1 Year of Blogging - wow!

1 year of Blogging, wow! That's hard to believe that this month last year I started my bLog. Looking back over the past year, its amazing to see what you have done and your life entries. Its very fun! I'm so glad I started blogging and hope to be doing this next year at this time for 2 years.......so much fun!

Thanks to my friend Missy online who also blogs, and where I got the idea from. Thanks Missy.

I have had about 232 entries in 1 year, so I did miss a few days there, but that's alot to read over and remember.

Have a great weekend!

New Toys

Here are my latest toys that I wanted to share with everyone. I am trying to expand my business by making things myself, instead of buy and reselling all the time. I make alot of PUNCH ART pieces for Girl & Boy Scouts and therefore, I'm very creative. I will have to post some of my artwork this weekend.

Anyways, I purchased 2 new machines that are allowing me to cut my own pieces, some pieces I would buy from another business and use in my artwork. This way I can do it myself and save some money. The cost I already put out for these machines are back in my pocket in a month's time so it was worth the investment. They are such fun cooL tools for scrapbooking and cutting.
This machine (above) is called the SIZZIX die cutting machine. You put a die plate underneath it (its very heavy by the way) and pull the handle down, it instantly cuts the cardstock into the shape........I only use a few plates with this so far. Its very fun, kids love it. (If your interested in buying one, email me personally wendyL@thegspatch.com they are about 65.00 retail plus shipping) I can ship one to you no problem.

This machine is new! and I love it....well worth the money I paid for it and I won't mention how much but put it this way, it was an investment. Xyron WishbLade. If your interested in one as well, email me, my local scrapbook store probably can get one and ship to you, but may take some time to do so. They are very popular and hard to get right now. This machine cuts anything you want with paper, vellum, even fabric they say ---- shapes, words, letters -anything you can create on your computer. Its great! and has made my business expand big time. I cannot wait to keep learning more about this machine and what it can do!

Highly recommended.

Well, gotta get back to work.......my machines are going through withdraw, or should I say I am.

You can check my website out at www.thegspatch.com I am adding new items weekly.

Surprise Photos

I was deleting photos today from our one camera disc and I found this picture that I know i didn't take and the guilty one is................T A Y L O R!!!!! She must have been sneaking pics in this week, and the lovely photo is Smokey.

Today's Agenda

Today's agenda plans to do some errands. I just didn't realize how important transportation is when you don't have a car. I have had my car sitting for almost 7 months now unable to figure out why it won't run, my mechanic is even at his wits end, guess its time to junk the red beast,although it still looks good, I cannot afford to have it sit any longer. But that's a whole nother story..............

I plan to do some errands today, go to the bank, post office and Wal-Mart. I have my mom's car today and I'm going to take advantage of it. Steve is just working too long hours, 10-12 hrs per day and hours that I cannot get errands done unless its a wal-mart run which is open 24 hrs a day and who wants to go shopping at midnight.....not me.
So, Taylor and I plan to head out soon as I get some packages addressed, labeled and taped up. I need to make sure I get all supplies and food today for a few days, cause Steve's schedule again next week looks full.

I just appreciate having a car, and thanks mom for letting me borrow it.........soon I will be getting a new one, even if its a small cheap car, something to get me from the house to Wal-Mart and back, that's all I need. My cars inspection and tags run out this month and end of April so I have to figure something out soon. I have 1 last option, a new computer for my car, which I found one on eBay that is guaranteed to work and can be returned if needed.....its only 30.00, so I'm willing to try 30.00 more before I junk it, although my mechanic told me not to waste anymore money on it........I only really put about 50.00 in it since it let me sit last Aug/Sept. So, I don't think that's too bad.

I've really been slacking on my blogging lately, I'm only blogging maybe 2x per week now, I'm just busy trying to get my website going, I'm trying to slack on ebay and get my site running steadily. But its not working, I'm working more now than ever. But soon I'll have it all ready and can reLax.

Well, its already 10:00 a.m. and I must get going. Have a great weekend!

2 by 2 Questions of the Day

I borrowed this 2 by 2 Survey from a friends blog:

It’s a Two-by-Two survey.

2 by 2 Questionaire:

Answer with things that are relevant to you RIGHT NOW.

Put your answers in the comments section of my blog, or post to your own blog.

Two Names You Go By
1. Mommy
2. Wener

Two Things You Are Wearing Right Now
1. Jeans
2. Dress shirt

Two Things You Have in a Relationship:
1. Love
2. Trust

Two of Your Favorite Things to Do
1. Swim
2. Scrapbook

Two Things You Want Very Badly At The Moment
1. WARM WEATHER!!!!!
2. Pizza Hut Pizza & Breadsticks yum! (haven't had in months)

Two Pets You Had
1. Cat named Smokey
2. Dog named Penny (years and years ago) like 30 yrs ago


Two Things You Did Last Night
1. Worked on Paper Bag Albums all night long
2. Watched DEEP WATER 2: ADRIFT (movie)

Two Things You Ate Today
1. TURKEY/CHEESE sandwich
2. Brownie (just made last night) yummo!

Two People You Last Talked To
1. Steve
2. My Mom

Two Favorite Places
1. Home In PA
2. Swimming Pool

Two Things You're Doing Tomorrow
1. Working on orders
2. Taking a walk, high 60's temps tomorrow, yeah!

