Dora Live

I took Arielle to Dora Live earlier this month. The Basic Grey Color Me Silly papers were perfect for the colorful photos. I just got Flair's new RUB ONs! (yeah) so I used them on a big brad and the tag. They go on like butter!

Welcome Home, Emery

Emery is a fellow scrapbooker who is also graduation from Louisiana Tech University in a few short weeks in graphic design. She just got back from a trip with fellow art students to France. I'm so jealous - not only do I envy her completing college in art - but I was born in France and wish I could have went. She sent us a pic - so I celebrated her trip by creating this layout. The papers are a monet painting by Paper House Productions (some I rec'd in my CHA -W Designer Goodie Bag). If you double click the layout - it will pop up larger. I doubt Em will ever see this blog - but just in case - we are all glad you are home!

Eggs, More Eggs - Me thinks it's Easter

I snapped these pics right before we headed to church. Believe it or not - Daniel's shirt is a NEW shirt specifically for Easter Sunday, and I had a time getting him to put it on.



We went to the park for an egg hunt, well, not actually a hunt - since the eggs were just laying in the grass. It was more like a pick up as many as you can before they are all picked up game. And my little darling left 20 eggs laying at her feet to dash to the end of the field to pick up one egg, and enjoyed every minute of it.








And if we didn't have enough eggs..... The kids did the egg coloring thing this weekend. Glitter eggs, sticker eggs, egg dye kits - but nothing works better than good ole food coloring. We did them all.




And I'm happy to say that eggs aren't just for hiding, finding and using in salads. The kids found that you can:
1) Use them as ear muffs
2) Use them as ipods
or
3) Pretend they are mutant seashells.




Eggs, glorious eggs.










Earlier this week I took the little miss to Biedenhard Gardens for some pics of her in her easter dress.

Mimi's Cafe

I don't share much about my "art" but I wanted to let my readers know about Jasmine. Jasmine (Jazz), my silly dachshund, has been hanging around Mimi's Cafe. Which Mimi's cafe? Well, that's why I'm sharing this. If you have a Mimi's Cafe near you - let me know if you see her. Mimi's currently has over 20 paintings of the Jazz Dog hanging in the newest restaurants across the country. Have you seen her? Do tell!

Happy Friday!!

It's Friday and so far it's been a wonderful day! I was just invited to join the Paper Salon Design Team and I said YES! I'm so excited to be working with this wonderful group of girls and their fabulous products!

I'm going to be working with a youth group tonight making clip boards. One of the girls that I worked with a few years ago in our church youth group is now all grown up now. Her and her hubby are youth pastors and she asked ME to come and speak to her girls and work on a project for them. There are fifteen girls signed up so far! This will be fun!

Happy Friday!!!

Back from South Louisiana

I'm back from South Louisiana! I taught scrapbook classes at Scrapfest and the ladies were so wonderful! I got to visit with some old friends and ate some yummy food. I hooked up with an artist friend, Kerrie Jones. She talked me in to joining her and her artists friends on the streets of the French Quarter - WITH my paintings NEXT SPRING! I'm so excited.

The only photos I have of my weekend were when Kerrie brought her camera to lunch. I forgot to pack my new camera! Thanks, Kerrie!

144 Class kits to make - oh my!

I'm almost finished! I'm teaching at Scrapfest at the end of the month and I have to prepare 144 class kits. That means cutting every single piece of paper. I haven't scrapped all week and I'm having withdrawals. I'm trying to convince hubby that assembly line cutting of paper does NOT count as scrapbooking.

If any of you are going to be in South Louisiana in 2 weeks - check out the scrapbook convention. It will be fun!

X-Treme Boys

Boys will be boyz and extreme boyz at that. The skate park in our town is temporarily closed and they don't have a place to skateboard. One of the boys' grandpa encouraged them to build a ramp for them to skate (luckily he allowed them to do it in his yard). I tried out my new camera with it's continuous shooting feature - loved the pics. I was glad to get Daniel in action and now I'll have some fresh new things to put in his scrapbook.

Crossed Paths has a new contest!

Crossed Paths announces their first on-line competition! MIX-IT UP simply requires you to use at least two of their lines, on one project; but feel free to use more. Entries can include a single or double page, altered item or card. The competition runs from the 1st until the 31st of March and the winner will be announced on the 5th April.

Need some inspiration? Check out how our Designers interpreted this Challenge. We are looking forward to seeing what you do with our various paper, sticker and embellishment lines!

Up for grabs is a complete pack of the new Crossed Paths EASTER line (two of each of the following: paper, tags, ribbons, resins, crosses & stickers.

You can get all the details and see samples of this challenge at

Crossed Paths

Can it just stay "March" for a few months?

I'm really loving this month. Beautiful weather. Arielle was playing outside again and I snapped this picture of her with my new camera. Loving it!

It feels like SPRING already!

Don't hate me. It has been the absolute most BEAUTIFUL spring-like weather here this week. I say "don't hate me" because in 4 months we will be melting. We never get snow, and when we do get ice - people her don't know how to drive in it and wreck their cars and injure people. But - today the weather was beautiful!! Around 6pm this evening, I realized I needed to take some photos (duh - how can I forget about my new camera??). So, even tho the sun was going down - I snapped these. Jasmine was having fun digging and trying to catch dirt clods that Jeff was throwing at her. She was moving so fast that I only got one good photo of her. Arielle was in the sandbox - a sandbox with PINK sand, mind you.

New Words

Okay - I had to share these. I got these off of Tia Bennett's blog. Too cute!

(makes me think of Arielle calling caterpillars pattakillers.)

The Mensa Invitational once again asked members to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are the year 2005's winners:

1. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.

2. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly

3. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign
of breaking down in the near future.

4. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.

5. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high. (This was my favorite.) :)

6. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.

7. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

8. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.

9. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a
serious bummer.

10. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.

11. Glibido: All talk and no action.

12. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly. (Also known as the O'Reilly effect)

13. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.

14. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.

15. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.

I love Cards!

Admit it - we all love getting cards in the mail! I've been trying to get some cards made to send to all my convention sponsors. I uploaded a few old and recently published cards in my 2 Peas gallery today. I'm trying to get a few done with Scenic Route's new papers! They sent me a sampling of their 2 new lines and I can't wait to play with it. I got one done so far and it's in my gallery.

I challenge you this week to send a friend a CARD this week! Just to let them know you are thinking of them. We all like getting cards, right?

Hope the rest of your week is great!

Scrapfest Convention in South Louisiana

It's almost here - The Scrapfest Convention is just a few weeks away! I'll be teaching six classes there. I have wonderful sponsors including Flair Designs, Scenic Route, Prism Papers, Imagination Project (Gin-X), Nunn Designs, Sarah Heidt Photocraft, Creative Impressions, and Adhesive Tech. If you are in the area - I hope you can attend - and try to find me and say hello! I'd love to meet you!

Here's the link to the convention

Scrapfest Productions

It's FRIDAY!

It's Friday! I just created a simple layout from our beach trip last summer. Arielle, who loves the water (afterall, she think's she was named after Ariel - the mermaid) - didn't want to get her "pretty new dress" wet. I assured her that it was perfectly fine this time.

I'll have two cards in the special holiday issue from Papercrafts! It should be in the stores in the late fall. Have a great weekend!

Birthday Cake

I made a layout with the new CHA Released Crossed Paths paper called "Delight". Arielle just had her 4th birthday. This layout is featured in the Crossed Paths Gallery.

I'm going to a crop tonight - so I hope I get more things done and finally get to use things from my CHA Designer bag!

Back to the paper and glue!

Now that I'm back from CHA in Vegas - it's back to the paper and glue. And to motivate me - I had two things picked up this week. One for Memory Makers 502 idea book and another for the new Layout Blueprints idea book.

I have plenty of motivation for pages, my CHA photos and Arielle's 4th birthday party photos!

More CHA pics...

And what would Vegas be without Elvis....

Various CHA photos

These are a variety of pics from the show that I was able to get. I met fellow Crossed Paths members Mimi Schramm and Kathleen Summers. We took a photo in front of the booth. I took some pics of some work I had at Everlasting Keepsakes booth and at Limited Edition / Art Warehouse / Hampton Art's booth. I met my fellow Scrapfriends Review team members at the designer dinner - Eli (who is also on the Spellbinders team), Catherine Sebree, and Kathleen Campos (Zsiagette). I'm waiting on more designer dinner photos from other cameras (so hurry and send them please). And I met my "bestest" friend in person - Cindy Smith along with her Paper Salon team member Linda Beeson (in the photo, too) and met the rest of the team but didn't take pics.
Ali Edwards came in our booth but she really wanted to look and I resisted asking for a photo. I met Tim Holtz briefly and at the end of the show, some of the Flair girls came back with all his demo stamps - so I'm now the proud owner of one of his very much used "dream" stamp.

CHA with FLAIR

The Flair Booth looked FABULOUS! The girls did a wonderful job setting it up. The new rub ons, scrapbeads and bag of tags are HOT as well as the True Love collection. The Flair Girls are fabulous. We all wore Flair T's on the last day. We went to Fatburger on Monday night (I kept calling it WhataBurger) with Stacy, Karen, Donna and Kelli Noto, Kathi (from scraptalk) and Becky Thompson. Then we went to M&M World (the Giant M&M store as Karen called it - where I thought they sold "giant" M&M's.) I bought some rare colored M&M's for the kids and resisted all the other cool M&M products that I now wish I would have bought. We also visited the coke store a couple doors down.. well, we actually wanted to use the upstairs ladies room facilities. My feet hurt SO BAD from standing in the booth all day and I absolutely could not walk another block that night. Here are more pics.

CHA Vegas! My Big Adventure

I made it to Vegas and back! I'm tired but wanted to update my blog just a bit.

I left Sunday at noon on a small.. what Cindy Curtis calls a "puddle jumper" plane. It had 3 aisles of seats.. Aisle A,D and E. I was seated in 6B. Go figure!!!

When I got to Houston I phoned my husband. He and Arielle were watching me board the small connection plane and Arielle yes yelling something to me. Of course, I couldn't hear her. Jeff said she was yelling:

"Bye Mommy. Go have an adventure!"

On my flight to Phoenix I sat next to an asian lady on her way to Alaska who gave me hopia. Is hopia legal? Just kidding. It was quite tasty. Her name was Cindy. Cindy - if you ever find my blog (because I forgot the blog address - let me know if that list of ingredients was correct).

On my way from Phoenix to Vegas, I was fortunate to sit next to a flight attendant flying to Vegas for a job. Her last name was Kuhlman and I had to ask if she was related to Kathryn K. She said "no" but her miracle child daughter was named after her.

It was a mad dash to get a shuttle to the hotel just in time to catch the Flair girls as they headed out to the Bellagio for dinner at the Olives. The food was fantastic. We ordered 3 desserts and passed them around the table so we could sample everything. We went to the fountains and watched the show and I almost cried. It was beautiful.

The Flair Girls actually have a cab driver that they call when they are in town. His name is Allen and when we have a big group and need 2 cabs, he calls a buddy. Allen insists on opening ALL the doors for us, will take you anywhere you want, and his business card says "what happens in vegas STARTS IN MY CAB". LOL

I'll post more later!