Go Blue!

I'll admit it, I'm a die hard Colts fan. There was a time when the Skins were my team, but that time of my life has passed. I'm a home team girl now. It's funny because my parents were not big sports fans. Sports was never on at my house growing up. It was 8th grade when I started watching the Skins every Sunday. At that point I would watch through halftime and then turn it off so I wouldn't jinx them. I stuck with Washington until my first son was born.

The long, cold Sundays helped revive my love of the game. There's nothing better than turning it on, popping some corn and warming up as you cheer and jeer at the TV. My husband enjoys a good game, but he has no loyalty except to the underdog. I can't understand that. What's the point of watching football if you can't be personally involved. Last winter my brother-in-law and his to teenage sons spent quite a few Sunday afternoons at our house. There was no real reason for them to stop by, so I think it was to make fun of their aunt and her over-involvement in the game.

I hadn't really realized how deep my football affliction ran, until this past sumer when I found myself arguing football with my soon to be cousins-in-law. They insisted we were right to get rid of Edgerin James since we had no real alternatives. I lead them through the discussion of why we would have been better off getting rid of Marvin Harrison (no offense, Marvin) to keep the Edge. After my explanation they all found themselves nodding in agreement. If only I could convince the franchise that a 32 year old mother of 3 who still doesn't understand all the rules could be an asset in their front office. If only... Well, all I can say is 5 and 0, baby, because we're a good ball club.

Jacqui

It's Officially Fall in Indiana

It's officially fall in Indiana. My mom, dad and I took the boys to AppleWorks to pick their pumpkins last Friday. Appleworks is a wonderful orchard just "down the road" from our home. Once you've had delicious apples from an orchard, you just can't go back to store bought again. Our very favorites are Honey Crisp. They are so sweet and wonderful, they actually cost more than the rest - but they are worth it.

Anyway, this orchard is great in the fall. They have a small petting zoo complete with handwashing stations as you exit. You-Pick pumpkins from the patch. A beautiufl pond where you can feed the fish. And of course plenty of goodies to buy.

October in Brown County also means crazy weather. Last week it was in the low 60s, over the weekend it was in the upper 70s, and they're predicting snow flurries tomorrow night. God made a mistake making me a midwestern girl. I joke with my husband that I'll be on a flight to Florida the day after his funeral.

Oh well, might as well get used to it. I hope that I have many, many years before that flight. At least this winter I'll have plenty of fun things to do in planning my scrapbooking classes. I've been thinking a lot about a Christmas lunchbox class. I just saw the new Basic Grey Fruitcake papers today. I think I can work with that. I keep trying to get over to the store to get more familiar with her stock, but my youngest sone and I have been battling some kind of intestinal bug for the past few days. Such is life....

Guess that's all my ramblings for today,
Jacqui

P.S. I recently learned that one of my favorite scrapbooking magazines is shutting down. So farewell to Scrapbook Answers and thanks for a year of great service.

Hooray for me!

Okay, I've wanted to teach scrapbooking classes for some time because I love this hobby so much. If you read my blog, you know that I recently entered to become a design team member at my LSS and was rejected. Well, I forgot that there's actually another, closer LSS. So the other day I stopped in. They have moved and gotten bigger. I got up my nerve and asked the owner if they might be looking for scrapbook teachers and she said yes.

So, today I met with her to look at some of my layouts and discuss our options, and I'm going to be teaching Scrapbook Basics on October 23rd. I am so excited. I also suggested that for this class that instead of doing a generic layout, we'll actually give each student a $5 voucher to use in the store that day so they can pick out papers and embellishments that actually go with the pictures they brought.

I hope it goes well. She has already asked me to teach a lunchbox session in November so people could make those as a gift. I would like to do that, but we'll have to look at costs and time. I think that will have to be a Saturday afternoon workshop because it takes several hours to put one together.

I have a lot of ideas, but if any of you SBA gals have suggestions about classes you've taken and enjoyed - let me know.

Thanks for sharing my excitment,
Jacqui