Upcoming Weekend Retreat!!

so me and mom are going to San Diego soon. (like 3 weeks) and I am NOT even close to being ready!!
We will be staying here (Doubletree) for Scrappin' Escapes!!

YIKES!! I have no pictures ready, which means I have no layouts ready either. I probably should get that done soon.
I will be shopping at A Page 4 All Seasons soon. A gREat Kit company!! Try them!!

AND the best part of it all....I get to see AND scrapbook with great California friends!!!
Faith, Heather and Pauline!!!

Mountains & Memories

back in July---me mom and Heather flew into Denver and drove up to Estes Park. We go to a retreat place there...Mountains and Memories.

It is so much fun...

here is the group of gals who went...

Tip of the Day

never ever leave your plastic stamps in a HOT garage...

I need to....

finish taking photos of my completed layouts and get them in the albums!!

I want to do 365 pages for the year---I am NO where close but I think I am @ maybe 100 pages. but I only have 62 photo'd and blogged...click here to seem them.

PLUS I want to re-photographed these ones...they are small and blurry :(

its been awhile

I just realized its been awhile since I last posted OK more like a month or more. life has just been really busy--with kids, school, my Scentsy business and the Shrine--life seems really busy

well I am super excited to say I am going to Dreamweaver Lodge to get some scrapbooking done.

I leave on Wednesday night and I will be home on Sunday---I cannot wait to get some scrapbooking done & caught up....

I am facing a Scrapbook Challenge

Any ideas?!!?!?

I was asked to put together the pages for the Divan of the Shriners. When I said yes, I hadn't seen the books I had to put them....YIKES!!!

here are my problems, the pages are 8.5x11, they go in the sticky old photo albums, there is only one picture/names per page.

Here is an example of what the previous pages look like and these are the good ones...argh!!! wish me luck :D

OOOO and btw there are 14 pages and 14 books to complete. Thats 144 pages to scrapbook....

Have you ever scrapbooked your scrapbooks?

I saw a post on Am I a Scrap Addict? an album Deanna did of her favorites Layouts....

thought it was a great idea and thought I would pass it along....

go take a look...

Wanna Cruise with me???

yeah today I met with a lady who booked the cruise I am going on in October. I wanted to look @ a scrapbooking cruise, YEP, a scrapbooking cruise.

So I picked a 5-day Mexico cruise (leaving Galveston, TX). It will have ports in Cozumel and Progreso, Yucatan. Yeah!!!

This cruise will be awesome, just a getaway from the kids/hubby...just some time to spend with friends, see Mexico and get some cropping in.

EVEN if you don't scrapbook, you can still come and join us...

The price will be very inexpensive (still waiting for the final #s) but we are looking @ $500 per person. All inclusive (meals, accommodations, shows, etc)

Since this is more of a retreat, there will not be classes and such, but maybe I can figure something out.

Anyways just thought I would put the idea in your head...for May 2010 (I know it seems far away, but money & sitter a year maybe needed :D lol)

So come and join me....

Mardi Gras Crop

last weekend some of us girls met up @ Brynn's to scrapbook....Brynn put on a great crop with a Mardi Gras theme!!

it was lots of fun..and I actually got some stuff done (ok a little :D LOL)


here are the girls...

New Year's Resolutions

so I wasn't going to do resolutions this year...HA, why? because I never complete them...hell I barely get thru the week with them...BUT after reading so many on different blogs, I thought I can do this...
so I am using some of the Pink Stampers. They seem pretty easily achievable...

1. Weight! ok, who doesn't put this one on their list...but YES, I need this one!
2. Cards - send out more of the cards I make.
3. photos! I want to be in more of them. I want my scrapbooks to show me too. (which #1 needs to happen sooner :D)
4. Water - drink more!
5. scrapbook more!

I think 5 resolutions is good enough, don't you....BTW I am really working on number 1. My hubby got me the Jillian Michaels Fitness Ultimatum 2009 for Christmas! (my request) (btw, she isn't very nice lol, but she gets the job done)

Also my mom bought a treadmill, so we are gonna do this journey together!!! can't wait!

Layout Page 134-135

The kiddos are gone and I am just rockin' n rollin' on my scrapbooking (ok, not really all my stuff, but its done, right?) here is a super quick and fun LO from A Page 4 All Seasons....very cool & affordable stuff...this LO was only $12.50 AND it was pre-cut!!!
Can u bet that!

