Living My Dream

IRON CHEF SCRAPBOOKING

Today was a fun and interesting day. We met my scrapbook friend Annie and her three kids at Zomar's Petting Zoo (one of our favorite summer activities). I took lots of pictures and although I tried to focus on my kids, I seemed to be taking mostly pictures of her cuties. Then we came back to my house to scrap a couple of quick pages... As Annie found out, I am a little controlling when it comes to scrapping. I printed her some photos from the day (after I decided which were the best and sized them according to my preference). I then pulled all the products I had that I thought looked nice with the photos. She tried to... Read more →

Good Things Going on at Creating Keepsakes...

When I first started scrapping about eight years ago, I fell in love with Creating Keepsakes magazine. I have read it for years and always get so excited when it arrives in my mailbox each month. It has the perfect mix of simple and complex pages to always get me inspired to scrap. So, as I've said many times, I was THRILLED when I finally won the HOF contest in 2008 (((thrilled!))). It only took six entries and seven years to get them to notice my work, but I kept working hard on improving and it finally happened. And then that same year, they asked me to be a member of their Dream Team - that was beyond a goal... Read more →

The Promised Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

I served these at my class last night and several asked for the recipe - so here it is for all to use! I got this from a friend named Beth years ago, so I take no credit for it's amazingness (which isn't a word, but it works here)... Suzy's Amazing Cookies: 1 stick butter 1/2 cut butter flavored Crisco 3/4 cup brown sugar 3/4 cup white sugar 1 egg 2 teaspoons vanilla 2 3/4 cup flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup peanut butter chips 1 cup milk chocolate chips Mix together butter, crisco and both sugars until well blended. Mix in the egg and vanilla. Mix together the flour, baking soda and salt and add... Read more →

MAMBI CHA Summer Releases:

Here are some pages using the EXTREMELY cute new MAMBI products. I think every one knows I like working with cutsie items, so these were definitely favorites of mine! Adorable products, huh? I have more pages to post soon... Happy Friday! Suzy Read more →

Class at Oasis on Saturday...

Saturday is my second Scrapbook Oasis class for this summer album: I'm looking forward to seeing many of my favorite scrapbooker's faces there! This is going to be a FUN one! I promise to be well behaved (but I will have a karaoke machine with me ... just in case). Suzy :) Read more →

Happy (belated) Fourth of July!!!

I hope you all had a wonderful Fourth. Mine was awesome! We spent two days with my sister and her family (which meant a VERY full house!). The best part was meeting my niece's nine month old baby, Jude. He was the cutest thing I have ever seen and I couldn't stop photographing him! This is a baby hawk. He was so pretty! He got stuck in our backyard trying to get over the glass fence. Tom helped him over while I snapped some photos... We enjoyed a wonderful firework show. I'm sure I was using the wrong settings, but these were the best ones I got... I hope you all had a wonderful Fourth of July!!! Suzy Read more →