The Life of Mrs Magoo

Spring Cleaning

Hello Spring!! Hello everyone!! For those that still this old blog, I'm glad and thankyou. As of late, I have been enjoying my two weeks of Spring Break. Tomorrow is my last day and then it's back to work on Monday. I don't really mind, I have already been planning in my head of all the things I need to do and prepare on Monday.

I have been enjoying my two weeks off. It's been much deserved. The last couple of months have been very busy and a bit stressful. Starting a new job and trying to get into the groove of things does that to you. But I do think after having two semesters under my belt,this last semester will be an easier one. I have been enjoying lots of reading, catching up with my PVR, seeing family and friends, lots of cleaning and purging. That feels good. And also we finally got a new computer (no laptop yet, hopefully soon) so, everytime I'm on the computer I don't feel the need to throw it out the window out of frustration. So, with the coming of a new computer I have plans to be blogging to a bit more regular.

(photo from my Garden last Summer, 2011)

Hope you're all having a wonderful week!! Be back soon :)

hello there.

I'm still here. And I'm back now. Except for the about once a week, Today's Harvest post over the summer and the beginnings of the fall I haven't really been around on my blog. Even my cupcake blog has been a little quiet but, that doesn't mean I haven't been baking. Quite the opposite actually, lots of baking and trying out new recipes, which I will be sharing on the blog soon. Along with a whole bunch of other stuff, life and everything in between.  I don't even know if anybody reads this anymore either. But I am back and I have missed blogging. I have lots of posts that I will share soon. I hope everyone is doing good and life is treating you well.

A bientot!

Val :)

A little bit of a hiatus...

Because I have disappeared a bit from blogland for awhile now, here are some photos of my life right now and what I have been doing. Figuring things out but I will be back with a real blog post both here and my Cupcake blog. Hope life is treating you well.

happy friday!!

How has your week been? Mine has been good. It's my last week of Summer Break. I go back to set up the class next week, but I think it's only one day or two. I will probably find out this weekend.

I have been out and about enjoying time with family and friends. And in my garden, being creative and doing some work too. Speaking of work, I have some really exciting news that I hope to share soon. It's amazing!!

What do you have planned for the weekend? I have some time with my nieces, a massage, and hopefully some time to be creative. And hubby time. Have to enjoy all the free time I have left 'cause come September it'll be back to normal. ugh. Kind of.

Have a good weekend!! And I leave you with a photo from my garden!! Yum, my crop!!

still here...

Sorry for the lack of blogging, I've been enjoying my summer. Hanging out with family and friends, gardening, enjoying the sun, cleaning, organizing, baking no time for blogging. Or maybe I should say too lazy to post. That's more like it. I will come back and share some photos of my summer so far!!

But first, if you're looking to see a movie go watch this:

Awesome movie. So cute and funny. And I love Steve Carrell.

Happy Monday!!

today

I had a good work session with Tanya, made a couple of notebooks for our business.

I am just waiting for my melted chocolate to cool so, I can make some frosting for come chocolate chip cupcakes for my hubby's soccer get together. I'll take some pictures.

Eating my fourth piece of watermelon right now, so good.

Looking forward to the bbq tonight!!

I'll be back with more!! Have a good Wednesday night!!

hello stella!!

After waiting for awhile and saving, Jared and I finally made our first big purchase. We bought a brand new car, a 2010 VW Jetta TDI. Isn't she absolutely gorgeous?! We were choosing between a couple of makes, and we settled on this one. I love driving her and look forward to driving her too...

I just love the color. I can see some road trips happening soon for sure!!

Being...

Hi!! So, I'm back. The past month and a half has been one of the most difficult times in my life. And I am very lucky to have an amazing husband, family and friends who have been so very supportive. So, without going into too much detail I just want to say, that I am doing better and happy to be getting back to life.

On that note I wanted to share some scrappy pages that I haven't shared yet and that I am quite proud of.

This one I did on the weekend, I wrote everything down before my birthday of things and events of my 3oth year. I kind of like the circles, and I used some of my stash. Actually those circles are leftovers from making some Father's Day cards.

And these next few are from the Studio Calico Joyland kit, from the month of April.

The first one is for my love of baking.

One of my sisters, niece and Mom on Mother's Day...the girls!!

And of my cutie niece, Naomi..this is right before she was walking now she walks all over the place. I LOVE this page, this may be one my faves ever!!

The last one of all the girls and trying to take a photo with the camera self timer.

I love making those twirly flowers and the doily banner I cut it out of the Studio Calico patterned paper, so pretty!! I may have to make a couple more pages with some more of those.

That's all I have for today, will be back with more posts for sure, especially now that I am on Summer Break.

Have a good Monday!!

Monday

How was your weekend? Mine was good. Did a bit of work on Saturday over at Tanya's. It was good. Some grocery shopping and then I got sucked into playing my new DS game. Yes, I'm a geek. I have been obsessed playing Farmville over on Facebook and I'm trying to stop playing so, to fill my fix I bought My Farm Around the World. It's kind of similar to Farmville on Facebook but at least I don't sit in front of the computer playing the game. And I also started reading The Time Traveler's Wife, I like it so far.

Saturday night we had an overflow in the bathroom. Not fun. Cleaning at 11pm on a Saturday night is not my cup of tea. I got mad.  Over the past little while my house has been bugging me. Just not happy with it. Too much stuff, not pretty enough. And I've complained a bit. Poor Jared. So, yesterday I did some cleaning and purging, started to anyway. Started with the bathroom. It's about 3/4 of the way done. I have one more cupboard to tackle but my towels look so pretty, rolled up in a line.

This morning I started cleaning a bit the tv room and all I have to say is I have too many magazines. I have to stop buying them. I have started some piles to go through and tear whatever I want to keep, but I know I need to cut back on my magazine spending.

Didn't do any craftyness this weekend either. Did clean my crafty desk a little bit. Hopefully soon.

I did want to share some cool photos I found over at we heart it. I'm probably one of the last people to discover this website but there are so many inspiring photos. makes you think and some are so pretty too. Here are some that I have recently heart.

                               all images from weheartit.com

Aren't the photos so pretty? Inspiring me tons for the major Spring cleaning happening over here.  Tell me some blogs or websites that you find inspiring!!

Have a good Monday!!

it calms me...

 I just LOVE to bake. It totally calms me, and relaxes me. I love playing with all the ingredients, mixing and stirring and making something delicious. I had time this morning before going to work to make some Meringues, this is take two. And they turned out.

They look delicious. I hope they are.

I will be back with my post on seeing the Olympic torch on Tuesday, so exciting!!