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Simon and Felicity are playing with their new foam swords they got from Christmas. After a while Felicity puts on this really pretty coat I found at the thrift store and says “Simon, this jacket makes it harder to hit me.”

Simon responds with “Oh yeah, well my sword gives me +200 health and regenerate”.

*WHACK WHACK WHACK*

“Oh yeah! Well my jacket gives me regenerate TOO!” says Felicity.

“Stop playing Calvin ball Felicity!” yells Simon.

*sighs*

made some paper bows that are meant to decorate gifts. The instructions I found here. What I did was take my favorite swirly christmas stamp and used grey and green inks on red cardstock. I’m very pleased with the results.

I realized that I had taken some pictures of my first few real attempts at doing scrapbooking pages. I’m still getting the feel for layouts, color schemes. Also what I like and don’t like. The following are the first few from the Jekyll Island trip.

OK, this is the OMG PINK page. Still, it went so well with the picture and is so VERY Felicity.
Its hard to read in the picture, but I really liked the circular journaling in this one.

This one I just love. The postcard I had left over went SO well with the layout I had to use it. The top of the card I used for journaling has a clear stamp from a “Travel” collection of Inkadoo.

This one is my ‘black’ design. I tried to do a “sand” look on the lettering, but unfortunately I had the wrong kind of sand and glue. Its sort of coming off. The background picture is one that was so stark, it was almost black and white, so I printed it out in black and white on a light lavender cardstock. There’s a setting on the printer that does a minimal inking of the image. I thought it turned out really well and pulled the other two pictures together.

This one gave me some trouble. I ended up loving it though. I like the ovals with the offset matting that i used for journaling. The “surf” sticker on there did not originally have a starfish. It was in a little box of trinkets i’d had lying around for years. I just glued it onto the sticker.

So that’s what I’ve done so far. I have some projects stewing in the back of my mind and SO many awesome photos to work with. Despite my struggle with bitterness and depression this time of year, I’ve put on a happy face for the kids and taken a few good pictures for future creative fodder. In the meantime, I’ve budgeted about 10-15 dollars a week for “craft supplies” (for now, it will be less to none soon if daecon doesn’t get a job).

So, after my old aquarium heater broke and caused the temp in my tank to go up to almost 120 degrees (F), I decided to spring the 50 bucks on a GOOD heater. One not made out of glass. Having 15 dead fish all of the sudden tends to put one in a bad mood.

I did a good water change on both fish tanks. Found out the heater was unplugged completely on my angel fish tank. Water needs to be between 75-80 degrees. It was at 65. No WONDER they were unhappy. Its now on the mend and with the temp up two degrees. Already they are more active.

With those things taken care of, we decided to get some new fish. I normally go to a locally owned store called Atlantis Aquariums. Its a small hole-in-the-wall that’s been there so long its literally crusty. Mostly from years of moisture and evaporation. Also, they have a parrot. A cantankerous old parrot named Mrs. McGee. She was a Mister, but then she laid eggs. So really she’s a Miss, since as far as I know she’s never had a mate. I took a picture of her today, since she was inside and not in her cage. She’s happiest sitting outside on her big perch over the koi pond in the front of the store, but it was too cold for that.

Here she is: