Blooming Camelia

I got a WONERFUL surprise when I walked outside today. The beginnings of my camelia bush blooming!! OMG can't wait to see all the blooms

Playing in the Leaves

Hey Scrappers, sunday night again already!! can you believe it's november!! Can't really decide if I like the extra hour of sleep or not because it gets SOOOO dark SOOOO early!!

Alexis spent the night last night and I wanted to take pics in the backyard today. Well, she said i could only take 5 pics!! So I agreed-knowing that I was going to snap like a mad women to see how many I could get!! ha ha ha Well, I had to stop the photo session after taking 178 pics!! She had so much fun! Now, how do you pic which ones to put on the layout! Decisions, decisions, decisions! Have a fabulous week

Thanks for stopping!! :)

New additions to my scrapbook room!

Well, its still monday night and looks like it will be a long night for saints football fans!! So, I decided to take pics of my new additions to my scrapbook room!! Don't you just love them!! I found these treasures at the Washington Flea Market weekend!! All I can say it OMG!! OOC!!

I love my room and can't wait to put together some l/o's while I am creating in my room. I am very lucky to have a whole bedroom converted to be my scrapbook room!!

Hope you enjoy the tour of my room and Oh yeah, don't forget to sign in my guest book and thanks for stopping by!

Have a fabulous week :)

Halloween pics 2009

Hey scrappers, it's monday night and my husband is having a "men's party" to watch the saints game and I have decided that I need to stay in my beautiful scraproom! Alexis decided to be an LSU princess. yes, I got to decorate her crown and wand and she whole it all night and all the next day!! Did you notice it was a full moon??

So, here is my advice for those of you who need a nudge on the healthy side!! THROW AWAY the left over candy!! You don't NEED it!! :)

This layout will be so much fun

Design Team Layouts

Hey Scrappers,

here is a shout out to the T.M. Design Team!! you go girls :) the l/o's really rocked this month. I am so proud of everyone!! You can check the l/o's in person at the "brick and mortar" version of Treasured Memories (T.M.) today!

The girls do have them on their blogs but sometimes it just doesn't do them justice!! Can't believe that we only have one meeting left--the year went by so so so so fast!

see ya girls in three weeks and can't wait to see what you will do with the Webster pages goodies!!

Sleepy and trying to add blikie's to my blog!! It think I really like them --the hard part is choosing your favorite. Now i have to master how to change the background!! love blinkis from thecutestblogontheblog.com!!! thanks, thanks, thanks!! :)

I took a sleeping agent to help me have a "fabulous" night of sweet dreams while my husband is still hunting!!

happy sleep to everyone!

don't forget to sing in on my guest book---love to know how sneaks peaks

happy day

m

Sunday, October 11

Hey Scrappers,

what a weekend and once again, it sure did go by fast!! Can you believe it's october and today is the first day that if feels like fall!! Let's guess how long that cool weather will stay!!

Wendy, Janet, Connie and I went to the Washington Antique School mall on friday and it was a race of who could find the best deals and the coolest stuff!! We really had a good time and I REALLY found some cool stuff for my scrapbook room. I found this GORGEOUS shabby chic chandelier!! Joe (my husband) promises to hang it up tomorrow. So, i will post pics as soon as that happens! He decided to run 2 miles yesterday and now he can barely walk!! So, i guess I have to wait to he can move up & down a ladder but I did have to laugh! heeee heeee It does help to stay consistent in your exercise

Hope everyone made it to the garage sale at T.M. yesterday--we had bunches of stuff flying out the door before 12N!!

Have a great week:)

Alexis 2nd Grade pic

Can't believe it is already Sunday evening! WOW --the weekend sure does go by fast!! I did get to finish a 1 page l/o to go into the front of her 2nd grade album. I used Basic Grey Stella Ruby paper, 7 Gypsies, Heidi Swapp, Prima & Jenni Bowlin buttons. Of course, I hand cut out all the flowers then pop dotted them and added bling to the highlights on the flowers and added more buttons and flowers!

Did you see the new l/o's the T.M. Design Team did this week! Check out their l/o's and blogs!! Thanks Tanya for my sussie, just love all of it! another shout to Melanie for bringing me some butterfly sussies too today at the store!!

