Monday was a great day..

You know how most Mondays start of slow and it's hard to get motivated to work -after all you were off of work for two days and it's the beginning of a five day work week. Well, my Monday was great for several reasons! One being I'm only working four days this week because my Scrapbook retreat is this weekend so I'm off Friday! woohoo... THEN.. I received a RAK (Random Act of Kindness) gift from my BEST FRIEND in Houston!! I WAS TOTALLY SURPRISED- she had it delivered at work. Some good scrapbooking goodies for me to use this weekend. Wish she could make it for the scrapbook weekend!! I will miss her there.
The second item that made it a great Monday was I got my Lifetime Moments Kit in. I love getting this kit and tearing into it like a kid at Christmas excited to see what new stuff I got. Love the spring colors of this package and hope to put it to some good use this weekend.







Lastly - I got my Basic Grey kits that I order a couple of months ago! So I have alot of new stuff to use this weekend! Love the new Basic Grey Paper - what's not to love about it.





When I posted last about my team building exercise - I didn't mention how great my husband was. When I got home on Saturday I walked into the house with the radio on (Olivia Newton John was playing - don't know why that stuck in my head) - the house smelt so good! My husband had cleaned the kitchen (which was totally a mess when I left), he cleaning the dining room, living room, bed room and he was in the process of cleaning the master bathroom! He was a sweet heart! As I relaxed on the couch he cooked dinner and it was awesome! Filet Migon, Asparagus, bake potatoe and salad.

Last night I was finishing up some projects for my room mates at "Camp". Mum came over and we had dinner while DH went to play cards. We had a fun time together, we watched American Idol and then watched Wedding Planner. Mum helped me clean the kitchen before she went home which was GRRREAT!!! She is the best!!!

TWO MORE WORKING DAYS and counting and then off to camp!!! I'm sure I will have plenty of pictures to post! I need to figure out how to do that slide show on my blog.

Back on the ground.....

Hey everyone sorry for the late post… I’ve been pretty busy and haven’t had time to post. Well, I am telling abit of a fib – I got home Saturday from my team building retreat and I was soooo whipped…….. Thank goodness I started working out a week prior- I know that doesn’t sound like much but it was enough to make a difference for me. The team building exercise was awesome! If only all companies could do that. It taught me that you can’t work independently that you need everyone working together to accomplish the task. I was even able to walk away from the whole experience and apply it to my personal life as well as my marriage. A few things I reflected on were the importance of communication, listening, participation, honesty and being there for one another and just have fun.

There were a lot of physical activities; I did learn that I have a degree of fear of heights. We did this one activity called the Odyssey and you are 50 ft in the air and when I stepped out on the first platform my knees were a shaking… I couldn’t control them at all – I tried telling myself that everything was okay, I have a harness on, I have my team mates here to help but nothing helped. Half way through the course I felt much better. I don’t have any pictures yet to post but I hope to soon. We did a scavenger hunt at night which was a lot of fun. There were a lot of activities that required you to work as a team to decide what the best way to accomplish the task is – everyone worked together great. I just hope that what we learned there as a company we can bring it back and apply it to our work place and not forget what we learned. It was a great experience and I’m so appreciative that my company allowed me to be apart of it.

Team Building

So my company has me going to a team building innovative program that is suppose to add a sense of adventure and fun to the experience of learning in-depth leadership and team concepts. As you can see from the picture it will require alot of physical work! I just hope it doesn't kick my butt! There is going to be about twenty five of us from my company, including our president and my boss, only three women out of the 25! I leave this afternoon and will get home Saturday afternoon - that's the only part that sucks about this --- in runs into my time( Friday evening and Saturday). So in return I'm taking next Friday off for my WEEKEND!!! Stampin Up Escape - EIGHT MORE DAYS!!!