My Christmas Ornament Album

So my dear friend, Faith, has done this Christmas Ornament Album and I knew I wanted to make one. WELL that was last year, that I saw the album and wanted to make one. But I put my tree up before I took a picture of each ornament (I know, duh!) so I couldn't make it last year. So the first thing I did this year (when the kids/Jeff put up the tree) was take photos of each ornament. I finally finished up my album. Its the album/paper that comes in the Memory Works Dec. kit.(plus a few other stuff) I loved all of the stuff that came in the kit. This album is a 6x6...perfect size for just one picture. I used Page Maps to help me quickly go thru it. I added the pictures this morning and I really like the way it came out. And more than enough room to add more ornaments for the years to come...
The album shows each ornament and a little about why the ornament came about.
here is my album, page by page

I won! I won!

so I have to say I have enter many, many of scrapbook-related contests. Well I entered a contest just monday and rec'd an email this morning that I had won!
YAY!!!
What I entered was Cathy Zielske's Mini Album giveway
Check out her blog with the info


What she was giving away was Simple Scrapbook's newest special issue, Mini Albums in an Evening, that Cathy designed


The projects are divided into three categorys: Bitty Minis (ranging in size from 1 x 2 to 3 x 7); Mid-Size Minis ((ranging in size from 4 x 5 to 5 x 7); and Mega Minis ((ranging in size from 3 x 9 to 8 x 9). PRetty cool, huH?

I am so excited!!!

great paper storage idea........

So you know ALL those postal mailer boxes you have from ALL the scrapbooking supplies/kits you recieve. (you can also get them for free @ the post office).....well mom cut the top flaps off and cute the sides at an angle....high enough angle so the paper doesn't flop over....then my mom decorated hers (thanks to Miss Yvonne idea from www.myscraphouse.com, here is the link http://www.myscraphouse.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=56).....Mom used all the little extra paper pieces you have left over, you know we all have them and don't want to throw them away....she is working on putting a label/tag of some sort on the front to 'organize' them
Aren't they cool..................

another weekend project...

I also made (more like finished) this tin....it was a plain Maya Road lunch pail tin, that I used some really awesome paper from Papergami....
I made this tin to carry my beanie, lanyard, etc for my events with DPS (delta phi scrappa)
as you can see our colors are hot pink and black/white polka dots....
fun! fun!

CKU bound!!

its official! I have signed up for my first CKU...I am super excited...I am going with my mom, a friend and I am meeting up a friend from CA there also!!!

Can't wait! I will be in Utah for nearly 6days in August!!!

Layouts 47-52

so I did a little scrapbooking over the weekend...got a few LOs done....

Online crop follow up

I can't believe I forgot to follow up on this...so back a few weeks ago, I participated in my first online crop...and had so much fun...and there was a "tag" challenge, a sketch challenge, a "flower" challenge, and there was a make in take...there also was just a random drawing...so towards the end, I was the only one participating, so there was only 2 challenges that had competors in it...the flower and the make n take challenges...anyhow...I won ALL five things.....funny, huh? lucky, not sure :D
so here are my prizes.......

Scrapper's Retreat

ok....now that i have all the LOs blogged...i can get to the good stuff....so me and mom went to Estes Park, Colorado over the weekend...it was ALOT colder there than NM, but WEll worth it...
we got to denver and had breakfast with my uncle Jessie and then we were off to Estes Park. which BTW is a little over an hour drive...so we got a GPS in our rental car. Thank goodness, because I was lost EVEN with the GPS....damn thing kept saying "recalucating" because I would make a wrong turn :D






so we get to Mountain & Memories Oh MY what a beautiful place (www.mountainsandmemories.com) Gosh I got even begin to explain how great of a place this is and the hosts are just amazing...here are a few pics of the place and the hosts

the food was great and the cropping area was just too much!!! and the food was great!! Oh yeah I mentioned that!!!



We had fun with some old friends and made some amazing new friends....

the only bad thing was we woke up Sunday morning to SNOW!! yuck and I had to drive the rental car back to the airport! yuck...here is our car sunday morning...

We did make it back ok...and it wasn't too bad driving in the snow, but we were so 'well' planned coming back that we had to wait 2hrs in the airport :D

Can't wait till the next one!