Color Your World

Check this baby out! It's a crayola tin that I altered with Christina Cole paper! I punched two holes on either side of the metal (broke an exacto knife in the process) and added Karen Foster looped brads to it and made a handle with ribbon!

I'm loving it!

Makes me want to pull out a Jumbo sized box of beautiful crayons, get a Strawberry Shortcake coloring book and put some color into my world!

BTW.....I'm also totally stoked that Christina Cole herself, commented on my "baby it's you" layout! How awesome is that??????

It's a good thing girls! :)

Working Hard @ not Working!

It's Saturday and I'm at work. I work 2 Saturdays per month and it sucks, but then again I do take a day off during the week and I use that time to scrapbook! So it works out in the end I guess. I just have to keep chanting to myself, "i love my job, i love my job," and I seem to always get through it.

I really haven't done much here while at work.......I did manage to look in the galleries of SJ, LM, DML and 2 peas........ pm people, answer polls and chit chat. That is hard work! HA!

DT Comings and Goings

I left my Dt position at FS2M and that allowed me to started up a new position at Leaving-Memories! There a great group of gals and I'm so excited to work with Kathy's monthly kits. She got reallly good looking monthly kits full of some of the latest and gratest product lines!

I'm do to get my first kit any day now and I'm stalking my mail man!

Weekend Plans

David wants to take our son to the San Fransisco Zoo on Sunday, so that should be fun! They have a special kids zoo and I think Jaden will have a blast! I'm looking forward to spending some quality time with my little family and getting lost in Frisco. We'll see wherever the day will take us........not too wild though, I'm taking the kid! :)

Hopefully I can hit up a Scrapbooking store! I might just have too google some cool stores up in that area......and just happen to take that Route....David will never know! Muaaahahahahhah!

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

cp out!

Awesome news for Jaime Warren!!

I'm so happy to spread the word that my girl, my fellow Zsiage DT member and oh so ultra talented friend Jaime Warren made the ARTIC FROG design team today!!!! I knew she could do it and she is going to do some awesome designing for them!

Bust open the bubbley and let's do the rump-shaker!!!! I'm so proud of her! Let's hope we all get awesome news like this too!

She betta recognize the little people on her way to the top! lol!!

Luv ya girl!

cp out! :)

Ideas....Supplies......Layouts

Don't you just have one of those days that all you want to do is scrap? Well, that's a norm for me anyday of the week! Today, when I arrived at work, I had this title in my head "baby it's you", I'm not really sure where I got it from but it was marinating in my mind all afternoon. So finally when I got home, I decided to try and make use of that title, before I totally forgot it.

This is what I came up with and I love, love, looooooooooooove the way it turned out.

Yep, there's some more gorgeous Ki Soup letters that I picked up today from my lss! They are yummy white ones called "chowder." I was a bit peeved that the whole container just has one "B" so I had to use my "d" backwards! I still love 'em though!

I'm also digging this Christina Cole paper too. I found it at a fabric store in Monterey. Unfortunaley, I only picked up one sheet of these 3 patterns! What? Was I smoking crack that I didn't get more or better yet, all of the line??? I went today to see if my fabric store had them and NOPE. Dang.......guess I 'll have to go back to Monterey!

I also saw the newest edition of Paper Trends.............OH MY GAHWD!!! I have a TWO PAGE SPREAD on my Altered Chipboard Set!!!!!!!!!!!!! I almost peed my pants! The fine people of PT put them in a cool green leather box and they were pictured falling out of the box. Then on the second page they are all pictured. I'm totally stoked to see my alphas in print! I was tempted to buy it, but I didn't get it since I'll get a complimentary one soon in the mail!

That's it for now........It's been fun, but I gotta run!

Peace Out.....CP

Shoppin'......Dancin'....Scrappin!

Shoppin' and Dancin'
I had the weekend off! It went by entirely too fast. My cousin had a surprise birthday party this Saturday and I was off to the mall to buy something cute to wear. I didn't find anything that fit me right...........ugh, I have to walk a way these pounds! I did find some really cute shoes by Chinese Laundry. I'm loving these! I wore it with some black capri/goucho looking pants and a halter top with brown colored bling baby! I did have to top it off with a light sweater because the boobies were a blazin'! Or as Amy Stultz would say, I had "blingin' boobies!"

