sneek peek:

 

 

 

Shhhh don't tell...

 

 

 

 

 

 

here is a little sneek of tomorrows giveaway

check back sunday morning for the details!

 

see ya tomorrow

insta friday: 2 for 1

 

 

 

I was out of town last week so I didn't get a chance to post my photos

so you get 2 for 1 this week

 

Now it's time to link up with Jeannett over @ Life Rearranged

for this weeks {and last weeks} camera phone pics!

 

 

 

 

Friday: 3/16/12

1. Bought shamrocks at Vons 2 for $5.00

2.Guacamole @ Ernie’s

3.What pie?

4.Clouds over the southland

5.Blueberry Pancake Sausage = yum

6.Jager & me out front

7.Candy treats for Starbucks friends

8.Purposely took this picture on 3/17

9.North Vegas Mt.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday: 3/23/12

 

1.My little guy

2.Races in Vegas

3.Bougainvillea in the backyard

4.Trash

5.Snapdragons @ COCO’s

6.All snuggly in the chair

7.Lavender in the backyard

8.Cute car

9.Burnout

 

 

 

 

Are you linking up this week?

 

are you doing 356?

 

 how is that coming?

project life: week 12

 

 

 

Hello Week 12

 

Yes 12 weeks of 2012 have past us, amazing!

 

 

Here is a bit from that week

 

Didn’t have any extra photos for this week.

Remember I Have a 12x12 I get printed from instafriday that has 9 photos

from the past week that goes in the page protector on the left.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I used Journaling cards from Kate Hadfield.

 

 

 

I went to my aunt’s house on Sunday for a sprinkle. You can see a few of the trinkets I brought home

 

 

 

I cut the arrow out from one of the cards

Above is a map my Aunt drew me. directions to the freeway so I could avoid the toll road

 

 

 

 

 

I didn't have any cash when I was on the toll road, so I had to ask what to do.

They gave me a business card and told me I had 48 hours to pay via the Internet

 

 

 

I kept it simple.

Didn't have a huge story to tell from this week,

but I am glad I have a place for the few bits & pieces I did have!

wordless wednesday:

Sketch: Simple Scrapper Premium Membership, May 2011 2^nd sketch

Paper: Bazzill Cardstock, American Crafts-Dear Lizzy-Neapolitan-happy horizon, Crate Paper- Emma’s Shoppe

Journal card: K&CO smash pad family

Letters: Basic Grey-micro mini-hopscotch

Paper leaves: American Crafts-Amy Tangerine-field house

Lace Tape: Love my tapes

Staples: Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher

Tattered Angeles: Glimmer Glaze oil Slick

Machine Stitching

 

 

 

Sketch: Simple Scrapper Premium Membership March 2012 Single-

Paper: American Crafts Cardstock-Ash-Weave, October Afternoon-Sarsaparilla-High Noon

Chipboard: American Crafts-Dear Lizzy printed chipboard shapes

Stickers: American Crafts-Dear Lizzy-Remarks

Letters: American Crafts for Studio Calico-Thickers-Ali, American Crafts-Dear Lizzy letter stickers

Twine: My Minds Eye-Happy Days Twine

Mist: Studio Calico-Mister Huey’s-Calico White

Machine Stitching

 

 

Sketch: Simple Scrapper Premium Membership March 2012

Paper: Bazzill-Kraft Cardstock, American Crafts-Dear Lizzy-Neapolitan-skinny skip, October Afternoon-Farm House-Attic Trunk, Crate Paper-Peppermint-Ski Lodge

Letters: American Crafts for Studio Calico-Thickers-Ali, Dymo Label Maker

Stamps: Hero Arts for Studio Calico-Awesome & Epic stamp set

Ink: Stazon in teal blue & stone grey

Template: The Crafter's Workshop – 6x6 Doodling Templates - Chicken Wire

Mist: Studio Calico-Mister Huey’s-Calico White & Bonny Blue, Tattered Angeles-Glimmer Glaze-Oil Slick & Aloha Green

Other: sequins, machine stitching, doilies, and lace

 

 

Sketch: Simple Scrapper Premium Membership March 2012

 Paper: one litttle bird-making a list

 

 

All layouts made using Simple Scrapper Premium Membership Sketches

diy wednesday: easter treat

 

DIY Wednesday:

 

Today I have real simple DIY for Easter treats

 

OMG did I just say Easter?

 

Yep Easter is just 3 weeks away!

 

 

Items needed:

Candy Treat

2-inch circle punch

Glue stick

2 ¼ metal-rimmed tags

Ribbon

White cardstock

Tiny attacher

Word processer

Kate Hadfield hippity hoppity png file

 

 

 

 

So first I purchased the hippity hoppity file

Found a 2in circle template off the web {found online}

Opened the doc, dragged the individual png file to the template.

