I have been getting so much done lately ......

It's amazing how much you can get done if you don't have any pressure. Scrapping is fun again. I can just create for the sake of creating. I sooo love that.

G is for Grow - Saturday 21st - 1pm

This is the first class that I will be teaching at Scrap Chic Boutique this coming Saturday at 1pm. If you would like the kit and can't make it to the class, contact me and I can help you out. :)

A view from the beach .....

So I think the boys thought that this was the best part of the our vacation. Playing in the spicket right outside of Grandma and Grandpa's condo on the beach.

Twenty Nine

I'm almost not twenty nine anymore, so I've been doing a lot of thinking about the last year. So many good things have happened to me and my family over the past year. Some not so good, but that is a part of life. Plus the bad really makes you appreciate the good people and the good things in your life. Thank you to the good people in my life. :)

Love Elsie *Roxy* - View From The Inside

Check it out

The "Croppin' Cousins" website listed under "Favorite Links".

My First Scrap Chic Artist Team Project

Did I forget to mention .....

I am on the Scrap Chic Boutique Artist team? Well I am and I will try to post a pic of my first project later. Soooo much fun. Oh and I will be a guest teacher on July 21st. Can't wait!

Busy, busy, busy ........

Working ... creating .... playing .... dancing ........ So many cool things happening. Soooooo excited. YAY! Stay tuned. ;)

MIA

I'm sorry that I have been MIA lately. I have been dancing and dealing with some stuff. I am getting ready to teach dance camp at the end of the month, so I have been getting ready. Also I will no longer be teaching at EMI Scrapbooking. It was a personal choice that I made. I needed to simplify and unfortunately that was one of the things that I had to let go of. I enjoyed my time there and I want to thank all of my students. I enjoyed teaching you and your enthusiasm for scrapbookiing. I hope to see all of you again in the future. Please feel free to keep in touch. :)

Scrapodex Scrapodex Scrapodex

I'm almost done and I am totally feelin it. Love this thing. Just a bit ago Brenden said "Mom everything you make for cropping is pretty". Earlier today Logan called me "Pretty Mommy". I think I may be having a pretty day. Oh and Chris bought me a new fairy for my collection today. Nothing like some unsolicited adoration to make your day. :)

One down, one to go

I just finished the Garden Album, now I need to finish up the Scrapodex. I think that is going to have to wait until Wednesday. Tomorrow I have a full class and I am all scrapped out for tonight. The album is cute though, so it was totally worth it.

What is art? What makes you an Artist?

I responded to a post on 2peas a bit ago and I wanted to post my response here because I wanted to remember it. I don't think that I have ever really thought about this much. I just assumed that it was art. It was a given. Maybe because I have been a performing artist all of my life. I don't know. Art has always surrounded me, so maybe I take it for granted.

"What I am having a hard time understanding is why is it art when we are 5 years old swash some paint on construction paper, add google eyes and a sticker mouth, but once we are adults we can't play with paper, paint and stickers and still call it art. My 4 year old calls what I do art. For him it is the same thing that he is doing. Am I an artist? I don't know. Art is subjective. Maybe the use of the title is too. I do know that when my students ask me about their page and tell me that their work doesn't look like mine, I tell them that it's not supposed to. That it is "their" art, it is a reflection of them and their personal style. I think it makes them feel better. They smile anyway and that makes me feel like I helped. Maybe they are just humoring me. Either way it's all good. I guess what I am trying to say is who decides what is art? Can't we just agree that it is art if we want it to be. If it makes you happy to call it that. If it makes someone else happy that you called it art. Call yourself an artist or life artist or scrapbook artist or scrapbook designer or paper addict or sticker horder ......... whatever makes you happy. "

CKU Registration

I'm going! So lucky! So happy! Yay! I got all of my first choices, one of my best friends is taking the same classes and my DH thought to take a picture. How lucky am I? Now I just need to pick a week. Hmmmmm..........

Getting Organized

I saw this at Michaels the other day and I jsut couldn't resit. I have a total weakness for anything that promises to organize my life. Plus it's pretty. I'm using it to store whatever I am using right now. I always have so many things going at once these day, that a little organizational help is always welcome. Plus this pretty tote/file folder sure beats the cardboard boxes and bags that I had been using recently to store my overflow.

A very cool thing happened this week!

So this week I was PeaMailed by Carrie Owens, who by the way is a very cool Garden Girl. Apparently she saw my work in the gallery on 2Ps and she liked it. So she asked me if they could use it in a user highlight thing they were doing for National Scrapbook Day. Well I cannot tell you how very excited I was. They asked all the users that were going to be highlighted to keep it confidential. I got to see it yesterday and it was soooooo cool! Here is the layout that Carrie chose to highlight my gallery.

My boys being peaceful - very rare :)

Brenden just about a month old

I love velvet ric rac!

Hybrid Brag Book

I know I promised photos a few days ago, but we have been soooo super busy at the store. Between the yard sale, classes and a crop I just have been running non-stop. Anyway I had a chance to get this done. I'll try to add a photo of the inside soon.