Ok, so last time I promised you some information about visiting a movie set. So here goes; my fiance has a set of friends who happen to be brothers. One of the brothers is producing a straight to dvd movie. Alan went to help out on the set/location and they needed someone to play the doctor the following day and they asked Alan if he would do it. He said sure, so we drove up to the location, "Harmony House" apparently some civil war era built home outside of Winston Salem so that Alan could "play" doctor.
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The really neat thing is this; one of the stars of the movie is Mickey Rooney. He wasn't in the scene that day, but was sitting on the front porch while we were waiting for Alan's scene. He called Alan up to the porch and insisted in running lines with Alan to prep him for his scene. Alan introduced me, but he(Mickey) really wasn't interested in idle chatter and just wanted to get about the business of rehearsing with Alan. So I quietly and discreetly found a spot and took a few shots. My Alan is a total movie buff and I knew he would never forgive me if I did not sneak and take shots of him with a Hollywood legend. At the time of these photos I believe Mickey Rooney is 84. After doing a little research we discovered that he has been in show business since the age of 18 months. He has had succesfull careers in both silent and sounded films.
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So with out further ado I give you "Mickey and Alan Running Lines".

Pretty cool, huh!

So I finished a couple of more layouts. I am scrapping like mad..or trying to. How does one capture every meaningful moment, scrap them, work a job and not neglect children or home responsibilities? Oh yeah and did I mention I am also planning a wedding, we are getting married in August.

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Credits

Credits

Ok so wedding details. I have ordered the cake stand from ebay. Its gorgeous. My sister comes into town next week to get her brides maid dressed fitted. I have designed the save the date cards...kinda pretty if I do say so myself. I am going with sage and ivory for my reception colors and really leaning towards hydrangeas for use as much as possible. The reception fare will be simple...cause that's what I like. But we hope that people will have a comfortable time and stay and enjoy themselves and visit and such.

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We are postponing a big honeymoon and taking a JV honey moon as Alan says, to a bed and breakfast for a couple of nights probably in the mountains. I want to take a cruise and he promises we will but is being completely practical and not spending that much money until he lands a permanent job. Makes sense...that's why he will be in charge of the money! I have got to sit down and make a detailed list of what is left to do. My head is spinning.

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I can't wait until school is out!! Only two more weeks, 4th grade just ain't as much fun the second time around. Well that's all for now. I'll try to check in again soon.

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Tanya

Wow! Is it really mid May?

Holy cow, where has the time gone. And once again I am on the verge of being a neglectful blogger. But I've been quite busy since my last blog. In the last two weeks I've been camping, in the hospital and on a movie set. That doesn't even include my very cool exciting news...I finally made on it on a CT and not just any CT, but for Digital Freebies. I am thrilled.

Ok so to back pedal a bit. About two weeks ago on the heels of not making the W&W CT, I received an email from Maria LaFrance saying I had been selected for the DF CT. Totally cool, since DF is really the place that hooked me into digital scrapbooking anyway and has been my online digi-scrapping home.

So the excitement of that melted into a camping trip on mother's day weekend....ok...moment of truth here: We camped out for one night in another cub scout's backyard, pause for qualifying statement, this particular cubscout did live in a very "foresty" place with a creek in the backyard way out in the country. And lets face it campout for one night or weekend or week, you still have to tote all the camping crap!! Just a few less clothes, food and water. I did not sleep as well as my two little boys, because being new to the camping scene I have not acquired an air mattress, which countless people mentioned I could have borrowed AFTER we got back. Thanks guys. Needless to say I grew curves that need support since the last time I camped as a kid...therefore I slept poorly with the root going through my back all night. Note to self: roll around inside tent once set up to check for roots and rocks on future camping trips.

I won't even go into how much fun a severely ADHD kid coming off there meds is around a campfire!! I really thought we were through our pyro stage already....more about that later...I feel a scrapbook page in there somewhere.

