Photo Chipboard Letters - very cool!

Here's the first page of the long-awaited pages! OK, not for you all {LOL} but they've been floating on my work space & in my brain for a few weeks now, so it feels so good to get them done, and IN my book. With only 16 more days to go until we sail the seas -- {insert big grin & TONS of excitement!!} I'm down to my final day. So... take a peek & let me know what you think. :)

HOW COOL IS THIS?! I had an assortment of photos with the amazing waves & couldn't think of how to incorporate them onto the page... so I decided to try to adhere it to chipboard letters & I LOVE how they turned out. And pleased as punch that I thought of it all on my own!

Second Page of the layout is below here. "Life is an adventure" is a rub on & used some of my vintage prima GOT FLOWERS? -- so fun to play with new goodies!!

A close up of the ribbon & brads... needed to fill up the space -- I *think* I like it :) ?!?!

Where Did SPRING BREAK Go?

Well, I seemed to have blinked and it's Monday again :-) What a fun-filled, busy Spring Break we had! Could have done without the rain, but for some reason the kids don't seem to mind. As long as they have friends & cousins to play with it's ALLLL GOOOD! LOL. My middle munchkin celebrated his 8th birthday and so the last couple of nights we worked on his {soccer} invitations to hand out to his friends at school today. We had lots of fun. It's so cute to hear him ask if I think it's the "right" green! LOL. A stamper in the making!
I was so hoping to post my final cruise scrapbook pages, but not yet. I have 18 days before we leave (HOW EXCITING IS THAT!!!!) so I need to get going so I make my goal of completing it before we leave for Panama! I also want to decorate a brown bag surprise for each day we're away for my babes. My youngest gets the most sad (I think it's a tie with my little man, but he doesn't want ME to know that! LOL). So I thought a great way to *Count-Down* the days until we come home is to have a special bag with a surprise awaiting them each day. So, times that by 3 munchkins and 10-days... I've got 30 bags to do up! YIKES. We're having my son's big birthday party this Sunday, so it looks like another crazy week -- I'll post some of the brown bags -- I have ideas floating in my head --- now just to find the time to stamp it.....

Shopping Extravaganza!

Yesterday was a fabulous *shopping* day for me -- my Spring BREAK! I had so much fun heading to Campbell River & finding a new scrappin' store. YOU MUST GO AND SEE IT if you're ever in Campbell River, BC - ask for Kristie!! Check her store out... She Runs With Scissors. Anyway, she's tucked in a small space, but she's got great stuff in every nook & cranny!! I even got my stampin' up! order yesterday so it was a GOOD day!! LOL. Now I need some time to PLAY!!! LOTS OF CHIPBOARD to play with in my order(s).

Some other goodies I got -- been looking for those small vintage Prima flowers :-)

Nothin' like a good SU order too -- Can't wait to play with DOODLE THIS and Office Accoutrement will hopefully ink some photos! YEAH.
I have my run tonight so I won't be able to play with ink (but the 10K is next month!!) so I'll have to book some play time tomorrow! :) Hope you are all enjoying your Spring Break.

Happy Birthday to ME!

I had a gift Certificate from dear hubby and I finally cashed it in tonight & bought my little ipod shuffle. I'm so excited. Hopefully this little mini will be the strength I need to get to the END of the 10K !!! :)

Happy Birthday Becca

It's my niece's 7th birthday this week so I finally was able to sit down & stamp her up a pretty little card. I used always apricot, certainly celery, almost amethyst, regal rose & some natural ivory cardstock. A little ribbon, a few *dots* of pearls & we are good to go. I love using the tab punch to make the brackets. HOW COOL IS THAT! Got that tip from a friend who found it on SCS. THANK-YOU! :) TOO CUTE.

Well.... Spring Break has arrived and I'm so looking forward to the slower pace this next week will be. OK, who am I kidding I'll have all the monkey's home, but not rushing out to school in the morning will be bliss!

Polka Dots & Paisley finally sees ink!

Well I got one of my cards done today :) To be honest, it's the first time I pulled out my Polka Dots & Paisley set and I really like it. I stamped the flower heads on another piece of cardstock and cut them out & used stampin' dimensionals to pop them off the card. And of course that tag punch!!! LOVE IT!
Fun, fun, fun.

I'm Registered!

(my new running outfit!!!)
I'm officially registered for the 10K next month. EEK! Last night's run went great (our coach is SO encouraging -- she makes it easy!) so we'll see how I do tomorrow with my running buddies! I find Mondays, when I'm usually on my own, the toughest. I've got a GC that I want to use on an MP3 player to run with. I think that would be a huge help. Just trying to decide between the mini Sony or the IPod Shuffle -- love the idea of having FM radio so I'm leaning towards the Sony mini....
Need to finish up with the house cleaning so I can get those final scrapbook pages done & need to get some birthday cards made up -- my niece turns 7 today :) ! I seem to *work* better in a clean & organized space. How annoying is that!? *smiles* Weekend is nearly here! YEAH!!!