For the luv of art AUGUST kit

For the Luv of art AUGUST kit!!!

To say I love this kit would be an understatement!!!

This kit freaking ROCKS!!! I had so much fun creating my different projects and I still have more to create with.

Here's what I did so far:

I used my punky Sprouts album that I had to make my first project.

The alphabets on this page are solid but I used Norma's exclusive word stamp to give it dimension. I also used it through out the whole book.

Love all the Dear Lizzy products!!

Can you see the cool word stamp that I used as the background?

Love this beautiful flower ribbon. I used stickles on top of the letter stickers.

I made several pockets on this page. Decorated it with all the stickers and flowers.

This is a page that I did with some of the extras. Everything on here is in the kit minus the kraft cardstock and the pen.

Thanks for looking!!!! What do you think of this kit?

Wild and crazy!

My stomach still hurts over laughing so much on Friday! O.M.G!!!

These girls are so wild and crazy!! It's hard to keep up with them being the quiet one that I am.... BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Okay so I'm wild and crazy....but so are these girls!!!

The two next to me right here...I laughed so hard that I couldn't even focus the picture...oh wait...it was because my arms are so short and I was trying to get us all in the photo. LOL

Usually I'm good at this but Sarah's lens was a 50mm and so I couldn't zoom in or out. LOL

Tricia...my flash dance girl! LOL She loves water you know. LOL

Daniela...She's such a cutie patootie!

Love this shot of Gina and I! She's so funny!! Love this girl!

--loves---

--loves some more!!!--

The four of us!!! Look at how cute part of Tricia's face is! LOL

Gina has the best chin ever! LOL

Nancie...my fellow gleek!!! Love you girl!
Nikki--you rock woman!
The three amigos!
OMG...you guys have no idea how much fun we had!!! There's another group of "flash dance" pictures we have that are so funny....I almost pee'd my pants!!! Seriously!!

Can't wait to hang out with you guys again!
Hugs

Suzy West

Teaching...

As many of you know, I've been teaching scrapbook classes all over the world for the last ten years. It's what I love to do most! I've been all over the place this year and I'm excited to add more dates and classes. I'm creating even more projects as more products become available for CHA!! So check back often.

Here are just a few projects that I have taught or have been asked to teach soon!!!

If you are interested in having me come to your store, you can contact me at psajfamily@aol.com

Hugs,

Suzy West

A blast from the past!

When I was 14 I went to the movies with a lot of friends to see the movie, "the Goonies!" I remember being so excited to see this movie that was going to have one of my favorite singers, Cindy Lauper in it and a really cool cast of actors that were being featured all over Tiger Beat and other cool teenage magazines. I loved the movie and had to watch it a thousand times when it came out on video.

Yesterday was the 25th anniversary of the movie, The Goonies and Santa Cruz beach boardwalk celebrated it by playing the movies on the BEACH!!!! It was freaking awesome!!!

Everyone cheered when those popular lines were said such as "Goonies never say DIE" or "first you got to do the truffle shuffle". LOVED IT!!!

We got there early to hang out and play in the water. As you can see by this picture below...the day was GORGEOUS!!!!

Sierra was thrilled to collect shells and build sand castles.

The movie didn't start until 9pm and it got super COLD!!!! We bundled up our little Sierra and Jeremy really good as you can see here!!! You could barely see her face. LOL

Sierra and I having a great time!!!!

They blew up this HUGE screen right on the beach. It was MASSIVE!!!

We had a great time and even though it was crazy cold and I didn't get home until after midnight I would do it again....why? Because I'm one of the original Goonies!!!! LOL

Goonies forever!!!

Hugs, Suzy West

CHA--the pics--the craziness--the story!

Before I show you all the pictures of my time at CHA, I want to take the time to thank these ladies and gentleman in these top two pictures!

They made my CHA experience the best one EVER!!! Seriously it was the best!!! I have never laughed so hard I ended up in someone's lap! Never have the combinations of the two words shoes and socks made me laugh so hard I cried (so did the rest of the table). Never have I built things with hammer, nails, screws, wrenches, and other manly tools with a friend and felt so empowered and confused at the same time! Never have I stood in a line for popcorn almost peeing my pants listening to a story of someone else peeing in their pants!LOL

Never have I had a "dude" be my assistant in a class and had woman yelling "take off your shirt" while the rest of the team stood back chatting and laughing. LOL

Thank you to the best crew ever!!!!

The story I'm about to tell is a true story and it's so crazy that it just makes us laugh because it's just nuts!!!

I got to Illinois last Friday and met up with Linda from Creative Cuts and Crafts, the cutest little scrapbook store that I've ever been too! I LOVED it!!! I loved the gals I taught as well. So sweet!

(You can see some of the pictures from my classes there in my previous blog post and some down below.)

