Makeup to mud in 3 seconds flat

shh, don't tell Jim!

okay, I stole away from mudding the baby's room to blog & send emails! sad, I know. but it is so boring! I forgot to show you Corinne's layout.

thanks corinne. check out her link on the right. this girl makes some pretty cool stuff!

So I was thinking of what to do for next week on the blog. I want to talk about digital stuff, which I know nothing. Do you guys want to know more about hybrid scrapbooking? If you do, let me know, because I have 2 digi layouts that I want to show you both taken at the same class (different times). And Heck I really want to see what some of you are doing. And any tips are really appreciated.

OKay, must return to work!

Leica

totally in awe...

Last night's performance of The Phantom of the Opera was really great! I had so much fun. I love the arts. I was totally blown away by the fabric they used for everything, there was so much magnificent draping.

It was so nice yesterday, I spent a large chunk of it at the park with my best friend and her girls. So nice to be able to let them run around without weather concerns!

So this week I have big plans. I'm not going out of town for the weekend anymore so I am going to get things done! We moved the spare room bed out and I am going to spend the day taking everything out of this room and start repairing walls! and then spend the next couple of days painting. should be great. Since I don't know what the baby is I am totally going with a seafoam green paint. my friend Jody had painted this room so stunningly where she used to work, that I can't get it out of my head. which is crazy because I love the deep rich colours, but I decided that I am going to paint 3 walls this colour and one wall chooclate brown. Tilano Fresco sent me awesome awesome new product to play with so I will be doing up some canvases, tiles & using their new chalkboard paint to make this room come alive! I'm pretty excited, and I'm okay with either sex in this colour of room! the boys really want their room painted too. spiderman theme. so of course when this is done, we will move onto that room and spice it up! Better get into army mode if I want to achieve my goals this week!

OKay let's show some more layouts! Thelma sent these last week. Great job! I love that your pages are so full of photos & colour and you pay such great attention to detail.

more and more and more...

layouts & winners!!! and I worked on cleaning our computer till after 3 am and it is in a better state of repair. still needs severe attention but that will take time.

So my 2 winners for fabulous Luxe packages are:

• Terrie Faber
• Kirsty

Thanks everyone for entering your comments about the classes. It was nice to see what people thought of the projects and good feedback for Luxe to work with when designing the classes. (and for me! thanks!)

I am hopefully mailing all prize packages on MONDAY. So if you have won try to email me your address because I have all the last winners addresses now but one, and they are packed, ready to go. Thanks.

Okay, so to continue with LIFE in the 8 1/2x11 size world. I have received now too many layouts to show in one day so I will continue to show you some throughout the next little while.

Let's finish up on Juli's layouts. She just rocks!

Can you see how much fun this size is? And the funny thing is I've been chatting on the phone this week with so many friends about this size. It's crazy. Who would've thought?

So, what's my plans for this weekend? Today is my brother Shane's birthday so we are going to celebrate with him. should be fun! tomorrow I HAVE to work on some Design team assignments for Stix 2 that I'm excited to start on. I was pretty busy working on a really exciting design task that hopefully I can release the details soon. I'm super excited to tell you actually. but it looks like I have to wait a little longer. sorry. but it will be worth the wait. Then on Sunday I am going to The Phantom of the Opera with the women in my family! Mom & Jenn. cool. should be fun!

So busy weekend planned but it will be nice to just have fun!

Oh and next week I HAVE TO tell you all about the Cruise for 2009 and the instructors and so much more. It is getting really exciting. I am so lucky to have been asked to teach on it again!

Okay, really must go. It looks like this theme size I will carry into next week as I have lot's more to show!

Have a Fabulous weekend!

for your information...

just to let everyone know, I've been asked multiple times this week if I am going to be teaching at any crops or have any classes this summer. The answer is NO. I've decided to take off June & July to spend the time with my family and our new baby that is to arrive in June. I will resume my teaching at the end of summer!

more layouts!!!

So busy day, fun. We had a slight problem with our computer, we need an external hard drive! one to hold my pictures, two to hold Jim's million songs and movies, three for actual stuff we need for business. yes, we had a slight crash, actually couldn't even get online. so tonight I'm going to just show a couple of pics. because we are trying to clean up this mess. sorry, but I panicked today thinking I lost everything. so hopefully I'll be back with avengence tomorrow. But if you know of a great, easy to use, huge capacity external hard drive,and where to get it, please leave it in the comment as I think we have to get one tomorrow for sure!

