out. :)

Storage Bin Exploration Week 1. Look I opened a bin for the snoopers! This one is full of scrap papers (lots of glittery, sparkly papers). Sorry I'm so late and probably won't make it to everyone this week ^_^ Finals are next week (LAST SET EVER, because clinical rotations start in 2 weeks and then it will only be 1 class/rotation at a time)


Peace and love to all!

Recipe card

Look! I made a recipe card :)

Now I have to go cook some stuff for tomorrow.

Peace y'all!

A New Home for Nestle

Chase and I decided to foster this little guy starting in late August. He had a series of potential owners turn him down...not beagle enough...not fuzzy enough...not as cute as his brothers. He's such a cute, sweet fellow I just couldn't figure out why nobody wanted him. Anyway, I sent out another email to all the veterinary students - this time with more of desperate undertone (because his running annoys my neighbors..the neighbors whose base vibrates my floors). Within the day, I recieved 3 emails from folks interested him. I interviewed the first one on Friday afternoon. This young man was looking for his first dog. It seemed like a good match to me :) Every vet student should have a pet during school! It's a large responsibility for a busy student, but getting to pet a LIVE animal everyday is worth it (especially for the poor first years who see only cadavers...).


I snapped this picture while we waited this morning for his new owner to pick him up this morning.

And here he is...with his new owner.



I'm so happy we were able to help such a cute little guy find a loving owner. Goodluck, Nestle, with your new home!

WOYWW

Happy WOYWW and welcome to my blog! I hope all who visit have a great day :)



So here it is - my desk, properly inhabited by my watercolors (my hubby and I have taken over the dining room table at present to use for studying). I've had that set of watercolors since 8th grade which means they are going on 11 years now! I'm hosting a Colorful Hot Air Ballon Swap at atcsforALL so there are lots of my hot air ballon ATCs around. The fall themed ATCs are finished and ready to mail for a Autumn Foliage Swap :) I just have to find the time to scan and secure them in an envelope.

My dear friend, Brooke, sent a belated birthday present: lots of seeds (and some make up samples, a book about dogs, and a calender with manicures pre-penciled in)! I'll have to figure out where I can plant some of them when the time is right. It was so much fun spreading them all out on the guest bed and looking at all the varieties! I wonder if the apartment manager would mind if I let a gourd vine grow up the deck...


In other new, tests last week went super-well :) and hopefully the one in 1.5 hours will too. It's over neurologic diseases of horses and dental issues (and aging a horse by its teeth). Although I don't want to be a horse vet, I still have to do my best on this test! So I'm off to study just a touch more. Post test edit: I did well enough - Equine med won't prevent me from entering clinical rotations! Heck yeah! I'm going to be Dr. Katie soon enough! Now if people would shut their traps about the test. I hate pre and post test chatter! *puts in head phones* Thank you Pandora for the escape!


Peace and love! Thank you for dropping by!

29:49 and Eagle Bluffs

I ran the Brighter Future for Thailand 5K this weekend. My time was 29:49 - my best yet (out of all 2 5Ks I've completed). After eating Thai food and resting a little, Chase and I headed to Eagle Bluffs.

Lately, the little details have been catching my attention :)

3 weeks of class remain before I start my clinical rotations. So far, I've been diligent with my studies during this block, but I feel my energy waning. Just a little longer!!! In other news, I've had chronic back pain on my right side just under my ribs. I think I'm going to get that checked out this week as that's where a kidney lives. It's probably just muscular pain, but it's always better to be safe than sorry : )

Edit: The doc said the pain was too low to be kidney so he ruled that out. Of all things, he said what I described was very characteristic of gall bladder pain. He said it won't go away with time if that's what it is, but if it's muscle related (not ruled out yet) it'll go away soon. So I went home with a script for a muscle relaxant and directions to take NSAIDS to help control the pain. I guess that will help me sleep too!

What's on Your Workdesk? Wednesday

A blog I read participates in WOYWW so I figured I would post my workspace today :)

This is the guest bedroom/office/craft room. Chase has comandeered the bed as his biochem study area. So he moved all the craft supplies I had scattered on it to my craft desk. I, in turn, comandeered his computer desk. He never uses his desktop anyway... So when I went to bed, he got out the mini-table and there his lap top rests.

