Things that go bump in the night...

we have a mystery! Last night, we were woken up by this loud "th-thump"! We jumped out of bed to go investigate. (well, DH and I jumped out of bed...Miss Gimp just layed in bed and keep asking "what was that?" LOL!) Of course, our first thought was that Miss Gimp had fallen but her mouth assured us she had not so, our next thought was that Mrs. 911 had fallen upstairs!. So, again, for the second time in a week, with our hearts racing, we ran upstairs to find my Mom sound asleep and still in bed so we tiptoed out to investigate further. All the animals were accounted for and in various stages of waking up...oh, yeah, real watchful, alert animals! We checked in the basement, nothing...checked everywhere! Nothing! Now, this was loud enough to wake all of us (well, except for our still yawning animals!). Have no idea...we decided to blame our ghost although she has never made any noise before in the 23 years that we have lived here with her so I doubt it. Hmmmm....

Yes, we have a ghost. We live in her house. She has been her since the day we moved in and even before that. We have talked to other people who have lived in this house and even before we said anything to them, they asked us if anything "strange" had happened. Apparently, she must like us since we just see her but from what others have said, she doesn't like everybody that has lived here! We have all seen her and she appears to just check on the kids. So, we kind of consider her like a "guardian" of sorts. We see less of her now since the kids were away to college but when they come home, she appears again! I keep thinking that I should "send her into the light" but I kinda like having her around. Even when the kids were toddlers, they would ask why I was in their rooms when I was somewhere else in the house. They were sure they had seen someone in their doorway. A friend of mine had dated a guy that worked with the Warrens (a couple that pretty famous for their ghost-busting) and when he came in our house without any knowledge of our little lady, he commented that he felt a strong presence but that it was non-malicious. Most of the houses on our street are circa 1880's and several seemed to have non-rent paying guests! Sorta fun!

So our noise must have been something outside but what it was shall remain...a mystery!

Okay...so my butt is sore since I spent so much time on the computer this weekend! Finished up a couple of kits, did 2 new ones, worked on a couple of LO's (boy, I hate my LO's!) and tried, unsuccessfully to come up with a new banner for the blog to post as my linking banner. The one that I have now was one that I did in a couple of minutes because when I signed up on the ranking sites, they asked for a banner and I didn't have one. Just hit a wall trying to think of a design. Never have been good at tags, LO's and obviously, banners! I look at some peoples LO's and think, my gosh, how creative! Now, why can't I think of anything like that? I would love to be on a Creative Team for some of theses designers on some of the sites but, that would mean, I would have to be creative! Not happening! I can come up with ideas for kits but once they are made can't put them together for beans! Go figure!

Anywho...enough of my banter...and enough of making you suffer to get to today's FREEBIE...part 3! (Now, why didn't I think about just numbering them before...well, I guess I did once and then I stopped, don't have a clue why though! But, it does make it so much easier for you, doesn't it?)

Remember to let me know if you do any LO's and if you do one that you are particularly proud of and turn it into a QP, let me know!

Download no longer available...sorry! and remember to leave a little love or, even, a kick in the pants if you download! I so enjoy reading your comments. Some of you have become real "coffee-clutch" pals!

Have a great day and thank you all for the wonderful comments and, more importantly, your friendship!

Big super-sized HUGS!