The Graduate

Today has been an emotional day for me. My youngest just graduated from elementary school.
Sierra woke up so excited about the ceremony today. Ashleigh came over very early to do her hair.

The ceremony was awesome and afterwards we took a lot of pictures with family. Here are a few of my favorites.

 

 

 

 

My grandsons--Photo shoot!!

I love my grandsons and wanted to take some cute pictures of them because it's been a while. Angel dressed them really cute and met up in old Niles so I could do a photo shoot of them. It was one of the fastest sessions but I think they came out really cute!

We are going to get some printed...I'm trying to decide which ones we should get in 8x10. I want a big one for each of the kids and one of the boys together.

I did a collage of my favorites. Which one is your favorite in each collage?

 

 

Thanks for looking!!

Hugs



A weekend of FUN!

I feel so blessed to have had the opportunity to spend a lot of time with family over the weekend. We attended two very special events.

 

My beautiful niece Alyssa graduated from college so her family threw her a party. Here are some pictures from this beautiful day.

 

My kiddos! Love them so much!

 

 

The next day we went to the wedding of my cousin Vincent and his wife Tracy.

It was such a beautiful wedding! The venue was GORGEOUS!

My son wanted to dress up. He looked so handsome! So did my girls!!

 

Angel and Christian celebrated their anniversary on that day as well!! So awesome!

The boys looked so adorable in matching outfits.

 

Sierra and Tanner

I love creating classes! So excited to be teaching a lot of these and others at stores all over!!

 



 

Thanks for looking!! I appreciate you coming over.

Hugs,

 

new projects and more!! (picture heavy)

Over the weekend I went to a farewell crop for Patti Snyder. Had a lot of fun with everyone! We didn't stay the whole time because my friend Lisa's husband was making us dinner. He was so sweet to do that and it was so yummy!! We decided to continue to crop and had a lot of fun!!

Love Gina and Lisa!!! I can't believe we didn't take any pictures while we were scrapping.

Here's a project I created over the weekend.

While I was on my trip to Texas I created a TON!!! I don't know what got into me.
Here are the projects.
Pam, owner of Heart Of Texas Studios gave me one of her albums to play with and I made this bad boy!!

Glitz sent me a whole bunch of products to teach with and this is what I did. :)

 

 These projects will be taught at different stores!!! I'm super excited!!!
Thanks for looking!!
Hugs,

A heck of an awesome weekend!

I was just looking at all the pictures from my weekend at Scrapbook N' Such in Texas. Each one puts a smile on my face!!! I met quite a few gals and let me tell you...these gals hold a special place in my heart.
Some of my favorite memories:
*Teaching my classes
*Demos in the middle of the night
*Me and the round table
*Bubble gum game
*Popcorn story (marshmallows)
*My table buddies (Patsy singing with me)
*cha cha slide
*Sue and the boob shot
*Kathy and the gloves
*My roomie Karen Burniston
*the group photo
*the lunch where I discussed the Jodi Arias case
*Kathy and the gloves
and a ton more!!!

The only not good thing...ALLERGIES!!! OMG!! Don't know how I made it. They were the worse they have been in YEARS!!! No joke! I felt bad for my roomie because my allergies were so bad at night, I don't think she could sleep...but other than that...everything else was great!!!!!

Anyways, I can't wait til' November for the next one. I'm thrilled that they have asked me back!! YAY!!!

Here are a group of fun pictures from the event.

Hugs,

Friendships

I am so lucky to have a lot of people that I call friends!

I have some that I scrap with, some I shop with, some that I take trips with, and some that I do a little bit of everything with. LOL

 

Gina Lideros is someone that I'm super close with. We've done a little bit of everything above. LOL

Love these pictures that my friend Kristi Lewis took of us. Had to make something fun with them.

 

On Friday, a bunch of us gathered at Scrapbook Territory and had a blast!!!!

Here's a picture of four of us crazies that I scrapped with.

I wanted to show you a wonderful quote I found online. Love it!!!

 

This weekend I'm off to teach at Treasured Memories!! I love the store and the owner!!

On Friday I'm doing demos fro 5pm-6pm. Then were off to have dinner with Becky Higgins!! So excited and then she's doing a presentation from 7pm-9pm.

It's going to be a lot of fun!!!

On Saturday I am teaching some classes. Can't wait!

 

Thanks for letting me share and for visiting my blog. Please leave me a message. :)

 

Hugs,



A wonderful weekend!!