Here's a picture of my craft workspace. I absolutely adore the display case I bought from Walmart :) I have lots of the ATCs I've received from others in it. See the Totoro card? Santana made that for my birthday! I need to put some boxes away, but a las...studying is my first priority at the moment. I have a quiz in an hour, and a ophthamology midterm on Thursday. Wish me luck! Thank you Mimi for the new set of markers - They were just what I need for the latest swap I'm participating in: Illuminated Letters. I'll scan them and post them soon.

Peace and Love! Happy Wednesday


Post quiz edit: 1 hour for a 5 minute quiz... I would have rather slept in more. It's a dreary, rainy morning and it was hard to crawl out of bed. Not to mention I've been feeling really drained lately - I'm not sure if it's the near constant studying or if I'm fighting off illness. Regardless - sleep would have been appreciated :)

Post test edit: I did well on all tests last week. It's so rewarding to have hard work pay off in a tangible manner!

St. Louis Zoo

Chase and I celebrated my birthday by a trip to the St. Louis. We started at the zoo...here are some pictures from our adventure there:

Next we went to the art museum! My favorite painting:

Hot Air Balloon Festival

As we were exiting the art museum, we noticed people spread out on picnic blankets all over the hillside, clearly waiting for something. So we asked a lady what was going on, and we found out that it was the day of the hot air balloon race! What a perfect end to our St. Louis outing! I LOVE hot air balloons.

The first balloon to rise was the massive energizer bunny. He landed not very far from wear he went up though... The first balloon of a hot air balloon race determines the target the other balloons aim for. The balloon that drops its sand bag closet to the target wins the "race." Yesterday's race was very short b/c there wasn't much of a carrying wind so the balloons landed at the first safe place. Luckily most of the other balloons stayed in the air much longer than the bunny.

Of course, Chase wasn't planning on the hot air balloon race when he planned this trip. Little to my knowledge, he had planned a surprise birthday party back at the apartment for 7pm. We ended up getting back at 9:10! I was 2 hours late for my own party! Lucky for me, we were able to get a hold of my friends in time to warn them to just come at 9. Half of them have a key to my apartment so they just let themselves in and didn't wait in the storm. So we ended the day with cake and icecream laughing about how stubborn I am..and how easily distracted I am by colorful, floating envelopes of hot air. Just for your information, the main bulk of a hot air balloon is called the envelope, the base of the envelope is called the skirt (it works like a sail and catches the wind), and of course the part you ride in is called the basket. The basket is generally made of wicker b/c it's light and sturdy and when the balloon lands, wicker is flexible enough that it cushions the impact of hitting the ground. Hot air balloons float based on the simple principle of hot air rises. The heated air in the envelope is less dense than the air outside...so it floats! They are really pretty amazing inventions, and I find them fascinating. I have hundreds of pictures of them now, but I can't post them all here :)

Isn't my husband awesome!? He planned a great day, and then was flexible enough to delay the party just so we could enjoy the balloons. My friends are awesome too for being so patient with me!

Peace and love! and HAPPY BIRTHDAY to ME!!

Small Hound Meets Trees and Small Human

I was out going "potty" one day when I suddenly looked up. Did you know that trees grow over your head? So I jumped and I jumped to try to capture a leaf!

Walking is now my favorite part of the day! Isn't grass great? I think it's like "Facebook" for dogs - I get the scoop on all the locals!

Over the weekend, foster-mom took me to a fundraiser for Pets need People. I was on TV, but still no one wants me...Anyway, I discovered that people come in little sizes!! The little people smell different, and once I realized that this one was a little person...I licked him in the face (with his mom's permission)!! Baaaaoooo! It's so nice to have a face so close to lick.

It was such a busy day, I promptly dozed off in foster mom's lap on the way home.


As for life at home, I'm almost completely used to the pattern of living with my foster parents. I sleep the whole night through without a peep, and patiently wait in my crate for foster-mom to get my leash for the morning walk. Then all 3 of us dogs go potty outside. Foster-mom just gets so happy and pets me so much when I go potty outside, I guess it's worth holding it for! Then we go in and eat. Then I play for awhile with my favorite toy. Then I go in my crate and snuggle down on foster-mom's old t-shirts. Foster-mom comes back around 2 and we go outside for awhile. I play inside...I go back to sleep in my crate while mom stares at these things called books (are those toys?) or her computer screen (for hours)... This all repeats a couple more times (plus dinner) before bed time. Sometimes, I can't resist barking at some strange noises, but foster mom squirts me with water..so I'm learning to not bray at the neighbors... BAOOOO....