This weekend I need to get all my scrapbooking supplies together. I might need to ask the hubby if I can drive his 4-Runner that weekend so I can load all my stuff in the back of his truck and he can drive my car. Am I crazy or what?? I want to take EVERYTHING!! It's not like I'm scrapbooking at a store and if I need that one extra embellishment I can't just buy it. I can see myself, I will want something that I didn't bring - that would be my luck! Things I need to accomplish this weekend.

pick which pictures to print and take them to walmart

pre-plan some pages and put them in my cropper hopper sticker organizer (LOVE using that organizer for my preplan pages)

decide what to bring and maybe just maybe what not to bring

initial all my stuff, as there will be almost 30 women at our weekend escape

start packing my bags and not waiting to the last minute

decide what I want to buy at Scrap Etc in Birmingham - we're meeting up there and going shopping!!!

find a hobby lobby & michaels in the area to make a few stops

look for some online coupons for the stores

see if i can find any coupons for some local restaurants there to eat at for lunch - anyone got any suggestions?

gets all my little scrapbooking favors completed for my room mates

make sure I have enough adhesive and pop dots to last the weekend

A blah day!

Today is just a blah day.. It must all stem from the shopping trip I did last night with my Mum. I tried on so much cute stuff and nothing fit right! I even tried on a two piece bathing suit and I have yet to figure out why I even put myself through that misery! I've come to the conclusion, to stay on a budget and not over spend on clothes - go shopping when you're not happy with your body. I left with nothing! I was so disappointed, the weather is turning nice and I was hoping to get some new spring clothes. After all - this week was the first week of spring - even though the weather won't cooperate, cold one day hot the next.
I've started working out with a friend and I am pleased to say we have continued for the past week working out every other day - I am so stoked about that! ME ON A ROUTINE! Okay maybe I shouldn't get ahead of myself here. Thanks so much to my friend, she's my motivator and I hope I'm hers, so much more fun when you have a girlfriend to work out with!!! I have come to terms with myself, exercise is not the enemy and when I sit at work and crave a good ole snicker bar - I think DRINK MORE WATER!! Next weeks challenge is to make better choices on eating - BF and I are working on that together. So the quote of the day is the treadmill is not the enemy but the best friend who will make me "BANF". This is my husbands favorite phrase "Butt A$$ Naked Fine"!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NANA

This should of posted yesterday but I was having some issues with Blogger.Today is my Nana's 77th Birthday! I was luck enough to celebrate her 76th birthday when she came to the States to visit us last year! She's an amazing woman and I miss her dearly! I wished we lived closer together so I could spend more time with her. So today I'm thinking of her and thinking of how much I miss her!!!! This is a picture of my Mum and Nana last year.

I'm in denial people!!!

I've had several people ask me if I'm in Houston or Alabama because on some of the message boards my profiles says Alabama and on my blog it says Houston, TX.

I'M IN DENIAL PEOPLE!!! I miss HOUSTON!
I LOVED IT THERE!

Facts about Houston, Texas -

My husband is from there, all his immediate family lives there.

My BF is there - we finally got to be in the same city and two years later I had to move! bummer...

Have some great friends there.

Lot of scrapbooking stores to shop at!!

Houston is the fourth most populous city in the nation (trailing only New York, Los Angeles and Chicago), and is the largest in the southern U.S. and Texas.

Houston has professional teams representing every major sport. Go ASTROS, Houston Texans, The Rockets and Comets

Houston has more than 11,000 restaurants. - Houstonians eat out more than residents of any other city. THAT IS SOME GOOD EATTING!

Houston has a Theater District second only to New York City in terms of a concentration of seats in a single geographic area. Houston has a unique museum district offering a range of museums, galleries, art and cultural institutions, including the Houston's major museums.

More than 90 languages are spoken throughout the Houston area. Love how multi cultural the city was, people of all backgrounds.

Houston is home to the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. The largest rodeo in the world, it attracts more than 1.8 million visitors each year.

Houston boasts more than 40 colleges, university and institutions - offering higher education options to suit all interests.

Home to 18 Fortune 500 companies and more than 5,000 energy related firms, Houston is considered by many as the Energy Capital of the world. Companies headquarted in Houston include Halliburton, ConocoPhillips, Marathon Oil Corp and Dynegy.

If you ever visit you will love it as well. Don't let the traffic discourage you - it takes time to get used to it.

Things I Love

i love to scrapbook
i love buying new scrapbooking supplies.
i am the ultimate paper hog - i just love pattern paper
i love spending time with my daughter
i love a clean house.....even if i cleaned it
i love when things are organized.....even though my scrapbook area is in total chaos
i love the internet and searching all the scrapbook message boards
i love my yahoo messenger.. i can chat with my family in England
i love that my Mum lives less than a minute from me
i love chocolate...oh do i love..yumm...
i love having friends over, especially to scrapbook
i love my family
i love chating with my best friend
i love no smoking policies.....ahhhhh clean air - all restaurant here are smoke free!!
i love chatting with my Mum on yahoo messenger - she acts totally silly on her webcam!
i love my husband.....even if he drives me crazy

These are my loves in no particular order.