I am now going to unpack all the wonderful stuff I bought at Treasured Memories on Wed night -I did do some great shopping and OMG!!! can you see me smiling :D

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to leave a note!!

talk to ya' soon

More garden pics

The first pic is my Blue Daze, then my Cypress vine, them my Cup & Saucer vine, then my beautiful Fire Spike bush that the hummingbirds are going nuts over! I will have to get in my husband's camo pants so the mosquitos don't fly away with me while I am trying to take pics!! Yes, I am just as obsessed about my garden as my scrapping! It is a get away for me and I don't care how dirty I get --I guess I will have to take a pic of that one day --that will be reallllly cute!! I love to share my plants with friends so if you are into plants like me and want to do some trading???? I am in-- i guess we can even go so far as scrapbook trading for plants --there's a thought!!

more garden pics

These are pics of some of the differ gingers, cassia tree I have and isn't the rain drops falling off the elephant ears plant so cool!!

My wonderful garden

I just had to fight the "SWARM" of mosquitos this am to get this pics. This is my night blooming cirus. The plant only blooms at night and once sunlight hits it-the blooms die. I had 10 blooms at one time and I kept waiting everyone night to see the wonder sight and of course they all bloom during the horrific rainstorm and the only left was this one this am!! But I just love this plant!!

just wanted to send a shout out to everyone who stops by my blog, don't forget to leave a message, I would love to hear from you!

Have a fabulous week!!:)

Dance Practice 2008

This l/o I used Basic Grey paper, Basic Grey rub ons, lots of Prima flowers, bling and I actually journaled before putting it in Alexis's album-yeah!

Alxis @ a b-day party

This is a l/o with lots of pics of Alexis at a cowgirl b-day party. One of the pics show a "flower" flip book which I taught in on of my HDYDT classes. There is some Technique Tuesday chipboard flowers and stamping with VersaMagic ink. I thought tying bows as leaves was a different idea!

Mother's Day 2008

Hey Scrappers! Here it is already Sunday afternoon!! Why do the weekends go by sooooo fast????

I really didn't mind the rain this weekend-do you ask why?---well, I am usually working in my beautiful garden (if I say so myself)--moving plants, BUYING plants that I don't have room for and or preventing my husband from pruning any branch longer than 12in!! Thank goodness hunting season has started!! yipee for my plants--I think they are secretly excited too.

So with the torrential rains, I was able to not feel guilty not working in the yard but instead working in my scrap room putting together another 3 l/o's!! OMG!!! I can't believe I completely finished another three-I am totally excited!!

This layout has lots of clustering of some old stuff--do you recognize 7 gypsies, maya roads, Heidi Swapp, Prima, Bazzil, to name a few brands! These are pics of my mom, sister (mother of Alexis), and Alexis in my backyard under my pergala taken by me.

One more creative idea

Okay, so I was a busy beaver again this weekend!! Keep on organizing--I keep telling myself! I just Love having a place for everything and KNOW where it is!!

Well, here is my latest! I typed up an Excel spreadsheet and listed (of course in the order that I have them in the tin) all of my Stickles, Tim Holtz Distress Stickles, Crackle paint and embossing powders!! Now I now exactly what I have and what is missing!! I have them stored in those cute tin lunch boxes and I do have one of Tim's tins!! I guess now I have to decorate them!! That is another day!!:)

I hope you have enjoyed the tour of my latest pics of my organization of my scrap room and the l/o's I was able to finish totally with pics! Let me know your thoughts and any other ideas!!