I just came home from a wonderful EXTENDED weekend in San Diego!!

I taught at a really cool store called, Stamping Details. It's so stinkin' cute!! It's in a really cool looking town called Poway. If you are ever in the area, you have to go visit. You'll LOVE it!!

 

 

When I wasn't at the store, I was scrapping and being SUPER CRAZY with a lot of my friends that I LOVE LOVE LOVE!!! These are my Ever After Scrapbook peeps!!

 

Got to spend quality time with this beauty!!! Just love her!! We spent a lot of time together and chatted about a ton of different things!!! She makes the most amazing cookies! She knows I especially love her peanut butter ones so she made me some!! 

I'm working on a new class for Shabby Shutters Scrapbooks in Nova Scotia. This is the cover of the book. Can't wait for it to be done. Will be using some Glitz inside!! YAY!!!

 

Thanks for looking everyone! I'm off to get packed up for a crop tomorrow at Scrapbook Territory. Looking forward to seeing my friends Gina, Tori, and Lisa!!

Hugs

Love to create!

I often get asked how long I've been scrapbooking and every time I think about it...I feel old. Lol
I've been scrapping for about 20 years. I was stamping before that.
I remember scrapping with the most minimal items because there wasn't much back then. It almost blew my mind when I saw my first 12x12 pattern paper. Lol
Now there are more choices than I can even count! We are so lucky!! I love all the colors, styles, and patterns.

Besides all the beautiful papers that there are out there....I love all the other mediums there are to create with.

I love:
Embossing Powder
paints
sprays
gels
pens
etc.

What are your favorites to create with?

You've gotta have some fun!! (picture heavy)

I' home for the next few weeks...I love being with my family and friends so I've planned a lot of fun things but I plan on being at home too. I just got home from spending a day in Sacramento with Gina. Had a lot of fun!!! Started making this canvas. This is a sneak peak.

 

I'm lucky to go to stores that know how crazy and wild I am and play along with me. I'm certainly not quiet...microphones not needed. LOL

I wanted to post some fun pictures from my last two trips. I visited Scrapbooks with Treasured Memories and Ever After Scrapbooks. Both stores are great!!! It was my first time at TM in Louisiana. Had a blast!! You already know how much I love the girls at EA! Been there many times.

Here are a few from both stores.

These pictures are three of my favorite from TM!!! OMG Can you tell how much fun we had? LOL We totally laughed a lot!!!

This picture was taken at Lazy Lucy!! Had fun with these girls!!!

This next picture were from Ever After Scrapbooks. We had a trunk show, demo day, and classes!

Loved my night with all the girls for Debi's birthday!! Wish Janelly was in this picture!

This is just a fun picture I took after teaching a class at EA. Love knowing that my students got to play!!

Last...love this cart that I bought. It holds so much!! As you can see with my stash of sprays and paints.

Thanks for letting me share my pictures!!! I'm excited about the next two stores that I'm teaching at.
Stamping Details (Poway, Ca)--2nd weekend in April
Treasured Memories (Oak Park, Ca)--4th weekend in April

Have a wonderful week everyone!!
Hugs

Differability...

I had the great pleasure of teaching at one of my favorite scrapbook stores, Ever After Scrapbooks over the weekend. It was so much fun hanging out with everyone!!! So many made my trip memorable...I know you know who you are!! :)
Today I wanted to post about an AMAZING and SELFLESS individual that came to my class. Her name is Jennifer Lundy! Since I met her, I've seen a lot of selfless acts from this gal. We met in Los Angeles when another friend invited me to be part of a Cricut infomercial.  It's a good thing I went or I would have never met this wonderful person. We spent SIX hours together pretending to be friends scrapping together for this recording....little did we know that we would REALLY TRULY become buddies!!

That's me cheezing like crazy! Jennifer is the gal with the blonde hair. You can't see her face.

The reason why I'm doing this blog post is because I'm so impressed by all this gal does. She is the mom of four beautiful kids. Three of her kids have autism. She has done so much to see her children succeed. She drives almost 200 miles a day to take them to school!! That's amazing!!! They donate a lot of hours to help other kids with autism as well!

We were talking about her children and I was impressed when her daughter told her she didn't like the word dissability. She prefers DIFFerability!! I love it!!!
Here is her definition of it.

I want to let her know how much I love her and appreciate the examples she has shown me.  She's an amazing mom, wife, and friend! I feel so lucky to have her in my life!!

Hugs