ELEVEN DAYS AND COUNTING!!

There are eleven more days until the Stampin Up Escape aka Camp as the girls and I call it!! I did a project this weekend for my dorm room buddies!!! I will only give a sneak peek as this is a surprise to them. I had alot of fun making them and hope to make more!
My weekend was pretty good. Went to AC Moore and took advantage of the 50% off coupon - oh yeah!!! Bought the All My Memories "TOTALLY COOL PINK TOTE" holds all my tools. I love it. Saved $15 bucks - now that's a cool savings! Love to bargain shop!!!

Happy St Patricks Day!!!

Happy St Patricks Day – are you green today??
I wore a black shirt with green stripes and a green body shaper. Last night I went to Old Navy and had an impulse buy moment - do you ever do that?! I bought this St Patricks Day hat… I haven’t had the nerve to put it on at work! I did bring it and it’s sitting in my file drawer! I tried it on this morning but you know the time Pamela Anderson wore a huge hat out – not that I’m referring to myself as Pamela Anderson, but I felt like my hat was just as big as the one she wore! I can not bear the thought of posting my picture so I leave you with a picture of my hat and a small peep into what I might have looked like if I wore it in the office! Check out how freaking green my eyes look - they change colors but today they are green!! Maybe I have Irish in my background?

My Husband thinks he's funny... I want my chocolate!

So my husband leaves town yesterday to head to Texas - I'm so jealous! Well, on Sunday I bought this Pepperidge Farm Chocolate Fudge three layer cake - no secret I am a chocolate fanatic! This is a great cake if you don't want to do any baking. I have a confession, I've basically been pigging out, binging, replacing meals with a piece of cake, using no discipline whatsoever so yesterday when I get home I walked in the house and yes...I go straight to the refrigerator to eat the LAST piece of cake yum.... before dinner mind you. I open the box up and to my surprise my DH leaves me a note - I couldn't help but laugh... I gave him a call and told him what I had found! He found it very amusing. I guess he doesn't figure I will go out and buy another one ;-) *wink wink* I did suggest to my Mum that we should go to Cold Stone soon - my favorite creation is Germanchokolatekake - oh it's so delicious, just sitting here typing about it is making my mouth water! Back to the cake... DH thinks that the cake portions should be small, a sliver of cake as he would say. I looked at the serving portions on the back of the box and it claims 8 servings! What the HECK.. ummm more like four if you ask me!! I'm sooo bad... Chocolate is my weakness. **His note said, "I did this for your own good, eat more vegetables and no more cake - haa haa :-)**

New Message Board

The Scrap Etc Message Board and Forum went live last night - check it out!!!! Their online store should be up next week - I'm so stoked! Can't wait to start ordering from a local store - well it's not local to me but it will be nice knowing where it's coming from within the State and it's not coming from the other side of the continent.

Last night Mum let me color her hair - she must of not read my post yesterday!! It was one of those wash out colors so it was fairly easy. Now her gray is covered up hee hee!

Didn't really get to pay close attention to American Idol as I was sitting in front of my computer screen waiting for Scrap Etc message board to go live - waiting with much anticipation! Will have to watch it this evening and catch up on last nights episode. Whose your favorite American Idol? I'm still trying to decide on mine - I like Katherine, Paris, Ace and Chris.

Are there any DAYS OF OUR LIVES fans out there! I'm a huge fan but you wanna know the funny thing! I haven't watched this show on tv in years! I read this awesome site that recaps the show and it is dead on - covers all the details. The group of people who update it are my idols - I wouldn't know what's going on without them. Check out the site, or should I say blog: The Early Addition or you can check out Dustin's home page site for The Early Edition.

Happy Hump day! -- It's almost the weekend!!

Have you ever??

