December Pagemaps

I have a little toot!! I was asked to contribute a layout to the December Pagemaps issue by Becky Fleck. I was so excited to get her email and sketch. Here is the sketch:

And here is my layout, the sketch was perfect for some photos I took of Miss Kayla on her 5th birthday. I followed the sketch pretty closely. It was a change for me to create a 2-page layout but I like the results. I might have to do more 2-pagers in the future!!





Thanks for stopping by!!

Joyful!!

Color Me Daisy's December kit is JOYFUL and so much fun to play with! Lots of goodies from My Mind's Eye, October Afternoon, Making Memories, Imaginisce, and so much more!! Also included are some beautiful glittery chipboard and a Hambly snowflake overlay. The possibilities are endless!

As you may not believe, I have relatively few Christmas photos to scrap because I am all caught up on last year's Christmas. But I wanted to highlight this photo, because I love it! Not the best photo (Kevin is looking weird and the lighting was bad) but I still love it!

I also saw these cute treat bags on Jennifer McGuire's blog and thought they would be perfect for co-workers, neighbors, anybody this holiday season you want to give a treat to.


And you can't give a cute little treat bag without a cute little card. These are 3x3 and I used a diecut from the diecut sheet and the snowman stamp from our Christmas card kit.

I've been wanting to make a cookie sheet advent calendar now for some time. This year i've seen so many cute ones and thought this was the perfect kit for it! I spray painted a used cookie sheet white and then decorated it. I used Aleen's tacky glue to adhere the paper to the cookie sheet and it seemed to work just fine. The silver chipboard is from the kit, the other chipboard is all leftovers from my stash. I also scrounged up a bunch of leftover numbers from Thicker packs. I had so much fun making this! It was an early Christmas gift for my sister this year.




Thanks for checking out my projects! Color Me Daisy also has an ornament kit and mini project kit which includes an accordian album with some fun holiday embellishments! Go check it out!!

What a weekend!!

Wow, seriously. What a weekend! We had a great time on our camping trip, it was quite the adventure. We pulled into San Marcos Campground Wednesday early afternoon. It rained the whole way there, but the rain stopped a bit before we arrived at the campground. At the last minute, Craig had scored a site with RV hookups and before the trip was over we would be SO glad he did. Here's the trailer all set up. This was my first camping trip with the trailer!

It was fairly easy to set up and Craig plugged everything in to see if it was all working. Yes, it was! Notice the black clouds overhead?

We should have known we were in for trouble!! Did some hiking and exploring the campground then headed back for dinner. Just as Craig started BBQing...the rain hit. And it started pouring. And pouring and raining. Geez...it was ALOT of rain!! We spent the rest of the evening in the trailer and I was amazed how much it rained. The kids thought it was great fun, coloring by lantern-light.

Craig also had the foresight to bring his laptop and the kids watched movies after dinner because we had a hookup. It was nice because we weren't going anywhere. The next morning...still raining! We discovered the saturation point for the canvas on the trailer and the breech point was right above my and Craig's heads!! We woke up to soaked pillows and some dripping, but only on our side. The kids were high and dry!! Look at this rain!

When the rain stopped mid morning, we headed OUT!! We walked the trail under the freeway and through the puddles and to the beach. The kids loved puddle stomping!

We also had to cross over the train tracks to get to the beach, which the kids thought was so funny.

The beach was absolutely gorgeous. The sky was SO blue and the clouds were so pretty. I could not stop taking photos. And sun + rain = rainbows!!

We also found about 15 lobster and crab molts. I don't know if the storm brought them all up from the kelp beds, but we found a couple of full molts. They looked exactly like lobsters...but nothing was inside!


We had a great time that morning at the beach. The kids loved playing and running and screaming and yelling...all things they could not do in the trailer! Here are a few of my favorite photos from the morning.



