a little bit of me.

{winner winner!}

the winner of Michele's book is.......................

NUMBER #48!!!!!!!!!!!!

True Random Number Generator Min: Max: Result: 48

Julie G

I have been scrapbooking since my 1st son was born in 2001. My mom died when I was 24 and my dad can't rememmber a lot of the little things about me and my siblings as kids, so I just try to journal about all the little things for them.

Posted by: Julie G | May 23, 2009 at 08:25 AM

Congrats Julie - email me your contact info and I will pass it along to Michele who will have the book sent to you!  i hope you enjoy it as much as i have been... ;)

and i know i promised my first ever scrapbook page...

i spent about 20 mins looking for that bad-boy today, and couldn't find it...  it's the first page in a whole album dedicated to a single cruise vacay that we took, and it is F-U-N to look back on... ;)  when i do come across it, i'll post it here!

after looking for 20 mins, i decided to give up, and went back to working on this...

once its finished, i think it's going to be a really fun little baby quilt... :)

ETA: haaaaaaaaaaaaaa.  OMG.  i am NOT preggo people.  all tho i do appreciate your enthusiasm ;)  & i do however, have a new sewing machine....  maybe i forgot to mention that!!  :)

{summer school!}

...not necessarily a good thing unless it has to do with crafting, right?! ;)

Fiskars just recently kicked off a whole summer of fabulous and creative ideas - or should i say "mini-lessons" - brought to you by the Fiskars creative team as well as a handfull of some of the most inspiring designers in the industry...

My lesson - which involves scrapbooking, fabric scraps, and sewing (!) - debuts today...

you can CHECK IT OUT HERE!!!

and you can see an index with links of all of the summer school "classes" HERE...

You'll have to let me know what you think, and if you give any of the lessons a try!

:)

{5.25}

so... it FINALLY stopped raining yesterday.

:)

!!!

and we were able to enjoy the beach for a bit...

...evan now thinks he is the official poodle-walker!

***

leaving the book give-a-way post open for now - keep commenting - your stories about why you scrap, and what you scrap are inspiring...  i love reading them!  and i might just have to share my first scrapbook page ever this week?!  heeeee.

;)

{who likes a give-a-way?!}

** ETA:  I'm keeping this post open while i search the house for my first-ever scrapbook page...  So keep commenting...  Hopefull I'll be able to post a winner on Friday! **

guess what?!

it is raining.  AGAIN.  not even kidding.

the kind of all-day, nonstop rain we've had the pleasure of enjoying for 4 out of 5 days this week.  yuck!

good thing i have a little give-a-way today...  woot woot!

:)

My fabulous-ly talented, super-cute, and ultra-creative (that's 3 hyphens there!) Minnesota-based friend Michele (Skinner) recently wrote a book...  (i am so proud of her!)...

 ...about journaling, and how to make your scrapbook pages more meaningful.  because really, that - the journaling and memories and taking note of what's happening - is at least one of the reasons why most of us paste photos on paper and horde embellishments and supplies and love this crazy hobby - a hobby that has now become a way of life for me, and many of you, too - right?!  :)

>>> and i'm not going to lie.  the book is amazing.  :)

I love how Michele finds so many different ways to spark creative journaling on our pages, and includes ideas in the book that range from email excerpts to Q&A sessions to using lists to writing letters and on and on.

Here's the link >> Your Words Your Story >> it's full of tons of Michele's work, and as an added bonus LOTS of her gorgeous photography(!), like this cute page that is one of my faves!

...and there are also pages from so many of my other favorite scrap-designers - Sue Thomas and Nisa Fiin to name a few ;)  These 3 ladies - Michele, Sue, & Nisa - are among a select few that constantly inspire me to create more, to document more, and to push my photography beyond my comfort zone, and on top of that - they are all amazing friends.  :)

And now, i have a copy of the book to give-a-way here...! 

so leave me a comment - i'll leave this open for comments through the holiday weekend until Tuesday or Wednesday - and tell me how long you've been scrapbooking!?  And, if you want to throw in your favorite subject to journal about, that's awesome too, i'd love to hear, i get so many great ideas from blog readers!

happy weekend :)

& go away rain.

