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Happy Halloween!! Are your Ghosts and Goblins ready for the candy haul? Mine sure are! So are mommy and daddy! :)
I wanted to quickly share this page I did with Little Yellow Bicycle's Acorn Hollow!
I gave the little owls witch hats to make it more "Halloween-ish"! Love how it turned out! Here are a few close ups...
See those copper foil accents! That's why I LOVE LYB...it's all in the details!!
Have a safe and Happy All Hallows Eve!!!!!
This week Little Yellow Bicycle and Xyron have been doing a fun little Blog Swap. Take a look at the LYB blog HERE and the Xyron blog HERE. Lots of cute ideas for two of my favorite things...paper products and adhesives!!!
Today I am happy to be part of a blog hop with a bunch of the talented gals from the LYB Design Team and my peeps over at Xyron!!! Here is the dealio...
Happy Monday! What a productive weekend we had around here! Lots of purging, a trip to the dump and a party! It was a long, exhausting weekend with a fun filled Sunday!
Rich and I cleaned out lots of boxes of well...crap on Friday. We had stuff that we haven't looked at since we moved in 5 years ago so we took it to Community Cares (not the crap) and the rest went to the dump (THE crap). Now I have a ton of purged items and I need to do a garage sale. Thinking it might be this Saturday. Stay posted.
Went to a Halloween Party yesterday at my friend's house...Cass and Chris. Great time even if I did forget Dev's costume at home!!!!
We have been doing this Halloween Party for 12 years. I still can't believe these kids are growing up so fast! It's scary.
Dev with half of her costume.
Ri is going to be a Spirit Warrior this year. He was feeling it.
Good times. Thankful for this group of friends. Cass had a rough year last year but she came out of it even better. Love these girls and their families.
So, Scrapfest Markham opened up alumni registration last night and full registration opens tonight at 8pm!!! Are you planning on coming? I know my album class is already 50% full and the class on Friday is filling up fast, too. It is going to be a fun weekend. I sure do hope you will be there.
Need to get supper started and finish the fridge purge I started. I love cleaning and organizing. Clean space, clean mind.
Hey Friends!! How is your week going? I am happy to say that I am finally caught up on projects and only have one more event to teach at this year. Man, it feels good to take a breath. Now I just need to play catch up on emails, clean the house, sell some kits and basically get my life in order. I have some fun posts planned for this ol' blog, too. Going to try my hand at my first video...watch for it. Let's chat for a bit.
Scrapfest in Oshawa was soooo much fun! The classes went well and it was so good to see lots of old friends and shop a bit. A big THANKS to Tara for all of her help...love you, girl!! And thanks to my mom, my side kick. I love that lady. Can't wait for Kitchener!!!
Next week I want to start with a "thanks" to all of my class sponsors. I have a great group of companies that I work with when I design my workshops and I am going to start doing a feature of each manufacturer with a project. I have some stuff plannned with American Crafts, Maya Road, Simple Stories, Bo Bunny, Core'dinations, Jillibean Soup, Pink Paislee and more. Very excited to be able to "play" and make stuff simply "because". I haven't been able to do that for a very long time.
If you were in my Portfolio of Promises workshop at Scrapfest watch for some ideas on how to finish all of those divided inserts. I bought some goodies to go with all of the Pink Paislee and Heidi Swapp goodness from the kit and I will be adding photos of those pages that we didn't get to.
ALso, if you need images emailed or you sent me a message and I haven't replied...send me a kick in the butt reminder. I swear I am in a good place to follow up right now and I will get back to you.
Kits...I just need to do an inventory and then I will post what I have available. Do you have any interest in add on kits with ink, masks, stamps, etc? Let me know.
Ok. I am now off to clean...massive purge. Might have to do a little garage sale in the next few weeks. A little one. I know a lot of you have been asking. I will have to see how it goes.
Can't wait to here from you...it has been to long. I sure do miss the chatting.
Have a great Thursday!!!!
Whoops...almost forgot!!!!
