Guilty Pleasure

Do you ever feel guilty for scrapping one of your children to much? I am starting to feel a tad bit guilty for scrapping baby girl so much. My boys have not noticed, but I am afraid they might soon. I am just having so much fun with all the feminine things that have been in my stash for years. 

Here are some of my favorite things today, feathers, sequins, pearls and I hid my journalling tag in this adorable glassine envelope.

Almost everything is Core'dinations and October Afternoon, the pearls are queen n co and the chevron button is from Greatest View {you should check out her new Easter release, it is so cute}

Also don't forget that you still have time to try out for the Core'dinations Design team, there is no team out there that I would recommend more. Check HERE for the details!

TTFN :)

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Guilty Pleasure

Bright Sunshiny Day

Say hello to little Miss Sunshine, Oh my! This baby girl has my heart, she makes me smile even in the middle of the night. I can't believe that she is seven months old already. She is sitting up by herself, I love this stage, I hope it lasts, but somehow I don't think so, she wants to go so badly.

A little close up of the tickets that I designed with my Klic n Kut, I also created the title down the side with it. I've been having fun lately creating my own cut files. Now I just need to learn how to share them.

In other BIG news, it is that time of year again DESIGN TEAM CALL

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I truly believe that this is one of the best companies to work for and with. They are AMAZING, their product is second to none and so are their personalities. They are respectful, understanding, uplifting and all round FUN.

I highly encourage you all to try out, even if you have never been on DT, when I started with them 4 years ago, I had never been on manufacturers design team, I had had a blog for all of a few weeks, but I did have a love of color and lets face it, this is cardstock, who doesn't LOVE Core' Cardstock?

anyways make sure that you check out the details here.....you won't regret it ;)

ttfn ;)

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Bright Sunshiny Day

Hampton arts and Core

This week Core'dinations has teamed up with Hampton Arts and I was lucky enough to recieve this playful set of creatures, called patch work pals. Here they are on a layout.

I used this adorable little squirrel and girlied her up a little with a Core flower. This stamp had such lovely houndstooth detail and so I used the back side of my Core to get a softer, less textured look, and then cut it out with one of my spellbinders dies.

and this nuts about you sentiment was just perfect.

Don't forget we've got more on the way and prizes too!!

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Hampton arts and Core

Home again home again Jiggity Jig

Oh I am so glad to be home, CHA was a blast, it was so good to see all my wonderful friends and all the new goodies that will be hitting stores soon. I am so blessed to have such amazing opportunities and be surrounded by great people. A special thanks to my friend and fellow designer Jennifer Edwardson, without her I would not have gone this year. This photo was taken at the graphic 45 booth, they had a fun dress up booth with all sorts of neat steam punk options

I love hats, wish I could have kept this one.

So here are some of my favourites from the show, I loved simple stories and their snap Collection there were so many wonderful pre made, easy to use embellishments. They are meant for their album sleeves but they would look great on scrapbook pages. This was their travel line.

I love the cut out pages!

pockets folders and embellishments

These are some of the element in the basics snap line, I love the bright colors

Here are there brads and tags, I love that camera!

My other favourite from the show was Jillibean Soup, their booth is always so creative and their lines this year were a great mix. 

Fresh Vegetable

Chilled Cucumber

New Alphas

These placemats are so cool!

These precut phrases are perfect for so many things

and this is a little Random, but WOW, this is an entire wall of bottle caps

That is it for now, I am in the process of loading a whole bunch more fun photos. 

TTFN :)

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Home again home again Jiggity Jig

The first week of 2013

This week has been a pretty good start, We started our new year at a wonderful friends house, it was a whole night of delightful appy's, games and conversation. Then at the stroke of midnight we had our own little pop of fireworks. It was loud and boisterous, just how I like it.

I have been working on getting my December Daily done, here are pages 9,10 and 11

9 is about all the wonderful book that we read in December, there are over 25 now. I wrapped them all last year which was kinda cool to open every night for the boys, but it took forever to wrap all of them and it seemed like a bit of a waste of paper. So this year I just put them on the shelf and the kids took turns choosing one ever night. These books are special and are only out at Christmas so it makes it a treat to read them.

Levi Had several birthday get togethers this yeas, 2 with family and one with friends, our current house is simply too small to fit them all, on this one Mommy made some of the best cupcakes I have ever had, brown sugar icing and butter pecan cakes, seriously delish.

In this one my boys are trying to hide the Christmas pickle, they look forward to part the most when we decorate the tree. 

Right now I am counting down the days until I leave for CHA, I am both unbelievably excited and totally nervous as this will be my first time away from Baby Girl. I am sure she will be fine, I am not so sure about my husband.

TTFN :)

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The first week of 2013

Farewell 2012

To all my online friends I hope that you have had a Merry Christmas.

 Mine was merry indeed, filled to the brim with family, friends, games and laughter. I did manage to stick to my December Daily, in that I managed to take photos everyday. I have printed them and half of them are on pages, however as the big day approached I ran out of evening time so the journalling is not quite done. So if you don't mind a little more Christmas, I will share them over the next couple weeks. I hope that I will be able to photograph them with my new Christmas gift......right now thought it looks like this. My clever and creative hubby made this {it is ABS pipe} when the new prime lens he ordered for me did not show up. Hopefully it will show up before I leave for CHA.

I've also been working hard on projects for the show, those will be shared during CHA. This year it is earlier than normal, which made it really hard to get things done over the holidays.

2012 has been one of the most momentous years of my life, I am really not sure how I am ever going to top it. I am a little sad to see it go actually. This year has both tested and strengthened me.

I don't usually do resolutions because I truly believe that any day is a good day to change your life for the better. But I do plan to continue to work harder at being frugal, thrift shop more, be more playful in the kitchen, create quality memories with my family and try really hard not to sweat the small stuff. 

Blessings to you all, I am so grateful for all poeple who I am surrounded by both in real life and those I have been lucky enough to meet and befriend online.

Be safe and Happy New year!

TTFN:)

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Farewell 2012

Winners winners everywhere

Good morning my friends, today is my birthday so I am already a winner......but what about you? Well it is time to check out this Core'dinations post and read it all the way to the end there is a surprise for all my friends who participated in our hard core crop:)

As for me, I am so thankful  for the gifts that I already have. These beautifaul faces are the best thing a girl could ever ask for.

much love

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Winners winners everywhere