Wheeeeee.....

That is the sound that February has made so far. Geez - I thought January was bad but this month has taken it out of me. Too much to do at work and way too much to do crafty wise - I need to look and see where I can cut back as right now, I do not enjoy any of my days. 

It is not fun to come home after a stressful 12 hours to be faced with another stressful four to six hours on the net to get all my assignments done, blogs updated, etc etc. When I took on certain projects I was aware what they would entail and I was confident I would be able to manage. For some weird reason - all my crafty related sites initiated some major happening in the month of Feb, which almost tipped me over the edge to such an extend that I wanted to resign from all of them....but I guess at the end of today, I have everything back on track and I will have to look and see how March fares for me before I make any drastic decisions that I may regret a month later.

Anyhoo - enough with the stressing. Yesterday I decided I would not go online at all and totally ignore my computer. Which meant I was able to complete quite a couple of layouts and cards.

The following is a layout for the recent {Gutter Girlz Challenge}, loved the prompts and I can certainly relate to them all. 

• Prompt: I'm Still Sugar And Spice
• Song: One Of The Boys
• Technique: Ribbons, Bows And Dirty Socks

I have always been a tomboy, but still loved to dress up girlie once in a while. However, to this day I get on better with guys. I don't know what it is but all this make-up, fashion, celeb, shoes, etc girlie stuff TOTALLY bores me to tears. I prefer to talk football, mud, hiking, rock music, beers and how to belch the national anthem of any given country - so I guys I will always stay one of the boys...

I struggled a but with the dirty socks prompt but I am SURE the socks I am wearing in the picture must have been dirty at some stage :)

The picture shows me on my 9th birthday, and what a surprise - hanging with all the boys :). I only invited one girl and that because our parents were friends...

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Ingredients:

Cardstock: Stampin' Up; Papermill

Papers: Upsy Dais Designs - Blossom; Circle of Friends

Stamps, Brads, Rub Ons: Upsy Daisy Designs - Luscious Leaves; It's A Girl Thing; Planes Trains & Automobiles; Blossom

Stickers: Making Memories

Digi Stamp: One Odd Girl - Love Kaylee "Freebie"

I never thought I would be able to include a digi stamp in a layout, even though it was one of my goals for this year, but the Freebie from One Odd Girl made it so easy. She was perfect for this layout and what I love about Kristy's images is that her people actually have noses...ya, don't laugh. There a so many digi images around which show people without noses...what's up with that?? I find that freaky...thankfully Kaylee and Kody are able to smell *wink*