Happy Mother's Day...

to all my mommy friends out there!! :D

Today was a low key day. My parents were up north and came back this morning so we could all hang out. I ended up making a carrot cake, and boy was it yummy! We took our PS3 over to my parents and watched movies. We ended up watching Alvin and the Chipmunks and Enchanted. I really wanted to go to a nursery to buy some plants but it was yucky out and my mom really didn't want to. They had just bought a bunch of plants and trees from an Amish greenhouse up north. They're going back this Thursday to pick up the trees and she said she would bring my a red maple tree for my front yard to replace my Magnolia tree that died. (sniff...I truly do NOT have green thumbs. So we'll see if this tree will make it.) My brother didn't make it today b/c Lisa wasn't feeling well. I think she's 12 weeks along now and has been very sick. I'm praying and have my fingers crossed that everything works out for them this time. I really want to be an auntie so I can spoil them rotten! Yes, THEM, b/c it's TWINS! :D YAY!

waterfalls

I am so jealous. My friend, Raleigh, went on a day trip down to Starved Rock State Park and got beautiful shots of waterfalls. He sent me the photos and I did some editing in CS3 by doing the orton effect to the photos to add richness to the colors then created this storyboard for him. Once I get my butt to the store and buy more ink for my printer I am printing this one out and it's going up on my wall.

So I told DH about what Raleigh did and he's like, So when are we going? Woohoo! A campin' we will go..a campin' we will go.. :D

where has the time gone?

recap: well, since I started my new job 2 months ago, I haven't had time to breath. So much going on all at once. I've had the past couple of days off b/c I had all 4 wisdom teeth pulled. (ouch! not fun) So now I'm trying to play catch up with my list of stuff I've been slacking on. One of them being scrapbooking. I signed up to take the 3rd class by Jessica Sprague and I've barley had time to do any of the work. Now the 4 week class is over and I've only completed 1 layout from it! URGH! I hate being behind. I feel like I've missed soooo much. But the nice thing is that all the material will be available for ever! LOVE her classes for that! :D

I went to a Stampin' Up 10 4 10 class last night with my friend, Beth. We made some really cute cards. All of them are birthday cards and I can't wait to be able to use them. Stampin' Up is one thing I've really never got into. I do have some of their stamps but I think I really like the clear stamps better. At least you can see where you're stamping with the clear. But they do have some really cute stamps out. I'll probably cave in and buy a bunch.

Speaking of Birthdays, I can't believe my birthday is coming up in June. Yikes! I really, REALLY want the new Canon XSi. I told DH that everyone should chip in and get me that camera. :D (I'm so bad!) We stopped at Best Buy the other weekend b/c I wanted to check out the camera. They didn't even have it. They guy said that they had it out on the floor 4 hours and someone wanted it really bad so they decided to sell the floor model. And they said they wouldn't get another one in for a couple more days. As I think about it, it's probably good that they didn't have it that day. I would have probably walked out the store with it if they did.

DH and I went up to Door County the weekend of April 4th to celebrate our 10 year wedding anniversary. Wow! I can't believe 10 years have gone by already. We really wanted to go to Las Vegas, but decided to stay in the area instead. We stayed at the beautiful Birchwood Lodge in Sister Bay. We stayed in the Grand One-Bedroom Suite. It was so nice. And the shower in that room was HUGE! It was a walk in shower and you could have fit 50 people in that thing. It was HUGE! After we got settled in, we meet my friend Jen that lives in Sister Bay. Her daughter, Jenna, had a dance recital rehearsal that night. And since the recital was on Sunday and we weren't going to be there for it, we went to the rehearsal instead. Afterwards we went to dinner at....um....nuts! I forgot the name of the place....but they did have good food! Saturday DH and I went out to see the lighthouse on cana island. So pretty. It was such a beautiful day out. Then Saturday night, Jen & Roger and D & I went to eat at Alexander's. So good! All in all, it was a great weekend and a great anniversary. :)

Nature

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This LO is for a challenge over at Shabby Miss Jenn Designs.

