Scrappin My Life

2009-09-16T11:17:00.000-07:00

I took a class Monday night and made 4 cards. I will post them shortly. I had a good time and decided to take a few more classes. A card Friday morning, a layout at the end of the month and an altered book on the 24th. The card class may be something I want to do every month, they were really beautiful. My girlfried Elaine and I have been trying to work once a month making diecuts for Now and Then Scrapbooks to sell. It helps us with spending money at the store! I am also trying to teach myself the SCAL (Sure Cuts A Lot) enabling me to cut any True Fonts. We need to start working on our Journals and notebooks before Christmas.

2009-09-05T12:15:00.000-07:00

We had a fabulous vacation! The weather turned out great and we really enjoyed the cruise and all of our excursions. The food was great and I am so excited to say I only gained one pound on the whole trip. I actually took two scrapbooking classes on the sea days. Not quite the embellishments I would like, but fun anyway.

I took a ton of picutres and can't wait to start to play with them. I am planning on doing a book with just the Buchurt Gardens because we took so many pictures there.

Vacation

2009-08-25T14:21:00.000-07:00

There are just two days left until our very much needed vacation. Weather.com says it should be raining for the next 10 days straight in Alaska. Sounds like a lot of gray pictures..... I am still excited though and I plan on making the most of it. New places to see and new people to meet.

2009-08-17T10:35:00.000-07:00

Saturday the 15th we went to a picnic/party to celebrate Dorothy Miller's 90th birthday party. It was a wonderful day. I have known Dorothy for over 30 years and my children grew up calling her Grandma. We saw so many people we hadn't seen in years. How we all have changed. We really had a great time. Madison got to do some arts and crafts, we ate Mexican food and talked and laughed.

Oh, and there are only 10 more days til we leave for Seattle and the one more day until we board the Infinity to Alaska!

2009-08-14T17:34:00.000-07:00

The year is flying by, I can't believe it is August already. I just made it through another birthday and in 13 days Bob and I are headed for Alaska on a 7 day cruise!

My girlfriend Elaine and I have been playing with our Cricuts lately. Making die cuts for the scrap book store. I have also started decorating notebook to sell. I need to put some time into it in order to make enough different samples.

Elaine and I went to see Julie/Julia yesterday. A fun movie. Made me wonder if I could ever possibly keep up with my blog daily. I would be impressed with weekly!

2009-05-04T20:44:00.000-07:00

On April 22nd Madison was in her first grade play Bugz. The play was wonderful and they kids were all having a great time. Before heading to the school, Madison told me she had been wondering whether someone might buy her flowers for being in the play. So I had to make a side trip to buy flowers while she was getting ready with Jen. She so deserved the flowers!

Happy New Year

2009-01-05T10:42:00.001-08:00

Well a New Year has started. I made it through the holidays, just need to get myself in gear and finish putting away the decorations. I can come up with any excuse to do anything but! On my kitchen table is the start of my scrapbooking year. I am also supposed to be working on layouts for my group Close to my Heart first quarter paper collections. That adds up to 10 pages of layout and 15 cards. When are they due you ask? Thursday morning.........arrrrgggg.
I've decided to start a scrap journal to really keep track of what I have accomplished, what I have and shouldn't buy again and why I really want to do. Now, where is that journal?

2008-12-08T12:56:00.000-08:00

Cleaning house and puppy sitting is not coming together. Especially with a puppy with a broken leg.

December already??!!

2008-12-06T11:13:00.000-08:00

I cannot believe it is December already. So I have a new layout for the holidays and two Christmas presents purchased and am already starting to feel the pressure. We are planning on doing some decorating today and I have started making some gifts.

It doesn't feel like winter is coming, the weather here is still so warm. A cold day has been 70 degrees. I am so looking for some cool weather.

Where Have I Been?

2008-10-30T22:12:00.000-07:00

Okay, the wedding is over! It was really fantastic, everything, or almost everything came together perfectly. Amanda and Justin came over the next morning to open presents and Amanda said, wasn't that just the best wedding ever? What a great thing to hear.

Amanda, Jen and Alix stayed at the hotel the night before and had the hair stylist and make up person come to them there. I did my own hair, but I did go to the mall to have my make up done at the Bare Ecssentials counter. Then Bob and I took Madison and headed out for the hotel. Of course there was a traffic accident!! Amanda called, but she was not stressed out and we also had to tell her Terina, our photograher was even behind us. She was still calm.

We got to the hotel, which was quite crowded since we had one bride, two bridesmaids, one flower girl, two make up girls, one hair girl, one videographer, one mother of the bride and one mother of the groom. Add to that Terina and her assistant Elaine and WOW!!!!!