Hope you have a Fabulous week!! off to bed since I have to teach a class at Red's @ 5:45 am! OMG--back to work

see ya

New Scrapbook Room

Here is my work station and have my most used products close at hand!! Do you see the jars of flowers I separated by color!! that was fun--I didn't know I had SOOOOOOOOOO MANY!! Can you see the jar of buttons! Yes, I have my Tim Holtz stuff close by on the shelf. I decorated a "tin lunch box" to put my alcohol inks in and it is so portable. Love my OTT light. I have a pic of how I store my Glimmer mist sprays and Cricut cartridges along with my Junkitz bags of gold and silver emblishments!! My computer and printer/scanner right close by. I moved my antique table to create my working space--Now if i can get used to it there and not BANG my knee on the corner!! I also included a small pic of my outdoor garden but you can see my 2 Cassia tress blooming bright yellow flowers right now--just love them. My screen saver has a pic of one my roses! not bad pics for a beginner photographer!!

new Scrapbook Room

As you continue to walk in my creative space, this is how I store "some" of my paper and "some" of my alphabet's. Yes, I also, seperated my paper by vendor and alternated the colored tabs so that I may see them better! I have my grandmother's rocker to sit in when I want to chill out and read my new magazines!

New Scrapbook Room

So here is the total pic of that first "storage station" I have in my scraproom. I just love my antique lamp topped off with an antique hat to boot. Do you see the peg board I just bought to hang somewhere to store my punches and other "odd" stuff!!

Updated Scraproom pics

Okay, so here is my OCD beginning of organizing and trying to be creative and thrifty!! How many bottle of Prima did you buy and how many little bottles of Robin's Nest pebbles do you buy--Yes, I bought them all and since I am OCD-- I sat down and seperated every differ color of bottle of pebbles!! can you believe it?? Yes, but look how beautiful they look in the empty Prima flower bottles. Yes, I seperated those by color too!! Okay, so I couldn't throw away the back of the packaging from my Prima bling since my scrapbook room is black and white with color of pink thrown in there too!! Can you see that I cut them down to be the "wallpaper" to the inside of the cubby's!! Now I just have to finish using the rest of my bling to finish "wallpapering" the rest of the cubby's!!

Valentine HDYDT

Yes, I have been busy again this weekend and put to use another HDYDT l/o that I didn't have pics or should I say couldn't decide what pics to use. Yes, once again, I clustered and added to the original l/o! I couldn't help myself! I kept remembering Wendy in the back of my mind saying--"just commit and glue it down" OMG!! I did it but also in the back of my mind Tanya and Aphra kept saying cluster a little more--what else is in your stash!! HA HA HA!! Do you recognize some of the old stuff I used with this Technique Tuesday l/o too???!!!!!! I even layered some Petaloo flowers with some Queen & Co flowers--can you see them?? Do you see some old Heidi Grace suff too

Another HDYDT

Hey Scrappers, who remembers this one!! whewwwwww!! How much fun was this one!! ha ha ha!! Yes, yes, yes, it was lots of work and figuring out which piece went back where!! Of course, I came back and added some more stuff!! imagine that!! I just love the colors

Layouts completed during Labor Day Holiday

This is an older HDYDT l/o that I finally found pics to match to complete the l/o!! YEAH!! This is annual trip Alexis takes with her Grammy and Gramps!! As you see Grammy is nowhere to be found because she is taking all the pics for ME!! I wish I would have been there--I had to do lots of cropping but overall you have to give it to my mom for doing her best!! Who remembers how we did the coconuts!! just love the technique. Did you notice it is using Technique Tuesday chipboard!!

Getting Inspired

Hey gang, getting ready to settle down for the night but also wanted to share with you that while working on those 3 l/o's this weekend, I also have been inspired by Jennifer McQuire's scrapbook room, have you seen it!! OMG!!!!!!!!!! yes, I have been rearranging and putting things in a box for the T.M. garage sale coming soon! I will be taking some pics of my room to maybe share some inspiration for organization and using some things you maybe never thought of!!

Pics coming soon!

ps. have you gone to theadvertiser.com to get inspired for exercise!! I have been doing a once a week tip for Fit and 40 ( yes, I am over 40). The paper shows the tip in print every Thursday and you have to click on local news to get the video that goes with the excerise tip! I think--not bad for an amateur!

Have a FABulous week!

Fall 2008

Here is the last of the l/o's that I got to finish!! Here is another HDYDT l/o that I taught @ T.M. The pics from last year's fall were picture perfect for this l/o. I hae 3 differ flip books on this l/o to add tons of pics. I just loved this paper and you can see again--more hand cutting. I did add some ribbon to the finished l/o. I just can't help myself!