I also scored some cute clothes for my baby at the Baby Gap.....cute hoodies, a shirt that says "RockStar" and some cute canvas sneakers.

David stayed home with Jaden, we had no babysitter! That totally sucked, but I still managed to dance the night away with my cousins! I had one drink called Nowaku...I guess it's an Italian after dinner liquor or something....anyway, for a girl who doesn't really drink, it was enough to make me spin! I took some random, too close, one handed shots of me and the girls..........yikes! I did pass of the camera to a chosen few but they cannot take pictures to save their lives! I had 3 black photos of outer space, one foot, blurry and off center pictures courtesy of my brother in law, JR. Thanks bud! Can anyone besides you take a good picture these days? I know I'm no Annie Leibovitz but dang, I can center a photo! I'll post some of these pix later.....you can be the judge! lol

Scrappin'

I did manage to get 6 pages done over the weekend! Oh, plus a card too! So that's a good amount of projects! ::patting myself on the back:: I did 3 layouts for ScrapJazz and 3 for Zsiage! The Scrapjazz layouts will be ready for viewing on October 1st! Don't forget to check out all the fabulous Blue Crew layouts! Madd talent!

I'm so looking forward to October! I have my baby's 2nd Birthday party coming up and well of course my favorite holiday, Halloween!!!!!! I have been trying to decide what to dress Jaden up for this year. I was torn between Buzz Lightyear or a lion. I don't want to make it, I have way too many things to do this coming month. While we were at the mall, I decided to get Jaden this costume. It was on sale so I said "frig it" and made the purchase!

To infinity and BEYOND!!!!!!!!!!! :)

Have a wonderful rest of the day! If ya haven't noticed, I have tons of links on this blog entry. I finally figured out how to do them, so look out! You may be next!

cp out!

Scrapbooking....teetering on an obsession

Scrapbooking is a serious addiction for me. I fear there is no cure for it. Except maybe locking myself in a closet, but then I'd probably go crazy thinking of all the new product I'm missing out on.

I visit ScrapJazz and other Scrap related sites everyday. I talk to fellow obsessed scrapper’s everyday. I want to buy product everyday. I want to scrapbook everyday. I want to dress my child to coordinate with a certain paper line..............yep it's that serious!

But ya know what? I'm loving every moment of it! I love the natural high I get when finding new product and getting my hands on some Bazzil cardstock and Basic Grey paper.........if I could I would go without food or sleep just to scrapbook more.

I don't know if I'll ever come to terms with my addiction. I do know that I will continue to scrap, chat with my scrappin' buddies and Scrapbook 'till I can't do it anymore!

Long live KI, MM, DD, RP, SW, BG, HS, FW, AMM, DB, WA, MOD, UL, and all the other fab people making more cool stuff to sb with!

Happy Thursday!

Cantata Request Update

I finally finished my two commissioned layouts for Cantana..........I loved the end result!!! My model for the layouts was the totally adorable son of Amy Stutlz (my fab fellow Blue!) named Charlie! This litter one is just too adorable! BIG THANK YOU to Amy for letting me use her pictures! I will post more information as to when it will be published! Beyond excited about that!! I'm certainly looking forward to getting my little ink stained happy hands on that paycheck for making up those babies!! YEAH!

More publishing news......

I had a horrendous day at work on Tuesday and was so ready to leave at 5 p.m.........right before going home, I checked my email. Low and behold, I had four requests from Cards Magazine!!!!!!! Whooooooooooooo! That sure turned my day around!! So I'll have 4 cards in the January/February 2006 issue!

Cards are fast taking over as a favorite craft to create. They are fast and fun! I think of them as mini scrapbook pages!! Over at ScrapJazz, a card I created called "FABU Party Girl!" is being featured as a Step-by-Step article. I used the cool "Shaken or Stirred" paper from Zsiage. http://www.scrapjazz.com/topics/Scrapbook_Basics/Step_By_Step_Layouts/652.php

Ki Soup Letters - I *heart* them!

I can't tell ya how much I love these things. Currently I only have them in black and turquoise and I really need more colors. The different fonts are so cool and I love the look they give your layouts! They are so delicious! Here's a layout I did on my niece Demi called "I heart you."

