Living My Dream

AMM Monthly Layouts

I just spent two days making layouts with the beautiful April kit from a million memories kit club. Is is so pretty, vintage looking and romantic. Michelle the owner puts together the best kits ever! Here are my four layouts: This one uses a picture of my good friend's new baby girl Katie - she is so adorable! For this layout, I painted the chipboard frames white and used Ranger holographic embossing powder on them - did the same along the edges of the page. I used chalk ink on the chipboard letters and outlined them with the new Ranger white pen which is amazing!!! This is my friend Jocelyn again with her sweet baby girl. I traced around the... Read more →

Happy Easter!

I have been making these orange rolls for years and especially like to make them for Easter. So I thought it would be fun to share my recipe with you. They are seriously good - so good that when I was single I used to call them my "catch a husband" rolls. I made them for any potential client and it always resulted in a proposal - haha! They are yeast rolls, but quite easy to make. This picture shows them without the glaze which is nice as dinner rolls, but with the glaze they are the most delicious (but more like a breakfast roll). Here is the recipe from the cookbook called Best Recipes from the Los Angeles Times... Read more →

7 Random Facts about ME

I have been tagged by Wendy Vecchi and Lisa Pace (both friends from our Maya Road design team) to post seven random facts about myself. I have ignored these tags for as long as possible as I didn't want to bore anyone. But today, I found myself with a bit of free time (shocker) and decided to make this one fun. So here goes - sorry if this is long, but I have lots of photos to demonstrate my points! 1) I was on the Newlywed Game two times with my first husband - they called us back for an alumni game because we (me) were so funny! We won that game. Tom (my current husband) set up the TiVo... Read more →

Photos of My Birthday Girls

Jordan came up from San Diego for the day yesterday, so I took her and Chloe to Laguna for a fun photo shoot (my all time favorite place to take photos). I like to take a lot of photos of each child around their birthday. Here are some of my favorites - Jordan looks SO beautiful! And here is my darling little Chloe - six years old and so full of personality! She started dancing on this step, so I put it on Sports Mode and got a sequence of very funny photos! Read more →

Happy Birthday to Jordan and Chloe!

Last week was a big birthday week in our family! First Jordan and then Chloe. Happy birthday cute girls! Can you guess how old they are??? Read more →

My AMM Creations for March

I was able to work with the March kit for a million memories kit club this month - it is so awesome! Totally my colors and I am in love with butterflies, so this was just a fun kit to work with. Here are three pages and a mini book by Scenic Route. Go to the a million memories website and check out the DT Members awesome creations - very inspiring work! Suzy Read more →