{5.21}

after 3 days of nonstop rain, frizzy hair, & a pissed-off poodle + cooped-up toddler...

evan and i finally (& thankfully!) escaped this afternoon & hit the park.

(photos via my iphone.)

& that's all i have right now.

...be sure to come back tomorrow for a fun give-a-way... :)

!!!

{winner winner}

winner winner green tangerine dinner!

i just used the random # generator to pick a # between 1 & 97.

guess what it picked?!

NINETY-SEVEN

True Random Number Generator Min:   Max:   Result:  97 Powered by RANDOM.ORG

which is:

I'm anxiously waiting to get my hands on October Afternoon's new Cherry Hill Collection.
Thanks for the chance to win! :)

Posted by: Sheri R | May 14, 2009 at 08:33 PM

you win Sheri! >> email your addy to: kitclub@mygreentangerines.com and i'm sure that they will get your kit right out to you :)

and thanks for all the great comments everyone!

:)

{free, fun, & fabulous scrap loot}

thanks to the sweet ladies at Green Tangerine, i have one of their fun & fabulous kits to give-away today!

woot woot!  :)  (<< that is my new slogan!)

This is what i made with the kit...  which, btw, i LOVED.

the bright & fun papers and embellies were totally my style.  and while there was a TON of product, i am def not known as the world's fastest scrapped by any stretch of the imagination, but was still happy to get 2 more pages finished for evan's every month album (which has so many missing months that need to be filled in!)...

here is the scoop - The Green Tangerine ladies are hosting a round of "blog parties" - and they were nice enough to ask me to guest design and host one of their "parties!"... 

Soooooooooooo...  Just leave me a comment before 7 pm pst tomorrow (thursday), tell me what your favorite new line of scrap product is!, and then i will choose a kit winner and post here...  oh, and btw, you can also enter to win another kit on their kit club blog HERE...  so good luck...  & enjoy!  :)

{mother's day round 2}

...went so much better this year, compared to last year when evan was sporting a fever of 104 degrees and realtors were asking us to leave our house for 2+ hours at a time so that they could show it on mothers day ;)

besides learning how to dial & use a phone, and book me a spa date (next weekend!), evan also gave me a shell that he choose especially for me at the beach...  (and i LOVE it!).

and bob-barker toby wrote me a card...  ;)

and really, no holiday would be complete in evan's opinion without balloons... (so here they are!)

...happy mother's day everyone, but most importantly to my very own mom, who taught me everything i now know about being a mom.  i <3 u.

:)

{today...}

today,we...

did bubbles.

"helped" with laundry.

even the "folding" part.

listened to toby bark WAY TOO MUCH.  :(

ate (clean!) socks.

& helped debate paint chips...

it was a busy day.  :)

please note the primed wall nooks in the background.

i have NO IDEA what color they will be painted.

it's seriously anyone's guess.

and as for the bathroom walls from a few posts back, we have officially given up and are going for the "i hope the tester patches of random blue look cool" look.  ;))

and that was our day.

:)

{shrimp ice cream and other things}

Over the weekend we attempted an outting to SHRIMPfest...

(held on Fernandina Beach about an hour away...)

all celebrating the little bitty florida shrimp...

there was even shrimp ice cream...

nope, we didnt try it ;)

i did, however, wonder if coldstone had devised a "shrimp-y" flavor, or was just using shrimp as the "mix-in" of choice?!

evan wasn't so much a fan of shrimpfest.

he WAS a fan of getting out of the stroller, not wanting to hold our hands, and looking for airplanes...

...which was ok...  it was a little hot after about an hour of "enjoying" the all the shrimp-y-ness, and at 21 months he has his limits... :)

I also got to scrap for NSD last saturday.

I made a page with my now-fave wave wall pic, as a lift/inspired-by of the FABULOUS 2p's GG Jennifer Gallacher...

(i LOVE her work!)

...i crafted up a bunch of work projects on sunday afternoon, while eric and ev enjoyed the beach... oh, and i "test-drove" an elna too, and LOVED it....  ;)

...and that's just some of the fun of the weekend...

:)

PS - im still leaving the photo Qs open in the post below - hopefully i'll get to that at the end of the week!!