I apologize for not writing this week. I am officially a slacker blogger. My only excuse is that I have just been draggin bum all week and just feel exhausted and it’s been a long, long week at work. No particular reason for feeling crappy other than I think my body is telling me it’s time to rest. I have been working on some fun creative projects this week and hope to have something posted tomorrow (maybe even tonight) for…
The Fabulous Terri Howard woke up extra early the day I was supposed to see her to make this fab little book for me. I was pleasantly surprised to find it waiting for me in my mailbox with this Saturday’s mail. This is the coolest book. It’s made from the CTMH Road Trip paper kit and MyStickease and a Creative Imaginations chipboard book. It’s the cooolest thing!! I am HONORED that Terri would make something like this for little old…
Well friends, I am back from Tahoe. Can I just say that my vacation (combined with Brent’s business trip for city council) was an ADVENTURE!!! We were SUPPOSED to drive to Bridgeport, CA (tiny podunk town), stay one night, and then drive through Yosemite the next day on our way to see Terri Howard. Wellll…… we had a little car trouble (little meaning – the quick connect for one of the hoses completely blew out) and nowhere was open because…
So when I was a consultant, it was “no biggie” to have my Idea Books floating around my office because I used them all the time. Now that I am no longer a consultant, I don’t really need them floating all over my office or falling all over each other because they don’t stand up very well. A couple of weeks ago I took these CTMH idea books down to the local copy shop and had them ripped apart (the…
Wow… We have a WINNER!!!! This was a super fun contest and you know you can count on seeing it again! I counted twice and then had Brent count with me. It was close between the top 3. I counted all of the votes on all the various posts… some ppl voted on other posts in the blog. Here are the 4 runners up: Korin – 17 votesMichelle – 17 votesSparkle – 20 votesAllie – 23 votes and the winner…
Today’s TFT is brought to us again by Mary Ihla. Journaling is so important, so for the next couple of weeks I will use Mary’s journaling thoughts… When I journal, sometimes my brain just gets “stuck”. The words don’t flow because I am trying too hard to focus on making my journaling perfect the first time. Sometimes I just want to get the layout finished and into its cozy little page protector and don’t spend long enough focusing on writing…
I had to share this… my friend, Amaryllis, made this really fun layout roughly based on Sketch Challenge {003}. She rotated the Sketch, and used DUCT tape as one of the layers on the sketch. The letters are hand cut duct tape. I love the special touch of duct tape to adhere the vellum journal strip on the page as well. This entry is not eligible for voting, but I couldn’t resist sharing it and had a bunch of emails…
Hey kids! I am on vacation (aka tagging along to a conference with Brent) at Lake Tahoe. It’s been quite the adventure getting here. Can we just say repeat of the St George trip fiasco??? UGH.. more details later… but in the meantime, check out this AWESOME place we’re staying…. The Village At Squaw Valley. Keep on voting! I will be back the end of this week and will post the winner on Friday!! If we reach 11,000 hits to…
I’m chugging along on the photos… They will be up shortly!
Welcome to “Thoughts for Thursday”… a new feature of my blog where each Thursday I (and various guest bloggers) will highlight or express thoughts on creativity and life. This week my TFT comes from Mary Ihla, a memoir writing consultant, who also happens to be a fellow artist in some online crafting groups I belong to. Sometimes I am sad when I look through the scrapbooks of my own and friends that have wonderfully embellished pages using the hottest new…