OK, I am a complete LOOOOSER ;)

I admit, I am a complete LOOOOOSER ;)
The weekend was too nice and time flew by so quickly that before I realized it, it was Tuesday morning, I was back at work and while looking at my to do list for work, all of a sudden it dawned on me that HOT DANG, I did it again! Complete neglection of my blog, after I have been nicely kicked in my butt - upon request - and what did I do, I just completely zoomed out!
FORGIVE ME!!! FORGIVE ME!!!!
I dont even know where to start... so much has happened these past few weeks. I think I am going to go back from the latest and greatest as that is still refreshing in my deteriorating mind! Yes, that's right, deteriorating! 33, going on 34 gives you enough excuse our days to blame it on early Alzheimers.

* Jer and I went to see "An inconvenient truth" this past weekend at the ArcLight in Hollywood. This is a movie about global warming and although I had heard and known some about it, it really opened my eyes to how fragile our "world" really is and that it is up to each and every one to participate in keeping this world what it is today and ensuring by our participation that our world as we know it is still there for our children and grandchildren and generations to come. If you are interested, please check the following link An inconvenient truth. And even better, if you have the time, go and see it in your theatres, it should be coming to more theatres at the beginning of June.

* I had a little scrapathon going on Friday and Saturday. Will post some pics soon. Friday I spent the day with Inken at her place and Saturday I went over to Ang's place and scrapped with Ang and Margarita. There really is nothing better than spending time with friends and scrapping :)

* Jer and I purchased a car!!! Take a peak...







I am so dang excited. We finally can load stuff in the trunk without having to rent the rental truck at Home Depot, and no more taking 2 cars to the airport to pick up family and friends! Should all fit nice and neatly now. And best of all, the gas mileage is VERY good for a small sized SUV. And we splurged a little - leather seats, seat warmer on butt and on back (soooo nice, I'm having a hard time leaving the car), and a DVD player for the back that we really didn't care about, but that's the way it came. Another family purchased a Saturn Vue 6 for their daughter. The car we originally wanted... the car without all the gadgets, the car that was a little cheaper, but we didn't make it in time. Jer jokingly said to me to run over and to lick the car as in the commercial. I was tempted - trust me. We even took a pick of me pretending to lick the new car - gotta give hubby two thumbs up. He is well trained on what are scrap worthy events ;)

* Family, oh family, oh what can I say. While I am so very blessed with my wonderful parents, Jer kinda is haunted by his to say the least. What do you do if you so badly want to say something but you have to bit your tongue, over and over again. I am just not good at that. I am trying to be patient, trying to be very, very patient, but the patience is stretching thin! My MiLaw sent us an email. I am not going into details, because you really never know who runs into your blog and reads this, but truth be told, I really, really had a hard time to be patient and to say NADA, NOTHING, to keep quite, to just soak it in.
How do you all go about stuff like that?

*Jer and I went to see the poppies a few weeks ago - the only problem was that there were no poppies left (see below). Apparently the entire hill is covered in gold when all the poppies bloom, but for some reason we must have missed the big event and only got to see this lonely little poppy all by itself ;( Bummer



I promise to upload some new layouts soon. Just finished a really cool one about Jer and his dad and all the differences. It will be on Scrapsahoy on June 1st and than I can upload it here. So hang tight!
Hugs to all and have a great rest of the week!!!!

Hot Dang

... I have to update this blog so badly... someone please give me a loving kick :) in the behind!
I promise I will update this weekend!

Recuping from NSD :)

I took today off to have a little time for myself to just play and scrap. The past weekend was a ton of fun but also exhausting. I have been on the road for Quickutz, starting with a Make & Take Friday evening in Torrance. It was a blast!!!! I had 2 - 3 stations going and was busy for 1 1/2 hours. We got fun prices from QK to raffle off and the atmosphere was great! Fun store, nice store owner and all in all a great experience.

On Saturday morning I had my first session from 10 - 11 a.m. The store was cute. The owner had tons of balloons up, handed out cookies and everyone was excited. I was busy with Make & Takes for 1 hour before raffling of the prices! Again an all in all super fun experience.

While on the road to my next store, I chatted with Celia who is a QK DT member and lives up in San Francisco. It was hilarious! We both got really pumped up and shared our stories.

My session from 12 - 1:30 was fabulous! The store owner was such a doll, amazing sunshine display, and I was going 160 miles an hour. The make & take area was huge, so I ended up having between 8 - 15 willing women all at once for rotating times. They were fabulous, sharing the Squeeze tools (as I was only prepared for about 4 people at any given time) and just enjoying the experience. The raffle was fabulous, everyone was pumped up and screeming and cheering! So much fun, a little exhausted afterwards, but what a great experience.

My last even was scheduled from 2:30 - 4 p.m. I kept driving wrong, hadn't had lunch only 2 granola bars but misteriously made it to the store by 2:20 p.m. When I got in the store I was told that there was a change of plans and that they are all waiting at the Sheraton for me! While getting the directions and shortly before heading out, I was told that about 100 women are all excited and waiting for me! OMG! I wish I could have capture my face on film...I seriously wondered if my smile froze or if I was able to hid my initial shock! I managed to find the hotel and saw a entire conference room filled with scrappers! Scrappers who had been going since 10 a.m. and who were scheduled until 10 p.m. I kept thinking how fun that must be to just hang out and have an entire day filled with friends and scrapping... good old memories! There were 3 other make and takes outside the conference room and I set up and was BUSY!!! Did I mention it was CRAZY??? A lot of first time users, but an enthusiastic crowd!!! This whole experience was great until shortly before the end. I was supposed to wrap up by 4 and raffle of the prices, but the lines kept forming until I said that I would have 2 more rounds before I needed to leave. That's when it went slightly bad... for some reason the store owner must have forgotten to communicate to the gals that I was only there for some time and that my station was on a first come first serve basis while all the other make & takes were called by table so everyone had a chance to do them. So needless to say I had a bunch of disappointed, slightly mad women who kept saying that they didn't have the chance doing the project and that they were not entered into the drawing! I kept explaining that I already stayed 45 min longer than what was agreed upon and that there must have been some misinformation from the store! Around 5 p.m. I loaded up, two big bags on one shoulder, an artbin and purse on the other and left the hotel. I think I honestly was "running" towards my car almost afraid that I would be chased down in order to stay till 10 p.m. I took a deep breath and literally speeded out of the parking lot!

Collector Die


I was supposed to go over to Margaritas house for an all night crop... By the time I got home I was in high spirits and ready for cropping! I took a shower, packed and literally just felt all energy leave my body. I went over to her house, dragged my XXL into her scraproom and literally laid on the coach until I left - while having a big old drink :)

Looking back today the weekend was a blast! I would do it again in a heartbeat, but I feel lucky and blessed that I took today off to just unwind, recup and do some scrapping for myself!

Below is the cute project we did - a 6x6 layout using the QK stamps and the new limited edition sunshine kit! I have to say that that kit must be one of my very favorite items from QK yet! I love, love the font and the shapes are just too stinking cute!!!!!
Make & Take



I also received my first box from SEI with contract and goodies! I took about 1/2 hour on Friday after getting back home to soak it all in and to really understand how lucky I am! I am working for two manufacturers whos products I adore! I am part of ScrapsAhoy who has been so good to me! I will never forget that Jen was the first one to give me a chance, who had faith in me! Counting my blessing!!!!!
SEI package


SEI Goodies


Happy Monday everyone!!! HUGS Syb