A little laugh for the long weekend...

My Comps Eric sent me this today ...............literally on the floor laughing my a$$ off! When you read the following, you MUST read them out loud!

Learn Chinese in 5 minutes

1) That's not right ......................... Sum Ting Wong
2) Are you harboring a fugitive?............. Hu Yu Hai Ding
3) See me ASAP................................ Kum Hia Nao
4) Stupid Man ................................ Dum Fuk
5) Small Horse ............................... Tai Ni Po Ni
6) Did you go to the beach? .................. Wai Yu So Tan
7) I bumped into a coffee table .............. Ai Bang Mai Fa Kin Ni
8) I think you need a face lift ............. Chin Tu Fat
9) It's very dark in here ................... Wao So Dim
10) I thought you were on a diet ............. Wai Yu Mun Ching?
11) This is a tow away zone .................. No Pah King
12) Our meeting is scheduled for next week ... Wai Yu KumNao?
13) Staying out of sight ..................... Lei Ying Lo
14) He's cleaning his automobile ............. Wa Shing Ka
15) Your body odor is offensive .............. Yu Stin Ki Pu

and my personal favorite

16) Great .................................... Fa Kin Su Pah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Enjoy! Hope everyone has a fun and safe Labor Day weekend!

FS2M.Chatterbox.Katrina Relief

Just a layout I wanted to share that I did last night on Jaden.........he was such a little chunckers here! He must have been about 10 or 11 months old in this picture. He's going on 2 already! Time has sure flown.

I used some cool Chatterbox Paper that I got in my fabulous DT pack from FS2M......Janel packed it chalk full of awesome goodies to play with!

Speaking of Chatterbox, you can purchase a scrapbooking package of their fabulous products from their site http://www.chatterboxinc.com/chatterbox2.asp and all of the proceeds are going to help the victims of Katrina!

Awesome products with proceeds going 100% to help those in dire need!

Kudos to Chattebox!! We love ya!

September Already??

September Already??? Can you guys believe it's September? Wow, the summer just seemed to pass me by! I guess it's different now, since being a grown up means you have to work and don't get to take many trips to the local pool or park to play! lol..... I was in Michael's yesterday picking up some ribbon and brads and they have full fledged Halloween decor and fall foilage out! I really love this season, it is by far one of my favorites! Kids are back in school, the leaves will begin to fall, the nights will be a bit colder...perfect for chilling with a hot cup of coco! It's time for me to pull out all of my fall decor for the house......the fall flag, wreath, "welcome fall" sign for my door. Before we know it it's going to be Halloween! FUN! I can't wait! :)

Last of the Summer Girls

We have had a few hot days here in Sunny California and these are just a few pics of my nieces having one of their last days playing with thier Slip and Slide! Remember those days??? Aaaaaaaaahhh. Good times.

Update on David

David found out he has an Ulcer. So he's on meds and hopefully he will get better soon!

Katrina.....sadness....my thoughts

I'm just at a loss. I want to say how I feel about this horrendous destruction our fellow Americans are facing right at this moment. I wish I could go over there and take in at least one family and help someway in the slow relief effort. All I can do is look from afar and donate as much money as I can. I rallied a few co workers together and was able to donate $200 dollars to the relief efforts yesterday. I know it's not a lot but I hope that it will help in some way.

While at work, I was brought to tears reading all of the incoming news and photographs of the disparity. How does this happen? I just can't fathom their current situation and I just don't know what I would do. My heart hurts for all of them on both sides of it. The people waiting for help and the people trying to get that help there. I'm sure it must seem like an impossible task.

I thank GOD that I have my husband, child, family and all of our regular day amenities. We take those everyday things like showers and clean bed sheets for granted. I, by no means, live in the lap of luxury but I live a good life and I'm thankful for everyday that I am here on God's green earth.

I don't say "I love You" to my family and friends everyday as I should. I don't want to miss those opportunities anymore. So to all of you, I wish you good health, a happy life and lots of love............if you can find it in your hearts to dig deep in to your pockets and donate something, anything to the American Red Cross or Salvation Army or any organization that is helping with the relief efforts. Thank you.