Today I am hosting the blog over at ScrapTiffany.com. I have a roundup of my favorite photography resources. The more I play with my big girl camera the more I want to learn how to take better pictures. I am sharing websites you can check out, classes you can take, books you can read, post processing resources and more. Head on over to check it out...ScrapTiffany
Happy Friday!
I haven't been up to writing much lately. I am still recovering from foot surgery and it has been more painful than expected. I had surgery to relieve the plantar fascia and remove bone spurs on the heel. The plantar fascia apparently wasn't as bad as they had thought but the bone spurs were worse, so it is tough to walk. But every day it gets better.
I am excited to start the new session of Finding Photo Freedom (Library of Memories) over at Big Picture Classes today. I have been taking the class since 2008 and each year since as an alumni. Each year the refresher is good to help me evaluate my system and tweak where necessary. I am looking forward to this as my summer project.
I haven't been scrapping much lately, but I have a huge backlog of things I haven't shared. I played along in the Studio Calico National Scrapbook Day celebration and finished 8 layouts that week from their challenges.
Hoping to get back into a regular blogging schedule, so I hope this is my fresh start. Happy Thursday!
Sunday was the new challenge at ScrapTiffany. I am a bit tardy getting mine up here. The challenge was to scrap your guilty pleasure. Without a doubt that would be good wine. Having the kiddos has definitely cut into the budget for that, but when we can we love to have a good bottle.
Today I am having foot surgery today. My foot pain started in October when we were on vacation and grew much worse after I started training for the 60 mile 3 day breast cancer walk.
After months of trying everything else, today I am having surgery. My plan to walk this year’s 3 day walk has been derailed, but I am looking forward to healing and getting back on the walking path for 2012.
Looking forward to lots of sleep this afternoon.
In a few short hours it will be Friday. I am looking forward to a weekend hanging out with family and brunch on Sunday for Mother’s Day. Hanging out with these little guys.
A while back I took a Cosmo Cricket class at my LSS, Paper Vineyard. I never shared the layouts and cards we made so I thought I would share them today, since I still haven’t finished my CKC post. I took 3 classes and 2 of them used the newest lines Salt Air and Upcycle. The third focused on CC’s fabric and the new Glubers.
Have a great weekend!
I’m a bit late getting my ScrapTiffany challenge up for today. I thought the 1st was tomorrow, oops! I spent most of yesterday doing major cleanup on my laptop. I topped the day off with an upgrade to Windows 7, which took hours to complete. At one point I was certain that my computer was toast. But most things are looking fine now.
Of course it can’t be perfect. When I logged into Lightroom this morning, I needed an update that is downloading now. It looks quite large, so I am guessing I will have another day of computer maintenance ahead.
Today’s challenge at ScrapTiffany is Friendships. I did this layout about me and my best friend. I couldn’t do this crazy life without him. Head on over to ScrapTiffany to see what the rest of the design team ladies did.
I finished up my layouts from CKC last night. I am working on a post with an overview of my classes and my completed layouts. I hope to have it up later in the week.
Have a great Sunday!
I am looking forward to a short day at work and a weekend with family. The boys have no idea the fun they are going to have on Easter at the big Egg Hunt. Hope you have a great Easter Weekend too. I'll leave you with a couple of layouts I completed recently.
With my favorite ever Studio Calico kit, Metropolitan I made this to gather last year's Christmas cards in one place.
The winner of my drawing from last weeks ScrapTiffany blog hop is posted below. I got back from the best CKC scrapbook convention ever Saturday night. The rest of the weekend was super busy too....
Sunday we took the boys to the Garden Railroad Train Tour and came home to have my computer crash on me, Mike had to take it to Best Buy to get it fixed for me.
I had Monday off of work, so after Nicholas got out school we went to see the Easter Bunny (Jackson would not go near him)
Here's a quick recap of the convention. I will have a full review of my classes after I finish up my projects in the next couple of weeks.
This year's convention was....
Having 2 fun filled days with 2 fabulous friends (and another in spirit, who was home with her sick baby)....
Taking 8 awesome classes with 5 fabulous teachers, making 16 fun layouts, a mini book and 2 cards that I love....
Some new Basic Grey. A cute Easter altered project
And some Glitz Design goodies those brown woodgrain mini letters that I had been coveting, circle stamps I was drooling over, and my favorite Glitz line ever....
And finally, I have drawn a winner from last week's ScrapTiffany blog hop.
Mary Ellyn said...
Cute idea
It’s Friday… I have a 4 day weekend…
And I am off to the Creating Keepsakes Convention in Mesa for the next 2 days!
We are staying overnight at the convention hotel . So what could be better….
A girls weekend filled with…
…all things scrapbooking …girl talk …no kids (I’ll though I will miss them terribly) …lots of classes …and LOTS OF SHOPPING.
I call that…nirvana.
Before I head off, I am sharing today’s ScrapTiffany challenge on stamping. I have been dabbling a bit with embossing powders again, American Crafts Zing to be exact. I also have been on a roll scrapping our vacation from last October.
Here is my take on this week’s challenge…
I have been doing a few more two pagers lately and using lots of my favorite photos from our vacation. It’s fun to switch it up a bit.
Nicholas was impressed with the heat gun for embossing. He kept telling me to do it again. I love that one of my boys is already hanging out with me in my craft room. His future wife will sure appreciate me (may she be a scrapbooker or crafter). LOL!
Have a great weekend!
I’ll be back on Sunday to post the winner from the ScrapTiffany Blog Hop!