Make up and hair are done, it is now time to don the dresses. Jen's dress won't zip!! Not a weight issue, a zipper problem. Now time if flying way too fast. Jen is laying on the floor with Elaine and the videographer trying their hardest to pull that zipper up. We are officially late now and the back of Jen's dress is still wide open. KIM, Justin's mom to the rescue. In her purse of wonders she had a needle and one strand of black thread! Elaine sewed her in to the very end of that piece of thread and luckily the bow on the back covered the stitching. We were good to go!

We got to Green River and of course they were waiting for us. We got it together quickly and headed out to the wedding site. Parents, grandparents and bridal party came down the aisle and just then a train came through. It was great that it was pretty short and was finished passing before Amanda and Bob got all the way to the front. The pastor was wonderful, I loved his talk/sermon.

Back up the aisle and the rest of the night was wonderful too. We had great comments and were so happy to hear people enjoyed themselves too.

Fun but expensive weekend!

2008-07-27T18:16:00.000-07:00

Saturday and Sunday I worked in a booth with two other Close to My Heart consultants at the Riverside Rubber Stamp and Scrap Show. I had a great time in the booth, helping people make a two page layout using our Silhouette line. That was the fun part........................
Next up the expensive part. But first off, I worked in the booth for products. $120 worth of Close to My Heart products! Yippeee. But I also shopped and shopped and then shopped a bit more! I stopped by a booth and learned some really neat tricks to do with glitter. So I bought some. I stopped by another booth and Ilearned some fun tricks using some punches and making a border. So I bought some. I then went to a booth that had a Cricut Cartridge I had wanted and since it was such a low price, I bought it. I also found a package with 3 large decorative scissors. The girl told me that if I bought another item out of the box, I would get the 3rd free. OOOOOHH, another bargain. So I bought two of the scissors sets and got a third set free. I have friends to share with! Then I went to a booth that had a VERY LARGE sign advertising 40% off of everything!! WOOOOHOOOO!! I hit the jackpot. It was a Sizzix booth. For a total of $260. I got a pretty black and pink big shot, a large black suede rolling tote, the 13" extender platform and cutting pad. There is also 2 texture plate sets, a crease pad, two big dies, one 13" die and a set of alphabet. How fun.
Now I have to get ready to go up to Big Bear on Tuesday for 3 days of cropping. What do I want to pack to work on. Will I get anything done this time? Should I bring my new toys to show off?

Played today

2008-07-24T13:14:00.000-07:00

No I still haven't scrapped on my own, but I did take a wonderful class with Terina Matthews one of my very favorite teachers on Tuesday. A wonderful acrylic book. Then on Wednesday I did two Disney pages with a teacher at the LSS, with out the pictures! I just haven't found the right ones yet.
Basically I played for two hours this morning finding a new background and learning how to add some fun things along with music to my blog.
Tonight I am going to a crop night so hopefully I will finally have something to share.

Wedding Shopping

2008-07-18T21:43:00.000-07:00

Days are getting busy even though we have over three and a half months before the wedding. Today Madison and I went to pick up Amanda and her future mother-in-law, Kim to do some wedding errands. First we had to stop at Green River to make a payment. At this point we have put down $8400. That is not even half yet....... Amanda also wanted to walk down the path with heels to see how much the grass. Of course she didn't think if was that bad, probably because she has already bought the 4" heels and loves them.
Next stop, the feather shop! We needed to purchase ostrich feathers for the center piece. Kim paid for those, $154 for feathers!!!!!!!!!!
Then it was off to the scrap store that Kim's sister works at. I was thinking of some ideas for the shower invitations, but alas I did not find anything for the shower. I did however find some things for me to play with!
Of course by then it was way past lunch, so Amanda with her champagne taste decides we should go to sushi. Extremely yummy, but I felt since Kim payed for the feathers, I should pay for lunch. It was close but I made out slightly better.
From here we went to the shop Amanda bought the bridesmaids necklaces. They no longer carry the one she bought for the bridesmaids, so she found something that looked some what close, yet a little nicer for her maid of honor. "Oh look, I don't have any money, can you pay for it?" So ends my busy and expensive day.

First thoughts

2008-07-13T17:31:00.000-07:00

The next three and a half months are going to be very busy for me. My youngest daughter, Amanda is getting married the end of October. I have been working on some engagement picture LO's to put in a book for her and Justin. I will post those soon.
My husband, Madison and I just went to the beach in Dana Point, CA. for a week. I brought a ton of scrapping supplies and really only finished one two page LO and almost finish a second. Too many other thins to do even though I am not a "beach" person. We went to Disneyland and I forgot my camera!!!!! Even though we have anual passes and I have taken tons and tons of pictures, I still see something new every time we go.