Have you ever decided to take the scissors in your own hands and cut your hair!! That's what I did this morning - I took it upon myself to trim my bangs, their long bangs. I was just having one of those hair days - you know what I"m talking about -so I decided my bangs were abit too long. Now I regret it! WHY OH WHY did I do it. I was going to take a picture of them but I figured why humiliate myself even more. I'm sure everyone would say, oh their okay, but you know ladies we are our worst critic. Funny Story - well it wasn't funny at the time - my worst hair story is I went to the hairdressor to have my hair trimmed and I told her I wanted more bangs, again they were long bangs that swoped to the side. So after the hair cut was all said and done - I had FREAKING CLEOPATRA BANGS and I'm not kidding. I called my girlfriend Kristina about to die of the shock- I tried blow drying them back - oh god that only made them worse! but hair does grow so they grew out and I was pleased with them.

SCRAP ETC SITE GOES LIVE THIS EVENING!!! THEY ARE OPENING THE MESSAGE BOARD AND THE GALLERY THIS EVENING AT 7PM Make sure you check it out! Great store and great people! I'm hoping to be one of the first! Look for me and I'll look for you - my screen name will probably be CathyVal as always! Their online store is hoping to be up next Monday! I'm so siked... This is going to be great!

ANOTHER NOTE: Stampin Escape Camp is coming up in 17 DAYS!! I CAN'T WAIT! The girls and I are getting so excited - we talk about it everyday. For any lurkers Catherine and one other Stampin Up consultant is putting on the "Stampin Escape" for a weekend. Last I heard about 25 women were signed up! Look out ladies because our group is going to ROCK!!! Check out Catherine's Stampin Up Site. We decided to make it a full weekend, we're going to meet up in Birmingham and do some shopping, then make our way to "camp" as we call it!!

You are You and nobody else.

I finished this page this evening. I just love this photo of my dd, I almost wished that I got it in a 8 x 10. I'm starting to enjoy taking candit photos vs poses. I really love taking pictures of the back of people, like walking away from the camera. I have this one picture of my dd and my husband's daughter sitting on the side of the pool and it's just the back on them sitting on the edge. I still need to scrap that. I hope my dd knows in life she can be herself and follow her dreams. That she knows she can accomplish anything she sets her mind too and that I am there to support her in anything she does.

I tried to create a different layout with this one picture. I tried to step outside of the box and try something new. I feel like my pages tend to look alike just different paper. I was so driven to put a circle on this page I didn't care where but it was going to make it on the page - I accomplished it! Do you ever feel like your pages are the same and if so what do you do to change them up.

Enjoy! Cathy

Tag You're It ... whoever you are out there

Four jobs you've had in your life:

Jitney Jungle - my first job at a grocery store in high school.
Bryan Foods - I worked in the marketing group. We got to taste test all different types of pork recipes.
Solvay Chemicals - I loved working for this company. You don't realize how much you love the company you work for until your gone.
Norment - Current job very interesting, enjoy learning a new industry.

Four movies you would watch over and over again:

Father of the Bride 1 & 2 - love this movie, love Steve Martin.
Sweet Home Alabama - Reese is one of my favorite actresses and it was a happy ending.
Troy - what can I say the MAN IS HOT!!! BRAD PITT!
Pirates of the Carribean- Love that Johnny Depp

Four places you have lived:

Peterborough, England: I was born here.
San Antonio, TX: Moved from England to Texas the month of July - talk about a climate shock! We were not prepared for the heat!
Biloxi, MS: My Dad was Military so we moved around alot but I must say that I loved living in Biloxi because we lived there the longest.
Houston, TX: MISS "H" Town - loved living close to the city. There is always something to do there.

Four tv shows you love to watch:

American Idol: Always some great contestants.
Lost: This show is great other than they play repeats too much with makes you wait longer to see what's happening on the island.
Miracle: New show on ABC,comes on Monday evenings. Some amazing stories that make you cry - a happy cry.
Apprentice: Gotta love the Donald.

Four places I've been to on vacation:

San Antonio, TX: Stayed at this great Bed & Breakfast and enjoyed the river walk.
Las Vegas, NV: VEGAS BABY! If you haven't been you should. We loved it. We saw Celine Dion in concert but the strip was alot of fun. Wanna go back soon!
Pensacola Beach, FL: Amazing beach - we had so much fun here. The sand was so white and the water was great.


