tudo ao mesmo tempo agora

POD 20/03/08, originally uploaded by michellefilo.

Photo of the day, Mateus with his bunny ears, parading at his child care.

I feel like a little portuguese, so excuse me my english speaking friends ;)

4 da manhã... ai ai.. isso tem que parar né? eu não vou conseguir continuar ficando acordada até duas, três, quatro da manhã trabalhando o dia inteiro e cuidando da casa sem empregada, ou babá, ou família por perto pra me dar um descanso. O Alex ajuda muito, mas também tem MUITO serviço.

Fiquei com dor de cabeça na quarta de noite, ignorei, fui dormir e acordei com ela hoje de manhã.

Sai do serviço um pouco mais cedo, porque tava fogo de ficar na frente do computador, cheguei em casa mas mal deu tempo de almoçar e arrumar as coisas, já tive que sair pra pegar o Mateus.

Pra quem não sabe, aqui a aula começa 9AM e termina 3PM, e como o Mateus esta na Pré escola, ele só vai de Quinta e Sexta, Segunda e Terça ele vai pra creche pra eu trabalhar (e quarta eu fico com eles em casa)

Mas voltando ao assunto, passei pra pegar uma calça do Alex na lavanderia e não estava pronta. Para não perder a viagem, eu e Mateus sentamos pra comer um lanche, na frente da padaria mesmo, rapidinho porque já tinhamos que ir para a creche dele, onde ele ia desfilar de coelhinho.

Com a dor de cabeça "bombando", fui pra lá. Fiquei com preguiça de trocar a lente da máquina, bobeira, 90% das fotos ficaram desfocadas por causa disso, mas algumas se salvaram... Foi gostoso ver ele pulando de coelhinho, com certeza, pra variar, a criança mais "empolgada" era ele, hehe uma graça.

Peguei o Lucas, esse nem queria papo com as decorações de Páscoa, até tenho umas fotos dele tentando tirar a mascara, se eu lembrar depois mostro.

Cheguei em casa rezando pro Alex aparecer logo, tudo que eu queria era uma cama. Quando ele chegou eu fui me deitar por uma horinha, e a dor deu uma melhorada. Depois da janta, sentei pra ver TV com o Alex, com as crianças já dormindo, conseguimos ver 5 episodios de BattleStar Galatica (geek alert!) que já faz mais de ano que a gente quer ver.

Meia noite o Alex foi dormir e eu queria colocar minha "vida online" em dia, já que na noite anterior não consegui e as coisas vão se acumulando. Não fiz scrap nem nada, só li blogs e forums e coloquei minhas fotos no computador, etc. A dor de cabeça que já tinha passado, agora voltou, ok, obvio, não dormir e ficar tanto no computador esta me dando dor de cabeça, saquei.

Estou também refletindo que o meu tempo com as crianças hoje foi prejudicado por essa dor de cabeça, então não é só o mal estar físico que esta me incomodando, isso de eu ter ficado mal e não ter curtido eles direito também me incomoda.

Tudo isso pra perguntar, como é que eu faço pra não desistir de tudo isso que eu quero fazer online, mas também ter uma vida mais "normal"???? Scrap pra mim, só depois da meia noite.... como é que eu faço pra dormir antes da meia noite mas não deixar de fazer scrap? O que mais eu corto? CTs? Blogs? Forums? Nem sei mais.... Alguem me vende 10 horas a mais por dia? rs.

4:25... além de tudo sou lerda pra digitar, rsrs e isso aqui virou um livro, deixa eu ir!

Assinado: Mushy, feliz porém cansada ;)

More LOs

New LDD Hybrid team

Michelle Coleman has plans for creating a Hybrid projects creative team at LDD. Guess who she invited to the team???

OMG I am soooooooooo happy!!! She saved me a lot of begging I was going to do to stay on LDD's creative team. I started there as a guest and now I will stay permanently. So, to "celebrate" I did my first post to the LDD’s blog this week. I shared a little Easter project and to make your life easier, I am sharing the template as a freebie. Hope to see lots of these little bags popping around the place.

easterbags, originally uploaded by michellefilo.

Note: Remember this project? Stay tunned to the LDD blog for it ~ oh, ok, I promise to post it here too :)

Latest LOs

I have been all "hybrid" lately. So much so that I forgot to post my latest LOs :) so here are a couple:
(you can click on photos to follow link to Flickr for credits)

its official - guest at LDD

I know I already mentioned, but now it is official, *here is the post* announcing me as a guest in the Little Dreamer Designs' Creative Team this month :)

POD 13/03/08

POD 13/03/08, originally uploaded by michellefilo.