Diva Dog Zona

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Blake Shelton

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CountryFest 2006

I've finally decided to start in on my numerous photos from country fest in 06.


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this is me

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I thought I would try something new today, so I created a circle LO! It was fun....different, but fun. I still have to try to learn how to create text inside a shape in CS3. I just can't seam to figure that one out. So if you know, please let me know!!

Big & Rich

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Here is my 2nd LO using CS3. I heart CS3. WOW! What a difference with what you're able to do. But this is my first page to my Country Feast album I'm going to do. We went in June, 2006. I just hope I can remember all the details. LOL! But once I'm done with all the pages, I'm going to do the Shutterfly book with these and give a copy of that to my parents. Now I just with I would have started this a month ago. I start a new job on Monday so I wont have much free time anymore. (sigh) It was nice while it lasted. :D

projects

This is the heart album I did for hubby for valentines day this year. I've never done one of these chipboard albums before and I REALLY like how it turned out. Really easy to do, too. Most of the papers I used were from the Smitten paper pack by K&Company. Elements were a mix of a lot of different stuff I had laying around.



Here are just a few of the cards I've created recently. The first one I lifted from a card that was done by Kelly Purkey. (sorry it's sideways, for some reason I can't get it turned the right way.)


And this one I just sent out.

Ashlynn's Hair clip

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Here is a LO is just finished working on. This took me waaaaay too long to do. And I guess I still just don't have that "it's finished" feeling about this. Maybe because it doesn't have a title. But do all LO's really have to have a title? I don't think so. But maybe that's why I don't think it's done. I don't know. I'll wait a couple of weeks and then look at it again. :D

Zona

This LO is from a kit I bought at DesignerDigitals awhile ago. I just haven't had the time to go through and play with it. I feel like I'm starting to run out of pictures to play with. Maybe next week, I'll sit down and concentrate on going through all my old photos and scan them in to scrap. Boy! What a project THAT will be! :D



I really love how the postcard turned out! I will have to use that setting on more photos. I'll try to post more LO's on here later today.

Orton Effect Challenge

Here is my LO for the Orton Effect Challenge over at Jessica Sprague.


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Happy Birthday, Mom!

Today is my mom's birthday! YAY! Happy B-day, Mom! (I think everyone should celebrate their birthday to the max)
Brian & Lisa, mom & dad and I got together and had lunch at Cafe Soeurette today. I sooo love their food. So good. I ended up making a really cute photo mat to put inside one of those Starbucks coffee (tumbler) mugs. But b/c I'm always a tad behind when it comes to important things(heehee), I had to stop at Starbucks on the way to the restaurant to pick up one of those mugs to put the photo in. :D But it did turn out really cute. And you know what? Do you think I remembered to take ANY photos of it or her today? Nope! Oh well. We are going out this Saturday for a Birthday dinner to celebrate hubby's birthday and mom's birthday. So I'll be sure to take pictures then.

Here is a LO I recently put together using on of the premade LO's from Jessica Sprague. I printed this out and had it framed and now hangs on the wall in my parents livingroom. Picture was taken at the Friends & Family open house at Cafe Soeurette before the restaurant officially opened.

Happy Birthday, Darnell

Today is D's 36th Birthday! Happy Birthday D, Love ya!

Week 2 LO

I'm a little behind on this week's assignment but here is my LO for class.

Challenge

I'm currently doing an online class called Now we're Rockin' by Jessica Sprague and today's challenge was to do a LO in 30 minutes about what makes me happy. So here is my take on today's challenge. Took me a little bit longer than 30 mins, but I did get it finished. TFL!


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recent LO's

I know, it's been awhile since I've posted anything 'real'. So here's some LO's I've been working on lately.

updating my blog

well, I did a little updating to my blogger. Hope you like!

Being a child in 2008

Look....Look at the stuff kids get to play with today. Wish we had this kind of stuff when I was little.




And check this out....I laughed so hard when I saw this picture.