So last night the Northern Lights were out and I took Madison for a drive to see. They were amazing, bright and dancing! I wish I could share what we saw, but of course no pictures could compare. I took my little camera out and it kinda picked up a little of the lights. I think I would need a very expensive professional grade camera to pick them up correctly. My camera can't even pick up stars ...lol... but it did get some of these lights!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Made the girls pillowcase dresses and Christian a matching tie!
Madison's hair is supposed to be a shamrock.

stand up cards...

So the original idea for this card came from Dawn's Stampin' Thoughts. However, I changed it up a bit and got to play around with some new things. I used embossing powder for the first time today. I love the stuff! Both stamps are done with a glittery pink embossing powder. Since I don't have the link to the exact website ... Base is 8*4, scored landscape 2 and 4, front is 4*4 glued onto the 2 inch piece. I also tried this with a smaller front and it turned out really cute!

Mage Spec - Raiding / Heroics

So after a lot of respecs and a bunch of gold later... I finally think I came up with a good spec for PVE. I tried this out on a couple heroics last night and was finally able to keep up on the DPS charts. I went Arcane - 57/3/11.

My Spell rotation on boss fights :
I make sure I have my Molten Armor on as well as Arcane Intellect.... and give caster or healer the focus magic.
I start with Presence of mind.. that way my Arcane Blast becomes instant cast. I then use the rest of my cool downs. Arcane Power, Icy Veins, Mirror Image.
Then I go Arcane Blast 2 more times (this stacks it for the x3 stack).
After that I make a choice... If my Arcane Missiles proc (not sure if that is the right term ) and I have Missile Barrage up, I use the Arcane Missiles... if not, then I use my Arcane Barrage. I then Stack the blast again (x3) and choose either Arcane Missiles or Arcane Barrage. Use my cooldowns when they come up again and will probably need to use a Mana Sapphire.
Now of course on mobs I won't use my cooldowns, but pretty much the same rotation.

My Glyphs :
Glyph of Arcane Power - Which increases the duration by 3 sec.
Glyph of Arcane Blast - Which increases the damage by 3%
Glyph of Molten Armor - Which gives me an additional 20% of my spirit as critical strike rating.

If anyone has any hints, tips, or questions... please share! I'm always looking to learn something and always willing to help.

- Skate
Below is a picture that includes how the rotation is set up on my in game bar. Mostly I just spam 2 a lot! LOL

Alice in Wonderland

I took the kids to see the new Alice in Wonderland. It was a lot of fun! They did an excellent job with this movie! Anyhow... these are a couple pictures we took in front of the poster :). Does it look like the Red queen has her arm around me???

Tote-able towels

ECLIPSE

So the full preview came out this morning! There are a lot of things I'm hoping they put into this movie... especially some of the Cullens back stories. However, no matter what they put in the movie I will be there at midnight watching Eclipse like the hopelessly addicted Twilight Saga fan I am. I really hope to see Jasper talk about the newborns and at some point they really need to share Rosalie's story before Breaking Dawn!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2HIda5wSVU