Living My Dream

Project Life Week 34 and 35 (finally!)

I meant to post these weeks ago. After I finished these two Project Life spreads, my color printer decided it needed service. So since finishing these, I haven't done any spreads! And I'm about six weeks behind. So TODAY, I sent all my pictures to Costco for development. I found that if you create a 4x6 300 dpi canvas, you can add your pictures to it any size you want allowing me to still have lots of little ones throughout my pages. So with that, I promise myself to get caught up! Here is week 35 (click on images to see them larger), the official end of summer spread: And here is week 34: Now THAT was a lot of... Read more →

And the winners ARE:

The two winners of the November/December issue of Creating Keepsakes are: Random Integer Generator Here are your random numbers: 26 4 Timestamp: 2012-10-30 23:46:36 UTC So let's go see who the two lucky winners are! WOOOT! that is awesome and what a great keepsake that will be in itself!!!! Would love to win a copy...thanks for the chance!!!! Posted by: rani | October 24, 2012 at 05:37 PM Beautiful page. I see why the photo was selected....beautiful photo of father and daughter. I need to take a father and daughter photo. It has been years and she is 36 now. Where did the time go? Posted by: Linda | October 30, 2012 at 03:53 AM Rani and Linda - please... Read more →

Win a Free Issue of the Nov/Dec Creating Keepsakes!

This is my most favorite issue of Creating Keepsakes E V E R !!! And what makes it so special to ME??? Take a look at the cover and you will see: Yep, that's my husband and daughter on the cover - wooohoooo! I have made several cover projects for Creating Keepsakes over the years, but they have always used pictures they provided to me. This time, they requested me to provide the photo as well, so I sent them about 20 choices. Tom was lucky to be the one chosen (since I sent 19 of me and one of him - tried not to take that personally - haha). One of my industry goals was to have a family... Read more →

General Conference Doodled Quotes Part 2

And here are the remainder of my favorite words spoken by the General Authorities at this past General Conference. Hope you enjoy them. Leave me a comment if you would like me to send you any of the full size images for printing. Some of these are duplicates of the ones on the last post, but I added washi tape to the edges. I went a little crazy with the washi on this set - kind of like how it frames them. And I need to use up some of my stash! Hope you enjoy them - I am allllllll done! xoxo Read more →

General Conference Quotes Part 1

I publically admit that I have trouble focusing. I can't just sit and listen or I get bored and my mind drifts. To help me learn more in church, I have started to doodle while the speakers speak so I can focus on what they are saying. I found this to be a great way to really focus on the speakers in General Conference last weekend. I listened for words of advice that I particularly liked and I would doodle it. I wish every week was General Conference so I had an excuse to sit and be lazy all day doodling! Here are some of my favorite quotes from the sessions. I have a second half that I will put... Read more →

Instagram Photos From Our Weekend

We had a great weekend. It was conference weekend for our church, so we got to stay home and watch it on TV. Which meant I was able to do lots of doodling which makes me very happy. I will share many of the quotes I doodled from conference this week. We also took the dogs down to the beach on Saturday for a little romp. Jordan was here for the weekend which made it ever more special. AND we went to Sprinkles and got cupcakes. It doesn't get better than that!!! Here are my Instragram photos from the weekend. I took most of these using my camera and 70-200 lens which works magic. I didn't want you to think... Read more →

brAvery

Being a recent brain tumor surgery survivor (that sounds so intense, doesn't it?!?!?!), I wanted to blog about this little girl I found on the internet today. Her name is Avery Sax and she lives in San Diego, not far from me. Her blog is called brAvery now. She is eleven years old and has an inoperable brain tumor. She has survived radiation over the past year and has such a positive outlook on life. I was so touched reading her story and her blog entries. She also started a recycling foundation to raise money. This is her story. My name is Avery Sax & I’m 11 years old. On March 12th 2011, while celebrating my best friend’s birthday, I... Read more →