Living My Dream

Two Page Layouts AND The Ugly Truth....

That title was meant to be funny, but I figured I would blog about what real life has been like the past couple of weeks. It you are not interested in hearing about my stress, scroll to the bottom to see lots of two page layouts! The past two weeks have been crazy. After working for weeks to get Thane ready to leave, it was like getting off a roller coaster when he left. We had spent so much quality time together doing all the prep work (dentist, doctor, eye doctor, shopping, etc....) which was great! But then I was back to real life and here are all the things that have happened since he left: 1. My dad went... Read more →

American Crafts Blog Post AGAIN!

I have a tutorial on the AC Blog today. It is about making gift tags for your birthday gifts, so check it out. Here is an image of the tags and the blog post gives you all the steps to make them. Hope you are all having a great week! Things have been a bit crazy here (more updates soon) - in fact, couldn't be any crazier! Suzy Read more →

American Crafts Guest Blogger Today

Hi Friends, April 22, 2011 I have a spring page and card on the American Crafts Blog today (see sneaks below). I've been busy scrapping over here to keep my mind off sad/stressful things! Lots of assignments due to CK and American Crafts and guest blog projects due to Fancy Pants... We got our first letter from Thane yesterday - it was SO great to hear from him and get a feel for what his days are like. Still missing my boy quite a bit! Home is not the same with out him here! Today I have to take Hugh to the doctor for a photo shoot, so I'm not looking forward to that. Will get the results in a... Read more →

CK Guest Blogger Today

Check out the Creating Keepsakes Blog today to get all the camera settings I used on some of my favorite spring photos from the last couple of weeks! Happy Monday blog friends! Read more →

Studio Calico Blog...

Check out the SC blog today - they did a little Q&A with me and I made a couple of pages using the amazingly cool new Studio Calico products (Countryside and State Fair). Here are some sneak peeks of the two layouts: And on another note, yesterday was a big day for our family. Many tears were shed. Good-byes are NEVER fun. Especially when they are for two years! I will miss my son soooo much (there are no words to describe the hole it leaves when one of your children leaves the nest for such a long period!). But on the other hand - I am so incredibly proud of him. He is the best kid and we have... Read more →

American Crafts Stamp Set WINNER

There were 35 comments on my blog post below by midnight yesterday. So I used the random number generator to pick a winner: Random Integer Generator Here are your random numbers: 31 Timestamp: 2011-04-08 17:54:21 UTC AND THE WINNER IS: Great cards, love these stamps! Posted by: Nancy B | April 07, 2011 at 05:49 PM Congratulations Nancy B! Send me an email with your address and I will send the stamps out to you. Thanks to all who entered! Also, I wanted to tell Sandra that won the last Studio Calico give-a-way that her box will go out soon. I wanted to make all the leftover products look like new, so I spent some time yesterday putting everything back... Read more →

Yummy Mac 'n Cheese

My son is a macaroni and cheese lover. But unfortunately his mom doesn't like to cook things that are too high in calories and aren't very healthy. Thus he has been eating it out of a box for years! And I feel really guilty about that. So I promised to make him a home made one before he left (which is in five days, so we are really close now!). Whenever I want to make something that I haven't made before, I go on the internet and read a few recipes to get a feel for how it is done. I then make up my own recipe with what sounds good from the ones I found. I like to combine... Read more →

American Crafts Blog... (and another give-a-way!)

It's stamping week on the American Crafts Blog! I am the guest blogger tomorrow and I made two cards using some of my favorite AC stamps. I realized as I was stamping away that I have TWO sets of the City Park stamps. So I want to give one to one of my blog readers. Just leave a comment on this post today or tomorrow and I will draw a winner on Thursday morning. Here is a picture of the stamp set: And here are snippets of my two cards that will be on the American Crafts Blog tomorrow. Thanks for visiting! Suzy Read more →

Studio Calico Doggy Bag WINNER!!!!!!!!!

I'm so sorry I didn't announce the winner yesterday like I said I would. I was out of town and didn't have access to my blog. I am very excited to announce the winner now though and here it goes!!! Random Integer Generator Here are your random numbers: 91 Timestamp: 2011-04-04 23:17:43 UTC There were 108 comments by Saturday night. The Random Number Generator choose number 91. I'm now off to see who number 91 is! Your work is so amazing. Since you're asking for us to pick a favorite, I guess I would say the one of Mayzie. It looks so loving. And maybe if I had some of the exact same supplies, I could get somewhat close to... Read more →