Please excuse the mess!! I am going to be working on my blog the next week and hopefully get it set up with something more permanent so I do not have to keep changing it all of the time. Now that I have begun designing some I can make myself a nice header and get everything nice. So in the mean time please have paitence with me.


It looks as though I have gotten my first mini kit finished and will have it posted here soon for download. I am excited about that. It has a lot of paper and only a few elements but If people want something in particular made I will try to accommodate them if I am able.

Enough said for tonight I will be working on this blog tommorrow so hopefully it will look bright and cheery soon.

Well, Thanksgiving is tommorrow. Cant believe that the year is almost gone. I feel as though it just started. My oldest son Marc is on Cruise so he will get his thanksgiving dinner aboard the ship this year. Probably not super great food. At least not how I make it. John Paul and I were supposed to bake cookies today but my husband needed me to bring something to work that he forgot so that took most of the afternoon. Traffic is already beginning to get heavy. John enjoyed getting out of the house at least. Even though it is only the three of us I decided I wanted to cook tomorrow. It will be good for me. I also need to work on getting the dining room cleaned up. It would be really nice if we could eat at the table. I am also hoping for great photo ops tommorrow. Hope I am not too disapointed. I also need to get my first lesson of the mentoring program zipped up and sent out to Cheryl. I am probably the last one to send it in. I have been busy making beaded ornament covers. I also need to start on getting a digital profile done for my part of Dean's business. I need to do three sets. Totally Digital, Hybrid and Total Paper. We will see how that works out. My parents and my sister and her husband will be leaving to go on a Mexican Crusie soon. I hope my parents have a good time. I am worried about my Dad since he has already decided that he isnt going to go anywhere off the ship. He says there is no where in Mexico he would really like to see. I think he has too much resentment against the Mexicans for envading San Diego. Envading is his word. I know it is tough for them living on the border as they do. Illegals always coming and going over their property. I hope he goes off the ship a little bit. I know he will have fun though. He is talking about getting a few massages and sitting around the pool. If that is what he wants to do I guess it is okay. I just know that my parents deserve this so much. This time of year is the best time to go too. It isnt too hot down there. I know I need to post some more layouts and will do that soon. I will also post some more stickits made with my own elements soon.

Take care and have a Happy Turkey Day and remember be Grateful for all God has given you!

Well, things have been busy since I was accepted to be in the mentoring progam at The Scrapping Garden. It has been so much fun yet a tad challenging. The first lesson is quite easy but I added a little challenge by doing the lesson on my new CS3 program. We were to keep it simple and only add a tad of texture if we wished. Scroll down and you will see a few of my better papers. I am intending on making several more so I have a good variety to choose from to hand in. We all have decided to do a mega kit together and this will help to introduce us all as new designers after the class is finished. This is the first class so we do not know how long it will last etc. They will be working out all of the bugs with this class so our input is crucial to the program.

I wasnt feeling to well yesterday so I went to bed early around 8:00 PM and slept really well unitl 6:00 am when I got up to get my son ready for school. I went back to sleep until 11:30 am so I am feeling really good today. I went to get my hair cut finally and it came out really cute. I just hope I can maintain the haircut halfway decently. It is funny how my hair can dictate the type of day I am having. I am sure alot of you can relate to that. Tommorrow I go back for a manicure and a Pedicure. I have never had a Pedicure before so we will see if I like someone messing with my feet or not. Everyone tells me it is divine. My feet may scare her though! lol She is probably use to it. I also stopped a blockbuster and got several movies. It is the time of year that I need to make all of my gifts for Johns teachers etc. I found a really easy ornament cover on the internet that I think I will use. I will be able to get a lot finished quickly. I think those are what I am going to work on to sell at bazaars. I havent seen any of then anywhere. They are so beautiful. People always seem so happy to get them as gifts. I have several I have made for my own tree. They are beautiful and I always get comments on them. Also, you can very the patterns to have all kinds of price points so people will definitely be able to afford one. Make lots of the more inexpensive ones and make some of the more expensive ones to show and I am sure I will sell them once in a while. They also make lovely bridal gifts etc. I will take some pictures of them and post them as I make the different ones.
Well, like I promised here are my papers. Remember these are previews only please do not copy them as they are copyrighted. They will be available to purchase sometime in the future. If you are interested leave a comment and I will email you when they are available. Thanks for coming to visit me. Aloha for now.

I just found out some awesome news! I submitted to be in The Scrapping Garden Mentoring 101 Program and was accepted! Classes start next week I was so excited and feel honored to be part of this program. After the program is over I am commited to be exclusive for The Scrapping Garden for a year. My dream of becoming a designer is going to come true! I am so so excited! Oh yeah did I tell you I was excited!! lol Yes, I am excited!!!! Monday evening is a meeting to explain about the program. I cant wait.