Your first year ~ CD album

While I am not able to share my Easter project, I’ll show you something I did today. It is Canberra Day here, a holiday, and I had the perfect project for a lazy Monday holiday.

So, it is the first time I do one of those CD albums, I have read many tutorials but where were they when I needed? LOL I have a feeling I did things differently, so I am going to share and you let me know if there is an easier way to do things ok?’

First, I printed out my lovely pages (created from my quickpage album with Lili) on photographic paper sized A4. To get the 8X8 pages to the right CD size, I resized them to 60% of their original size inside a A4 sized document in Photoshop.


I cut my pages to size (real quick ~ with scissors, I didn’t have to worry too much about cutting straight yet). I lightly sanded my CDs with sanding paper (so the paper doesn't slip), I thought it would be easier to glue things together like that.


Then I coated one side of the CD with modge podge and I put that side on top of my cover. (for those who don’t know, modge podge is like glue)


With a craft knife I trimmed the excess paper off the sides (real easy because the CD acts as a stencil)


Modge podge the other side, glue to the first page. You may noticed it is easy to keep the pages facing the right direction when they are square :)


Repeat this for all your other pages. I had two going at a time to give some time for the modge podge to dry (or else the page might slip off the CD, and you don't want that to happen when you are cutting).

Ok, that was the easy part, now onto the hard part. I spent the whole afternoon yesterday looking for a crop a dile. I could NOT find one here in Canberra. Since I didn’t want to wait till whenever I can get one online (which I am doing tonight!!) I decided to go for the hand drill to make my holes. Gosh that was messy! I wrecked some of the holes a little because the cordless drill was loosing power, and I didn’t notice that was why it was all weird (well, weird, like, not making holes anymore LOL). Anyway, sorry I don’t have pictures, but it was impossible to drill and have my camera anywhere near ;)

So, here are the pages without the messy holes:


And the finished album:


















Font for journaling is PookieDoo by Darcy Baldwin.

Hope you like it! Let me know if you have any questions, and if you do, please leave a way I can contact you :)

POD 06/03/08

POD 06/03/08, originally uploaded by michellefilo.

can't wait to share this little project :)

First Steps

Yesterday I mentioned Lucas took his first steps and my sister almost killed me for not telling her first ;)
So here it is sis, the video:


How lucky are we to have both our kids' first steps on video??? It was just luck really. We were on a video conference with my mom when Mateus decided to take his first steps. And Lucas was a little overdue and we were just filming him standing up on his own. He simply decided if he could stand up he could move forward, and off he went! I am happy for my little one!

Today is my "day home with the kids" and I managed to do the housework and just finished cooking dinner. But I am not happy I didn't manage to play with Scrapbooking like I intended to... maybe tonight :)

Happiness overload

Where do I start, it is only the 4th of March and the month is already one of the best I had in a long time. Oh well, nothing is absolutely perfect, but you know how people say the universe conspires? Well, I think the universe just wants me to be happy :)

You know how happy I am about the quickpages, just having stuff with my name out there makes me happy! Then I was over the moon when I found out last week I was going to be guest Dream girl for the month of March at Little Dreamer Designs. I think these hybrid projects did the trick:



More happy
Then today I got a PM letting me know that I am the week’s featured scrapper at DigiShopTalk. I just love the place, it is THE hub for scrappers ALL over the world. It is neautral ground where everyone gets to show their stuff and I just can't believe I will be one of 52 lucky ladies to be featured this year! I mean, talk about lucky!!!

I truly truly cannot believe all this has happened just now, when I needed most :)

Even more happy
I went back to work today. I went to work after spending pretty much 16 months at home with the kids. You might remember the struggle it was when I tried to go back to work in April last year, how conflicting it was to want to go back and at the same time having Lucas not adapting to childcare, etc. Today was a WHOLE different ball game. I was happy from the word go, I dropped the kids off in this new childcare I am thinking it is great. They provide EVERYTHING, nappies, food, milk, bibs, and even extra clothes if needed. I don’t have to worry and I did not worry. Mateus was just so excited about it and he LOVED the place, almost as much as he loves pre-school. Once I got to work, it was such a downpour of smiles and excitement that I just couldn’t help feeling a bit teary. It was such a warm welcome, every 5 minutes someone would stop at my desk to celebrate my coming back to work. I even got actual work done, which I was very proud of! I didn’t think I could catch up so quickly, but it felt like a never left.

Ok, to finish of this long post, I have to catch up with DD's community photo of the day project:

1. excitement 2. addiction (chocolates) 3. Lucas’ first steps (yeah, talk about HAPPY, we caught it on camera and we have a video too, wooohoo) 4. on the way to work.