30

April

Moving day…

came and went, tonight will be the 3rd night sleeping in our new home. Moving day went pretty good, but leading up to it was crazy busy…it always seems to take us FOREVER to move and that’s after “downsizing”. We had a 26 foot moving truck and we still managed to use our truck for [...]

26

April

Music…

I was watching Regis & Kelly one week and there was this girl on by the name of Lily Allen singing a song called “Smile” she is also now being played on Energy 101.5FM here in Calgary (http://www.energy1015.com/) well I was hooked, so I got her CD last night. You can visit her website here and listen [...]

24

April

Stampin’ Up!’s New In Colors…

Well since I am moving in just 4 days I have no new projects to post…I FINALLY packed my scrapbook room away yesterday :{
So I will just post something exciting…a Sneek Peek at the new In Color’s from Stampin’ Up!…I’m not sure if they are all that exciting to me…they kind of look like what [...]

24

April

Tagged!

I have been tagged by Charmaine (http://oodabugalley.blogspot.com/2007/04/tagged.html) in this game I am suppose to tell you 7 things about myself…here we go:
1). I have 5 tattoos, the last one I got was in July of 2006 and I’m already starting to think about getting another one!
2). I am a Stay at Home Mom
3). I met [...]

21

April

A Simple Wish…

Taylor and I spent a little time this afternoon making a birthday card for Shane. If you have not heard about Shane’s simple wish than you can watch a little video here from YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXz6UJL5oDA
At the end of the video is his address.
Shane is turning 8 on May 30th, he has Leukemia…his simple wish for his [...]

20

April

Scalloped lid box…

When I first saw this amazing box I was thinking I need to make me one of those…well I couldn’t figure out how to make one! That doesn’t surprise me! I just knew it used Stampin’ Up!’s 5 in 1 template. Beate was offering up some blog candy and her question was what tutorial would [...]

19

April

Virginia Tech…

I just want to commend the Calgary Herald for putting pictures of the victims of this horrible tragedy on the front cover of their paper instead of putting the sick, sick shooter on the cover of their papers (to sell papers perhaps?), why does the killer get to have his pathetic face plastered all over papers [...]

19

April

Gift card holder…

Here is a great tutorial by Jeanna at http://stamptimesomewhere.typepad.com/stamp_time_somewhere/ on how to make these using Stampin’ Up!’s 5 in 1 Envelope Template.
Thanks Jeanna for your wonderful tutorial and inspiration. I’m addicted.
PS It’s the first time I’ve actually used my 5 in 1 template…and I’ve had it FOREVER!

18

April

Life in…

This layout is designed by Jean from Scrapbooker’s Paradise South. I just adjusted it to fit 5 pics instead of 2 and her layout was a “Then and Now”. I went to her crop on St. Patrick’s Day and I just finished the last part of this spread which was the title last night at Cookie’s…I used her [...]

14

April

Recital Invite…

I made these today in the midst of packing and while Billy was at the dump…Billy came home and basically said that I was crazy to be making invites 2 weeks before we move! I know…die hard stamper…right! I found this design at:
http://stampstars.blogspot.com/
and I knew instantly that I had to try it especially since I needed [...]