So we left the camping night, came home bathed headed to a birthday party, got home from that later in the afternoon. I was exhausted, bolted the doors turned on movies and napped after pleading with my children to remain inside the house and to not destroy it further. They complied and I ended up taking a 3 hour nap. The next day was mother's day and I woke up feeling poorly and weepy....great. The boys did honor me first thing. Joshua made a stunning bird house out of clay in art class-I think it weighs about 10 pounds. He also acquired a set of four really cute Christmas mugs from a neighbor(one that I have never met mind you) who had them out in her garage to give away to goodwill. I can only imagine that conversation. Somehow he managed to get them home on his bike and hide them from me for like a week...and for that effort I was quite impressed. Gabriel made a beautiful glittery flower and card at daycare. They were too cute.

The day wore on...literally and I felt worse and worse all day. When we returned home around 6 pm I was beginning to run a fever and I felt horrible lots of pains and symptoms that were sounding like gall bladder problems. My mom convinced me to go to the ER...which was nothing like the one on tv. She kept the kids and my fiance drove me there. My dad met us there. My fever continued to climb and the doctor was fairly certain that it was my gall bladder and sent me to the ultrasound tech to make sure, the ultrasound showed a healthy gall bladder so then I got to drink that yummy liquid for two hours to take a CT scan. Which also came back fine. All the blood work came back fine.

So at three in the morning having ruled out anything major and still not certain what was wrong with me I was released completely doped up on duladin? with pain meds and anti-nausea medication. They thought it was a virus. I slept through Tuesday, which presented an interesting set of circumstances since I am still currently a single mom. My parents took my kids home with them and my fiance kept watch on Monday night. So what was it you ask? Nothing too exciting. All my symptoms were mostly gone by mid-day on Tuesday and I was able to resume Mom duties that evening. I was able to determine it was a ruptured ovarian cyst. I have had them in the past and they can be very painful and present like an appendicitis(which I had 5 years ago) or some other organ dilemma. Apparently one of the test indicated a small amount of fluid just rolling around in my abdomen where it wasn't supposed to be and until your body can fully reabsorb that fluid, it can be quite painful. Nice, huh?

All better now...yeah which is why by the latter part of the week I was coherant enough to return to scrapping and able to get my CT layouts done. So my first layout was done using this super cool kit at Digital Freebies by Blythe Evans:

And here's my layout:

Credits for "Isabelle" can be found here.

Okay, so the second layout I completed was using the May Club kit over at Digital Freebies:

And here is my layout:

Credits can be found here.

I know I mentioned a movie set, but this has been a pretty long post already and well quite frankly blogger is making a little bit crazy right now!! Would love to know the secret to avoid mysterious reformatting while blogging. Have a great rest of the day!!

Tanya

Happy Saturday!! Word Art Freebie!

Hello out there in Blogland! Hope you are having a great Saturday. I have a little prize for you today...A mother's day word art Freebie.

Download Here

In the download file you will receive a .png file at 300 dpi and also a brush file for PS users. I am just learning to make brushes, so if you see that I could have done anything differently please let me know so I can improve. Also I have included the fonts I used in the TOU file, just in case you want to be able to match up fonts you may you elsewhere in your layout. Hope you enjoy it.

I have some more quotes that I found that I am planning to make into word art. So check back this week, as I plan to upload them as I finish them throughout the week.

Ok, well its short but sweet. I gotta get moovin!! My kids are with their dad this weekend...one of the few advantages to divorce when your kids have regular visitation. It gives me a weekend every other weekend to get things done and have a bit of respite. So, if there is something I need to do that would work better without the kids in tow, I put it off until I have my truly free time. So today, I am off to run errands and look for wedding dresses with my mom.

Did I mention I am planning a wedding? Its a bit different when you are late 30 something planning a simple affair. No matter how simple you want it, it just seems to get more complicated. My main concern for the day is...what else...nice photos. I am not as concerned with any of the formalities or traditional wedding ceremony/reception bruhaha. Don't get me wrong, I want it to be a spiritual and meaningful event, but just not crazy with all that other stuff. Oh and to make things a little more interesting...we have decided to move up the date to August. My parents are a bit nervous that I am not nervous about the lack of time to plan. They forget...I thrive under pressure. Well that's it for now....have a great National Scrapbooking Day!