3/30/12 my week with Pinterest :)

Hello all,

how has your week been?  mine has been up and down with the job hunting and interviews and all.  Here are some of my wonderful Pinterest finds for this week…..

Zombie bedding – Really I love this!!  (click photo for original site)

kitty and tree tattoo – this is amazing (click photo for original site scroll about halfway down)

tree and bird tattoo – I would actually rock something like this (click on photo to go to original image)

a tub made out of stone --- I would love to just turn on some calm music, dim the lights and add bubbles and just relax for a couple of hours here (click image for original site it is about 2/3 down)

and finally, how amazing is this scrapbook???  I am going to try making something similar (click photo for original site)

and that is some of my week on Pinterest.  if you would like to follow my boards click here and if you need an invitation to Pinterest leave me a message and I will send you one.

until tomorrow,

peace and luv to all

laura

3/29/12 Digital Scrapbooking–inspiration

Hello all,

today’s page is for a sister/friend Corey in PA.  One of the boys from the local high school football team (which her son played on until he went to college) died in a car accident over the weekend so she emailed me some photos and info and asked me to come up with a couple pages for her and for her to share with any and all who want them.

here is the first page I did, it includes info from his obituary

I hope you like it as much as she did,

until tomorrow, peace and luv to all

laura

3/28/12 My week in review

Hello everyone, this is actually two weeks in review since I missed a week.  In the last two weeks we have had some crazy weather – seriously, rain, hail, snow, sun – all in one day.  We also had William’s birthday party.  He had so much fun playing with his cousins as well as opening his presents.  He loved blowing out the candle on his cake too since he has been practicing that.  He got an awesome dinosaur train (from the PBS show) that goes on a track and has Buddy, Tiny and the Elvis one who sings the Dinosaur Train song.  He LOVES it.  I am looking for a job again which is a full time job in and of itself.  But I am optimistic as always that I will have something sooner rather than later.  It is amazing how few clothes I actually have left to wear for interviews and work now that I have lost so much weight.  But that is ok, I will just take a portion from each paycheck and get one or two new items of work appropriate attire for the first couple months.  I have met with a couple of agencies so far and am applying to jobs that I feel I truly would be an asset to that are in the areas that I would like to be in. 

this last weekend was AMAZING saturday I had a girls day with my sister – we went to the roller derby then when it was over at about 10 we hit the theater for the last showing of the Hunger Games.  I loved the book and the movie was amazing too.  And as for the roller derby – I love it!!  once I am really settled in life I will chose a nearby team and start being a volunteer even if it is just for the merchandise table.  then sunday I went to the park with sammy and rich and william for family day.  it was fun to sit back and watch william play with his parents. 

I have an interview on tuesday evening for a position I would really like in bellevue.  I will try to keep you all posted on what happens with that.

anyway, since I am prepublishing now, I want to get this one going,

until tomorrow,

peace and luv to all

laura

3/27/12 Genealogy–My Heritage

I have been using MyHeritage.com for several years now and it is by far my favorite as far as the layout of the family trees, the reports you can run, and the ease with which you can use it.  I also love that most of it is accessible even if you just have the free account.  I also love that I can have one tree that is my downloaded gedcom from ancestry.com as well as one where I am entering everything by hand making sure I have correct documentation for my facts.  Since I have a very large extended family – steps and such – my favorite thing to play with is the all in one chart.  This makes your whole entire tree into one chart that can be printed out or saved as a pdf file.  I love the option of saving charts and reports in pdf format to share with others.  If you haven’t really checked out my heritage yet, I would recommend you at least give it a try.  you have nothing to lose since you can have a free account.

until tomorrow,

peace and luv

laura

3/26/12 Journaling Prompt of the Week

Hello all, this weeks prompt is going to tie in with my All the Fine Details blog which is doing a series of Bucket List prompts right now. 

so on that note, what would you have on your bucket list?

I am not going to really share my actual bucket list on here, but I will say it includes being completely self sufficient as well as a LOT of traveling.

I would love to see the whole US by RV.  I actually dream of this and have been planning it for a couple of years now.  some of the places I will see before I kick the bucket are Mt. Rushmore, the Grand Canyon, Sturgis during Bike Week, all over Kentucky where my family roots are for several generations, ride the train up and down the west coast.  I would love to just give so much up and just be a modern day Gypsy in the US. 

I hope you are all having a wonderful week,

peace and luv

laura

3/25/12 My Heritage, My maternal Grandfather

Hello all, today I will be writing about my maternal grandfather David Claiborne Whitehouse.  David was born in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky on 11 Feb 1914.  He died in San Jose, California on 27 Dec 1975. 

Facts I know about my grandfather:

1. at age 6 his family was living in Denver Colorado and his father was working for the railroad the 1920 Census lists Edward Whitehouse’s occupation as car repair, steam railroad
2. photo of the 1920 census page from Ancestry.com
3. I know my grandfather was an alcoholic and for that reason he moved from Kentucky to California somewhere around the time my mother was born in 1946.  He and my grandmother never actually got divorced and after my mom was grown my grandmother moved and lived with my grandfather in California.
4. It was fun for me when we lived with my grandparents in California to share a birthday with my Pop-Pop.  I really looked up to him not only because of his height, but because he encouraged me to just be me – complete tomboy that I was.  Which was nice since I had a mom and gramma who wanted me to be a girly girl.
5. I know my grandfather had emphysema and it was complications of that that killed him in the end.

There is really a lot I don’t know about him yet, but I will keep digging and find more I am sure.

until tomorrow

peace and luv to all

laura

3/24/12 Dungeness Cemetery, Sequim, WA

Hello all, today I am talking about the Dungeness Cemetery in Sequim, WA.  I actually discovered this cemetery when leaving the Olympic Game Farm with the nephews.  When Jaymee and I went back later in the summer to explore it, it was pretty dried out (yes, believe it or not western Washington does get dried out in the summer) but I think that added to the beauty of the old stones in it.  The funny stories that stick in my mind are, first, there was one stone that had one corner in the back coming out of the ground so I kept avoiding it saying that the zombies might come out at any moment from there.  I think that is hilarious, Jaymee, no so much, but that is ok she still loves me and still takes me to cemeteries.   There was also an area with like a whole bunch of angels and statues, all we can figure is they moved them when they mowed and just didn’t have them back yet.  I decided this was the cemetery figurine cemetery.  Here is a photo:

See what I mean?  It is just such a random thing to see.  and then my favorite was this stone with a cherub on it laying on its tummy with a bare hiney!  I love this one so much!!

It just really says peaceful thoughts to me. 

well I hope you have enjoyed my little short stories about Dungeness Cemetery.

until tomorrow,

peace and luv to all

laura