one more to go

I told you I've been buzy buzy like a bee these days. Here is another layout I did for the leaving a legacy challenge. I wanted something simple and since the layout was about Who I Am, I decided to put a picture of me and one of the poems I wrote. The poem is called Me and somebody else and I wrote it while in university. I liked this challenge because it gave me the possibility to to combine the present with the past - new picture, old poem.

I still need to do one more layout in order to get my 20 points and thus a $5 gift card and I am going to do the technique challenge. I didn't write in a long time the forum I do these challenges in, but I guess by now all the people visiting my blog know I am talking about the challenges from Digi Scrapbook Mania or simply called DSM. So if you like what you see, you should know it's all done with their kits and that there are some wonderful designers there and a lot of fun challenges.

And here is my last layout for the month of September:

Welcome October, my last month before moving to a new home!

working on the last 4 challenges

I have four more challenges to do til the end of the month which is in two days!!! I've actually just finished the added inspiration one so I have three more to go. This means enjoying my work, commenting on my layouts and pictures please and not too much blah-blah from me. I'll have a bit more time to chat and all when I am done with these challenges and I'm done sending my things. Both should happen by the weekend so keep your fingers crossed so I can have a little bit more time this weekend.

final step in the progressive challenge

Quick post tonight. I got a lot of the things on my list done so right now my to-do list has only three items on it and these I'll deal with tomorrow hopefully. Right now I have another challenge ready so here you go:

working hard to get my points

There's a double countdown happening now: 5 weeks till I am moving and 5 days till the end of the month. Right now it's 1:30 am here and I am working on the things that have the deadline in 5 days: the DSM challenges. I have the third step of the progressive challenge done and will post it below and will come back with other layouts as soon as possible. So keeping in mind that I have a lot of things to do for both my countdowns I will keep it short and show you my layouts.

And here is my fot challenge too:

it's all happening these days

Today I got a call that I have to ship my boxes early next week. Am I ready packing? NO! But I do know what will go in the last box I am planning to pack. I still don't have the box yet, but should get it soon. So now apart from getting a box and packing it, I have to make a bunch of calls and arrange everything.

Today I also found out, the package from hubby arrived, so I'll have a bunch of space bags to fill this weekend and get my plane luggage ready too. At least I need to have an idea of how much luggage I will have. I still have to pay for the fare to the airport, but the most important things are solved: we got the tickets and the passports and we are almost done with the paperwork.

I still have a lot of things to do and I've just realized it's the last week of September, and I am only half way through with the points I need for my $5GC. My husband keeps laughing at me when he hears how hard I work for this gift card and how badly I want it... 

Alex has a cold so instead of being in school which is good for both of us, I have to keep her at home which usually means trouble and more trouble. And on top of it my mom was sick too, so for the last two days I've been running between the two of them making sure they have everything they need.

I felt so tired tonight, that all I wanted to do was go to bed and have a nice dream, but I had to restart the laptop and send my hubby an e-mail with the shopping list we still have to cover and then I decided I'd better sit down and do another DSM challenge and try to get my 20 points for the GC. So here is the layout I did tonight and I'll try to come back tomorrow with another round of layouts. As always, I used the Septemer BAK kit.

one more challenge done

So I managed to finish another challenge. I usually do them in the order that they appear in the "keep track of your challenges" thread, thus the next one on the list was the Scrap lift challenge. This month the layouts we could scrap lift belong to mycau.

This is the layout I decided to scrap lift:

And this is my take on it:

I used the DSM September BAK.

definitely not me...

It might be that the school and kindergarten start in September - where I live that is, but I sure don't feel like working too hard these days. I only managed to do 2 challenges for DSM and as an excuse I have the fact that we are organizing and reorganizing and sorting through things where we live now. Yes, I am getting ready to move to my new home, which is not close to where I live right now and I have my things and my kid's things to go through and then help my mom arrange her house before we leave. I already mentioned where I am going, but if this is the first time you are visiting my blog, I will just say this: to get to my new home I travel for 22 hours and change two cars and two planes... YES, it is that far away. So now you know why this month might be considered my lazy month in terms of challenges. And I have no idea what will happen in October and the rest of the year since I am sure I will definitely not have too much time to stay in front of the computer. But I will take it one day at a time and Now I have the second step of the DSM Progressive challenge:

busy but not with challenges

This month I seem to be too lazy to do my DSM challenges. We are half way through and I've hardly managed to make 2 and a half layouts. Well I only posted one and a half , but I have one more ready now. I am using the DSM BAK September and this layout is for the template challenge. I used some pictures with Alex's trip with the famous Mocanita train from Maramures, Romania. It was a really nice half a day we spent in that train and had a lot of fun. The scenery is amazing and we were lucky to have a sunny day. As usual I took a lot of pictures and showed them to some of my friends - I know I promised to post a few here too, but I hardly find the time for the challenges, let alone to post re-sized pictures. So anyways, if you every come to Romania, make sure you take the Mocanita train.

Busy, busy like a bee....

It's almost mid September and I am still packing and weighting things and making thousands calls... and somewhere in between all these I am trying to complete my DSM challenges for this month. Here is the first one:

September progressive challenge at DSM

I've almost missed the deadline for this challenge, so I started to freak out and although I am not extremely satisfied with the first step - I hope the next steps will help me fix what I messed up in the first one. The papers used for this challenge and all the elemnts are from the BAK September DSM kit.

This is what I call a great giveaway

Today I stumbled upon a great giveaway: 1000 6x6 sheets of paper and the person giving it all away will ship it anywhere in the world, so this is a chance for all the paper scrappers and card makers from other countries than the United States. If you blog about this giveaway you get a chance at winning the 1000 papers and if you do not have a blog, you still have a chance of winning 200 papers and some other goodies by leaving a comment on the blog. Yes, I will give you the blog right now and let you have your chance at it, but you must hurry because the giveaway closes Friday September the 3rd. The name of the blog is A thousand sheets of paper and the particular post about it is 1000 sheets for A thousand sheets...

And just to give you a glimpse of what you can win, here is a little photo with some of the papers:

For more information and to enter the giveaway go to the blog.