Four websites you visit daily:

Pink is the New Blog - Lots of good celebrity gossip.
Days of Our Lives - this is a great blog and it's almost as if you watched the episode.
Scrap Jazz
Blogs, Blogs and more Blogs

Four of my favorite foods:

Carabas salad & crab cakes
Wings
Hooked on Caesar Salad at the moment
CHOCOLATE

Four places I'd rather be right now:

My nice, warm comfy bed
England visiting FAMILY
Somewhere on a lake just relaxing
Sitting on a beach in Hawaii

I tag TRINA.

Weekend Blues...

Okay my weekend has totally sucked! Friday I basically did nothing because I had a light headache - now this is two days in a row that my head has hurt. Maybe it was that excitment earlier in the day at Scrap Etc.??? Then Saturday I get up early and went to a flea market with my hubby and parents. By lunch I felt the headache coming on. By the afternoon I was dying! I was supposed to start working out with a friend and that didn't happen - promise I really had a headache. I took two Excedrin Migrain - do you know you are only allowed to take TWO a day! I ended up calling my Dear Mum to ask her to bring this stuff over that she had me put on Thursday for my headache. It was some kind of ointment that I rubbed on my forehead, temples and just under my nose. That made all the difference in the world and my headache subsided. So I basically laid in the bed all day yesterday.. ugh... no scrapbooking with all my new goodies from Scrap Etc. But of course my girl (Trina aka BF) busted out FIVE PAGES!!!!!!!!!!

Well, today is a new day and the hubby had to go up to plant due to some issues they are having with production - well, I'm a cleaning fool right now. I want my house CLEAN! You would think I'm nesting but nope! So I'm going to clean house and then sit back enjoy the smell of a clean house and scrap! Am I the only crazy person who gets great satisfaction of a spic and span clean house? Another pet peeve is I can only burn candles when my house is clean - some people think I'm crazy...

I have my radio going and they said if you walk 20 minutes a day it can you help you lose ten pounds a year! What if you do an hour! Can I lose 30 pounds?? This weeks goal is to start using my gym and at least do 20 minutes of cardio to start out. Wish me luck? It's so hard to discipline yourself not to sit on the couch but to walk on the treadmill.

So as I end the weekend with some pictures of my goodies from Scrap Etc. This was the veiw I would see as my head was killing me and on my way to the kitchen I would walk by the table and would see it all spread out with disguss as I wasn't able to even use it. I'm hoping to this evening though. I also noticed it must be spring, I noticed from the picture I bought alot of paper with flowers! I'm dying to use my Technique Tuesday functuation stamps, I was going to buy the Font Wertz ones but Technique Tuesday's were cheaper! Then I also bought the Making Memories simply fabulous font foam stamps for $7.50, TT had some simular ones but theirs were $30 bucks! Paper I got was American Craft, SEI, Essentials by Kate, MOD, Kaleidoscope, Wild Asparagus, Gin-X and Artic Frog.

Now the cleaning fool must go and finish and then hopefully I will put the scrapping fool hat on and get alot done!

and the TITLE is.......

This evening I asked my DH what he thought I should title my blog. We brainstormed it and he gave out a few suggestions. The one I liked most was Live to Scrap... I do live to scrap, I talk scrap, I could sell scrap, I could convince you to scrap. If I could start my own company it would be a scrapbook store! I just love it and I love the people. I started scrapbooking in 1998, I was invited to a Creative Memories party and I was totally hooked! I loved the idea of documenting your life and keeping those memories for others to know. Scrapbooking has even come along way since 1998 - there are so many things you can use in your albums it just amazes me. I only wish my Mum had did something like this for us when we were growing up. It's basically a story of your life. Mum didn't take many pictures of my brother and I growing up. I find myself going through her house and any pictures I see I'm hoping to scan and document for myself.

So Live to Scrap it is! Now I need to work on a banner for my blog.