Crop & Create Markham details are up!!! This is a good one, my friends!!! Registration opens on October 22nd, 2012 at 8pm. I have a good feeling that this one is going to sell out fast!!!! The class are listed (look HERE)...go make a plan! I will be doing a layout class on Friday as a "pre-event" class. It is the (same EDE class I taught in Ottawa ONLY). On Saturday I will be doing a SUPER fun mixed Media class...brand new!!! And on Sunday will be the ALL DAY Year in Review album class!!!! I am hoping to see lots of familiar faces in these classes!!! Love Markham because I get to see lots of the gals that have been hanging with me since...forever! Make your plans now...this is going to be a weekend to remember...promise!
Wow. I am finally coming up for air. September was the craziest month I have lived through in awhile. As a result I dropped off the face of the "blog" for a bit. It has been nice to catch up with my family and enjoy Thanksgiving dinner this past weekend. Now I have lots to catch up on here. I am going to do a quick September in review and also add a few "what's coming" tidbits.
First...housekeeping. Did you know that Scrapfest Oshawa is happening this coming weekend? I will be teaching two classes. I will be teaching a layout class on Friday with a BUNCH of goodies from Simple Stories, Little Yellow Bicycle, Core'dinations, American Crafts and Queen and Co. Huge kit! And guess what?!?!?! Two spots just opened up. Check it out HERE. Take a peek at the class...
The class will be 2 double page layouts with foiling, paper piecings and more.
Here are the items you will need if you are coming to the class on Friday...
12" paper trimmer, adhesive, scissors, ruler, Circle punches- 1", 1 1/2", 2" baby wipes, black stamping ink, acrylic stamping block, border punches, corner rounder
If you are coming on Saturday and taking the Portfolio of Promises class (can't wait for this one...it is FULL of Pink Paislee and Heidi Swapp with some Maya Road, Core'dinations and Queen and Co) you will need...
12" paper trimmer, adhesives (tape runner, 3D foam squares, wet glue, glue stick), scissors, ruler, baby wipes, black stamping ink, acrylic stamping block, border punches, corner rounder, ink blending tool, craft mat, Distress Ink: Mustard Seed, Broken China (ink will be supplied)
Now that I got that out of the way, let's talk about what I have been up to.
As you know from my last post, in early September I taught at CKU San Jose...loved it! I taught an all day album class using Simple Stories. Can't wait to head to Stamford to teach it again on Nov 1-3. Hope to see you there!!!
Then it was off to Salt Lake City, UT to meet up with this girl...
my friend Layle. We spent a few days at her house, went to the Blue Lemon for lunch with our friend Sande and shopped...a lot! Then we were on the road heading to Las Vegas for Inspiration Unlimited!!!
Vegas! We made it! And then I didn't pick up my camera again! Ugh! I don't have any photos from IU! But it was a great time! Wonderful people, great shopping and Theresa and Ginger were SUPER event co ordinators!!!! Hope to make it back next year.
Finally, after 2 days home from Salt Lake City/Vegas I was off to Crop & Create Ottawa! Catherine, Jen and I enjoyed each others company on our road trip and visited one of my FAV restaurants...Lonestar with Kelly Goree and Kelly Purkey. Good times! The rest of the weekend was a blur of classes, baked goods and laughs! It was yet another awesome event!!! Thanks so much Ottawa friends!!!! Here are some highlights...
Again, once the weekend started I didn't get a chance pull my camera out and take photos of the classes or the photo booth this time! Next time, I will try to get more photos!
Then came Thanksgiving weekend here in Canada! Our weekend consisited of hockey, dinners and catching up. I love turkey and I especially love the soup that I will be making this week!!
Ok! Now I have to get packing up for Scrapfest and I have a few projects to finish up. Watch for a bunch of class kits I will be selling later this month.
Oops! Forgot to mention World Card Making Day!!!! I meant to post about this and link you to the festivities on the Scrapbokk & Cards Today blog on Saturday but we were gone all day Friday and then again on Saturday! You have to go and check it out!!!! There are a ton of posts and great sketches and cards to check out. Take a look HERE...you need to scroll through...Catherine did an amazing job with all of the posts and giveaways!!!!
Here is my card...
Lots of Yummy Doodlebug Designs and a Becky Fleck Cardmap!!!
Thanks Catherine and the gang at SCT for always setting that bar so high! And again...GREAT sketches Becky!!!!
