Little bit of scrapping

Slowly trying to pull myself out of this dark hole I am in...thank goodness for scrapbooking and The House of Paper.  I was on for the Design Team this week and our theme was to scraplift a fellow Design Team member.  There is some amazing talent among the Interior Designers, I count myelf lucky to have been asked to be a part of the team.  All the ladies are so inspiring.  This week I chose Amanda and Chiara as my inspiration.

Amanda loves working with the Sassafrass Lass and I swear she is truly the Queen of Sass.  She brings it all together in such a way that you are just looking at her layouts going, "now why didn't I think of that?!"  So, I used the Sassafrass Nerdy Bird line to do this LO of my favorite little girl...

These pictures are from 2004.  She was wanting so badly to do some arts and crafts so I gave her a bunch of things to play with.  She told me she was going to make a scrapbook page ;)  She was very proud of herself...truly the sweetest little scrapper <3

Chiara is always so great when it comes to scrapping about the relationships in her life, especially the one with her husband and her kids.  I have to come to realize that I don't do that very often.  She had to LOs in particular where she scrapped about being a mom and after I came across a couple of pictures of Stevie and Alyson I decided to do a simple LO just letting them know how happy they make me.

These pictures are also from 2004.  The colors from the chalkboard reminded me immediately of the Lily Bee Hello Sunshine line.  My two little cuties wrote such a sweet little message to me telling me they "luved" me ;)  Even now, 6 years later, Alyson still writes me love notes...and they all mean just as much to me as the one before it.  They really are my everything and the best part of my life.

Can't breathe...

You know that moment when you get the wind knocked out of you and you just can't seem to breathe? 

That's me right now.

And there is a part of me that just doesn't feel like fighting to get it back.

Slacking...again

Do you ever notice that just as you start to get yourself on a new path something happens to knock you right off?!  Or maybe it only happens to me *eyes rolling*

I had made a decision to get myself back on track with my health and fitness as well as my creativity...then I got knocked flat on my butt by illness...ugh!  Talk about a pain in the ass! (hey, that pun was totally unintended...but pretty funny,eh? LOL!) *sigh*

Well, it's a Monday...in fact it is the first Monday in my 37th year...yep, that's right, I just celebrated my 37th birthday this past Wednesday.  Unfortunately I was sick and felt terrible but I knew Alyson would have been disappointed if we did not go out to dinner so I sucked it up and we headed to Outback Steakhouse (really, I need to remember NOT to go there again - bleck!)  My lovely daughter was happy to tell anyone and everyone who would listen that it was my birthday.  And, she also argued with anyone who tried to tell her that I was not turning 30 this year!  LOL!  She decided all on her own that I was 29 turning 30 -- she even argued with my mom about this just last night!  Gotta love that girl -- she certainly is a piece of work!

Despite being sick I had a nice birthday overall that I got to spend with both family and friends.  Got a couple of fun gifts which is always nice but I confess, my most favorite gift is my new scrap space from hubby!  I have been working hard at putting things together and getting everything organized and put away...hope to have some pictures to share soon.

Today I am also going to try and get back on that new path I mentioned...working towards getting back on track with my health and fitness...as well as my creative endeavors...keep your fingers crossed for me! ;)

A banner day?! (hardy-har-har!)

Banners are all the rage in scrapbooking these days it would seem.  So, since I like to be in the "cool crowd" I decided to follow along and make one of my own...and since Amanda made it a challenge over at The House of Paper well, what can I say...everyone else was jumping off the bridge so I did too! ;)  I kept it pretty simple and it was actually pretty easy once I figured out what exactly I wanted to do.  This is hanging on the door of my son's bedroom.  I opted to use brads to hold the flags together rather than ribbon so he would be a little more masculine.  The patterened paper is from the Orbit line by Crate and I cut the circles using my Cricut and the Mini Monograms Cartridge.  The letters are American Crafts Thickers -- although since I didn't have enough "E's" I actually used "3's" and just flipped them around.  My son loves it and now, as expected, my daughter is all over me about when I will have HERS done! ;)  Guess I better get busy on that one!