My first night there, there was a HUGE thunderstorm!!! I'm talking so huge that bridges were flooded, Cars were under water, and there was lightning so big that I think it lit up the entire state! LOL I'm from California...we don't see that. LOL

It took some people HOURS to get to my class!!! I'm so grateful they came even though it took them so long! Sarah came to assist me. She was literally 8 minutes away and it took her two hours to get to the store!!!

It was fun teaching there and when I wasn't I was at Linda's creating for CHA in the most amazing scrap room that I have ever seen!!! I had a great time scrapping, singing, and eating with Linda! Had the most wonderful experience in Hotel Linda!

Here are some pictures from the class.

A couple of days later I was in Rosemont where I met up with Shelly. Claudia and Linda were so awesome to take us to IKEA to shop for the booth. We bought the shelves, the cabinet, chairs, tables, and rug that you see in this picture.

Shelly and I started to try to "build" the shelving units but there was a problem...she forgot to bring tools. LOL Thankfully we found some but we still didn't know what we were doing. LOL the next day I got hammer and nails and just nailed the shelves together with the help of Sarah and Shelly and the dude next door who was awesome!

We finished putting the booth together and I think it looked pretty awesome!!!

Shelly wasn't feeling good so I sent her to the hotel to get some rest and I went out with Sarah, Kiki, Tricia, and Gloria. That night we laughed like freaking crazy hyenas!

The song GLORIA has been stuck in my head since that night!!! Thanks Kiki and Tricia! LOL

The next day was the first day of CHA!!! It was awesome!!! the Debut of my new collection was a huge hit! I'm so excited about it!!! The only problem of the day? We were worried about Shelly...she still wasn't feeling good! She had not eaten in FOUR days!!! She was in a lot of pain and looked pale. I told her that I could handle it with the rest of the gang so I sent her to the hotel to get some rest. That night I taught my class. It was a lot of fun!!!

Tricia brought music and we had FUN!!!!

I had the greatest assistant ever...name....DAMIEN!!!! He rocked my class! I put him on the spot so many times...and he took it like a man! LOL

Before the class....Carrie wanted to take pictures in the bathroom. (don't question it). LOL

Okay ready for the crazy part?

After the class we started cleaning up and my phone rang. It was Sarah. She told me that Shelly had been rushed to the hospital! We all freaked and tried to find out the scoop. Turns out that one of Shelly's intestines had twisted! YES, TWISTED! She had a blockage! the woman could have died!! We all felt so bad for her!! Shelly spent the entire show in the hospital!

So while she was there, the gang and I ran the booth!!!

Shelly knew the booth was in good hands so as she tried to get better I would send her texts from the booth telling her the good things that were happening. She was happy to know everyone loved our new products!

That night the For the Luv of Art and Punky Sprouts team went out to Gibsons.

We ate like crazy people and laughed so freaking hard we all almost pee'd our pants!!

I kept checking in with Shelly. She was getting better thankfully.

Shelly was released the last day of the show. She was fully hydrated and looked so much better.

She came to work the booth and you could see that she was happy to be there.

Unfortunately we have no pictures with Shelly. wah!

Here are some pictures of me with peeps at the show!! (pulled all the pictures from facebook. Thanks guys!)

Picture of Penny and I

In the Shimmerz and Glitz booth

Helmar's booth

Elena and I

My girls Norma and Carrie

me and my for the luv of art team members

Tricia, Pamela, and Carrie

Look at us cuties!!! LOL

being nuts!!

more group pictures!!

Tricia and I being nuts!

So the show was a HUGE success for us!!! We were thrilled to see everyone and know that our products are going to be all over the world!!! We are excited that so many people want to work with my new collection!! YAY!!!

Want to hear more craziness? the story doesn't end here.

The last day of the show we decided we were going to just take our projects and the rest we would do the next day (you have two days for take down)

So we grabbed the projects. The rest we left organized. Put the curtains together. Pots were together. Stands were together. Everything was ready to put in boxes the next day.

The next morning Norma, Damien, and I went into the city to do some shopping. Shelly stayed back so she could go to the convention center to put the small items in a box. Damien was going to take the shelves down when we came back because he was going to take them home. He was also going to take the cabinet with him to take to Carrie.

The next part of the story just makes me laugh because it's crazy! LOL

I get a phone call from Shelly..."Suzy, the booth is gone!"

WHAT????

Someone had STOLEN everything in our booth!!! cabinet, pots, stands, etc.

The only thing left...the big shelving unit that I had nailed down like crazy! LOL

Who steals a booth?

sorry but as crazy and bad that it was...we had to LAUGH!!!!

So that's the story of our crazy and wonderful CHA experience!!!!

I'm excited about all the wonderful things in store with Punky!!! I've been asked to teach all over the world. Will be doing some tv spots. I'll be adding more designs to my collection.

I'm even thinking of adding more designers to the team!!!!

Thanks again to everyone who came to the booth!!

Thanks for the laughs!

Thanks for the craziness!

Today...I'm relaxing!!! Tomorrow...It starts again!

Wait til' you see what I'm up to!

Hugs,

Suzy West