I made it through the weekend!

Well my baby is now one year old and we actually made it thru the weekend with no major meltdowns for me! Phew....now if I can just hold it together when odd goes to preschool.....busy busy around here....have Lance Armstrong coming to town tomorrow to our town for ragbrai....and another 30,000 people.....this town is tooo small for that! We are only a mere 2500 in population!!! It will be complete chaos, but hopefully I can get some good pictures of him! Have not had time to be real creative with the birthday and all...but will be busy soon!

Oh yea.....signed up on http://http://fortheloveofeffers.blogspot.com/ . They are having a contest in August on Fridays and boy am I excited...they will be getting rid of ppl every week and whittling it down to the final girl....ugh....lots of pressure but I just have to participate!!! It's freestyle for goodness sake!!

She's almost one...why am I soo sad???

I just can't believe that my baby is almost one...seems like just last week I was complaining that my feet hurt and they were soo swollen...where does the time go??? This is my last baby so all we have left is to go foward and they will all get older......as well as me!!! Nothing really exciting otherwise except for working on a lot of altered things lately...searching around the house to find something to paint, sand, modge podge....whatever strikes the mood...my latest creation for a website that I had to use yellow and orange as the dominant colors.....enjoy your weekend!!!

Is this heat gonna kill us??

I am pretty sad....its going to be sooooo darn hot this weekend and we aren't able to go camping...thats alright cuz next weekend we are having a party for my baby cuz she will be ONE YEAR OLD!!!!

I am feeling really old...she is growing waaay too fast....where did the time go??? I ahve not a clue!

She is such an animated little one! Gotta love that hairdo!!

My vacation is over and I am back to reality for the third day....what a shocker! Hubby is gone for three days for work and girls and I are here enjoying the peace of no boys....son went to Maga and Pappa's last nite....

Think that I have hit something with these flowers that I am altering...going to try to mass produce them and see what I can come up...I will post some up later after I find out what everyone thinks.....I am pretty excited but I just don't know if they will catch on, KWIM????

Can you believe in about two weeks, my baby will be ONE YEAR OLD?????

It's been awhile...

Well it's been awhile since I have blogged....and man has it been busy around here. Got my three layouts done for my new design team and of all the message boards that I am on, I have made layout of the day every day this week!!! Wahooooo! I am really starting to come into my freestyle and loving every single waking creating minute of it! 4th of July has now come and gone and my vacation is over in three days...UGH!!!! Back to reality! Attaching some of my newest creations for you to peruse!

Almost the 4th!

This is my absolute fave time of the year...probably cuz my vacation is always ove rthe 4th ,but I don't have to watch anyone else's kids but my own for a whole week!!! We of course are going camping and parades and fireworks....loads of fun!

Some more exciting news in the scrapping world for me...got an email yesterday from TheScrapbookplayground because they asked to use two of my layouts in their newsletter for my doodling! I am soooo dang excited! Got a preview of the newsletter.....layouts posted here are the ones they used. Soon Soon I will be in a paper mag....I just know it!!

And another thing....someone actually looked at my blog and made some comments...THANKS GIRLIES!!! LOVE YA!!

Wow...things are just going my way!!!

I can't believe it...I am here to blog that I HAVE OFFICIALLY MADE IT ON A FULL TIME DESIGN TEAM FOR IMAGINE, CREATE, SCRAP! I am sooooo darn excited to get started and see who we can inspire and who I can be inspired by! there is just an awesome bunch of girls on the team and they are just a riot!!! this is going to be the most fun 6 month term I have ever committed to! The layouts that you see are the ones that got me the DT spot! What a way to start out the month of July...My vacation and a DT spot...my first!

Man...how addicting is this becoming?? I just checked my email this morning to find out that I had actually won a layout contest for one of my creations about me! How exciting is that??? And to boot, it was a freestyle lo!!! I just am in shock! Here is the winning lo! It is just soo gratifying to see that ppl actually like and enjoy my work as much as I do making it. I can't wait to see what the prize will be!

Is Blogging a learned affair?

I am once again here and trying to figure out this whole blogging thing...I am really getting into reading them and my fave one right now is reading Elsie Flanigan's blog. I would one day love to be blog saavy and read this post and say "HOW COULD I HAVE NOT KNOWN ABOUT BLOGGING???"

I am in the midst of creating this ooh soo kool freestyle scrapping book trying to find out where my creativity will move me. So far I am jsut loving all the little things I am learning and here are just a couple of pages for you all to peruse!

Well here goes....my first public blog. I have done blogs before, but never to this extent! This could be such a creative outlet for me as well as scrapping does. Just going to go with the basics for the first couple of days and see how crazy I can actually get!!!