The rest of the weekend was spent hiking, sampling beers at Pizza Port brew pub (not far from the campsite..hee hee hee), playing at the beach and hanging out around camp. it was really really cold at night and were thankful we brought a little space heater. If you've made it through all these photos, thanks! I hope you had a fantastic Thanksgiving weekend!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Just wanted to wish all my blogging friends Happy Thanksgiving! We will be celebrating with family, at the beach and hopefully it won't be raining. Because we will be camping...rain or shine! Plan on doing alot of eating and hiking and tidepooling and beachcombing and smores making this weekend. I am a wee bit bummed that I will miss out on going shopping on black Friday because I love to do that. I don't know why, it's just kinda fun. So have a great holiday and catch you all later!!

What a week!!!

Wow, being sick all week really takes alot out of a girl. I'm even missing my Twilight movie party tonight. I just don't think anybody wants to sit in a crowded theater next to the girl who's hacking up a lung. Just call me typhoid Mary. So sad i'm missing my Edward right now, but he'll be there for me when I am ready. Not much else going on. We had Kevin's soccer party this week and it was insane. I think every soccer team had their party at Lamppost pizza on the same night. Insane, I tell you. But I did make the cutest soccer ball cupcakes for his team. And guess what...I forgot to take photos!! But this is what they sorta looked like...the soccer balls...

That's about it! I've been working on christmas gifts and cards and other Christmas goodies. But I can't share anything yet! But I will share this, our advent calendar. 25 little folded origami boxes. I made these last year and the kids have been asking when are we getting out our little boxes?? Craig and I will have to fill them up and then we'll put them out. The kids are excited!!


Have a great weekend everybody!

Yes, another sick day.

Okay...i'm officially sick of being sick. I've been sick for 2 weeks and it really bites. Thought I was kicking it last week but it came back Friday with a vengence. It was hot and windy all weekend and that didn't help my throat. Two soccer games, a soccer party and running errands Saturday left me pooped!! Then a birthday party yesterday (which in it's defense was pretty darn fun AND they had a cooler of beer for the adults...double score!! beer and sudafed...well, you know what I mean) left me spent! No sleep due to coughing and sore throat just zaps the energy out of me. And nobody at work (especially your office mate) wants you sitting at work coughing up a lung all day. So...home is where I am. Thanks for listening to me bitch about it.

I've been working on lots of Christmas goodies lately. Gifts and cards and all sorts of stuff. Already ordered our Christmas cards (Thanks Tiffany!!) from a really cool site called Pear Tree Greetings. You can get recycled photo cards and also recycled envelopes. You gotta love that, plus they have some really cute card designs. Check it out if you are making photo cards this year.

And Jennifer McGuire posted a video of her scrap room on her blog. You must go check it out and then i'll let you know when she is letting me move in. Hee Hee!! Just an amazing space, how fun does that look!!! My scrappy friend Beth got me hooked on her blog and now it's one that I check every day. Love all her stamping techniques and cards she creates. When I grow up, I want to make cards just like her.

That's about it for today! Just waiting for the cold medicine to kick in so I can go nap. Hope you're all having a great Monday!! I'll leave you with some pics of my kids on their scooters, man they LOVE those things!! They also love to ride together on one scooter...and I wonder where my grey hair is coming from???

Got Christmas Cards?

Do you ever want to make your own Christmas cards but feel intimidated or feel you won't have enough time? Well, here's your chance to make great Christmas cards this year and take the guess work out of the design...Color Me Daisy's Christmas card kit!! You will get everything you need to make 12 cards of 3 different sizes. All for only $16, that's pretty cool!! A cute snowman stamp is included in the kit. Also included are step-by-step instructions to make your cards, designed by myself and Daisy Girl Raechelle. This kit takes all the guesswork out of what supplies to use as well as giving you detailed instructions to make your cards...or make your own unique designs. Here are my designs and check out Raechelle's blog to see her cards!







Hope you are all having a great weekend. We have some major wildfires burning right now. It's was super windy and in the 90's yesterday and that was recipe for disaster. Keep the fire victims in your thoughts and also all the firefighters who are out there right now fighting these fires. My GF's husband has been out for 48 hours straight with no end in sight. Thoughts of no wind and cooler weather going out!!