It's all About the L

Where Have I Been? Well, I've been TAGGED!!!!

So, I've been totally all over the place!!  And totally consumed with a contest on Willow Traders!!  I got into the Scrapbook Survivor game started by Annette and went way overboard!!  I ended up placing 2nd in the competition with a grand total of 345 layouts and 30 cards!  Crazy!!!  Oh, I forgot to say, these were all done in the space of 6 weeks!! Holy moly!!  Totally unbelieveable!  I am back among the living now but then went into a traveling state.  I went to Las Vegas with my mom and my sister...had a great time!

I was also tagged by Gina .  Here are my answers:

What I was doing 10 years ago?

Let's see, in 1998 I was a crazy workaholic who was looking for Mr. Right and meeting too many Mr. Right Nows. 

5 Things on my To Do List Today

Get better (I have a messy gross cold)
Start laundry
Organize papers
sleep
eat some soup!

I am addicted to...

• Willowtraders
• like Gina, anything scrapbooking
• Gallo Salami
• Pretzels/Goldfish
• Iced Tea

If I were a millionaire, I would.......

Pay off my house, buy a farm and have a great time with my family and friends!

Places I've Lived:

• Santa Barbara, CA
• Vallejo, CA
• Pleasanton, CA
• Honolulu, HI
• Concord, CA

I am not sure who I am tagging yet...probably

Daniela

Nancie

Casey

Rebecca

Lisa

It's All About the Hat!

Last night, we went to the Solano County Fair.  It seemed different than the last time I went, less vendors, less everything, however more security and more workers at the fair.  I think that's positive.  I got to eat my funnel cakes and part of a gross corndog.  I was very disappointed in the hotdog vendor.  But I did have some good fries to share with Ross so that was good.  We looked all around at

PIG RACING! Yeah!!!  That was pretty fun to watch!  Then we went to the livestock area.  I love livestock, must be my North Dakota blood!  Had a great time with the pigs, cows and sheep.  I was very happy.  Then we hung out more and I nded up buying:

A very snazzy hat!!  I am totally digging on it, my hubby says I look hot!That's always good to hear! LOL!!

HOpe everyone is having a great week.  Today is my dad's birthday.  He would have been 65 today.  Hopefully I will post a layout or scrap project soon!   

MDW Challenge-What Dad Gave Me!

This MDW challenge thing is fun!! Thanks to everyone who participated in the paint challenge I hosted.  I will be announcing the winner tonight! 

Casey's challenge was this week and she picked "A Gift My Father Gave Me" as her theme.  I am also doing a crazy challenge at Willow Traders called Scrapbook Survivor so I incoporated that in as well.  Thanks for a great Challenge Casey!

Challenge!!

There is a brand new challenge posted on the MDW blog!!!  This week is hosted by me!! Yeah!!! I have 2 Layouts posted, focused on using PAINT!!  I need to get rid of my paint stash somehow!!

Check out the challenge!! Thanks!

Lazy Weekend!!

So, I had a lazy weekend, which was much needed!  I went to the farmer's market on Saturday.  It was a great day, as it started raining right when I left the house.  I love being in the rain so I was in my element.  I got my $20 and spent it on: 

• Zucchini-not sure if I am doing roasted or making choc chip zucchini bread!
• Cherries!!! My plan was to make Cherry Bruschetta but we ended up eating them as snacks. Tomorow, I am making cherry stuffed chicken breasts!
• Organic Spring greens- Asian Chicken salad, anyone?
• Asparagus- saw a recipe for Broiled asparagus with Lemon. Made it tonight and it rocked. I don't even like asparagus and it was good!
• Sugar Snap Peas- for my Asian Chicken Salad! Yummy!

I want to start going to the Farmer's Market each week, armed with $20 and see what I can get!  We will see how that one goes!!

I did a bunch of scrapping on Saturday and Sunday.  Got a bunch of CJ's done along with culture/Heritage ATC's for a swap on ScrapinStyleTV.  I also did an ATC for a challenge from the Wish Chicks Blog....scrapping a pic of your childhood self!!  Now, we are in total flux at our house, in redecoration mode!  All of my pics are packed up and not accessible right now.  I dug out a pic from college and used that on an ATC!  Awesome!

 

Yes, I know I was super hot!  LOL!!  Freshman year ID card, baby!! Yeah!!  Thanks for the fab challenge , Lisa!

Have a great week everyone!

Busy, Busy, Busy!!

The month of May has seriously FLOWN BY!!!  I cannot believe it's already the 20th!  And I cannot believe it's been almost a month since my last blog post! Yikes!!  I need to get better about posting each week!

Let's see...what have I been doing?  I've been working a lot, big surprise!  Went to LA for Mother's Day with my mother-in-law and family.  We stayed in my mom's brand new house..which is gorgeous and fabulous!!   Unfortunately, she wasn't there!  She was off in Delaware with friends on vacation!  OH well, hopefully we will see her soon. 

Then I was off to Texas for a work trip.  We stayed at an interesting hotel, the Great Wolf Lodge in Grapevine, TX.  It was definitely a KID FRIENDLY place, which was weird since it was hosting a meeting of crochety adults!  It had a huge waterpark attached to it, but of course, none of us went into the waterpark!  Bad news was that the bar closed at 10pm, another drawback for this place.  We went to the Galord Texan across the streets and did a dinner thing at their club, the Glass Cactus.  That was a good time, I have not had that many margaritas in a  while!  Flew home on Friday and recuperated for the weekend. 

