I can’t believe it, really, I can’t.  Today, June 16, 2007 I finished my “Best of 2005″ album.  HA HA, yes smarty pants, you read that correctly… 2005.  Hey it was a good year and apparently deserved A LOT of attention.  Really all I had left to do was fill in the journaling, and although that went by really quickly, I had been putting it off for a long time.  Obviously!

The concept behind this album was to take some of my favorite photos from 2005 and journal the date and the memory that went with each photo.  One page for photo, and one page for journaling, and that makes up the whole album.  Simple concept really, thanks to Ali Edwards, who showed me how to make it all come together.

The album itself if a 7gypsies chipboard album cover with green paint.  The flower design on the top was done by placing a Heidi Swapp mask down before painting, so that the chipboard shows through.  Mind you I did this a year ago, lol, and that was probably my first time using the masks.  The rest of it is all made up of paper, stickers, stamps, ribbon, and transparency sheets.  Plop it all together, finish the darn journaling and TA-Da, the Best of 2005 Album.

Now that we’ve addressed that, let me tell you that with the exception of finishing that album the rest of my day stunk.  Denny is working today and has been there all day and will be there apparently into the evening.  I had a 14 hour corp today, which I made a 30 minute appearance at with Shelby, then paid my $50.00 crop fee and left.  Now I’m sitting here, aggravated and missing Denny.  He called and asked when I “wanted” him to come home.  Well how does he expect me to answer that, I mean really?  That is a no win isn’t it.  Kinda like when you ask your significant other if the dress you are wearing makes you look fat.  In my case, the real answer would cheese me off, and the fake answer would too, as I would know he was lying through his teeth in an attempt to spare my feelings.  So I have the smarts not to even ask those kind of questions.  So I said all I could think to say, “Do what you want?”  I’m sure to anyone other than Denny, that comment might have come off slightly obnoxious if not down right nasty.  Lucky for me, and for him, he knows me well enough to know that I have reached a point where I don’t care either way.  I mean my plans are already shot, and I’m most of the way through the day anyway, so what is a few more hours at this point right?  It was then that he informed me that he would be working all day tomorrow too.  :???:   Like I said, a stinky day.

On the up side I finished my album and my cousin is in town for Texas as of today.  I saw her a few weeks after Shelby was born when we were in Las Vegas for a trade show.  We meaning, Shelby and I.  Yes, I took her to Vegas.  No, she didn’t pose with any show girls.  But, she did pose with Heidi Swapp, whom mysteriously turned up pregnant a short while later with baby Capri.  Coincidence?  Shelby is cute, and Heidi made a comment to her hubby, “Aww I want another one!”  So think what you want about that, lol.  Anyway, so that was the last time I saw my cousin.  She was living in Vegas at the time and is now back in Texas.  As of today, she is here for a little while, although I have yet to get the chance to see her, but hopefully the kids give me that chance later on today.

Time to move the sprinkler, and then I’ll have to hunt for another “almost finished” project to wrap up.  Try it, you’ll be all impressed with yourself and totally in love with that accomplished feeling!!

~j