Iphone App's

The best part about meeting someone with an Iphone is comparing apps. I'm always amazed at the new stuff I find, new features I learn about when meeting fellow Iphonie's, as I lovingly refer to them! I think I have close to 100 Iphone apps on my phone, but of course I don't use them all on a regular basis, I do have my favorites! I'm constantly on the look out for new apps to download, so I thought as I research and find good apps that I enjoy I will start posting on here for my fellow Iphone users! So to kick things off, here's a new one I found that is really for no other purpose but for sheer amusement, but now that I said that actually it might be of good use to some . . . The app is called Scanner911. This is not the first police/EMS scanner that I have downloaded but it is by far the best with the most features!




It has a "Hot 100 List" where you can hear scanners that are the really active all the time. You can record scan's you hear. This app can even locate you and tell you what scanners are around you. You can label your favorite scanners so you can always go to those. In the setting's tab you can even change your scanner's skin. It lets you know which scanner's are offline. But my favorite part is you can play this app in the background while you are using other app's. I love background noise whether its music or TV when I'm creating or working I want something in the background and this works awesome! PS It even has 4 Haiti Scanner's!

Food

Everyone must see this short film, Food Inc. It completely changed the way I think about food. Its amazing the things we don't know about the food industry and the FDA!
I rented my copy from Netflix but I'm sure you could rent it from blockbuster's too.
Here's the main web page for the film
And here's the official trailer . . . .

CHA

They just had the CHA (Craft and Hobby Association) Trade Show in Anaheim CA. So for us scrapbookers that means new stuff is coming!!! I've been drooling over all the new stuff and thought I would share some of what I found . . . So you can drool too!

Here's a video of Tim Holtz demonstrating his new die cutting machine



SevenGypsies
Maya Road

And would you believe you can decorate cakes with the new Cake Decorating Cricut! Apparently some cake decorators were already using the regualr cricut to do this, Then Provo Craft decided to come out with this new machine that can be taken apart and cleaned. Here check it out on this blog, Obsessed with Scrapbooking



Here's a great blog to get a sneek peek, she went and took lots of photos! Torendi

Here's where you can check out all the new Prima stuff coming out!For the love of life

Quest to find Snow!

December 23rd, we headed out to spend Christmas in the mountains of North Carolina!

On our way up this was our first sighting of snow, the kids were squealing and wanted to get out right then and play in it. We had to explain to them we were still going up the mountain and there would be plenty of snow higher up!



This is where we stayed,Iron Horse, Jerry and some of his buddies had stayed here in the Spring when they went on a motorcycle trip and he became friends with the manager so that's how it came about us going here for Christmas.



Our Cabin

This is what we walked into . . . We were so happy to see a tree! Jerry had went out bought a tree and decoration and shipped it up. He paid the cleaning crew to put it up so he could surprise us with it!



Here's some more pictures of the cabin . . .




Christmas Eve we were headed out to go snow tubing this was taken on the wrap around porch.


This was the view from our Cabin


Summer coming down in the tube!


On Christmas Day after we opened all the presents we headed further up the mountain to find some white fluffy snow so that we could make a snowman!



The snow we found was the white fluffy kind but what you can't see in all our pictures is just how cold it was, it was freezing and windy! I snapped this picture of J.J. just as he was complaining about how it was so cold his face was burning! Evidently though it wasn't cold enough for him to go sit in the heated truck!



Kids toasting with apple cider!





We took the lifts up the mountain in Gatlinburg, TN. This is J.J. and Jerry



Me and the kids at the top over the lookout point



Had to do some shopping while we were there, here's Summer showing off her purse she bought with the money her grandma sent her. Yes, its Elvis, she and my niece love anything Elvis!



We took one day and went to Cataloochee Ski Resort so the kids could go snowboarding.




On the way out I snapped this photo . . . this stream runs through the property, its so beautiful up here. Can't wait to come back!

I Won!

I'm so excited I won a spot in Shimelle's class "Journal your Christmas"! I love to visit Rhonna's blog and I have to admit I hardly ever enter comments to "win" prizes on blogs, I'm really pessimistic when it comes to winning prizes and things but I really wanted to take Shimelle's Class so I entered on Rhonna's Blog and won!

I'm actually done with the "Holiday's in Hand" class I didn't blog about every single day because most of the day's were preparation but my plan was to combine the "Holiday's in Hand" class with my "December Daily" Album inspired by Ali Edwards design. So now that I'm taking Shimelle's class I think I'll combine that also and custom make this album for me and to my liking! I will be posting pictures soon!

Day Two-Holidays in Hand

Ok for Day two our assignment was to print out our prompt cards and display them! So I made a clipboard to display mine on.

Day One - My Holiday Values

As you may have already read from my previous post, I'm taking Jessica Sprague's Online Class entitled Holidays in Hand. So the first assignment was to post in your journal or your online blog what your holiday values are, those things we treasure most and the hopes we have for ourselves and our families during the holiday season.


In reflecting back on the Christmas holiday's I experienced as a child there were certain traditions that I'll always remember and so my hope for my family is that we make our own special holiday traditions, ones my kids can reflect upon as they get older and feel comforted by them.

1.Create lasting Traditions

2.Have a calmer more peaceful Christmas, Which means I need not to stress so much about the little things because we all know when Momma is calm everyone seems to be calmer and at peace.

3. Teach my kids about giving to others. As a family I would like to make up some packages for the troops or maybe for toys for tots, regardless I want to take the kids and let them pick the gifts out and wrap and deliver them.

Holiday Projects

Just saw that Jessica Sprague is starting a Holiday Class and best of all its *free*! She says you don't need to know photoshop or Elements! I just signed up, thought I would share with my bloggers!

Holiday's in Hand




Also I'm working on Ali Edward's book . . .Its a December Daily Album basically you start your foundation of your book now and you have 25 pages or more so that when Dec. 1st rolls around you can easily add photo's and journal the whole month of December as a way to stop and remember the Holidays!

Halloween Happenings

I have three things I wanted to blog about: My Spooktacular Crop, My trip to Venice, Italy and Halloween so before I get too far behind I'll just start with the most recent and work my way back . . .

We had a really fun Halloween with lots of friends coming over and going trick or treating with us! We rented some semi-scary movies ate junk food and stayed up late! Here's some pictures . . .

Here's some random pictures of our Halloween Decorating!



My oldest (soon to be 13) decided this was the year he would quit dressing up and would stay home and hand out candy, I'm hoping he'll change his mind for next years to come because I still dress up every year! So below is my daughter and youngest son.





Here's Me in my costume, I bought this cape and mask in Venice, Italy. It came with an authentic certificate because alot of times mask are shipped in and are not made locally anymore.

Pumpkin Cutie

Wished I had more time to work on Halloween Decorating, I would love to make this . . . but no time :-( I leave Saturday for Italy so I'm not going to complain too much :-)
So for those of you with more time I thought this was so cute . . .



Here's the link to a tutorial!