 

 

 

 

I then resized each image

 

 

 

Then I added the "to: & from:" to each image in the template

 

 

 

I then printed the template out onto white cardstock

 

 

I then used my 2” circle punch to punch all the tags

 

 

I snipped the string off my 2-¼ inch metal-rimmed tags

 

 

 

Using a glue stick I covered the punched circle with glue

 

 

I placed the punch tag onto the metal rimmed tag and held until adhered

 

 

 

 

After all the tags were glued together I added a scrap of ribbon with the tiny attacher

 

 

 

And viola I have a personalized treat for all my favorites at Starbucks

 

 

 

 

This DIY took me less than an hour from start to finish!

{all the photos and typing this post took longer than the project did}

 

 

 

project life tuesday: weeks 8, 9, 10 & 11

Welcome to weeks 8, 9, 10 & 11

 

I have been absent from PL for the past month but here is a quickie update

and I will be linking up with one happy mama

 

Week 8:

 

Was a crazy week, but what week isn’t crazy.  I used Kate Hadfield’s outlined journalers cards to document this week.

These cards are super cute. I printed them out on plain white cardstock chopped them up.

Then followed this tutorial to run them through the printer again to add the week’s story.

Since I was playing catch up I kept the week super simple.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week 9:

 

I was out of town in between week 8 & 9. When I played catch up this past weekend I didn’t have time to add the detail that I wanted to week 9.

I just have bits shoved in the compartments, when I get the chance I will go back and finish up.

We went to Bisbee AZ. For a day and I grabbed some flyers.

But I pretty much added most of the photos and have all the stuff I want to add in the envelope along with the photo a day prompts.

I just wanted to show that I did document leap day, loving that this day got documented even though I never left the house!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Leap year png file from Ali Edwards

 

 

 

 

 

Week 10:

 

This week I helped coordinate a wedding reception.

I didn’t take as many photos as I would have liked but I got 2 of projects I worked on.

Again playing catch up I kept it really simple.

I used Kate Hadfield’s Outlined journal cards to document the tulips I planted years ago.

I still can’t believe with our warm CA. sun they bloom!

The top right photo includes my thoughts on a speech bubble cut with my silhouette cameo using Kate’s cards.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week 11:

 

Pretty proud of myself that I have kept this simple.

It really helps when you play catch up to just add the photos and a few quotes, or journaling of what happened during the week.

My family won the race in Gainesville Monday morning due to rain delay on Sunday.

My dad {who is 72 and has an iPhone 4s} texted me his famous quote, and I replied back with my famous quote, No Answer from him lol.

I love the speech bubble journal card for this photo! I finally busted out my silhouette cameo out this past week {yes I have had it since thanksgiving sitting in it box waiting}

I busted it out Monday night and played like a little kid. On Tuesday Kevin came home from Florida.

Kevin was cleaning out his pockets when he got home and came across his plane ticket, and asked do you want this? OMG yes I do.

What a good boy. I am so sure he is sick of me saving this and saving that! And I summed up the week again on one of Kate’s cards.

I wish I liked to color or had the time and patience to color I think these cards would be so fun to color. If I only had kids for that!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

well there you go, a peek into a month of my life...

well not everything some things are kept within these 4 walls, but you get the picture!

Are you linking up? let me know where I would love to come visit

instafriday: a day late & a buck short

1. strawberry and tart from Humphrey yougart

2. Cassie girl

3. playing with my silhouette

4. Cassie, so happy Kevin is home

5. honey baked ham store lunch

6. fruitless plums on foothill

7. love this machine

8. cloud, do you see it the tiny one

9. Fork, in my el pollo bowl

over the weekend:

 

instafriday:

WOW

it's friday again

2012 is just flying by

and you know what happens on friday here

yep its time to link up with Jeannett over @ Life Rearranged

for this weeks camera phone pics!

 

 

 

 

1. sushi date night

2. bedside

3. i planted these YEARS ago, still so amazed with the crazy so cal weather they still bloom

4. it was windy last friday on the way to the beach...sigh

5. my love with a smile at sushi

6. wisteria at the top of the street i can smell them from here...sigh

7. hanging on the back door window

8. 6pm on tuesday so pretty

9. dble cheese at the habit... yum!

 

are you linking up this week?

 

*not sure if I have mentioned this but I have these printed as a

12x12 and slip them in my project life for the weekly photos

over the weekend: x 2

 

So the past 2 weeks I have been busy, busy with life.

 

February 2, I drove to Phoenix to meet my family for a race.

We were # 1 qualifier, but that’s as much as I will tell. We didn’t do very well.

Monday morning when we left the track I would be heading home and my parents, & aunt would head to Bisbee AZ. My Fathers parents were born and raised there.

When we got back to the motel Sunday night I decided I really wanted to go.

So after the trailer was packed we caravanned to Bisbee. Spent 24 hrs. there,

drove back to L.A. and woke up Wednesday morning did the

payroll real fast then slept the rest of the day!

Then the days that followed I have been preparing for the wedding I am help coordinating.

 

 

This is wedding week!

 

it's crazy

on Tuesday Kevin leaves for Florida for a race.

I still need to finish up the place cards

 

We are in the final stretch and I gotta get my S#!T together!!!  Lol

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am behind 2 weeks on Project Life and it’s soon to be 3.

But once the wedding is over I will try to catch up on all my other assignments.

 

What are you trying to catch up on this week?