I was very excited on Saturday, because I taught my first class at www.mydaughterswish.com, it was my "Let Him Fly" Graduation Mini Album, made with the 7Gypsies Accordion Album and some fab Basic Grey and My Minds Eye papers!  I went hog wild with the paint and stamping as well.  Thanks to Janine and Tish for being fab students, even though we chatted too much!!  You all had some great ideas!  I do have another class coming up in June, a really fun Summer Fun mini album made from the Maya Road Coaster albums.  Super Super fun!!

My hubby and I also sold some furniture, which sounded good at the time.  However, we do not yet have replacement furniture!! That has been our project for this week!!  We've been to Ashley Home Furniture, Ethan Allen, and Scandanavian Designs.  Hopefully, we will order something soon or we will be sitting on our camping chairs in the living room!

Last week, the Wish Chicks launched our blog, which can be seen http://mydaughterswish.typepad.com/my_daughters_wish/ .  Rebecca did an awesome challenge using your heat gun, chipboard and embossing poweder.  Loved it and need to do it!  Check back weekly to see the new challenge!

I think that is enough for now.  Here is a pic from last week, I love this cow and pass it when I go to Bakersfield for work!

1,2,3, ATC!

Yeah!! I finished my ATC that will be a make-n-take at the upcoming My Daughter's Wish Open House on May 1 from 6:30 to 9:00.  Here it is in its Spring Splendor!

Yes, I am embracing the Spring colors!!  The Open House is a FAB event where all the Wish Chicks (the My Daughter's Wish Design Team) design an ATC and do it as a make-n-take.  Let me tell you that the Wish Chicks are a SUPER talented group, including myself! LOL!!  Casey is the mixed media queen, always has something creative and fabulous.  Lisa is a collage diva and is constantly doing new things.  Rebecca has a fresh, fun style that I adore.  Lydia was just chosen as the Scrap in Style TV Blog SISter of the week!  Nancie is a wonder with patterned paper and fun colors.  And we all know Daniela, our DT Coordinator, is just the BOMB!  You know if you come to this event, you are leaving with some fab artwork!

My Daughter's Wish is also sponsoring an Artistic Faire for National Scrapbook Day weekend, full of crops, events and good times!!  Call the store or go on line to the Artistic Faire link to sign up!  I will be there in full force, wearing my party shoes!! LOL!

Hopefully by this Friday, I will post a Summer project I will be teaching at MDW.  Be on the lookout!!  And I hope to be getting my scrapping on this weekend!  Yippee!!

Later!

Parlez Vous French?

So,  yesterday I made a layout in French.  Do I speak French?  No.  Have I ever spoken French (with the exception of a horrible French accent)?  No.  I have no idea why I decided to do a layout in FRENCH!!  Too funny!!  The wonders of the internet and Babelfish!!  LOL!!  My friend Christine got married last weekend and the layout was a pic of her from her bridal shower.  She is truly a wonderful person, I was going for a shabby, vintage-y, Paris Flea market-y kind of thing and ended up doing my layout in French.  If you can't beat them or go with them to the flea market, join them! LOL!!  I absolutely love the way it came out.  If anyone has issues with my translation, please let me know.  I really don't know if they make any sense, I just typed it into Babelfish and it translated for me! 

Adieu!!

Be True to your Fool!!!

Happy April Fool's Day!!!  Today is my friend A's birthday!!!  When her mom told me she had her baby and it was born on April 1, I thought it was a practical joke. It was not!  :)  Happy Birthday, A!!!!!

I haven't updated lately, shame on me!  I've been pretty crazy with work and so many other things.  One of my dear friends is getting married so it's been a bunch of wedding stuff with her.  My hubby and I just bought our house and my mom is coming up to move her stuff out, so that's been busy.  Oh, and WORK!!  Work has been pretty crazy, tons of stuff going on.  And of course, everything happens at the same time!  I will have absolutely  NOTHING to do in May!! LOL!

Here are a few things I was able to finish in the last few weeks:

This was for a sketch challenge.  I do not do sketches normally, I am HORRIBLE at them!  This one turned out okay, still not super happy with it.  But I like the colors and I got to use my hula penguin stamp and my pig stamp! Yippeee!!!!

I love the way this one came out!!  And I love all that fun Creative Cafe paper! Granted, it came out a while ago but it is jus so darned pretty!!  And I also love this picture...I've scrapped it at least 3 times!  LOL!!

I attempted to do the One Little Word Challenge..the word was "FIND".  So I did the LO, but never uploaded it, until now.  They've sinced moved onto "Blessed", another great word.  I am happy with this one because I got to use all my fun, bright colors and some old favorites paper!  Everyone knows I am gaga for Orange, Pink and Green!

So, a little post, a little scrapbooking....and i will leave you with a final photo.  All Vegetarians/PETA folks probably do not want to see the next pic, I'm serious!

Have you EVER?

Created a layout or project that you ABSOLUTELY LOVED the way it came out!!  I did that today.  I was doing the happy dance around my scrap area!!  Soo loved doing this layout.  Love it!

It says" My Hubby says he can read me like an Open Book!"  I took a challenge at ScrapinStyleTV to use a book cover on a project or layout or whatever.  I had an extra book that I was going to alter so I used its cover.  I cut a hole in it and covered the hole with an old school Lil Davis book collage transparency.  The background is the Love, Elsie embossed white "Brainstorm" paper from her Zoe line.  I painted 9 squares different colors and wiped off the paint with a baby wipe.  This is a trick I leared in Emily Falconbridge's BPS class!  It has a glaze-y effect and was perfect for what I had in mind for the page.  I used a bunch of buttons as a border and when you pull back the cover, I have some hidden journaling bits about me and some Prima flowers.  Can I just tell you how much I Love this LO!!!