Okay here's a few of Juli's awesome layouts!

oh and check out that fabulous tree. The branches of the tree are actually curly, they are created by Riff Raff Designs so you must check them out and see their other designs.

the damask shape is another Riff Raff Design. see the ideas just keep flowing in this company.

aren't these awesome? okay, I better get off and let the computer keep cleaning. I'd just cry if I added to the situation at hand.

see you tomorrow!

 

okay, let's have some fun!

8 1/2 x11.

Is this kosher to you? Is this YOUR size? For me it's NOT! In fact, I hide from this size? and why? It's not really that different than the other sizes. And it is truly funny for me because I LOVE mini albums, create them in all shapes & sizes. I LOVE theme albums in 8x8 or 9x9, so what is the difference. For me I think it is the "rectangle" shape. My comfort is the square. So guess what, let's break out of our comfort stage!

Years ago, I met this really awesome photographer & scrapbooker named Melissa Chapman. (from Regina) We had a couple occasions to scrap together, teach together and I wish I saw more of her but we have kept in touch throughout the years. Anyways, she predominantly scraps this size. And her work is really fantastic! (It does help that every picture is perfect!) But anyways, she challenged me to complete an entire 8 1/2 x 11 album that year. Well, I was given this size of album, so I had no excuses. but did I do it? No. sorry Melissa! Than in the last year I have gotten to know the phenomenal staff at Treasured Memories in Edmonton and they mostly scrap this size! CRAZY! Have you walked into a store before that showed mostly this size? I haven't! Well, they've bugged me a few times to do this size. I thought about it, but didn't move. THEN I was asked to be apart of a gift album for Chantel (the owner) Well this was an honour, and how could I say no. Absolutely NOT! For all they have done for me, it was no question. She rocked and I was in. So anyone guess how long it took me to create 1 page? With only 1 photograph? I sat for 3 hours stumped, not getting anywhere. So where do I go?I pulled a Pam, and just started cutting. And next thing you know, I finished the layout, I had started cutting more papers and I started having so much fun that I didn't go to bed till like 3:30am. and I completed a huge amount of layouts!

So today I am just going to show some of mine, but tomorrow I am going to give tips on how to convert a 12x12 sketch to suit this size! and show off your guys work! cool. see you then!

Let's have fun!!!!

So perks of this size:

• use way more scraps up!
• don't need as many embellishments

just a quick note...

I was so wiped out yesterday & today that I didn't prepare anything. sorry. but I have some oomph in me now, so I'll start the fun tomorrow! So this week I am going to focus on 8 1/2 x 11 layouts. crazy fun! And I'll have some to show everyday. I kept quite a few from the entries I got for my last contest so I'm really excited to show those. If anyone else want s a few minutes of fame, email your layouts and I'll gladly include them this week. Just keep in mind that they need to be jpegs or other blog friendly formats.

As for the Luxe contest from Camp Croppin, you can post on anyday you would like, it absolutely doesn't matter. I will draw on Friday! Can't wait to read the responses!

tomorrow...

sorry guys, I had to get quite a bit of bloodwork done today, and I am so drained. like lazy on the couch not moving fast. I'll have to blog tomorrow.  fasting, losing blood, it caught up to me.

Congratulations Joey, Pam & Rhys!

So I have to say

Congratulations to the Beaudry family. They welcomed a new little girl into their family! Joey sent pics but I think Pam should be the first to show off her little bundle, so I'll just tell you her name:

Kenadi Taylor Beaudry 

Oh, and tomorrow I have to show you Kate's entries. sorry Kate, I totally saved yours in a different file and forgot about them, so I'll show her layouts & projects tomorrow! See you then!

more entries to show...

okay, here's the last of what I'll show for the contest entries. Everyone's was so AWESOME! Thanks again for entering.

This is my friend Tracy Burton's work. I am so impressed with her stuff! Way to go Tracy. I wish you lived closer so we could see you more. Actually when we hung out with her in Calgary this weekend, I got to hold her little man Sam, and right then it didn't matter if I had a boy again. Because he was so cute, dressed like a little man. I just was so excited to hold a little baby! the last 3 photos are her own photography! pretty darn good hey?

 

Okay, so we had splurge last night, and it was fun! As it always is. Pam we missed ya, but we could not believe that you are almost a week overdue. Here's wishes that you have a safe delivery soon!

But we came out to find our vehicles COVERED in snow! So not joking. I didn't even have a scraper, so thanks hugely to Kim who wiped my van off! But really like does anoyone know how much total snow we received? When will our weather become spring? Riley told me this morning that we missed summer, it's winter again. Too funny. Well, have to go, lot's of things to do today!

have a great weekend!