A Digital Card

Newly Added:  I have gone back to my original blog, It's All About The Journey for now. I apologize for the confusion. Thanks for stopping by. I hope to see you at my journey blog. :)

I have not been able to make a paper card by myself in a very long time. I hope to change that soon. But until then I decided to make one using the MDS program from Stampin'UP! so that I could participate in this weeks PPA Challenge.

Here are the Digital elements that I used:

Good Times 2 (stamp)
Tea Time 2 (stamp)
Ink Splatter
Stitching embellishment
Flag punch
Fan Fair designer papers
Early Espresso & Summer Starfruit digital ink

I had a lot of fun making a card using the MDS program. I hope that you enjoyed  seeing it. Thanks so much for stopping by to visit me. :)



Fun With Grace

I 'm so far behind in getting all of the photos that I took of Grace edited. Tonight I decided to have some fun with a few of her photos. I took many photos of Grace wearing her sun glasses & sitting in her little chair. If you follow me on Facebook then you will see the same photos that I am adding to this blog. Either way I hope that you enjoy them and smile as I have. This is Grace at 4 months old. She is now 5 months old. :)

Hmm, I think I need a manicure.

Okay Thats enough about me, now let's talk about you.

You don't Say!

They went that away.

I added tihs photo just because I think she looks so cute. Yes, I am one proud great-gradmother.


Thanks for stopping by. Hope you have a fantastic week.

In July I decided to start posting suggestions of "Photo Ops" for that month and each month ahead. I thought that I would share my ideas here as well. I would love to hear your ideas of other photo opportunitities that I have not listed for the month of August.  I used a template from MDS to make this months Photo Ops. Have a wonderful rest of this week. :)

Hello! I hope that this new week is bringing you lots of wonderful weather and an abundant amount of happiness. :)


I never realized how happy it would make me to take photos of babies. They are so beautiful ,so sweet (even when they are crying), and their innocence takes my breath away.


In the digital page that I made of Grace this week I am using photos that I took of her two weeks ago. What a little dolly she is. :)

I made this page for a new challenge this week at Soul Scrappers. I loved the quote so much that I decided to make it into WA to share with those of you who would like to use it on your scrap pages or cards. I used the MDS program to make my page.

I have not set up my 4shared account for this blog yet. But if you click on it and save it to your computer it should work just fine for you. If not then please visit my other blog and download it through my 4shared account. I hope to  have that set up here very soon. Please remember that it is for your personal use only.

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great day.

A Digi Page Of Grace

Oh my, this week is flying right by me. The weekend was like this too so I'm feeling like I have been living in a whirlwind for the past 7 days. My weekend was wonderful and so far the week is going good well too. :)


I made a digital page using a sketch from one of the challenges at Soul Scrappers. I used My Digital Studio to make my page. I absolutely *love* this program. I was using PSE to make digital pages but the MDS program is so simple and so much fun to use that when it comes to making pages it's the only program I use now. I'm not trying to sell anything, just giving my honest opinion. :)

I'd love to share a photo with you  that I took of Grace this weekend. If you follow me on Facebook or my at my It's All About The Journey blog then you may have seen it. I'm trying to decide which blog I would like to stay with so at the moment I am duplicating most everything on both bogs.

Grace will be 5 months old next week. She is so smart and such a happy baby. No smiles in this photo because she is watching her mother and that is a very serious job for Grace. :)

 And here is a photo of my daughter Jen, me holding Grace and Molly my granddaugher. Mom to baby Grace. Between Wayne and I we took at least 600 photos. Way to many to share with all of you. So I chose these two. If you came by way of my other blog to visit me thank you very much for taking the time to do so. I hope to make up my mind by this weekend which blog I will be using.  You would think it would be simple to choose  which blog I want to keep going.......it's not for me.

I hope that you are having a good week with good weather and lots of summer fun. Thanks for stopping by.

Crock-Pot American Chicken Chop Suey

I made this very simple recipe last week for my husband,Wayne. I'm not sure if there is a recipe in a cook book for this dish. I just put ingredients in my crock-pot that I had at home and I knew that Wayne would eat. He is a tad difficult to cook for because there are so many things he does not like to eat. He is strictly a meat and potato man. Anyway, here is what I made for him.

Ingredients:


3 boneless chicken breasts.
1/4 cup of white cooking wine.
2 jars of pasta sauce. I used Parmesan Ragu sauce.
3/4 of a box of elbow macaroni.
Fresh Parmesan cheese.


Put sauce and wine in the crock-pot add the chicken  breasts and cook 4-6 hours.


I cooked the macaroni  in a separate pot but I'm sure that you could cook it in the crock-pot for the last 30 minutes of cooking.  I grated fresh Parmesan and put it on top of his American Chicken Chop Suey.


If I had made this dinner for myself all of the ingredients would have been fresh. But since Wayne does not like green peppers, onions mushrooms,  etc.... I made this dish the way that I knew he would like it and sure enough he loved it! Well at least I was able to use chicken and not hamburger. :) 


If you would like to see more recipes then head on over to Farm Girl Paints


Thanks for stopping by. :)

Hodgepodge:

A mixture of dissimilar ingredients; a jumble
n. mixture; combination
a random mixture

Happiness:

1.the quality or state of being happy 

2.good fortune; pleasure; contentment; joy.

Why did I choose the name Hodgepodge Happiness as the title of my new blog?
I want my blog to be just that.......mine.  I want it to reflect who I am and all of the many things that make me who and what I am today. My journey has changed. My passions have changed. I never know from day to day what I will be doing or what it is I will be able to do. My life is a hodgpodge now and I find I'm liking it that way most days . :)  I hope you will stick around and join me in my Hodgepodge journey.

Thanks for stopping by.