My Little Shoebox

Have you seen the My Little Shoebox? It is fast becoming my new favorite. The papers are even yummier in person! I had fun playing with the Enjoy Life line in putting together this LO for the House of Paper blog -- hard to believe Alyson was so little. These pics were taken back in 2004. I think one of the best things about kids being that age is just watching their imagination take off every day...not exactly sure where she was going on this day but she was definitely having fun...

August Goodie Box

Sometimes Chiara sends the Design Team a Goodie Box that she puts together. She sends the same thing to 4 of us and then we all see what we can come up with...I love it! It's almost like Christmas when I get it in the mail. This month our goodie box looked like this:

Pretty right? Green and blue are my favorite colors...and I just love the lace cardstock from KI. I feel a little "out of it" lately when it comes to my scrapping so I am not feeling overly happy with my latest creations but this is what I came up with.

When I saw the "You & Me" I immediately thought of some pictures Steve and I had taken in South Carolina the other weekend. We spent a little time walking around and exploring the capital building then sat on a bench for a few in the shade...and of course I couldn't resist pulling the camera out so we could take a few self portraits.

When I originally started on this one it really was supposed to be a door hanger but then once I got the paper on it I didn't feel like cutting out the hole! LOL! I opted to make it more like a plaque and it is perfect for my scrap space which always seems to look like a tornado just blew through it! LOL!

You can check out what the rest of the Design Team did over in the House of Paper Designer Gallery

We got to meet Brian McKnight!

Steve and I headed up to Columbia, SC on Friday to attend his 20 year high school reunion. As we were checking into our hotel we ran into Brian McKnight! Steve and I are big fans of his! It was almost 1am, we had been driving for well over 7 hours but OMG - I was absolutely giddy! I took our bags up to the room while Steve parked the car. When he came up to the room he said Brian was hanging out in the lobby. I asked him if he was going to take the luggage cart all the way back to the lobby...his response was "hell, yeah!" LOL! So we took the cart back down and then kept nudging each other to go up to him...then chickened out and rode the elevator back up to the 6th floor but when the doors opened Steve said there was no way we could pass up this chance so he hit the #1 and we went back down. LOL! I am sure anyone watching would have thought us hysterical!

I will be forever grateful to my husband for walking over to Brian McKnight and saying hello. Brian was so very nice, extremely gracious with his time and seemed quite humble. He was surprised when I told him my favorite song of his is "I Belong to You". It is not one of his more popular tunes that was played on the radio - it is a beautiful song though. I honestly don't even remember what words were really spoken but I remember my whole body just shaking and me trying to just keep my hand still as we were shaking hands. I am pretty sure I may have even jumped up and down right before he agreed to take a picture with us! LOL!

The picture is definitely not one of my greatest looks but again, it WAS after 1am and we HAD been driving for over 7 hours...Steve and Brian look great though! I was still so giddy after this...I was pretty much bouncing off the walls until well after 3am! LOL!