The Life of Mrs Magoo

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I am so happy that it is Friday night. Happy that I have survived the first week back to school. It was hard. I think it's more the getting up early part. So, I am looking forward to sleeping in this weekend. Although I don't know how I will survive next week, when it's a full week and not just 4 days.

Besides doing some relaxing this weekend, and maybe a bit more cleaning and organizing. And some reading and crafting. I am looking forward to fondue tomorrow night with some friends.  It'll be good and delicious!! We are going Gudrun. They are delicious. It'll be good. I will take some photos. So excited!!!!

I hope you have a good weekend.

so thankful that it's a long weekend...

We're celebrating Thanksgiving over here in Canada and I am so looking forward to a 3 day weekend and some time with my family.

It has been a bit of a crazy and overwhelming week and I am looking forward to relaxing and enjoying not only time with family and friends but a little bit of me time. Doing some organizing, rearranging and being creative. Sounds good to me. I just hope that I can kick off this headache and sore throat that are trying to make themselves heard. I don't want to be sick!!

I love this picture of all of us from this past Summer..I love these people so much!!

Have a good weekend and I hope to be back with more to share!!

It's a long weekend....

Labour Day long weekend. Can't believe it's here. Trying to enjoy my last couple of days of summer break before back to reality. That is one of the hard things of being a teacher. Going back to work after having two months off. I love it, and I love having Summer off but, it seems it gets harder every year to go back.  It'll be kind of good to go back to a regular schedule and get a paycheck again. Is it bad that I'm already counting down until the next break, which will be winter.

This weekend is kind of low key.  We have a family dinner to go to and we're probably heading into downtown Vancouver tomorrow to be tourist in our own city, that' s something I've been wanting to do all summer. And doing some grocery shopping. I also have some work to do, some packaging which is always easy in front of the tv. Try to squeeze in some creativeness in there too, which I have some pages to share still.

I will be back soon, with my last post of my photo a day for August. Have a good weekend!!

( My cosmo, Summer 2010)

Monday Catch Up

The craft fair on the weekend went really good. We sold lots. It was awesome to leave with our bags feeling a little lighter. I forgot to take some photos so, I will have to wait and see if Tanya posts any. But today is all about playing catch up with stuff that needs to get done. I have some laundry, and grocery shopping that I need to tackle among a couple of other things on my list. But I leave you a photo of some flowers from my Mom's garden that are sitting on kitchen window sill. I think they're called blue bonnets, very pretty.

Make me happy. I will be back with some scrappy page that I have had sitting here on my desk for awhile and haven't posted yet.

Happy Monday!!

Turn off the lights...

Happy Saturday everyone. Hope it's going good so far. I'm off to Tanya's in a bit to do some work we just got a huge order so, we need to go do some product making.

I did want to remind everyone that tonight is Earth Hour and to make sure you turn off the lights at 8:30pm. I will be participating for sure. It's such an amazing thing to do, to want things to change here on planet Earth. I will be scrapbooking by candlelight hopefully. Or reading. As long as I don't burn anything.

Tell me what are you going to do for an hour of darkness?! Have a good day!!

Happy Spring!!

How's your weekend?! Mine has been good. Especially since I am on Spring Break now. YAY!! A whole week of freedom, it is true bliss. I am looking forward to it. Lots of stuff I want to do!!

Saturday I had a workout sessiong with my youngest sister, Olga. She's in school training to be a personal trainer and getting her kinesiology degree. I have been wanting to go to the gym for a bit now to change up my workout. Whenever I go to the gym i don't know what to do so, I just do th usual cardio machines and some weight machines and that's it. It was getting kind of boring. I need a switch up. So, we did some new stuff yesterday and I have the new workout plan for the next little while. It's good, and I am so sore today. A good thing 'cause then I know it's working!!

After the gym went over to Tanya's and we did some Two Crafty Chicks work and watched a movie. New Moon..love it!! We also wandered around Steveston for a bit, it was such a nice sunny Spring day. Came home and Jared and I got some pizza and watched this movie .

Jared and I both loved it, it was awesome. You should totally watch it.

And today has been lazy so far. Been on the computer for a bit, had my coffee and some lunch. Got to talk to this fabulous girl we had to catch up and plus I love her accent. For the rest of the day do some scrapping, and I need to go get groceries for the week.

Hope you had a good weekend!!

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!!

happy Sunday...

I look forward to Sundays, they're my fave day of the week. I get to sleep in, take my time, relax, do whatever I want day. No work, no nothing. And today was a good day. I enjoyed these two delicious treats, a soy chai and a red velvet cupcake. YUM!!

It's a good thing, I am going to the gym tomorrow morning. Have a good night!!

hello Monday...

I just got home from the gym not too long ago and I'm actually feeling a little disappointed. Didn't quite get a good enough workout, to my standards anyways.  I tried out a new gym, at a different community centre and just didn't like it. Too many people and not enough machines. Could also be that I'm used to my gym and all the machines they have. Spoiled maybe a bit?! So, needless to say I am looking forward to Thursday when I can go back to my gym and get in a good workout.

So, I am sitting here with my coffee and a muffin and I thought I would share some scrappy pages. I got six pages done. Go me!! And it felt good. Ended up not doing any work on two crafty chicks on Saturday so, I had a Saturday off and after grocery shopping and running off to buy more ink for my photo printer I had a chance to sit down and create. And the juices were flowing, it felt amazing. Already looking forward to next weekend when I can make some more.

I used all Studio Calico kits for these pages. I love those kits, love all the goodies in there. They're so inspiring.

All those pages make my heart so happy. It felt good.

Sunday I got to spend some time with my hubby, that was awesome too. We headed to the Bay to get some Olympic gear. We spent way too much, but we're going to look so awesome. Did you know that I live in the area that Vancouver 2010 Olympics are taking place. I've been meaning to do a post with photos from all the Olympic monuments and such going around in the city. Kind of exciting!!

And that was my weekend. Good. And now ready for the week, also looking forward to the weekend too ( I'm bad I know!!). Have a good week!!

OMG...I actually scrapped!!

I did. Saturday  afternoon I made 6 pages with my Studio Calico May kit. And it was good and it felt good to actually make something that was just for fun and not for classes. I could've kept going but, Jared came home and we went out for a bit. So, that's okay. But for sure more will be coming and I will try not next time to leave so much space in between creating stuff for fun versus "work" related. But here is what I made...
 

I did scrap a couple of old pictures. Good memories.

Yum...I just LOVE the happy face!!

So, what did you think? I'm quite happy about them..more to come for sure!!

I think one of the best parts of the weekend is now not only that the weather is nicer and summer is closer but, the time that Jared and I get to spend together. It's all kind of new now especially since his work schedule does not involve weekends so much. So, yesterday we went on a little bike ride around the neighborhood and stopped at Starbucks for some iced teas. It was fun!!

He's on the phone...

Yummy teas, J ared had a Green Tea Lemonade and I had an Iced Soy Chai...YUMMY!

HAHAHA!! A self portrait..not the greatest though...

Jared and I with a timer photo, not the greatest either 'cause it was hard to see with the refelction of the sun, but I love it!!

That's  it for today, hope you all had a good weekend!!