Two Longest Car Rides
1. York, PA to NEW ORLEANS, LA
2. York, PA to TAMPA, FL

Two Favorite Holidays
1. Christmas
2. Halloween

Two Guilty Pleasures
1. Miller Light Beer
2. Wendy's Cheeseburger

Two Things that Make Me Laugh
1. Ellen (so so funny!)
2. Watching Roseanne, love her since the 80's.

Two Things I Last Got in the Mail
1. Pair of MUDD BOOTS, love 'em! Taylor & I share 'em now. Same size.
2. Pair of Adidas Softball Cleats for Taylor's spring softball


Glad to took time to read my blog today and have fun reposting it to your emails/blog.

Have a great spring day!

Deep Water 2 : ADRIFT

You gotta see this movie if you haven't already. We belong to NETFLIX.COM and highly recommend to become a member, we rent 2-4 movies a week.......and we watched this movie tonight, "Deep Water 2: ADRIFT." YOu have to see part 1 though to understand, although I guess you could get away without watching it. They are both based on true stories which is totally scarey thinking that they actually went through that.............rent it! You won't be disappointed. Trust me!

Another SNOW STORM

Yes, got another Snow Storm on Friday, all morning and all night it snowed and snowed and snowed. In our area, which was the hardest hit in the southeastern part of Pa in our county's, we got about 9-11" of snow........whoa!

I'm seeing 50's for this week, so please melt away and don't come back!

More Snow

More snow...........yes.........I said the dreaded word I wanted to see no more of this year, SNOW!

We had 75 degree temp's yesterday and now its raining, a little cooler today in the low 60's, and now its to drop to 30's tonight and SNOW 4" of it tomorrow. Its to be a WET SNOW, so not sure what it'll do, keep the kids home? not sure. Keep us home? probably not. Just enough to make a sloppy mess on top of this rain and make winter stick around longer. What a mess!

So, I don't look forward til tomorrow, but hopefully after that, we're done with snow!

Feels Like Spring

Oh, yes, it feeLs like spring today, probably about 65 degrees out there maybe warmer, but when I see 65, its fine to me!

I cannot believe its been almost a week since I blogged, gosh! I'm slacking.

Guess I've been busy and yes I have been. I am trying to keep up with ebay orders and web orders, plus get new inventory in to sell now on my website. I just got a new account with a wholesale supplier for Scrapbooking/Craft items, and I'm trying to figure out what will work on my site. Its so much fun to add new items.

The weather has finally been nice to us the past 2 days. Tomorrow and Thursday we are still looking at high 60's, and 50's but then RAIN is on the way. I didn't get out much today, not much to do out there, still a little muddy and soggy from the past snow and ice we had. WE still have spots of ice/snow out back in our yard in areas where the sun don't shine too much. The kids are outside now and I figured Taylor would try to get her homework done in school so she wouldn't have much to do tonight since the weather is nice. I even must say the front and back doors are hanging wide open and a window cracked in the front living room.............

I'm not getting too excited about the warm weather cause I know they are calling for 40's this weekend, so its not here to stay yet. But I sure will enjoy it as I can the next 2 days.

Happy Springlike weather!

Ok, more Snow!

Ok, more snow........it snowed most of the morning today and afternoon. Its now ended, and I actually saw 56 degrees on the forecast by NEXT week, yeah! I know its a week away but who cares........56 degrees and maybe even 60's I heard.

We got about 3-4" of snow today, nothing major. Mostly light snow and was so easy to shovel. The kids had a blast sledding. Taylor was outside most of the afternoon with the neighbor kids sledding, and she even missed dinner. She really must have had fun, she was late (actually she didn't miss it) but she was not in before dinner asking "When is dinner ready?" I just left her go and have fun........she'll come home when she is hungry I thought, or it'll be getting dark, one or the other.

So, back to schooL tomorrow, another make up day for schooL which stinks cause the kids are now missing all their days off the rest of the year by making up snow days.

Hopefully this is the LAST OF THE SNOW, fingers crossed XXXXXXXXX . I wanted to take photos today but was so busy inside working, I forgot.

More Snow

Can you believe they are calling for more snow tomorrow? I cannot believe this.....I'm so ready for spring, how many times must I say this?

They are calling for 1-4" in our area, which I'm hoping we get 1" or less. If we're lucky.....I'm so sick of WINTER.

PLEASE ***NO MORE SNOW!!!*****

Feeling Better

I'm back, as you see I haven't blogged since Wednesday, that's a good 4 days........I've been trying to take it easy and get this antibiotics to work so this bronchitis goes away. I feel much better after 4 days of med's and although I still have a slight cough and shortness of breath, I'm feeling it going away.

I have so much to do. I'm getting behind on orders even more now, and I'm hoping the next 2 days will help me catch up.

The weather temp's are back to normal they say. We are finally feeling 40-50 degree weather this week, normal temp's. I am so ready for spring as I' ve stated in the past blogs. I am just so ready for warmer weather but not too warm yet, just spring like temp's. I could deal with 60 degree weather year round.

Steve has been working alot lately, he leaves about lunchtime and don't get home til later that night around 10-11:00, they are putting alot of hours in and this week ahead is to be very very busy with banquets every night he said.

I'm so ready to get my car back running too. I looked across the street today and the snow is still around the front of my car, but easily to get to now, and melting slowly --- I'm hoping maybe this week we can put a new fresh battery in it and see if it'll start. Fingers crossed XXXX. I don't want to have to buy a new car. But I do really need my car back.

Ok, well lots to do today so until next time.........have a great Sunday!