Today I went to a craft fair at the school where my husband works. I am glad I decided against going this year. There were so many painted items there this year. I didnt see any beaded ornament covers so I think I will work on those over the next year and Try those. I kinda got an idea on pricing so I feel It will work. It will be fun and I really like making those beaded covers. I also did not see any off loom weaving there either so I could through in a couple of bracelets maybe. It is worth a shot and if they do not sell I can keep them for me or give them as gifts.

I might even try to sell some digital work too. We will have to see. I did see some scrapbooking there but not anything like what digital scrapbooking is.

Well, I am off to take a nap now.

Well, today is November 1st. That means Thanksgiving is just around the corner. I am still back in January 2007. What happened to this year? It seems that every year goes by faster and faster.

Last week was pretty crazy for me emotionally. The fires in San Diego kept me up nights. My parents had to evacuate for a whole week! When they came home their house was still there. I witness to the fire said that it rolled over my parents house like a tidal wave. A huge bubble of air protected my parents house from serious damage. When we prayed for my parents my husband asked for God's loving hand to save my parents house from damage. If you werent a believer before I guess you would be now. Especially from what the eyewitness said. I can visualize the air being God's protective hand over my parents home. My parents are righteous people who have done God's will all of their lives. Helping others and rasing righteous childern in God's ways. We are eternally grateful to God for sparing my parents home. To this date my father is still working to help those who did lose their homes. He is commited to God's people to help in their time of need.

I seem to be feeling better which is a great blessing for me. I am living a pretty boring life right now trying to keep my stress down which will flair up my fibromyalgia. Keeping warm also is a key.

I have been working hard on learning new skills. I took a week off from all of my CT teams that I am on and worked on paper scrapping and tutorials for my CS3 program. I learned how to make customized shadows which make things look way more realistic and making ribbons and ric rac. I havent had as much time as I would like to design but I will be hopefully having more time soon. Part of my issue is sleeping too much. I just dont seem to sleep when I am supposed to. So what happens is I am not getting out of bed until noon which is bad. I keep trying to do better but am having a terrible time breaking this habit. I think what started it was when I was reading the Harry Potter books and staying up half the night. I would sleep in and I think that has really screwed up my internal clock. I have a few things to share with you. A couple of stickits and some layouts that I have made in the last couple of weeks, so make sure to scroll down to check them out!

I also have started on my Christmas painting this past week and hope to have some nice new decorations done for the house this year. I also think that I am going to start to narrow down the things that I am painting and paint those things that way it will be better to do shows etc. I really need to get going and get some bazaars scheduled for next year and maybe this summer.

I know this is a long post but I havent blogged for a while so I need to get all caught up.

I think we have finally narrowed our search down for our live-in travel trailer. I think we will be ready to purchase it around this time next year. We will need to buy a new truck. A one ton because this is a 30+ft fifth wheel. It is beautiful. We will be able to go and take a look at them on Sunday to make our final decision so that they will make sure to have one when we are ready to buy. I will take pictures to share.

Well here are the layouts and the stickits that I promised.

Country Harvest Stickit Preview:



Here is the download. All I ask is that you abide by the Linda's TOU.

http://www.4shared.com/file/28067964/6c415e66/Country_Harvest_Stickit.html

Whew! That was work! I forgot how to link to my 4shared account! Old age again! lol

This stickit was made from Linda Cumberland's Country Harvest. You can find these awesome kits here: http://scrappinggarden.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1460 and here: http://scrappinggarden.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1459

The second stickit is from Linda Cumberland's Come Autumn Kit. I love these two Autmun kits for the Country feel they have. Here is the stickit



This stickit is one of my most favorite layouts that I have done so far. I am learning more and more every day on how to make my layouts more realistic. The belt has a custom shadow that I just recently learned how to do. Fun, Fun. They more I learn the more addicted I get to this awesome art of digital scrapbooking! Okay, now for the link to this stickit.

Again I ask that you abide by Linda's TOU. Dont share this with your friends please send them to my blog to download it for themseleves.

http://www.4shared.com/file/28067529/7f861ebb/Come_Autumn_Stickit.html

You can find the Come Autumn Kits at The Scrapping Garden, here: http://scrappinggarden.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1496
and here: http://scrappinggarden.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1495

Enjoy your stickits! Hope you have a great day. In the next few days I will be posting the pictures to the beautiful fifth wheel that we will like to buy this time next year! We are so excited and I think you will to when you see it! It has everything that we were looking for and needed for us and John Paul.