ENJOY!
CathyVal

Scrap Etc. Event

Well, I was quote on quote sick this morning and couldn't make it into work until later that day. The Scrapbook Store in Birmingham was having a sale and it was an hour and a half away. The first 60 people in the store would get a tag with a number and when you get to the register it would be revealed if it was a 20%, 25% or 50% off of your whole purchase. I left the house at 7:30am, DH didn't think I would make the first 60 in line at Scrap Etc for the coupon offer. I got to the store at 9AM and was excited to see that I was one of the first few there (Store opened at 9:30AM)! Talk about so siked! This meant I was qualified for a coupon. Waiting in line with the other ladies was alot of fun. I must say you can always have great conversation with a bunch of scrapbook ladies. I got in the store and was overwhelmed with all the new stuff. There was so much to choose from and I went from surfing the internet and seeing all the new stuff on the computer screen to seeing it in person. After making my selections I stood in line for almost an hour but I was standing by abunch of fantastic ladies and chatted with them - this made the time go by even quicker. I got to meet Monique and she was super nice. She even was nice enough to let me take a picture with her (picture above). When I got to the register my ticket was number "43" and my savings was 25% off my whole purchase. The lady in front of me got 50% and she was very excited - she saved $150-BUCKS! Not bad at all! I got alot of paper, Technique Tuesday stamps, Making Memories Foam Stamps, quite a few rub ons and some making memories wristletts for some friends in Atlanta.
Monique did give us a hint that the online store should be up on Tuesday, so make sure you check it out and sign up for the great give aways they are offering.
While shopping in the store I finally got to meet my Stampin Up consultant Catherine - we've spoken on the phone but never met. Want to hear something crazy - I was recognized from my blog!

After my new purchases off to work I went. So I shopped half the day and worked the second half! Now I'm itching to get some pages completed!

Catherine is putting on a Stampin Up Escape the end of March and I am so excited. Three other friends are going and we have been preplanning this trip since it was announced. We have come up with our own "group name" - will have to save for later. We're each getting one another some scrapbook surprises - Anne or Rhonda will not share with me what they are *pout*. In the store I was telling everyone about it and some of the ladies weren't even aware of the Alabama Scrapbook Yahoo group - so I was sharing the info about that. I told them about the awesome Stampin Up Escape Catherine was putting on - if you get some calls about it sorry Catherine! I couldn't help share... so you never know we may get some new ladies.

Today was a fun day and I'm so glad I got to go to Scrap Etc and meet Monique and also get to finally meet Catherine!!!

New Blog Name??

This evening I'm surfing the scrapbook sites - my fav ScrapJazz and it's funny how you go from one blog to another and to another. There are so many great scrapper blogs out there. It's amazing how many people are into scrapbooking. but I have come to the conclusion that my blog title is very lame... so I'm trying to come up with a really cool or unique title. My Hobby...scrapbooking just isn't getting it. So any suggestions would be awesome. So for the next few days I will be brainstorming a new name.. something that sets me apart and makes my blog unique I guess or at least unique to ME! So tune in and be on the look out for my new title!!! Yikes... got some pressure for myself!

Some pretty awesome blogs I visited this evening were..

Ali Edwards - her blog is awesome! Everytime I see an "A" I think of Ali Edwards

Scrap Etc - Birmingham Store - Monique has an awesome special coming up. The store is about to become an online store and the first week of it going live if you sign up your name will be entered to receive a Full Line of HEIDI SWAPP! I'm digging that and you can bet I'm waiting for it to start.

Pieces of Me blog - I love the name of her title - if it wasn't taken I would of scrap lifted that one. Christina is also on the design team of Scrap Jazz - her pages are awesome!

A Beautiful mess - I love Elsie's style! I bet she is a fun person to meet!

A Bit East - Keisha is one of my favs! I love all her stuff she does!

Some free fonts - check them out! Love the Turbo Ripped - don't know what I could use it on but worth downloading since it's free.

Well, I'm calling it a night!

Hope you enjoy some of my favorite blogs!
CathyVal

Are you a CHOCOLATE LOVER!!!

My weakness is chocolate! I love chocolate. Last night Mum and I went out to dinner and did abit of shopping. We ended up going into World Market while browsing around we noticed that they had alot of foreign food items. We went through all the aisles and noticed there were some items from England. Mum was so happy she was finding some things that she liked. We came upon what we thought was a goldmine! CADSBURY FLAKE! Flake is the crumbliest, flakiest chocolate in the world. The best selling Cadburys chocolate bar ever. You can't find it in the States, it's a British candy, but have no fear you can find it at World Market! If you love chocolate you would love FLAKE! We bought it for $5.00! This is a picture of one of the Cadsbury Flake sticks - the packet came with four of these sticks for $5.00 basically $1.25 for each stick! It was alot for Flake but it was well worth it. I ate mine as soon as I got home. If you haven't been into a World Market you should go, it has some really unique stuff.

