Ahh…as always I hate to see the weekends end. I really enjoy my time home. I did not finish the autograph book though. One of the main reason being that I don’t have a workspace. You know how paper scrapping just need tons of space (or at least I do)?

Since I don’t really have any space to put a desk or money to buy a new one, I had the hubby put my daughter’s small desk in the bedroom for me. I bought the desk for her but she’s not using it at all so here I’m doing something else with it. It’s not big, it’s a kids’ desk but it fits perfect at the end corner of our bedroom. I wanted to make it feel more “homely” so I spent some time re-arranging things and putting up a few pictures so it’ll feel more like a “work space”.

I think it’s getting there but I can always hang more pictures! I just love pictures! Anyway, I’ll take a photo once I feel it’s “ready”.

I did scrapped a bit these past two days, not much but I did something.

credits: jen caputo scallops
tracie stroud pocketful of sunshine
amy martin bugga template

credits: t for me designs quick click minikit
sarah gleason bugga template

credits: amy martin / sarah gleason frogger template
studio taran sugar n spice and everything nice kit

shrek – the whole collection is out on blu ray today. i pre-ordered them for the girls for christmas – it comes out to about $10 per blu ray. we all love shrek here – from the swap to far-far-away and forever after. 3 was pretty forgettable but i love everything else. plus this collection comes with a bonus “donkey’s christmas shrektacula”. i can’t wait to watch these!

also weeks ago, i managed to score the austin powers collection at barnes and noble for $11.37 shipped! fantastic right? i know the austin powers (mike myers ala shrek) humor is not for everyone but i do enjoy it here and there. plus for less than $4 each makes it even sweeter.

we’re all set for a bunch of laughs on christmas morning!

i’m glad for the weekends…i am always. i can sleep later (usually until alex wakes up), laze around in my jammies and enjoy my time with the kids and hubby. my kids can bask in the knowledge that their mommy will be home for two full days. my younger daughter still asks me sometime if i’m going to go to work. i always tell her “No, i’ll rather stay home with you.” that always makes her happy.

this particular morning, i woke up at 5:30am and got some quite time before the kids woke up. i was able to organized all my digital scrapbooking supplies, browse and read some blogs, made breakfast, and think about what i’m going to do later in the morning. so far, this weekend will be a lazy weekend for me. i love those.

i can proudly said that my folders are much neater than before and i can find what i need for the most part. so, between chasing my kids and spending time with them, i was able to scrap a few layouts.

credits: dunia – an easy way template, Honey Designs’ SweetCake kit

credits: Darcy Baldwin Scrapping with Shannon template, Danos Pookie Designs’ Spooked kit

credits: tracie stroud building blocks 3 template and customize me alphas & crystal’s creations’ loves & xoxos kit

credits: scrapping with liz strip template, one little bird abide kit

NOW you see why i simply love love templates???!!! they make my life easier SO much easier and leaves me more time with the kids. i’m positive that my kids love templates almost as much as i do. LOL

on a side note, since i bought my laptop i haven’t really done any backing up. my two external hard drives are hooked up to my desktop and it’s too much of a hassle to uplug it and use it for the laptop. i sorta kept my eyes open for a great deal on a portable drive but nothing really. i mean, there was black friday but i wasn’t keen on being up at 4am, being out in the super cold weather and fight a bunch of people for one.

i did managed to score a WD 640GB portable drive 2.0 USB the other day from dell for about $53 (without coupon including taxes and shipping. it sounds like a great deal and that’s plenty for me right now. this will be my first portable drive so i’m quite excited. not to mention that it’s smaller and usb powered so i don’t have to drag around a power cord.

what a wonderful equation huh?

this is one of my top favorite apps for the captivate. it is really hard for me to read and keep myself up to date on all my favorite stuff. i actually tried about 4 different feed apps on the captivate before i settled on this one. it is very fast, very light and i just love love love it!

i subscribed to all the feeds using google reader and added my reader account to feedjuice. it then pulls every new post from google reader, list them in order of date with the blog name and i pick whichever one i want to read. i can do this without having to be on the computer, anywhere at all. with kids, it is definitely a time saver for me. i know i’ll get every update without trying to remember which is which and when i find a great blog i want to follow, click, it gets added to google reader.

try it out and it just might make you fall in love, again!

http://www.appbrain.com/app/org.robotjuice.feedjuice

i’m still loving my captivate phone! it is such a fun toy…seriously. this is the first smartphone i have and it is neat to play with. amazon had great prices on their phones for upgrades right before thanksgiving that the hubby got one too. two new phones for 1 penny each is not too bad for me.

i have been downloading apps off the Market here and there and have a few favorites. one of my favorite is the google voice that comes standard with all android phones. it’s quite funny that i have never even heard of that before.

what it does is, you sign in using your gmail account, pick a number, any number that is available from google. with that number, you can send text messages, using your existing data (or wifi) plan for free! i don’t text much so i would never pay for text messages but with this feature, i can send as many texts as i want within my data limit. if your friends and families text you back, they’ll have to send it to your google number instead of your cell # so you won’t get charge. the google number forwards everything to your designated number.

you can also choose to dial out using your google voice number as opposed to your cell phone too. i think that would still be using your minutes so i don’t really see the point. you can set up your google voicemail and use that as your cell voice mailbox as oppose to at&t’s. i thought that was really neat. i’m using google’s voicemail box and i really am digging it. google voice can transcript the voicemail messages too if they are clear enough. that way, you can glance at your voicemail to see if it need immediately attention or listen to it later.

i’m sure there are a lot more features to google voice that i don’t know about. i use only the basics, which still offer more options than the default voicemail.

totally recommended! at least give it a try! i think the app have just been approved for the iphones too.

check it out at: http://www.appbrain.com/app/google-voice/com.google.android.apps.googlevoice & http://google.com/voice

It’s that time of the year again and I just want to wish everyone and their love ones a super super happy Thanksgiving!!

I am thankful for every little thing that I have in my life, especially my families and friends. I love you all!
Now, I’m officially off to enjoy Thanksgiving.

It’s been so long since I bought myself a phone. I was just not into the iPhone and the ones I want are too expensive. I had my eyes on the Nokia n95, then the n97, and now on the n900.

I was using James’s old Sony Ericsson and went online to see what Att have. I browsed passed pretty much all the phones when the Captivate captivated my attention. I sort knew what I was liking for, like the minimums that I required etc. The captivate seems to have them. 5 MP camera, 3.5+ screen, video camera, small, thin and just pretty much what the Nokias have.
I did some research and this phones seems to performed quite well. Coming from a regular phone, this thing is just feature-rich all around.

This does all the basic features plus a whole lot more. Android really does…hahaha. Originally I was liking for a physical QWERTY keyboard and that would make the phone thicker. This doesn’t have one but it turns out that I prefer that. The touchscreen is so responsive and coming from someone who doesn’t text at all, I’m pretty good if I do say so myself.

The Android Market have so many applications to download for free too.

I am still discovering my new phone but it has been fun so far and I expect it to be so for some time.

Totally recommended! On a side note, I blogged this post from, you guessed it, the Captivate!