Mum's Best Friend

Mum's best friend Dawn and her husband Zek came to visit for a few days. Dawn and Mum have been best friends since I was in fourth grade. I remember in High School I would go to Dawns house after school to change into my work uniform and Dawn would make me a sandwich and cup of tea. Mum and Dawn have a few funny memories that I better not share or else Mum would be embarrassed!!! Dawn is from England as well, so her and Mum share alot of favorite memories of England.
The night before Dawn left we watched Walk the Line and we all love it. It was a great movie!

My friend Kristina

This post is dedicated to one of my other BEST FRIENDS in HOUSTON, TX! Her name is Kristina! We worked together for almost fives years and really enjoyed each other's company. I introduced scrapbooking to Kristina and since then we have shared a favorite hobby of scrapbooking. We were each others lunch buddies at work. She has two beautiful kids that are adorable! Especially her spunky Kayla, who is totally opposite of her brother, Cammeron!! I miss Kristina alot and our crazy drives at lunch when we would get lost! We were horrible when we got together looking for an address!! hee hee but we could laugh about it and have fun!
Here's to you Kristina - I miss you ALOT!!!!!!
PS (Inside Joke Kristina - Ain't No Mountain High Enough)

And the Oscar goes to....

So I stayed up way late to only see the last few awards being handed out! You know they do that for a reason - so people will watch the whole program! I guess with the Oscars I'm more interested in what everyone is wearing and then best movie, actress and actor.

One of my favorite actresses, Reece Witherspoon walked away with the Oscar for her role in Walk the Line! Yeah for her! I have still yet to watch the movie and I even bought it.



The movie Crash took Best Picture - it was an excellent movie! I don't know if you seen it but you should. It's very intense in the beginning, it's about a Brentwood housewife and her D.A. husband. A Persian store owner. Two police detectives who are also lovers. An African-American television director and his wife. A Mexican locksmith. Two car-jackers. A rookie cop. A middle-aged Korean couple. They all live in Los Angeles. Several characters of different racial backgrounds collide in one incident, The different stereotypes society has created for those backgrounds affect their judgment, beliefs and actions, This in turn causes problems for each of them.

Altered Purse

I did my first altered purse this weekend and it was so much fun. I made it for a friend's daughter and I didn't want to let it go. It turned out super cute. I will have to make one for myself. I bought the wooden purse at Michael's for $3.99, I used two sheets of 8 1/2 x 11 paper - paper from Hobby Lobby which was onsale for 8 for $1.00 last week. Then added the ribbon and the letter "R". I got the letter from Hobby Lobby they come four to a pack for $1.00. I painted the purse white along the edges where I knew would show and then docopage the paper. Super easy and alot of fun. I was so excited to make it.

On Friday I stopped off by our LSS and they had some new Creative Imaginations paper in and it was super cute. I couldn't help myself and dived in and bought abunch of it. I was so inspired I went home that night and did two pages using everything
Creative Imaginations.
LOVE THAT STUFF!!!! Everything was so coordinating. I used the paper on this page called "Girlfriends". This page is on my BF! She was home visiting her parents so I drove over to visit her which was only an hour away. Katelyn and I spent the weekend there. It was so fun to see her and to see where she grew up. We all went shopping on Saturday with Trina's Mum and that evening Trina's Mum pulled out all her bead stuff and we made jewelry. Katelyn had a ball making her own earrings, which of course were dangle earrings.

Another page I did with Creative Imaginations is my BF in front of her parents home she grew up in. Hope you enjoy!

I will do another update hopefully later today to talk about the Oscars! They were good - some of my favs won last night!!

Special Days like these make you smile

Today my hubby called as he was on his way to work to tell me "He loved me"! It just melted my heart! I don't think he realizes how much it meant to me to hear those words and how much of a nice surprise to start the day off and hear him tell me that. Don't get me wrong, he tells me all the time he loves me but today was different. It's times like this that when he calls and tells me he loves me that reminds me of how much I love him back. I'm just in Aww... today and thinking of my hubby who I love.
This picture is of us when we first started dating.